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  1. Tryptamine
    I know it's most likely a pipe dream, but what kind of package would it take to pull Volstad away from the Marlins? With Harden more than likely leaving after the year and my preference for Marshall as a bullpen arm, I'd love to have him this year and the next few.
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    I agree. It seems he caught the Texas lightning in a bottle. He'll be fairly productive when he's healthy, but probably not nearly as good as he was last year. Anyone else sick to their stomachs knowing that we now have approximately $70 million tied up in Fukudome & Bradley for the next 3 years? Due to contracts, our offense will remain nearly exactly the same for the next 3 years. It better be good again. I'm not too concerned about it. I really believe Fukudome can turn in a much better season this time around. If he flops again this year, I'll be concerned.
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    I think we're a good loogy, right handed bench power and experienced fifth starter away from being done for the year. I know Marshall could be the fifth, but I really like what he provides out of the pen. Overall I like the deal and as much as I really loved Dero I think we can get similar production out of the Fontenot/Miles platoon.
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    I'd bet that with insight like your's, you can't see beyond the end of your nose! DeRosa, barring injury, would have had GREATLY diminished PT and would have been UNHAPPY if he stayed. The Cubs are going to balance the lineup with more lefty hitting, PERIOD! Hendry has BIG IDEAS, but is at least temporarily, restricted to a $145M budget, and he wants to save $5-7M of that for July, in case he needs it. So of course he is going to "dump" salaries where he can get the same or better for less. So far he has done a GREAT job of moving the money around, to get what he wants. Miles is NO downgrade! His only negative in comparison with DeRosa is power. They are the same type player and personalities, Miles hits a little better for average, and would be more effective in the 1, 2 or 8 spots in the lineup, is a SWITCH hitter and plugs the same holes for less money, which means Hendry has about $3.3M more to use in trying to fulfill those BIG ideas! This is going to get really ugly.
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    Yep, they are all shocked that their insiders were incorrect. Hilarious. I'm not sure what is more pathetic: people who hang on every word an "insider" has to write on a message board, or people on a completely unrelated message board getting off every single time those "insiders" are wrong. It's not that I enjoy the "insiders" being wrong. I simply got annoyed by people over there so drastically overvaluing their prospects while bashing ours. The last 2 offseasons have left me more than a little jaded when it comes to the Orioles.
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    By the way, OH is back open without registration. It's even more enjoyable than I had hoped for. :)
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    I don't know about "getting" unfair. The Yankees have been the dominant franchise throughout history. You have teams like Florida who can win twice in a decade. Oakland was a great team for several years. Tampa is good and has more than 2-3 year window. Teams get to keep guys for dirt cheap for 3 years, then they get 3 more years at below market value. The problem with baseball is so many teams are run stupidly. I just know that if I was fan of a team like the Pirates, baseball would be dead to me. It's hard to get emotionally invested in a team that stands no chance year in and year out. I'm surprised they even pull in enough revenue to keep the team going at this point.
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    If http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=bal is any indication, it is going to be absolutely hilarious what is going on over there.
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    I know it sounds stupid coming from a fan of a team with a high payroll, but isn't baseball getting just a tad unfair? Why would a person in Pittsburgh, Washington or Kansas City care about baseball anymore? The only way they stand a chance is to lose for a decade and stockpile draft picks. They then have a two maybe three year window before all that talent gets signed by high revenue teams and they have to spend another decade losing.
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    Kevin Hart and Mitch Atkins in our top 10 makes me very very sad.
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    I'm not a big fan of trading Vitters for anything short of a perennial allstar. Vitters is probably the most overrated Cub prospect since Bobby Hill. It's comments like these that lead me to believe that the Cubs prospects stand at best half the chance of other team's prospects to succeed. If they don't immediately perform they're "garbage" and people want to chase them away.
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    I'm not a big fan of trading Vitters for anything short of a perennial allstar.
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    I'd love to pick up Sheets on a 2 or 3 year deal. It saves the Cubs a lot of money and prospects the Peavy deal would have taken.
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    That's funny because I was just showing my friend that video on Saturday.
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    What use is this guy other than a pinch runner? As Ronnie said this pretty much closes the book on Pie's time in Chicago if it's true.
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    There are very few things I wouldn't do to see the Cubs win the World Series. Signing Barry Bonds is one of those things.
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    If we aren't getting Bradley or Hermida I'd rather let Pie play center and keep Fukudome in right. Then the Cubs could see who else is available come the trade deadline. The Brewers have gotten substantially worse and so have the Astros so I don't think waiting until the deadline is going to be to awful. As long as we have a bat for the playoffs.
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    Should we have Interest in Joe Nelson? He's coming off an extremely good year. Maybe there are injury concerns or something else I don't know about.
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    Ideally we want the Angels to get Tex right? I thought I remembered reading that if the Angels got Tex they had no interest in Peavy.
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    Every winter Sam Fuld gets my hopes up and I'm sure he'll crush them this summer just like he did last summer.
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    I don't think it's that far-fetched. The free agent market is pretty tight this year, and he's almost a part-time player. jose guillen got 3 years, 36 million coming off a worse season, and he had character issues and performance-enhancing drug rumors swirling around him. The economy was also different last year.
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    I know we're supposedly closer to a deal than ever, but I have never been more confused about who could be involved in this deal than I am tonight. I suppose that will make it that much more exciting when it happens. :D
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    Thanks for confirmation Bruce.
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    Maybe I'm being overly dramatic, but if Santo does happen to pass on before he ever gets voted in. Should it be an honor he got in or a slap in the face because he's already gone? I've always thought it would be a slap in the face.
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    There's no question that Santo as a player is better than some of the third basemen in the HoF. So it's pretty obvious they don't want to vote him in because they didn't like him clicking his heels. So how does a racist who sharpens his spikes and starts a fight with a handicapped person, like Ty Cobb did, get in then? I just can't wrap my mind around how some of these people got into the hall of fame with the stats they had or the personalities they had, but Ron still hasn't almost 30 years after his first ballot.
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