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  1. abuck1220
    not even close, actually.
  2. abuck1220
    ah, this takes me back to the time when the cubs sent hill down to absolutely dominate in AAA while rusch completely flopped in the #5 spot over the last month of the season. most of the time, i was watching rusch get rocked on tv and listening to hill post 10 k games on the radio. memories...
  3. abuck1220
    i want to know how he's gotten this reputation as being some kind of clubhouse leader extraordinaire. this behavior ain't helping the baltimore clubhouse if he's not traded.
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    Angels > A's The Cubs need a 5 hitter & a #3. fine, they're one of the better teams in the west. plus, they have this thing called the wild card now. in any event, the a's are better than the cubs, and i think it'll take more than prospects to get him. the only reason i want him is to spin him for tejada. The AL Wild Card's reserved for either Boston or New York. well, i don't think oakland's ready to concede that fact in december, especially since it took ny/bos til game 160 or so to clinch the WC last year.
  5. abuck1220
    Angels > A's The Cubs need a 5 hitter & a #3. fine, they're one of the better teams in the west. plus, they have this thing called the wild card now. in any event, the a's are better than the cubs, and i think it'll take more than prospects to get him. the only reason i want him is to spin him for tejada.
  6. abuck1220
    and the o's still think they can demand two impact players in exchange for tejada. when are they gonna see that they have NO leverage?
  7. abuck1220
    i'm not feeling so confident about the bullpen. if everybody repeats their 2005, it should be solid. but eyre, howry and dempster have all had a few iffy seasons in there, and if those guys all happen to have one of those iffy seasons in '06, the pen could be a disaster. none of them have been consistently lights out over the span of their careers.
  8. abuck1220
    he did get wilkerson and sledge for the wildly overrated soriano. so i'd say daniels is having a better offseason than hendry.
  9. abuck1220
    if they get him, you'll hear hendry talk about how he's a once in a lifetime type guy, and you have to go after him if he's available. then, in a perfect world, someone will ask, 'then why the hell didn't you sign him in 2004 when he was a free agent?'
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    They couldn't afford him in 2003 because of the ridiculous contract MacPhail gave to Sosa. but now they can 'afford' to get him by giving up a stud SP? sorry, but it's going to be tough for hendry to justify saying it was not in the cubs best interest to sign him in 2004 because of $, but it is in the cubs best interests now to give him the same $ PLUS prior. this is maddux all over again.
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    i never thought i'd rue the day the cubs missed out on ridiculously overpaying for furcal. i'd take an overpaid furcal + prior over tejada + bedard any day. if hendry had such a man crush on tejada, why didn't he just sign him after 2003...without having to give up prior? pretty sure prior + tejada > prior + alex gonzalez and tejada + bedard. the good news is, after prior wins six cy youngs in the AL, the cubs can bid against themselves and sign a 38 year old prior to a stupid 3 year deal 13 years from now.
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    i don't understand why baltimore wants 'more than one star' in return for tejada, who is ONE star. what makes them think they deserve two stars for one? that's like saying i want two dollars for one. that doesn't even make sense...especially since they're the ones w/ an unhappy player who wants out. i also like that baltimore needs pitching...but that prior isn't enough for them. your staff must really suck if you add a #1-#2 and you still need a bunch more pitching.
  13. abuck1220
    this thing has gathered so much steam that it seems like there has to be some truth in it. sickening. our best hope is that hendry's asinine 'pitching, defense and speed' kick will prevent him from making this deal. trading prior for tejada doesn't help in any of those categories. my favorite part is that it appears as though prior alone isn't enough to get tejada. on sportscenter buster olney said that the o's were looking for a #1 pitcher PLUS a solid position player. he said the cubs may need to get another team involved to get that position player. tejada's catching up w/ damon in the most overrated guy to change teams this offseason contest.
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    i really can't believe that this is even being discussed outside of inane message board trade proposals. the whole thing is ridiculous. if you wanted an impact bat that would cost you millions of dollars, why not just throw the bank at giles and keep prior? or better yet, signed tejada when he was a FA? or signed jeff kent? or vlad? i was glad that the cubs didn't sign furcal, but now i'm starting to think that throwing 13 mil at furcal would have at least prevented this...i'd rather have furcal + prior than tejada + bedard. jeez.
  15. abuck1220
    that can't be true...everybody wants to play for dusty baker. everybody.
  16. abuck1220
    this is absurd. i really hope hendry is not that desperate. if only tejada had been available via free agency recently and the cubs could have gotten him W/O giving up their franchise pitcher.
  17. abuck1220
    on espn classic tonight they were posing questions such as 'is damon the best yankee signing of the past 25 years?' and 'where does damon rank among all time yankee cf greats?' first of all, damon isn't the best yankee signing in the past month...matsui's a better player. secondly, damon isn't even the best yankee cf of this decade...bernie williams was a stud for the first three years of the 2000's. no wonder everyone thinks soriano is so amazing...wear those pinstripes for even a minute and you're the next ____ (mantle, joe d, etc).
  18. abuck1220
    Lest we forget, you were the one who brought up that topic with this post. The back slappin started long before that post. like, for example, the time last season when you said you were opposed to the willis-clement trade because you KNEW willis would be good. of course, no one believed you, so that doesn't really count.
  19. abuck1220
    Guh? I sure would love to hear what Hendry thinks is a good trade that involves Prior. The one that brings us Bonds, Guerrero and Tejada I guess? sad thing is, two of those guys have been free agents recently, and the cubs could have signed either one of them...without having to trade their good players. signing good free agents...something the cubs should look into.
  20. abuck1220
    any sentence that includes the phrase 'Brett Tomko would do' can't be taken seriously.
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    http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-051221rogers,1,7257490.column?coll=cs-cubs-headlines
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    phil rogers... you gotta be kidding me. zambrano, who is cheap, awesome and under the cubs control for a few more years PLUS the cubs top prospect for a guy who finished between dellucci and sweeney in OPS?
  23. abuck1220
    why would oakland want to sell off zito when they have the best team in the west, and one of the best teams in the AL? the cubs need a big bat more than they need a #3 starter.
  24. abuck1220
    if only these caravan stops and the convention itself were as well run and well organized as the i-cub fanfest. it's strange that i can get four HOFer's autographs and only have to wait in line 5-10 minutes to get them, but whether or not i get 1 of only 200 michael wuertz autographs is entirely dependent on some crazy lottery system.
  25. abuck1220
    Alou fell into laps in a way. There were two bidders, IIRC, Cubs and Yankees, the Yankees couldn't match the Cubs' offer and went after White instead. Plus, Alou wasn't a Hendry acquisition. oops...forgot about that.
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