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It is blatantly obvious the majority of folks here hate this trade. All I ask is let's not focus the venom on Izturis himself. Give 'em a fair chance to see what he can do in Cubbie Blue. For the record, I don't much care for the trade either but I'll support Izturis 100% in the meantime.

Maddux is dealing now, I love it! Filthy!

Neifi is easily confused. :evil:

This game has been the most entertaining thing I've seen in a while. :lol:

This is too much man, I am about ready to roll around on the floor laughing!!!!!!

OMG!!!! Rolen does it again. LOL!

Hey Reyes, quit throwing at our guys! Learn some control!

There ends my career as a predictor of outcomes. HAhahahahaha. Sorry that was funny. :lol: It's okay. 8)

There ends my career as a predictor of outcomes.

Extra base hit coming up, I feel it.

May as well eject all the coaches and let Maddux manage the team, I'm sure he could a better job. 8)

Does that mean the Cubs will trade for him soon?

Interesting. :)

Watch the language. Sorry. :oops:

Holy [deleted], Dusty angry???? :shock:

The one good thing about this season, no matter how bad it has gotten I can still laugh in the face of my best friend who is a Cardinals fan. I love how the Cards meltdown again 'em. Yeah they are in 1st place but it still gets on his nerves! :twisted:

Aramis was too busy stealing signs. True. Poor Cardinals, the constant victim of baseball crime. :wink:

If only Aramis would hustle and not slack off, he would have escaped Gary Bennett's grip and gotten to tee off on Looper. I kid. :wink:

We're out of the race. Time to throw at Pujols. :lol:

He is a reverse stereotype, people always say Sox fans obsess over the Cubs (many do), but he is doing the exact same thing with the Sox and to a much lesser extent the Cardinals. So what? Is it necessary to give him crap about it in every thread? If they want him to stop, then yes. He doesn't seem to have a problem being called out like this, let him defend himself. If they want him to stop? Stop voicing his opinion? That's ridiculous. I think his hatred of the Sox is excessive, but he's certainly entitled to his opinion and doesn't deserve to be belittled for it every time he expresses it. This is one of the more terrible arguments I ever see on the Internet. If person A is free to post his/her opinion then person B is just as free to respond. Being entitled to an opinion doesn't mean being entitled to an unchallenged opinion.

That is fine and nice but his forte was supposedly defense and he picked the exact wrong time to boot the ball. AGonz had more control over Game 6 than Bartman but people still want to blame the goofball in headpones for that disaster. Even at that, my brother had a co-worker who sat 2-3 rows behind Bartman and swears Bartman wasn't the first guy to touch the ball. Not that it matters since the starting shortstop choked under pressure.

Such is life. There are very specific reasons the Cubs have not won a title in nearly a century. Until the people at the top of the totem pole are completely committed to the endeavor, then it will always be hit and miss.

ESPN is garbage anymore. This is the network that roughly one week ago declared Dallas Cowboys safety Keith Davis "shot in the head and died" when the actual story was "shot in the head and thigh". Quite a few Cowboys fans crapped their pants on that one. No I"m not a Cowboy fan but that moment will live in infamy when I think of ESPN. Oh and the time they reported Ron Artest was involved in some fight in Atlanta when he wasn't even there.

Forget Bartman, has anything gone right since Alex Gonzalez booted the potential inning ending double-play ball which would have allowed the Cubs to escape that inning with the lead intact? Sure the Cubs have had some bad luck since then. The 2004 team seemed poise to make it back to the postseason and we even made a huge deadline pickup in Nomar which is something the Cubs aren't know for doing. But LaTroy blew a sure win in New York and the roof caved in. The 2005 Cubs at least were in the race for part of the season. Overall, my experience with the Cubs has led me to believe the 2004 & 2005 seasons weren't the worst thing in the world. The team was competitive at least. The 2006 Cubs are a huge disaster but not the biggest one. The 0-14 start of 1997 still rings clear in my mind. One thing about the Cubs in my lifetime, usually the good seasons kind of appear out of nowhere. The 1989, 1998, 2001, 2003 teams stand out to me as examples of that, although in fairness the '98 team did have some positive hype out of the gate with some of the offseason moves. The success of the White Sox only gives me hope. I don't hate them. The fact the Red Sox and White Sox could win the World Series in back-2-back seasons should be encouraging. Curses are BS, winning a title just takes the right combination of talent, luck and timing. Turnarounds in baseball happen quite quickly with the right moves. Look at Detroit, they were 43-119 in 2003 and now they are 35 games over .500. This too shall pass. The Cubs will have their chances again. Whether they convert those chances into the long awaited goals of a NL pennant and world title, I don't know. But I have no doubt the Cubs will get back in that position. They always find a way to do it, even for one season. It's not like the Cubs have lost 90+ games and never made the playoffs since 1945.

Regarding BBTN overall, my only use for the show has been getting highlights of the days games. I certainly don't tune in for "expert" analysis. Really it's the same with ESPN's football "experts", I think most of them are pretty much worthless. So I never put much stock in the quality of analysis per se but a guy like Harold, he just seemed like a good guy and someone I did not mind listening to between highlights. So you can critique his analysis and say he was no better than Kruk or whomever else but I never watched that show for insight. Give me my highlights and people that I stand to listen to. :lol: Out of all the analysts, the only ones I ever listen to are the TNT/ESPN guys for the NBA. Especially TNT; it's the rare case where I honestly as a fan of the game can find myself agreeing with the analysis more often that not. Regarding Pedro Gomez, did he volunteer to be Barry's personal stalker or did ESPN assign him that job? :lol: