UMFan83

Why? I've been against his signing from day 1 and he has not yet proven me wrong for thinking like this. The great news is, we should see a steady decline in his currently overall slightly above average play for the next 6 years. For the record, I would probably take 50% of the outfielders in baseball over Soriano. If you include salary in the discussion, that would bump up to like 80%.

I have a feeling in 10 years the Soriano era isn't going to be looked back on fondly.

I guess we can't blame him for not being patient...

Sorry its too cold for him.

Just strike out so we give Soriano his 0.00005% chance of hitting a 3 run homer.

Don't worry, we got DeRosa on the bench. Remember how we made that trade to give us more depth?

Fixed for me

Hey guys, did you know they play 9 of them things these days?

If we had gotten Roberts, DeRosa would have hit in this situation.

Overpaid LF, clueless rookie in Center, blackhole at short, and a decent 2B, not much starting pitching, etc etc etc

Theriot 2-3, Cedeno hitless.

I wouldn't go that far, yet. Well, they are. I've been saying that for awhile. They have an awesome leadoff man that should have a .400 OBP, 30 SB and 15-20 HRs at the end of the year. They have two hitters that will hit 40-50 HRs this year at 3 and 4. They have Corey Hart who will probably be a 20-20 guy with good OBP. Their only weak spot on offense is catcher, and Kendall looks comfortable hitting behind the pitcher. As far as their pitching, ours might be slightly better right now, but their ceiling is much higher. I'd take Sheets, Gallardo, Suppan, Parra, Villenueva over our mess any day. Sheets and Z are about even. Sheets is probably better when healthy, Z tends to be erratic. Our bullpen is better, but not by as much as last yaer, and their defense is better by moving Braun to LF. Not on par with ours, but again not a huge disparity as last year. Oh and in 23 games, they will get a very good 30 HR potential hitter back into their lineup. Injuries are the only things that will slow Milwaukee down this year. if Rickie Weeks ends up with a .400 OBP i'll stop watching baseball Well he had a .422 OBP and 47 walks in the second half last year. 47 walks would be 3rd on the Cubs for all of 2007. Oh and for 3 weeks in the second half, Weeks was in AAA. So he basically drew enough walks in 2 months of the season to finish 3rd on the Cubs for all of 2007. The guy can get on base.

I wouldn't go that far, yet. Well, they are. I've been saying that for awhile. They have an awesome leadoff man that should have a .400 OBP, 30 SB and 15-20 HRs at the end of the year. They have two hitters that will hit 40-50 HRs this year at 3 and 4. They have Corey Hart who will probably be a 20-20 guy with good OBP. Their only weak spot on offense is catcher, and Kendall looks comfortable hitting behind the pitcher. As far as their pitching, ours might be slightly better right now, but their ceiling is much higher. I'd take Sheets, Gallardo, Suppan, Parra, Villenueva over our mess any day. Sheets and Z are about even. Sheets is probably better when healthy, Z tends to be erratic. Our bullpen is better, but not by as much as last yaer, and their defense is better by moving Braun to LF. Not on par with ours, but again not a huge disparity as last year. Oh and in 23 games, they will get a very good 30 HR potential hitter back into their lineup. Injuries are the only things that will slow Milwaukee down this year.

So is Sup or Sheets going to start the All Star game in July?

I agree with this. I could have told you that 3 days ago.

This season is a disaster. I don't think I can watch any games anymore. I guess I'm going to look forward to the start of training camp. Oh wait the Bears have no receivers. Hopefully the Bulls will fire Boylan and start over so I can enjoy sports again. BTW, most of this was sarcasm

LOL! Hart stole second AND third on our defensive upgrade of a catcher who doesn't have a hit this season yet?

The key is. If this continues like this, Lou will make changes.

I know its only two games, but I think I've seen enough bad baseball to determine that Lou needs to fire this team up.

We're fighting the Giants for offensive futility. Houston has 1 run in 18 innings. Against Petco and Peavy/Young. We've gotten shut down by Sheets, Mota, Riske, Torres and Suppan

Kendall's managed to get on base 2 more times than Theriot, Soriano, Ramirez, DeRosa, Soto, Ward, Zambrano, Fontenot combined so far.

Must be that unsure footing thing again... Nope, its because Brian Roberts isn't on the team.

Innings we've scored in: 1 Innings we've gotten shut out: 11

Did he just stand there between first and second like an idiot?

Feels like the playoffs again Mark!