The will to make a deal is all that it takes. This is not about rotisserie “Fantasy Baseball” this is about managing an organization that made an enormous investment in and this is not going well at all.

This reply is to all those below——

Soriano is a failure. Originally signed to be a CF’er and lead off hitter that would be a difference maker he is a bust. He is a bust since he is a very high maintenance personality—-he can’t bat anywhere but his spot——BULL——period. (There is no crying in baseball, and that is crying without the tears).

Soriano is a poison because he is paid at the highest and delivers much less———period. If you can’t see that than you are not looking too hard.

Now for the poster who accused some sort of racial bias——BIGGER BULL HOCKEY, this is about results, not whether one’s family’s heritage blocks more vitamin D or not, it is about performance.

Soriano stinks in the OF, he has alligator arms when it comes to going back to the warning track, he has a great arm, accurate and strong, but he gets the worst jump on balls especially to his left.

Now who would take him.. Depends on the price doesn’t it? Most teams will look at 30 plus HR’s and that he was hurt and should not have been playing retrospectively, so it will take $$ but it can be done and Soriano the mercenary he is, will take some incentive to move off his no trade.

Bottom line is when you manage a payroll you also manage the psychology of the team, pay the most and you had better get the most. That is the cancer. In my mind Lee and Ramirez should be paid the most, but if it is Zambrano so be it, he is a pitcher.

Now during this off season all things point to ridding the team of these decisions that have bad outcomes….period. Then after that making sense of what you have and what you need. It is that simple——-

maybe trading Bradely to Seattle is a possibilty. We’ve trade with them before and with Griffey retiring, they should have an opening at DH. Seattle is laid back and I could see Bradely getting along there. Maybe they should shop him there.

Ivy is a Long time member and writes good stuff. He isn’t a rookie poster and what you just wrote was incredibly rude. Chill out.

I’ve read where Miles and Fotenot should be replaced by Lopez and Hudson, so does that mean that certain fans are racist toward white people?

Or maybe it just means they want a different player because they don’t like the player

I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

You infer someone is a racist without knowing the person because he doesn’t like a couple of players.

You assume the person is white because the person made what you feel is racist comments.

You generalize “white people” and say they are racist.

You declare Soriano black because he isn’t white. Soriano is Dominican.

You were right about Soriano not being known as a clubhouse cancer . . . thus ruining your perfect score of epic fail.

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… well I was about to support you when I saw the title of your post, but the rest of it was stupid drivel. Bradley is a clubhouse cancer and this has been inferred to by a wide variety of Cubs, Black, White and Hispanic. Soriano is not known as a clubhouse cancer and really hasn’t been labled as one by the general public. Ivy mentioned him because, well, he’s Ivy and his posts lack substance and factual content. So put the race card away, please.

if he’s born between June 22 and July 23. Otherwise, I need more information.

If anyone on this site is out there denying it, I haven’t seen him/her.

Ivy Walls did a dumb thing and labelled Soriano a clubhouse cancer likely because he’s overpaid, doesn’t dive for balls, and hasn’t learned to lay off the outside breaking pitch, among other things. These things usually lead someone to believe said player is lazy, and thus a cancer. We all agree that he’s wrong.

But if you’ve made it your mission to to “root around” for the beginnings of racism, often times you’ll find things you could somehow construe as racist. Many of those times you’ll be wrong, and you’ll be hurting people of all races in doing so. Racism IS a serious issue; don’t throw it around so carelessly.

….and neither is such a bad idea.

Game board is a head case and has to go, we all know that. Burrell isn’t great but at least he’s stable.

Soriano should never see another fastball as long as he lives. And if that’s the case, I’d rather see Fox or Hoffpauir in there for him. But since neither of those are likely to happen, I’d take Rowand any day over Soriano. He’s a team player, something Fonzie knows nothing about.

Sori was half injured for like 75% of the season this year. I’m expecting him to return to form next year. But could it be possible that Sori, like Tejada, lied about his age and is really 35 or 36?