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This is definitely good news. The Cubs can now plan for him to be back on he DL in early August.

10 days. Thanks. That's what I thought but I just wanted to make sure.

I'm definitely optimistic at this point for both the division and the wild card because of the second half schedule. Even with the optimism there's still a small part of me (well not that small) that feels the Cubs are just going to end up letting me down.

Definitely one of the most (if not for sure the most) talented Cubs teams I've seen. That team should have ripped through the league after the trade deadline And the most depressing thing looking back at the end of '04 is the starting pitching. Zambrano and Prior were unhitable. Rusch was even pitching out of his mind... but that bullpen :( I remember listening to a game against the Reds from September '04. Prior was flirting with 20K for the first half, kind of lost steam with the K's near the end but ended up with 16 or 18. Gave up a solo home run somewhere in the later innings and left after 9IP with a ND, and of course the Cubs lost it in extras. EDIT - Just looked it up, it was his last start of the year, sept. 30th, so I think the season was all but officially dead at that point. 9.0IP, 3H, 1R, 1ER, 1HR, 1BB, 16K Sosa had a solo HR Kearns had the HR against Prior Javier #$%^&^ Valentin doubled in the winning run.... Adam Dunn (who set the major league strikeout record for season that day) And a Rusch start where the only offensive support he got was a solo home run... that he hit. I followed that Prior game on Gamecast and had to leave after the ninth or tenth inning and was cursing the Cubs in the 8-10th innings for not scoring any runs for Prior.

At the rate he's going Cabrera should have entered the hot dog eating contest on the Fourth.

What a douche. A couple weeks before he's going to break the record and in his home park. Go out there and hit a couple into the water for the fans. I think sometimes people are going out of their way to knock Bonds. Who cares if he doesnt want to do the HR derby. Exactly, no one said anything about Griffey declining it. Look at what happened to Wright and Abreu after they did it, they weren't the same after. And Bonds' reasoning is understandable. He said he was drained completely after he did it in '96, and that's when it was only 2 rounds. Now it's three, and he's older. I know it's his home stadium, but that doesn't mean he HAS to do it. That's the reason people are ripping him. If the ASG was being held it any other park (with the exception of Oakland, maybe) it wouldn't matter at all which is why nobody is complaining that Griffey isn't doing it. But if the game were being held in Cincinnati and Griffey declined, people would be ripping him instead of Bonds. Maybe not as much but Griffey isn't about to break the biggest record in baseball.

Because Lee will actually have to miss games when he serves his suspension whereas Young won't have to now.

Unfortunately I will not be watching this game as I am going to the wonderful world of good food that is also free aka my parent's house.

Unfortunately I will not be watching this game as I am going to the wonderful world of good food that is also free aka my parent's house.

Three out of four from the Nats...very nice.

Let me just say...Thank you Pittsburgh. Thank you very much.

Technically he should have been DQ'd because of a "Reversal of Fortune".

Is it 10 days or 10 games that a player has to spend in AAA before he can be called back up?

Holy crap. I knew Cedeno was tearing it up at AAA but I didn't know he was doing THAT well. Promote him immediately.

That is a better deal for both teams. Joe Saunders and Eric Aybar might be enough to get that deal Dunn (Ha, Ha) Dunn is the perfect example of how overvalued OBP really is. Don't misunderstand, getting on base is important but it does not trump all other offensive stats. There is a reason that for nearly 100 years the only stats that people would recite about players were BA, HR & RBI. Dunn has some things going for him but not a lot. He can hit the Ball VERY far when he connects but is ultimately the 4th best HR hitter on the Cubs should he be picked up. Does 1 team really need that many HR hitters? 4 Solo HR is the same as 2 2 Run HR. Finding a good balance through the entire order makes better sense. See the Red Sox, Brewers & Angels this season as an example (although there are some holes on each team). Um...not exactly. Right now Dunn has 23 home runs this year. The most any Cub has right now is 15 (ARam and Soriano). So how does that make him the fourth best home run hitter should he be picked up? And who, since I'm assuming you mean Aram and Soriano are the top 2 on the Cubs, would be the third best home run hitter on the Cubs? Lee? DeRosa? Floyd? Now if you said that Dunn would be the fourth best hitter on the Cubs if he got picked up, that I could agree with (behind DLee, ARam, and Soriano) but there is no way Dunn would be the fourth best HR hitter on the Cubs. That statement is just absurd.

I'm thinking TT should protest if he loses. :wink:

Unfortunately, I believe you will be proven correct. While Truffle's probably right about a, I'm still holding out a little hope Hendry will find a way to bring in Salty. I can understand a) and c) But on b) -- how will soto get no chance when its Hendry keeping him out and Hendry's days with the Cubs are numbered? b) and c) go hand in hand. Hendry's job is effectively on the line right now with this season and frankly, if he's too stupid to realize that calling up Soto to the Cubs might actually help the team and therefore help Hendry keep his job, he deserves to be fired.

That's good stuff. A couple weeks ago Dallas Braden - who was on the River Cats at the time but is now with the A's - jokingly said that the next time he faced a certain hitter that he was just going to throw a 75 mph fastball in the middle of the guy's back because that hitter fouled off about 15 pitches, he saw 25 total, in two at bats against Braden.

I vote for a knuckleball.

So how long does this thing stay open for?

They both started doing gay porn movies between the contests. It helped with their training.

Would Dunn really be that much of a butcher in RF if the Cubs somehow got that deal done? I mean his bat alone already makes up for a lot of it and the Cubs could afford another black hole in the order (at least for the moment) in playing Pie everyday in CF. I would think his range would at least help lessen the damage Dunn could do in RF. Soriano has proven to be a more than capable LFer so Pie could just shade over to right a bit to help out Dunn. I'm just thinking out loud and just throwing this out there so if I'm completely off base, don't rip into me too hard.

Can we replace Rich Hill with Koyie Hill in that deal? :D

Somebody brought this up in another thread (and I have no idea which one) but under the proposed deal the Cubs would be paying all but the league minimum (or around that figure) while the Marlins would have picked up the rest. But the Cubs would still have to pay another player to take Jones' position on the roster. So essentially the player replacing Jones would have to make the league minimum for the Cubs to not take on any more salary than they would already have by keeping Jones. The player the cubs would most likely add when they remove jacque will most likely make the minimum. I realize that's a definite possibility but with the Cubs being a major market team it's not a guarantee like it would be with the smaller market teams.