BigbadB

Easter is clearly Hendry's favorite holiday. You got eggs and you got baskets. What more could I guy want?

Hey Ward, we got a spot for you, buddy. LOL. Exactly. :D

I agree with most everything you said in the first 3 paragraphs. I don't necessarily agree with the 4th paragraph, however. He might want to win, just not with the Cubs. The relationship died a long time ago, IMO.

:P

I'd bet CT's life that Kevin Brown was a juicer. I'll do the same.

Yeah, Hendry had to know Roberts would make this list. I think he wants him regardless of the reports.

This is fun already.

Maybe it will drive the O's asking price down? And/Or maybe Angelos will lose a bit of affection.

If memory serves, the Jays have been looking for a "hitting" SS for over 3 years. Offensively, Eck should be a step above McDonald and Clayton. But, will it be worth it? That depends on the salary. Jays are in a tough spot. They're not as good as NYY and BOS, but definitely better than BALT and TB - what should they do? You can pretty much pencil in TB to be better than Toronto in 2008.

I don't think it's fair to pencil the Cubs in for last place yet. That dubious honor is bestowed upon the St. Louis Cardinals.

I think Pittsburgh and Houston will be neck and neck for 5th.

Yup, I would have rather had ONE of the dodgers players than FIVE of the Astros. Wow. I just looked at Houston's roster. Haha. They signed Kaz Matsui and traded for Miguel Tejada. They still have Chris Burke, they signed Geoff Blum to an offseason contract and they offered arbitration to Mark Loretta, and Loretta accepted. I guess Hendry isn't the worst GM out there.

But, not to be outdone in this bad deal is Houston. They essentially gave up necessary roster filler for a guy who might help keep Houston out of the cellar next year, but that's about the best they can or should expect. That's a lot of money to spend on a guy to finish 5th instead of 6th. Maybe Houston has a real plan for their rotation that I don't see, but right now it's beyond god awful.

It's a horrible deal for Baltimore. They got a handful of roster filler. That's it. Baltimore should have been working the phones with the Dodgers. At least the Dodgers had good players to offer. Who knows? They may still make a deal with the Dodgers for Bedard, but a package of Bedard AND Tejada would have made sense for both parties, IMO.

11:00 on the West Coast, it will be announced I trust you mean 11am.

I'm waiting. I got up early for the occasion.

meh, i think this sums it up I'm paraphrasing, of course. Well, at least he was nice about it. :P

:lol: If the Orioles wanted him why wouldn't they just have had the Astros include him in the Tejada deal? Because the brilliant GM in Houston didn't want to include him in that deal. \:D/

Padres probably ask for a little more, but that seems like a good trade. Here we are again, doing all of Hendry's work. They should just hire us to be the GM. Things would be a little easier. As long as it isn't the "us" that wants to start Theriot at SS.

Yeah, boy, 3 years of doing nothing. He sure didn't pitch at all in 2004 or 2005. Oh, wait, he did. Quite a bit. And very well, too. Weird. Ahhh, yes, the trademark condescension that was discussed in another thread earlier... Actually Prior was not very good in 2004. A 4.05 era and 1.35 WHIP is "very well"? 118.2 IP is "quite a bit"? For a #2 starter? Really? 2005 was okay, though. I'll give you that. A I hate to break up this lovely spat, but 2004 was 4 years ago. 2007 2006 2005 equals 3 years. 2004 = not a part of the original argument

Padres probably ask for a little more, but that seems like a good trade. Here we are again, doing all of Hendry's work.

He could have included Cedeno if he really wanted to.

The sadness of this heavily outweighs the happiness of yesterday... I feel like I would if I lost a good friend, seeing his potential and seeing that the Cubs had the gem of the entire league and going through all the crap we have to finally fix him and then do jack about trying to keep him to see if we could get any googly darn returns, and just to think what he could have been and still might be...it saddens me very greatly. When he played he was my most favorite Cub outside of Sosa, Ramirez, and Wood. If only he had stayed healthy.....we would be world champs one of the last 4 years....so long Prior....and because it would just kill me to see you live up to your potential somewhere else.....I hope you suck. The only bright spot in here is that just from getting to know him as a player on the Cubs, I feel decently confident he will either never pitch again, or suck, so fine....this still hurts though, I don't understand how it wouldn't hurt a real Cubs fan. Another thing, it just shows me how much of a real man Kerry Wood is, that guy deserves as much respect as anyone in the damn league, dude hats off to you, thank god we got at least one class act out of the two.... Prior go to your California trash and play for a cheap team like the Padres who will contend in the most boring division in baseball (not counting Colorado, and even they usually suck) and then get killed in the playoffs. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and just trade Prior for Abreu, or Tejada, or even flippin Bedard straight up back then, idc.....or even farther back and poison Dusty Bakers food so the Cubs would never hire him and Prior and Wood would be lighting up the league.... Bah I'm just venting w.e, Prior do MLB a favor and just take your money and get out of baseball so you don't scam a new team out of a few million more dollars...unless it's the White Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, or Cardinals, then you can go ahead and take as much money from them as you want. Whoaaaaaaa. Hey. Hold on there. Read the NSBB member guidelines in my sig please. If you are confused by any of the rules and regs of this board, feel free to PM me with questions.

There's already an ESPN rant in the Rants forum. I'm going to lock this one up.

Now a guy has to host a celebrity bowling tournament to be a good clubhouse guy?