NorthsideAvenger

Who thinks Willie Mays/Hank Aaron are their advance ages would be more productive then Hollandsworth/Jose Macias are in their "prime?"

This is Ozzie Guillen SECOND season, not his FIRST season.

Agreed. Don't "Dusty-proof" a team, just get rid of him all-together. Seeing as next yr, Baker would be a lame duck manager, I doubt he will be back in 06.

Personally, could live with Gonzalez or Girardi.

I suspect the ONLY position Nomar moves to is 3rd base, not SS. We saw what happen to Jose Reyes, and Kaz Matsui when both tried to play 2nd---after being consider natural SS---THEY failed measuably. Now while Ryes hasn't exactly been an All Star this yr, he has been more comfortable. So again, I highly doubt Nomar will be playing 2B for any team in 06. It will be either SS or 3B.

You mean since Opening Day, don't you?

Did you bring us a new manager as well?? I can't bring you everything. You'll have to settle for some runs if I can find some. I'm definately looking in my couch, my cars, my GF pantyhose, but I'm definately looking for some runs. :wink: But I will continue to look around the house for some runs. Who else think, the Cubs need to challenged Andy Petitte's son little league to a game? Who else think the Cubs would lose that game?

I tell you what, if Furcal stays off the sauce (Farnsy and Furcal on the same team....what up ATL bars), then he might be worth taking a look at. But seeing as he has already by busted TWICE for DUI, I would definately think long and hard about signing Furcal.

{sighs :roll: } If that happens, then we KNOW whose team this is. Can we nominate Calvin Murray an early entrance into the "Dusty Boys?" I think it is more likely that Corey comes up. According to Bruce Levine (as you probably already know) they were planning to bring him up soon anyway. It would suck if Murray is promoted to the active roster. Patterson hasn't exactly been tearing it up in the minors, so I don't know how credible calling CPatt up--after hitting something like .214 in the minors---would be. I would personally call up Dwaine Bacon, instead of Patterson, simply because Patterson has earn his way back to Chicago.

{sighs :roll: } If that happens, then we KNOW whose team this is. Can we nominate Calvin Murray an early entrance into the "Dusty Boys?"

Not only is neither OF lineup is going to happen, gut feeling has it tha Jose Macias is prolly going to start and hit leadoff.

Hendry is trying to build a core of a team, not an all-star team. If Giles was closer to 30 yrs old, that'd be one thing, but he is 35 yrs old. Besides Hendry won't offer anything more then 2 yrs, and Giles won't sign for anything less then 4 yrs. So I doubt Giles will have any interest in coming to Chicago.

Mr. Keller; First of all, my name is CJ Keller, no lie. So seeing a Keller in the Cubs org. brings a smile to my face. But what gets me, is that you share the same name as my father, David Keller. Again no lie. So i get to mess with him about it. :lol: So, it brings smile to my face knowing that a Keller is working for the Cubs. Now that I go that off my chest...let me ask you something, if you don't mind....is there a player in the minors---not necessarily with the Cubs---that has that great feel for hitting like a Tony Gywnn, or a Wade Boggs? And I know you can't put one prospect over the next, but privately within the Cubs is there one particular prospect you enjoy working with, regardless if he is a top prospect, or a career minor leaguer?

Don't hold your breathe......DUDE. Dusty seems too laid-back for that. This team has quit on him. They look like they don't even care anymore. They're not covering bases, and they're making errors that first year little leaguers know not to make. It's hard to be optimistic about anything when the team doesnt look like they care. It makes you wonder if Baker is REALLY trying to get himself fire. He didn't downplay---he sidestepped--- the offseason article that Chicago hasn't treated him well, and was consider a town who didn't want to see a black man succeed with power. He was alledgely pining for the Dodgers jobs, even tho he has ALSO side-step this contreversy. Hendry had basically forced him into playing Cedeno, Dubois, Murton. Hendry has also force him to change his Patterson/Perez fascination, by sending Patterson down. This maybe all coincendental, but IME, it looks Baker is trying to get fired from the Cubs.

Don't hold your breathe......DUDE.

Yes he does, but he wouldn'be traded, thus he can't reject, unless he simply does not show up at the other team. This is a case of one team just GIVING a player away. I believe that a players no trade / 10&5 rights are not ignored when it comes to waiver claims -- i.e. they can still reject the move to the waiver claiming team. From the waiver rules thread: Ok, I wasn't positive about the situation about Junior and the 10/5 rights. Thanks for clearing that up. But I can't see Junior refusing to get out of Cincy, if it meant going to a contender, outside of New York.

The whole Royal roster plus their whole farm system for Pie. (Royals pay all salaries) I still don't think I'd do it. I would do a Pie for Butler and Alex Gordon in a heartbeat. If the Royals want to add their entire farm system for Pie let them go ahead. If Gordon ever signs, he will probably be a better prospect than Pie before too long. I don't know about that. I like Gordon and everything, and when it comes down to it, I believe Pie's speed makes him a better prospect, IMO. I really like Gordon, but I wouldn't say he will end up being a better prospect then Pie. On the same level perhaps, but not better.

Yes he does, but he wouldn'be traded, thus he can't reject, unless he simply does not show up at the other team. This is a case of one team just GIVING a player away.

USAToday.com The White Sox, whose deal for Ken Griffey Jr. (for three minor league prospects) was killed by Reds owner Carl Lindner last weekend, would revisit their trade talks if Griffey clears waivers in August. ... The Padres plan to trade third baseman Sean Burroughs to the White Sox this week for Triple-A outfielder Joe Borchard. Junior to the White Sox makes more sense then Junior to the Yankees. If the White Sox get Junior, it will legitimze their lineup. I mean, Pods/Igauchi/Konerko/Junior/Dye/Everett(dh)/Piernyski/Burroughs (if happen)/Uribe, wouldn't be Murderer's Row, but it is more frightening, without Junior in it. They could literally go L-R (aka Bakerology) throughout the lineup. One last thing on the White Sox....man was Joe Borchard on of the BIGGEST busts in baseball history. Talk about a player who couldn't hit a curveball. It must svck knowing the White Sox gave Borchard one of the largest bonus in history, and he did NOTHING for them. There's the baseball draft in a nutshell. A decent starter, and over-the-hill CF, and a middle of the road reliever for a still prime young starter, and a very good CF? What was Phillies thinking? Did they know that the Marlins GM is NOT an idiot, cause I sure as hell would have laugh at that proposal.

You know the sad thing....Scoop Jackson got what he wanted.....a reaction. That is what journalist---and I used that loosely with Scoop Jackson---wants.....reaction. He got each and everybody here to read that article. You kow the saying, "There is no such thing as bad publicity", and he used it.

Now that would make me pause, and think about it. I don't know if I would do as fast as you, but it would definately make me think.

The OTHER problem I see---at least this yr---is that you have a few pseudo contending teams, still thinking they are in contention. The NL West is a pseudo division this yr, cause they got NO team that deserves to be in the playoffs, but somebody has to go. So there is 4 pseudo contenders...the Cubs could be consider pseudo contending....Mets, Phils,Baltimore,Toronto...etc...weren't ready to convince their fan base they weren't contenders. But I do agree the trade deadline should be adjusted. But, imo, baseball should start their season about 1/2 weeks before April hits, and the deadline should be move to around the 17th of August, thus giving teams an additional 5 week---couple the moving back the deadline with starting earlier---to figure out if they are contending or not.

Really? I'd trade any Cub if it made the team better. I'm sure KC could put together a nice package for Pie. THE only player on the Royals, or in their system I would even considered for Felix Pie is Zack Greinke. And even then, I still wouldn't do it. Pie is going to be a "special" player, and you don't trade special players. You know this how? Special like Patterson? Or Hill? Choi? Harris? Not doubting Pie has the skill set to do well, but I'm not buying any prospect as being "the next big thing" until they actually prove it. There is a DIFFERENT feeling when I watch Pie play. When I saw HS Choi play, I thought he would be an above-average 1st baseman with good baseball skills. I was thinking a more talented Travis Lee. Hill never impressed me. Hill, like baseball beckett said, reminded them of a future utility guy. A more hyped Jose Macias, as you will. Corey Patterson has befuddled me. I like Corey, but his stubbornish, his belief that he is a "POWER" hitter, when he isn't built (his body language doesn't say that) for power, but for more average/power. He want reinvent himself. With Pie, there is the "IT" factor. He wants to to get better. This is a story going around about Pie taking away several doubles that most CFers don't get to, but missed the last catch, and pissed about it. That tells me there is a competitve streak, not seen in alot of players the Cubs have. He wants to catch everything, he wants to win. He will do what it takes to win. Now maybe I am overhyping Pie, but of all the prospects the Cubs have had, he is the ONE, I feel will make it. I can't explain why I feel it, but you know. The Expos knew with Vlad. Seattle knew it with ARod. The Marlins knew it like Cabrera. I am not saying Pie will enter their levels of superstardom, but I do believe he has the talent/ability to reach it. Is it the same feeling you get when Bugs Bunny wears a dress? :albino: No, but knowing that you like to think about Bugs Bunny in a dress, makes me :D, tho. I just don't want the Cubs to trade Pie, simply because fans are jaded at FORMER top prospects.

Well, right now...getting Fontenot for Sosa is a HECK OF A DEAL for the Cubs. And don't the Orioles still owe the Cubs a player, consider Crouthers retire, unexpectedly?

I am not a Mariotti fan, but he get a =D> for this article. http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay03.html