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Because he's a professional baseball player? 95% of the time they'll take the 'more money' route no matter what they've been saying about how much they love the town, want to stay, blah blah blah. Remember, Johnny Damon plays for the Yankees now.

A-rod. I'm pretty sure it's all been speculation at this point (particularly, the inclusion of Hill), but it does make some sense, so it's worth considering. Wouldn't the Yankees likely be able to get a better package for ARod from another team? I'm going to go out on a limb and state that Hill and spare parts wont' do it. Hill simply is not a proven top of the rotation SP, and that is what the Yankees will likely demand, IMO. To address the topic presented in this thread, the Cubs would probably pull the trigger on a Hill centered trade for Arod if this were offerred....and then sign 2 FA SPs There aren't really that many teams that can absorb A-Rod's $23 million salary this year. I guarantee that other teams could offer more in terms of players, but their payroll just won't support it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2628823 I don't much care about his postseason failures in New York. Right now, I would trade literally anyone on the Cubs roster to acquire Alex Rodriguez. It would be amazing if we could re-sign and keep A-Ram. The outfield is still a question mark, but an infield of DLee, ??? at 2B, A-Rod at SS and A-Ram at 3B would be amazing, no question.

I don't think you've actually said anything worth reading in this thread. At this point, everyone's just doing a 'uh-huh! Nuh-uh! Uh-huh! Nuh-uh!' type of thing, and that's stupid. Almost as stupid as trying to argue that Wood had a great 2003 and when healthy is a great pitcher.

All right. How did you find out the NL average? I looked around espn.com, but I didn't find anything.

From August 6th to September 7th, the Cubs have scored 134 runs in 29 games, giving them a runs-scored per game average of 4.6. I don't know the ML average, but this seems pretty decent to me. Our offense was soooo bad the first 3/4 of the year that it's surprising to look at the game log and see how many high-scoring games have been wasted by poor pitching.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7718 I don't know about you, but that looks pretty encouraging. Ignore his first two ML starts, and he looks very strong.

I'm not really sure what the point is of this thread.

This doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand, but I could watch your animated avatar all day, CubsBullsBears.

Man, I want in on that. Bench Jacques and put Wilson in RF.

I think its funny that the Cubs can win a ballgame in dramatic fashion, and all we end up with is a 3-page thread *****ing about a catch made by Neifi Perez. Just let it go.

I can't remember how long it was, but Dustin Hermanson went a long while without giving up a run last year.

We've got 8 or 9 players right now(with possibly another 2-3 signing up in the next day or so. However, I'd like to get as close to the 15-team maximum as possible. Almost forgot: The draft time is 8 pm Saturday, April 1st. League ID#: 252481 League Name: Mayhem Baseball Password: batman

I'm not really convinced that anyone in our division has an overly strong outfield. We don't have to have a great outfield, just one that roughly maintains parity with those in our division to have a good chance.

Grow up.