Andy

Agreed. And Tony Perez deserves some consideration as well. I agree that Perez should have been at first. Also, there HAS to be a better starting pitcher than Fernando. Carlos Zambrano. :wink:

How do the Sox get away with batting AJ Pierzynski FIFTH? Typical. Knowing the Sox, Pierzynski will get several key hits tonight. Ozzie should just try batting Konerko leadoff, because anything he has done this season, no matter how stupid, has worked in spades.

When was the last time in his career that Edgar actually played third base, I wonder?

Yeah, right after I posted this I realized he wouldn't even play if he was traded for. What does UK have against him? He hates cheap effective hitters. So what position does he have in the Cubs organization? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I was just thinking that before I read your post.

I'll watch this game, but I'm turning it off before it ends so I don't have to watch the celebration. Too depressing.

Andruw wins NL award Papi wins AL award Did DLee get robbed?

I agree. I think we're all overrating DLee's tradeability right now. There are plenty of teams right now looking at him and saying "What a tremendous year, but he better keep it up for us to have any interest." Regardless, I don't think there's anyone we could get for DLee that would be better than him without giving up something else substantial.

Matt "Leprechaun" Murton should unconditionally be the starter in LF. In fact can we please get Hendry to say to Dusty that he will fire him if Baker does not play Murton at least 100 games this year, barring injury or complete failure to keep up his production? Murton was routinely benched at the end of the year last year although he had already earned his place. He should be, without question, the starting LF and the number 2 hitter next year. Really enjoyed the interview. This kid is quickly becoming one of my favorite Cubs for the way he takes care of business on the field and conducts himself extremely well off of it.

Oh trust me, it won't. I've already been told that the Cubs "better not win it for at least 20 years" because the Sox "need their time to shine". The White Sox's stupid little unloved child complex is beginning to truly annoy me. Ozzie Guillen had already said he hates Wrigley Field and bashed Dusty Baker about not supporting the Sox this postseason (because we all know Ozzie would be all dressed in blue if the roles were reversed). Even in the playoffs, the Sox and their fans can't stop whining about the Cubs.

AJP was not a good signing. He's a clubhouse cancer (it takes a lot to be a bigger jerk than Barry in SF and AJ pulled it off), and if he wasn't buddies with Hawk Harrelson he would never have been sniffing a Sox uniform anyway. Iguchi I can give Williams credit for, he was pretty good for them, although it's worth noting that he struck out 114 times this season and was nothing special in the field (14 errors). The fact remains, though, that he unloaded a 35-home run hitter for a mediocre leadoff hitter in Podsednik (.313 OBP in 2004) and then plugged in Dye to fill the outfield spot, who hadn't had a good season this millennium and somehow ripped off a .274/31/86 for them. Calling Williams a "clown" is probably overstating the case, but his moves this off-season really weren't that good. He was made to look smart because all those moves came through in spades with Dye having his best year since 2000 and Podsednik having the best of his three seasons in the majors. This Sox team really had marginally better talent than the 2004 version but had the advantage of about 10 players having their best years ever. How do you know that AJP is a clubhouse cancer? SF was the only place he's played where he wasn't loved by his teammates. He is still well liked by guys he played with in Minnesota, and is loved in Chicago. He isn't a cancer, maybe more of a edgy guy, something the team needed. And if you think AJ is a cancer, look at your "35 homer guy" Carlos Lee. He has no hustle on the basepaths, in the field, and he walks about as much as Tony Womack. How do I know? AJP was literally run out of San Francisco. He kneed a Giants trainer in the balls during his one-year tenure. The Sox teammates like him because he's like most of the rest of them and the SF teammates were not. The man almost approaches the personality of Barry Bonds, except that he doesn't put up ludicrous steroid-influenced numbers in the process. His smartass comment about not feeling lucky about the Game 2 ALCS win was a pretty good indicator.

It's a shame that all can't fit on a sig line. Unless I'm much mistaken, someone already has tried that as a sig. :lol:

PSU will obliterate Purdue who has proven to be the biggest disappointment of this season. They were getting top-10 (even championship) buzz before the season but they haven't looked the same since they couldn't finish the job at the Metrodome against the Gophers. I'm not worried about the Wildcats against Michigan. The Wolverines have needed Lloyd Carr's personal timekeeper and overtime to escape with wins the last couple weeks. NU has shown the ability to step up in a big game by decimating the Spartans last week. Just hope they haven't peaked too early. UT needs to beat the Gamecocks. Notre Dame's once-intimidating schedule is looking like a joke right now with UM the only opponent the Irish have beaten with a winning record, UT at 3-3 and no one left on the schedule besides the Vols that looks even remotely able to stop the Irish. This will be a boring weekend for me. I hate when ND doesn't play.

I would say no and not even think about it. I have no interest in picking up someone who took a crap the minute he got his first big contract.

AJP was not a good signing. He's a clubhouse cancer (it takes a lot to be a bigger jerk than Barry in SF and AJ pulled it off), and if he wasn't buddies with Hawk Harrelson he would never have been sniffing a Sox uniform anyway. Iguchi I can give Williams credit for, he was pretty good for them, although it's worth noting that he struck out 114 times this season and was nothing special in the field (14 errors). The fact remains, though, that he unloaded a 35-home run hitter for a mediocre leadoff hitter in Podsednik (.313 OBP in 2004) and then plugged in Dye to fill the outfield spot, who hadn't had a good season this millennium and somehow ripped off a .274/31/86 for them. Calling Williams a "clown" is probably overstating the case, but his moves this off-season really weren't that good. He was made to look smart because all those moves came through in spades with Dye having his best year since 2000 and Podsednik having the best of his three seasons in the majors. This Sox team really had marginally better talent than the 2004 version but had the advantage of about 10 players having their best years ever.

Pray for anyone brave enough to wear Cubs stuff tonight. Seriously. Have I mentioned how pissed off I am that the Sox are going to be the team that brings a title to Chicago? :(

Cubs fans will stay home and recuperate with fellow Cubs fans while looking disgustedly at the celebration.

A Sox fan's away message: "Let's See Got Jipped On A Home Run Call Allowed 11 Walks From The Bullpen Had To Pitch Marte Down 4-0 To Oswalt Is That A Formula To Win A World Series Game UMM NOOO But We Did It *edited* NO EXCUSES BOUT THAT ONE We PROVED We Are The Best Team In Baseball WAY TO GO GEOFF BLUM 1 WIN AWAY BABY Btw 10-1 In The Postseason Ur Right Everyone We Choked WE AINT THE YANKEES BABY 1 MORE WIN GO SOX GO!!!!!!!!" My favorite part is that the Sox fans can't admit that they are the luckiest team in baseball history. And he conveniently ignores the fact that the umps have gifted them two playoff games already. sigh...

You could say it every post for the rest of our time here and it wouldn't be enough. *points to sig* Now we'll be the only ones. And unless we pull a Kenny Williams and trade Aramis Ramirez straight up for Luis Castillo and plug Matt Stairs in at third base or something like that, it's going to be like this for a while.

At least the White Sox trash won't get to celebrate their WS at home. We Cubs fans deserve more than to grasp at straws like that.

heh Ok, third pitch and pop up. But I was pretty close. :wink: Have I said I REALLY hate the Sox?

Right to Uribe. Who said it? sigh.

Seconded.

I don't believe for a second that the Sox will lose this one. This isn't the Cubs' luck, remember. Everett will swing at the first pitch and ground it straight at Uribe to end it.

Dusty will play this angle for when Macias is our starter at short next year: "Hey it's not Ensberg."

Nice to see the Stros working Marte. I've never seen such a bad pitcher being made out to look so good by an offense (other than the Cubs).