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On the Score Mike Murphy (Eccch!) called the Cubs the national laughingstock for how they played so far. I don't see how their 0-2 is any worse than the Yankees or Philly. After all, they each got smoked in one of the games worse than the Cubs did. And the Cubs are facing the team with the best record in the NL. Which is why I don't know why the Cubs were favored in the first place.

Before you bring your 10 month old to a ballgame, consider what happened to Mike Coolbaugh first.

Jericho wote: Huh? They never received the email. That has nothing to do with the content of the email. Either the mail box was full, bad email address, or they've got internal problems with their system. Are you sure it's AOL and not a trib address? Either way, your assumption that you got the bounce message because they didn't like your criticism is wrong. I sent it through the "Ask Paul" box on the Trib's website. How it went to AOL I have no idea. Since it took about 3 or 4 days to reply to me, I guess they have real bad problems with their system.

Garwilly: The OP's name IS doormat. Maybe He needs a floor installed? Not hardly, pal.

I got this email returned to me undelivered, from when I submitted something to "Ask Paul". I didn't know van dyck's or sullivans email address so I sent it this way. My comment to them is bolded. ____________ The original message was received at Sat, 5 May 2007 21:51:38 -0700 (PDT) from s05.rc.trb [192.168.120.190] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... Deferred: Bad file number Message could not be delivered for 4 days Message will be deleted from queue -------- This is from the chicagosports article posted after the 5/5/07 game that the Cubs won vs. Washington: "Cedeno out as Guzman arrives By Dave Van Dyck Tribune staff reporter May 5, 2007, 9:10 PM CDT When the Cubs activate Angel Guzman for Sunday's game, infielder Ronny Cedeno will be sent to Triple-A Iowa, meaning outfielder Felix Pie will stay for a while. While the club made no official announcement, Cedeno was seen packing his bags after Saturday's loss. He was hitting .097 and said he didn't want to talk about his demotion." Is the proofreading or writing at the Trib so awful they can't even get basic facts like the Cubs winning correct in their own stories? Maybe Zell should hire bloggers to write the sports articles for the Trib. URL: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ I guess they can't take criticism.

Doesn't Melvin(?) have more resources to make a deadline deal with?

I'm going to assume this stems from Stone being on Boers & Bernstein today. If so, I'll try to fill in some of the blanks based on what I heard in the car today. He said Lou is realizing that the Cubs have a lot of good players on the team, but the pieces don't necessarily fit well together. They also have no faith in their farm system and what it produces, otherwise they wouldn't have signed Mark DeRosa. They should have gone with The Riot as starter at 2nd, planned for EPat in the future, and batted Pie 1 or 2, not 3 as he was coming up thru the minors. They can't afford to trade Jones because Floyd likely won't stay healthy, leaving them with Izturis and Pie (if he stays up) as their lefties. That covers most of what I remember, I'm sure there was more. Hard to argue too much with him.

October 26, 2005 comes to mind.

I was saying "boo-urns".

How has he produced? Wouldn't it make sense to actually wait until the season starts before we decide he has produced tremendously? Or for that matter, if his comeback is successful or not?

When I saw the title, I thought this had to do with Cialis.

Hendry should be glad he has Piniella and Hughes working for him. From what I understand, they insisted he go to the hospital, and Piniella drove him there.

I have a feeling you should probably duck...

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Personally, I'm afraid Jim Hendry will. As Yogi Berra would say, "It ain't over 'til it's over". I won't believe he's gone until I hear it.

For him to get a splinter wouldn't he actually have to move while he's glued to the bench?

Thanks. I appreciate it. Someday I hope to figure out how to copy and paste quotes properly

If anyone cares, here's my blog entry on what I think of Morrisey's column. I also had one about Bob Verdi's idiotic comments about Cub fans not wanting Joe Girardi to become manager because he's impatient. Now that Fla is over .500 and more of a threat than ever to make the playoffs, that may be a moot point anyway. Quite frankly, as a Cub fan, I'm tired of being mocked by the media, especially when they write for the Trib.

I've read that Hendry started his career as a high school baseball coach who also was a mathematics teacher. Why do you suppose that someone who would teach a subject like that would find the concept of more baserunners by any means means more chances to score runs such a difficult concept to grasp? And do you suppose there is an epidemic in the Pinellas county area of Florida of people in their 30's not being able to multiply or divide (since Hendry is from that area)?

I posted this on my own blog (http://nldoormat.blogspot.com/). Basically, the National Enquirer had an item about Bill Murray looking to come up with the money to buy the Cubs. Unfortunately, there was no link available on their website that I could find, but it is published in the September 4, 2006 issue. At the checkout counter, of course.

I agree with you goony. It seems like for his 14 million or so over the last 4 years, there's a lot Dusty doesn't do. He doesn't see half the things going on on the field because he "can't see" from the dugout, he doesn't argue bad calls, and now we see he doesn't push for extra practice time on his own playing field.

Anyone remember the Simpsons episode where they moved to Cypress Creek so Homer could work for Hank Scorpio the supervillian? Bart went to a school where he was behind the others in his grade, so they put him in with the slow kids to "catch up"? That must be what it is like for a young guy playing for Dusty.

I was out driving in all that rain earlier tonight when I had Sports Central on, and Kap and Waddle had Will Carroll on (he's a weekly guest on there). Anyway, they were talking about pitching, and the subjects of Prior and Wood came up. Right before a commercial, Carroll made a comment to the effect that when Wood was taken out of Game 7, he heard that something was said to Wood at that moment (by Dusty, I presume), that if it was true, in his opinion that would have been enough to finish Wood (as an effective pitcher, I guess). He then said he would ask Kaplan about it off the air. I went into the store after that, and that was all I heard. Did anyone else happen to listen to that segment, and if so, did they ever talk any more about that? I'm not sure if I believe it, although Dusty can be a jerk as we all know, but it seems if he's such a player's manager, he wouldn't disparage one of his players at a moment like that, and it seems hard to believe that Wood would be affected like that, and then turn around and sign an extension. Anybody else have an opinion on this?

Don't you mean "around"?

Then again, Big Z was the pitcher of record. Maybe Dusty figured he'd better take Dempster out, or Big Z might kill him in the clubhouse if he blew the save.