I'm making up your stance that the Cubs should go hard after Dunn, Fielder, Pujols, Wilson etc etc? That's rich. Way to stand behind your (millions of endlessly repeated) words. :lol: Yeah, I supported signing any of those players (plus Darvish and the Cubans, though I guess that doesn't fit with your "past their prime" manifesto. Of course, neither do Wilson and Fielder. And wanting Dunn was from when Dunn didn't suck and the Cubs had a completely different FO and approach. But hey, why let common sense stop you this far along?) if the Cubs had the money to do so. You've moronically twisted that to try and make it sound like I only want the Cubs to sign "past their prime" veterans as the only solution to make the team better. That's almost as stupid as your laughable argument about the necessity of suck. Please, explain why the Cubs couldn't have traded for Rizzo or moved Marshall if they had, say, signed Fielder and Wilson. And if they had the money for those guys, why couldn't they still have signed DeJesus or Maholm on the cheap deals they got? Why wouldn't they have been able to trade Zambrano for Volstad? Why wouldn't they have been able to trade for Stewart? Explain for all of us which moves this offseason prove the necessity of effectively tanking 2012 (added bonus: explain why you think I didn't want any of these moves to happen)? Unless your argument is that the necessity is based out of an asusmption of a lack of available money then you've got yourself quite the hole to dig yourself out of. No, dave, the only necessity of suck is the necessity of all of your posts to suck, and suck hard.