YearofDaCubs

Did anyone hear the radio interview with Marlins president David Sampson when he was asked about the deal? He at first said he couldn't believe it. And then said if it were true that baseball was about to return to the ridiculous contracts that got clubs in trouble. He had a hard time believing that the 20 million figure was accurate. I agree with him. All of these contracts the past 2-3 years have been crazy. At one point I thought we would not see another 20mil contract in a long time, boy, was I wrong.

This morning on ESPN 1000 Levine mentioned that there are 3 teams very interested in Izturis. If indeed Izturis gets traded the Cubs will bring up Cedeno.

We need to call up Soto to see what he could do. This reminds me of 2003 when we had a black hole at 7,8,9 spots in the lineup. It's worth a shot at this point. See what Soto can do, if he can do the job we're golden, if not, look elsewhere out of the organization to fill the need.

YOu can say that again. Especially to no-name scrub lefties.

The lack of hitting from the catcher position is irritating.

Forget about the Dunn talk. The guy has been on a decline in obp the last couple of years. Sure, he hits homers but his avg is at .258, his obp at.351 and his defense is bad. If I'm going to trade one of our best chips, I want a better player than Dunn.

My heart stopped there for a second.

This is just ridiculous. DFA Jones or Izturis already so we don't have to keep juggling minor leaguers to play for us. This is inexcusable IMO.

I'm not going to get my hopes up in what the possible move will be. I'm sure it's something like Petrick being sent down again.

Maybe they feel, as many on the board do, that consistent at bats is what he needs to break out of the funk. They couldn't give those to him at the major league level with Floyd doing as well as he is, so they sent him down. This is what I don't understand. Floyd this year is worse than Murton was last year. What is it about Floyd that says he's doing so well that you can't give those ABs to a 25-year-old? At best, Floyd this year is going to give you what Murton gave you last year (or maybe just a little better), but if you're so high on the kid, why would you bring in not 1, but 2 guys that play his position in the off-season? JH is an idiot. Floyd was brought in primarily as a backup and Soriano was supposed to play in right, then center. Problem is, the defensive change was hurting Sori's offense so he moved to left and Murton began the year pitifully. Tracking Matt's at-bats, he began the year getting the majority of at-bats, but as his slump worsened and Floyd improved, Murton began to get fewer at-bats. Thus, I think Lou and Hendry came to the conclusion that Murton would be more likely to break out of his slump the quickest in the minors - and we could afford to do that because Floyd is producing well. You may disagree, but I think Murton would be starting and getting 70-75% of the at-bats over Floyd if he hadn't hit that horrible slump at the same time Floyd began to heat up. We never tried Sori in RF though. He went from CF to LF. Murton is not acceptable defensively at RF but could be in LF. I think Soriano could play RF without any problems.

I like Brenly. I thought he was a good manager.

Cruz, as in Jose Cruz? No way.

Wow, Adu's first goal was incredible.

Minnesota's first rounder signed quite fast. Don't remember his name, but he signed for way below slot level money as well. I know LaPorta already has signed with the Brewers but he was 7th overall.

I thought Hill was working on a changeup a couple years ago.

I would like to grab Darko if the price is right. If he signs for the MLE then I'm all for it. Also, it looks like Memphis is getting ready to sign Nocioni.

GRCubsFan, DeRosa does fill a need. Everyone knew ARam will miss some time this year and you can't get much better at backup 3B than DeRosa. His numbers are also very solid. He was a very good FA acquisition.

I think Buerhle will resign with the WSox when it's all said and done.

That makes too much sense for that to happen.

Tank was under the legal limit. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-070702tankjohnsonbears,1,6289560.story?coll=cs-home-headlines

Levine was on the radio this morning and he mentioned that he's talked to people in the organization and told him that they are going to rework Pie's swing in the offseason.

Too good to be true ha ha.

Great game for us. We needed this win and we came up big. I'm starting to enjoy watching this team. Ever since Lou has benched Jones and Izturis for the most part this team has been much more enjoyable to watch. With Fontenot doing well, our bullpen being, rock solid, our starting pitching good and our offense consistent we've done very well. If we can keep this up WC or the division could be in our grasp.

Good stuff!

I don't buy that argument for Izturis. He leads the team with errors and really hasn't been good defensively. He should have been sent packing long time ago.