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Drop Heyward and add Kang

I should have tanked to get high draft picks next year.

Bill Hands started for the Cubs on my birthday. He took the loss in a 2-1 against the Mets at Shea. The Cubs fell to 39 games below .500, and 28 games out of first, on their way to their worst season in franchise history. Of course, I was born at night so the first actual Cubs game after my birth was a 12 inning, 6-5 victory against the Braves that was started by Robin Roberts and won by Fergie Jenkins in relief.

You would think Arrieta would be able to get more than six strikeouts against the Reds.

I am calling it now. Schwarber for my wild card in 2017. PM'd. For 2016, drop Schwarber and add Chris Carter.

Group A: Arenado Group B: Stanton, Abreu Group C: M Cabrera, Schwarber, Correa Group D: Heyward, C Gomez, Puig, A Russell, V Martinez WC: PM'd

I would like the chance to defend my championship.

TWTW

I don't think Sontensei being banned had anything to do with the losing streak, but it will certainly have postseason repercussions.

Drop Stanton, Add Trout

A couple of guys are just killing me, but I hate my options. I also hate to burn my transactions because of the inevitable injuries, but... Drop Reynolds, add Braun.

A - Stanton B - A Jones, Rizzo C - Goldschmidt, Freeman, Reynolds D - Harper, Heyward, H Ramirez, Trumbo, Machado Wildcard - Sent

I would be interested.

I barely escaped what would have been another disheartening loss or tie. I had a 60 point lead heading into last night and my opponent had Sanchez, Matthews and Olsen. I had Maclin. I figured it was in the bag. Fortunately Maclin got three points and I escaped by two. As chronicled here four weeks ago, my team got a tie when Philadelphia's defense got a sack on the last play of the game when I had 30 point lead with Maclin versus the Philly defense. I hate Philadelphia. Maclin has been great except when he is in a Sunday or Monday night game.

Give em Renteria.

F the Giants. I had a 29 point lead heading into the Sunday night game with Maclin vs the Philly D. No sweat, right? The sack on the final play gave Philly 30 points to just 1 for Maclin. The Giants even tried to give it away a couple of other times in that drive with the sack/fumble and then the sack that was negated by the personal foul.

Iowa and Indiana are in an good old fashioned Pac 12 shootout.

They are bad. They may have played the crappiest schedule of any major conference team and have struggled against it. They are 4-1 but could easily be 0-5 or 1-4. They barely beat FCS Northern Iowa. They needed two touchdowns in the final three minutes to beat Ball State. They lost to Iowa State on a last-second field goal. They trailed by ten at half before rallying in the second half to slip by Pitt. They were down by ten early to Purdue and tied at half before beating them. Offensively this team has no play makers. They have two serviceable QBs, but their receivers have had trouble getting open. The offense for the first three weeks was mostly from quarterback scrambles or dump offs to the tight end. The offensive line was supposed to be the strength of the team, but they have under-performed. They have several decent running backs, but they lack someone with the ability to make a defender miss. Defensively they have been pretty good, but then they haven't played a good offense yet. The run defense has been stout in four of the five games, but Pitt manhandled them for the better part of three quarters. The linebackers are young and have been exposed at times, but they have played better recently. The defensive backfield is experienced but lacks athletes. The kicking game has been horrible. It has been bad enough that KF has passed up fairly easy field goal attempts to go for it on fourth down, or worse, punt from the 35. And the punting game always seems to be kicking against the wind. Iowa should beat Indiana, but that is not assured against any opponent. The Hoosiers have beaten better Iowa teams in the recent past and any effort even close to the Missouri game would probably mean an Indiana victory.

This gets asked time and again, but what would it take to get Montero and would it be worth it? He was very well thought of before the trade to the Mariners.

I'm in too.

I want this http://i.minus.com/ibu5B3Gb4TUyiJ.gif Gotta love old-time Wrigley. Those must be original bricks on the wall behind home plate, and without the advertisements. And where are all of the three-story tall rooftop bleachers? As much of a dump as Wrigley is today, imagine how bad it must have been then.

There's no reason they should have to give up anything decent. The Marlins have no leverage here. I've seen this from several people, but the Marlins do have some leverage over the Cubs. If Turner gets pulled back he will go on irrevocable waivers. At that point the Rockies and the Dbacks would have the option of picking him up for nothing. Colorado could certainly change their minds about him, but I am certain he wouldn't get past Arizona. While the pressure on the FO to get this done isn't Tanaka-like, it is the exact type of acquisition they want to supplement the wave of prospects coming up. Not getting it done would be seen as a failure at this point. Its going to come down to having to give up enough to make it interesting for Florida. That may be someone decent.

For me it's not just Baez, but the possible moves involving Turner and Hamels. It shows me that the FO believes they are close to competing for the playoffs. There have been no moves made by this FO involving the major league team that made me believe they were trying to compete. Everything had been about low cost roster filler or cheap flip options.

I was at that 2007 game also. We had poor seats, sitting in the last row against the chain link fence just to the right of the press box. The atmosphere was the best, especially after the Cubs won on the wild pitch. We went to the 2008 game in Milwaukee when the Cubs beat the Brewers against CC Sabathia. The Cubs were up by a game at the start of the four-game series that ended in a Cubs sweep and a five-game lead. Other than beating the unbeatable (at the time) Sabathia, my memory of the game was afterward. Drunk and douchy Brewers fans were trying to fight anyone in a Cubs jersey.

Where are the homeruns?