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Hendry dumping Soriano would mean admitting the signing was a mistake. I don't see him doing that. He signed a 40/40 guy who eliminated the second 40 permanently after pulling his hamstring in 2007. Piniella won't sit him too long because he insists that his slump can't last too much longer. They're both in denial. If they can dump the salary,they need to. They need the money elsewhere. Until then, he should sit because they have others who perform better. Hes getting the money whether he plays or not.

I'm all for getting extra picks. I would have preferred they kept DeRosa and taken the comp picks, as opposed to trading him for borderline prospects. But until we see guys like Vitters,Cashner, and Colvin get here,or at least perform at a higher level than A ball, we can't put too much into it.

Reggie Jackson said he was "the straw that stirs the drink". Aaron Miles is ???

Cubs First Round Draft picks 2008 Andrew Cashner, RHP 19 2007 Joshua Vitters, 3B 3 2006 Tyler Colvin, LF 13 2005 Mark Pawelek, lhp 20 2004 NONE -- 2003 Ryan Harvey, cf 6 2002 Bobby Brownlie, rhp 21 2001 Mark Prior, rhp 2 2000 Luis Montanez, ss 3 1999 Ben Christensen, rhp 26 1998 Corey Patterson, of 3 1997 Jon Garland, rhp 10 1996 Todd Noel, rhp 17 1995 Kerry Wood, rhp 4 1994 Jayson Peterson, rhp 15 1993 Brooks Kieschnick, of 10 1993 Jon Ratliff, rhp 24 1993 Kevin Orie, ss 29 1992 Derek Wallace, rhp 11 1991 Doug Glanville, of 12 1990 Lance Dickson, lhp 23 1989 Earl Cunningham, of 8 1988 Ty Griffin, 2b 9 1987 Mike Harkey, rhp 4 1986 Derrick May, of 9 1985 Rafael Palmeiro, 1b 22 1985 Dave Masters, rhp 24 1984 Drew Hall, lhp 3 1983 Jackie Davidson, rhp 6 1982 Shawon Dunston, ss 1 1982 Tony Woods, ss 17 1982 Stan Boderick, of 27 1981 Joe Carter, of 2 1980 Don Schulze, rhp 11 1979 Jon Perlman, rhp 12 1978 Bill Hayes, c 13 1977 Randy Martz, rhp 12 1976 Herman Segelke, rhp 7 1975 Brian Rosinski, of 4 1974 Scot Thompson, of 7 1973 Jerry Tabb, 1b 16 1972 Brian Vernoy, p 15 1971 Jeff Wehmeier, p 16 1970 Gene Hisler, of 19 1969 Roger Metzger, ss 16 1968 Ralph Rickey, of 15 1967 Terry Hughes, ss 2 1966 Dean Burk, rhp 5 1965 Dick James, rhp 6

People always say things were better in their day and complain about the modern youth.

It was the shock that Miles hit one out of the infield on the fly.

Coincidence!! No correlation to pitch counts!! In this case, it probably is. I really don't see anything too awful about Cueto's workload the last two years. Certainly not in Prior territory. High pitch counts in younger pitchers are *correlated* with injuries.

A jumbotron? Thats the teams problem?

:amen: How can anyone even consider Marmol ? He shouldn't even be the setup guy at this point.

Wagner seems logical for Hendry,who likes trying to catch lightning in a bottle.

I wonder why there's a bigger focus on this than the team ? :-k

When will they apologize to us for the high prices and bad baseball?

Soriano and Miles,yes !!!!!! I would explore trading Zambrano and definitely trade the Dumpster(how was he forgotten?).

a 4th middle infielder with a 2/5 contract Who hates him cause of the money he makes? Cub fans hate him cause he sucks. And also because he is DeRosa's replacement that we spent 2.5 mil/year on when we could have gotten the same production (and have) from people in the org already making rookie salaries. We could have had 2.5 million extra to use on upgrades in season. And the worst part is that it's for 2 years. Who the hell would given a player of his ability and his age a 2 year deal just boggles my mind every single day. I don't think the contract is a big reason why people hate Miles, it's one of the reasons some people don't like Hendry, but I think the Miles thing is primarily production-based. But you do bring up a good point in that some people view him as DeRosa's replacement, even though he's more of Cedeno's replacement. The contract is a big reason. Most of us were against the signing. His season just reaffirmed our position. DeRosa was traded to free up money, then they turn around and give nearly half of DeRosas money to Miles. His career production suggests he should be making the minimum. They tried to justify it by saying that he can be he backup shortstop. But,since his arm and range are below average for a second baseman,saying he can backup at short doesn't make much sense. His bat and speed are below average also.

jesus....and 37-22 when he doesn't....awesome. I've said it a few times."Aaron Miles helps the Cubs the most on the DL."

The way Miles helps the team win is to stay on the dl.

No one mentioned the guy shooting his wife in the upper deck years ago.

Prior threw around 95 pitches after the 7th. There's no way he could have pulled him.He ran out of gas in the 8th and was pulled after 119 pitches.There were other factors other than the number of pitches that effected Prior that inning that led to the fatigue. Blaming a high pitch count for a young pitchers injury is debatable. How about the pitchers that don't get hurt,did they all have low pitch counts? Younger pitchers are more likely to get injured anyway. If a guys been pitching for 7 years without problems, the chances are pretty good that he will stay that way. Minor league pitching injuries are very common.Look at the first round picks and see how many are injured and never make the bigs.I doubt they were abused in A ball. Maybe they had high pitch counts before they were drafted. If thats the reason for their injury,why blame the current manager instead of the old one? Does anyone ever analyze why the crappy pitcher with the low pitch count got hurt? Pitch counts and innings pitched have been reduced through the years and pitchers are still getting hurt. I don't see how its helped. In 20 years will we shut them down after 75, 50, 40 ?

Look at what Prior did and then look at Mark Fidrych.

When did the abuse set in, over the winter. Prior looked pretty good going into the 8th of game 6. Priors achilles injury had nothing to do with his future?

The 100 pitch number is a arbitrary number when relating it to an injury. It has been shown that after 100 pitches , a pitcher is less effective. It can be attributed to fatigue, but also can be attributed to facing a batter for the third or fourth time and pinch hitters. Its amazing that a pitcher has an injury,right away they blame the high pitch counts. How about relief pitchers? They get hurt too! Pitchers get hurt,they did years ago, and they still do. Todays pitchers throw less than years ago and still get hurt. If a pitcher is used to throwing 110-120 a game how is that abuse? Thats what he's used to throwing.200 innings have become the new 300 innings. Conditioning(normal workload), pitch types,mechanics, and the individual are better arguments as to why a pitcher got hurt. But, its easier to explain something when a number is put on it. If its Dustys fault for Wood and Prior, but what about Zambrano? Hes always thrown alot. Three days after the Cubs drafted Wood, he threw 140 pitches in a high school game. Did that cause him to break down a few days later?

He refused to take his position. I can't recall another player ever doing that. Yes, he finally went to left and found out it wasn't so bad. But, a player refusing to go to the position the manager assigned him to offends me. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't think that happened. He didn't refuse anything when push came to shove. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2377395

Honor is involved in duelling. It would not be honorable to challenge an injured man. Do you take me for a Sox fan?

The Braves always seem to get the better return whenever they make deal.

It wouldn't be fair,he has a bad knee ...