Soul

Curry can score, but he's not even averaging a double-double. He would with more minutes, but he's too fat to take the pounding. Bah, I thought Curry would be a solid role guy with the Bulls, albeit an expensive one, but this guy is wacked out of his mind talking like Eddy's Shaq or something. Apparently logic and reason no longer exist in the Big Apple.

My God, such insanity hasn't been put into words since the UniBomber.

Oh ye of little faith.

What is the reason we can't simply wait for a little longer before acting like the team is in trouble? We're 3-5, not 0-8. Yes, we're playing badly right now. It's not even mid April yet. That goes for individual players, too. It's 8 games; it doesn't even tell you if a guy will wind up with a strong APRIL, much less whether he'll have a good/bad year.

I was critical of the Curry trade and I'm still not so sure about Wallace. But I also find it difficult to believe Curry is suddenly going to find the desire within himself to truly be great. He seems to want to coast on his natural ability, not work hard every day to improve. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno.

Win what now though? We can likely win this division with 85-90 wins, and that's not far off the projections. We're 3-5 right now, 1 game back. There's no good teams around. I strongly suspect there will be few complaints if this team goes to the playoffs, and a mediocre team will do that. As for 100 years of losing, I've been as vocal as anyone over that. I'm frustrated too. I'm a little confused by the World Series expectations, though. I never thought this team was going to do that. I have difficulty understanding anyone who thinks this team needs to win it all this year, regardless of the money spent. The Cubs have the money to spend, so why shouldn't they spend it? What makes people think the cash flow is suddenly going to go dry? We drew another 3 million people last year for a horrid team. I think the thing that really ticks me off the most is that the Tribune probably let Hendry spend the $300 million to drive up the price of the Cubs, and not so they could leave on a good note by winning the World Series. I'm just glad that a new owner will be in place after this season and that hopefully their first order of business is to fire Hendry. The man has shown over and over again that he doesn't understand how to put together a ballclub. He's mostly shown that he doesn't care about OBP, which is the new focus around the league. He's getting raped by other teams that are using it, and he's still back in the old days, refusing to acknowledge its worth. He could have compensated if he would have gotten the pitching, but arms are fickle and he got burned there, too. The result has been badness. No OBP + AAA fill-in arms = bad baseball

Hmm, Lilly and Hill back to back huh? I thought they separated them earlier because they didn't want two lefties back to back? RLRLR was the rationale for the construction of the rotation but Piniella is smart; He would rather have Hill and Lilly against a team in the division instead of pushing Hill back to the Padres series. It didn't take Hill long to become the #2 starter....

Win what now though? We can likely win this division with 85-90 wins, and that's not far off the projections. We're 3-5 right now, 1 game back. There's no good teams around. I strongly suspect there will be few complaints if this team goes to the playoffs, and a mediocre team will do that. As for 100 years of losing, I've been as vocal as anyone over that. I'm frustrated too. I'm a little confused by the World Series expectations, though. I never thought this team was going to do that. I have difficulty understanding anyone who thinks this team needs to win it all this year, regardless of the money spent. The Cubs have the money to spend, so why shouldn't they spend it? What makes people think the cash flow is suddenly going to go dry? We drew another 3 million people last year for a horrid team.

Emphasis yours. From the conclusion you draw, I'd say you're making quite a few assumptions about what's going on in the Cubs' clubhouse.

That would feel bad, but it would feel worse if I knew Isaiah might come back for another year of hell if my team has a good showing the last couple weeks of the year.

Well, I hope you get the package sooner rather than later. I laid down $180 for the NBA package one year, and then the Bulls were godawful. I'll never buy a package like that until I feel the team has at least a mild chance at success. Unless it's the NFL, because you know with football I can sit and watch Texans/Cardinals straight through and be completely entertained, even if it's the last game of the year and both clubs are 3-12 :wink:

Everyone buy gas-guzzling Hummers and support Big Oil. The only way the Cubs will win the World Series is through global warming. We can do this! lol so an "inconvenient truth" could be the key to the Cubs winning this year :lol: But seriously, I don't get the criticism for Lou here. In the proper context, I see nothing wrong with his comments. Reporters kept baiting him; maybe he should have blown off the weather question entirely but he didn't use it as an excuse either. Looking out the window today makes me wonder whether a little global warming is such a bad thing :wink: I understand the spirit of Lou's comments -- they aren't as bad as Dusty at his worst. I think it was stupid to even go there though. Even if you can find a nugget of truth in there somewhere, it's just not a factor you ever want to lend legitimacy to. Teams should be expecting to go out and win every day, regardless of the conditions and regardless if it gives the other team an advantage. That's the mindset I want my manager to have.

If I'm a Knicks fan, I'd actually want them to get blown out as much as possible. Why would any fan want their team to appear to be better than they are? That just leads to a continuation of badness. Big changes must be made in New York. Whole world's known it for quite some time. I think the Knicks players might find they are very, very alone on wanting other teams to take it easy on them.

Anyone else find some sort of perverted comfort in this?

Everyone buy gas-guzzling Hummers and support Big Oil. The only way the Cubs will win the World Series is through global warming. We can do this!

LOL! You tell 'em Du. 8-)

I've been hearing this a lot. If we were to win the division, it wouldn't make it feel any worse knowing that we beat out a Carp-less Cardinal team. I don't wish injury on anyone either, but I'm glad he's out and I hope it's for the season because it hurts a division rival and helps the Cubs. Simple as that. I'm leaning towards this camp. I'd rather beat a full-strength Cards team, but considering the laughable amount of injuries that probably cost us the 2004 division (or at least a wildcard where IMO we would've steamrolled everyone on our way to the Series), we're owed one (or thirty). I wouldn't mind it of course. But it would be that much better to win the division while having a solid winning record against the full-strength Cards. The way we're playing right now we'll need all the injuries to opponents that we can get.

They should call it. We need the break and it looks like it could get dangerous out there.

Our chances of landing either Oden or Durant are extremely slim... I suppose we can dream though.

Ah-ha! Mr. Optimism has arrived :D it's not about optimism or pessimism.... juggling the lineup has little effect on the offensive output. If your team isn't scoring enough you need new players, not a new lineup. Just a friendly jab, no harm meant. I'm not sure I share your opinion 100% however. If someone is struggling it might be worth sitting them for a game to let them clear their head. This entire team should sit for a little while and clear their heads. Anyway, haven't you heard? It's too cold for these Cubs. They should call the game. We can't win.

It's going to be cold in October, too. I guess we're playing the season for nothing. If we ever make the playoffs, it will be too cold. The Astros are built to rely on Berkman and Lee, and they seem to be doing alright. Our best power, Lee & ARam, are having good starts to their seasons in this cold weather. I'm not going to make too much of the comments. Actually I hope they'll just go away and he doesn't make more Dusty-esque missteps. Nobody blames the weather. If I didn't know better, I'd call that a rookie manager mistake.

Using weather as an excuse = lame. I suppose Houston hitters are more 'suited' to cold weather, being from Houston and all. I think what we have here, ladies and gents, is the first bona-fide stupid Lou comment of the year.

Here is today's web chat...from about 2 minutes ago...it "seems" like good news, but who knows if its true...(Read from bottom up) Craig: Thanks. Gerald W: It is just what I have read that I sent to you and they are moving along as quickly as they can. I am very sorry for the mixed messages you have been getting and I do apologize. If further information is required you can phone into 1-888-438-2427. Craig: My concern is that I'll call back tomorrow and I'll get someone else who will say "oh...we're still negotiating"... Craig: Hey, no offense man, but I've got 20 different answers from you guys over the last week...from being told "yes" we've got it, to "no" we won't have it, to "what's MLB-EI"....its very frustrating and since we're over a week into the season I'd like to see a resolution. If you're saying it will happen today I can live with that Gerald W: they are going ahead to complete plans.Do you want to sign up for sometime that is quite finished whats a couple of more hours at a time like this. Craig: So its not confirmed and we're basically "still negotiating" like I've been told for a week now?, Now I'm confused... Gerald W: Anytime once it is confirmed. Craig: If true, that is Great news...when can I order? Gerald W: MLB Extra Innings Update \u2013 Great news! Charter\u2019s Corporate Programming Team is going to go ahead and complete a deal for the MLB Extra Innings PPV package. Talking points and updates will be completed and posted to KMS over the next few days. Please stay tuned for additional information as it becomes available. (H. Christopherson). Craig: I'm looking for an update on the status of availablity of the MLB-Extra Innings package. Gerald W: My name is Gerald, thank you for contacting Charter. How may I help you today? And people say DirecTV service is bad? LOL. I could barely even understand half of what that guy wrote.

Not sure I agree with it either, though I will say if all the top big men are gone there would be little use overpaying a mediocre player just for height. I believe Batum is a top prospect coming out of Europe this year.....thought I heard someone saying he's got potential, but can't remember. I don't keep up on the international game.

Angelo has to look at this Pacman situation and realize that Tank is probably in some trouble and draft accordingly. It will be a trouble area, yes. The draft won't cure it; DTs in the draft often take a year or two of seasoning before they stop getting dominated. That Adams signing is looking real good right now. I think the Bears are going to have to try to pick up a journeyman backup for depth and pray Dusty is a budding star.