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no ronny, and neifi batting before murton, but i can live with this lineup. at least the top of the order is right.

wrong. cedeno is on the big league club because he was hitting .370 in iowa. based on what he did last year, he wouldn't have merited being called up to chicago. neifi and macias had to be signed a *little* before this year started. I understand that. My point was if he thought (and I know Cedeno had a not so stellar season last year) Cedeno could help this club, he perhaps wouldn't made it easier for him to make this team. If you look at the number of middle infielders we had prior to Nomar's injury, Cedeno wouldn't have been a bad selection as a 25th man, instead of shelling nearly $2 million out to Perez and Macias. yeah, i definitely agree. but then again, i'd take a 24-man roster over a 25-man roster with macias while dusty is managing.

pie is not miguel cabrera, though. cabrera was ready for the big leagues, pie is not. the last time we put a 5-tool center fielder on the fast track, i think we all know what happened...

good post.

I don't see how cubs dane's skill with language has any bearing on the content of his post. Please keep your comments directed to the post, and not the poster. Thanks. he repeated himself. the comment was not an insult, it was me pointing out that i understand that he's communicating in a language that is not native to him. perhaps you should look at that before you try to scold me for something that i didn't even do.

wrong. cedeno is on the big league club because he was hitting .370 in iowa. based on what he did last year, he wouldn't have merited being called up to chicago. neifi and macias had to be signed a *little* before this year started.

didn't brendan harris have an rbi double in his first start?

francona has said that clement would be added if halladay doesn't participate. clemens deserves it way more than carpenter. who cares if he's "started enough" - you shouldn't hold being good against him (and this is coming from someone who does not like clemens at all). the al starter should be halladay, but it's looking more and more like buehrle now.

a [expletive] monkey could have managed those teams to winning records. they also fired their manager.

CLTV a thread title change sure would be nice then. man, i hate having to use mlb.tv

isn't this game supposed to be on CSN?

UNBELIEVABLE HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY POST THE LINEUP AFTER SOMEONE ALREADY DID IT WHERE'S MODZILLA WE NEED A BAN just kidding - thanks for posting it though, it's easy to miss something if the thread is moving quickly :)

as far as i know, you are correct. leiter will start in beckett's place on sunday.

he says pujols deserves it because the cards are in first. he also goes on to say livan hernandez is the nl cy young winner because wins are the most important stat and era is the least important. joe morgan sucks.

yes, let's fire hendry around the time of year that he's proven time and again that he does his best work. if hendry is going to be fired, it has to be when the season is over, not now, because you'll do nothing but hurt the team more. Hendry should be fired because he allowed the Cubs to limp into the regular season without making necessary personal moves to be competitive. No LF, RF -questionable backfill, no lead-off man, and the bullpen in shambles! Offensively we lost 25% of our offensive in the OF. The same offense that struggled against mediocre pitching. Losing personal like Alou, Sosa, (look at their numbers last year), Clement, Farnsworth, Grzsalanick(whatever). We added Blanco, Burnitz, and Hairston.Oh, and subtracted from an already weak BP by failing to sign a closer and lost farns lol no LF OR RF? i don't know if you know this, but we signed a guy named burnitz, who is outproducing what sosa did by this time last year. the bullpen wasn't in "shambles" to start the year - sure, we could have used a reliever - but what did you want? a 3 year, $21 million commitment to benitez? or how about a 2 year, $12 million contract for percival? if you think we should have signed one of those guys to be our closer, you're crazy. hendry said, starting in the offseason, that dempster was going to be the closer this year. dusty, however, made his guy (latroy) the closer and put dempster in the rotation. now dempster is in the role hendry said he should have been in all along, and guess what, he's doing just fine. losing sosa is something that a lot of people whine about because of the home run totals - burnitz is outproducing him this year, so i don't see why you even bring sosa's name into the argument, as it only weakens yours. alou's offensive numbers would be nice in left field, but considering the contract he got from sf, no thanks. farnsworth had fallen out of favor with the entire organization and it was decided that he had to be moved - i didn't like the deal all that much (though with scott moore doing so well, it's looking a lot better), but it may have been one of the things forced on hendry by macphail (which the sosa deal was). we couldn't afford to keep clement, so why are you crying about that? i'd also like to point out that you completely missed the point of my post. COMPLETELY. why would you fire your general manager that has proven that he can make great deadline deals year after year right around that time? i said that if you're going to fire hendry, you have to wait until the offseason to do it. i guess reading comprehension just isn't your strong point. I'll make this brief and to the point. The off-season was a disaster. We went backwards. We had certain needs and they went unfulfilled. Our offense was adequate, no more. I cite the September fold as an example. We lose 2 of our most productive players and meekly filled in the positions. Our Bullpen was inadequate last year. We had no closer. Nor did we get anyone to fill that spot.Plus we lost Farnsworth, who ate up alot of innings, most of the time in an acceptable manner. To address your specific points... OF, to me it is not of consequence that Burnitz is outperforming Sosa. Sosa was thru by the end of last year. The fact that we lost 70+ hr's ( in Sosa and Alou,)plus big-time RBI production. In an offense that was flawed last year. We did not make up for that production on paper, and its playing out. The closer situation, LATROY? as closer? Joe Borowski? Clubs that are world serious have a good pen. Losing Farn's without replacing him was also an mistake. I say Hendry has to carry the load and be held responsible for the poor product that is being put out on the field. The Nightmare started in the off-season, and all we're doing is watching it unfold. I felt this way from the very beginning, go back and check my postd if you doubt. Little offense, and little bullpen make for a disaster, I don't care how good you're starting rotation is. If you think Hendry can pull a rabbit out of his arse, the time to have done that was not when we are 13 games out. i realize english is not your first language, but what you've just stated has absolutely nothing to do with the post i made. you basically repeated yourself from your first post, which i responded to. this is all the response you'll get this time.

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yes, let's fire hendry around the time of year that he's proven time and again that he does his best work. if hendry is going to be fired, it has to be when the season is over, not now, because you'll do nothing but hurt the team more. Hendry should be fired because he allowed the Cubs to limp into the regular season without making necessary personal moves to be competitive. No LF, RF -questionable backfill, no lead-off man, and the bullpen in shambles! Offensively we lost 25% of our offensive in the OF. The same offense that struggled against mediocre pitching. Losing personal like Alou, Sosa, (look at their numbers last year), Clement, Farnsworth, Grzsalanick(whatever). We added Blanco, Burnitz, and Hairston.Oh, and subtracted from an already weak BP by failing to sign a closer and lost farns lol no LF OR RF? i don't know if you know this, but we signed a guy named burnitz, who is outproducing what sosa did by this time last year. the bullpen wasn't in "shambles" to start the year - sure, we could have used a reliever - but what did you want? a 3 year, $21 million commitment to benitez? or how about a 2 year, $12 million contract for percival? if you think we should have signed one of those guys to be our closer, you're crazy. hendry said, starting in the offseason, that dempster was going to be the closer this year. dusty, however, made his guy (latroy) the closer and put dempster in the rotation. now dempster is in the role hendry said he should have been in all along, and guess what, he's doing just fine. losing sosa is something that a lot of people whine about because of the home run totals - burnitz is outproducing him this year, so i don't see why you even bring sosa's name into the argument, as it only weakens yours. alou's offensive numbers would be nice in left field, but considering the contract he got from sf, no thanks. farnsworth had fallen out of favor with the entire organization and it was decided that he had to be moved - i didn't like the deal all that much (though with scott moore doing so well, it's looking a lot better), but it may have been one of the things forced on hendry by macphail (which the sosa deal was). we couldn't afford to keep clement, so why are you crying about that? i'd also like to point out that you completely missed the point of my post. COMPLETELY. why would you fire your general manager that has proven that he can make great deadline deals year after year right around that time? i said that if you're going to fire hendry, you have to wait until the offseason to do it. i guess reading comprehension just isn't your strong point.

yes, let's fire hendry around the time of year that he's proven time and again that he does his best work. if hendry is going to be fired, it has to be when the season is over, not now, because you'll do nothing but hurt the team more.

good ol' mike prior

disagreed. i watched game 6 in a bar on campus, and there were a LOT of sox fans cheering and jumping up and down and hugging each other. i only know of one sox fan who rooted for the cubs in the '03 playoffs.

except beane now has an ownership stake in the a's........

i'm on this

If Hendry had a different way of doing things, they probably would have already been done. Neither Murton or Greenberg are going to be starting, I'd assume. This doesn't make any sense at all. I'll wait to hear what Jim says, but I sense disaster. I don't like this one bit. I'm with you. I hope I'm wrong but I see the kids getting hurt in this one. No way Hendry is that daft when it comes to player development...something is up, big time. He did it to Cedeno. Either both agreed that Ronny would sit on the bench or at the very minimum, he knew Dusty wasn't going to start him. But that doesn't matter. Just by calling him up hurt him. My feeling is that Hendry and Baker had some sort of agreement about Cedeno's playing time, and Dusty didn't stick to it. Reserving judgement at least until tomorrow is in order, IMO. i know i read today or yesterday that cedeno said he was told he was going to be called up to start, not to sit.

and tell me how you know they'll waste away on the bench? this could be a precursor to dusty's firing, which would lead to young players actually having a chance to play.

this is dubois' last option year. he doesn't need to be waived. i think this is a fantastic move and may be symbolic of hendry taking control of this team.