and on a fundamental level i feel like he’s being taken advantage of.

1 or 5 minutes. It would make replying to yourself for spelling or other errors much, much easier.

You reference the latest Peavy rumors here, parodied the Peavy rumors yesterday, he was brought up in the Kenney interview, and I believe you’ve posted at least two Fan Posts yourself within the last week discussing the rumors explicitly.

So, perhaps not daily, but quite frequently, to be sure.

Jim wants Ibanez.
Lou wants Abreu.
They’d be glad if Hermida was available.
Bradley’s a fall-back option if they need to go cheaper.
Dunn’s not really on the radar.

Because there are so many options here, I think the way to do this is to keep a healthy trade rumor going about someone, and wait for the other three to sign – see if there’s still a market for the last one and see if you can get a good deal.

I want to start the season with a RJ/Pie platoon in CF, a winter re-worked Dome in RF and Hoff on the Bench. DeRosa at 2b and money spent on a quality field/bat SS.

I thought 2008 starting pitching was more than good enough and would prefer better bullpen options than Gregg/Shark to get to Marmol.

Pie/Dome can be re-thought after the season gets going.

Like at home, what I want doesn’t usually matter.

after he’s torn up Spring Training. (then RJ and Pie mixin’ it up in CF)

One of them, I think it was either Sullivan or Miles, was saying Bradley could even play CF for the Cubs.

Now, all we have to do is convince Lou.

that’d be fine with me too.

but don’t tell anyone else that- they use player character heavily in their defensive metrics

I thought – “He got as much money as I’d expect if there wasn’t the specter of economic crisis; it was the year that got knocked off his deal.”

Anyway, I wasn’t predicting a run or anything. It’s just that CC signing is what was necessary before the rest of the pitchers started moving themselves.

They will likely go after Burnett and Lowe with the goal of getting one of them. There might be a bit of pressure now on the pitchers knowing that only one will get a big Yankee contract. Each pitcher has other options like Burnett and the Braves but the Yankees offer will probably be the highest.

given his declining peripherals, if only they could replace him with another ace.

Yeah, it’s a lot of shuffling as we’re seeing.

Lets also not forget that communication and building relationships on a team takes both sides. A guy might be a negative influence with one group of guys and flourish with another. If he is signed, while I’m not a big fan, I would hope that the group of players we have on the team would make “being a clubhouse cancer” difficult. Heck if anything maybe he can channel some of that passion into positive results.

trying to target Bradley but the rumors of bringing him in got me thinking as to what kind of squad would we be willing to support in order to win a World Series? Imagine Randy Johnson as the winning pitcher in a Cub uniform after the years of despising him for whatever reason…

I can’t say I’ve ever seen any complaints from his teammates about him.

It’s like they think their job is to evaluate talent or something.

Besides obvious physical limitations that Bonds has because of his age and being out of baseball last year, there is also the fact that he goes on trial for perjury and obstruction of justice this spring. Probably not gonna be available…Which IS a baseball standpoint because even if he doesn’t get prison time, I doubt he will be anywhere near a ballpark…

Your right in the sense that from a “baseball standpoint” it would have probably benefitted alot of teams to move on Bonds. But, this case clearly had alot more to do with his personal and legal issues. I mean, how many teams could of used Shoeless Joe back in the day? Similar situation only a somewhat informal ban by team owners, mgt, etc.

to be a killer lineup

He helped the Indians win the pennant. :-)

And considering how long it’s been since we actually developed a potent bat, I would absolutely HATE to see Vitters in any deal.

I just don’t think he’s part of the plan at this point

by winning here?

:she said hopeful:

but hasn’t made any public offers yet. That team doesn’t have to be the Cubs. It could be the Royals. But the Cubs fit that mold.

Dempster seems plyable to whatever will help the club win. If I’m not mistaken, he was quoted as saying it’d be great to pitch in a rotation with Peavy just after he re-signed