javy knows my name

Most likely dumb?

Buster_ESPN Buster Olney The trade: Colby Rasmus, Trever Miller, Brian Tallet and P.J. Walters for Jackson, Marc Rzepczynski, Dotel and Corey Patterson.#trades Nice win here for the Jays. Rasmus>>>>>>Cpat Did you really just type this?

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We'll treat you right, Colby. Come to the good side.

You seem happy about any or all of these things. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Time for a long impaired drive over a short guardrail

Another reason you all don't want Rasmus: he has wall-shyness (I believe Andy Van Slyke created this term). I, for one, have no room on my team for a guy who values self-preservation over attempting low-percentage outs.

Most of the games aren't even on WGN anymore. And spend any time at all on this board and you'll know the following quote is 100% untrue. I like you temporarily

I think that bunting and generally finding stupid old-timey ways to make outs and crash into walls are favored by racists. I can't prove this, however.

Good talk. Yeah, I'm not all that interested in Jimenez. His risk of ruin is just a little bit much for me. I also want to shop Marmol hard this go-round, but I'm not sure I'm gonna get my wish.

I just noticed this tonight, as well. Didn't stay for much of the game when it didn't go away

That was pretty horribly written for Fangraphs. Accurate, though.

Now that we know Dusty Baker's IP, can we please ban it forever?

What is the difference here? the hate bandwagon. Can't really call it a bandwagon if you're the only one on it.

That probably doesn't even bother you does it? Hah. Gay joke

YES. This is the most ironic thing that's ever happened.

7.9

Didn't he sign Howard to that horrific contract?

Would anyone still watch after the fifth round or so? Does anyone still watch now? Yes. Overslot pics are awesome.

Would anyone still watch after the fifth round or so?

that'd be fine with me. you'd be getting better production at a cheaper price. but willingham should be more than $5m a year (though he'll potentially be undervalued because he's not a big name and is having a down year in oakland's cavernous confines). He'll also be 33, so it's questionable what he would get, so I was being conservative. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the Cubs had to pay anywhere between $9 million and $13 million a year to ship off Soriano. $9 million was just a shot in the dark. There's a very, very good chance the Cubs would end up still spending approx $18 million in LF. If they can upgrade, great, but I'm not so sure Willingham is that upgrade. Yes, he's in Oakland, but that's a pretty steep drop in production. He's coming on very strong in the last month so hopefully it was just a slow start in a new ballpark, but his age needs to be considered in all of this. I mean, how long would you be signing him for? Ideally it would just be for a year, but who is available as an OF FA in 2012? I know Kemp hopefully would be, but I'd figure that if the Cubs went for him they'd try and and figure out CF and RF between him and Jackson. I don't know if I want to pay Ethier the big contract he's likely to get. Who else is out there? Since you talk about Kemp so often, what do you think he could reasonably command in the 2012 offseason? Not that it really matters; the guy is my favorite position player since Griffey and I'd be ok giving him whatever he requires. Monetarily speaking.

God, our CF situation was just abysmal for the 5-6 years between Lofton and Byrd. I just kind of got used to it. Jimmy will cut you. I knew I'd forget somebody. I liked Jacque quite a bit, especially those bombs he'd launch to left center

Awesome pitching matchup. I'm pretty excited for this one in spite of myself.

God, our CF situation was just abysmal for the 5-6 years between Lofton and Byrd. I just kind of got used to it.

Yeah, that's pretty accurate. The only thing that really bothered me about the handling of Theriot was when we ran him out at SS and stuck Cedeno (the much better defender) at 2B. Of course, that was all Lou and only Lou. When Hendry had control over the situation, he absolutely handled Theriot correctly.