Geech

Can we please get back on the "banning Kyle" topic?

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/6/7/8/272942678/041918_cubs_baez_rizzo.gif Right now he looks like he's going to end up winning the MVP.

Fun inning.

He did have a huge May that helped keep his overall numbers looking good: .406/.483/.653. Other than that, September was his best month.

Perhaps the artist wanted to make sure it was waist-up and over corrected.

It seems like a completely preposterous deal to me, but I also know that fans are always behind the curve on free agent values. I think it's possible that he basically lives up to deal like Soriano did (without approaching Soriano's performance peak). Still, it doesn't seem like a good fit for the Padres.

I don't specifically recall the Harper comparison, but I believe it happened. Folks here were (understandably) really high on Castro and made a lot of optimistic predictions that he did not fulfill. One I recall is that Castro was "guaranteed" to be the next Jeter. Something along those lines. We said the same thing about Ronny Cedeno. I'll have to take your word for that, although the Cedeno enthusiasm almost certainly never reached the levels of Castro enthusiasm.

I don't specifically recall the Harper comparison, but I believe it happened. Folks here were (understandably) really high on Castro and made a lot of optimistic predictions that he did not fulfill. One I recall is that Castro was "guaranteed" to be the next Jeter. Something along those lines.

That bill hAll Star guy is weird mix of good and strange. In a post in which he claims an opt-out after two years is good for the Cubs, he then goes on to drop this legit gem:

This dragged out so long that, despite all the rumors connecting the Cubs, I was starting to feel pessimistic about Yu signing with us. This almost feels like a pleasant surprise now.

I did a double-take at that, too, but I'm pretty sure it's a six with a flaw in the carving.

That's cool, but I want him to not be on the team anymore.

Agony and Ivy engaged your ideas seriously and explained in detail why he disagreed with them, and you completely ignored almost all of it. So if you weren't in this thread to seriously discuss ideas, how can you justify being so sanctimonious? It kind of seems like you're a person in a glass house who shouldn't have thrown stones.

Robot umps next season.

The way he's laboring you think he almost has to be limited to one.