Sammy Sofa

If any of you actually hated being Cubs fans, why not just stop?

Alright, now THAT is pretty [expletive] cool.

Yeah, my expectations are pretty much just get to the break at .500.

Well said.

Equal amounts of both, I think. More the first. There is LITERALLY no reason whatsoever DeRosa should've been traded. None. Maybe if you were going to get a good return on him, it's an argument, but three minor league pitchers, unless at least two are pretty highly rated, is not a good return. Actually, there was LITERALLY many good reasons to trade a player as old as DeRosa with only one year on his contract. The return on DeRosa was decent and has the potential to be very good (in terms of the players being trading chips or as pitchers). The problem falls to how Hendry attempted to replace him on the team. With the latter Hendry completely dropped the ball. If he had, say, traded DeRosa and then signed Dunn instead of Bradley and Ray Durham to platoon 2B with Fontenot, this likely wouldn't be the mess it is now. Hindsight is always 20/20. Bradley raked last year along with Fontenot. True, but Bradley also has guarenteed health issues that would have made him starting 100+ games unlikely and the Cubs traded away their best option to back up such a player. I actually wanted Bradley on the team but assumed that it would be with DeRosa there as the backup at least for that first year. Without DeRosa, shifting the focus to someone like Dunn or Abreu or even Ibanez (who nobody had any inkling he'd do what he's doing) seems only logical. And yes, Fontenot raked in his playing time last year, but the plan seemed to always be to platoon him with someone else against lefties.

Equal amounts of both, I think. More the first. There is LITERALLY no reason whatsoever DeRosa should've been traded. None. Maybe if you were going to get a good return on him, it's an argument, but three minor league pitchers, unless at least two are pretty highly rated, is not a good return. Actually, there was LITERALLY many good reasons to trade a player as old as DeRosa with only one year on his contract. The return on DeRosa was decent and has the potential to be very good (in terms of the players being trading chips or as pitchers). The problem falls to how Hendry attempted to replace him on the team. With the latter Hendry completely dropped the ball. If he had, say, traded DeRosa and then signed Dunn instead of Bradley and Ray Durham to platoon 2B with Fontenot, this likely wouldn't be the mess it is now.

He doesn't have to. Lou using him for just a full inning when he makes an appearance would be fine.

Shocked that RedVerbs guys has lasted as long as he has. I sense that Modzilla will be upon us soon.

It is. Any kind of guarenteed bullpen improvement is going to be expensive.

Oh, thank God.

Too true. I've had the nagging feeling that something along those lines is the case until the sale is finished. Blargh.

I'd give up Marshall before Wells. As much as I wanted DeRosa back at this point, I would have been pissed if Hendry gave up either for him.

(a) chris perez is better than the names you listed. (b) i like how your PTBNL is just a five-letter asset that apparently does not differ from one team to another. He's on a roll.

Ugh, no thanks. I'll happily watch the Brewers win the division any day over the Cardinals.

It's not like he's blaming anyone but himself for his poor play.

AKA the same thing every team does when they have a walkoff win.

I can't shake the feeling that this game is not going to extras.

Yea, I don't think its nitpicking. most SS make that play. :( No kidding. Pretty much any SS with halfway decent range at least stops that ball and keeps Beckham at 3rd.

[expletive] no-range Theriot.

I wish Marshall was in.

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Nice. Please remember that Wise is very bad at baseball and don't screw around.

I've never been so happy to see Heilman.

WHY THE [expletive] IS DEMPSTER GOING BACK OUT?

I give up. Just trade to get DeRosa back. The black hole created by the glut of awful infielders is just too much.