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  1. WindyCity
    You forgot to add "and play in front of their promising young players." Not if the Yankees don't sign him first! No -- he will be signed by the Cardinals, converted to an outfielder, and immediately return to peak career production. :|
  2. WindyCity
    I wouldn't mind if the Cubs took a flier on him -- his smoke and mirrors routine may have been figured out by the AL, but there are still plenty of NL teams that haven't seen it yet.
  3. WindyCity
    So what exactly is the punishment if he is now found to have lied to Congress? Jail time? Fines? Raffy has to be a complete idiot to think he could continue to take a banned substance and get away with it -- I guess he didn't care if his legacy was ruined.
  4. WindyCity
    Never. Besides I believe Farnsworth is a FA, a RENTAL. So I doubt Farnsy stays in Atlant beyond this season. Isn't Farns from Georgia? I think he'll happily re-sign with the Braves. I also expect him to close for them very soon if not immediately.
  5. WindyCity
    Per ESPN BBTN.....
  6. WindyCity
    I'm betting that Hendry only does a deal for Griffey if it means it makes it less costly to also acquire Dunn or Kearns in the deal. Maybe that's just what I'm hoping for anyway.
  7. WindyCity
    I'm not -- too many teams think they are still in it. I suspect we will see a large number of waiver deals in August as the buyers and sellers become much more apparent.
  8. WindyCity
    Agreed -- unless your offer starts with Prior or Zambrano, there is no way Texas deals Teixeira.
  9. WindyCity
    Thanks Penguin -- its more for the sanity of the forum than for me though -- it would get nuts if new threads were created with every update we're getting as the deadline approaches.
  10. WindyCity
    :wink:
  11. WindyCity
    We don't need a new thread created for every update -- plenty of Manny threads around.....
  12. WindyCity
    Manny pulled from the starting lineup per rotoworld.....
  13. WindyCity
    Depending on salary considerations and prospects, I might be interested in that deal the Cubs countered with. Might? No might about it -- sign me up!
  14. WindyCity
    Anyone else impressed with the Blue Jays? They almost never get talked about in the AL East, but they just past the O's for 3rd place and are only 4 games out. They are my dark horse to get AJ Burnett.
  15. WindyCity
    Not only that.... if Hendry somehow expands it again to include Minnesota and can pry away JC Romero from them.... :D Good times -- my brain is swirling and my hopes are getting pretty high -- time to try and get myself back down to reality. The reality that no source is mentioning the Cubs (or any team) as prospective trading partners and this is all random NSBB speculation :) Yeah, I'm pretty deflated as well Fun speculation though. :D
  16. WindyCity
    Not only that.... if Hendry somehow expands it again to include Minnesota and can pry away JC Romero from them.... :D Good times -- my brain is swirling and my hopes are getting pretty high -- time to try and get myself back down to reality.
  17. WindyCity
    Hmmm, I'm going to have to come up with a 3 way Manny deal. The plot thickens.... rumors go around that Hendry is after Soriano.... Boston has been looking to upgrade 2B (and getting Tony G ain't the biggest upgrade)..... Manny asks to be traded, but Boston would need to try and replace his production..... the Cubs have no apparent need for Soriano @2B nor would he readily accept a move to another position..... but he would go a ways toward making up for Boston's lost production if Manny is dealt..... the Cubs need an offensive upgrade at LF.... The intrigue.... the twists.... the last minute wheeling and dealing.... is there any better time of the year than the last few days before the July 31st trade deadline? I love it.
  18. WindyCity
    Like World Series pennants? :wink: Maybe these are the growing pains our Cubs need to go through, before we can get to the promised land. There has to be a silver lining to all this, and I'm looking for it. Also, this part is not in response to JC but a general comment/observation, ...... isn't it interesting that everyone talked about how classy and great the Cubs fans were as they were standing up and cheering every strike on Maddux's way to 3000 Ks..... and yet these same fans then get called classless for booing Hawkins? Which is it? Or did all the classy Cubs fans leave the game early and the classless fans are the ones that stayed till the end of the game? And if its the classless fans that stayed till the end of the game (I guess that includes me because I was there for the last out -- I never leave a game early), are they more true blue Cubs fans because they didn't leave before the game was over? See how silly the classy/classless, true blue or not arguments can get?
  19. WindyCity
    So is she? I mean we gotta know.....
  20. WindyCity
    Expectations? Would anyone expect to get more production than the Cubs have gotten out of Neifi?
  21. WindyCity
    True -- getting trotted out game after game without making adjustments is likely another 'cause for frustration (applicable to both Corey and Hawkins). Management made some poor decisions in both cases.
  22. WindyCity
    Bingo. IMO the above quote holds the key to why Hawkins has been receiving such vocal disgust from the fans at Wrigley. If he had conducted himself with more humility, I highly doubt that he would have become such a target. Sure there would've been boos -- he was terrible at a point late in 2004 where there was such little room for error -- but if he had been more humble and apologetic for his failings, I highly doubt the boos would have been to the extent that he is experiencing them now. Also, while I personally don't boo Cubs players (I tend to just sit in my seat and seethe in silence when I'm upset with their performance), I think the presumption that fans that boo or jeer are any less of a "true fan" than the Cubs fans that come to Wrigley just to cheer and sing the 7th inning stretch, is a load of B.S. This fandom thing is not a caste system -- and you can't tell me who's a better fan than another because of how they choose to support their team, show their emotions, invest there lives and often hard earned money in their team..... We are all Cubs fans and we're all after one thing: 4 zeros at the end of the AC sign in our lifetime.
  23. WindyCity
    Thanks -- I was going through NSBB-withdrawal trying to figure out what happened.
  24. WindyCity
    Not sure if this was discussed elsewhere, but at the game last night we were trying to figure out why JHJ was replaced by Macias? The only thing I could think of was that he hurt himself somehow earlier in the game or he was being traded. He's also not starting in today's game (7/27)..... What's the story? Anyone hear anything said about that? :?
  25. WindyCity
    As bad as we may think the Chicago media is.... you just have to look at the smile on Nomar's face when he's around to know they are nothing like their Boston/NY counterparts..... Manny would settle in fine in Chicago.
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