KenCub

Go to the game. The Cubs are done, why punish yourself?

Alex Gonzalez, Moises Alou, Mark Prior and Dusty Baker should do a barbershop quartet version of the song instead.

I flew Southwest to Phoenix a few years ago. I'd assume they still fly there.

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070929&content_id=2238518&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc I can't go, but I hope a TON of people head out there and show support for the NL Central Division Champs!

I like all of you, and I want to get to know you better, but I can't commit to the "Big L" until the World Series. I hope you understand..... :D

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I'm going to the game today and I really hope they lose because I only like the Cubs because they lose. Losing makes them lovable, and I love lovable losing losers. :roll: I'd like nothing more than for the Cubs to shed all the dopes who actually think losing is somehow lovable.

But just imagine the room service bill!!!! :D

Not when you consider the fact they find value in guys like Erstad and Podsednik. Decent point. I think they've finally reached their limit with Podsednik, but the love affair with Erstad is mystifying.

The Brewers have bailed enough water from the sinking ship to move back into first place. They need to spring a fresh leak again soon.

How can those magical Cardinals uniforms allow all these injuries? :D

White Sox are now only one game "behind" Tampa Bay for the worst record in all of MLB. It really is hard to believe how far and how fast they've fallen.

That trade looks a lot worse because Brian Anderson is useless with a bat in his hands and Ryan Sweeney is inconsistent at best. meh, I don't think those 2 have to factor in at all. Bottom line is that giving up a talent like Young for Vasquez who is nothing spectactular, was terrible. Right now the only think holding Young from being an elite player is his plate discipline, but if I'm not mistaken his ISoD in the minors was always around .900-1.000. If he can translate this at the big leagues, watch out. I only factored in Anderson and Sweeney because Williams obviously thought he was dealing from an area of depth. The failures of Anderson and Sweeney, along with the Young trade, made it necessary to rush Jerry Owens up and move a third-baseman to left field. Williams took a calculated risk, feeling that Anderson was ready, and that a veteran arm would strengthen their attempt to repeat. The move failed on both counts. Sometimes that happens.

That trade looks a lot worse because Brian Anderson is useless with a bat in his hands and Ryan Sweeney is inconsistent at best.

I think he's like most GMs - he makes some deals that work out well and some that don't. I think the shocking nature of a few deals that worked out really well short-term(Podsednik, Hermanson and Jenks come to mind) make him stand out a little bit. I don't really know if he gets more credit than other GMs, though. He wasn't even named Executive of the Year when they won the World Series. The GM of the 2nd place team in their own division got that award.

The White Sox looked like a bad spring training split-squad team. The Red Sox toyed with them the whole weekend. Feeling useless for 3 days has to be worse than feeling useless for 4 innings (that Texas-Baltimore game was close through 5, I think it was 5-3 or something like that).

Wild pitch, Albert slides head first, his hand appeared (at least to me) to go over the plate but doesn't touch it, Marmol tags him near his Pujols, and he's out. Duncan swings for strike 3 on a pitch that hit him. He's out no matter what else happens. Always fun to watch the Cubs and Cards go at it, that's for sure.

That's the way I saw it, too. His hand seemed to go over the plate but never touch.

Because they have absolutely no one else in their bullpen who can consistently get outs in the 7th or 8th, much less the 9th. If they used Jenks to fill some of their myriad of holes, they'd end up just blowing games in the 9th with MacDougal or Thornton or whoever else. They're an aging team with a high payroll, although some contracts are expiring (Dye after this season, Garland after next season), injury concerns (Crede, also with a contract expiring after 2008), and no significant minor-leaguers coming up. Kenny Williams has an unenviable job this offseason. Sox fans need to enjoy their 2005 Series win (I know I would), because the window is closing rapidly on them and they could be in for some serious dark times. Right, so if they have no one who can get the ball to Jenks, whats the point of having Jenks? Obviously, this season is done for them, but honestly, I don't see how the immediate future looks any brighter and it sounds like you don't either, so again, whats the point of having a good closer? Of course it all depends on what you could have gotten for him and Kenny can still trade him in the offseason. But I'm just saying that the Sox should be full on rebuilding, not half ass it. The package that Jenks can bring is probably going to be much greater than the value Jenks brings to a floundering White Sox team. If the Sox could get 2 or 3 MLB-proven young players for Jenks, they should do that, but these days teams only seem to want to trade low-to-middle level prospects. Minor-league prospects are so hit-and-miss that it's hard for me to endorse trading someone who has done the job at the major-league level.

Because they have absolutely no one else in their bullpen who can consistently get outs in the 7th or 8th, much less the 9th. If they used Jenks to fill some of their myriad of holes, they'd end up just blowing games in the 9th with MacDougal or Thornton or whoever else. They're an aging team with a high payroll, although some contracts are expiring (Dye after this season, Garland after next season), injury concerns (Crede, also with a contract expiring after 2008), and no significant minor-leaguers coming up. Kenny Williams has an unenviable job this offseason. Sox fans need to enjoy their 2005 Series win (I know I would), because the window is closing rapidly on them and they could be in for some serious dark times.

Too bad he couldn't stick with "not".

I've enjoyed most of the last week or so.

Guess we won't find out what Cormier'd do next time he faced Sori. BP is over for tonight. :D

If Cormier is still in the game when Soriano bats again, does he plunk him? Not saying it's right, but after 4 HR and a triple in his last 5 AB against Cormier, does frustration take over?

The only reason I can see for any Dempster-to-start plan is to destroy his elbow and be rid of him forever. Nothing else makes any sense to me. [removes tongue from cheek, but only part-way] Who would he be better than in the rotation now besides MAYBE Zambrano's awful start?