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Before It Happens, Can I Just Say That I Don't Like Sveum?

CAN I TALK MY HOLLANDSWORTH MUG [expletive] AGAIN?

also, i imagine castro would be as good as anyone for epstein to get an inside scoop on just how the instruction at both the minor and major league level has been taught over the last few years.

"hey starlin, you every played third base?" "not really, why?" "you remember meeting your buddy jose reyes at the all star game and how well you guys got along?" "yeah" "you want to play on the same side of the infield as him?" "ok"

yo, how many of Carroll, Ellis, Infante would Hendry have signed over what the market actually ended up at?

or changed his position to tight end or full back

Moylan, Volstad

The Cubs bad contracts after this season being Alfonso Soriano. or whatever other inevitable bad free agent contracts happen. and they will. also, garza, marshall, marmol (if kept), a first baseman, a third baseman, will all get more expensive. the zambrano/dempster money will be replaced. top of the page. meh

you know what, if he can turn samardzija and cashner into durable, reliable starters, well, then, the cubs begin to find a way out from under their bad contracts, and the window to win opens sooner, stays open longer.

1) Martinez 2) Sveum 3) Alomar JR 4) Maddux

what i'm saying ultimately is that a soul patch isn't much of a disguise.

but, but... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_78PmS6zLve0/SRoBc2x682I/AAAAAAAAAiU/j0CvA1r9vcc/s200/26.+Mike+Maddux.bmp http://hotbeans.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/mustache-mario.jpg

good catch. got caught up in the idea, admittedly.

will the maddux bros also follow suit and approach their androgynous dreams through flirting with sex change operations?

yeah, the one thing that i consistently was in awe of castro for was bat speed, and that he continually bettered his ability to stay back on the pitch as long as possible for the best result achievable; to me that self-awareness is so encourage-able of things to come as he fills out (which he was doing a good deal of in those last couple months).

That was my first thought. DFW is what, maybe a 2 hour flight from Chicago and Boston would be around 4 at least? David Foster Wallace is dead, man. Too soon. Too soon

some great semantics based boarding here.

When there's organizational news they tend to attach it to the team's best player since they don't have pages for executives. Most of the Cubs news about Theo and managers and any front office decisions have generally been attached to Starlin's Rotoworld page that'd explain markakis' inclusion, then, too

while Washington re-signing Wang sounds like merely another nude pic scandal, it was recent baseball news, too

that's weird. for what reason? i like the cesepadas line at the bottom. haha. leg pressing the whole list

i wouldn't trade castro for felix just for the 1 in the hand idea. while either player could get hurt in arizona this march, it'd be not easy, but easier to swallow if it were the player you have had, rather than bringing in the new car then wrecking it pulling out of the lot. obviously not the most logic based idea, but i think the two are fairly similar value wise, at least in that castro's ceiling is as high as felix's right now, though felix will soon be on his way down as castro is on his way up. being that while the club could compete for the division next year, that it's more likely to be in 13 or 14 when the team is blossoming as fully epstein & co implemented, castro and his current cost control status serves that purpose better. all that said i would give whatever package of minor league players to seattle for hernandez that the mariners asked for. tim's point about absorbing the 40 man roster hit would also mean that they'd need low lever players not in risk of rule 5 steals, and things like that, and those guys are pure ceiling, which is more like 2 in the bush with hernandez v maybe there's a bush over there with low level spects. it'd be awesome. and yeah, i think with a bounce back by dempster and a return of cashner, along with garza, that that is a rotation that can compete with any in the national league, phillies included.

not that it means anything but i don't like drabek. i'd put money on him as a bust

is awesome an expletive now

Good Padres inside twitter acct. If you care about the Pads at all they do fantastic minor league analysis. But yeah, they either have good sources or sources with sources.

Padres' people make it seem like Hoyer is ours for serious