SouthSideRyan

All non-US and Canada players(am i missing anywhere?) sign as amateur FAs. Puerto Rico! Yeah good thing that's not part of the US at all.

I just googled wife beating jokes, surprisingly few results. Wonder if the IT guys can track me to that. This might turn out badly. Like how Brett Myers's wife's marriage has turned out. Cause he beats her.

Good seats still available on cubs.com Unless it's a marquee series/weekend, never assume they're sold out. And for the future if you're looking for seats to a game that's "sold out" you can usually pick up tickets in the days before when they re-release some. That's all about timing though.

All non-US and Canada players(am i missing anywhere?) sign as amateur FAs.

Hill had 1 bad start.

It was one season. That hardly makes him a proven pitcher and to squelch any doubts anyone might have about him. Season before that he pitched half the year with a 111 ERA+ It's fine to have to have doubts about a guy, but there doesn't seem to be any reason behind your doubting other than this start and some meaningless spring games.

I think what I like best about this Hill hand-wringing is that his first start of the year has somehow been re-written as some sort of disaster.

So...what was Zambrano's season last year? Our offense last year must've been incredible considering we apparently had nothing but mediocre or worse starting pitchers.

Not sure why you randomly picked me out of everyone to single out. There were plenty of people who were doing the exact same thing. The way I look at it is this. If I have the opportunity to make a few hundred bucks by spending an hour of my time online... better me than someone else. In fact, wasn't it you who was bragging about selling World Series tickets and making a grand? Or was that UMFan? I always get you two confused for some reason. Cause you were the one I rememberred doing it for the playoffs. And no, it wasn't me that sold the world series tickets, which is a different animal because it wasn't UMFan's(or whoever's) team that he was selling the tickets for. None of this really has anything to do with my point though. All I was arguing against was the thought that it's just Joe Corporate that's out there re-selling his tickets and making a profit off of it. Joe 6-pack is doing it just as much. I've heard people discuss it about their season ticket packages, you hear people talk about it if they score good tickets through the VWR(sell these for 3x value and go to a few games for free) I'm not really sure what the Cubs can do about it. They pack the house every game with prices that the market will bear. If they limited the # of games for people(an idea that would never happen anywhere) then they're damaging their own product by creating all those tickets out there, lessening the need to get tickets in advance, lessening the need to settle for games that aren't top-notch. They pulled a nice move with those 9 game plans they offered(though I said at the time it was for selfish reasons) to give everyone their chance to lock in some games and not deal without inflated prices or the VWR.(And I was ripped for my reaction to it!!!) I realize I'm way off on a tangent here and I probably should've just quoted goony's post a few posts back, but oh well, I'm just annoyed at this image of these poor die-hard Cub fans that are stuck in crappy seats cause the mean ol corporation is screwing them over. Especially after my rant about the types of people I had to sit around last game when I had the crappy seats. I've sat in every section of the park and I agree with goony that the best fans I've sat with were 100 levelers. Followed by the 400ers, the other big season ticket area.

Couldn't somebody who is willing to spend a lot of money for good seats be considered die-hard? I don't see why camping out overnight gives somebody more right to seats. Everybody likes to pick on the "the suits" and "corporate seats", but my experience has been that most of the people getting these seats are very big fans. Whether they are the CEO, or a receptionist who got the unused tickets at 6:15, the people who end up going are typically very much interested in the game. Go on stubhub.com and see how many of those guys with ties are selling their tickets well above face value. It would be fairer if they were available for anyone to buy at face value. How many of those guys in t shirts are selling their tickets above face value? You've got people on this site every year in the ticket thread talking about buying tickets so they can sell them. Mizzou was doing it with playoff tickets last year for God's sake.

10 games played. 3 starts for Javier Valentin 7 for PAUL BAKO

I thought Mulder was throwing in the 70s But he's looking sexy doing it.

I don't know what this means.

That's not baseball. In baseball if you can mash the hell out of the ball, then a team finds a spot for you on defense and you have to live with the negatives of their defense. You could get much better offenses and defenses by having defense/offense switches at every position. 9 defensive position players, 6 offensive players, it'll be perfect.

Pigs and Jake Fox are gonna be best of friends.

No question he did some good things. There was a time when I thought he was one of Jimbo's best moves. And at that time, he probably was. Just cause Barrett had a bad half season doesn't make the move a bad one. The Barrett acquisition was Hendry's best move. I'd go with DLee. Only reason I'd put Barrett ahead of him is that Lee was likely to be non-tendered. Thinking about it though, I guess Ramirez was actually his best move.

Bull pucky. He waved at me when i opened the gate for him in the parkinglot. :lol: Oh, you work for the Cubs?

No question he did some good things. There was a time when I thought he was one of Jimbo's best moves. And at that time, he probably was. Just cause Barrett had a bad half season doesn't make the move a bad one. The Barrett acquisition was Hendry's best move.

Lou apparently isn't kind to Cub employees.

Never?

White Sox haven't allowed upper deck ticket holders into the main level since one of the on field attacks.

Wait, so you're trying to tell me that the SEC wasn't very good at basketball this year?

Not that there's anything wrong with being 38, right? Right? :evil: I vaguely remember 38. :grin: 1938?

Signing Stanton would be even worse.

I blamed Zambrano for the nonsense last year when it happened, and I still do to this day. Most people around here did too. Then Zambrano started pitching well, and is still on the team. Miraculously, most people blame "idiot Barrett" for the fight now.