Andy

CubbieRich's Competely and Utterly Devoid of Logic Hate List: Wood Pujols More?

I'm noncommittal. On the one hand there has to be at least a grain of truth in all these rumors. On the other hand...this is Jim Hendry.

Doesn't get much better than my avatar :wink:

Like every other player that backs Baker (read: any Cubs player), he's getting injured.

My grandmother survived colon cancer, my aunt survived Hodgkin's disease, and my other grandmother survived breast cancer. I know as well as anyone the great healing power of faith. Good luck and keep fighting, pal.

Bronson strikes me as a guy a lot of NSBB would like to hang out with.

This has to be a joke. A cosmic joke. I really don't want to believe in curses...I REALLY, REALLY don't...but at the same time, the Cubs have had more fluke ass injuries in the last five years than many teams have had in the last thirty or more. It just defies description the things that happen to this team.

Not if you think you can win this year. Schmidt is proven. McCarthy is a top prospect, but top prospects have been known to fail. And even if he does develop as expected, there's no reasonable assurance that he'd do as much as Schmidt would to help them win this year.Good point about this year since no one is out in the NL West. I would have to give McCarthy a long look though, as anyone who made starts for a WS champion then returned the next season as a guy who would've been in just about any other team's rotation would have as good a chance as any of succeeding.

It's very possible that Neifi could be dealt for at least a minor leaguer or two. The thing is, Hendry and Dusty wouldn't do it.

Loretta a FA? I'm on board there.

The Police is one of those many bands that I know I'd like more if I got a chance to listen to more of their stuff but am always too unmotivated to do so. They're an easy pick here.

McCarver is worse, but he's also more fun to listen to. Morgan is more infuriating to listen to because we all know Dusty Baker agrees with most of what he says.

Jump>>>>Sweet Home Alabama The vote is VH.

Rams fan, eh? May I present my all-time favorite NFL moment... http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/nfl/2004/0110/photo/a_smith_ft.jpg :wink:

Bilk- 1. To defraud, cheat, or swindle 2. To thwart or frustrate 3. To elude $32.5 million for 12 wins in 3 years. Let me know when he wants to give any of the cash back for doing nothing. Maybe he should've just told Dusty no when he kept saying he needed one more inning. Then he'd be branded a clubhouse cancer and shipped off anyway. Your logic or lack thereof here is absurd.

If I'm Brian Sabean trying to work Schmidt out to an extension and I get this call from Kenny Williams, then I call up Jason and say "Hey buddy change of plans, you're going to Chicago". You can always bury Anderson on the bench or trade him for spare parts, but if you can get a prospect like McCarthy from a guy as close to the end as Schmidt you do it last week.

What the hell was everyone saying on Saturday? And in reference to whom? He's just making things up now.

If Wood can accept a bullpen slot, then we could have an open closer competition in 2007 spring training with Dempster or, just make him the closer and have Demp set up.

This year should prove to Cubs fans the folly of relying so heavily on pitching prospects who are good, but not can't miss ace guys. A lot of these guys have shown flashes and potential, but none of them have been ready to step up and contribute positively and consistently. As things stand right now, Prior and Zambrano are the only guys guaranteed to be in the rotation next season. I can't see this team re-signing Wood for the rotation, nor do I think Maddux will return. Lord help us all if Glendon is given another shot. That leaves three spots open. If Prior is traded, there will be four spots to fill. I don't think it would be wise to come into the season with at least two spots filled by rookie/young pitchers who are either unproven commodities (Gallagher, Wells) or who have only shown flashes at this point (Hill, Marshall, Marmol). That's a really dangerous proposition. This is why Jason Schmidt is a MUST for the Cubs this offseason. Isn't Jason Schmidt older and abused in the past...specifically by Dusty Baker? Although he'd probably require less years in a deal so stability would be nice. Schmidt was abused by Dusty. Unlike Wood and Prior, Schmidt's career wasn't basically ended. Figures. I could live with Schmidt for a two-year deal but I doubt he'd accept that short a contract.

Although he has (for reasons I'll never figure out) apparently a basement-low trade value, I don't see Walker coming back next year and I don't think he wants to. Ship him out if you can get even a major leaguer back.

Pour Some Sugar On Me alone is enough to topple Rush IMO.

Hardest pick of the tourney so far for me as I definitely enjoy both these groups immensely, but The Boss has to get a slight edge.

Not a big fan of punk? I am a big fan of punk, but not the Ramones. They bore me. I give them credit for giving punk a kickstart by repopularizing the 2:30 rock song and showing that you don't need to play great to start a band, but other than that I don't think they offered much. The bands that actually imitated their songwriting are mostly pop-punk, and I HATE pop-punk. Pop-punk is my favorite kind of music... *runs away before the impending flame onslaught*

It's the last one. Cap is good but without the Cubs he's no All-Star.

Even though Bon Jovi is even worse than Nickelback in making all their songs sound the same, I still enjoy the music.