Magnetic Curses

I don't know if they can specifically pick up that money, but they can send cash back. But it supposedly has to pass the commish's desk. And while he's let most financial transactions go by, he has a rejected a handful. This may have been easier to pull off if the Cubs got involed in the Thome deal as a middle man. kind of like how the marlins are paying for hampton? right now, there isn;t a package that the cubs sould offer that couldn't be bested by a competitor, unless the cubs were willing to pick up MORE than abreu's total salary. the cubs have little to offer but cash now, thanks to hendry.

immortal.

Thome was traded to the White Sox last month. you....don't......say...... :wink: i know that rais, but my question is: would it be possible for the cubs to pick up the portion of his deal that the phils are still paying?

in order to be a bobby abreu type-player, he'd have to walk 100 times as well. you forget that the most attractive feature of abreu's game is his disicpline. if we wanted 30 hrs plus 30 SB's we could go out and acquire soriano.

i don't know this, which is why i'm asking. two parter: how much of thome's contract are the phils paying? if any, is it reasonable to think that we could pick up whetever they're paying for thome in a deal for abreu? might make us a bit more attractive a trading partner.

1. a baseball player. as of now, we have no RFer, and it remains to be seen that hendry can get one.

realistically, i don't see the cubs getting anyone in right. likely, i see mabry and patterson splitting time there.

i don't think it said that at all.

Better bat, attitude, and no injuries! what exactly do you mean, attitude? Hairston mopes about playing time. Cairo is always smiling. so was bobby bonilla, i don't know how cairo's attitude imroves the team. can we stop beating the chemistry horse now? i'm just wondering because it seems like we had a bunch of happy losers on this team last year, and they weren't likeable anyway. why do you care if players are smiling? I won't speak for StMarks, but I like a happy team whenever possible. When I am happy, I am more productive; it makes sense that this would be the case for ball players as well. But being a Marxist, I guess happiness isn't one of your priorities... :wink: :wink: being productive in the working world and being productive in the world of baseball are two different things. i think it's a mistake to even try to compare your job with a baseball players'. i can't stress enough how wrong it is to assume that baseball is like any other sport when it comes to chemistry. baseball is closer to an individual sport than any other major team sport in the world. i don't want a bunch of smiling losers, i want winners, no matter what, and smiling is a product of winning, not the other way around. and as a marxist, i take issue with your last sentence. socialists want everyone to be happy, not just rich people. if you haven't noticed, most of the country works for a living.

s/b under "Rivalries"? originally posted in transactions.

i beat you.

i doubt this belongs in this forum.

how does this guy have a job to write about sports? the cubs would have the worst OF in baseball w/ pierre, murton and taveras. http://www.suntimes.com/output/deluca/cst-spt-deluca092.html it's very disappointing that people with sportswriting jobs, people who are paid to do research and report after reflection and investigation often have no idea what they're talking about. do people just not get it? do they just ignore statistics like OBP, SLG, and OPS? come on!

Brown has been absolutely abysmal shooting this year. If he were producing at last year's levels they'd be fine. Brown was a player that really benefitted from the presence of Deron and Luther. I'm not sure he's the kind of guy who can really shoulder the load. As a result, I'm not sure how good the Illini really are. Right now they remind me a bit of KUs team last year, some good players who were much better when surrounded by lotto picks like Hinrich/Gooden/Collison. Don't get me wrong. The Illini are still a good team, but I'm not sure how good, and I'm inclined to think by season's end they'll be a bit lower in the polls. i agree. i think this is a sweet sixteen team based on defense alone, though.

i thought he was hispanic.

can we please end this steve stone-perpetuated myth that kerry's mechanics are wrong?

no other reasonable explanation, are you joking? he's a bench player who was misused by his manager, how about that explanation? would he have said he'd rather be starting? of course, but so would lenny harris, jose macias, and neifi perez. do you honestly think there are players who would rather sit on the bench than play everyday? it's the manager's job to decide who starts and who comes off the bench, and dusty continues to fail miserbaly at it.

thea andrews....and it's not close.

corey=laynce nix jmho

i'd just rather trade wilkerson for williams straight up.

I have no doubt they aren't done, acquisition wise. They will get more help, I'm guessing at least 2 more bats. The question is if those bats will be any good, because if they are not, the 2006 season will be done. if they really can't get another impact bat in RF, then it's time for hendry to waddle off into the sunset or think about becoming michael moore's stunt double--because he sucks as a GM. what makes me insanely mad is that he has the gall to mock his critics (mostly the fans) by making some idiotic facetious statement about not needing another OF. what a slap in the face. we wait for years, nearly a hundred, and he has such a lack of perspective that he actually makes fun of us for thinking that we need more help in the OF before the cupboard goes bare. if he can't do something as necessary to his job as FILL an important production position with a capable bat (for a second straight year, mind you), then he never had ANY business as a GM in the first place. oh yeah, all of this after he overpaid for pierre, a player who was virtually useless last season as a leadoff hitter. he can sit there and think that we're stupid enough to be satisfied by what he's done? he sat in the baby pool for a month, making the easy signings (middle relievers to huge contracts) while he could have been contacting giles' agent (you know jim, giles, a guy who plays a position that we need to fill) and offering him something larger than he got from SD. now, we're stuck. we have a rookie set at SS, a position that dusty will eagerly turn over to the no-OBP neifi, and, gloriously, the best value on our team at 2nd--whom hendry has made no secret of his desires to get RID OF. all I'm saying is that he better do something soon, and it better be good, because he's dug a considerable hole for himself and this team, and the fans who fill the stadium.

so......are we done? is hendry's OF set? we have mabry, patterson, pierre, and murton--horrific. up the middle, we have cedeno and walker. i can't believe that hendry's set to go into the season with john mabry in right and Neifi not far from the starting lineup, especially with dusty involved. not to mention the fact that we still have a TON of money to spend! this smells of 2005.

You're funny. what's the point in trading for bigbie and starting him? might as well have gone for the prize. could be a long year for the cards.

well, the illini win unconvincingly again, and this time at the AH against a somewhat decent hoya team. this team has no go-to scorer, although jamar smith reminds me of luther head as an upperclassman at this point. to the illini's credit, georgetown DID have a very large dude in the middle who was blocking a ton of shots, and they did a good job of getting the ball inside, finishing was their problem.

he appears to be a similar hitter to aram. and i'd take another aram in the lineup. plus, he hasn't posted a sub .800 OPS in 7 years, which is pretty amazing for a SS who doesn't play 3rd for the yankees.