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This really makes you wonder on whether Kerry will be healthy enough to even contribute to the team this year. He's only pitched in a handful of innings so far this spring and is still having trouble with that shoulder. Well, the possibly counter to that is that despite offseason routines, this is the start of the year and he might be rusty getting back into the swing of things. Ideally he'll get stronger and more durable as the season goes along...relatively speaking.

Wow, was it really said like that? I know Wood's recent setback puts real gloom over his role this year, but why sound so hopeless about Prior already?

Despite them being in the same division, I would happily root for the Brewers, Reds or Pirates as the NL team the next time they make it to the big show. I think the Bucs have a decent core of players they can start building up from. A team with a stadium that beautiful deserves to have a decent team again, dammit! Oh, right, the fans, too.

90+? I kind of have the feeling that we're going to see a season similar to 2004. Lots of SLG%, not enough OBP to sustain a 95 win pace guven the questions that the starting pitching has. Agreed. Anything above 85 wins is going to be over achieving.

I've highlighted the nonsense in your post. It doesn't matter what the Cubs say or don't say about a player's injury. You don't know if this will keep happening or if it won't, and even if your aboive scenario takes place, it means the Cubs got some decent outings from him before he gets hurt again, whicxh was the whole point of signing him for next to nothing to provide some bullpen depth. Seriously, if this were Wade Miller being hurt (at the same salary, BTW), no one would be making stupid declarative statements like "he's a tease" and "release him". How long have you been following the Cubs and Kerry Wood? What makes you think this scenario won't play out? If I remember correctly, isn't one's past performance the best predictor of his future performance? And by decent outings I meant one or two. I should have made that clearer. But, even if he is somewhat healthy, he will not be able to throw on back-to-back days. What's the value of a middle reliever who cannot do that? The only reason Kerry Wood is taking up eight pages of this board, and plenty of time of my spring break, is that we still remember the 20 Ks and parts of the 2003 playoffs. But that Kerry Wood is gone and will never come close to returning. The one that is left is an injury-proned and overrated pitcher. BTW, the definition of a tease is to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them. Kerry Wood is the definition of a tease. What, again, is so stupid about that? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tease If you took a pol of the people here at NSBB as far as if they expected big things of Kerry Wood this year, you'd get about 10% yes. It's kinda hard to be a tease if no one really expects anything of you. Yes, past performance is indicative of future performance, but then again, we didn't sign him to 3/$21. We signed him for what amounts to a rehabbing pitcher's contract, which is exactly what he is. IHe elected to rehab rather that surgically repair his shoulder. If he misses the enitre year, big deal, we wasted a million bucks, but if he misses a couple months and gives us 15-30 appearances out of the pen, I'd consider that a successful investment. And since we don't know if he'll be out for weeks or months yet, it's hard to label this a faied investemtn. Spring training is a time when you see if rehabbing pitchers have anything left. I don't think he does have anything left. Time to move on. That's ridiculous. Spring training isn't the magic end-all-be-all as to whether or not Wood won't be able to contribute to any of the 162 games remaining in the season. If teams ran their rosters with that mentality, baseball would be a joke. He's not slotted in as if they NEED him. They have more than enough arms to fill the bullpen roles. IF Wood can contribute, it's a bonus. If not, the team is covered. It's win-win. He's only signed for 1 year and $1.5 million. The standards really aren't all that high with that kind of investment.

Is they were still paying him and counting on him like he was a starter, yes. They're approaching him as if he's a "maybe reliever" and paying him as such. On the DL he's not taking up any roster space and again, they're barely paying him, at least on the huge MLB scale. Again, your whole reasoning for getting rid of him seems to boil down to an emotional one, and that's like the worst way to run a baseball team. Wood isn't hurting anyone by being on the team now in the role he is in and what he's getting paid. Dropping him just to drop solves nothing.

His spring was shockingly decent. Though I still don't want him on the team.

Aramis looked seriously annoyed with Cedeno after that close call. Then Cedeno flinched HUGE when Aramis tossed the ball away, like Rammy was going to smash him.

Yeah that's a head scratcher for me as well. I remember reading some really outlandish rumors there that never materialized in other outlets, so it didn't impress me that much. Don't worry, that's pretty much everything posted there.

Sir, BCB is the bloggiest blog that ever blogged. It's main page and all the "sub-blogs"/comment sections fullfill all the drama and histronics and slapping fights you expect at a high school drama class' lunch table. That both BCB and MLBTradeRumors ended up on this list says a LOT about the research put into this puff piece.

Walker released by the Padres....let's get a Wolfboy tandem going!

Nice 1-2-3 by Eyre! CUBS WIN!!!

Some of those guys just can't let it go.

Man, Todd back in Wrigley would be awesome.

Heh...Murton just cannot beat that hill! Nice k, Cherry.

We heard it the first time.

*Sigh* Lou better have more words about Hank's awful, awful hitting.

Big test for Cedeno here. He usally hacks like crazy with the bases loaded.

Floyd looking better and better as the season gets closer...I'm gonna really like having his bat as an option.

Poor Rammy. He can't win fer nuthin'.

Did he? I missed that. Lou snagged Ryan as he was getting some water and looked like he was in lecture-mode.

LOOK AT ARAMIS HUSTLE!!!

Oh, Lee. You make even the crappiest of innings/games/teams/lives seem awesome.

I answered your question above. I put together the broadcast schedule before the season began. Because it does sometimes change, I also included links at the bottom of the schedule page for the XM schedule and the MLB broadcast schedule. oops, i missed that post, thanks, my sarcasm was directed towards the others that responded to my origional query That's just the booze talkin'. OK, NOW Lou is gonna break Theriot in half. maybe lack thereof Touche.

Poor Ryan. He's having a hideous inning, complete with him hitting into a DP.