Schwarber Fan

Good God man, please put "with Dodgers" in the title.

I'm pretty pissed the Yankee Stadium game isn't on WGN That being said, I live in NY and one of: YES Network, ESPN, or the MLB Network will definitely have it.

How is Marmol a downgrade to Wood as closer?

can't take credit... its from the bleacher report... lol

new sig

GOOD GOD NO :beg: Don't let us lose 19 games this year, please God.

Howry! I knew I left something out.

I agree, I also think he might have been a roider as well Pass on Andruw

Some of Mark's finest moments in his 2 years spent as a Cub... hope I didn't leave anything out http://www.sendspace.com/file/8m0920 We'll miss ya, Mark! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2496344202_347e13caa0.jpg

Oh how the mighty have fallen

Sign me up

Haha, what an epic day in Cubs offseason history Aaron Miles signed Mark DeRosa traded Marquis for Vizcaino Likely Milton Bradley PAUL BAKO

Then why sign Aaron Miles in the first place? I doubt Brian Roberts is coming, unless the Cubs sign him as a FA after the 09 season. Like I said, maybe to replace Ronny? I guess Fontenot would be the primary backup though...

Right on cue

Hmm... had not thought of that, and maybe Cedeno would be going too in the deal that would justify the Miles signing (to an extent)

Poor John Gaub, so one can spell his name right.

Fontenot had 34 BBs in 243 ABs last year, I don't think that's a problem

When did we finalize the trade for Peavy? We did not, have not and probably will not. Sure we'll have Harden for an entire season. How many innings does that man nowadays anyways? He's pitched over 70 innings three times of his five major league seasons. We got that many out of him last season. If we get more than 115 innings out of him this season I would be ecstatic. When did we finalize the trade for Grady Sizemore? Because that's what we need to do if we're going to replace the production that we got from center last season. I love Milton Bradley, but the guy plays 100 games in the season less often than Rich Harden throws 100 innings in a season. That would be three times this century. If he played 140 games, okay we replace that production, assuming he hits like he normally dos. If he plays 80 games and the rest go to Micah or someone else trashy, then well we've lost a lot of production. How confident are you that Bradley stays healthy? When did we finalize the trade for a second Jake Peavy. Because that's what we're going to need to do in order to replace the production that we got from Ryan Dempster last season. Do you really think Dempster is going to do what he did last season? No one should. When did we complete the trade for Chase Utley? Because that's what we're going to need to do in order to replace the production we got at second last season. Now that DeRo is officially gone, how confident are you in Fontenot hitting .300/.378/.458? That's our production from hitters playing 2B last season. Oh, Kerry Wood is gone too. "Probably will not" There is no explanation for what the Cubs are doing right now if we don't end up with Peavy.

Gotta be John Gaub

ya think. Well some of you are like, "I want blah blah from CLE" and "WTF Aaron Miles sucks" when it seems so obvious that this is all leading up to a Peavy deal...

I'm OK with a Fontenot/Miles platoon at 2B if we get Bradley and Peavy

It isn't obvious to everyone else that the plan is: Sign Miles to fill DeRosa's spot, trade DeRosa to Indians for prospects to spin to SD for Peavy?

Rafael Soriano?

http://mets.scout.com/a.z?s=228&p=2&c=825481

You do realize the Winter Classic is a hockey game, right?