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rocky is rocky ill have no choice but to be there the night it opens i cant wait

Is that classified as a steroid precursor? I don't believe so but I'm no biochemist. I should probably include the same caveat about my lack of a background in biochemistry, but I too am almost certain it is not.

i hope not. the cubs will be doing that, but all the smart teams wont.

diffusion is probably my favorite poster.

the sad thing is that we're now going to see 10 replies talking about how much they hope we actually do have that lineup.

Who cares? He can take his, does only one thing good, to lowly KC. If it helps the Cubs I'm all for it. Depending on the prospect I like this deal. McDougal,Weurtz & Williamson setting up Dempster, that's a solid, & deep pen. Get er done, Jim! if we can just do whatever we want to players and it doesn't matter, we really should've told maddux to go away for the last month and a half to keep his option from vesting. also, you said get er done. dont do that.

i heard a rumor that illinois' tim brasic intends to break the 75 yard barrier this week everyone should tune in to find out if he can do it (jk, dont bother watching, he can't do it)

did the new stadium fall in the river yet?

No, not really Not a very good memory eh? He didn't appear in the one series vs. the white sox when they played in Chicago. Claimed his foot hurt and asked to be put on the DL. And was so dedicated to the charade that he stayed on the DL for a full month after the White Sox series. you just have a bad memory when it comes to things that never happened.

the cubs caravan should come to my house so i can punch dusty in the face

Wanna back that up? Let's look at the numbers: Runs Created Arod: 138 Papi: 136 you could've stopped there, provided the next line was this: Defensive Value Arod: some Papi: none

any thread with the words "halo" and "madden" in the title should really be about xbox.

What market? No one else had the chance to bid on Neifury. The same thing an arbitrator would use, Geech. When a player goes to arbitration, no one is bidding on him, are they? The market is what other SSs with comparable stats are getting paid. in that case Neifi should be getting 500k/year. On the extreme low end, I agree. Angel Berroa had a .305 OBP and a .680 OPS to Neifi's .298 OBP and .681 OPS, and he made exactly $500,000 last season according to espn.com. But he also played for the Royals who had the one of the lowest payroll's last season which agent's must take into account. But then there are Orlando Cabrera (6 mil .309/.674), Jack Wilson (3.25 mil .299/.662), Alex Gonzalez of the Marlins (3.4 mil .319/.686) and Christian Guzman (4.2 mil .260/.574). There are plenty of players who had similar OBPs and OPSs that were paid less than Neifi's 2.5 million like Cesar Izturis (2.15 mil .302/.624), Alex Cora (1.3 mil and a .275/.607), and Juan Castro (1 mil .279/.665). Arbitrators also have to take into account the player's personal salary history and his most recent performance. While agent's take into account a given team's payroll and how much they can afford to spend. So there are a lot of factors that go into determining what is a fair price to pay for someone's services. Those are four horrible contracts. The players were not expected to perform as badly as they did when they were signed. Neifi is hoped to perform at the level. Nobody thinks those are good contracts. Except maybe our moron of a gm.

I refuse to believe that Hendry sees Dunn as anything but a guy with a low average and below-average defense who strikes out a ton. he probably values his solid rbi totals though!

TWO YEARS FIVE MILLION? WHAT? I MISSED THAT THE FIRST TIME no more making fun of jim bowden. ever. the cubs are insanely ridiculous. and "i decided i like guys who catch the ball?" what the hell does that mean? you know what? i decided i like guys who aren't complete morons. which means i dont like jim hendry.

I just found out about this now. I suppose I'm way behind. Oh well. Jim Hendry is a giant dump. I hate the Cubs. I'm going to save all the money I would've spent on going to Cubs games and fly out to Oakland every couple years.

wtg tommie harris that was awesome

update on mod-ification plz

thank you ryan. i was really happy with it and really sad that no one made note of it. you are a lot cooler than you used to be, you must've changed a lot or something because i am sure that im exactly the same as ive always been.

everyone should really be voting for bill king here.

Obviously not, since we are so far into the offseason and so many teams have made moves and Hendry is just screwing up left and right. :roll: Seems to me that are always going to be some people hoping for a bad offseason because they seem to get more enjoyment from ripping mistakes (real or perceived) by Hendry, Baker, etc. than they get when the team is succesful. i think im going to have a lot more fun enjoying the cubs preposterous failures than you're going to have waiting for them to be good. im hoping for a good offseason. but im sure as hell not expecting it, or anything close to it.

I don't know how I missed this obnoxiousness the first time around. Just because there are some world series memories in a park it makes it historic? Does Jack Morris's 10 inning shutout and Kirby Puckett's walk off HR make the Metrodome a historic ballpark? the bob and pro player are also hugely historic.

i think it's time to start hoping that the cubs offseason is so comically bad that we can enjoy it perversely, since we sure aren't going to have much fun watching things transpire on a conventional level.

no worries, he'll start winning these when he's 38 or so.

if we kept everything realisitic and just had discussions involving moves that hendry would actually consider, we'd have nothing but threads about picking up burnitz's option and giving preston wilson a 4 year contract.