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Roberts Fukudome Lee Ramirez Soriano DeRosa (SS... I know pipe dream) Soto Byrd Zambrano Bedard Hill Lilly Lieber = World series appearence. There is no way this gets done though, I can't see Angelos picking any package we offer.

Roberts really isn't coming to the Cubs is he?

I think some places you can get them to send you a memory card with updated rosters. Never looked though because I downloaded the PC version and goto mvpmods

For someone who is labeled as such a patient hitter, he sure does swing a lot.

alot of sheep rapings tonight....alot So those are your plans for this evening? Is the Brett Favre Press post game conference on yet? I'm anxious to hear the pity party, woah is me plea. he'll play the "i'm back, no i'm not, yes, i am... no i'm not" game. its great times for all of us. Does he start that already? probably not, but a bears fan can have some fun...right? No. wasn't asking you...this was your chance and you're team blew it for ya. favre is gone and ryan grant ain't leading you anywhere. Yeah, this was our chance. Never mind the fact that we're the youngest team in the NFL. If Favre leaves, so be it. I have full confidence that Rodgers can step in and do a productive job. And as far as Grant goes, the jury is still out on that. I seem to remember an NFC team full of a solid and stable core, with the consensus 'most talented team in the NFC' coming into this year. Now it has more holes than Swiss cheese. You have to take advantage of these opportunities otherwise it can fall apart with the blink of the eye. I had all the confidence in the world that Benson could take over for TJones as well............

Unbelievable that Eli is getting it done through the air early considering the game conditions.

Japanese? He can barely speak English. He no berry berry goo. What does speaking English have to do with speaking Japanese if Spanish is his first language?

I bet you we go to camp with this team.

I don't think this deserved its own thread, but Michael Wuertz asked for $975,000 in arbitration, while the Cubs figure was $750,000. He is the only Cub I know of that in arb process.

That isn't entirely true...he does go on sports radio, but often yes questions are softballed to him. As for KW and his WS ring, that is 3 years ago and really meaningless at this point. I have NEVER heard Hendry go on the air and take direct questions from fans. You're right, when he appears on WGN Radio, Kaplan asks fans to email questions-filters out the more controversial ones and then asks the obvious ones. How about a little give and take with the people who pay your salary, Jim? Kenny Williams at least has a plan. Funny that Jim Thome came to Wrigley and Hendry barely talked to him. Williams snapped him up pretty fast. Look I am no huge fan of Hendry, but you aren't giving him enough credit. Kenny Williams does have a plan. It just almost always backfires. Your counter argument will be that the one time it worked they won a World Series, and your right. But that was just a needle in a haystack. Can you look at that 2005 team and tell me that you thought they'd make the playoffs much less win a World Series. His plan last year was to acquire a bunch of unproven flame throwing arms for the bullpen. How did that work out? Laughable. His plan this year was to target the top 4-5 FA outfielders out there. How did that work out? Instead he was stuck trading 2 of their top prospects for his slugger, a move that wasn't bad at all but still damaged his already bad farm system. Trust me, I know Hendry is no better. We've often joked about his plan being to copy the model of the previous World Series winners, or acquiring a million weak hitting 2B, or signing relievers to high priced deals. Your right hes not a great GM. But to compare him to Kenny Williams and say that Jim Hendry isn't at least a good a GM as Kenny, its ridiculous. Kenny joined the Sox in 2000 and managed to ruin one of the most promising young teams in recent memory. He has made the playoffs once since, the flukey 2005 title team. While Hendry has his mistakes, he turned around a bad 2002 team into the team that had the Cubs closer to a title than ever before. (I will agree that like Kenny's 2005 team, it was a bit of a fluke, and was carried by the pitching staff that was already there when he took over - even though he scouted and developed a lot of those players), then managed to dismantle it when he realized it had serious flaws and has manged to rebuild it into another team. Anyways, I'm rambling, but my point is, don't use Kenny Williams to compare favorably as a GM to Hendry.

Matt Clement, Jeremy Giambi, Willi Mo Pena, Julio Lugo, Coco Crisp, Chad Bradford. Oh wait, we're listing Jim Hendry's bad moves, not Theo Epsteins. My bad.

It's a blog/web site started by a few of the guys from Desipio. Whats it stand for/what is the web address?

What is SSM?

That's amazing, I just guessed Lieber because I couldn't think of anyone besides Maddux, and I knew it wasn't him, so I just named Lieber because of his really low BB rate. I thought for sure I was wrong. I figured you'd ask the question because Lieber just signed with the Cubs, and its something no one would guess.

This is a great read about Jim Hendry. He is candid, open honest and speaking like he's talking to long time buddies. Lots of interesting things he talks about her regarding former and current players for the Cubs. WARNING: A bit of language throughout the blog entry: http://hirejimessian.com/index.php/2008/01/18/i-wish-i-could-say-its-a-pleasure-to-meet-you/#more-1476

I didnt want the spoiler but it came up when I quoted dag nabbit. It was a pretty easy one. Whoops, I knew there was a reason I shouldn't have put a spoiler in the original question.

All of the answers have been guessed

This one might be easy. There are 5 players out there that have hit more than 50 HRs in one season, but in no other season in their careers hit 40 or more. Can you name these 5 players? The spoiler window will contain a hint for anyone who wants one. If you don't want a hint, do not open the spoiler.

Suuuuuure Kaplain works for WGN and would be the type of person that protects a surprise like BRob being traded. I'm kidding by the way.

BTW, can we make this the official trivia thread and keep asking questions like this. I love stuff like this.

2002 Neifi Perez: .236/.260/.303 44 OPS+ 554 AB 3 HR 37 RBI 65 Runs 20 BB Whoops, wrong thread.