"Pitching is KING"

waste our entire farm for a rental pitcher. We have enough options in AAA. Funny that I haven’t seen you on this board before this series.

You could just have easily bitched that Cubs could not get key hits with runners on
and THAT is why they lost the first two games of the series.. FYI I do admire your
request for an A.J Burnett “type’ as A,J himself got hit bad tonight

As crazy as it seems…we have better pitching than most of the other teams in the league…espicially our division. Losing Zambrano for more than a couple of starts will hurt, and I’m sure Hendry will look for improvements. I have no problem trading away some of our ‘prospects’ since we’ve never had a good track record of turning prospects into good major leauge players anyway.

Tonight’s game was just 1 loss. A bad loss but it doesn’t change that overall we have a good team.

since last winter we needed a good #2. I can’t trust Z. Not sure if Demp will hold up. Lilly is OK but I remember last year too well. Sure I’ll take another starter. It MUST be the right person and until we find a trading partner it’s just conjecture. I just hope we can find a nasty stud to take us all the way. If I were a time traveler and could say everything will be OK then great. But I just don’t see the WS with our staff. This is a very good team we have. What will put us over the top? My opinion is a starter.

I was critical of Marmol pitching every day. Now, after that horrible performance tonight, he may need to pitch a lot, but shorter outings would be better. #2 was that Gallagher may be better than we think. He may be really something if he can keep it up and not lose his “mojo”. #3 We need to pound the Sox. #4 Looks like Marshall is coming back up.

And you’ve read it us this riot act 1,000 times already. So how ‘bout doing us all a solid and spouting your pointless truisms somewhere else for a while. My favorite baseball time got spanked tonight and I’m really not in the mood. And, for God’s sake, change your avatar back to the See ‘n Say. It was the only thing entertaining about your posts.

Maybe a package to include Donald Veal, Jose Ceda, Tony Thomas and Felix Pie would at least get Billy Beane’s attention. At any rate, I’d like for Hendry to find out.

Supposedly seattle is shopping him.

That you waited a full 24 hours before your obligatory, panic -stricken inane ramblings. Chicken Little has nothing on you. I think you would be much happier if the Cubs were 15 games below .500 and in last place. I just wish there was some way to unrecommend this post.

“What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

if Hendry doesn’t get pitching help and the Cubs fold up in the playoffs (or even before), there are going to be A LOT of people on this site, etc. yelling about how he didn’t do anything to improve the team.

Zona – Webb & Haren
Boston – Beckett & Dice-K

I just looked through the list, and you can argue for a few teams here and there, depending on if you’re basis is careers or performances this year, but there are NOT many teams with two aces, or as this post mentions, “blockbuster”-value guys. I’m not sure if a real “ace” is plausible.

Dan

I’m peachy. It wouldn’t make any sense what so ever.

... that the A’s are 3.5 games out of first place. They’re in playoff contention. If Harden’s that good, why would they trade him?

Cotton was King?

It was bound to happen. Oh shit, call 60 minutes, the Cubs have lost 3 in a row…..for the first time in over 70 games. Oh BTW, the last of the 30-team MLB circuit to do that.

A little sloppy pitching…Marmol last night? I mean come on…everyone was bitching a week ago about him being overworked. Now he got 4 days rest and couldn’t hit the broad side of barn; hit an opposing player on consecutive AB’s but not the broad side of a barn. A few missed opportunities in hitting…D-Lee struck out and A-Ram 7-iron sliced to right on the first pitch after they got 3 in the 7th. This shit is going to happen on occassion during a ONE-HUNDRED-SIXTY-TWO game season.

This whole series in that covered-up shithole they looked out of sync. Could have been that awful travel day Monday, just to wait for a rainout, who knows. The more important things are how Johnson, Edmonds and especially Z recover from what hurts them.

There’s going to be a boatload of trade opportunities out there come the last 2 weeks of July. It’s still a little too early to tell but things are starting to take form. I don’t see a blockbuster but Hendry DOES HAVE trading chips. Let’s just see how they play this weekend. See if they’re fundamentally sound in all facets of the game.

now that Z has been diagnosed with NO Labrum issue, just a minor strain, you wanna start coming in from the ledge?

What, what am I saying?

I honestly don’t understand all the hatred directed toward you from so many on this blog. We are all Cub fans here and we want the team to win. I don’t agree with some of your points, but some I do agree. So what? This isn’t nuclear science, it’s baseball. You have a right to your opinion just like everyone else.

With that said, no, I do not believe the Cubs need to make a move for pitching. Our starters, or the last month, have been outstanding, and our bullpen has been solid as well (last night being the exception). I think we should stand pat with what we’ve got. We have the best record in baseball, and we still have the lead in the Central. Fine tuning – especially on defense – yes, but major moves, no.
By the way, I like the suggestion of Lieber taking Z’s starts. I have visited some other blogs of other teams and there’s been a lot of fan interest in trading for Lieber. He’s a veteran who can pitch, let’s use him.