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Honey Nut Theriots

i could be wrong, but when kline was a free agent, i swear i read quotes by him talking up chicago and the cubs, and how he'd love to play for them. i could be wrong, or he could have just been talking up as many teams as possible. but i doubt kline would refuse to play for the cubs if they were the highest bidder.

Unfortunately, fine isn't good enough. i agree. but that's the player hendry gave that ridiculous contract to. the best we can hope for is that soriano will be "alfonso soriano good" and hit 30 homers and slug over 500. which i think he can do this year.

do you think pie, veal, vitters, and colvin are enough to pry mercker away from the reds?

yesterday's performance is 100% proof that theriot is best suited as a bench player and that ronny cedeno should start. theriot off the bench = money.

when soriano is cold, he's REALLY cold. and when soriano's on fire, he's REALLY on fire. this isn't anything new. he'll be on a hot streak soon enough and his numbers will improve. soriano will be fine...at least in this year of the contract.

barrett is my favorite cubs catcher ever. he wasn't perfect, but i loved his attitude and the fact that he seemed to really hate the astros and cardinals.

lol cubs fans

it took lee until may 19th last year to get his 3rd home run.

SMALL SAMPLE SIZE

if you squint hard enough you can make out the fanny pack too

i don't know, ryan dempster is looking solid so far this season. he's my dark horse.

i think the nl should adopt the dh.

0-3 with a strikeout with runners on base. this contract can't expire soon enough.

whatta moron

someone start a gagne record countdown

he's going to be a pain in the cubs' ass for the next 5 years or so, even if he's probably going to an al team once he's a free agent.

that's what i'm saying. it's not like felix pie is jason dubois, a relatively polished player arriving in the big leagues who should already have a pretty good idea of how to hit big league pitching. pie is very talented, just like aramis was; aramis was clueless at the plate early on, but he had the natural ability and enough smarts to learn some plate discipline, and he ended up becoming a great player. unpolished players - and Lord knows that the cubs can churn these out, since the organization has no idea how to teach plate discipline - need more time to adjust at the big league level than guys who already have a good sense of pitch recognition and working the count. pie was pretty average in his first crack at iowa, then tore the league up in 2007. let's give him some time to see if he can make similar adjustments at this level. if not, then he's a bust, but there's no sense giving up on him right now. why don't you share the same patience with ronny cedeno? he's looked bad in his 1st 600 major league at bats, just like aramis, brandon phillips, jose reyes, and probably quite a bit more. but you've given up any hope of cedeno being good. cedeno had one full year of play at age 23; aramis' poor performances came at age 20 and 22. when he was 23, he hit .300 with 34 home runs. jose reyes was also beating up the big leagues by age 23. brandon phillips is probably your best example. i guess that guys like aramis, phillips and reyes were all regarded as elite-level prospects, guys who had outstanding tools, and their tools enabled them to overcome their early struggles and their poor approach at the plate. cedeno doesn't have top-level tools, and i don't think that he has the skill or the intuition to make the necessary adjustments at the big league level. pie might not either, but i hold out more hope for him. perhaps true. but i don't think the cubs should ask cedeno to be the next reyes, phillips, etc. they should ask him to out-produce theriot, which i think he can do pretty easily given a full time job. his 2006 season in the majors notwithstanding.

that's what i'm saying. it's not like felix pie is jason dubois, a relatively polished player arriving in the big leagues who should already have a pretty good idea of how to hit big league pitching. pie is very talented, just like aramis was; aramis was clueless at the plate early on, but he had the natural ability and enough smarts to learn some plate discipline, and he ended up becoming a great player. unpolished players - and Lord knows that the cubs can churn these out, since the organization has no idea how to teach plate discipline - need more time to adjust at the big league level than guys who already have a good sense of pitch recognition and working the count. pie was pretty average in his first crack at iowa, then tore the league up in 2007. let's give him some time to see if he can make similar adjustments at this level. if not, then he's a bust, but there's no sense giving up on him right now. why don't you share the same patience with ronny cedeno? he's looked bad in his 1st 600 major league at bats, just like aramis, brandon phillips, jose reyes, and probably quite a bit more. but you've given up any hope of cedeno being good. Because Cedeno really up until last year never dominated a league like Pie has. their production in iowa is pretty close.

that's what i'm saying. it's not like felix pie is jason dubois, a relatively polished player arriving in the big leagues who should already have a pretty good idea of how to hit big league pitching. pie is very talented, just like aramis was; aramis was clueless at the plate early on, but he had the natural ability and enough smarts to learn some plate discipline, and he ended up becoming a great player. unpolished players - and Lord knows that the cubs can churn these out, since the organization has no idea how to teach plate discipline - need more time to adjust at the big league level than guys who already have a good sense of pitch recognition and working the count. pie was pretty average in his first crack at iowa, then tore the league up in 2007. let's give him some time to see if he can make similar adjustments at this level. if not, then he's a bust, but there's no sense giving up on him right now. why don't you share the same patience with ronny cedeno? he's looked bad in his 1st 600 major league at bats, just like aramis, brandon phillips, jose reyes, and probably quite a bit more. but you've given up any hope of cedeno being good.

They are going to win this series. the WORLD series

i like jersey's idea.

see ya jason marquis

Sorry rocket, you can't attack Hendry on the Hampton chase, seeing as MacPhail was the GM at the time of that derby. ugh, i knew that. my bad.

the reds should really just fire brantley. he offers nothing to the broadcast, and when he's doing radio and he's doing the play-by-play, it's probably the worst thing you've ever heard in your life.