Roast

Wood scheduled to work today AND tomorrow.

Eh. Rotation order doesnt matter at all really, especially not after the first time through. Everyone pitches every 5 days regardless of where they are in the rotation. But yeah, Lou has already said the rotation is going to be Z/Lilly/Demps/Hill/ and then either Lieber or Marquis.

1-0 sox already.

Thanks, Bruce. I'm not a huge fan or that lineup, really, but we'll see how it goes, i guess.

The L/R balance (I know, an old fashioned idea) may force Lou to rethink this. Lou has already said he's completely fine with having only 1 lefty in the pen.

No, even better. They're showing a huge blockbuster movie: "Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown" ](*,)

What the hell. I'm finally back home where I have a nice big (well, at least bigger than the little 11 incher i have in my dorm) TV to watch the game and...they're not showing the game? Screw off, WGN.

"Hit hard" "Mediocre effort" "luckless" Ringing endorsements if I've ever heard them. Full steam ahead, never mind the icebergs! This is one of the dumbest things I've read on here in a long time, which is actually somewhat impressive. I've seen worse. Heck, I've posted worse! I admit, I'd like to see Woody have a year or 2 injury free myself. I agree that whatever the AP writes you take with a grain of salt though. That's not even the point though. It'd be one thing if the AP said "Kerry's delivery looked bad and he was grimacing as he threw pitches." But he is basing his irrational hatred of wood off of a couple of adjectives that the AP decided to use.

Hehateme.

LOL I KNO RITE! I MEAN LOOK AT DOS ADJEKTIVES THE AP UZED! KERRY Sox!

Does this news really merit two threads? Yes. It does. Because this is honestly the best therapy for the Dusty years here - watching him do it to someone else while they are almost as clueless as us.

Well, of course. Problem is,most of the GM's in baseball would spend the exact same way hendry does - or worse. Hell, look at the contract Pierre got last year as proof. Or GMJ. As dumb as it is, in this league more money doesn't mean better teams. Either way though, back on topic. Go gallhager.

I understand that, at least the baseball being a business part. What I was trying to say was, unless the company was paying annually, the new owner probably wouldn't see any of the money from the naming rights deal. For instance, if Sears signed a 4 year contract @ 10 mil per year for the stadium naming rights, that money would go to the current owner of the team. Which would increase their sale value some, sure, but when the new owner bough the team they would not directly see 40 million dollars from the deal. Therefore, it's unlikely selling the naming rights would result in any kind of change in what we see on the field. Also, the "when business is good, it's usually reflected on the field" part seems to be just plain untrue. You said it yourself two sentences later - More money doesn't mean a better team. Hell, look at us. We have one of the higher payrolls in all of baseball and we've made the playoffs three times in the past decade. Basically, you proved exactly what I was trying to say with that last sentence. I said IF selling the naming rights meant a world series title - then hell yes, sign me up. But as you and I both know, that's not the way it is.

Lou also said Cubbie today...sorry if you have a problem with it, I don't think you will be successful trying to get people to stop saying it. I am indifferent on "Cubbies" so whatever, but I think that you care way too much about what people call the team. It wouldn't matter if we called them the Chicago Houjvadillas it would make ZERO difference on the play of the team, which is the thing that matters. So you don't care if they change the name of wrigley, then, right? I don't care if they change the name of Wrigley because it will put more money towards winning (as long as that also goes with getting a better GM than Jim Hendry) and no matter what they officially call it I will still always call it Wrigley Field. What they want me to call it doesn't matter to me. Fair enough, but I seriously doubt the bolded part. Unless by "winning" you mean "Sam Zell's Wallet" I would be upset if a name change did not increase the payroll, but if that's a direct result of a name change, and if we had a GM who was more responsible with the money he was given to spend, then I would be all for it. I won't call it anything but Wrigley, but if slapping a new name on the outside of the stadium (it would be nice though to keep the Wrigley sign on the outside of the stadium) allows the Cubs to spend more on getting good players then do it ASAP. A championship is worth more than a name could ever be. I'll agree with this 100%. If changing the name of wrigley means a W.S. title then, by all means, slap "American Girl Field" on that red sign out front A.S.A.P. Problem is, the money will probably go to pad Zells already-fat wallet. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but currently the tribune (Zell) owns both the cubs and wrigley. Therefore, when he sells the naming rights, the tribune (he) will get the money. Then he'll sell the team. The team will then be the responsibility of the new manager. And unless the company who buys the rights has to pay a fee yearly to keep them, I would doubt the new owner sees any of the money. It'd be like me selling you tickets to a game, then taking the money you give me for the tickets and giving it back to you so you can buy more snacks. Why would Zell do that. Granted - I could have this process all completely wrong...but I just have the suspicion that money will go to zell - not good players in the future.

Lou also said Cubbie today...sorry if you have a problem with it, I don't think you will be successful trying to get people to stop saying it. I am indifferent on "Cubbies" so whatever, but I think that you care way too much about what people call the team. It wouldn't matter if we called them the Chicago Houjvadillas it would make ZERO difference on the play of the team, which is the thing that matters. So you don't care if they change the name of wrigley, then, right? and if he doesn't? then he doesn't?

Lou also said Cubbie today...sorry if you have a problem with it, I don't think you will be successful trying to get people to stop saying it. I am indifferent on "Cubbies" so whatever, but I think that you care way too much about what people call the team. It wouldn't matter if we called them the Chicago Houjvadillas it would make ZERO difference on the play of the team, which is the thing that matters. So you don't care if they change the name of wrigley, then, right? I don't care if they change the name of Wrigley because it will put more money towards winning (as long as that also goes with getting a better GM than Jim Hendry) and no matter what they officially call it I will still always call it Wrigley Field. What they want me to call it doesn't matter to me. Fair enough, but I seriously doubt the bolded part. Unless by "winning" you mean "Sam Zell's Wallet"

Lou also said Cubbie today...sorry if you have a problem with it, I don't think you will be successful trying to get people to stop saying it. I am indifferent on "Cubbies" so whatever, but I think that you care way too much about what people call the team. It wouldn't matter if we called them the Chicago Houjvadillas it would make ZERO difference on the play of the team, which is the thing that matters. So you don't care if they change the name of wrigley, then, right?

You should really listen to this, reds44. Because you know us. We're the type to say I toldja so. And we will be.

if only Hill's dad were here... i think abuck's at work right now Hahaha, okay, that was good.

Heheheheheheh. heh. heh. hahahaha. I <3 Dusty when he's on a divisional rival.

Good to see wood in there.

Jeez. 2 games in a row. He didn't hit a home run yesterday, just an RBI double. Oh, i thought he went deep for some reason.

Does hill even have options left? I really dont think Hill is going to be anywhere but the 4-spot in the rotation to start, or finish, the year.

Jeez. 2 games in a row.

There was a thread about this somewhere the other day. I thought it was hilarious. Even more hilarious is that LaRussa is adamant about sticking with him at SS.