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Alf is fat with extra fingers. I win.

The numbers seem to disagree with you: 220/245/300/545 Well, I'm not counting on Jones putting up a line like that over a full season. Yeah, he'd have to show substantial improvement to put up those kind of numbers.

If you want me to, I'll come over and punch you in the face. You only live about 2 blocks away I think. Oh nose! You know where I live! LOCK THE DOORS LOCK THE DORRS!!!

YOU MONSTER!!!!

That's all anyone's asking you to do.

So funny....... and so original. He hits REALLY well for a 46-year old, doesn't he? Got anything new? Geez, lighten up.

I feel like a complete idiot for this but...I'm pretty excited for the prospect of getting Wood, Prior and Miller in the rotation. The rational side of me wants me to punch myself in the face repeatedly but I'm the perpetual optimist as a sportsfan. I can't help myself.

So after 10 pages we've found out that: Cardinals fans want Rolen. Cubs fans want Ramirez.

A reporter probably said something like "Greg, you had no walks today and have had few in your career. How important is it to not walk people?" and that was his answer.

I like Maddux and it looks like he'll have a fairly productive season. However, he's likely to be pretty expensive and it's time we see if some of our young arms (Hill, Guzman, Marshall, etc) can get it done. I say let him walk.

He's right in that there is no point in throwing meatballs to a guy who'll smoke them just for the sake of not walking him.

Please come back soon Kerry.

I think people didn't like it because it thought to be trivializing the accomplishments of a young player and was used as justification for platooning him with inferior players. At least as far as I can remember. I don't remember exactly when he said it but I'm pretty sure he was playing only against lefties at the time the comment was made.

The Weak Side Linebacker in the Cover-2 usually has inflated stats. Not to say that Briggs isn't good, he is, but he's nowhere near the player Urlacher is. As tough as it sounds (Keep in mind, I really want Briggs back) the Weak Side linebacker is probably the easiest position to replace in the Cover 2 defense.

Pujols is flawless.

There must have been some sort of gun malfunction but I'm pretty sure I saw Rusch hit 94 yesterday.

There were plenty of people last year saying that Maddux's option vesting was way down on the list of Cubs problems. They were probably a little quieter last year, just like the critics are quieter this year. *waving* I would have been one of those. Especially since Maddux did a fairly good job the first part of last season as well. Yes, he did give up some HRs, but he did get the job done while Wood and Prior spent time on the DL (kind of like now). Like I've said on at least one other occasion, yes, $9 mil is a lot of money for an aging pitcher who isn't as great as he once was, but he's the ONLY person on the staff who eats up innings and more often than not keeps the team in the ballgame. If anyone "saved" the Cubs last year, it was Maddux (and Z) - keeping the team in the race - but only long enough to get Wood in the bullpen. As for the HOF speculation, there is no way Maddux goes in with a non-Braves cap unless he gets three more Cy's and two or more WS wins with one other team before his playing career is done. EDIT: when I first saw this thread, there were 31 replies. :D I also said that all the Maddux for 9 million freakout, was much ado about nothing. Yes, he's overpaid. But the few million he is overpaid, for one year, wasn't going to have a big impact on the Cubs '06 campaign. It hasn't and won't.

Who do you mean by "they"? Surely some Ordinary Joe could round up a ball from last year and a ball from this year, do some testing, and confirm or put to rest the "juiced ball theory". They was referring to the media there. A little misleading, my apologies. Doesn't it strike anyone as amusing that the media is chattering on endlessly about something they could confirm or debunk in less than a day? Grab two balls(heh) and check them out. Case closed. Instead of interviewing all these wrinkly baseball men about how fast the ball is getting through the infield, ball trajectory of homeruns (All these popups are going out!!!), and all the other silly subjective evidence people are using to try to prove the balls are juiced, just check the balls. Why would MLB make all these juiced balls when tons of them end up in the stands every day and could easily be tested? I think they'd be found out pretty quickly.

Honesly, couldn't this be proven/disproven pretty quickly? I'm sure that a ball from this year could be tested and compared to balls in previous years. It's can't be that hard to do. Are they just not doing this so they can have something to talk about on sports radio?

\:D/

Honestly, Bynum? What's the point?

:(

Pierre has been awful. We really need him to get it in gear.

that's pretty stupid with 2 outs Don't question me. My tactics worked. I said Pierre would hit one of the scoreboard and he bunted and I said that Murton would bunt and he hit a clutch single!

YES MURTON CLEANS UP THE GARBAGE!!!