Sammy Sofa

On the one hand, yes, this is true. On the other, you do not see corporate logos and signage for the Wrigley corporation and all of it's products plastered all over the ballpark (like you do at every other corporate named sports facility). It's not really comparable. Why would we see advertising for Wrigley when they haven't owned the park in some time? We shouldn't. That's the point. My guess is that large majority of people who attend Wrigley Field aren't thinking about chewing gum. It may technically be named after a corporation, but it's not comparable to all of the parks that are nothing but a visual and aural onslaught of corporate advertising My point wasn't that Wrigley now is representative of Wrigley the company. My point is that when it was named "Wrigley" it very much had corporate connotations. It a false point to act like Wrigley Field has forever been free of being a "corporate ballpark."

On the one hand, yes, this is true. On the other, you do not see corporate logos and signage for the Wrigley corporation and all of it's products plastered all over the ballpark (like you do at every other corporate named sports facility). It's not really comparable. Why would we see advertising for Wrigley when they haven't owned the park in some time?

A name that's also the name of one of the most famous candy companies in the world. Which is where the money came from. Just because it's not explicitly named after the company (though it arguably is since William Wrigley was the damn company), it's ridiculous to act like there were no corporate connotations to the name "Wrigley."

The irony never gets old.

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That's insane. Bradley is not likely to be an asset in a deal like this and Fox would be a last minute add-on at best. For someone like Cabrera you start with players or prospects that people actually want.

I'd rather empty the farm for Adrian Gonzalez if this indeed is the path Ricketts would be willing to go down.

Hell, you could argue Bradley would be "motivated to play to stick it to Cubs fans" if they just held on to him.

It's astounding how some people here still overrate Jake Fox by so much.

It's got Jon Benjamin, which is great, but it also reminds me that there will never be anymore Frisky Dingo. which makes me sad.

Not that Cutler hasn't been overthrowing all night, but I'd kill for the Bears to have a good big receiver.

Don't care. Seems a stretch to think that it would be what's slowing him down as opposed to the injury he's still recovering from.

He better watch out.

I've been saying this for months. I don't have much issue with trading Hardy, but I don't think a CF was what they needed. If Doug Melvin has any brains in his head, he'll trade Prince. Bums in seats. He won't do it. Miller Park will empty out on him. He's not re-signing with them anyway so they might as well get something for him before he's gone.

You're not sure if you get why the Cubs hired a hitting coach?

I think it's less an issue of people being "down" on him and more seeing the reality of the benefits of selling (relatively) high on a reliever.

If we are emptying the farm, meaning Vitters and Castro getting traded, Hendry might as well include Jackson, Carpenter or Cashner and try to get Verlander involved. Pass. Verlander is decent, but he's not worth emptying the farm over. He's been a 3-4 win player his whole career and put up an 8.2 WAR this year. I still wouldn't empty the farm for him.

If we are emptying the farm, meaning Vitters and Castro getting traded, Hendry might as well include Jackson, Carpenter or Cashner and try to get Verlander involved. Pass. Verlander is decent, but he's not worth emptying the farm over.

There's no way Castro should be moved for him, but I wouldn't mind sending Vitters.

The sensible route would have been to have gone with "Marlon Turd."

It would be rather stupid and worrisome to be able to conclude otherwise.

This wasn't the NFC championship game for a team with one last chance to win it all. The 2009 season was virtually over before they even kicked off last night. What is there to forgive him for? The city isn't going to eat him alive and spit him out. People say that's what happened with Grossman but his problem was he wasn't particularly good. He had a handful of quality games on his resume, but nothing else. He didn't leave big drives on his own, and he was actually on this team the last time they had a quality offensive line. Cutler moved the offense all by himself last night. His jackass offensive coordinator decided to run two doomed to fail dive plays and a freaking play action pass when the defense knew they had to pass and yet they had no receivers on the field. Why was Kellen Davis featured so prominently last night and why was Olsen on the sideline on goal line? Sure the last pass was also bad, but again, every play during that drive he was scrambling for his life and/or dealing with his teammates drawing penalties that kept negating gains. He got knocked around all game but stayed on his feet and in the game. I hardly doubt the venom of the city is going to destroy him. If they ever put a decent team around him, they'll be good and he will flourish. Cutler has job security. Lovie and Angelo have some, but not nearly as much as Jay. They will be spat out long before Cutler is. I'm with you on the analysis, but I just don't have faith in this city to understand all that. Screw "the city." What are they going to do about it?

I think that's a tad too generous an appraisal of Orton's ability to lead a TD drive with an OL like this and sans a rushing option. Just because he wouldn't have thrown some of those picks (not sure why the receivers wouldn't be falling or taking bad routes with Orton, but whatever) doesn't mean he would have actually scored. So he takes the sacks...and? Are they even getting close enough for enough FG's with Orton?

The GB game I'll give you, but how the [expletive] does Orton win this game?

TAKE THE SHOT.