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YES!! The news just keeps getting better.

I think I've watched that clip about 20 times since it was posted. It hasn't gotten old yet. "A GRAND SLAM!!"

seconded But I would think that Wilbon's take on the Cubs would be a bit more serious than their other opinions.

I am a college student and I only have 1 class on Mondays.

Why would we go after Cabrera? He's listed as a 3B and I believe we have a decent 3B already. I'm not sure on that so somebody will have to let me know for sure. If you want him to play LF, don't we have Matt Murton already? I understand if Murton is hitting like Corey Patterson or suffers a serious injury. We need to wait and see if we really need him. As for Willis, I agree that we need to wait and see if Wood/Prior/Miller can come back and pitch well for us. Even if 2 of them come back that solidifies our rotation. Overall we need to take a wait and see approach to both players. I hope we don't need to make any trades because that will mean everything is going well.

I thought I heard it was something like 4yrs/$50 mil somewhere. I could be wrong though.

I expect Mariotti to say that the Cubs suck but I figured Wilbon would have something good to say about the sweep. He has been known to wear Cubs attire on the show.

On "Around the Horn" and "PTI" today, they talked about the Cubs and nobody thinks the Cubs are any good this year and Wilbon even said that "sweeping the Cardinals in April doesn't mean a thing." They all think that the Cardinals are still easily the class of the NL Central. I'm not saying the Cubs are for sure going to win and they should be the favorites, but what happened on Saturday and Sunday normally doesn't happen to us. Normally if we fall behind against a good pitcher, our bats stay asleep and we lose the game. Normally a player in a slump gets a meaningless hit with nobody on base to get out of it. Normally when we get gifts like three straight walks to start an inning, we ground into a double play or hit a sac fly and the inning ends with us scoring at most one run. Normally when the calls don't go our way, our team folds. But none of that happened this weekend. I'm trying to look at the 2004 Red Sox as the example. They were supposed to lose to the Yankees. Usually Rivera closes out his saves. Usually the Yankees (re: Aaron Boone) get the big hit against the Sox. Usually the Red Sox end up losing. But in 04 that didn't happen. I know the White Sox lost for 88 years also but they didn't have a bigtime rival they had to overcome like the Red Sox with the Yankees and the Cubs with the Cardinals. After all, the Cards have won the most World Series titles (9) in the NL. Here's hoping 2006 Cubs = 2004 Red Sox

Considering the fact he's Canadian, but dressed up as "Captain AMERICA" at the least hallloween, I would say so. That's awesome. I didn't konw that.

I know this was discussed briefly on the "What I liked about Week 1" thread, but I figured I would make a new thread. Vance, since you were able to get DLee to overtake Pujols and earn the right to start the All Star Game last year, I offer a new challenge for this year. Michael Barrett needs to be elected as the starting catcher for the 2006 All Star Games. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have said a couple times that you are going to start voting as early as possible this year. God speed Vance. God speed.

If that's the case, I've already "warmed up" twice today. That's absolutely lovely. Especially since I'm about to eat.

So.... what's not to love ???? 04/03 - 04/09 IP H R ER BB K HR PC BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA Dempster 4.0 1 0 0 2 2 0 51 4.50 4.50 0.00 0.75 0.00 Eyre 2.7 1 1 0 2 3 0 50 6.75 10.13 0.00 1.13 0.00 Howry 3.3 2 0 0 0 5 0 48 0.00 13.50 0.00 0.60 0.00 Ohman 1.7 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 0.00 5.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 Williamson 3.3 3 2 1 3 5 0 63 8.10 13.50 0.00 1.80 2.70 Willliams 3.0 4 3 2 4 1 1 51 12.00 3.00 3.00 2.67 6.00 Wuertz 0.7 2 0 0 0 1 0 22 0.00 13.50 0.00 3.00 0.00 totals 18.7 13 6 3 11 18 1 302 5.30 8.68 0.48 1.29 1.45 well..... maybe the number of walks, eh? Believe, me I love the bullpen. Most of the walks came in the first two games against the Reds. Obviously they are going to blow some games over the course of the year. But they look very good right now.

unfortuately stupid fans will vote a guy like Piazza or LoDuca as the starter regardless of Barret's numbers That's why we're going to have to rely on Vance to get Barrett as the starter.

I think it's safe to say this thread did its job.

I'm sick of hearing the deal is almost done. Let's just get it done so everybody can enjoy his season without having to worry about if Lee is going to leave after the season.

I'm definately in. How could you not be.

too many reliable pitchers for him to burn them out. he trusts howry, eyre, williamson, ohman, and dempster COMPLETELY. And I'm sure he trusts Weurtz too based on last year. He can't burn em all out. It's not like when we had the Farns and then Alfonseca and a bunch of rubbish. As much as I hate Farnsworth, I'll admit that he had a couple good years with the Cubs in 2001 and 2003, but Alfonseca should be included as part of that rubbish. He flat out sucked in his two years with the Cubs.

Definately a highlight of the clip. Also, on every highlight show they don't say anything about Rincon and Izzy walking the bases loaded. They just show Barrett's GS.

Isn't Dempster known as a jokester.

Agreed.

I would love to see this armless, eyeless track star you speak of. :) "It's only a flesh wound!" "Come back I'll bite your knees off!" "You coward." I love Monty Python.

A Cubs-Cards NLCS would be the stuff of legend. Sort of like Sox-Yanks in 2003 and 2004. But in our case, 2004 would be the one we would want to follow since the Sox won.

I LOVE our bullpen. I've been complaining about that for years. BTW I just saw another highlight of Barrett's Grand Slam and I stood up and put my hands in the air again.

It sure felt like it last night. As has been said repeatedly in numerous threads, when Barrett hit the grand slam, the stadium completely erupted as we haven't seen since Woody's HR in game 7 for the NLCS. It doesn't get much better than sweeping a bitter rival at home and winning two close games in a row to do it. Those are games that we usually lose to the Cardinals and two days in a row we ended up victorious. I love it. This is why I'm a Cubs fan.

I don't blame him. I'd have a pretty poor opinion of fans who jumped that hard on me after 4 games. Hopefully, he'll shake it off and the fans will figure out that being antagonistic usually doesn't help. Like you said, it's only 4 games. If this continues over the next two or three weeks (i.e. if he's hitting below .200 at the end of April) then it's time to worry. Maybe tonight's game will be a sign of things to come.