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Last year, Fontenot started at SS one game, and Lou was so fed up with it after one inning that he put DeRosa there for the rest of the game.

Thanks ump WTF

What the hell....that was a strike. ](*,)

I hate when people say adverse when they mean averse.

Ha, apparently after the Grossman/Davis play, Brown shouted out, "Y'all better put this on your radio stations. He pushed off!"

A year ago, a thread titled like this one with the most recent information added would've seemed like a miracle (aside from the fact that the team should've been sold already according to what we knew at the time).

I like seeing them show-up and reading the stories, but the minute-by-minute updates of practice, and fan reaction to practice, is a bit much. It would be impossible not to follow it at all until September though. i'll take nightly updates or newspaper snippets. That said, I don't even watch pre-season NFL games. They are the most boring thing in sports I like watching the very beginning of the first one, just cause it's the first football I've seen in months and months. Also like watching the 3rd because the starters play a good amount. Otherwise, I agree.

This is awesome.

I'm not too worried about it. Just think it's funny.

Angelo on MJH just said that Williams is fine. Just a "minor episode" today.

LOL and according to a friend who has been at TC, Orton has fumbled a snap both yesterday and today. WTF is with this team and the QB-C exchange? Griese had some issues with it last year, too. People started to blame Olin for it, but even he's not around right now...

Forgive me on the "just not true" part. That's my bad. I was still thinking about the crazy 9 player package which was suggested as a starting point. It wasn't really necessarily related to what you were saying (although I do think the Cubs COULD put up together a package to make such a deal, but I don't think they should). All I'm saying is these crazy huge packages often brought up by fans hardly ever are within the realm of reality and that these players often don't fetch anywhere near what people expect. Look at how many people (fans and "analysts" alike) were perplexed at what was given up for Harden, injury concerns and all. And on top of it, we got Gaudin, too.

1:58 p.m. You can imagine the reaction after Rex Grossman just fumbled a snap from center. 1:35 p.m. The biggest buzz of the day was created a minute ago when Rex Grossman hit Rashied Davis with a nice deep ball. "Make it sing, Rex," a fan yelled. lol

That's just not true. I don't understand why people always think teams are going to get these ridiculous packages when they deal stars at the deadline when they usually don't. They'd probably get a package of one or two A level prospects and a throw-in B or C prospect or two. It's absolutely true. I don't understand why people always think any player they want is practical to trade for if there's a rumor they're being shopped at all. To put it simply: teams with better prospects than us want him too. Toronto would rather have 2 great prospects than 5 so-so ones. Who are our "A level prospects?" Yeah. And our best trade prospect is someone who technically can't be traded -- but now the primary piece is going to be a PTBNL? And he'll just sit for 2-3 weeks, right? The truth is, we have no chance of Halladay unless we're giving them everyone and then at that point, they'd rather have the quality from others that is DEFINITELY available if they trade Roy... I never said anything about the Cubs. FWIW, I would think that Shark, Pie, Hill (assuming another start or two showing he really has found the plate), and Vitters as a PTBNL would probably work, not that I'd do it. There isn't nearly enough of a need for starting pitching, even one as good as Roy, on this team to warrant giving up the only assets we would have left. Vitters and Samardzija are starting to look like legitimate top prospects (not that I want to get too far ahead of myself on Jeff's AAA numbers).

That's just not true. I don't understand why people always think teams are going to get these ridiculous packages when they deal stars at the deadline when they usually don't. They'd probably get a package of one or two A level prospects and a throw-in B or C prospect or two.

Wellington Castillo would HAVE to be in this deal imo. giving a prospect package of- Vitters, Ceda, Castillo, M. Smith/Rundle/Colvin, combined with a MLB ready package of- Marquis, Pie, Hill, Cedeno, Marshall would maybe get the convo. started.... So, you're saying a 9 player offer would be a starting point......................

4 out of 4 would be even better :grin: Holy lurker...

Especially if Kenney and other Cubs people are "sucking up" to him in hopes that he'd keep them around. They must think he has a legitimate enough chance.

Is Olsen the guy who grew up a Cubs fan and was actually outside Wrigley (with the mobs behind the bleachers) in 2003 when they played the Marlins (who he had just been drafted by, I think)?

What's wrong with Crane Kenney sticking around?

lol run differential BABY

Eh... "only" 106 pitches. Damn you impatient Cards...

Wow. Yost has no regard for CC's arm. Did he not get the memo about CC's playoff "performance" last year?

Don't worry guys. They'll find a way to lose this one. They're the Cubs.

I was bringing up 1984 and 89 more for the people in their 20's like me who either wouldn't have been alive or wouldn't have remembered it much. The 85 Bears, for instance, mean nothing to me, honestly. I was 2. The 2006 team that lost in the Super Bowl means a lot more to me. Whether the Cubs had won a title in 69 or not, I'd feel the same way I do about this team. And we're much better off than most team's fan bases these days. It was more a vent/rant in response to when people act like the Cubs have never won just because they've never won a WS. They don't always find ways to lose or whatever it is people like to say (especially when this anecdotal crap is used in reference to regular season games, anyway). They've had some great teams, some pretty good ones, some mediocre ones, some very bad ones, and some terrible ones, just like most other teams. Hell, these days, like I said, we're among the teams that actually has a chance in hell of contending for/winning a WS. There are a few teams that can't say that much. Every single year.