javy knows my name

beat youuuu

Bases loaded, no outs in consecutive innings and we get one run total

Oh Jesus, Cubs. Don't do it to me.

I wish for him to fail unequivocally

It's probably because he has a cool Hawaiian name. Or that he got on base like 80% of the time in the minors

To play where? 1st with Butler to DH?

Well, there's no shame in not being as good an ISO player as DWade. Lebron's fine in isolation, end game struggles this year be damned. Yup, I edited it a bit. And I KNEW there was a more concise way of saying that.

It depends what "creating their own shot" means. If it means that you can get the ball when you're not open, dribble around someone, and then make a shot, then Deng can create his own shot. If it means that you can give someone the ball in isolation and ask them to score a critical basket at the end of a game, then no. But there are just a handful of guys in the entire league that can reliably do the latter. Some might even argue that LeBron isn't one of them. It's somewhere between the two of those extremes. I think the general opinion is that Deng can't really create his own shot with any consistency because he's a (relatively) weak ballhandler. I would agree that Lebron would not be the best "give-me-the-ball-in-isolation" guy on his own team, much less in the top few in the league.

7.9

Yeah, I like how the evaluation of this move as bad "in hindsight" could be wrong in like 3 months.

Any reasoning behind you're assumption or is it just making an assumption for the sake of making an assumption? I haven't heard Hendry say a word about "getting more lefthanded" for at least a couple years now and probably more than that. Basically, you're saying that if Pujols and Pena were both available, the Cubs would only have pursued Pena? Do you have anything at all to back this up? I don't really feel like digging through old articles looking for it, but I could swear they were focused on getting a lefty power bat in the middle of the line up. If it was never, ever said this offseason, then I am wrong and will admit so. Can't say it would have even been the wrong thing to do considering that most of the best free agent 1b bats were left handed, and the Cubs line up was already dominated with righty bats in Castro, Ramirez, Soriano, Soto and Byrd. They couldn't afford Pujols, so it's not even worth discussing that. I was glad they signed Carlos Pena, so I don't even wish to continue this discussion, but unless he turns things around, we all end up with egg on our faces for thinking he still had something left. It would've been tough to sign Pujols last offseason. Don't know if this has been brought up, but speaking of the Cardinals. Lance Berkman signed a 1 year/8 million dollar deal for 2011. Ouch. I think the Cubs might be in first place if we switched the 2. No, it's a good thing you brought that up, because we weren't talking about it anywhere else on here.

IsoP or IsoD? His IsoP is .102 which is pretty good, I think. His IsoD is pretty low, but his patience is still developing and I didn't really expect him to be real patient this year. It's lower than I had hoped at this point, but not considerably so. IsoP - I was thinking around the same SLG as SSR. I would love more isoD...but I didn't expect it until he showed more power first.

Didn't ask me, but slightly better isoP, for starters

Hahaha SSR is way better at this, guys

They've been doing this for as long as Groupon's been around. Yes, but that doesn't make it less awesome.

If it happens every time I attend a game, it's not a story.

Absolutely. And Bears don't pick this round. Eff

Guaranteed to bring the douchenozzles out. I'll still be there, bc they're the only tix I can afford anymore. $3 beer is pretty awesome

That is awesome

Great, another barely-watchable CSN+ game. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I'd hate this post even it were accurate. Good news is, it's not.

Nope. From the sounds of it, it was definitely to go after Carimi. Awesome. We win.

It was pretty obvious a long time ago. It was obvious our top 3 pitchers would suck and our next 2 would get hurt? What else you got Kreskin? Z and Demp for sure, but I don't see Garza. He's been pretty awesome. That being said, your point stands. Well I meant collectively since everyone (except for the omniscent like gooney and Truffle (I HOPE WE LOSE EVERY GAME FOR A GOOD DRAFT PICK!)) figured our top 3 starters were locks to be above average at worst. And while Garza's peripherals have been phenomenal, they haven't translated to success on the mound as of yet. I getcha. One could argue that Demp has sucked enough for all three of them. 7 runs in 1/3 of an inning LOLOL

He's not. He made 3 million last year. He makes 6.5 million next year. If the Cubs want both Pujols and Ramirez, they'll probably have to trade Byrd and go with both Jackson and Colvin in the OF. That depends on how they would backload the contract for Pujols though. Aw, crap, I read that wrong. Should have known it was too good to be true. If we did go with Colvin, and Im not ready to give up on him, I would like to have a solid righty backup, even if it is Reed Johnson. Theres the Iowa slug monsters, or perhaps Rebel Ridling can leap frog those guys. Ridling also can play 1B, although I dont know how well, but if we sign Fielder or Pujols, that will be irrelavant. I though Ridling was only playing 1B. I was not aware he was getting time in the OF.

It was pretty obvious a long time ago. It was obvious our top 3 pitchers would suck and our next 2 would get hurt? What else you got Kreskin? Z and Demp for sure, but I don't see Garza. He's been pretty awesome. That being said, your point stands.