Sammy Sofa

Who has the more adorable, elf-face Gameday photo, Ronny or Taylor?

Nice hustle, Freddie!

Schlock Jones thus far.

I love bashing Dusty as much as the next guy, but come on. He would not.

Who has brought up getting rid of Lee or trading him for A-Rod? Everyone's brought up Aramis in that trade...in my case, packaged with Wood, Jones and a reliever. Aramis benefist NY because he's showing he needs to be behind or surrounded by big hitters to pound the ball. Bam, easily done in NY. He also replaces A-Rod at 3rd. They need a starter, they need the OF help, and they need the bullpen help, badly. I think A-Rod would thrive on a team like the Cubs, where there are very few superstar players compared to the Yankees. He's much more consistent than Aramis, would be able to carry on offensively if Lee gets hurt, and misses little time himself.

Wrong place, my friend. Even when we win, it's usually pretty damn ugly.

DENIED! Rats...

Because their way has resulted in the exact opposite of success with the exception of a single season.

I'd have no problem doing that if Guzman could at least put together a decent stint in the minors these days. Is Marmol a possible starter down the line?

That sounded very scary when picturing Lee himself saying it verbatim. "LEE DOESN'T WANT A REHAB STINT IN THE MINORS." "Y-yes, sir."

And he's inexplicably hitting lefties when it's clutch. Like Womack, just ride it until he inevitably falls off. Nevin ain't going nowhere.

The guy would have had 14+ wins last year if the offense hadn't imploded on him multiple times. I'm talking games where he kept the opposing team to 1 run. He was robbed of another 15 win season. And here's the bottom line to my thinking...there's nobody this organization would find better than Maddux in that role. None. Not even close. It would make the current Maddux look like classic Nolan Ryan. Maddux is Maddux...if they work smart and shore up the #1-#3 slots, there's next to no hamr in letting an old great finish out his career where he started. Yeah, it's sappy, but the "Maddux problem" is the kind of minor problems this team keeps focusing all of its resources and time fixing, and the much more serious stuff comes back to plague us again next year.

I'm not as delusional as I usually am! SCORE!!!

You guys are forgetting about the powerhous dynamo that is Bynum.

How so? Neither of them got the surgery he did. Wood did. He did? I thought he got a "less serious" version of the same procedure than Miller did. Ah well, shows why I never even made it to flunking out of medical school.

For what it's worth, I met Carlos Lee at the Milwaukee Art Museum over the weekend and told him that the Cubs may need a left fielder next year. He just smiled. Of course, the Brewers PR person sitting next to him was not amused with my comment, but why would she be? So much of me thinks he's just trying to get the Beer Boys to shell out more cash, but if there's a shred of truth to it, Hendry better put down the doughnut and get the offers out there.

Why not? Steinbrenner isn't running the Cubs...he wants to win. If trading A-Rod can do that, I don't see why it wouldn't happen. He's not a Yankee institution...people barely tolerate him up there at this point.

Why should he be a 14 win pitcher with an ERA in the low 4's? Why, for that matter, would you think that any pitcher with an ERA in the low 4's would get 14 wins for this team? He can't even perform that well now, so why do you expect him to be better when 2 years older? I don't understand the thinking behind anything you wrote here, I guess Maddux's ERA's the past 5 years (including 06) 2.62 3.96 4.02 4.24 4.77 I just think if he's kept in the role he should be at at this point is his career, he'll do fine until he retires in a couple of seasons. He's not a #2 or #3 starter by any stretch of the imagination, and yet that's the role he's been put in the last 2 years. That's going to change which players he sees batting against him when he pitches. And why is 14 wins and a low 4 ERA so unbelievable? If he had even an iota of run support when it pathetically dired up last year, he woud have had 15-17 wins, easy. I predict that as a consistent #4, he'd hover around that 4.00 mark. And when you KNOW this team will only go with guys like Rushc or Williams in that spot if they get rid of Maddux (they're not going to trade him, bottom line. Hendry's not trading off a "name player" when things are this ugly), I'd go with Maddux and his aging pitching a thousand times before the inevitable alternatives. If the Cubs pick up Maddux with the intention of keeing him in the #4 slot for his final 2 seasons, I think it's a relatively minor concern compared to other gaping holes in the team.

He's almost guarenteed to hit better than Blanco and Neifi, so at least he won't be the worst guy on the bench. SET THE WORLD ABLAZE, PAGAN!

Hank needs to change his number again. He did that last season and ended up having a career year out of nowhere with the bat, at least by Hank White standards.

He is. Kerry's rehab was pushed back a week or so because of Oscar's death earlier this year.

Yeah, I'd much rather see him eased back into the swing of things, pun intended. The Cubs have zero reason to rush him with how this year has gone so far. Don't ruin the future by frantically scrambling over a crappy today.

How so? Neither of them got the surgery he did.

I definitely wouldn't pay 9mil for that output. If we can get somethign valuable for Maddux I say we do it. He has regressed every year since we got him and that trend will not change. I was against having him here longer than 2 years and I think the Cubs would be better off moving on. Guys his age tend to do that as long as they don't have asses of unusual sizes and are douchebags when it comes to retiring. I still think if you play him #4 the bulk of the year, he's just what you need. He hasn't been able to do that the last 2 years because of the Brittle Twins. Cubs aren't hurtin' for cash. They dump Maddux, they'll end up with someone infinitely worse to fill the #4 spot, bank on it. Pay the name the money and let him finish his career in Chicago...he'll get the job done if used right.

Enrique Wilson...I think.