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man the power play is a mess lately

dude You are watching, right? it's not the point. you need to just stop talking aobut the refs EVERY game. just let it go

dude

Pie had no options left. He had to be traded. Olson was probably the best offer on the table regardless of the Peavy situation. I think the talks will be revisited, but people are rreading too much into the Marquis/DeRosa stuff. That had to be done to afford Bradley. If it ends up helping with Peavy later on, great, but I'm pretty sure those moves would have been made even if Peavy wasn't an option.

Why? Do you think the new owner won't approve it, or are you calling Bruce a liar?

Bruce after being asked in the comments section of his blog about the chances of landing Peavy- http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1261 It's good to know there's at least a reasonable chance.

Man, the dudes on OH really want to fellate Felix man this sucks we just traded corey hart for jason marquis

right as for the post itself, i see what you were saying now. you should have just said that instead of offering cryptic "you're wrong and can't accept facts" posts.

I'm not sure what's more stunning, the fact that I am having to debate the point that Kerry Wood has had a very sketchy injury history or the fact that nobody else finds it the least bit strange that the debate is occurring - I mean if that doesn't sum up northsidebaseball.com, I don't know what does. a) very few people here like meph (no offense, meph). i think nobody is replying because most people have him on ignore. that or they are like me and they have no idea what the hell meph is saying and they don't feel like looking back through this thread to understand what the hell he is talking about b) if this place sucks so bad, why are you here? i'm not trying to be a dick, i just dont understand why people post here and then complain about how bad the site sucks

Did we get more for Pie than we got for DeRosa?

90 games of a guy with an .827 career OPS is better than DeRosa and Wood by a "wide margin"? I don't know aobut that. Even if he OPSs like .900 next year in 90 games I still wouldn't say that. Well I think the best case scenario we can realistically hope for is that they match DeRosa's production, but that's not the only issue. Bradley is a lock to get hurt. With DeRosa, all that would have meant is more Fontenot in the lineup in place of Bradley (with DeRosa going to right). Now since we're using Fontenot, when Bradley goes down it's suddenly more at-bats for much crappier hitters. That's the main loss of trading away DeRosa and that's why I think the combo of trading DeRosa/signing Bradley was pretty dumb. I guess that's just a matter of how you look at it. I could just as easily argue that Wood doesn't have a great track record either when it comes to injuries or that DeRosa probably isn't going to repeat his numbers from last year or that Fontenot was actually better than DeRosa last season (granted in fewer at bats). I don't want to come off sounding like I blindly support every move, but I'm just failing to see how we are so much worse right now than we would be if we kept Wood, DeRosa, Marquis, and Pie. Even if DeRosa goes back to his .800ish OPS that he put up the previous 2 seasons, that could still end up being more valuable than Bradley. I just don't see how you can look at who left and who came in and say we aren't worse off. At best it's a wash, but I don't really see that. The only significant player we brought in was Bradley.

wait when did we sign taye diggs

mcgahee just wanted to kill the mood so the postgame celebration wasn't as much fun

huh? ther'es no such thing as helmet to helmet if the guy has the ball? wtf is he talking about?

and this could be a seriousd injury. it looked exactly like what happend with boldin. he froze up and started twitching

oh look another dirty ass hit from pittsburgh that didn't look good at all

Yeah Bruce said this earlier today in the comments section of his blog when somebody asked if this could lead to Peavy http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/1261

I was on the "Cincinnatti could be really dangerous" bandwagon up until last season, but I don't see how people can keep saying that, especially now that they have Dusty and they lost Dunn.

Brewers 85-90 wins Reds 82-88 wins Cubs 81-87 wins Cards 76-81 wins Astros 72- 77 wins Pirates 65-70 wins The Brewers are not in the 85-90 win range. Yeah, for all of the "Cubs are worse than last year" discussion, what are the Brewers after losing Sabathia and Sheets? They haven't technically lost Sheets yet. Cubs are around the 85-90 win range. Yea and putting the Reds as being better than the Cubs is just silly. Not having Yost will make up for the 1/2 of a season they got out of CC. Sheets is a wash as they are getting back Gallardo. They have a very potent offense. You know they signed Ken Macha, right? Also, how is their offense "very potent"? They scored 750 runs last season, which was in the middle of the pack in the NL. I'm pessimistic, but you're being ridiculous. The Cubs are 10-15 games worse, but the brewers have basically stayed the same? Right. I'm sure that replacing Yost with Macha makes up for dominance they got from C.C. That's reasonable. The Brewers look really mediocre. A slightly above average offense, a below average rotation, a below average bullpen, and another crappy maanager. I don't see where 85-90 wins is coming from if you're putting the Cubs at 82-87 since the Cubs look better in pretty much every area. I'd put the Cubs at like 87-90 wins and the Brewers at like 80-83

wow baltimore that was pathetic. this game is already over

90 games of a guy with an .827 career OPS is better than DeRosa and Wood by a "wide margin"? I don't know aobut that. Even if he OPSs like .900 next year in 90 games I still wouldn't say that. Well I think the best case scenario we can realistically hope for is that they match DeRosa's production, but that's not the only issue. Bradley is a lock to get hurt. With DeRosa, all that would have meant is more Fontenot in the lineup in place of Bradley (with DeRosa going to right). Now since we're using Fontenot, when Bradley goes down it's suddenly more at-bats for much crappier hitters. That's the main loss of trading away DeRosa and that's why I think the combo of trading DeRosa/signing Bradley was pretty dumb.

i cant believe the eagles choked in an nfc championship game where is truffle to brag about how andy reid going to 5 nfc championship games and losing 4 of them makes him a good coach?

why was assante samuel so happy

chunky soup doing what he does best

AND THE ARIZONA CARDINALS HAVE EARNED A CHANCE TO GET BEATEN DOWN BY THE AFC.... GO CRAZY ARIZONA