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  1. David
    Imagine how good the Card and Brew records would be if their bullpens weren't so horrific...
  2. David
    A Johnson/Edmonds platoon might just be better than a Johnson/Pie platoon this year, though. That doesn't mean I'd take the former over the latter all things considered, but I'm just sayin.
  3. David
    Replied late, once again.
  4. David
    I can't agree that Edmonds is worse than Johnson (not vs. RHP, which is when he'll be playing, at least)...despite his poor showing this year.
  5. David
    They're bff now. They hugged in the clubhouse.
  6. David
    It's really hard to say that when Theriot is doing what he's doing. Even if Cedeno were playing up to this point, I fail to see how he could be doing much better than Theriot has. I'd rather play Cedeno, but at this point there's no way you can really say we'd be doing much better with him playing.
  7. David
    Lee!!!!!!
  8. David
    It's hard for even me to say that (and I'm as anti-Theriot-starting as it gets) right now when he's getting on base the way he is and he has made some impressive plays at SS recently. That said, I'd rather have Cedeno play, but it would be a hard move to justify at this point. Dempster!
  9. David
    I really love Ronny Cedeno.
  10. David
    ... HI DAVE OTTO! I thought Ron was supposed to be back by now. He is... It's not Otto. It's the guy that comes in for a little while for Pat.
  11. David
    Z and Edmonds apparently hugged for the media today in the clubhouse.
  12. David
    LOL @ backup radio guy (can't remember his name now) calling the warning track the "dirt area"
  13. David
    a GIDP bomb, amirite?
  14. David
    i'm not getting your point then. you pretty much said starting him everyday at iowa was screwing him up more than sitting with the cubs. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants Pie up here and playing (like most of us).
  15. David
    Leadoff single for Sori!
  16. David
    I have to admit, I'm slightly curious/excited to see what Edmonds does at the plate, what he looks like in a Cubs uni, etc. It's my natural inclination when we get a new guy. I was even slightly looking forward to seeing Izturis in his first game, despite knowing how badly he sucked (and I'm pretty sure he laced a double down the RF line in his first AB).
  17. David
    Not really, not really. You're taking about that. Gonny is talking about keeping a guy before he reaches free agency through the first couple of years of FA. Signing a guy to a "home town" discount with a no-trade clause is not the same as buying out a couple of years of arbitration/free agency. No. Davearm2 made the point that there's really no need to buyout the first couple years of free agency and lock yourself into that sort of deal at this point when the Cubs have a track record of keeping their guys anyway (both through arbitration years and free agency), to which goony responded that there can't be any such track record when the Cubs haven't developed anybody on their own.
  18. David
    There's a significant difference between developing a good player and keeping him once he first reaches free agency (something this regime has never even dealt with, let alone accomplished) and resigning your own older veteran free agents. I really don't see it. Either way you're talking about locking up an important player who will soon have the option to go to the highest bidder. I'm not really sure what about the part that they're home grown makes it so different. Wasn't Aramis getting his first taste of free agency and coming off his arbitration years when he signed that deal with the Cubs? What difference does it make that he didn't actually come up with the Cubs and instead was traded to them? The Cubs have shown a propensity to keep the players they want to keep around. To me that's all there is to it.
  19. David
    Not really. You're talking about keeping guys around when they reach free agency. It really matters little how they got there.
  20. David
    Signing him through arbitration would be the worst option of all. You've got him controlled through arbitration already. The only thing you'd gain is cost certainty. As I've illustrated, that's a game in which you can win a little, or lose a lot. Buying a few free agent years is the most reasonable motivation for these early extensions, and that shouldn't be a major concern for a team like the Cubs, who have a track record of keeping their guys anyway. This regime has never had a good position player so there's no way they could have a track record of keeping their guys anyway. Does it really matter if they're home-grown or not? Ramirez, Lee, Wood (when he looked poised to enter his prime after 03), etc...
  21. David
    That won't do much for him but make him look silly.
  22. David
    They probably won't do anything since that announcement will never happen. Edmonds is wearing 15. Marquis is wearing 21. :wink: Someone in another thread said Marquis gave Edmonds number 21. Makes no sense. He's always had 15. Marquis has had 21. Why would he change?
  23. David
    Looks like a fist-bump at an awkward angle to me. Maybe slightly altered to look a little more like a crotch grab.
  24. David
    http://xbb.xanga.com/16b07066314b45192532/b4541623.jpg Ha, I forgot about this pic. I'm pretty sure that's our very own Jason Marquis he is victimizing, too.
  25. David
    How long before they start selling the Edmonds jersey tees? Whose gonna pick one up? I know I am!
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