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Changing one spot in the lineup is never crucial.

Maybe, but he'd still be better than Bradley. You don't know that at all. I bet he wouldn't be.

Well, yeah. But that's what people said before last year, too. I think the same could also be said about Milton Bradley after he lead the world in OPS. Like I said, we caught lightning in a bottle last season with Edmonds. It was highly unlikely for that to be repeated.

He's as bad, if not worse, than Dunn defensively, and isn't close to the hitter that Dunn is. Also he's much older.

Poeple need to let the Edmonds thing go. We caught lightning in a bottle last year. The odds of him coming even remotely close to those numbers again this season were very, very slim. If they weren't, he'd have been signed by somebody by now.

They get down on the team when they lose 2-1 more than if they get blown out because you're supposed to win games when you hold the opposition to 1-3 runs, and this team loses these games farrrr too often. You can't keep wasting good pitching performances all season ong and then expect to make the playoffs. Getting blown out happens. You aren't going to win games when your starter gets rocked and you give up like 10 runs. You got destroyed and you lost. But losing a game 2-1 because you can't scrape across a run again Chan Ho Park and Clay Condrey is ridiculous and beyond infuriating.... and it keeps happening to this team over and over. The pitching is not a problem, and hasn't been all season. We know this team has good pitching. Whether or not we make the playoffs depedns on whether or not we can score runs. Everytime they start to score runs and look like they're going to get it going, they immediately crap out again. Only scoring 2 runs in these 2 games so far is much more relevant to this team's postseason hopes than the fact that they shut the Phillies offense down tonight. They've been shutting down team's offenses all year and are still hovering around .500. The offense got going in Washington, and then took another huge step back by getting shut down for 2 games in a bandbox by crappy pitchers.

that might not even be true

To be fair getting to down on the team because they get beat on the road against the hottest team in baseball is not smart either. Although that kind of defends the point that they are average. scoring 2 runs in 22 innings against the garbage pitchers the phillies through out there is inexcusable, period. especially in that park. seriously... rodrigo lopez? joe blanton? chan ho park? clay condrey? give me a ****ing break chan ho park when 3 perfect innings with 5 strikeouts today. that is absolutely PATHETIC

This is why you don't get excited about sweeping a team that everybody sweeps. The Cubs are an average team, period.

if it meant getting rid of lou and hendry, i'd gladly accept this team tanking and finishing the season like 20 games under .500. we aren't making the playoffs anyways, and even if we do we'll just get beat down and embarrassed again

what an a-hole

god damnit a) it doesn't matter what side of the plate he hits from. we need a hitter, period. stop with this lefty garbage b) maybe he wouldnt be asking for one if hendry actually signed a lefty who... you know.... hits well from the left side. even when bradley is good, he still sucks from the left side. it's seriously like hendry didn't even look at the splits before he signed bradley. you desperately want a lefty, so you sign a guy who sucks from that side. brilliant. it's amazing how inept our management is

lulz

they'd have halladay for next year as well, even without an extension. if all they had to give up was that, then hell yea it would be worth it.

He was just on MLB.com talking about it. The Mets are insane. And if that's all it takes to get Halladay (Like I speculated earlier), then damn near every team that can take on his salary is in contention to get him. no, i know. i saw it. i'm just not sure if i trust that source yet. that seems like an absolute steal

backtobanks is pretty good

if true, that's hilarious

Those weren't offers, those were insults. Sanchez's $10 million for two years, when his certain to vest option for next year alone is $8 million. I'd like to hear how the convo with Sanhez and his agent went. "Guess what? The Pirates are offering you an extension" "An extension with the Pirates? Not interested" "But it's for TEN MILLION DOLLARS"

See, that's where you're mistaken. You're making it out to sound like we all love Soriano and that's why we're criticizing your statements. It's not that at all. It's because your statements are mostly inaccurate.Most of the people criticizing your statements about Soriano are the same people who hate his contract, think he's a highly overrated, and would jump at the opportunity to ship him off if it meant getting rid of the albatross contract. Saying "he sucks" is just an invitation to get bashed. Soriano has sucked this year, but when he's putting up the typical numbers he has put up over the last several years, he certainly does not suck. An .880-.900 is not sucking, period. And I don't think anybody is saying he's a great "leadoff hitter" (if we're pretending it's a position, which it's not). They're simply saying it doesn't matter that much. I'd rather have an OBP guy there, but it really does not make a big difference.

Oh come on. You say it as if I didn't know that. I'm just saying, there's a reason why the Yanks didn't hang onto him. Yeah, his name is Alex Rodriguez How many people are gonna say that? Seriously? I'm well aware. When the Cubs first signed Soriano, honestly, I was really excited. I liked his numbers, and I felt that we needed a big-name bat. We hadn't really had anyone that was a household name since Sosa, and I thought it would be a good thing for us as a franchise. However, after watching the guy play every single day, I've changed my mind entirely (in case you couldn't tell :grin: ). I'd also like to add that I'm not one of the ones that jumped on the bandwagon during his recent slump. I've been hating on him since the beginning of 08. I could list off all the reasons, but you've heard most of them before from everyone else who bitches about him here on the forum. I certainly don't mind his hot streaks, though, where he decides to string together several multi-homer games per week. That is, of course, as long as he's hitting in the middle of the order so there are actually people on base 8-) That's another issue that has been thoroughly beaten to death, though. I just don't understand why you're acting like everybody here loves Soriano. If you polled this board with the question "would you dump Soriano if all you got in return was getting rid of his contract", the vast majority of the posters here would say yes. We're well aware of all his flaws and we all know how awful his contract is. We understand the situation. And if you didn't want to hear the real answer (of why the yankees got rid of Soriano) then you shouldn't have implied something else.

wow

Because hes on a bad, small market team. Look as Ray Halladay. Easilt one of the top 3 pitchers in the game, but the only reason he gets any fn fair is because of trade talks. Being on a bad small market team didn't stop Zack Greinke from being the most talked about pitcher in the first half and landing on the cover of SI. And Roy Halladay has always gotten plenty of attention.

That's probably b/c they didn't know Fuld was available. We have enough CFs in the minors who can't hit, thank you very much. I didn't know that you were the Pirates' GM, thanks for that Because you must be a GM to know that they wouldn't trade Sanchez for scraps

Oh come on. You say it as if I didn't know that. I'm just saying, there's a reason why the Yanks didn't hang onto him. Yeah, his name is Alex Rodriguez