The Official 2007 Chicago Cubs Thread

[EvanJC]

HE GONE

[slothinator]

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HE GONE

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He'll grab some bench...

...he reached last time on a little duck-snort...

You can put it on the board...STFU!!!

[jacksquat]

yea...hawk is quite the blowhard!!

[EvanJC]

i'm flipping b/w the game and around the horn, on which mariotti is arguing that sosa is not a first ballot HOFer. wha??? i thought he was in before his comeback this year.

anybody have thoughts on this?

for fun, what % of MLB players would you guess were juicing in, say, 1999?

30%? 50% more? excluding these guys b/c of that is just rediculous imo.

annnnnnd there's the loss. [censored].

[jacksquat]

another excellent game cubbies....could they possibly find any other ways to keep losing these close games. brutal.

[slothinator]

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i'm flipping b/w the game and around the horn, on which mariotti is arguing that sosa is not a first ballot HOFer. wha??? i thought he was in before his comeback this year.

anybody have thoughts on this?

for fun, what % of MLB players would you guess were juicing in, say, 1999?

30%? 50% more? excluding these guys b/c of that is just rediculous imo.

annnnnnd there's the loss. [censored].

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Sosa won't go in first ballot for the same reason McGwire didn't go in first ballot; the writers want to make examples of them and inflict their own bizarre "sports writer" justice on them. Sports writers are [censored]. I actually read a piece about Ripken and Gwynn where a guy wouldn't vote for them because some other HOFers weren't unanimous selections. He thought that Ripken and Gwynn deserved to be in the HOF and be first ballot entrants, they just didn't deserve to be unanimous.

[Boris]

I think the Cubbies are going to pick up Milton Bradley

[EvanJC]

i'd rather have a headcase like bradley than JJ, for instance.

[slothinator]

One nice thing about Bradley is that if he is playing poorly, he'll get hurt soon and you can DL him. JJ is like roster herpes; he shows up every once in a while and you just wish he'd go away. And nothing you do gets rid of him.

[dlk9s]

Well, if it makes you Cubs fans feel any better, Barrett went 0-for-4 with 3 K's today in his Padres debut.