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  1. JoshiQ
    This is beyond great news. I love having Wood back and for this cheap? Like somebody else said, I'd throw $1.5's at him until he wants to retire.
  2. JoshiQ
    It's not the best signing we could have made this year, but it sure as hell is going to put a smile on my face.
  3. JoshiQ
    The thought of Wood in a White Sox jersey makes me nauseous.
  4. JoshiQ
    Easy to say considering that this year is completed. It's premature to say that they won't make it NEXT year (2011), though. Too many people on this board say that the Cubs can't make the playoffs next year as if it's already a fact (it isn't). Well, when I said next this year I was more referring to 2011. I should have been more clear. However, I think the odds of us making it are very small. I'll still cheer for the team and hope they do make it, but it's best to be realistic and look towards the future.
  5. JoshiQ
    I think I just swallowed my tongue. Luckily the Cubs won't make it to the playoffs this year. That is just a vicious rotation.
  6. JoshiQ
    The main thing I remember is Kerry Wood hitting a homerun in game 7. That should have been the defining moment of the series and the thing that people continue to talk about today. But we couldn't hold the lead after Alou's homer and now the thing people remember is all of the crap from game 6. With Wood's homerun it just felt like it was meant to be. But the joke was on us.
  7. JoshiQ
    Correct. It became available to the general public in April 2003. Aha, so I guess that was the one good thing that came out of that year. I knew I had found it in 2003, but wasn't sure if there was an older board that maybe got reset in that year.
  8. JoshiQ
    I think a lot of people found NSBB in 2003. Of course, without doing research I'm betting that it's when NSBB was created. I don't like to relive that year though. It just sucks too much.
  9. JoshiQ
    If this comes through, at least we didn't overpay for Adam Dunn. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
  10. JoshiQ
    Basically trading Byrd may not net you a future AGone or Greinke, but possibly a future Castro or Soto. This all depends on your scouting and how good your GM is at getting the prospects he wants from a trade. I'd be totally fine with something like that, and at the risk of complete and utter scorn I'd venture to say that Hendry is a good guy to have picking the prospects coming back. What I don't want to see the Cubs do is make a concerted, aggressive effort to trade as many guys as possible for prospects in some sweeping rebuilding plan. Not that I think they would in any event. I agree with you for the most part. If we are trading away most of the talent on the major league roster to save money, and we know we are only going to get back some Mike Fontenot and Sam Fuld types back, and then that money we saved doesn't get put back into the system...that's not worth it. If that's the case then we might as well at least just field a .500 team and hope to get lucky.
  11. JoshiQ
    Basically trading Byrd may not net you a future AGone or Greinke, but possibly a future Castro or Soto. This all depends on your scouting and how good your GM is at getting the prospects he wants from a trade.
  12. JoshiQ
    Again, I'm not opposed to trading any of them, especially if you're getting good young ML players back. (Although arguably at that point you have to ask what is the purpose.) What I'm opposed to is trading most of them in a series of 3-for-1 deals that leaves the Cubs with 15 prospects and no proven MLers. You say the Cubs have a crap on-field product now. Just wait and see what it looks like if this plan is followed. And I don't just mean in 2011. The fallout would very likely linger for many years. I follow the Royals pretty closely and I know exactly how this would look. The problem is, it looks like the Cubs are dropping in payroll, they don't have a very good on field product, and their prospects are still a couple of years away. Since we aren't going out and signing guys like Dunn or trading for AGone then we need to get rid of middle level talent and wait for our prospects to hit the majors. Then make some big FA signings at that same time and try and contend then. There is no point in sending Byrd, Marmol, and whoever else out that there for the next two years when it's obvious the Cubs won't be allowed to go out and buy some big name talent. We won't contend and we will just waste money and not receive anything for it.
  13. JoshiQ
    True, just running things through my head. I doubt Pujols is going to be jumping at their door to DH. I'm guessing Pujols has to get somewhere near the 28 million mark on his next contract. I can't imagine he'll give the Cards too much of a discount off of that. Maybe down to 25 million. It'd just be nice to get him out of the division.
  14. JoshiQ
    If Red Sox sign AGone to an extension (which I am almost definite they will), Pujols really will be interesting. I can't imagine him not re-signing with the Cards, but if he doesn't I don't know where he will go. Yanks have Teixeira and the Sox will have AGone. Both are guys that are too good with the glove to DH. Same can be said with Pujols for 1B. I just can't imagine the Yanks and the Sox staying out of negotiations with Pujols, though, just because they already have too many 1Bs.
  15. JoshiQ
    This would be a really bad waste of money and is definitely not worth it. But my total homer fan self says to pay whatever it takes! I miss the guy!
  16. JoshiQ
    The only way this works is if this year the Nationals play over .500 and then spend the same amount of money to go after another big FA. The next big FA may not cost as much since he might think there's a chance of playing for a winner. That's the only reasoning that makes any sense. And even that doesn't make sense.
  17. JoshiQ
    Exactly. Sounds like the Cubs' pursuit was at least part of the reason the Red Sox decided to do the deal (presumably without the extension in place). Which sucks. Girl wants to get married, guy doesn't, girl goes on date with a new guy, old guy sets a wedding date.
  18. JoshiQ
    Sheesh, this is worse than Favre retiring.
  19. JoshiQ
    This is what happens when you are horrible for so long. You see it a lot with teams like the Royals, Nationals, Pirates...you will always have to way overpay for somebody just to get them to play there.
  20. JoshiQ
    What's sad is that some Cubs fans would even get excited if it didn't happen. Like we might actually have a shot. Ha!
  21. JoshiQ
    I know there was some talk during the year, but I can't recall if it was just people on here wanting him or if it was an actual rumor with a source. I would love to have Gordon on the team, I just can't picture him being a valuable starting 1B this year.
  22. JoshiQ
    Well, it is only Chris Davis, I don't expect someone like Rosenthal to have his ears to the ground about every Chris Davis rumbling. Sure would be nice if the potential starting 1B for the Cubs was worthy of a post on Rotoworld.com. :(
  23. JoshiQ
    No. That's for the big boy teams, silly.
  24. JoshiQ
    Both Soto and Castro are two of the best young players at their position. Soto's .385 wOBA was the best in the majors among catchers with at least 200 PAs. I agree entirely. I was more making fun that you thought we were also building around Marshall and Marmol.
  25. JoshiQ
    Berkman wasn't exactly my #1 pick, but I preferred him to a lot of other options.
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