n/t

for Miguel Tejada?

I can’t remember any specifics on that trade, or if it ever had any legs…..but what a great deal that would’ve been…

I thought Gerut had a lot of potential. He had a great rookie year, and was in the middle of a bad year, but I hoped a change of scenery would help him break out.

And there was a nice biographical piece, I think by Fred Mitchell, that’s not accessible on-line now (as far as I can tell), so I was rooting for Gerut.

Gerut got 14 ABs in 11 games with the Cubs before we traded him to the Pirates for a guy who had tested positive for PEDs, a guy we dumped a month later.

Then Gerut had a falling out with the Pirates, and it looked like his career was over.

It was pretty disappointing all around until Gerut came back this year for the Padres.

I was so excited about adding him to the lineup and the tie in because of Randy and such.

I kid, I kid.

I was pretty excited for him to come over during the off sesaon. He said all the right things before signing and then….

As in, Julio Lugo, which many thought here would be the savior for the Cubs.

The story so insufferable, it covers two hot stove seasons.

I was really excited about LaTroy Hawkins.

He had been a 23-game winner only three years earlier. Yes, he was coming off an injury, but I figured at age 29 he could easily come back. Plus, I remembered well the four-hit game he had against the Cubs on September 4, 1988, all while throwing a six-hit shutout.

Jackson went 5-14 as a Cub before he was finally dumped to the Pirates for a player who was at least partly useful, Steve Buechele.

Prior for Abreu in 2006. Boy, would that have been good in hindsite

fanpost btw.

Trading Bell for some guy named Sosa was the worst trade ever. Hmm, good thing I’m not the GM haha

There’s still time, and for a good two months Lou had the lefty bat he wanted. But, damn, did he ever turn a Soriano-like 180.

I thought he’d shatter Hank Aaron’s HR record playing in Wrigley and, granted, that 79 season he had was huge, but then…poof…he was gone.

………..was pretty disappointing. Cubs inked him to a huge 4-year deal and he was out of baseball after one season.

I believe it was the 90-91 offseason. The Cubs signed George Bell, Danny Jackson, and closer Dave Smith. They added a slugger in Bell, to add to Dawson, Sandberg, and Grace. They got Jackson who had won over 20 games before in a season, and a decent closer in Smith. Everybody was expecting good things from the Cubs. There was an atmosphere of excitement as far as I was concerned.

Well, Bell had an OK year. But Jackson and Smith both did horrible. It didn’t go long into the season that everything fell apart. I also think that was the year Zimmer was fired. Maybe I’m wrong though….

I was very disappointed after that year.

Ah well. I remember getting very excited about the Nomar trade also. That ended up being a bust.

’84’s Sutcliffe trade has to be the best in franchise history. ’93’s A-Ram and Lofton may be 2nd all-time.

At least, I think so… off the top of my head.

Not getting Terry Pendleton or Robin Ventura to play 3B was very disappointing. But I remember being absolutely livid with Ed Lynch for not getting Randy Johnson at the trade deadline in 1998. So much so that I wrote him a letter expressing my disappointment and anger.

…was hearing that Mark Grace was no longer going to be a Cub. I was young and didn’t know everything about free agency but I was almost in tears. So happy when he got his ring.

scrawny Maddux. It never occurred to me that Maddux might have another good season.

Sincerely,

Ernie Broglio