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If we lose Ramirez the more likely scenario to replace his power would be to upgrade in RF, CF, SS. Make 3B a place for young guys to fight over: Moore, Fotenot, Theriot. Lets say (keep in mind w/out ARAM we have lots of cash) Trade for Andruw Jones and sign to extention Sign JD Drew Sign Lugo Sign cheaper 2B (Loretta?) or trade for Giles type or Trade for ARod Sign JD Drew Sign Frank Catalanatto Sign cheape 2B Lugo/Catalanatto SS/RF Loretta/Giles 2B (or Murton, depends on 2B) Lee 1B Jones/ARod CF/SS Drew RF/CF Barrett C Murton LF Moore 3B Still should have enough for some nice pitching.

Nah, I just don't have class on Fridays and a buddy of mine came in from out of town. My sobriety (or lack thereof) was out of my hands tonight... On a side note, I type really well when I've been drinking. Granted, it takes a whole lot longer, but it still usually comes out fairly nice. same here(edit-as far as typing, i have 8AM)... as long as im not really gone my typing is fine although i care a lot less about capitilization and punctuation.. takes so long tho And just for the record (I got six so far) WrigleyField 22 Rob Treeman Yeti WeGotWood98 YearofDaCubs add on, please

it must be something abot matzukawhatever he leads us cubs fans to drink... thats at least five i've seen most likely it means that he will lead us to drink after he signs for 5/75 and goes on the DL

QFT hi

the deadline is four business days from wednesday at 4 pm local time. they're almost certainly not going to announce their decision tonight, but it's not like i need a lot of prodding to stay up all night when i'm already drinking and i don't have class till 8:00AM tomorrow. fixed for me

The injury that kept him from making that 3/3 was a broken hand by getting hit by a pitch. If not for that he may have very well been healthy for 3 straight years.

I read on another message board, a rumor that they are meeting at 2:00. That's be 10/11 cental here. Assuming it takes a little while to discuss it then get word out, we may ll know around 12:00. I'll be up. http://realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=579920&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=48 second to last post on that page.

It's gonna hurt so bad when this turns out to be false.

that grain of salt is so small... mmmm im savoring the taste... i need more salt. I wont be happy until I have a whole block of salt.

I don't see how this fits with Aramis at all. Most likely Aramis is just waiting to play the FA field right now unless we blow him away with an offer. I'm sure Hendry has enough time in his schedule to keep in contact with Aramis and sign Miller to a deal. For all we know Miller was a quick sign and only will cost 2mil dollars, hardly something to worry about. And this like others have said could just be insurance. Hendry may have a plan to get a Ace and innings eater but things could always fall through. If he misses out on the Matzazwhatever bid and Schmidt signs with Seattle like it looks like, the only Ace left is Zito, and there will be a lot of competition for that. At that point he would probably have to explore trading for an ace (or the closest he could get) and what do you know, with Miller on board some of those young guys are a little more expandable. The innings eater type might bail out and he can't get any of those guys, but with Miller plus a ton of young arms it won't kill our season. Again we have flexibility to trade for a guy too. Going into the season Hill might revert back to his old major league self and we will want more options. Zambrano ________ ________ Hill Miller/Prior/Marshall/Guzman/Mateo/Marmol/Ryu is probably the rotation now. Someone like Marmol could be expandable to be tried out at closer, a role some believe he will exceed in. Now if this deal is more than 3mil, I'll start complaining. Until then it looks like good insurance.

So the idea would be Roberts as a 4th OF and insurance if Pie doesn't step up and take CF? I could live with that as long as we upgrade SS and 2B. However the article mentions him at leadoff meaning he would be handed the starting job. I dunno, it really depends on the look of the rest of the offense.

Initiatall I liked Roberts as well, but I think he is as likely to put up a .360 OBP as a .330 We could and should do better.

yeah that'd feel real good behind a catcher's mask during a day game in 100 degree chicago heat Yea, but it would keep him so warm in the cold of April.

Even Muskat slammed Pierre the other day, citing his .330 OBP. Miles has said the light is slowly going on over there, but if Muskat is using OBP, rest assured that it came from Hendry or someone higher up that spoonfed her baseball knowledge. :shock: I don't believe it.

The Oakland A's of Fremont. :D See thats what initially crossed my mind, but by moving closer towards San Jose and perhaps picking up some of that fan base, don't we want them included in there? The Oakland and San Jose Athletics of Fremont

I wonder if they will keep the Oakland part of the name? They mention the proximity to San Jose, will they try to get their name in there? Maybe Fremint will just fight for the name. Perhaps a generic California? Looking at a map, Fremont looks almost the same distance from Oakland and San Jose... I really want another Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem.

http://www.progressiveboink.com/dugout/archive/dugout7-21-06.html

Now what am I gonna do to stay up all night? Dang. :)

Last second thing comes up and I can't make it at 8:00...

8:00 is okay, but it cant take long, i'll have to cut out at around 10 to 9:00 What kind of time restraints are going to be placed on picks?

Not if number one takes him!

Just try to notify us of the time ASAP so I can plan other things I might need to do. Sounds good.

What year was he coming out of college? He would have at least been a junior right? I don't think an unintelligent person makes it out of one year in courses required for premed. If he was into his junior year and didn't have to switch he must have been pretty smart. My roommate is a first year premed major and I guess it would vary from school to school, but they are already trying to weed out the weak students. Who cares, if he develops like we all want him to he'll make tons more as our future front line starter than as a doctor.

Lofton's had substantially better stats than Pierre these past two seasons. For that matter, so has Todd. I would agree, but I thought the general consensus/educated guess was that these rankings were based off of more traditional stats like BA, Hits, SBs, HR, RBI... In this Pierre is pretty good.

Pierre had averaged over 200 hits the last 4 years. Kind of surprising, although I guess we really don't know what stats they use to evaluate a player. One thing is for sure, power must valuable in the rankings. So we recieve a sandwich pick if we offer arbitration?