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Sign me up for that day too...Thats the Sunday night game on ESPN..Hope he does it so the whole nation can see Only one person can sign up per day and the day Andy picked (4-28) is actually the Saturday game. Sunday is 4-29. Ill take that day, anyone pick it yet? It's yours

It would be even nicer if Harvey did something significant to deserve a top 10 rating. Once again, Harvey has a tool you can't teach.

That's interesting since Hendry said at Convention that Jones had never said he wanted to be traded.

The top post should be updated to include everyone who has picked thus far. If I've missed anyone, let me know.

That Hirsh pic is begging for some photoshopping.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070214/capt.azmg10302141935.rockies_spring_baseball_azmg103.jpg Jason Hirsh http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070214/capt.flrb20102141847.orioles_spring_training_flrb201.jpg Jamie Walker gives away sausage.

I was noticing that gut as well.

We'll close this contest as of the first pitch of the Opening Day game. I wouldn't wait to pick, as it is first come first served as to dates....but we'll let it go down to the beginning of the season just in case someone wants to make a last minute addition.

Everyone above this post should be added, so let me know if I've missed anyone. Mods, if this is ok, can we get a sticky here!

UMFan just beat you to that one; you might want to choose again.

Yes. It's the equivalent of bidding one dollar.

No. This is regular season. He can blow up all he wants in the spring with no bearing on our contest.

Who wants to play "Pick the Date Sweet Lou Gets His First Ejection"? Enter your pick in this thread. (First come, first serve.) Winner will get a Chicago Cubs hat along with a Carlos Zambrano Milk Growth Poster. And now just added to the prize list- a Lou Piniella Rookie card and an autographed Lou Piniella card from the Yankees Legends series. I'll update with the picks in this post. I think this could be fun. Check out the Cubs schedule and enter date with opponent please. Cubs Schedule in PDF 4/2 @ Cincinnati- J.R. 4/4 @ Cincinnati- Amazing Grace 4/5 @ Cincinnati- Chris 4/6 vs Milwaukee- texascub 4/8 vs Milwaukee- cuubs4life 4/9 vs Houston- Sparkle 4/10 vs Houston- cubtastic 4/11 vs Houston- Bixby 4/13 vs Cinicinnati- Flames24Rulz 4/14 vs Cincinnati- Allroy 4/15 vs Cincinnati- Outshined One 4/17 vs San Diego- coolhandluke84 4/18 @ Atlanta- TruffleShuffle 4/19 @ Atlanta- Vance_the_Cubs_Fan 4/20 vs St. Louis- RammyFanny 4/21 vs St. Louis- TheGilesBros 4/22 vs St Louis- BleedCubbieBlue81 4/25 vs Milwaukee- Electron Blue 4/27 @ St Louis- soccer10k 4/28 @ St. Louis- Andy 4/29 @ St. Louis- PrimeTime 4/30 @ Pittsburgh- VanceJergins 5/2 @ Pittsburgh- circlecitycub 5/4 @ Pittsburgh- jyoung55 5/5 vs Washinton- sweetpeteman 5/6 vs Washington- Friendly Confines 5/8 vs Pittsburg- Treeman 5/9 vs Pittsburgh- Mark Prior's Calves 5/10 vs Pittsburgh- Transmogrified Tiger 5/11 vs Philadelphia- IMB 5/12 @ Philadelphia- Cubbies75 5/13 @ Philadelphia- Mizzou 5/14 @ NY Mets- hawkcub 5/15 @ NY Mets- ChiCubsFan 5/16 @ NY Mets- MPrior 5/17 @ NY Mets- Mephistopheles 5/18 vs White Sox- BalsaWoodKeyBoard 5/19 vs White Sox- radarluv1 5/20 vs White Sox- Wekse5 5/22 @ San Diego- karenmac 5/23 @ San Diego- Garwilly 5/24 @ San Diego- cbbryan 5/25 @ Los Angeles- cubfan87 5/26 @ Los Angeles- TomAZZ 5/27 @ Los Angeles- CubmanPi 5/28 vs Florida- sethuel1 5/29 vs Florida- Mark_R 6/1 vs Atlanta- Bob Sanders 6/2 vs Atlanta- b_wiggy_66 6/3 vs Atlanta- mspcanes1 6/6 @ Milwaukee- Rocket Sauce 6/8 vs Atlanta- Jon 6/10 @ Atlanta- BRASKY'S SCOTCH 6/12 vs Seattle- UMFan83 6/13 vs Seattle- Jazz 6/14 vs Seattle- MrWood 6/15 vs San Diego- circlechange 6/20 @ Rangers- CubsInNC 6/21 @ Rangers- sandberg23 6/22 @ White Sox- otis89 6/24 @ White Sox- Marco4 7/3 @ Washington- NCCubFan 7/4 @ Washington- Omar 7/13 vs Astros- Laura 7/14 vs Astros- 98navigator 8/1 vs Phillies- erik316wttn 8/12 @ Colorado- Wilmo 8/17 vs St. Louis- dew Game 6 NLCS- Brian No ejection- CubColtPacer

I'm not sure they work out much on the first reporting day. I think it's more like a check-in and that workouts will begin tomorrow.

Welcome to the forum! This is an excellent place for Cubs information. I don't think you will find a better spot anywhere on the net.

Hendry comments on the deal: (Link.)

According to Bruce Miles latest, Hendry and the Cubs don't seem to concerned about Zambrano's comments. Link.

Wolf will take Edmonds to save him from the embarassment of going undrafted.

I like the make-up of my team. 1b Albert Pujols 2b Ian Kinsler SS Michael Young 3b Chad Tracy OF Jermaine Dye OF Corey Patterson OF Wily Taveras Util Adam LaRoche C Michael Barrett BN Hank Blalock BN Ray Durham BN Ken Griffey Jr. SP Carlos Zambrano SP Jake Peavy RP Brad Lidge RP Ryan Dempster P John Smoltz P Chuck James P Tim Hudson

1-1) Albert Pujols 1-2) Jose Reyes 1-3) Johan Santana 1-4) Alfonso Soriano 1-5) Alex Rodriguez 1-6) Carlos Beltran 1-7) Ryan Howard 1-8) Miguel Cabrera 1-9) Carl Crawford 1-10) Chase Utley 1-11) Derrek Lee 1-12) Chris Carpenter 2-1) David Wright 2-2) Lance Berkman 2-3) Grady Sizemore 2-4) David Ortiz 2-5) Vladimir Guerrero 2-6) Manny Ramirez 2-7) Mark Teixeira 2-8) Travis Hafner 2-9) Derek Jeter 2-10) Carlos Lee 2-11) Matt Holliday 2-12) Carlos Zambrano 3-1) Jake Peavy 3-2) Aramis Ramirez 3-3) Justin Morneau 3-4) Joe Mauer 3-5) Paul Konerko 3-6) Miguel Tejada 3-7) Jason Bay 3-8) Hanley Ramirez 3-9) Jimmy Rollins 3-10) Roy Halladay 3-11) Brandon Webb 3-12) Dan Haren 4-1) Garrett Atkins 4-2) Ichiro 4-3) Vernon Wells 4-4) Brian McCann 4-5) Roy Oswalt 4-6) Felix Hernandez 4-7) Ben Sheets 4-8) Bobby Abreu 4-9) Jeremy Bonderman 4-10) Andruw Jones 4-11) Victor Martinez 4-12) Jermaine Dye 5-1) Michael Young 5-2) Robby Cano 5-3) Rafael Furcal 5-4) Francisco Rodriguez 5-5) Bill Hall 5-6) Cole Hamels 5-7) Brian Roberts 5-8) Joe Nathan 5-9) Adam Dunn 5-10) Ryan Zimmerman 5-11) Carlos Guillen 5-12) Chone Figgins 6-1) Daisuke Matsuzaka 6-2) Jim Thome 6-3) John Lackey 6-4) B.J. Ryan 6-5) Carlos Delgado 6-6) Billy Wagner 6-7) Rocco Baldelli 6-8) Rich Hill 6-9) Troy Glaus 6-10) Justin Verlander 6-11) Aaron Harang 6-12) John Smoltz 7-1) Ian Kinsler 7-2) Johnny Damon 7-3) Mariano Rivera 7-4) Jered Weaver 7-5) Huston Street 7-6) Brett Myers 7-7) Matt Cain 7-8) Scott Kazmir 7-9) Curt Schilling 7-10) Felipe Lopez 7-11) Hideki Matsui 7-12) Nick Swisher 8-1) Bobby Jenks 8-2) Jason Schmidt 8-3) Rickie Weeks 8-4) C.C. Sabathia 8-5) Dan Uggla 8-6) Juan Pierre 8-7) JJ Putz 8-8) Randy Johnson 8-9) Howie Kendrick 8-10) Rich Harden 8-11) Prince Fielder 8-12) Michael Barrett 9-1) Brad Lidge 9-2) Chris Young 9-3) Chipper Jones 9-4) Jeff Francoeur 9-5) Pat Burrell 9-6) Scott Rolen 9-7) Erik Bedard 9-8) Gary Sheffield 9-9) Trevor Hoffman 9-10) Richie Sexson 9-11) Barry Zito 9-12) Dontrelle Willis 10-1) Todd Helton 10-2) Takashi Saito 10-3) Mike Piazza 10-4) Delmon Young 10-5) Chad Cordero 10-6) Josh Beckett 10-7) AJ Burnett 10-8) Jonathan Papelbon 10-9) Tom Gordon 10-10) Julio Lugo 10-11) Barry Bonds 10-12) Corey Patterson 11-1) Chad Tracy 11-2) JD Drew 11-3) Francisco Cordero 11-4) Ervin Santana 11-5) Chris Ray 11-6) Coco Crisp 11-7) Stephen Drew 11-8) Bronson Arroyo 11-9) Jason Giambi 11-10) Brian Fuentes 11-11) Brandon Phillips 11-12) Alex Rios 12-1) Michael Cuddyer 12-2) Jason Isringhausen 12-3) Chien-Ming Wang 12-4) John Patterson 12-5) Magglio Ordonez 12-6) Eric Gagne 12-7) Tadahito Iguchi 12-8) Ryan Freel 12-9) Torii Hunter 12-10) Frank Thomas 12-11) Kelvim Escobar 12-12) Adam LaRoche 13-1)Willy Taveras 13-2) Joel Zumaya 13-3) Raul Ibanez 13-4) Adrian Gonzalez 13-5) Scott Podsednik 13-6) Bob Wickman 13-7) Nick Markakis 13-8) Nomar Garciaparra 13-9) Mike Mussina 13-10) Brad Hawpe 13-11) Dave Bush 13-12) Russell Martin 14-1) Mark Prior 14-2) Eric Chavez 14-3) Kenji Johjima 14-4) Anthony Reyes 14-5) Ramon Hernandez 14-6) Roger Clemens 14-7) Lyle Overbay 14-8) Scott Olsen 14-9) Nate Robertson 14-10) Derek Lowe 14-11) Jonathon Broxton 14-12) Chuck James 15-1) Hank Blalock 15-2) Aubrey Huff 15-3) Jorge Posada 15-4) Chris Capuano 15-5) Javier Vazquez 15-6) Octavio Dotel 15-7) Joe Crede 15-8) Josh Willingham 15-9) Josh Barfield 15-10) Brad Penny 15-11) Ivan Rodriguez 15-12) Jhonny Peralta 16-1) Adam Wainwright 16-2) Andy Pettitte 16-3) Jose Valverde 16-4) Alex Gordon 16-5) Anibal Sanchez 16-6) Solomon Torres 16-7) Keith Foulke 16-8) Bengie Molina 16-9) Dustin Pedroia 16-10) Pedro Martinez 16-11) Moises Alou 16-12) Ryan Dempster 17-1)Ray Durham 17-2) Josh Johnson 17-3) Mike Gonzalez 17-4) Chris Young 17-5) Ted Lilly 17-6) Greg Maddux 17-7) Mark Teahen 17-8) Jon Garland 17-9) B.J. Upton 17-10) Clay Hensley 17-11) Scott Shields 17-12) Edger Renteria 18-1) Eric Byrnes 18-2) Jeff Kent 18-3) Kevin Millwood 18-4) Philip Hughes 18-5) Chad Billingsley 18-6) Jason Varitek 18-7) Tom Glavine 18-8) Freddy Sanchez 18-9) Adrian Beltre 18-10) Orlando Cabrera 18-11) Nick Johnson 18-12) Ken Griffey Jr. 19-1)Tim Hudson

How about the Cubs trade Zambrano to the Yankees for Hughes and Tabata. Hughes and Tabata are packaged with Gallagher for Cabrera.

Reinhard's numbers look even less impressive.

Andrew (Andy) Lopez was drafted by the Rays in the 8th round of the 2005 draft. He's 20 years old and hasn't played above NY Penn league in Princeton. He has a minor league line of 282 .374 .455 829. In 2005, he hit 325 .403 .542 945, in 32 games but then in 2006 only hit 256 .356 .402 758 while repeating the same level. It's hard to know what kind of player he'll be. I like the OBP from him, but it's frighening that his numbers declined while repeating a level. He's a right-handed hitter.

Ok, time to find out about these guys we got. Ryu likely got caught in a numbers game here. He was behind too many others for the rotation and bullpen.

My first choice is to make every effort to sign him. Assuming that becomes impossible or too burdensome, we have to let the season progress some before moving on anything else. If we weren't trying to win this year, then it would obviously be better to trade him now. However, it is clear the Cubs want to and plan to make a run at it in 2007. With that being the case, our pitching staff cannot at this point handle a trade of Zambrano. As long as the Cubs are in the race, Zambrano will be kept. That may run the risk of losing him for merely draft picks, but that's the risk that would need to be taken. A team serious about winning in the current season doesn't trade their best pitcher in the midst of a penant race. Now, if the Cubs begin to stumble a bit where it appears the playoffs are a long-shot, then yes entertain all offers for Zambrano. My guess, depending on teams' need of pitching, those offers could be substantial.