Yeti

i really cant help but laugh everytime i read this thread title....thanks for bringing my life levity

He's a very good loogy. What if a team wanted him instead of Eyre and would give the Cubs the player they really covet? As you pointed out you would and I'm sure many GM's might prefer Ohman but some might prefer that "veteran presence" that Eyre has. notice the bolded part And this is from a post I made on page 1: He could always be part of a trade and not the main piece. i may be wrong here...but youre saying eyre could be the main piece in a trade, but the clearly better(on all fronts, stuff/age/price) option in Ohman cant be? lets trade the fat old fu....err guy

He's a very good loogy. What if a team wanted him instead of Eyre and would give the Cubs the player they really covet? As you pointed out you would and I'm sure many GM's might prefer Ohman but some might prefer that "veteran presence" that Eyre has. notice the bolded part

this is not about how much money he makes...in my mind it is "is the guy gonna step between the lines this year?"

Ohmans 2005 ERA vs leftys....0.93(29 innings) the kid is the **** as a loogy...granted i overspoke when i said he was untouchable, but why trade him over trading eyre? Will is the pen lefty we need to keep unless he is in a package for something special

Or Ohman. ageing fat ass or young bad ass LOOGY....lets trade the ageing fat ass Ohman should be seen as untouchable except for the real deal in return...the kid will anchor pens in the future Ohman should not be considered anything close to untouchable. Ohman is the only reliable thing in our pen that isnt costing us multi millions yearly and he is the best we have regardless of cost(talking LOOGY here) why you trade cheap young serious talent before trading the guy has has had 10 too many donuts(today) and makes sick money is just unconscionable

as much as i dont really like the muscrat, she sure as hell toes the company line...as bad as a writer as she is, she does her job very well

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you here. We don't know how Prior's arm got ruined. Could be from pitcher abuse, could be from poor conditioning on his part. I think the abuse had a lot to do with it, personally. But, if there is even a remote chance the Cub organization had anything to do with his injury problems, I would demand a raise. The insignificant raise he "might" receive in arbitration is nothing in comparison to what he might have made if he was never injured in the first place. How much in earnings does he stand to lose over the course of his career from pitcher abuse early in his career if his pitching arm is never the same? And if by chance he comes back healthy in 2007, whatever he is making is probably going to be significantly less than what he is worth. This is a non-issue, IMO. guy proves that he can step between the lines, give him a raise...havent seen anything to lead me to believe he can in a while and all the talk that surrounds him leads me to believe he's not gonna step between the lines much in the near future i bought an ass load of red hat stock back in '99(i think) made a killing...ive not dabbled in the market much since, should i be paid as a top notch trader on one purchase? this kid has tremendous upside, but im not buying(and i love mark) he should shut his mouth, pitch lights out in '07 and go from there....the dollars will find him

Or Ohman. ageing fat ass or young bad ass LOOGY....lets trade the ageing fat ass Ohman should be seen as untouchable except for the real deal in return...the kid will anchor pens in the future

I think people are fussing because they don't know what is wrong with Prior (I honest to god haven't heard anything about his condition in a long time) and aren't confident he'll be ready for spring training. I think his injury history warrants extreme caution and skepticism from fans. Wait 3 more days and we'll know more. Prior will be at the Convention and on WGN Radio Friday night. we wont know a damn thing till he steps inside the lines and pitches, and frankly the kid(yes kid) has yet to pay his dues...we've gotten one good(albeit great) season outta him...he has no right to ask for a raise...give us another good year(doesnt even have to be great) and then we can talk turkey, but giving a guy a raise who, as far as we know cant even pitch, is absurd

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/images/smilies/lmao.gif ive kinda gotta agree with JR, ive got up to 6 inches of snow sitting on my dish right now and am getting perfect reception, rain never bothers it either, in fact i used to lose my cable during rainstorms all the time. my guess is that the guy who installed your dish didnt know what the heck he was doing.

There's always room for Macias. bite your tongue...and by the way is this you?http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f350/yetiman1210/dump.jpg

maybe we could sticky this thread?

12 Guinness pints in 45 minutes w/o pukein...won me my evenings bar tab and $100

That sounds pessimistic. nah, pessimistic would be "i fully expect the Cubs to play 162 games in '07 and im going to be forced to watch them all"

I fully expect the Cubs to play 162 games in '07. maybe i'm being optimistic, i dunno

why does this seem oddly realistic? edit:oops puncuation

Ahem http://media.theinsiders.com/Media/MLB/56419_Sandberg012504.JPG sure am glad someone pointed that out or i was gonna have to

somehow i missed this in the news, but if true it sure does being a different meaning to the nickname "Corkey"

ASU NATIONAL CHAMPS WOOT!

did you tell us this before or after you called us all douchebags?

i thought you left the site with nothing but utter distain for all of us...guess we cant take you at your word, from now on im gonna have to double check every stat you throw out there

you can be sure that any opinion stated on this board will draw more than a few opposing posts

aaahhh Muscrat, always good for at least one good laugh per article, i'll say one thing for here though, she never fails to toe the company line. :cheers:

problem there is, wasnt he just signed as a FA? in which case he cannot be traded till what June(?)Isn't that something the player can waive? im not perfectly clear on the rule, hence the question mark behind june...im not even clear on the date