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  1. Soul
    to be fair he said tuesday at the earliest. I don't think I was being unfair. I realize he said Tuesday at the earliest.
  2. Soul
    I'll just file this whole thing away in the "I'll believe it when I see it" category. We've been going for months with this stupid thing and nothing has happened. Obviously all possible permutations have been discussed and rejected. At this point I'm sick of hearing about it. Let's start the damn season. It's become nothing but a distraction for both teams. End the talk and let the players play the damn games. Enough already.
  3. Soul
    So there was no news, I take it? I refuse to get my hopes up about player trades/acquisitions. I think this ownership situation is going to make our offseason a very long, cold, winter affair.
  4. Soul
    if i remember correctly, it's been a mixed bag. he's nailed some of the prior injury news. he broke a pete rose re-instatement story that never happened. He's been wrong enough times that I associate his name with a rather large grain of salt. Takes more than a couple for me to do that.
  5. Soul
    I don't see how adding a 3rd team makes the amount the Bulls given up any less. They may be splitting the return between the Lakers and Suns, but they still have to give up what's deemed as "Kobe's value". It could if the 3rd team valued the Bulls offerings more highly than the Lakers do. That's different than what Soul was saying, and even then I think it's unlikely that the difference in perceived value is enough to make much of a difference in what the return is. I think the only reason Pax would be considering dealing with a 3rd club is if he's unwilling to part with both Deng & Gordon. That's what the Lakers asked for, and if we made the salaries match with other players, it would surely get the job done. But it leaves us fleeced. If Pax was willing to do this, there would be no reason to even explore a 3rd team option.
  6. Soul
    I don't see why there would be a big Chicago announcement surrounding baseball. Not today, anyway. He did say "as soon as" Tuesday though, mabye something for later this week?
  7. Soul
    If Pax is working with 3rd teams, then that must mean he's not willing to throw the whole roster at the Lakers. I don't expect Pax to get fleeced in this thing.
  8. Soul
    Those ancient Mayan priests predicted the world will end in 2012. But what they forgot to tell everyone was, it's the Cubs winning the World Series that *causes* the world to end :wink:
  9. Soul
    Did you just name drop Billy Joe Tolliver? My god, that would have ended the name dropping thread if it were on the first page. Nice work. BTW, what in god's name do you think Billy Joe and AROD talk about when they hang out? Pretty soon, someone's going to tell me that Jon Kitna and Carl Everett are going to church together. Absolutely - I did. Thanks for catching that. I heard Billy Joe is a phenomenal golfer. He missed his calling, hah.
  10. Soul
    Wow, she understands! Wow, just kidding. Hehehe. I assume she said "if you're scratching your head" because she assumes a large portion of her readership doesn't understand the value of OPS -- which in 2007 pretty much means you either don't pay attention to baseball, or just don't care to understand much about it.
  11. Soul
    Supposedly Cashman was the one who was advocating for Girardi. I'm thinking this is politics. Cashman greenlighted Girardi because he thought he could manipulate him and have Joe be on his side with any disputes with the Steinbrenners. Hank let Cashman have his way this time so in future disageements he could say, "but I let you pick Girardi, you owe me one". Its just so odd that one second Mattingly was the favorite and the next Girardi's getting the job. God only knows whats happening at those meetings. The power play on Torre backfired completely, the next thing they decide is to pick up Abreu's option when they have more important guys about to become FAs, they paint themselves into a corner on ARod and he opts out, and now this. BoSox win the WS and things are quickly crumbling in the Bronx. I guess it's about time the Yanks discovered the other side of the coin. I don't think Girardi's necessarily horrible, but with that ballclub it just seems like a terrible fit to me. Good. I hope they tank it.
  12. Soul
    I think Jenkins would be a hell of a bat off the bench. I don't know if he would agree to that though.
  13. Soul
    Gordon OR Deng, not both. If it's both, I'm going to throw things, stomp my feet, and generally act like a sissy. :P So no change in demeanor for you then...got it... I kid I kid!!! :D :lol:
  14. Soul
    Gordon OR Deng, not both. If it's both, I'm going to throw things, stomp my feet, and generally act like a sissy. :P
  15. Soul
    So which scene looks more crazy: seeing the Wrigley field turf torn up by bulldozers, or seeing Wrigley field with the bleachers torn to hell? I vote the latter. It will really look strange if they ever overhaul the grandstands.
  16. Soul
    Wouldn't that be tampering? I don't know the rules, but yeah that does seem wrong. Mostly it seems like Rosenthal is popping off without a real clue what he's talking about.
  17. Soul
    So I'm not clear: what happened to Mattingly, again? Wasn't he the fave for the position? I would also find it uncomfortable if I was a mega-star like Jeter and now I'm being managed by the journeyman catcher who rode my coat tails to a WS ring. But hey, if it loses more games for the Yanks then I'm all for it!
  18. Soul
    It has absolutely nothing to do with the how the red sox finished their season. I know, but you know damn well if we signed Crisp you would start hearing the "he's a winner" crap. Kind of hard to call him a winner considering he got benched during the World Series in favor of a rookie with hardly any major league experience. We signed Marquis even though he was scratched from the Cards' roster I don't want to scare anyone, though. 8-) Surely the Cubs will find a better option than Coco.
  19. Soul
    You could have said the same about the Cubs last year. Some organizations are just very reluctant to have a rebuilding year. I can't say I've ever seen the Cubs have one. The Cubs at least had talented players who are not all in the back half of their 30's. Omar Vizquel will be 41 and is coming off his worst season ever at the plate. Rich Aurilia will be 36 and Ryan Klesko will be 37 in April. Ray Durham is 36. Dave Roberts will be 36. Excluding Barry Bonds since he won't be a Giant in 2008, Randy Winn is the only player who had an OPS+ above 100 last year (105). I totally agree that they should blow it up and not even try to contend in 2008. I'm just saying that some teams make an attempt to contend every year, even when they'd be better off not trying. The Cubs have historically been really bad about that. I don't know about the Giants. They're Cubbish. Not exactly the same, but Cubbish.
  20. Soul
    but will it be anywhere near as entertaining as the Soriano signing thread? Only if he actually signs with the Cubs.
  21. Soul
    It has absolutely nothing to do with the how the red sox finished their season. I know, but you know damn well if we signed Crisp you would start hearing the "he's a winner" crap.
  22. Soul
    I'm not a fan of signing the bad players from a W.S. champion and then deluding myself into thinking I got more than what I got. A poor hitter is still a poor hitter, no matter if he has a ring on his finger.
  23. Soul
    Peter is mad at A-Rod for announcing during the WS (you should have heard him ranting on that topic yesterday - he probably wouldn't have cared if it was the Indians in the WS). Yep, now we get to really find out the true extent of ESPN being the Boston network. I'll bet anyone who comes out with any MLB news at all in the next week will be hated on for trying to take away from the Red Sox's glory. Oh there's no doubt about that.
  24. Soul
    It hasn't been brought up because it doesn't deserve to be brought up. The Cubs aren't even in the same league as the Boston Red Sox. Anything can happen? Sure, aliens might land on the White House front lawn tonight, too. The Cubs are in the National League, the Sox are in the American league. Very good. :lol: See? I'm a veritable fountain of baseball knowledge 8-)
  25. Soul
    I'm told they "still have some work to do" on that. I don't know why. I don't understand how the team can pay Dempster and Wade Miller to rehab when they had about 1/200 of the upside that Prior has. My guess is the Cubs want to be certain that they don't rehab Prior, he returns in August, and then walks as a FA. My feeling is they don't want to pay him three million to rehab and then leave. The work could be convincing Prior to take a deal with a team option for 2009. I suppose. They're already rehabbing the guy, so why let him go now? I don't like the idea of my club providing rehab facilities for another club, especially with a guy who I think still has the potential to contribute. I agree with raw, we spent the money to rehab guys with far less potential, why not with Prior?
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