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oh my god how are you letting fitzgerald beat you? this reminds me of the year before the bears went to the super bowl where lovie refused to double team steve smith as he was picking the bears apart

basically the weirdest nfl season ever so far

hence might? It implies that there are reports that the owner wil push for Peavy, which isn't the case at all. This title is about the same saying "Hendry might get Peavy in 2 weeks". It's not false, but it's misleading to put it in the title since there's no actual report or evidence of it. There's no news. Seriously, read the article. It's all the guys speculation. He never says "I heard from somebody" or "sources tell me". It's just him talking about what he thinks could happen, and now it's suddenly the title of the thread. Really misleading.

I think the new thread title is pretty misleading. All that was was speculation by that Rozner guy about what might happen. Any of us could do the same stuff. I don't think he said anywhere that he actually heard that the new owner will push for peavy. The article was basically worthless.

Where is anybody treating Rocco as an "amazing stud"? They signed him for dirt cheap, meaning it's very low risk with a chance of a very high reward. There is really no downside to that move. If the new diagnosis is real and they can treat his problems, it could end up being an enormous steal.

Plus cubsfan26 never said derosa wasn't going to be good. he said he's likely to drop off from 2008, which he is. his 2006 and 2007 numbers were solid but they are clearly a dropoff from 2008

wait, you're really a cowboys fan?

lol stoops is about to off himself

oh god thom is about to explode after that penalty

well at least i get to laugh at another stoops team choking

i'm sitting here in the booth telling you i've met this young man and you just can't say quite enough about how fantastic this kid tastes

i think tebow just cured cancer

holy hell. how is the puck not going in the net right now? that last minute was insane

hawks should have at least 3-4 goals right now

What you need to realize is that we don't even need all those injuries to make the loss of DeRosa. The only one that has to happen is Bradley, and it's pretty much a sure thing with him. That's when losing DeRosa will hurt. You would have essentially been replacing Bradley with Fontenot in the lineup (with DeRosa moving to right) when Bradley was out. Now you're giving those at-bats to Johnson against RHP, Fukudome against LHP, Gathright, Miles, or maybe Hoffpauir. That's a pretty big downgrade

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Only a .450 IsoP...meh that's not everything. he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me. i was obviously kidding...we retired green font i still should have caught that

Only a .450 IsoP...meh that's not everything. he had a .609 OBP that season and had the highest OPS of his career. 232 walks is insane to me.

This. Normally, I'd agree with this line of thinking, but if you add Sheets, that's 3 potential injuries waiting to happen in the rotation (Harden and sadly Zambrano are the others). Also you have to consider the amount of innings Dempster threw last year vs. the previous 3. While it seems great to say we have Marshall if one goes down if 2-3 of them go down, we are all the sudden looking much less formidable. Also, you'd have to think that if hes coming on a somewhat cheap deal, he'd just stay with the Brewers. They are still in on him and would probably match anything we'd offer. Brewers fans seem to think bridges have been burned between Sheets and the Brewers

Hampton is a Houston Astro. and sucks i'm not sure how you can determine a guy sucks from his pitching 12 games in 3 years. i guess it sucks to get hurt all the time though. well he sucked last year when he was "healthy", and 36 year old pitchers who have been injured for the majority of the previous 4 seasons (and were never really very good to begin with anyways) don't usually end up being very good

i still think 2004 was his best and most astonishing season. he walked 242 times and still hit 45 bombs. will any player ever get the treatment to walk 242 times again in one season? albert pujols is as close as it gets to bonds right now and he still isn't even close to getting that kind of treatment.

Hampton is a Houston Astro. and sucks

this thread would have been a lot more conclusive if the choices were just a,b,c,d, and f

Too bad the unit signed with the giants. When we first heard about the Cubs having interest in him during the Peavy stuff, we were all amped out about Peavy so he didn't sound that great. He seems like he would have been a pretty good option now

Sean Gallagher is a table scrap? Considering what you usually have to give up to get an ace caliber pitcher via trade, yes. You mean considering what you have to give up to get an ace caliber pitcher who is constantly hurt. It's notl ike we traded for Sabathia. Anyways, it doesn't matter. The player you're trading for doesn't change what a player is. Gallagher is a not a "table scrap" in any situation. Just to be clea,r I liked the trade. I'm just saying Gallagher is not a table scrap. So you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. I like Gallagher, too, but the fact of the matter is that he didn't have a future with the Cubs so by giving him up we didn't give up any value. He was, for all intents and purposes, one of three spare parts we gave up for an outstanding young pitcher. With all due respect to his Dad or whatever, I reiterate, table scraps. Wait, so Gallagher didn't have any value when we traded him? There's one very big flaw of what you're saying. Just because Gallagher doesn't fit into our future in your mind, that doesn't mean we "didn't give up any value". Think aobut it. That really makes no sense. Of course he has value, and the fact that we got Harden with him is pretty much proof of that. He has value through trades. If we didn't trade him for Harden, we could have traded him for somebody else. That's his value. Plus he'd be a decent option as our number 5 starter right now, so I don't know how you can say he didn't have a future with the Cubs. It's not like he was a catcher being blocked by Soto. He was a starting pitcher. You always have a future with a any team. Again, I liked the trade, but it's obvious we had to give up something good to get Harden. This is expected. Gallagher was our best pitching prospect at the time and basically the noyl good one we had left. How can you say that he had no value?