abuck1220

good thing marquis is getting 7 mil this year.

kicking a's and taking n's.

it doesn't take much. i'm a great motivator.

i may be willing to trade down.

oh, this is all great bulletin board material for my team.

i hate you all, and i'll be taking it out on you on the fantasy baseball field.

seriously? That wouldn't be a tough choice for me. I was just guessing. So one of those would be a bad choice at #1? Oh man, I'm in for it on draft day. don't listen to these clowns. i'm the friggin' two-time defending champ, and i'd take vlad in a second if i had the #1 pick.

seriously? That wouldn't be a tough choice for me. so who would you take #1?

Maybe. Or maybe not. :-k what are the chances of vlad getting to me at #3....?

you're such a tease.

one week! you dbags that pick ahead of me need to tell me who you're taking!

i thought it was pussyitis.

well, then i don't think we have anything else to discuss. you're right, he'll never amount to anything. oh wait, he was one of the best pitchers in baseball post-ASB in '06. guess judging a guy based on a few scattered innings may not be the best way to go. The king of hyperbole speaks again. so you weren't just judging hill on a few scattered innings? No. I'm saying that you can't say that he should have been up more than he was when he put up a 9.31 ERA in four starts in May. Something had to change, so he went down and worked on some things that helped him out. He is quoted as saying such. I know you are a big fan of his. So am I. But, I don't see the reason for all of this clamoring that he has been so mistreated by this organization. He still had to demonstrate that he could perform at the major league level. He didn't do that in May. listen, we're not going to agree on this. i think he should have been pitching with the cubs through his struggles, you don't. you think the only way he should have been pitching with the cubs was if he came up and pitched great in the bigs. i say he should have gotten the chance because of what he did in AAA. you keep saying he had to demonstrate that he could perform at the big league level. yet the entire time he was dominating in AAA, rusch and others were absolutely not demonstrating that they could perform at the big league level. the cubs have favored other players over hill. i don't know how there can be any doubt about that.

Nope-McGriff was never useless for the Cubs, so that doesn't ring any bells for me. false. A useless veteran would be one that plays badly, right? When did McGriff play badly for us? when he absolutely crapped the bed for the first 1 3/4 months of 2002.

Nope-McGriff was never useless for the Cubs, so that doesn't ring any bells for me. false.

well, then i don't think we have anything else to discuss. you're right, he'll never amount to anything. oh wait, he was one of the best pitchers in baseball post-ASB in '06. guess judging a guy based on a few scattered innings may not be the best way to go. The king of hyperbole speaks again. so you weren't just judging hill on a few scattered innings?

All I can do is shake my head. hey, me too!

well, then i don't think we have anything else to discuss. you're right, he'll never amount to anything. oh wait, he was one of the best pitchers in baseball post-ASB in '06. guess judging a guy based on a few scattered innings may not be the best way to go.

you really only think there has been one month of baseball where hill should have been in the rotation but wasn't?

you're right...hill has never been kept out of the rotation at the expense of a higher paid, less productive veteran.

I seem to remember always hearing that breaking ball pitchers always faired worse in the dry Arizona air since the ball doesn't have as much movement. Is this something that has affected Hill in past spring trainings? Does anyone remember how he pitched last year in ST? Hill was bouncing curveballs in the dirt 5 feet in front of the plate last ST. It was enough to cost him a spot in the rotation. i don't think that's the case at all. if i remember correctly, he had one or two really bad outings and was pretty good the rest of the time. he was lights out one time when i saw him in arizona.

guess you better not miss the draft!

i was referring to him admitting that he didn't know anything about the cubs. i wouldn't be surprised if he was right about hill.

Looks like it's the new Sun-Times beat writer for the Cubs, Gordon Wittenmyer. last year he covered the twins. on xm homeplate the other day he pretty much said he doesnt know anything about the cubs That makes me feel better about the guy. I'll wait until he learns a little bit about the Cubs before I give up on him. If he saw Rich Hill pitch, he'd probably be singing a different tune. how does that make you feel better about him? it makes me think he's an incompetent moron who is incapable of any research whatsoever.

oh, good times.