Derwood

Welcome to the board!

Make them throw in a prospect say...a Scott Sizemore, or a Matt Joyce, then I would. But trading a young, cheap valueable arm for a free agent to be EXPENSIVE SS is NOT an ideal trade, IMO. So again, if Detroit is willing to throw in a solid prospect with Renteria, then yeah I would Marmol for Renteria/prospect. But the first goal, should be to trade Dempster before considering moving Marmol. Marmol is a reliever. Renteria fills a massive gaping hole. It's a no-brainer. Yeah, he fills a hole. But to plug up that hole by trading possibly our best reliever? Who also makes $9 mil less? No dice, unless they throw in a decent prospect. If Wood craps out and/or someone gets hurt, the pen becomes thinner without Marmol there. Marmol is still a reliever and is going to max out at 70-80 innings this year. If we were talking about an ace starting pitcher, that would be one thing. But we're talking about a reliever (and believe me, I love Marmol). If the Cubs even had a semi-decent shortstop in place, then I'd keep Marmol. But Renteria is a huge upgrade over Theriot/Cedeno. Also if the Cubs pen was weak, I might rethink this. But the Cubs are solid in the pen and could certainly survive without Marmol. Yeah they wouldn't be as good but they would, without a doubt, be a better team by adding Renteria and subtracting Marmol. The point I ws trying to make is....Marmol is not even making half a mill, whereas Renteria is making nearly $10 mill, so if the Tigers want to make that trade they would have to add a prospect to the deal to be "worth it" for the Cubs. adding a prospect doesn't make him not get paid $10 million by this logic you must think the Orioles need to send us a prospect in the Roberts deal as well

he was the Offensive Rookie of the Year! SIGN HIM

you should call him Neifi when he's bad

i can't believe anyone would think that a (thoretical) Marmol for Renteria trade would in any way make the Cubs worse

maybe everyone should change their Control Panel settings to alert them via email when they get PM'd, at least until the draft is over. I'm tired of waiting on people who only check NSBB twice a week to make their picks

Make them throw in a prospect say...a Scott Sizemore, or a Matt Joyce, then I would. But trading a young, cheap valueable arm for a free agent to be EXPENSIVE SS is NOT an ideal trade, IMO. So again, if Detroit is willing to throw in a solid prospect with Renteria, then yeah I would Marmol for Renteria/prospect. But the first goal, should be to trade Dempster before considering moving Marmol. Marmol is a reliever. Renteria fills a massive gaping hole. It's a no-brainer. Renteria making $9 mill in 2008, with a $11 mill club option for 2009 Marmol making well prolly less then $400k. You're right, it's a no brainer. No deal. I much rather rather wait for a player like Khalil Greene, or even move Marmol for Greene, then Marmol for Renteria. who cares? there's no salary cap, so it's a non-issue

but admit it, you call him Ryno :D

The conference is bad, but Purdue is the best team Ohio State has beaten this year if they hold on, easily. Purdue has played like a top-20 team, especially since January. Ohio State still needs to win a conf. tourney game or two to get off the bubble

i hope none of your kids hate you guys for giving them Cubs names

The same Indians team that traded Milton Bradley? Don't count on it.. no no, the other Indians

Make them throw in a prospect say...a Scott Sizemore, or a Matt Joyce, then I would. But trading a young, cheap valueable arm for a free agent to be EXPENSIVE SS is NOT an ideal trade, IMO. So again, if Detroit is willing to throw in a solid prospect with Renteria, then yeah I would Marmol for Renteria/prospect. But the first goal, should be to trade Dempster before considering moving Marmol. it's amazing how much i completely disagree with just about everything you say

i knew what you were doing and that apparently was aping imb? I hadn't realized he had cornered the market on having a sense of humor. i was only half serious. IMB is certainly known for making that kind of joke though (especially based on the fact that other people didn't get it and thought you were serious) the only thing i hate more than white baseball players with diabetes is internet message board posters who are half-serious. ESPECIALLY ones named Derwood. who's Derwood?

i knew what you were doing and that apparently was aping imb? I hadn't realized he had cornered the market on having a sense of humor. i was only half serious. IMB is certainly known for making that kind of joke though (especially based on the fact that other people didn't get it and thought you were serious)

i knew what you were doing

Just out of curiosity, why do you say that? my guess is that they aren't doing well enough financially to throw that kind of cash around

don't mind earth2sean. he's trying REALLY hard to be IMB! recently

well get the tissues ready, because some tears are in your future

Renteria

saying the 1-15 Dolphins and the 18-1 Patriots had the same year because neither won the Super Bowl is absurd

This guy keeps coming in here at random times and posting stuff like this as though he has some form of inside info. Does anybody know who he is? he is sean gallagher's dad right? nope

you'd be satisfied trading 7 players off the 40 man for 2? think about that You bet..You acquire Roberts and Fontenot and Cedeno are expendable. You acquire Crisp-where are Pie and Murton gonna play? Marshall is 5-7 starter now. Marquis has been on the market for months. Ceda and Gallagher are 3A pitchers this season anyway, because Hendry was silly and signed Lieber and Wood. so who are you going to use to fill those other 5 roster spots?

I bet you're happy. The Bears can't be his personal bitch anymore. except the part where he went 0-2 against them last year. How did the Bears do last season? You hang your hat on that 2-0 record in a "rivalry game" that none of the players really care about. i don't care at all about it, just pointing out a fact to the person who is trying to bash the Bears

you'd be satisfied trading 7 players off the 40 man for 2? think about that

is it just me, or does McGehee get a ton of spring PT every year?