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Cheque? You crazy brit's, you. :-)

Seriously. We need to come together as a community, take a vote, and then start banning people for using Hawkisms. It perpetuates a stereotype and myth that we simply do not need on this board or need to accept as Cub fans. He is an awful awful baseball announcer and has no place on this board. Meh. He's a disgrace to baseball announcers everywhere, I agree. But, his tirade was hilarious and I just wanted to use a line. No harm done, as far as i'm concerned.

Correlation does not equal causation I know, but I like to think postively whenever I can. Yeah, you'll grow out of that. Hahaha. For the record, Team Chemistry, in the words of da hawk: "DATS B.S." Team Chemistry means absolutely squat, and I'll prove it: After 2004 Jim Hendry decided he was going to get rid of all the "Bad Apples" on the team to improve team chemistry. Coincidentally (or maybe not) we have not had a winning season SINCE 2004. Hmm. **I'm not suggesting its the reason we lost in 05/06. There are tons of other things to blame. I'm just proving that trying to build a happy team will not help you win** Or, my favorite example: The 1920/1930's Yankees. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig did not talk to each other for five years. FIVE YEARS. They couldn't stand each other, and they batted back-to-back in the lineup. That's five years of being on the same team and batting back to back(most of the time) and not a single word was said. And...The yankee's managed to do pretty well in spite of it. Plus, building a happy team is 99.9% of the time synonymous with building a GOOD team. If the team wins, the team is happy. Period.

Just reporting what their baseball sources told them. No different than Kaplan reporting last night that the Cubs had traded Jones to the Marlins. except that the score has always been very unreliable.

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CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN CUBS WIN 6 game winning streak!

K! ONE MORE!

that...was close, blue.

K! One down, two to go!

So, is a 1-2-3 9th really too much to ask for?

Marmol, apparently.

He doesn't much like that either, but the Yankees big spending actually results in them being regular participants in the postseason, and that drives ratings, which leads to profit. MLB likes the Yanks in the postseason. If Hendry spent big but built a great team, MLB would like that to, because the Cubs can draw in ratings. What pisses him off is seeing a Cubs team spending like mad for mediocrity. Oh, so they're just like us then.

Why in the world would the commissioner's office care what the Cubs are spending? Is this a serious question? The commish works for the owners. The owners, as a group, want to profit. Individually, the owners don't want anybody else spending money, because that drives up costs, and cuts into profit. Realistically, that's not going to happen. So, instead, they prefer to see teams spend logically, and not throw out crazy contracts that drives up the costs for everybody. In other words, they don't want to see guys handing out 3 year contracts with no-trade clauses to middle relievers, or 8 year 136 million deals for guys that aren't top of the line superstars. Owners got pissed at Hicks for the original ARod deal. Owners get pissed at Steinbrenner when he brings his payroll from $95m to $200m in just a couple of years. Owners get pissed when desperate GMs give insanely large contracts to mediocre pitchers, because that drives up costs for the rest of the pitchers. Selig doesn't want to see teams throw money around willy-nilly like Hendry did this offseason. It drives up the costs for everybody else and makes his life difficult, by having to deal with other owners bitching and moaning. While I understand what you're saying.... Mail him a poster sized picture of George Steinbrenner/Brian Cashman and a note that says "suck it"

Probably. My 2 cents: No, we were not getting the best end of this deal. But at this point, I think thats what we're going to have to do to get rid of jones. And, if it's true that Zell called off this trade because he was pissed about like 6 million dollars then that really really makes me mad. Zell (aside from having interests with the sox) has no business (technically, i suppose he does, but whatever) sticking his nose in this business. If he wont let us deal with sums of money around 6 million dollars then we are really screwed if we expect to make any sort of semi-large deal around the deadline.

to quote another great sox fan "DATS BS"

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"I hate my life" So, wishful thinking/grasping for straws/whatever, but is there any chance that Hendry/MarlinsGM saw that they were running way too close to game time and just decided to put the deal on hold? Nah, i know thats wrong because I remember hearing about a trade mid-game before.

But if they cancelled Petricks callup then they'd really be screwed cause they would literally have like 3 pitchers available for tonights game.

Wellll Crap we're still stuck with Jones.

Just as I thought. The jones trade fell through so we have to put him on the DL. Darn.

Sorry. @#$%^&*()

Certainly possible. But we're down to 20 minutes. And if Selig has to approve of a deal, then its looking increasingly unlikely. The Cubs could just DFA Jones and it buys them 10 days if there was anything holding up a transaction before the game. That would give the Marlins (or any other team wanting him) so much leverage though. Exactly. At that point the marlins could just say "Well, if you dont give us what we ask for, we'll just let you have to release him. Then you have to pay his whole salary. Sucks to be you"

WHY ORANGE? Seriously, this is the second straight year we have had orange jerseys. The MLB colors are Red White and Blue... WHERE THE HELL DID ORANGE COME FROM? Correct me if I'm wrong, but theres only two damn teams in the league with orange in their jerseys. WTH.

My thoughts exactly. A prospect and paying 90% of his salary > getting nothing and paying 100% of his salary Haha, exactly.

My thoughts exactly.