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I've been ripping on Jones badly too, but let's give him more then 4 games. He's not going to be anything great, I doubt he'll hit better then Burnitz last year, but he'll probably be a better option then anyone else when all is said and done. The best thing is though is that we have him for 3 years, so it will be hard to trade for an upgrade at the deadline!

1984? 1992?

Now theres a bit less pressure on Marshall tomorrow. While a sweep would be awesome, we've already won the series. Hopefully he can come out calm and throw some of the stuff he threw in the spring. Go Cubs! I'm off to the Bulls game!

Not that I care but I happened to flip to WGN for a second when Comcast crapped out, saw the Sox fall to 1-4. Interesting.

Comcast has the worst technical problems. Remember during the Bulls playoff games last year the sound crapped out for an entire quarter

Gotta give Dusty credit where it is do, solid move putting Barrett in there. Of course if he GIDP id be cursing him out. Out of curiosity, with Macais gone, whose the emergency C?

Jones 6 K (he has 3 today right?) Corey 1 K

Well deserved. He might be worse than Corey, seriously. It's the first week of the season. Corey - 1/6 1 RBI 1 K .167 BA, .167 OBP, .167 SLG, .333 OPS Jones - 0/12 1 RBI 6 K .000 BA, .077 OBP (not .000 because of INT Walk), .000 SLG, .077 OPS

Only 2 years and 157 more games of Jones!

The offense isn't doing jack. Carp is pitching a great game, we should have gotten to him in the first. When we didn't I felt we let our best chance go away. JONES SUCKS!!! LEAVE ALREADY

Jeckell and Hyde Cubs. Great one day, bad the next.

Wow...this thread is...interesting. Edmonds sucks though I agree.

Wow... Maddux: GB - 380 FB - 194 GB/FB - 1.96 Zambrano: GB - 300 FB - 185 GB/FB - 1.65 Prior: GB - 165 FB - 180 GB/FB - .92

This is nothing, I remember when Sammy went down in 2003 (it was either the cork suspension or the injury), Dusty simpy replaced Sosa at #3 in the order with......Trinadad Hubbard! BTW, amazing the radar looks like we will miss a big bulk of the storm.

Hey, I kinda arranged to purchase all 4 tickets from EamusCatuli. I notice there is another thread going around willing to sell 4 tickets to Sundays game as well. http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=30358 I really hope you are able to work something out. I have a couple of friends planning to come from out of town for the game, so I can't really back out of those tickets now.

I don't think he has enough posts yet to be able to send and receive PMs. He sent me a PM earlier today...

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I watched Comcast Sportsnight or whatever its called. Dusty said it was because with Maddux pitching, he wanted good defense behind him....not sure what that means considering the number of home runs Maddog has given up the last few years. Maybe Greg has developed a nasty sinkerball over the winter :)

Anyone else find it funny/cool that we play in the Meadowlands in 2 consecutive weeks vs. the Giants and the Jets. That will save on travel, they can just chill in NYC for the week.

After the first inning on Monday, the Cubs were on pace to score 7290 runs this year, but that number has fallen off a bit

Basically for the offseason, it is a bad FA class, but these players seem attractive to me for the Bulls to acquire: -Jermaine O'Neal (been lots of rumors about a deal between the Bulls and Pacers) -Kevin Garnett (might have to give up too much) -Ben Wallace (who knows, if the price is right...but doubtful) -Al Harrington (probably a bit overrated because his recent numbers come on bad Atlanta teams - see Knight, Brevin) -Nazi Muhammad (probably the worst of the choices, but would still give the Bulls a relatively good upgrade down low, but I would prefer someone who has better offensive skills) Also, Silvy and Carmen were on this morning talking about how Andres Nocioni is now "untradable". At first I was taking it with a grain of salt, but then I started to think about it. How hard is it to get an undersized player at his position that can rebound over people 6-7 inches taller, can score inside on seemingly more physical players, puts 137% effort into his game every night, is a physical defender who will frustrate whoever he is guarding, and is now developing an above average jumper. Sure he makes his mistakes, I swear he's going to set the record for most traveling violations in a season at some point. But this kind of super utility player (who suprisingly can step it up and play like a star at times) is what seperates a talented team with a good team. Last 16 games (pts-reb): 21-13 14-12 13-11 24-11 26-10 12-5 2-4 17-10 18-5 14-12 25-9 13-3 9-6 15-6 23-9 24-4 Thats 16.9 PPG, 8.1 RPG over a 16 game period. Throw out the outlier games, and Noc is a bonafied star over that period.

Yeah, I'm a bit worried that they will get this one in. Pretty much the weather that will be occuring during tomorrows game is just about the worst weather that we will experience in Chicago during a 2 week span (one week after Friday and one week before Friday). It figures... During the middle of the game we will be getting rain/snow, 27 MPH winds and it will feel like 28 degrees outside. Bundle up if your going, I know I will.

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I'm bringing a DePaul shirt with me to the game Friday in order to wave it in the bleachers during the tribute. Hopefully it will get me on tv :)

Jones sucks, I know its only 2 games but he's looked clueless at the plate. I give Hendry credit where it is due, but signing Jones to a 3 year contract is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'd rather have Rob Mackodsfgodsagoiak out there in RF, and what did the Sox give up for him, a reliever in decline?