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HERE COMES ONE HALF OF A POWER HOUSE!!!

Hey, where are your buccaneers? Right under my buccenhat!

Preach it!

I at least want them to lose the first game. The last few have been these big wins and that make us feel great and then season goes to utter crap. Start off at the bottom and work up, because the other way ain't working.

The shorts are a monstrosity, but the Cubs' hideous "pajama blues" in the early 80's didn't help things.

I agree it's got a good chance to be an albatross towards the end, and Hendry should have broke the bank for Beltran and not Soriano, but it is impossible to know if he had the green light to do so back then. Plus, with the way Soriano is built and the shape he keeps himself in, he might not be so terrible at 37 and 38. Unfortunately, you can't pick and choose who is going to be the best free agent in a given off season. I believe Hendry when he says that if the Cubs didn't pay Soriano that much money, someone else would have. We see it happen every year. Why should this season be any different? So given that, the choice isn't between Soriano at 8/136 or Soriano at 6/90. The choice is Soriano at 8/136 or not Soriano and who knows who else. Maybe Drew, maybe not. There was no clear overture from his camp that he was willing to play for the Cubs. If not Drew in CF or RF, then who? The drop-off was pretty steep after J.D. So it seems to me that you aren't looking at these contracts from a realistic point of view. Of course Soriano is overpaid and in comparison to other FA contracts signed last year or the year before, it looks ridiculous. But in reality, every market is different and impossible to anticipate. And who knows what a bargain will be next year or 2-3 years down the road. Plus, if you had to choose between Soriano or who knows what else, which in reality may have been the choice Hendry faced, which would you choose? Easy choice for me: use 2008 to rebuild, look to make a run in 2009. Not for one second would I have considered going 8/136 for Alfonso Soriano. This entire spending spree would been postponed for a year. Z would already have been traded for ARod. No way do I give any pitcher a Zito type deal, which is what Z will be getting soon. Neither of Lilly/Marquis would be here, especially not Marquis. IMO Marquis is purely a panic move to save Hendry's job. Aram gave us a hometown discount, so I guess I would have kept him. Pie and EPat would have all of 2008 to show us what they've got, and all the young starting pitchers would be given a chance to step up and claim a rotation slot for 2009. Obviously Pierre should have been traded for a prospect who could have helped the big team in 2009. Here's the problem with that. One of Hendry's "cards" to get Aram to stay was probably telling him how the purse was opened and they were going to be really aggressive this off-season. As Aram probably wanted to be on a team that would compete to win now. I do agree with you on Lilly and Marquis. However I am happy we are in a win now mode. If the price of keeping Aram was handing out all these insane contracts to win now then I would have let Aram walk, as painful as that would have been. He's not Albert Pujols. You don't base a team's entire future around placating Aramis Ramirez. Also, it's very possible Aram might have been persuaded to stay if he believed the Cubs were making a big push in 2009. Why would 2008 or 2009 be any better for free agents? A plentiful crop of "good" free agents rarely happens. Do you want the Cubs to focus mainly on developing players internally?

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Sleeveless jerseys are baseball cancer.

Lopez' defense would be more worrisome if this team's defense was anything even close to a problem in the first place. Defense was the one thing they were able to do right last year.

But what if you dont believe that this happened, much less is possible? It always bothers me when people say something like this. It doesnt matter if you dont believe it, it offends the people that do believe it, which there are 2 billion of. Oh, but it does. I'm going to guess that there are a lot of things you do on a day-to-day basis that would offend a follower of Islam, which has almost 2 billion members as well. Are you going to cut out all of that? Why not? Excuse me for being late to the party, but would someone mind explaining to me what this has to do with the Floyd signing? Floyd is converting to islam and changing his name to "Jesus."

Izturis all the way. Marquis won't be loved, but I haven't seen anything even close to the hate Cesar is already getting for being a slightly better and much more expensive Neifi. Add that we have such a glaring hole at SS and he's doomed. Marquis can at least somewhat "blend in" given all the pitchers we have. SS is a black hole no matter who is there, leaving much more focus on those that suck it up.

No. Maybe as a decoy, but that's it. He needs to master catching and holding onto the ball first.

The Cubs signed Jesus? Awesome.

Wood "isn't warming to the idea" of pitching relief? I hadn't heard that before.

All Rex has to do is not cough up the ball, which he has drastically cut down in this year's playoffs. In both games he's also come up with some key plays and drives that directly lead to the Bears winning. He doesn't have to be earth-shattering...just not horrible.

Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrch.

Poor Zoom deserves a ring if the Bears end up winning the Superbowl. Its a shame what happened with him. He's a lot of fun to watch on the Comcast broadcasts. I love all the hysterical fashion stuff between him and the players.

I wish I could go to a Jerry Azumah pre-Super Bowl party in Miami.

I'd think the drinking would take a backseat if the Cubs made it to a WS, and especially if they won. I wouldn't want to forget a thing.

Lovie seems laid back emotionally, but it seems "intellectually" he's very precise and dedicated to running the Bears and how he keeps the team disciplined. Dusty seemed so laissez faire in all regards...emotions, team discipline, lineups, game events. Lovie seems in control...Dusty just seemed not to care.

huh, last I checked the Bears had Urlacher and Briggs He was talking about the Colts dipstick. by both sides I thought he meant both defensive units? Dipstick? Still sour over the beating today i see. LOL. Can you go a single thread without being an ass?

OMC, sorry some people here their their team winning is an excuse to not act like a decent human being and show some common courtesy. The Saints are going to be a good team for a while and they had a fantastic season, and they were in it tonight for most of the game. Good game!

Defensive end. He'd kill QBs. And his sack dance would be crazy. great now I'm sad we'll never get to see the Big Z sack dance, you're right it would be incredible I'd bring back the Farns just to see him spear a few more suckers right in the gut with a ferocious charge.

pretty old news. Yeah. Until he "quit" the Cubs, most of our hopes here around him leaving the organization involved him replacing Selig. Baseball definitely runs in the family...as long as he can get along and keep peace with the owners, hey, rock on.

How do you know they didn't?