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  1. Wheelimus
    I think you're putting too much of the blame on Aramis there. He's an athlete, of course he's going to want to play through pain and try to make the best of it. It's the teams job to tell him no and make him take a DL stint. I'd say 41% lou, 54% hendry, 5% aramis
  2. Wheelimus
    Even if both were raking this is still a .500 team at best. And an 81-81 record would probably mean at least Jim Hendry is back next year. Just keep taking it easy guys. :good:
  3. Wheelimus
    It would be so terribly Cub-like to trade Lilly and then bring him back next season costing us draft picks. Of course it would be more Cub-like for the prospects we trade for in the first place blowing up in our faces.
  4. Wheelimus
    Nothing like a series against the Cubbies to keep a team in first place.
  5. Wheelimus
    The only good thing about remembering to check the score at work at 4:22 PM is almost everyone is gone when I let a four letter expletive fly in disgust. What a joke.
  6. Wheelimus
    It's pretty hard to debate that Lou has cost us wins this season and in the past with his decisions. But it's also pretty hard to debate that he has cost us enough wins to somehow make this season worthwhile otherwise. Bring in whoever you think the greatest mind in managing is and we're maybe six games under .500 rather than 11. Not quite "oh joy, happy day." It isn't going to mean a damn thing is Lou gets fired now. On second thought, it might mean a damn thing if Ricketts considers that his rolling head and leaves Jimbo in charge next season. There's an argument to be made for just leaving things as they are, so maybe things get so bad there have to be real changes.
  7. Wheelimus
    Just make sure you're not too sober to watch this team. At the start of the season it took a cold one. Right now it's taking eight cold ones and a good joint. I expect by the end of the season to need black tar heroin. :banghead:
  8. Wheelimus
    My wife and I have decided not to have kids anyway, so I'll put both of mine on the table for a World Series win.
  9. Wheelimus
    This. Those terrible teams were "Plan 9 From Outer Space" fun bad. While you were losing almost every game, you got to see Sammy Sosa shine and weren't really expecting that much. This team is more "Adventures of Pluto Nash" bad. Made with a stupidly high budget, yet failing in almost every single way. I'm only hoping that the struggles continue simply so heads will roll. I'd rather them lose 95 games and get a fresh start GM and Manager wise than go 82-80 and have the same cast of clowns around next year. Or do just decent enough that Piniella retires with dignity and we get GM Hendry with Manager Sandberg next season. And I'm about as big of a Ryno mark as you'll ever find. But we need a real leader and can't afford to be someones on the job training.
  10. Wheelimus
    Yeah, I don't think things are ever going to be "10th row single seat $10" bad for the Cubs. But then again they would never get that bad for the Cubs...they'd get that bad for the scalpers. Like that $10 ticket to Wisconsin last season probably stung for **that** scalper.
  11. Wheelimus
    There's always going to be people at Wrigley. Especially while companies like Paetec continue to make business deals to buy a bunch of tickets. Which I know due to the Cubs hat (with Paetec logo on the side) and un-used ticket stub a coworker brought back from said conference. No, I'm not bitter about that. NOT AT ALL. But there is quite a big difference fiscally for the club between 80% full and 100% full. And if our down-slide continues, that bottom may fall out even more. Right now so many people buy tickets early because they're afraid of availability. If we get to a point where that isn't a concern, less and less will buy early.
  12. Wheelimus
    Very true, I'm kicking around the idea of heading up to Chicago for some late season series if things keep going they way they are. Always wanted to have a great seat at Wrigley and not have to pay great seat money. Barring a miracle I'm betting someone with a little cash 5 minutes before first pitch is going to make out like a bandit. Or at least I've found that to be true in a slightly similar situation, Indiana University basketball.
  13. Wheelimus
    is marlon byrd giving anything to this team? i mean, we're NINE games under .500 You need to DFA Soto too. After all, we're NINE games under .500. Better get rid of Marmol and Marshall too. If they really cared, they'd somehow hit in some runs despite never batting.
  14. Wheelimus
    A guy whose OBP will be lower than most players batting average? I'm sure Dusty is thrilled. He probably plays the game "the right way." Ha.
  15. Wheelimus
    If that was in response to me, if I have to explain the (at least) two different meanings of "hitting it"...I'm not sure how to help out there. lol Just a bad joke that we wouldn't want the ho because we can't hit anything anyway. Though now that I think of it I could see why someone might infer a 3rd meaning that I didn't intend. :shock:
  16. Wheelimus
    I hear that they offered a bag of balls, but we're holding out for one of their best stadium rats to handle balls of a different sort. However, I'm also hearing we'll drop our demands once someone realizes that nobody on the team could "hit it" anyway. ba-da-ching :P
  17. Wheelimus
    Can't believe that the Marlins couldn't make room for Pinto. They'll surely lose him to waivers.
  18. Wheelimus
    They should start Patterson, Pie and Dubois in the OF, with Kelton, Montanez, Bobby Hill and Choi on the IF. Since Jake Fox was just DFA'd, you could have him behind the plate with Brownlie starting and Ben Christensen coming in to close it down. Of course by close it down you mean turn the lights off at the stadium after a 10 run loss.
  19. Wheelimus
    Nothing like an imaginary controversy to distract from the fact that this team just isn't good enough to compete this year. We're a middle of the road .500'ish team that's even under performing that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we have no hope for this season. Part of me thinks the Orioles could come in and win the NL Central this year. But this is an average at best team that would be swept in 3 games (again) if they stumbled into the playoffs. At this point it's just more fun to focus on the bright spots (watching Castro develop, Marmol, can't believe I'm typing it but Silva, and so on) and go ahead into "wait til next year!" mode. It makes the losses hurt a bit less.
  20. Wheelimus
    I don't really need the life insurance money if we have to pretend like he died of natural causes with a straight face. I'll settle for just abducting him and dropping him in the middle of Syberia. Of course, he'd probably just wind up the head of some Russian oil company. Giving out overly long bloated contracts of course! :-))
  21. Wheelimus
    Very true, I just have little to no interest in limping into the playoffs and getting swept in three games again. To me, that winds up being about as fulfilling as having missed the playoffs by a few games. Go big or go home, as they say.
  22. Wheelimus
    Bob may not want to risk his midseason tryout as Lou's replacement by saying anything biting.
  23. Wheelimus
    Shark to the Bears [/old NSBB joke] Hey now, didn't the Atlanta Hawks once effectively trade a failed draft pick to WCW Wrestling? (Giant Gonzales). It could work! He'll be too old by then to be effective. I'm not sure if that isn't a tongue in cheek "HAHA, Playoffs, yeah right!" joke from Z Cokes a hell of a drug Seeing as Tuesday was 4/20 it's more likely pot. And the only reasonable explanation, Lou and Jimbo burnt up some Amsterdam kind bud and made this decision. They're both too embarrassed to admit it was the reefer talking to go back now.
  24. Wheelimus
    If he can't catch on with another team I wouldn't mind him getting a non playing job with the organization. Maybe the guy who is in charge of keeping Z in a good mood and not killing people. Or Gatorade dispensers.
  25. Wheelimus
    Unless we have a trade lined up to flip Silva to save a few more million, this is pathetic. Silva isn't even minor league contract with a spring training invite good.
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