Pretty sure that place doesn't exist. it's real, and it's spectacular I have a vague memory of seeing it once, but it might have been a dream within a dream.
I figured that Cherington and Henry were just blowing smoke to try to defuse things until a PC tomorrow, but that last article is a bit more harsh with the whole "fundamental divide" bit.
I was out of college, but was pretty baseball dumb. So 9 is what I went with too. I might be giving myself too much credit though. It might really have been a 10. I was pretty excited. *sigh*
Someone (?) tweeted him the same question: jimcallisBA Jim Callis Closer to middle of pack than bottom three. @jdfisch: @pgammo said #cubs have a bottom three farm system. That cant be possibly true is it? not me ... i don't tweet. well you better start it is the wave of the future I have zero followers. I just use twitter to yell at sportswriters, and ask them questions they'll never respond to. It's basically a tool for shouting at the moon.
I can confirm that there was nobody throwing feces at each other in the negotiations, therefore my source characterized things as "going well", unless something changes.