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  1. Wheelimus
    Anyone else getting the awesome U-Verse kind of slow mo effect on your WGN? Great, now watching this game feels like an acid trip...strangely fitting for the team at this point in a lost season.
  2. Wheelimus
    Also it seems a little strange to crap on Ransom when he's more than fulfilled his role on the short side of a platoon. Factor in his 1.000+ OPS versus lefties and third base has been a pleasant surprise this season. Valbuena had a terrible June but he's off to a good start in July. I'm not sure you can predict him to have a .700 OPS by the end of the season when (so far) he's been above .800 three out of four months. And even if I'm wrong Vitters couldn't sniff .700.
  3. Wheelimus
    And it says even less when you realize that they're likely to be much more careful spending 20 mil than they are 2. To put this is in a context we can all relate to I'm much more likely to be careless with twenty bucks than I am with $200. To a baseball team with financial means like the Cubs two mil is a lottery ticket. When they buy those I think they expect, at best, 1 out of 4 to pay off.
  4. Wheelimus
    After further consideration of what the Cubs are really playing for (#2 draft pick since no one is catching the Marlins) I'll change my mind and advocate for Ian Stewart to play third if Valbuena goes down. Of course I'd prefer we just handle it how The Who would when Keith Moon was too drunk to play and just see if someone in attendance will fill the void. I understand though that would be a bitch as far as the 25 man roster goes. Sad, it would probably boost attendance if you could promote one lucky fan chosen at random will get to play 3B.
  5. Wheelimus
    It's really really really hard to have any sympathy whatsoever for Ian Stewart when he's getting paid two million dollars to play the game we all love. Of course your goal is to be in the big leagues but on some level you should just be happy to have such a great job. Know who I respect? All the guys on the Iowa Cubs, some who are making 1% of what Stewart is making, who are keeping their mouths shut about this. Of course they can't afford to throw him under the bus because they haven't already made $7 million being a terrible baseball player. Suspend him for as long as you can get away with and leave him in AAA to rot. Even in the event that Valbuena goes down I'd rather see Ransom start. I guess if there's nothing just terrible on the scrapheap you let Stewart be his horrible backup.
  6. Wheelimus
    So the Cubs go up a bunch dead guys, old guys, and guys I've never heard of and still lose. Sounds about right. CM Punk is a Chicago boy and a big Cubs can FWIW. And Brian Pillman was from Cincy. I wanted to keep a Reds kicking Cubs ass slant. :twisted:
  7. Wheelimus
    This game translated to a pro wrestling match that never happened (sadly). CM Punk (who just told all of his friends to go bleep themselves and not get involved in his match) vs Brian Pillman (who naturally brings with him the entire Hart Foundation (Bret, Owen, Jim The Anvil, British Bulldog, what the hell toss in Tyson Kidd, Davey Jr, Natalya, and so on) in a No DQ Match. Things...don't go well for Punk. :eek:
  8. Wheelimus
    And there's something to be said for a continued incremental increase in the number of night games. The best motivation for the Cubs owner to provide to get people into the ballpark for those inconvenient day games is a winning team. The best way to get people to remember to DVR those day games is a winning team. The next time this comes up if the Cubs are a perennial contender I think there will be more agreement to increase the number.
  9. Wheelimus
    We should pretty much buy every lottery ticket type of player we can. If things go south for us next year (and they probably will) you trade the ones that pan out for prospects. But hey, never underestimate the ability of Dusty Baker to ruin a ballclub. If he throws Chapman for 150 pitches in a game and his arm falls off all bets are off. Whatever pile of crap wins the Central next year would probably be 4th at best in the AL East but that's baseball for ya.
  10. Wheelimus
    We're basically in a buying lottery tickets mode with our payroll flexibility during a time of top to bottom rebuilding. This guy seems like as good of a risk as most other options.
  11. Wheelimus
    Pierre signed for $1.6 million. At that price they'll probably keep bringing him back until he's the worst player in history to get 3,000 hits. :eek:
  12. Wheelimus
    Marlins have signed Juan Pierre per Rotoworld. Whew, dodged a bullet there.
  13. Wheelimus
    We paid to fix Stewart. Might as well see how he looks next season. Unless the market for Youk just vanishes there aren't any other good options.
  14. Wheelimus
    Awesome move. Going from the AL to the NL should only help him bounce back even if he doesn't get his velocity back. Great move in that you most likely deal him at the deadline for a nice pickup but maybe not if we catch a bunch of breaks and can compete. Doesn't sound like the Cardinals are doing too much. If that holds and Dusty, well, Dusty's his pitching next season you never know. Unlikely for sure but it's nice to dream.
  15. Wheelimus
    A-, exceptional work given the circumstances but room for improvement next year. And in a few years when he actually has a league average team I can't wait to see what can happen in the craptastic NL Central.
  16. Wheelimus
    The Mets should sign him and let him pitch to Greenberg on the 2nd. To top this next season the Marlins should sign a team full of nothing but people unlikely to get in the HOF due to steroids. Reset the clocks of McGwire, Bonds, Clemens, etc. So, have an old-timer's game that actually counts in the standings? We'd have to compare it to whatever clusterbleep actually becomes the 2013 Florida Marlins to see if it would be anymore shameful.
  17. Wheelimus
    The Mets should sign him and let him pitch to Greenberg on the 2nd. To top this next season the Marlins should sign a team full of nothing but people unlikely to get in the HOF due to steroids. Reset the clocks of McGwire, Bonds, Clemens, etc.
  18. Wheelimus
    Garth Brooks is a major baseball fan, and despite some spring training fun he never got an at bat. Make it happen Marlins!
  19. Wheelimus
    I think some of the cynicism comes from the fact that if you were to look up every sad story of people who deserve one major league at bat you could fill out every teams lineup on October 2nd. Hell, every team for every game left in the season. Countless guys who flamed out in the low minors but were really nice guys or had some story to tell. Guys who never made it out of college or high school ball but went on to save someones life or what have you. I don't mind him getting the at bat but lets not pretend he did anything incredible to earn it. It says more about the power of the internet and social networking than it does him as a player. I'm not such a purist that I'd say this taints anything, but if you're going to allow crap like this lets go all the way. Select a sympathetic superfan from every team and call it Who Wants To Be A Baseball Player. Put that shizzle on Fox and make the prize an MLB at bat.
  20. Wheelimus
    Could you guys stop arguing about the designated hitter, err I mean Starlin Castro and agree to the price of your new VW? Because this kind of feels like that commercial. :-k He's 22 and has had an up and down season. You're allowed to be either optimistic about his future or pessimistic because of his struggles. In a few years when he's in his prime we can all get back on the same page.
  21. Wheelimus
    Gotta say I'm looking forward to seeing what the 2013 version of Darwin Barney looks like. Something I never thought I'd be saying at the start of the season. But the guy obviously works his ass off in between seasons, what with the conditioning improvement we saw in spring training before we got to see how good his defense was. Since there won't be much work to do on defense (can't really get any better) I wouldn't be surprised if he concentrates on hitting and has a nice season next year just by working harder than his peers. Not saying he's going to go '84 Sandberg on our rumps but a solid .750 OPS with elite defense isn't out of the question.
  22. Wheelimus
    Maybe next season they'll have the option of a DH for the 2B position. Then Darwin Barney and Jim Thome will have the greatest statistical season defensively and offensively for 2B. But beyond that happening I'm perfectly happy with Barney's average bat with elite defense. It's not his fault there aren't seven better bats in the lineup than him at all times. Perhaps next season we'll actually have a third basemen for the entire season.
  23. Wheelimus
    A-Ri
  24. Wheelimus
    tranny said we should trade barney for a set-up man GET IT DONE TRADER THEO Then he stays on the Cubs for a few years as a reliever, becoming a dominant setup man. In 2014, the Cubs break through and become competitive. Kerry Wood unretires yet again and the duo avenge 2003 together, with Prior getting the last five outs of the NLCS. Ryan Theriot winds up making the final out, a line drive that Castro grabs with a spectacular diving catch. Theriot sulks on his way back totally missing Soriano approaching and clocking him in the face, standing over him screaming "YOU JUST GOT KNOCKED THE BLEEP OUT"
  25. Wheelimus
    And at this point, this many games under .500, I'd rather they booted the Cubs to whatever closest stadium was available for a game if things went awry than lose out on one of Roger Waters (alleged) last performances of The Wall.
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