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Sure it is, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's only hovering around .650. I'm not saying the guy is a bust, but it's not a stretch to assume he'll struggle being this young on a team this bad with a manager this incompetent. If he struggles his first year, oh well. Though if Theriot moves to 2B, it still just remains a glaring hole that needs to be improved.

There's a tremendously good chance that he doesn't in the first year. Tremendously good chance he doesn't match a .650 OPS? Castro is very young and still has things to work on, but his skillset doesn't lend itself to a learning curve that makes him worthless with the bat as he develops. I'd be very surprised if he tops out past a .700 OPS in his first year.

Why are you surprised that they would move Theriot? He still starts, and it's not like he's a SS to begin with.

I totally disagree. If he comes to the Bulls and they start winning championships, even if it's not 3 in a row or 6 total he's still going to be "basking in the glory." I'm baffled by this continued implications that Chicago fans would be anything less than going nuts over him if he doesn't live up to Jordan or surpass him. If his "worry" is being judged the GoAT, then he's going to be stacked up against Michael no matter where he goes, so it's irrelevant whether that's occurring in Chicago or elsewhere. He can't somehow escape that or bypass it by playing somewhere else. His place in history is going to be compared to Jordan wherever he is. He doesn't escape that by not coming to Chicago. He's not going to get a "lesser" reaction from Bulls fans than other fanbases just because he's not Jordan because, for one, basketball is very generational and it's been over 12 years since Jordan had anything to do with the Bulls, and two, the Bulls have been garbage for the better part of a decade after he left. It would be one thing if Jordan was still any kind of presence with the Bulls or that they had stayed competitive after he left, but neither of those things happened. That's tremendous separation for Bulls fans that have grown up over the last decade, and even for Bulls fans that remember Jordan. The Bulls have been one of the worst teams in basketball for too many years after he left and he's basically completely separated himself from the team. LeBron would have zero problem coming in here and taking over and making it his team and his city at this point.

There's a tremendously good chance that he doesn't in the first year.

This team is sunk if Aramis can't turn it around. He's too essential and they can't survive Lou's hideous lineups without him.

I don't think anyone could have predicted that Kelly Johnson would put up the numbers he's put up so far. No but everyone predicted he would have been better than Fontenot and Baker. Who is everyone? Kelly was horrible last year.

An injection using an engine? Hardcore. Silly, desperate move by the Cubs.

Exactly.

But it doesn't really. Again, for people coming to the game after he was gone it just makes him a guy selling shoes and underwear. It's just the nature of the game, even for the GoAT.

That just makes him a brand name. For fans that came to the game after Jordan played he's just a part of history, especially with the crappy, crappy years the Bulls produced after he was gone. If it really comes down to him trying to be as good as or as big as or better than Jordan, that'll dog him wherever he goes. It would hardly be exclusive to Chicago. People who are stacking him up against Jordan, or if he's doing it himself, that's going to happen anywhere he goes.

CUBS score 5.69 runs per game at Wrigley...... and 3.93 R/G everywhere else. Imagine how hideous that would look if you subtract the games at Miller Park. CUBS score 2.83 R/G in road games not behind the cheddar curtain. GOOD LORD! *CHOKE!*

CUBS score 5.69 runs per game at Wrigley...... and 3.93 R/G everywhere else. Imagine how hideous that would look if you subtract the games at Miller Park.

Yeah, I really don't see him keeping his job if they don't have at least a deep playoff run. He's only got 1 year left on his deal and it's not going to cost much to give him the boot. Yep, I just really don't want the team to hang around the edges of a playoff spot long enough for him to make a horrible trade to help this years team out. Definitely not.

Yeah, I really don't see him keeping his job if they don't have at least a deep playoff run. He's only got 1 year left on his deal and it's not going to cost much to give him the boot.

If he wins 1 title anywhere he's just that guy. Nobody has to "outdo" Jordan in Chicago to make the team and the town theirs.

What other dead weight? Besides, odds are Lou was gone once his contract was up after this year anyway if they didn't contend (ie - making it past the 1st round of the playoffs), so I doubt some epic tanking was necessary. Same goes for Hendry, too. At least an epic tanking would get us higher draft picks next June. True, though it's baseball, so it's not as imperative to get those spots. A tanking would generally just suck.

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/players_l/20100429/6210.jpg I'm assuming he devoured an old lady for those glasses, so maybe it was well deserved.

What other dead weight? Besides, odds are Lou was gone once his contract was up after this year anyway if they didn't contend (ie - making it past the 1st round of the playoffs), so I doubt some epic tanking was necessary. Same goes for Hendry, too.

His worst stats came with the Cardinals, so what are the odds they would have been significantly better with just a different NL Central team? Incorrect. So what? They don't have to be in the top 10 to be of use and valuable. DeRosa wasn't a top 10 prospect kind of guy. Considering his age they got an excellent return for him and definitely sold high. Not at all. It's smart to sell high when it seems like you've got a decent team. It's unfortunate that things played out as they did, but DeRosa wouldn't have made much of a difference if they held onto him. It's much better that they at least got players because of him who can hopefully still help the team in the future.

Makes more sense to use the well rested bullpen as opposed to the guy who went last night and was just recently converted from starting to relieving.

Mark Derosa just hit an RBI double. Hahahahah! You're not seriously wishing they had DeRosa instead, right? Not really. This team isn't going to contend, anyway. It would have been nice to have him last year, though. He wasn't good for most of last year, too. The pitchers they got for him are much more valuable right now and down the line.

Like it "worked" when the Cubs beat up on the Brewers with their forfeit lineup? Guess that makes it the smart decision.

I'm about 98.3% sure that you're actually CubsGM.

Wait, the Pirates sac bunted with their #3 hitter?