Who do you want for your team?
Who do you hope they get rid of?
What do you realistically expect?
Cubs 3B Aramis Ramirez filed for free agency yesterday, but I dont think he'll be going anywhere. The Cubs really cant afford to part with a bat, even if it his his "Freezing in June, Scorching in September" bat. Of course, maybe this wouldn't be so bad if the Cubs actually made it into the post-season, or were at least in contention. But as it stands, he gets hot every year when we're out of the race.
Honestly, the Cubs have so many holes I dont know where to start. We for sure need at least one big bat. Soriano maybe? JP and Soriano at the top of an order would be pretty neat to watch. Although I dont see why Soriano cant hit further down, with his numbers.
But our biggest holes arent in the field. We NEED pitching, desperately. If you figure on starting Zambrano and Prior...Who comes after that!?!? We definately need 1 pitcher, and I dont see how we wont need 2. I hope we get Zito or Schimdt. Zito, preferably, as Schmidt is a young power pitcher, and that must makes me horribly nervous. Wasn't he injured last year? From what I hear, the Cubs are very interested in that young Japanese pitcher who's name I wont even attempt to spell. But you know who I mean...Matzasuke?
The word here is that the Cubs payroll will be raised by almost 20 million this year. (!) This would give us almost 120 million in salary, which is very significant for free agency when you figure just this year we're getting Kerry Wood, Sammy Sosa, and Maddux off the payroll.
Big spending in the future, I hope.
BTW, Thank God Busty Faker is gone, because I guarantee he would have been clamoring for Barry Bonds to get signed...
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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I saw that report too...
I have mixed feelings on him. He isnt like Kerry Wood, and it makes me angry that people lump them together. Kerry Wood has fucked up mechanics. Its no secret. Everyone KNOWS why he cant pitch a full season. He just refuses to stop throwing across his body.
Prior is different. Nobody has ever said his mechanics were anything but SPOT ON. He took that freaky line drive off his arm last year, and thats what did him in. Yeah, he came back from that real shaky and then went back on the DL, but I can cut him some slack for that. Its not a torn rotator cuff, or a busted tendon. He took a hard ball going 120 mph right to the elbow. Thats going to fuck you up for awhile.
But when he's pitching good, he's the best pitcher on the team. Better than Big Z, w/out a doubt. Mabye I'm just drinking the kool-aid, but I really think giving up on him would be a huge mistake.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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