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I miss Kap and Waddel.

I wonder if any are reading this thread and getting angry about how unrealistic our trade proposals are? Of course they are! :lol: I guess that's the 67 guests lingering in this forum then. :P Join up guys. Most of us aren't a-holes and would love your take! :D Yeah. We're not jerks. Well, except Tree. But nobody likes him anyway. ;)

You have been a fan for the entire Jim Hendry era, correct? If so, then you know if your heart this comment is incorrect. Any time the question is "Is Jim Hendry really that stupid?" the answer is always "yes"

BREAKING NEWS...... There is nothing new to report. Go back to your lives.

No. Jim Hendry will not make any big trades. Instead, he will acquire a Japanese reliever few people have ever heard of, make a trade for Alex Cora (in which he ships out a promising prospect that later becomes a 5 time All Star in the AL), and publicly bemoan the fact that a number of trades he wanted to do simply couldn't get done despite the fact that MLB had one of the wildest offseasons in recent memory, with nearly every team making big trades. Damn you for bringing me back to reality!

It was a good day. That was before I registered here, but I went nucking futs that day, driving my wife (then my girlfriend) crazy with random shouts of "NOMAHHHHHHH!" Yeah, women just don't understand.

Even though now is probably the best time to deal him, it would take a heck of a lot for me to part with Marmol. Maybe I value shut-down relievers too highly, but guys like Marmol don't come along every day.

If he could do that without either crippling the farm or handing out ridiculous contracts, I will officially take back half the bad things I've ever said about him.

I wouldn't trade Hill for him. Maybe Gallagher.

Jim Hendry couldn't have swung a deal like this to save his life. Good for the Tigers. I like them. That is a wicked lineup.

You can't count Cleveland out. They could end up with Jason Bay. Oooh. Bay is on the market? What could he be had for?

Even though he's loonier than a $4 bill, I wouldn't mind taking a flier on him if he's not terribly expensive. I hear he has tremendous upside.

Well crap.

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-071201rogers,1,7650706.column?coll=cs-cubs-headlines Phil Rogers is insane. An offer Hill/Marmol/Pie/Marshall in my mind is blowing away the offers from both evil empires. Why in the world would the Cubs have to part with either Soto or Veal along with the big three they are offering is beyond me. If the Cubs wanted to win this Santana Derby they could easily but at this point with ownership issues there's no way Hendry gambles the farm on one year of Santana. They're not in on Santana. And I doubt they will be.

Explain why. if you cannot have the ability to focus, concentrate, and adjust your approach/skill set in a "pressure" situation, you cannot have the ability to loose focus, concentaration, and ability to adjust youre approach/skill sets and thus "choke" I do believe ther is somthing to being "clutch", although I think it is overblown by mainstream media I will agree with this explanation. Clutch is hard to define, but I do think there are players who do better in pressure situations than others, just like there are teams that play better in big games than others. The whole "anti-clutch" argument can be debunked by the law of averages. If there is an "average" performance which some argue can go down under certain situations, then it can also go up, otherwise it's not the "average" performance but rather the pinnacle of a hitter's abilities.

What gets me is that there was a discussion on this very website during the season in which some argued that there was no such thing as "clutch", but in the same breath mentioned that there is such a thing as anti-clutch. If there is no clutch, there is no anti-clutch. Period.

I agree. This should be his absolute final chance. Let him start the season as a Cub. And to think I was dead set against that Tejada and Bedard deal when it was proposed. I wish I had a time machine to go back on tha t one.

I don't really care. The Bears fans that saw the game saw how one-sided the officiating was. I absolutely hate using the refs as an excuse, but that PI call was among the worst calls I think I have ever seen in all of sports. No, we didn't deserve to win anyway. The defense played terrible. The game would've been different if KGB and Woodson were in there, but that's what McCarthy gets for being so conservative. It's not a bad loss by any means. I'll still be able to sleep easily tonight. Like I said, I still feel confident in a rematch against them. Assuming all of our key players are 100% going into that game, then yes, I like our chances in a rematch.

http://images.tsn.ca/images/stories/20030109/nfl_referee_50942.jpg Ask these guys. Co-sign It was a good game, but Vance, you can't sit here and say the Cowboys didn't get some help tonight. I'll concede that the Cowboys were probably the better team seeing as they were healthier. Anyway, we'll meet again in January.

Grease their palms a little bit more. Sorry guys, I'm just really frustrated.

And you're completely ignoring the takeaway Al Harris should have had in the 4th quarter and the BS pass interference call? I haven't been watching this game extremely closely but when I am watching, every time the Cowboys have the ball, they're marching down the field without much of a problem. Romo's averaging 10 yards per attempt passing and Barber is averaging 5 yards per carry. You're not going to win many games when your defense allows that. Like I said, blame the Packer defense. I'm not saying the Packers were the better team tonight. But Dallas got some massive help.

And you're completely ignoring the takeaway Al Harris should have had in the 1st quarter and the BS pass interference call? This game is over and it makes me sick. The Packers may not have won the game anyway, but the refs sure didn't do them any favors. My God, it's been a LONG time since I've seen more blatant favoritism by an officiating crew, and that includes some Cubs games.

Bigby should be forced to walk home.

the "forward progress stopped" call was particularly egregious in the first quarter... especially since one ref signaled that it was packers ball. Nobody will be able to convince me that the refs don't want Dallas to win tonight. It's so blatant it's sickening. Just like when the Packers would go down there in the 90's and on more than one occasion a Dallas defender would pull a Packers ball-carrier down by his facemask three feet from the official and not get a call. And the NFL won't do a damn thing about it's referees. It's so frustrating. Why is it that you think the NFL prefers the Cowboys to win rather than the Packers? For one, I'll bet every single penny I make for the rest of my life the NFL won't do a damn thing about some of these blatantly obvious BS calls that seem to be very one-sided. Secondly, even back in the 90's, the Packers were down there every single year (save 1997) during the Dallas dynasty. The NFL said "Oh, well that's just how the schedule falls" but that was complete BS. They had to do some tinkering to have Green Bay travel to Dallas that many times in a row during the regular season. Thirdly, Dallas seems to be able to get away with a LOT against the Packers in Dallas. I don't have video and I don't know the players involved, and I know nobody here will believe me, but I will swear to my dying day that during the NFC Championship game in Dallas one year a Dallas defender tackled a Green Bay ball carrier by yanking him down by the facemask no more than four feet from an official and there was no flag. It was at that moment I knew that no matter what happened, Dallas was winning. I don't know why it keeps happening. Once or twice may be a coincidence, but that many times in a row ceases to be coincidental and starts to be on purpose.

the "forward progress stopped" call was particularly egregious in the first quarter... especially since one ref signaled that it was packers ball. Nobody will be able to convince me that the refs don't want Dallas to win tonight. It's so blatant it's sickening. Just like when the Packers would go down there in the 90's and on more than one occasion a Dallas defender would pull a Packers ball-carrier down by his facemask three feet from the official and not get a call. And the NFL won't do a damn thing about it's referees. It's so frustrating.