E.J.

Way to give up runs to their worst hitters Ohman. Good work. Also, nice route to the ball Pagan.

yay wuertz. runs please.

The only thing Jones should be toughening is his butt skin while sitting on the bench.

Haha. Look at the man boobs on the guy who fell out of the stands. :lol:

SOTO! SOTO! SOTO!

Why are we talking about a naked Jim Hendry?

Pagan needs to start taking an outs clicker when he plays the outfield. He never has a clue how many outs there are.

thank god he's not in our division.

Looks like glass joe might be hurt again.

Floyd sucks. Murton for starter please.

almost

Eyre actually has been pitching better lately. :shock:

Get that old lady a bra.

According to gameday, this is the correct lineup. Fontenot needs to sit, and it looks like Murton is relegated to right-handed bench guy who only gets at-bats against lefties.

Another day off for Ramirez? He must be hurting.

Getting Wood back this week' date=' getting Ward back sooner than expected, but taking longer to get Blanco back. On the whole I'll take that deal (especially since, unbeknownst to the Cubs, they have a catcher named Soto tearing up AAA).[/quote'] I get the feeling Blanco is repaying Hendry for overpaying him by taking his sweet time to return after September 1 callups are allowed. Now if Soto can just get some naked pictures of Hendry in compromising positions we'd be all set.

It's a day game. :?:

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/images/bozo.jpg Striking resemblance. I'd love to have Kielty on the team. We could use a RH bat that mashes lefties.

We could definitely use his bat off the bench.

There is a 0% chance of this happening with Church basically making the minimum salary. It's bad reporting on Levine's part. I dunno about that. There seems to be a sort of gentleman's agreement that discourages GMs from placing frivolous claims on guys that they have no hope or intention of acquiring. As I understand it, the common courtesy is that if you see a guy on waivers that you'd like to have, and who would clearly be pulled back if you put in a claim, a GM first places a call to see if a deal can be arranged before formally filing a claim. If a deal's there to be made, then the claim is made. If not, then the guy is allowed to pass. Now to be sure, that gentleman's agreement is not always followed, and over the years teams have certainly gone against this little piece of GM etiquette. Steve Phillips infamously placed claims on hundreds of players one year. Nevertheless, it's not necessarily a foregone conclusion that a guy like Church would never make it through to the Cubs. I agree with this completely. If the Cubs pass the Brewers in the standings before they tried to make a deal, the Brewers would block the Cubs, but I'm not sure if any other teams would or not (possibly a team or two in the WC race). Really? I can't think of any examples of this, but I can think of examples where players are claimed to block him from getting to other teams. Anyone know of any? Also, whoever we'd trade for Church would have to pass by the reds and pirates. I'm just saying there aren't many teams that are so concerned about the Cubs that they would block the deal. The Brewers if they are in position to block definitely would. The Cardinals? possibly. Braves? I doubt it. The NL West teams? Hard to say. It's more because Church would be an economical, decent pickup for someone. Teams don't have to claim him just because they're trying to foil the Cubs' plans. They can do it just because Church works for them and their own plans. And that opens up pretty much every team in the league under us. Exactly. I'm sure there are some teams below us in the standings who'd like to have a player with a decent bat who can play CF and is only making $400,000 on the season.

the radio broadcaster was confused as to why Colvin was pulled also Maybe the Cubs decided they are sick and tired of seeing the dog crap that is Jacque Jones playing CF and decided to call up Colvin. :lol: boy, you want dog crap... imagine colvin in the bigs right now. I think his IsoD would be negative. He'd give you probably a .240 BA with a .240 OBP and about a .500 OPS. :lol:

the radio broadcaster was confused as to why Colvin was pulled also Maybe the Cubs decided they are sick and tired of seeing the dog crap that is Jacque Jones playing CF and decided to call up Colvin. :lol: By the way, Colvin has 14 BB in 384 plate appearances. His arms should be huge by now with all that swinging.

Ouch Someone forget to tell them Izturis is a Free Agent? They could pick up his option for next year. It would be extremely stupid to do, but it's the Pirates.

Z is pitching for the Cubs. I don't know who's going for the Mets. I will also be in attendance. See you there!

you seem to forget SB and fielding. and don't give me the argument on his range it's very good and his arm is definitely average. he's an average fielder despite your efforts to argue otherwise. he's tied for 4th in SB among shorstops. Hanley Ramirez is the only "bad" base-stealer ahead of him (below 77 percent success rate). 19 stolen bases don't really mean much. They've come in meaningful times. unlike Reyes who will steal just to up his numbers. Clutch stolen bases? That's a first. :lol: would you rather a guy steal when you have a 5 run lead or a difference of one run. You're trying to tell me that every single Ryan Theriot stolen base has come in a meaningful time? Here's a question: who would you rather have as your starting SS, Theriot or Reyes? Last i checked, Reyes isn't an available upgrade. That's not what I asked. I asked you who you would rather have starting on your team.