Sammy Sofa

I have zero faih in Theriot seeing more of anything considering he takes fewer pitches than anyone else on the team.

GOT THEM WMDs http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/valcheck.jpg I hear the WMD is "the bomb." Commissioner Valchek. So depressing.

Fixed.

BLUE TOPS. YELLOW TOPS. PANDEMIC.

Some crazy old guy in the crowd REALLY wants the Cubs to win.

Oh, there is. They're just all banned from this site.

HOFFPOWER. CEDENOWNED. That is all for interwebs cliches of the day.

*BARF*

Pie's been hitting well...so has Cedeno, Fontenot and Theriot. Not that spring success means they'll be able to pull anything off, bt it would be nice if they ended up not being complete black holes with the bat.

:roll: What the hell. They do know we have Theriot playing short, right? So, wait, why isn't DeRosa considered a gritty B.A. like theriot is? I mean he's white, he even has the 5 o clock shaddow beard half the time... Derosa is a decent hitter. Gritty players are generally poor hitters or have a last name of Jeter. He's also too tall and looks too old. Gritty players tend to be stuck looking like they're barely out of puberty and are often bordering on midgetdom.

Gambit.

"HO-HO, SO-TO!!!!" http://devan1.tripod.com/Pics/Jabba.jpg

"Aramis hustling!"

Whoops.

Hill was not happy with that pitch. I know a few counts have gotten high or full, but has he avoided walking anyone today?

Except he can play CF.

DEFENSE SCORES RUNS, MAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN.

What, he couldn't k all three batters? WHAT A SHAM CLOSER.

YAH!!! UZE YER PENIS, D00D!!!!

Yeah, this has been mentiond before, that the Orioles might be killing time since they want Cedeno and think that they might be able to just snatch him up and thens till milk the Cubs for an extra player for Roberts. I don't see Cedeno being released if Cintron is injured, unless the Cubs do sign Lopez. See, this doesn't make much sense to me. If the Os want Cedeno, the only way to guarantee that they get him is if they trade for him. If he is released, he's free to go wherever he wants. The O's aren't guaranteed to get him in that case. My thinking is if they think Cedeno is going to be released maybe they think "hey Cubs, he's not good enough for your roster, why should we accept him as part of a trade for Roberts.....we want more" I was trying to think from the Orioles' position of anti-logic.

How is this not on TV? It's Saturday, Cubs vs. Sox, I'm finally home to watch one...thanks a lot, jerks.

Yeah, this has been mentiond before, that the Orioles might be killing time since they want Cedeno and think that they might be able to just snatch him up and thens till milk the Cubs for an extra player for Roberts. I don't see Cedeno being released if Cintron is injured, unless the Cubs do sign Lopez.

Oh, good. Watch, we won't get Roberts and DeRosa gets traded for peanuts for "talking out of line."

No. Pie is a mythical creature like a centaur. He's not real.

Quickly? Hendry has been here since 94, and GM for 5 years. Right, but the green light to get the big pricey FA names seemingly only showed up in the last year or so. An organization this hapless suddenly deciding to spend big isn't the situation where I expect to see much being done that's thought out right away. What a bunch of nonsense. Hendry was given more than enough resources to field a great team every season he's been at the helm. Hendry did not have the green light to spend that huge on those types of FA's. Either way, stop painting it like I'm defending Hendry...my point is that Henry showed he was incompetent on the relatively smaller spending scale, why would he suddenly be competent spending on the Soriano-scale? It IS all about history...the sloppiness and shortsightedness of the Soriano deal makes total sense when it comes down to who was wrangling it and for what team. This team has shown that again and again its front office focus is on marketing and making money, not fielding a team. This begat crappy GM after GM, a crappy farm system, crappy scouts, crappy managers, crappy coaches...you name it. I don't see how the history of the team, especially under the Tribune, can just be discounted like it doesn't matter. It's a complete history of failure, and it's mapped out by a chain of events that have us where we're at today. None of this just happened out of nowhere. The failures of one year lead to asinine and halfassed attempts to tweek things or repair them the next, further bogging the team down in mediocrity and expanding its flaws. None of it happens in a vacuum...they just keep compounding the probems or making new ones in their sloppy attempts to fix what's already wrong. Henry was given the resources before Soriano to field a decent team, but with the history of no accountability or real interest in doing so from anyone aove him, why was that going to happen? All they've done is open up the money bin, but dumped it all on the same crappy management/scouting system they've maintained variations of for 20 years now.