He was originally claimed off waivers from the Rangers by the Red Sox, but they couldnt work out a deal. Rangers pulled him back, and put him back on waivers a bit later and we claimed him. That was for the Lowell deal. Later Ramirez was claimed by the Red Sox and given up by the Rangers, then the RS put him on waivers like 5 days later and the Cubs claimed him. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/01/cubs-claim-max-ramirez.html
A: Albert Pujols B: Adrian Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez C: Carlos Pena, Ryan Braun, Mike Stanton D: Kevin Youkilis, Jason Heyward, Buster Posey, Pedro Alvarez, Chipper Jones WC will be sent.
He actually did pretty well as a starter (8 starts) towards the end of the season, posting a 3.33 ERA with a 1.356 WHIP and going at least 6 innings in all but the first one. His numbers are skewed due to giving up 6 ER over 2.1 innings in his first outing of the year (from the BP).
Pretty meh game to go to. Only two players starting for the Cubs were even guaranteed to be on the 25 man roster. Garza was still wild, and didn't get much help from his defense. Barney was slow on two plays, one a double play, the second ended up a hit for Figgins after he was indecisive on whether to go to 2nd for Ichiro or just to first. Bibens-Dirkx had a piss-poor game, and seemed to try to get fancy and ended up walking two players he was 0-2 on. At least I got to see Szczur get an AB.
From the Greinke thread: Well predicted http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110311&content_id=16905256&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin Article says its not expected to be serious, though.
I like the size, but does anyone know how fast this guy is? Looks like he was a star in the CFL, but so is Henry Burris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbV9PFK1DE 4.52 in the 40-yard dash at the 2006 NFL combine according to some guy on another board. doesn't sound like he's all that fast, but then again the Bears have a couple really fast guys already. EDIT: Apparently he ran a 4.72 at the CFL combine. Didn't realize they had one. This video has a better shot of a foot race at about 1:10 in: http://www.cfl.ca/video/index/id/14159
LOL at least Milledge made it to the majors. Harvey is still playing at AA with the Rockies minor league system. He's now in Boston's system trying to become a pitcher.
Yeah coaches make the decisions, but are you gonna tell that if it was Big Ben/Farve/Brady/Manning/Brees instead of Cutler that they would've stayed on the sideline and not play when they can walk around or ride the bike??? Heck even Philip Rivers or McNabb or Vick... I bet you not one of them would've sat down that 2nd half unless they were in a wheelchair or stretcher... Heart doesn't equal intelligence. Cutler was ineffective and couldn't move after the injury, walking and riding the bike don't involve one critical thing that the ACL is really needed for: twisting on the knee. Rivers played with a torn ACL in the 2007-08 AFC CG and was horrible.
for real? the coaches are the ones that made the decision. are they going to bench the best qb in bears history for not overpowering them and staging a mutiny on the field? Bruce Gradkowski playing with two torn MCL's is still just like Bruce Gradkowski: horrible.