On the flip side of the coin, we have to watch the Cubs play again?!

…Smoltz is starting for the Cards tonight.

>> whimper <<

let’s get this one.

“Mr. Ricketts, you’ll have to pay out the rest of my contract. I’m nobody’s fool. I know what the future brings.”

That’s what Lou meant to say.

Wins are needed, they generate revenue, generate excitement in the team, and save your jobs.

Sincerely
mr Ricketts

From the Chicago Sun Times

I would just like to say:

1. I think that Lou was just acknowledging the obvious — major league managers are often fired, especially when their teams are not doing well, and the choice of coming back next year is not his alone.
2. I think that Lou has known for longer than I cared to believe that the Cubs’ fortunes, for better or worse, depend a lot on Soriano coming through. Again, I love Fuld, but the Soriano DFA crowd are like the crowd of villagers with torches and pitchforks — the impulse might be satisfying in a primitive way, but things won’t be better after the smoke clears. I am glad to see Al posting evidence to support the necessity to fix Soriano.

they just didn’t lose them. This a team that is ripe for the picking IF ONLY the Cubs can start hitting and moving runners around the bases. The lack of extra-base hits is especially frustrating. It will drive me crazy if they go home and clobber the Nationals with some double-digit score like they did the Pirates after losing the Philadelphia series. We can use those runs TODAY.

Anyway, we are off to Dodgers Stadium.

GO CUBS ! ! !

it is how badly they do when he is bad. This year there is far more bad games than good games. He is a far more negative influence than positive.

The numbers above are only offensive – just the way Sori thinks. Look at Fuld yesterday, he had two great hustle catches and two SB’s without any hits! I’ll take that over hoping Sori can pop one over the fence every other week. Sori can be bad with his lack of hustle and incredibly low baseball IQ, even when his offensive numbers are good.

The smartest, most decisive, showing “I want to win” move, Ricketts can do is figuring out how to eat Sori’s contract in a trade that is factored into the cost of the sale (kinda like factoring in the cost of a home imporvement into a new mortgage).

I think that time has already passed this year. I really really hope I’m wrong but I think it’s too late. The Cubs lose to teams they shouldn’t and get swept by good teams.

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called “Yellow”

“To sum it all up, during the two “good Soriano” periods, he hit .294 with 16 HR and 39 RBI in 54 games, and the Cubs went 35-19.

During the two “bad Soriano” periods, he hit .194 with 3 HR and 13 RBI in 67 games, and the Cubs went 26-41."

But Al, isn’t that basically the average offensive output, most teams are getting from their LFers? i don’t have he numbers in front of me, but I bet most teams are doing better than .244/19/52. Those numbers are pretty pedestrian for a MLB starting LFer.

High-speed robot hand.

Len just did with Sam.

but at least he’s not SCREAMING.

JUMP