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  1. cubbinalltheway
    that or he could just, you know, throw strikes or something.
  2. cubbinalltheway
    kudos to casey blake for saying what probably all of his teammates are thinking. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9274196/If/when-Manny-signs,-will-he-be-happy?
  3. cubbinalltheway
    let's not get too carried away on hoffpauir yet. it's been three games.
  4. cubbinalltheway
    damn!
  5. cubbinalltheway
    and just why exactly is that the most likely explanation?
  6. cubbinalltheway
    Yeah. Poor guy. How can one reasonably expect to live any sort of comfortably on a lousy $10 million a year? I wonder if he can qualify for welfare on that sort of pay. So you'll be giving back a large portion of your lifestyle to bring you down to the world average? people are taking pay cuts all across the country. some are taking reductions on their salary to remain employed (as opposed to being laid off) and others that aren't employed are taking lower salaries to get a job. it's happening in baseball, it's happening to white collar workers and it's happening to blue collar workers. this isn't exactly rocket science here.
  7. cubbinalltheway
    You hate a guy for negotiating in what he believes are his best interests? Commie. i hate him for continuing to refuse very, very generous offers when no other teams are interested in him (at least publicly), and when people all across baseball are taking less money this offseason. but hey, that's just manny being manny. and he's as cool as the other side of the pillow. booyeah. He feels like he can play for 4 more years and he doesn't want to go through free agency again after this year. Is this really hard to comprehend? and we're already in spring training and NO ONE is willing to give him 4 years, so he's either going to have to back off those demands or play for zero more years. is that really that hard for you to comprehend? Teams need him more than he needs the money. He'll just wait it out. he's going to be waiting for awhile. there's no way he gets a four year deal. no way.
  8. cubbinalltheway
    You hate a guy for negotiating in what he believes are his best interests? Commie. i hate him for continuing to refuse very, very generous offers when no other teams are interested in him (at least publicly), and when people all across baseball are taking less money this offseason. but hey, that's just manny being manny. and he's as cool as the other side of the pillow. booyeah. He feels like he can play for 4 more years and he doesn't want to go through free agency again after this year. Is this really hard to comprehend? and we're already in spring training and NO ONE is willing to give him 4 years, so he's either going to have to back off those demands or play for zero more years. is that really that hard for you to comprehend?
  9. cubbinalltheway
    interesting i thought so. but unless i missed something (which i doubt, considering all the attention this story has got) the media didn't pick up on this. That's because reading anything into that statement at all is preposterous. what? no it's not, that's absurd. that's the same thing as me admitting to smoking weed. "i know that i smoked weed, and i'm sorry. i just don't know what kind of weed it was. i'll tell you one thing though, i know it wasn't heroin that i was shooting into my vein." god i know right, athletes are so stupid and we should just assume that they're all borderline [expletive].
  10. cubbinalltheway
    You hate a guy for negotiating in what he believes are his best interests? Commie. i hate him for continuing to refuse very, very generous offers when no other teams are interested in him (at least publicly), and when people all across baseball are taking less money this offseason. but hey, that's just manny being manny. and he's as cool as the other side of the pillow. booyeah.
  11. cubbinalltheway
    i'm hating manny more and more every day. i truly hope that the dodgers pull the offer and walk away for good. no one else seems interested in manny's services. it would be hilarious to watch him have to sign a small deal, say 10 million, in a couple months because no one else will pay him more than that.
  12. cubbinalltheway
    i don't think anyone's flipping out, but hendry's prized offseason possession, who is notorious for getting hurt, got hurt after his first at bat of ST. it's not exactly a good start to his tenure as a cub.
  13. cubbinalltheway
    you've got to be kidding me. and so it begins. didn't take as long as i thought, but, honestly, who's surprised here?
  14. cubbinalltheway
    release the whole damn list. if one person on it was outed, so should everyone else.
  15. cubbinalltheway
    dodgers reportedly offered a 2/45 contract to manny. 25m this year with a 20m player option for next year.
  16. cubbinalltheway
    interesting i thought so. but unless i missed something (which i doubt, considering all the attention this story has got) the media didn't pick up on this.
  17. cubbinalltheway
    http://www.cubs.com
  18. cubbinalltheway
    you can get one ticket to pretty much every game right now. opening day, sox games, etc. quick, cynosure, go buy all the tickets to make profit!!!!!!!!
  19. cubbinalltheway
    forgive me if this has been discussed here already. actually, don't. i don't have time to read every post before i post something. anyways, i'm rambling... arod admitted to injecting something, right? something that he wasn't sure what it was. he also said "i knew we weren't taking tic-tacs." tic-tacs, obviously, are taken orally. did he accidentally admit to something else, without realizing it?
  20. cubbinalltheway
    I did not mention that, quite the opposite. any specific reason given for the lack of interest?
  21. cubbinalltheway
    any way you slice it, trading derosa and bringing in bradley was an upgrade to the team. Those weren't mutually exclusive ideas though. In fact, signing Bradley should have been a big vote towards keeping DeRosa (DeRosa allows you to take Bradley's great production when he's in there and not have a monumental dropoff when he's not). Even if the Cubs were at their absolute major league payroll limit, there were other ways to slice 3.3 million off the payroll. nor were trading derosa and adding miles, which was my point.
  22. cubbinalltheway
    when/where did bruce mention the cubs having interest? i haven't seen that anywhere. i think i've written my feelings about nomar on here before. i would love to have him back. i don't think there's a more ideal option out there right now. that said, i feel that he wants to stay west where his family is. so i see him signing with oakland.
  23. cubbinalltheway
    any way you slice it, trading derosa and bringing in bradley was an upgrade to the team.
  24. cubbinalltheway
    why? why should the cubs have kept the 34 year old mark derosa? look, i like mark quite a bit. but we have to remember that he's just mark derosa. and he's 34 coming off of a career year. it's awfully unlikely that he repeats last year. i think people are getting carried away here. admittedly in about half the at bats, sure, but mike fontenot was better than derosa last year. he's also younger and much cheaper. it's really not that hard to see why the cubs traded dero. i'm thankful that they did when his value was at an all time high, which isn't exactly hendry's normal m.o.
  25. cubbinalltheway
    what? i was responding to your "i'm not missing anything." you're clearly not following. which is fine. no big deal. TT didn't give me exactly what i'm looking for (this is where you're missing what i'm saying, again). i asked for something concrete saying the cubs payroll is going to be 140m. the closest thing to that was from a third party -- "paul sullivan said crane kenney wouldn't give a specific figure, but his (paul's) sources said it would be 140-145." how is that anything more than speculation? is this garbage really necessary?
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