javy knows my name

I'm not sure anyone is saying otherwise. What we are saying is that it's incredibly exciting that he could potentially supplement his great contact skills and (flashes of) patience with average to above-average power.

Can't give you enough karma for this

Wow. Each team seemed to be fighting for that loss. I hope Quade knows he fucked this up badly.

I have a feeling I may be in love with this team come May. It's a good feeling.

God I love Starlin Castro

Maybe Quade is hoping for another fast start from Byrd? I dunno. I'm out of ideas for why he's batting so high.

^That was kinda funny. Imma be in the bleachers for this game. I've probably seen Z pitch 20 times and I haven't seen him lose once in the last few years. Also, Paul Maholm.

BEST FANS IN BASEBALL

Needs more "supplements" from Victor Conte. You are an awful post factory

MLB radio thinks that it's giving me WGN, but it's giving me the Score. And a fury headache.

Seriously, when does the radio broadcast start?

ALL IDIOTS SHHHH

He likes his name

Second

hahaha

This thread is blowing my mind

Eww, missed that. Pena 3, Soto 5. Not hard

Quade keeps saying wonderful things. Now he just needs to do all those things.

Talented starter gets injured returns to majors as reliever and wins world series: The Jason Isringhausen story. mark prior was like, the best pitching prospect of all time... not a "talented starter" who was picked in the 44th round of his draft. plus isringhausen is crazy ugly. freddie prinze jr could play prior easily This is a little weird. It's [expletive] awesome, is what it is

I think Treebeard got some 'splainin to do

I hope this is sarcasm. Dude

I'm not going to give him much credit for getting 2.5 months good months out of Silva (which was completely due to Rotschild and luck). I'm guessing that was the only offer he had for Bradley, so he pretty much had to take it. It wasn't like he sifted through offers and thought "I see something in Silva." It was headcase for headcase. I'm sure the Mariners were just as sick of Silva as we were of Bradley. Fact is, the signing made us worse in '09, worse in '10, and worse in '11 because it was a complete waste of money and took up resources that could have been allocated elsewhere. I'm not a complete Hendry hater, but I don't really see anything positive that he did here. Yes, the Bradley signing was a poor one and screwed us for several years afterwards. No, that does not mean that the Silva trade was a bad one given the circumstances. Past moves necessitate current and future moves. Always. This is the slippery slop I'm alluding to. After an unfortunate signing, Hendry made a solid stop-the-bleeding move that only helped us. Did Hendry do even an adequate job of building a baseball team the last 3 years? No. But the Silva trade was not bad in itself. That's my only issue. EDIT: Just re-read your post and you're almost completely discounting the money factor. None of us can know if Hendry had any other (likely horrific) offers on the table, but at the very least he really did trade a worse/more damaged player for a better one and saved a bunch of money in the process. Given the facts, it should be an unquestioned success.

I had never read it before, but yeah, embarrassing for sure

It was refreshing to hear; I was thinking it was the most outspoken I've ever heard Hendry. However, you really have to wonder how big of a vagina Hendry actually was with Silva and letting him in on this info. I know the Cubs don't owe Silva anything other than his $$, but Hendry's comments really lead me to believe Silva had no chance from the start. Silva's an idiot and I'm happy, but I'd probably be a little pissed if I were him as well. To me, the only way Silva truly had a right to be pissed was if he had came out and pitched great this spring, Cashner didn't, and he STILL got passed over. Then, I could see him having a reason to be upset. But, he didn't.(thank the lord) It all goes back to when we traded a turd sandwich for a giant douche. Hopefully Hendry learned his lesson with that one. What lesson was that? I won't repeat BeertownCubbie, but Hendry did just fine in that situation, given the options he had. It never should have gotten to this in the first place. Along with Juan Pierre, signing Milton Bradley was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by Hendry. He did it out of a need to get "more lefthanded" which was completely idiotic given that the idea grew out of a three game sweep by the Dodgers, and ignored the fact that we were one of the best teams in baseball against righthanded pitching in 2008. It was a mistake the moment the ink dried, much like Soriano's contract. So let me get this straight. Because Hendry made a poor signing in Bradley, we can't even look at the good trade he made to get rid of him and save a little money AND get average production from a 5 starter? This is a slippery mother [expletive] slope you're on right now.

TT, could you explain why you think this? I don't get it.