Guancous

Ha! The rest of the page makes so much sense now. Everyone's responses fit the fabric I constructed in my mind.

Where did everyone go?

I'm loving these all these walks. It's like the Brewers staff turned into the 2001 Cubs.

I'll use my 1000th post to break some news we'll hear every ten days: Milton Bradley appears to be injured.

Jessica Biel is a Cubs fan? Derek Jeter must have done a number on her. Aaron Heilman's body language looked like he hoped his wife wouldn't notice the bra on the bed after she got home from her business trip.

Has anyone else mentioned that Ryan Theriot's new facial hair makes him look like Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean?

Bush reminds me of a bearded Kevin Slowey: few baserunners but all the hits seem to go for extra bases.

Curses, where's the defense? Bruce should listen to cubbiealltheway and ask Lou where he was during Watergate.

Gregg slung some sick breaking balls there.

Soriano's fantasy value rivals Emilio "Tuffy" Bonifacio this year.

http://www.fangraphs.com/lgraphs/290408118_Cubs_Astros_122261183_lbig.png Thanks for the swift reply!

Does anyone have a Fangraph of the Cubs odds to win this game?

Imagine how many runs we would have scored with Soto playing.

Now the Gathright signing makes sense. Schilling needs someone in the Doug Glanville mode to play Everquest with.

I think Wieters will be amazing but look at who the #2 guy was. Glenn Braggs' career highlight was marrying one of the singers from En Vogue.

Marte cleared waivers and was outrighted to AAA Columbus.

I'll miss his swearing at the top of his lungs after each home run. And him driving around in his Buick. Godspeed, JoeBo!

Can someone please explain to me why Juan Cruz can be involved in a sign-&-trade and Orlando Hudson couldn't?

I would have no problems with a minor league deal, but I don't think that's really possible. If the Cubs want him they'll need to be highly considering keeping him on their major league bench. Thank you for clarifying Marte's status.

Sorry to stick to the original topic but would anyone here object to Hendry picking Marte off of waivers for a minor league deal? When will Marte's waiver process be complete?

No terms released yet but it sounds like one year for less than $7 million: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-21-joe-crede-newfeb21,0,6975867.story

I'd welcome Andy Marte as Aramis's AAA backup and hope that Marte never needs to see the field.

Better them than us. Great career though.

The payroll wasn't huge in 07, and is it Hendry fault the team underachieved so much the first two months of the season? He put the same roster on the field in April and May when the Cubs were 7-9 games under 500. Then the team that had one of the best records in baseball from June to the end of the year. When you have a new manager, and a bunch of new players. Sometimes it takes a little while to figure everything out. I know that might sound like a excuse, and the record was still 85 wins. But that year we had two different teams IMO. The bad team in April/May, and the good team from June on, that often played like he did in 08. I agree my comments aren't making this convo go away. So you're making a pretty good point. But it comes to a point when you see a few pages complaining about Aaron Miles and comparing contracts to Bobby Abreu, and I'm just like come on. Plus people can only complain about a move so long IMO. I'm fine with people expressing their opinion, but it can go overboard when there still bashing a move months later, and bringing up other contracts to bash a move again. At some point you just need to sit back and see how the move works out. If Miles somehow hits like he did last year for the next two seasons, people won't be bashing that deal nearly as much. People wouldn't be praising Hendry for months, if he signed Bradley to a 1y 1.5m deal. They would say it was a good signing, great bargin, but after a few days that would be the end of it. When they don't like a move, it gets brought up over and over again. People act like they can see in the future, and already know this or that is gonna happen for sure when their bashing a move. There's a difference in saying they dislike a move, then doing that IMO. For example I don't like the Mark DeRosa move, I expressed that before. But now I'm at the point were I'm just gonna see how it works out. If Fontenot sucks, and the depth sucks then I will be bashing Hendry. After Hendry success the last two years, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. But If he's wrong then I think Hendry deserves a ton of blame, and thats the time for these comments. Everything you said is correct. I'm a Hendry defender but I understand the calls for shenanigans. I'm praying that Fontenot/Miles+Bradley+Fukudome is more productive over a full season than DeRosa+Fukudome+Edmonds/Johnson. Then again, neither Edmonds or Reed Johnson broke spring training with the Cubs. Even Hendry didn't expect Jimmy E's excellent output last year. I'll give Hendry the benefit of the doubt. That said, I'll be shocked if Miles exceeds a .700 OPS in 150 at bats. That mofo better have the best defensive year of his life.

Bush gets arrested for assault on the regular. Didn't he throw out his shoulder in a bar fight?