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Because over the last 30 years we've been conditioned to believe that we are all just lucky to have a job and that unions are evil monsters who steal money and protect the incompetent. Hail Reagan! It's the same way with the draft in football. The draft protects the teams not the players. It is the draft that rewards incompetent owners. All my friends were pissed at Eli Manning for not wanting to go to the Saints. While, I was of the opinion of, more powere to him.

Why don't you understand that the Owners would NEVER approve of Cuban as an owner? You are beating a dead horse. Have you polled the owners on this? While I think there might be some objections to Cuban, I doubt he has any major problems getting approved. I agree. I don't think the owners would have any trouble with Cuban owning the team. His track record with the Maverics is outstanding on the revenue side. However, I don't think Cuban is rich enough :shock: to buy the Tribune if the Cubs are not sold serarately.

You have got to be kidding me. This post is the alpha and the omega. It just doesn't get any better than this, folks

I smell small Paul Sullivan's handy work all over this. Sullivan: Mark, care to give us any comments on why you were sent down? Will you ask for a trade? Prior: I'm not going down that road. I'm under their control until I'm not under their control. It's up to them whether they want me. I'm just an employee. There is nothing to report here, nothing. Prior was sent down, he's pissed as any of us would be in his situation.

I want to know how you got the scwiggly line over the n in Cedeno. Fantastic! I hope Ronny learns a little patience, just a little patience, yea, yea, yea.

Why? He is offering a hometown discount and getting more money than pitchers like Carpenter/Oswalt did. Oswalt's contract is not even close to market rate. Just because one or two guys got screwed doesn't mean the entire market will shift downwards. They're not getting screwed. Yea, getting screwed is accepting arbitration, winning, and being cut. Not getting screwed is making more than 10 million dollars a year for working one day out of five for the next five years.

What I got from AZ Phil was that Alfonso Soriano's defense in CF is going to make us miss Juan Pierre. Yeesh. And Cliff Floyd's probably should be DHing in the AL. Alfonso could play with his glove on the wrong hand and I still won't miss Slappy.

There's no way to know if Murton's performance was a coincidence or if Lou's talk helped his hitting, but it is nice to see that Lou is hands on with the players. Lou is probably the best thing to happen to Matt Murton's career since he was drafted, not that I think Lou has helped him all that much. If Dusty were still here, he'd be sitting or on the short end of a 70/30 platoon with Floyd.

I'm sure he'll be practicing the man kiss a lot too.

Hill is suspetable to the HR ball. So is Lilly. So is Marquis. This is my biggest fear for the Cubs this year.

I agree with most of your post. There are similarities. And if Dopirak emerges into a big power hitter, well, there's value somehow. And obviously he's limited to 1B/DH/PH, it's not like he has defensive potential to move. (It's not clear whether he has defensive potential to be even adequate at 1B). And obviously it's not like he needs to hit like Howard. There is a level less than MVP-caliber that is still of value. But, the real question for Dopirak revolves around how much huge power he'll ever had. "Both have hit for huge power numbers in the minors..." doesn't really seem true to me. He had one good power season, in low-A. He's consistently hit for big power in batting practice. But only at Peoria (or was it Lansing then?) did he hit for meaningful power. His Daytona season he showed only minor effective power. Producing huge power is more than a matter of being strong and able to hit batting practice bombs. It requires that you can hit the pitches with the speed and movement that real pitchers throw when they are not trying to feed you bombables, but when they are trying to avoid throwing you bombables. Dope obviously has the physical power to do that. At present, it seems that Peoria is likely to be the production exception, and that against better pitchers he'll never be able to apply his power often enough to be a value power guy. It's also obvious that last year was injury. So basically he had one good year at Peoria, and one bad year at Daytona. If he stinks again this year, 3-years-ago Peoria will be further established as the irrelevant fluke. If he produces big this year, the fact that he stunk at Daytona for a year will appear to be the who-knows-why fluke. I see this as a make-or-break year for him. Most likely it will be a break, but too soon to know.l Do you really think believe Dope was not on some sort of Performance enhancing drugs? It's difficult to even have a conversation about him because of this. I don't think steriods should even be in the conversation. Going from low A to high A is a huge change. And then from high A to AA is an even bigger jump. A jump that really never got started becuase of the broken foot. Time will tell, but this is a kid in 2004 who showed a lot of promise.

Good grief. There's never anything straightforward, is there? Probably anti-inflamatory meds for swelling.

This man is insane. Trade excess OF talent for bullpen help? That's just dumb. I was just going to post something about that comment. I think the Cubs may be trading for a SS, unless Lou and Perry can work some magic with Cedeno. I don't think Isturiz makes it until July.

Hendry has until five minutes before game time, right? He's probably in Las Vages kicking back at the craps table with Tribune money until next Sunday night/Monday morning. He won't get serious until the angina flares, then look out.

:lol: #-o You had it right the first time. (before you changed it)

At first I thought the cut away shot of that hot chick, had her breast hanging out, but then I noticed it was a baby's head :oops:

I've been impressed with the entire team, in that department. Where's UK I want to talk about learning patience?

I know how I feel about it and it is not good. Especially late in the game and down by more than one. And a guy like Pie on. But it is only ST, so I don't really care.

Woody didn't look too bad, he just got the ball up and Socia got a little lucky with the hit and runs. I thought Lilly got pretty lucky today, too many pitches and too many fly balls. At least he didn't walk too many.

Thanks.

I'm not sure where to put this. Does anyone know of a place on the web to find spray chart data for MLB? I was just looking a Lou's quote re: the #2 slot and needing to go the other way (for a RH batter). Anyway, thanks in advance

Interesting. Cedeno at 2nd and batting 2nd. Take some pitches Ronny.

yea, i think this is bull....surely they got more than 449 total votes....i would call them out on it....send a letter to the editor and keep sending one until they reply to it in the paper. This is Louisiana we are talking about.:wink: No offense Vance, but in the land of the King Fish this sort of thing is bound to happen.

I really can't read Sullivan any longer. It's a shame that the flagship newspaper of the Cubs has such a worthless reporter. It's one soap opera filled piece after another.

I agree. I hope he pitches well in AAA. He will become a great trade chip.