CaliforniaRaisin

51-100 is out, 1-50 out on Thursday. Looks like the Cubs will have three prospects in the top 100 as Mark Pawelek is at 85 and Ronny Cedeno is at 94. BA pegs Pawelek's ETA as 2008. I'd guess Felix will be around 30.

I prefer LA Crips. And the LA Bloods of Anaheim? Oh the rivalry.

C Michael Barrett 1B Albert Pujols 2B Rickie Weeks SS Felipe Lopez - meh 3B Aramis Ramirez OF Adam Dunn OF Jim Edmonds - meh OF Jason Bay SP Carlos Zambrano SP Chris Carpenter SP Roy Oswalt SP Mark Prior SP Ben Sheets - sorry Tim CL Brad Lidge SU Mike Gonzalez SU Derrick Turnbow

I think Neifi knows when someone's trying to steal and so he fouls it away on purpose.

Cubs prospects or anyone in baseball?

I think Weeks will easily surpass him this season.

I'd rather not burn all of our cap space on a corner. I agree.

Wade Miller is more likely to contribute to the big league squad, imo.

BA has him at #10 in the system. He's no longer a sleeper. :(

I'd rather look at Clements than Law.

Yes. Including some outings where he gave up like 6 ER in 2/3 of an inning - and got the first 2 outs of the inning too. BA Chat on the Cubs' system (access needed): Ron Potesta also read off his radar readings during broadcasts and they were noticably slower than his BA scouting reports from years past.

I don't think he will. You may have had to live through that to understand. Garvey is Bartman without the patheticness. I was 1 in 1984 and I hate him. Could be my time living in San Diego.

His stuff has gone in the crapper, he has lost mph from his pitches since his days in SF and his offspeed pitches aren't as effective.

Well, UCLA made it close and shame on the refs for giving the game to USC. Oh, and this is the first time I have really been unimpressed with Howland's coaching (mainly timeout usage and substitution patterns).

I hope Ben Howland makes these jerks run around begging for mercy in practice. Utterly embarassing. Oh, and they better work on their FTs. Because UCLA would have beat Washington and USC if they made their FTs. This better be a wake-up call.

Wow, this is easily the worst UCLA defense I've seen with Howland around. This is pathetic.

Heh, you're on a crusade, eh? hey, both my schools getting the screw on the same weekend. Cal's your other school? The Pac-10 always play their games Thurs-Sat.

Heh, you're on a crusade, eh?

UCLA down 29-25 at the half against USC. They started off playing like crap, and then the refs decided they needed to help out USC whenever UCLA had a chance to tie. :x The vaunted UCLA defense has really fallen apart a few times in the first half. All in all, very disappointing.

The media? With a conscience? That's a new one. You may be giving them a bit too much credit. As for people in the emergency room of a so cal hospital: if any of the staff leaked it, their job is finished and they may face legal action. Nothing is stopping someone from calling KTLA and saying 'I saw Mark Prior in the emergency room today' though. I think the percentage of folks in So Cal who know Mark Prior is a little higher than you think. Of course I don't think KTLA would care. Someone might call, but an LA TV station wouldn't care and I really doubt SD would too. I think some of you are overemphasizing what Southern California media would care about Mark Prior.

Well yeah, but Woody's rate of return on complete seasons has been running at 0% for years now. Sure everyone's one play away, but Woody's been rolling snake eyes so often, I can't see how he will suddenly become a rock in the rotation. 2 years. ....and counting. And before that he had two years in a row (2002 and 2003) where he didn't miss a single start either season. So you can't be certain that, just because he's had injuries the past couple of years, that it will continue. Between 2001 and 2003, Wood made 93 starts. Only after the 2003 campaign in which he threw the most pitches in baseball did he break down again. It might help my confidence a little if he would show up at Spring Training ready to pitch..... This will be the 3rd year in row that Woody has not been able to make all his potential starts. We know this for a fact and we haven't even played a single Spring Training game yet. I'm on very solid ground here. I always wanted Woody to succeed, but it's not happening. It's just not looking good for the guy. Unless he starts turning it around, and I mean double-quick, you won't see him in a Cub uniform for much longer. He's sucking salary and not taking the mound. It's bad. It's not Woody's fault that the team decided to postpone his surgery by having him relieve when they thought they were still in the WC race. I place this one on Hendry/Baker.

Let's not go the Hitler route. Keep it about Bonds, folks.

HE HATE ME!

No, not all of the media's. About 95% of it (or more)... Nothing like irresponsible, wild generalizations. Yeah, 95% is a ridiculous figure.

Correct.