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Probably because everyone looks at Abreu and assumes he's a big fat load.

Martha Wellington!

Zambrano gets booed a lot. Soriano doesn't show emotion? The guy acts like an ecstatic kid when he gets a hit.

I dont know if its any more or less likely than the chances that Theriot continues to produce at his current pace (very unlikely). I tend to think he'd be at least as good offensively and he would be an upgrade defensively. I think you're overstating the odds of a player that young and that inexperienced being able to come up and produce right away in the bigs. It would obviously be fantastic if he did come out and out produce guys like Theriot, but odds are he probably wouldn't even match typical Theriot production for most of the season, if at all this year. Actually he has to outproduce the Font/Baker combo since Theriot would just move over. Applies to them, too. I'd be stunned if Castro outproduced them if he was called up soon.

Said it before, but man, if Lee and Aramis can get going this season could end up being a lot more fun than most of us were expecting. Now if we could just get Soto moved up in the lineup...

Billy Beane has been successful as a GM, but he is not regarded as the best GM in baseball. So being successful and being the best GM are not mutally exclusive. For instance, when Cashman eventual steps down as Yankees GM, will you consider the next Yankees GM the best GM if the Yankees continue to win? Being the best GM and being the most successful do not alway go hand in hand. But it often can. Krause wasn't in Cashman's position of having an unlimited budget to work with, yet he look at the results. There's no Chicago GM that even comes close. He was given a substantial payroll to work with. As for his abilities as a GM, they sucked. He pulled out a couple of moves out of his ass (based on part from his scouts, especially on Kukoc) and all of the sudden he is consider the best? Correct me if I am wrong, but who drafted Jason Caffey right in front of Michael Finley? Who drafted Fizer we the Bulls already had Brand? His later years as GM showed him for the fraud he was. Payroll is irrelevant if you're bringing up someone like Cashner. No other GM in professional American sports has the resources he has to work with. And you're faulting him for listening to his scouts? Isn't that what a GM is supposed to do? AND you're bringing up draft failures while propping up Angelo, who is the king of highly touted draft busts and first round failures? Nobody is saying that Krause was without his obvious faults and mistakes, but [expletive], he made better moves than Angelo in the long run and had much more success. Again, it's ridiculous to compare the two.

I'm sorry, how could anyone seriously suggest Angelo and Krause are even comparable?

Billy Beane has been successful as a GM, but he is not regarded as the best GM in baseball. So being successful and being the best GM are not mutally exclusive. For instance, when Cashman eventual steps down as Yankees GM, will you consider the next Yankees GM the best GM if the Yankees continue to win? Being the best GM and being the most successful do not alway go hand in hand. But it often can. Krause wasn't in Cashman's position of having an unlimited budget to work with, yet he look at the results. There's no Chicago GM that even comes close.

Why would you even get anyone else warming up? Grabow sucks, but he's not going to give up 5 more runs. Just leave him in there.

Man, if Lee and Aramis can just get back into it this lineup is stacked.

it's so hard to tell with him because when he's on he hits the ball really well, and when he's cold he can't hit a beach ball. he was lousy early on but for the last 2-3 weeks he's been really hot. at some point he'll go ice cold; last year there was just a lot more of the cold than the hot. hopefully this year it's more like 2007-08. I still believe that last year wasn't so much "more cold than hot" as much as it was "more injured than not". Yeah, I think playing on that bad leg really effected him. I mean, it's not even like he was bad the whole year. I was especially letdown last season because he got off to such an insane start for the first month+ before just toppling off of a cliff. And there he goes again!

So the most successful GM isn't the best? Good luck arguing that, especially since the competition doesn't really offer up anyone close.

Mmmmmm, snowcone.

4 k's in a row for Gorzelanny. Nice.

Awwwww, Soriano hugging Rudy in the dugout after his HR.

When Soriano is locked in he's incredible. And hey, nice job by Tracy!

Does he get credit for Kukoc?

It's still a trade and you still need to get the player you want as opposed to someone else getting him.

TL; DR. I'm eating pancakes.

I dont know if its any more or less likely than the chances that Theriot continues to produce at his current pace (very unlikely). I tend to think he'd be at least as good offensively and he would be an upgrade defensively. I think you're overstating the odds of a player that young and that inexperienced being able to come up and produce right away in the bigs. It would obviously be fantastic if he did come out and out produce guys like Theriot, but odds are he probably wouldn't even match typical Theriot production for most of the season, if at all this year.

Last year? Yeah, but why still act surprised that's "back?" It's not like he's just started hitting in the last few games. He's been looking good most of the season now. we're only a month in after a terrible year last year. I don't think it's terrible for some people to want to see a month (or more) of ABs before they determine last year was a blip (injury related or otherwise) rather than a trend. I only watched the last few innings. Was the umpire terribly inconsistent with balls and strikes all game? Who said it was terrible? My response was based on the comment sounding like Soriano had just picked up in the last few games.

The only way it makes sense to bring up Castro is if he's a lock to out-produce Theriot at SS or to out-produce the current 2B combo...and he is very far from that right now.

And again, it's very debatable whether the Cubs have a staff that can accomplish much in the playoffs or whether they're going to even be able to compete for the WC. You're talking about Castro like he's likely to be some kind of difference maker, and that's probably not the case at this point.

It's very debatable as to whether or not the Cubs are "close" winning a WS this year (they're not), and it's very debatable whether or not Castro would make the team better at this point.

Last year? Yeah, but why still act surprised that's "back?" It's not like he's just started hitting in the last few games. He's been looking good most of the season now.