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Marlon Byrd is an inevitability

Lets face it. The addition of Marlon Byrd is probably a foregone conclusion. Genius Jim will feed his extreme addiction to free agency under the delusion that Byrd can be the missing piece to a winning formula. And just like the free agent signings of Jeremy Burnitz, Jacque Jones, Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome and Milton Bradley the Cubs will look back in hindsight and regret the contract they doled out.

Byrd is not a good centerfielder. Byrd is also 32 years old. He'll come to Chicago and we shall watch him feebly get on his horse to chase fly balls they end up in the ivy. Next to Alfonso Soriano the outfield defense should at least be entertaining in a blooper sort of way. And Byrd at bat? Oh, how I can't wait for his offensive game to grace the National League (dripping with sarcasm). Which is another way of saying that like so many other Cub fans I will be sitting on my hands in 2010 and waiting for next offseason when, presumably, the Ricketts family will adopt wholesale changes. So lets piss away one year in the process because Tom Ricketts isn't yet ready to hire a qualified baseball man to lead the operation instead of Crane Kenney. I guess when you've waited 102 years it is no big deal to wait another.

I hate Marlon Byrd before he even steps on the field. And I know that I'm not alone. But alas, this post will devolve into BLou bashing and the forest shall be lost thru the trees. At least we have Al Yellon's retrospective series on old black and white photos to appease us through the wretched 2010 season to come.

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