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Someone needs to bulk order some and then resell them here. Uh, not it!

I'll be shocked if we do anything at 2B. I'm figuring that Baker showed enough to wind up with the job next year.

I'm not too upset about Hendry. Most of us figured that Hendry would get at least a year due to his contract. If not, we'd probably see a first time GM getting a chance on the cheap. I'd rather get a year of Jimbo off the books and if he hasn't bounced back, cut him. Like most of what I'm seeing so far, just hope that he really improves the team.

Obviously everyone would love to get out from under Soriano's contract, but I believe he will bounce back next year and have a good season. This year he was playing on one leg for a big part of the season. If he can come back anywhere near his career averages (.278/.326/.510/.836 with 36 HR and 93 RBI), someone might want him next fall with the Cubs paying part of the contract. Most likely he will. He isn't who he was but he also isn't THAT bad as what we saw this year. It's just that, if at anytime another team is willing to take on the risk of his legs we take it. And if he really starts mashing our GM be competent enough to not stop thinking but to use it to his advantage to sell high for once.

I wouldn't think so now. Soriano would have to come back next spring post surgery rejuvenated. Then, it's a 5 year 95 million dollar contract. If he's looking good, someone might bite. Especially if we're willing to pay most of his 2010 salary in exchange for a better return. But I'd say the odds of Soriano ever being traded are about 1 in a billion.

Can't wait for the press conference, need SOMETHING to distract me from my job. :-))

If any GM's actually would be willing to take Soriano's contract on in exchange for a low A prospect, you have to do it. Especially if they'll bite quickly so the money can immediately be put into the free agent market.

Yeah, I posted this much more as just an ironic cherry on our collective disappointed cherry rather than any real criticism of what we did with him. This is just our luck. A lot of other stuff was actually intentional.

We should trade for Wood. But to justify his salary, he also has to sort through the team mail and get rid of the racist letters. Two birds, one stone!

From Rotoworld Sigh, for some reason the thought of the guy we threw on the scrapheap starting game 5 of the World Series just puts a perfect little bow on our season. Kudos to Chad though, he escaped two hellholes to somehow fall into a (likely) World Series ring.

Any chance Alfonso Soriano could opt out of his contract to try his luck in Japan? Yeah, probably not. :cry:

You have to love the Cubs. With numerous people staring them in the face who would absolutely deserve to be fired based on the teams performance...they fire the one guy who didn't. If I were Von Joshua, I'd look long and hard for a job with a different organization. He's never going to get a fair chance with the Cubs.

Here's what they should do with Bobby Scales. Hand him a trash bag, a hunting knife, and this bit of information. If Aaron Miles were to...um..."disappear" then Bobby would have a 25 man roster spot sewed up for next year. Then tell Z that Bradley and/or Soriano were hitting on his wife. And that should take care of almost all of our stupidly overpaid players. Assuming we don't have to pay Z while he's doing 50 to life. :-))

So, I was trying to think of ways that the Cubs could further devalue Milton Bradley on the trade market. The best I could come up with is "float a rumor that he's also a pedophile and/or serial killer". Anyone have any better ideas? :banghead:

He handled it fine. In your opinion, and in our opinion he didnt. You have a ridiculous opinion. A repeat a-hole got suspended toward the end of a wasted season. BIG FREAKING DEAL. Jim doesn't want to talk about it with the media anymore. BIG FREAKING DEAL. I've been the biggest anti-Hendry person on this board for several years but there's nothing wrong with how he's handled this so far. If he dumps the guy for nothing and pays him to play elsewhere, that's a problem. But he hasn't done anything worth whining about in regards to the suspension. This. To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't normally give a crap what Jimbo said here. My problem is that, knowing my cubs history like I do, Jimbo saying things like this at this particular time in the season makes him trading the "malcontent" for pennies on the dollar fairly likely. And that will be where the stupidity begins. I honestly couldn't care if Jimbos statement was "I told Bradley to go home and [EXPLETIVE] himself"...if by next spring everyone came to their senses and realized they're being paid to play baseball and manage a roster, respectively. And that they should go back to their jobs. And barring a surprise due to the weak FA market, I just don't see trading Bradley being the best thing the club can do for itself. Point blank, I wouldn't find a way to care less if Bradley arrived at a secret entrance next season, played, and then immediately left back through the secret entrance to avoid any mishaps. Assuming doing so lets him add 20 or 30 points to his OBP and get his slugging back to at least starting with a dot four something.

If he had the same attitude and performance - He'd still be a douche. Well, if we were going to the playoffs it would probably have meant that he kept his numbers from July and August going. So while he'd still be a douche, his overall OBP would be right at .400 and he'd be "our douche". Just like how in 2003 Sammy was "our primadonna who listens to loud music in the clubhouse", but a year later and a different outcome he was "a douche who listens to loud music in the clubhouse...and must go". Insert some quote about how those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it...right about here.

Why don't we keep Bradley and trade all 24 other players, replace all of the coaches, replace everyone in the front office, and move the team to some small town in Nebraska where there will be minimal fans and media to bother him. All problems solved! ...or just tell him to STFU and do his job. Like anyone of us would be told if we were mouthing off at our jobs. Assuming we too were too valuable and/or expensive to eliminate to not just be fired.

The correct answer is Soriano, and it really is correct. Bradley and Z shouldn't even be in the discussion. Thanks a lot. I'd created a perfect mental block that removed Soriano from all memory. Now you've reminded me that he's still on the team, still makes way too much money, and will be even older next year. I'll be trying to kill those brain cells if anyone needs me...

Luckily, we run a baseball team and not the SAG. So it really doesn't matter how Bradley acts. It's as simple as this. Unless you can get a fair return on a guy with $20 million left on his contract coming off of a .775 OPS season, it's stupid to trade him. Especially with a free agent market that won't allow you to replace him with much. It would be much smarter for this club to tell him point blank he's stuck here, and he better come to camp next year in perfect shape with perfect manners...or it's going to be a REALLY long 2 years. Maybe he mans up for a half season of high caliber production, and then we could actually trade him for something in return. If the choice is to eat half of his contract and get a AA prospect in return, no thanks. We shouldn't be that desperate yet. So, yeah, I expect the news of the horrible trade that runs him out of town as soon as the offseason begins.

I'd much rather get myself to sleep at night with lies that ARam for a full season would have led us to the playoffs this year. A lot better than "it's all that bum " "'s fault" randomly inserting Bradley, or Z, or Soto, or Aaron Miles into that sentence. Don't get me wrong though...Aaron Miles totally needs ran off this team in the offeseason. =D>

You would have thought the fact that the only sponsor Milton brought with him to Chicago was Summers Eve would have tipped them off to the whole "he's a douche" problem. Of course, if we were going to the playoffs he'd just be an emotional guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. But hey, it's time to start identifying scapegoats. And since the two who most deserve to be the scapegoat (our GM and our manager) aren't interested, we have to find some players willing to carry the burden.

Bradley tried to at the beginning of the year, and the Cubs made him. I still don't really know why. Because we're a cosmic goat cursed clusterbleep just waiting for the next page of heartbreak? In fact, someone really needs to make a Youtube video dedicated to the clowns running this team, and score it with Def Leppards "Bringing On The Heartbreak".

Sorry, but Z has got to go. I mean, all malcontents have to go right? It's the law of the world apparently. Don't worry though, I hear that the Rockies may be up for a sign and trade of Marquis for Zambrano. All we have to do is eat 60% of his contract!!!! :-))

Here's a crazy idea. How about we don't dump our $10 million outfielder for pennies on the dollar. How about instead, we just institute a media blackout next season for Milton Bradley? Don't talk to the press. Ever. Just keep your mouth shut, do as your told by your coaches, come to play a game of baseball and then go home. All problems solved! O:)

If he's pitching in the Pirates DH, then I'd just let him throw. Nothing like kicking a AAA's team ass to keep your confidence high! But at this point, anytime they shut him down is fine by me. The sooner the better. '09 is already going to be about hearbreak...lets not tempt fate too much here. It's all fun and games until one of your 2010 rotation undergoes TJ Surgery because of one too many starts.