Scott G. F.

Angel Pagan start warming up please.

CBS says 38 So does MLB I might have miss read. I thought it said 34. I recall because it was the same pitch count as Petites at the time I looked. I could be wrong or they corrected. Just checked Maddux ERA is lower too... what the hell is going on?

Yep, fixed it already !! :wink: I see, thanks for the updates. I am greatful and don't want to seem as ungreatful. serious question: Is it grateful or greatful? grateful Thanks, it didn't look right and I wondered why. The More you know!!!

Excellent!!!

I believe "hot as the sun" was used before? Barrett is RA (the sun god)

Z has 34 pitches thorugh 3

Fred looks like the beginning of something special!!! Not saying it though!

Yep, fixed it already !! :wink: I see, thanks for the updates. I am greatful and don't want to seem as ungreatful.

Fred 3 LOB my man.

He looks like he's just playing out the string.

hope the Cubs jump all over (Small).

Cubs win 8-2 Take the series. Z 7 in a row. Nevin 4 RBI's Z 9 K's Therot 2 RBI's Slappy and Neifi 2 runs each.

This will affect Hendry's "evaluation". I say no.

Trying to be funny?

Wahoo. Go Cubs

Tom Verducci is "Captin Obvious" NSBB has be writing this since the begining of the year and now that Tom Verducci say it it must be true? Because ya' know anything Sports Illustrated prints must be true.

Captin B. I have read your post and am sorry your head is that close to exsploding. I believe the Cubs will have a tremendous second half and I predicted what I predicted. Viewing the thread, my prediction was the only one attacked with hate and knashing of teeth. Why is it so difficult to understand predicting the Cubs rookies and "star players" to play much better baseball? Wouldn't that fact help in building for 2007? If Cedano comes out of his slump, which he will, and Murton starts showing some power then Hendry can look in other areas of filling hole for the Cubs. Marshall, Marmol and Hill will be 3 starting young pitchers that will be evaluated in the second half. I see them doing very well. D Lee will be better coming off the All Star Break along with Am Ram. I like what J. Jones has done, he got off to a bad start but his play has proven Hendry right with respect that Jones would play better as Wrigley. JP is playing better too. Steve Stone made a comment during a broadcast that still resonates with me even today. He was tring to explain a free agents slower start (I cannot remember whom). He explained that it takes about a half a season to get used to Wrigley Field and to play the game at the level you're use to playing. Lets see: The entire outfiled was new this year and all three should get better. Cedano was new Marshall New Marmol New Am Ram Slow Start but heating up D Lee injured but getting back to form Todd Walker and Barrett have been very good Offensivly this year So that is why I say what I say about the second half of the year being so much better then the first half. It's not based on the fact that I'm blindly wishing the Cubs are going to do better because I like the color blue. I find that rather insulting. So many people are watching what Dusty is doing or not doing that their missing what's happening on the field and putting it in the proper perspective.

I agree with you in the premium. I'm seeing the market being set by this trade and enjoying the fact that the Cubs have some nice pen arms.

Maybe you don't realize that a prediction on an internet message board will have no bearing on how a team will react when lossing 100 games either. I prefer winning to retooling and cutting and slashing the current team. I guess other don't. I think we'd all prefer winning, which is why finishing at .500 isn't going to cut it. Not only is that, by definition, NOT winning, but it's ensuring that the current regime of excused mediocrity will be back, which in turn will lead to more not winning. I get the feeling you were not saying this in 2003 or 2004. Both winning seasons.

What makes you think this will happen long term? So we have to sit through 3 or 4 years of a youth movement to put team-philosophy in place. Great plan. What necessary changes are that? Like I posted before if the Cubs get to the 0.500 mark that would mean the rookies, Murton, Cedano, Marshall, Marmol all did great job, along with Ar Ram coming out of his funk. The Hendry has a good start on what needs need to be filled. Right now there are to many needs to be filled because not one player is doing really great, Jones, Barrett maybe. So the 3-4 year plan . Your okay with. 3 to 4 years just to be competitive and maybe sniff 0.500 in those year. Again good plan. If they clean house and fire everyone and trade evryone that doesn't have a .400 OBP the only thing that'll be long term would be the Cubs World Series drought. I respectively disagree with you on the prediction thread, you and a lot of others. I would like to see good baseball in the second half by the Cubs. Not bad baseball.

Maybe you don't realize that a prediction on an internet message board will have no bearing on how a team will react when lossing 100 games either. I prefer winning to retooling and cutting and slashing the current team. I guess other don't.

Don't tell me that I don't want the Cubs to win. That's crap. 100 losses. Then I guess your prediction of 100 losses is an indication you want them to win some how? How obvious I must have missed that.

1. Higher draft pick 2. Dead weight veterans get traded off. 3. Baker will be gone; potentially a better manager is there 4. Hendry under pressure to actually get something done 5. Young players get opportunity to show whether they belong; if they don't, the Cubs know in the offseason who they need to replace. 6. Clines/Matthews "aggressiveness at all costs" is gone. 7. Slows ticket sales for next year; MacPhail may begin to ask for accountability. Getting to .500 is a step back, because it simply tells these idiots in the front office and coaching staff that what they're doing is right, and it was only "injuries" that made this team bad. So they do the EXACT SAME THING next year, and this team is screwed for the foreseeable future. Its already happened two years in a row--why can't you see that? 1. Higher draft pick Because the draft in baseball means so much of course. 2. Dead weight veterans get traded off. Like whom did you have in mind? 3. Baker will be gone; potentially a better manager is there Not going to happen Bakers staying until the end of the year live with it. 4. Hendry under pressure to actually get something done It's he every year? What's changed? 5. Young players get opportunity to show whether they belong; if they don't, the Cubs know in the offseason who they need to replace. Young players like Murton Cedano, Marmol, Marshall? Their already on the team. 6. Clines/Matthews "aggressiveness at all costs" is gone. Not going anywhere unless Dusty is. 7. Slows ticket sales for next year; MacPhail may begin to ask for accountability. Slow ticket sales? You must be kidding me. ever heard the term CUBBERNECKING? They sell out just like before.

This is a prediction thread. Not a wishing thread. Oh in that case 81-81 total for the year. Explain how ending the season 81-81 would be good for this team in the long run. Explain to me how 100 losses or 110 losses helps this team? Getting to 0.500 after being 23 games below means the players are playing great baseball. The pitchers are pitching great, defense, hitting. Cedano and Murton are doing what they should be doing J. Jones is hitting JP is getting on and scoring. The Cubs will be winning which appearently is the last thing people want on this thread. It would give the Cubs something positive to build on for next season. Right now they have holes all over the place, but if LF, 3B, CF, RF and SS solidify and Z, Marshall, Marmol, and Prior pitch well we only have to replace Maddux next year. The needs of the club would be a solid 2nd baseman after T. Walker gets traded. Do we need a power bat? As of right now yes but Am Ram has been crap so far, D Lee is coing back and Murton hasn't hit the power numbers expected. That's what I see for the second half not gloom and doom and chanting "fire Dusty" Fire Dusty" like most poster do!

This is a prediction thread. Not a wishing thread. Oh in that case 81-81 total for the year.