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Semi-shot at Dusty Baker there.

If Woody wants to come back to the Cubs I think he will have to take less guaranteed money, and maybe a year less as well, than other teams will offer him.

So if you want to make a trade right now the players to be traded from both teams have to clear waivers? Any trades made after July 31 may only involve players who have cleared waivers. Thanks for the info.

Grace with the 7th inning stretch.

Classic.

So if you want to make a trade right now the players to be traded from both teams have to clear waivers?

I would refute that. I've seen some bad play. He takes bad routes, gets bad jumps, and has dropped balls in his glove on multiple occasions. And the arms thing is much more than a small thing, guys take extra bases all the freaking time. According to The Fielding Bible, which trumps all else in defensive discussions (just ask a Cardinals fan), Pierre was 25th out of 35 CF's reviewed from 2003-2005. He's still been below average according to Davenport's fielding translations this year, but he has been better than he was in the past 3 years. So what we're seeing right now might be better than what we'd see in the future. There is no need to take a cheap shot at another poster for a disagreement you had with him in another thread.

i have the segment in an .mp4 format (viewable in quicktime, itunes and your video ipod). i can send it to your email address if you want. if you have gmail, that would be better since it can handle large attachments (i believe the file is 25-35 MB). let me know...i'll be more than happy to send it to anyone who wants it. EDIT: what i'll do is this...when i get home tonight, i'll upload it to my girlfriend's website and post the link here for anyone who wants it. i'll keep it there for a week so it gives everyone who wants it enough time to download it. sound good? p.s. one of these days, i'll get around to converting maddux's 300th win, the 2003 nl central clincher, game 163 from '98 and the '84 nl east clincher to .mp4 for everyone. p.p.s. did anyone ever find out where one could purchase the sandberg game? Do you, or anyone else, have the Farnsworth-Wilson fight video? I can't find it but would LOVE to have it.

or DLee. You beat me to it but you forgot about Hank White as well.

FJM rips into Downey pretty good.

I have to sell that. Is not winning a world championship the only criteria? My criteria is this: would you rather be a Detroit Lions fan or a Cub fan? Would you rather be a Cleveland Browns fan or a Cub fan? Would you rather be a Tampa Bay Devil Ray fan or a Cub fan? A Pittsburgh Pirate fan of a Cub fan? A Toronto Raptor fan or a Cub fan? I think one is blowing it way out of proportion to call the Cubs the worst organization in sports history. Or either they've forgotten about the Cub history from 1906-1945. History means existence forever, not just the last three decades. You can't really compare playoff appearances with baseball teams as you can hockey or basketball teams since half of their teams make the playoffs. If baseball invited eight teams from each league to the playoffs, we'd have at least two more playoff appearances just since 2001 (2001 and 2004). By the way, none of us here have been Cub fans for 97 years, so I can only count since 1977 when I became a Cub fan. That's almost thirty years. Many, many professional teams have gone 30+ years without a World Championship. And the Cubs haven't played for a World Series title since 1945. That's a bad 6 decades, not 3. Longevity plays a big role in this as well. The Toronto Raptors have only been around since 1995 so they don't count. They Devil Rays fall into this as well. The Browns and Lions are bad, but at 42 and 49 years respectively, they still don't compare to the Cubs. The Pirates have won 5 World Series titles since the Cubs won one including 3 since the Cubs have even played in a World Series.[/b]

Take an incentive-laden deal Kerry and you can come back. I hope you do.

I hate the Red Sox and all those stupid teenagers wearing pre-faded "B" hats. I want to kill them all. Do you hate the Yankees caps that come out in 3854 different colors and worn by everybody because it's fashionable and the hat matches the persons wardrobe? Because that is WAY more obnoxious than pre-faded "B" hats. I'm sure a majority of people wearing "B" hats are actually Boston fans.

Jennifer Aniston: Schwing!!

Congrats to Z. It was long overdue.

That sun is brutal. 3-0 Cubs.

A couple of my best friends are Giants fans and they are quite knowledgeable when it comes to sports.

How pathetic is it that the Cubs have the same number of hits (10) as the DBacks do today?

I don't either.

That makes a big difference in how I feel about the whole thing, even though I still don't like it. So why would Hendry lie about it then? Why couldn't he just have said "Izturis was the best I could do because the Dodgers didn't offer any good prospects"? There definately wouldn't have been nearly as much uproar as there was if he would have said something along those lines.

I got into a huge argument with some one over on Reds Zone about the predictive power of various stats (IsoD vs. K/BB) in measuring prospects and other hitters. Let me dig up his posts; they were actually really good. Edit: Here we go. Link It's a long thread, but I had a blast participating in it. That was tough, but good read. On a side note, I like the reputation points thing they have going on over there.

You couldn't go to today's game?

As a whole, the Cubs are the worst organization in the history of sports because of 97 years of futility. Recently the New York Knicks take the crown because Isiah Thomas has completely run the team into the ground. He has bogged the team down with horrible trades that forced the team to take on ungodly bad contracts that nobody else wanted. Because of this they have the highest payroll in the league which managed to get them the second worst record in the league. They didn't have their #2 pick in the draft this year and the Bulls will have the option of switching picks with them next year (which they will do because the Knicks suck and the Bulls don't) which means they don't have much of a chance of drafting a great player that can help them right away. They are likely going to owe Larry Brown a ton of money because they fired him (he had 4/$40 left on his deal). Right now the Knicks are a complete embarassment and there isn't much hope for the next couple years. At least the Cubs have the chance to make some good FA signings and trades to make the team competative next year. The Knicks will be lucky to win 30 games in 2006-07.

Best news I've heard in some time.

There is absolutely no way the Cubs get Zito. He's going to either New York (both teams), Boston, Anaheim, LA. No way he comes to Chicago.