Sammy Sofa

I'd prefer it if we go to a medical team with a little more experience than Doctors Soriano and Pie.

I'll bet he wants to get 3000 hits and shoot for 800. If he settles for a role as DH, no problem.

Hey, it's either riding the rollercoaster into hell head and chin up on or it'll end up being an awesome reverse jinx. Either way, it's gonna be a nutty trip...

Do you have any money? I'll be happy to bet you IF you have some money to back up your bet. My guess, no you don't. It's a gentleman's bet. The winner gets a hearty handshake and a tip of the cap! so it is a worthless bet? Put up some dollars to make it meaningful. Wow, lighten up. I was just using some silly huckster hyperbole to dress up a thread asking people when they think the Cubs will be below .500 again (if they do).

Do you have any money? I'll be happy to bet you IF you have some money to back up your bet. My guess, no you don't. It's a gentleman's bet. The winner gets a hearty handshake and a tip of the cap!

Step right up and be the lucky winnah who predicts when our lovable, flubbable Cubs slip back below that magic line that seperates the baseball men from the tee-ball mongoloids! I call lucky August 13th!

Which is exactly why they're going to sit him over something like this instead of risking a serious injury.

How much less?

GIS for "1870's townball team": http://www.printsoldandrare.com/colleges/283univ.jpg what a scuffling gang of raggamuffins they are! I'll bet these guys could hit leftys. I'll bet these guys could hit Woody Williams. Woody had already been pitching a few years when those guys showed up.

Oh, it's not like everyone, including a lot of fandom, were running around in the dark...nobody was just really talking about it. We were all too enamored with the longballs. Just shrug it off with cutesy comments about Flintstone's Vitamins and focus on the awesome jacks. But remember, NOW it's the worst thing ever.

Nope. It was all "oh my God, thank God for this, baseball was pretty much dying after the strike."

So what? Compared to all the Cubs infielders shaking McGwire's hand. OK...again, what's the point? A lot of guys don't like Bonds. Doesn't change a damn thing. Also, back in 1998, it was steroid hog heaven. Those guys could all revel in their mutual juicing. Now people feel obligated to maybe do what you're talking about to try and seperate themselves.

So what?

Even if they have more away, which I believe they do, they're still waaaaaaaaay down. And are you really attributing most of Lilly's susccess this year to the wind?

Best part about this? NO THE BRONX IS BURNING!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Yeah, OK. Keep thinking that.

Did you ignore the rest of the thread? This is because of a specific injury earlier in the season, not his general fitness level.

We wouldn't have to worry about the Sox. But the Nationals, the Dodgers, the Cardinals... yeah there are teams who would claim him before we had a shot. I don't see how our chances of Dunn are any better than hoping for the one card suckout. It's just very unlikely... I really like Dunn, but I guess I'm just not rating him as highly as others here. If the Reds and Cubs have an informal/formal agreement that's pretty clearly solid, I don't see other teams diving on Dunn. I could easily be wrong. For the most part, this is a different scenario than the "gentleman's agreement." If we were trying to pass someone we had no intention of trading through waivers to option him, or it's a trade for a rather minor playoff-push role player with a deal in place, yeah - you don't often have a GM putting in a claim merely to hassle. But this is a player the teams would legitimately want and he would legitimately help any club he goes to. Plus, we don't have the means to offer the Reds the best package -- that doesn't mean the "best package" is what the Reds would want but it's more stacked out of our favor. If the Dodgers or Nationals or someone were to want Dunn (and they do), they would have every motive to claim him and probably believe they could top an offer from the Cubs anyway. Of course, I could be wrong too... Thanks for clearing that up! I was fuzzy on a lot of the waivers process, as you can see.

There's no reason the Cubs aren't at least 3 games up on them. Jerks.

Wow, he owned that ball. I wonder if anyone got hurt in that massive pile out in the stands. Controversial and all, Bonds is modern baseball. I really enjoyed seeing someone make history like that. This thread title is pretty lame.

Fixed.

LOU, THAT IS A SIGN. Sit Floyd and play Murton, dammit.

Why not get him the work with guys on base we weren't going to win anyway I'd rather not risk it in a throwaway game.

Oh my God, Kendall is even beyond worthless.

Yank Wood. Please.