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So I guess we're down to either Pena or Davis? I actually think Pena is a decent signing, if that happens.

Just a heads up.

What does this mean?

I'm not sure that sounds like anything but a horrible comparison.

I am legitimately crushed by this news.

Wait, what? Is that real?

That sounds like way too much for Luke Scott. I would think 1 of our middle relief pitchers should do it, but if they insist we can throw in a mid/low prospect. Well that's not gonna get it done.

Oh right because they should have done _____________ to make the 2010 Cubs a good team. Idiots.

They can both be manager!

lets work in another team and about 8 more players. hmmm, if only there was someone here who did that all the time I get it!

Actually he debuted with the Giants. We traded Hawkins for him and Jerome Williams. Now there's a name I completely and utterly forgot... what happened to Jerome Williams? Doesn't look to be playing this year, did he get cut? He got cut a couple years ago by the A's, although he hasn't pitched in the majors since Washington in 2007. I think it was conditioning and attitude that did him in. I wasn't aware he had a bad attitude?

Adam Dunn is one of my favorite players. Boy would I be happy.

No, it really won't. Bottom line is that you want to play guys that are good at baseball. Tyler Colvin is a decent hitter but it remains to be seen how he'll play defensively at 1B. I doubt he'll be an above-average defender at the position. Colvin's offensive skills are overrated. What? I wasn't saying anything about Tyler Colvin. A good offensive player is more valuable than a good defensive player, period.

Yeah, this is really surprising. I wouldn't have been surprise to see a continuing decline, but that drop is insane. You had Byrd taking over in CF, which is a plus. You had Fukudome moving back to RF which is a plus. Is it the number of errors? it may be. aren't we tops in both unearned runs and errors? i have no idea what happened to the defense either. but it has become an issue that needs to be fixed. The errors seem to be the issue, but is it really something that can or should be "fixed?" If you end up looking to fix defense uber alles you tend to end up with some really underwhelming offense. It seems a ton of it can be attributed to to Aramis and Castro and Theriot. Aramis is definitely having an off year, and it seems to be a pretty safe bet that Castro will improve plus Theriot is gone, so there doesn't really seem to be a pressing need to "fix" the defense over the offense. i will grant you trades may have helped in that getting some of that bad defense out. i think it may be better when a new manager comes in, because i don't think fundamentals were addressed very well though the season or in spring training. but i also know that d-lee saved a bunch of errors too. how many errors do you think we pick up now that he's gone? no bs serious question. personally i would rather have players who can catch the ball rather than hit the ball. and if a player can do both well its a bonus. i don't think having dunn at first base nets a positive runs produced/runs given up and dunn is in his 30s now. i don't think his defense is likely to improve much more. You take your team of fielders and I'll take my team of hitters. Mine will be better 100% of the time.

Dunn will be overpriced?

How could you not miss Lee? He was awesome as a Cub. I'll miss him greatly.

Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt Niemi would've liked to stay a Hawk. His agent tried money grabbing and it backfired.

Whoa, whoa. I like John Rooney.

Wrong, and not even remotely close. And frankly very offensive. If you don't have any understanding mental health issues, frankly, you shouldn't speak up about them.

I am going to take a wild guess that you are not a history major. And what does 2003 have to do with Kerry Wood ? Gotcha. Hey, I'm a history major! Saying that because Lou isn't as bad as other managers the Cubs have had we should be thankful for him is still a laughably bad argument, though.

Castro? Like the next 6 seasons. Drool.

And that's a totally different implication than talking about "the taste of winning."

I'm very pleased.

he's been hurt a lot. but yeah, he's been bad News to few but the enablers. $56M for 22 wins in 7 years. Nice. Stop using wins.

Not unless Girardi has a boo-boo. 14 times on the DL and counting. What?