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Bob just reported that Tony Womack did in fact sign a minor league contract with the Cubs. Damian Jackson with a 2 run homerun.

Come on Kerry, end this inning.

Ouch. 93 and 92 on the previous fastballs.

<- leaves to go throw up. Just mute the TV and turn on the radio. I live in California, I don't have the radio option.

<- leaves to go throw up.

According to Len, Pierre was trying to bunt the ball OVER the infielders into left field.

2 strikeouts in the first inning on only 8 pitches. I like it.

It was just a matter of time. I'm not surprised in the least bit. I called this a few weeks ago.

Wasn't that ruled a homerun anyway?

but a lot of fun to play in in mvp baseball. Agreed. I beat one of my friends 1-0 in the fifteenth inning by hitting a walk off inside the park home run in the Polo Grounds. It was awesome and he wasn't too pleased.

Blind Squirrell Met Nut. And he found the needle in the haystack.

First of all, I never accused you directly of hindsight. My hindsight post was in response to goony not you so I don't know why you're all over my case. Second, with regards to Nomar, I'm sure there were some people who wanted Nomar to return but there were probably more that didn't. I like Nomar and I hope he succeeds. Ever since the Red Sox won the World Series after trading him, I've felt bad for him. My whole point was that if we would have resigned Nomar, and he got injured, there would have been numerous people that would have complained about wasting money on a guy that always gets injured. I didn't say you personally would complain so don't be accusing me of that. As for Burnitz and Jones, just look at the performance on the field. As I said before, ignore the contracts for a minute. Burnitz is absolutely horrible right now. I would much rather have Jones's production than Burnitz. Consider that Burnitz is 37 and Jones is 31 it means the Jones *could* increase his production a little bit. Unless you hook Burnitz up with Victor Conte, he's done. Jones at least could start to hit better. I'm not saying he will, but he could. I don't know where this whole rant came from and I'm not really sure why you decided to attack me when I was the second person, not the first, to bring up the hindsight argument. Maybe it was because I defended my argument so well? You tell me, because I see no reason for your rant. Also, I don't care about your relationship with CubfaninCA. Is it supposed to mean something to me that the two of you aren't pals? Because it doesn't.

Thank goodness this game is on WGN so I don't have to watch on MLB.TV and have to worry about my wireless internet connection going out.

At least somebody agrees with me.

If you want to go way back to trades of veterens for young players, the Cubs wouldn't have ever had Sammy Sosa who they received in exchange for George Bell. Teams make trades like this all the time.

FYI, you don't need the "'s" you used. It makes "apostrophe" possessive, not plural. FYI. :wink: Technically shouldn't I have written "apostrophes" without the apostrophe? Anyway, thanks for correcting me. I was seriously considering taking the letter off the board, thoroughly editing it, and putting it back up. Also, I'm an engineer so I'm still learning all of the finer points of the English language.

I'm sure we could get Tom Goodwin to come out of retirement as well. Anyone know what Randall Simon is doing these days? EDIT: How about Doug Glanville?

It amazes me how people in power positions can be so stupid sometimes. I'm a server/bartender at a restaurant and the vice president of our chain of 5 restaurants is an absolute idiot. He put up a notice a few weeks ago about a bartender that got fired because he was handing out free drinks. This letter had absolutely no punctuation except for periods i.e. no apostrophe's or commas. He also had numerous spelling errors or simple words like this (which he spelled thiis a couple times). After reading it I told my coworkers that an English teacher would faint after reading this email. It was astounding that a person with that much power couldn't even spell simple words right and insert basic punctuation. Then my manager spelled lemonade, liminade twice in his daily notes. How do you do this? One of my old managers left out a whole syllable of a word. To use the previous example lemonade would be lemade. Sometimes you just have to wonder.

This is just not at all true. The hindsight accusation is completely bogus. Many people were up in arms about these moves long before they were made. Many said they would much rather have Burnitz for 1 year than Jones for 3. Many said they would rather have Patterson for relatively cheap than Jones or Pierre for a lot. Many said they wanted Nomar back at the cheap deal he was supposedly willing to sign. You're dead wrong on this, dead wrong. I have to agree with him on some aspects. You can't sit here and tell me that if we signed Nomar for $5-6 million and he got injured, that some people wouldn't be complaining about how it was a waste to give somebody who is always injured so much money when it could have been given to somebody else? What about when Patterson was hitting .156 with a .156 OBP on April 22...are you telling me you wouldn't be ripping Hendry for keeping Patterson? Because I think that a lot of people would be ripping Hendry. We all know that Jacque shouldn't have received a 3 year deal. But if you ignore that and just look at on the field production, who would you rather have right now, Jacque Jones or Jeromy Burnitz? Anybody that says Burnitz should be banned immediately. Hindsight is 20/20. How many people honestly though Nomar would be hitting .337 right now? I guarantee not even close to as many who predicted Nomar to start the season on the DL. It doesn't take much brain power to say Nomar should have been resigned after DLee goes down. But Nomar was going to play first base and we had a first baseman that plays every day. How many people do you think would be ripping Hendry for resigning Burnitz if he's hitting like he is right now and Jacque is hitting like he is for another team? People would be saying that the Cubs should have signed Jacque instead of Burnitz. I'm not trying to let Hendry off the hook for some of the moves because the Rusch and Perez deals were simply inexcusable. But the only thing that gets the GM off the hook is if the players he signs perform well. If they don't then he looks like a goat.

I'm skipping class to see this game so Wood better pitch well.

First winning streak in 3 weeks.

I hope this isn't true.

And the replay has begun. I'm calling a 2-1 Barcalona victory. Anyone want to bet me?

I think that's a correct gut even though I hope you are wrong. I mean I hope they both come back healthy, but with Prior slated to return first he will get more playing time. Trick question/statement really, self-fulfilling prophecy: Derrek Lee is a position player and will have more playing time anyway That's a good point. I actually though about that when I typed my response but decided to ignore it.

Check that. 14-10. HR Brian Giles.