Cubs Minor Dealings

Why blow more money signing Marquis? If Dave Duncan couldn't help him, there is little chance Larry Rothschild will turn him around. He's not any better than what they have already (Marshall, Marmol, etc.). Only way I sign him is if it's for less than $3M per year.

Marquis didn't connect with Leo Mazzone or Dave Duncan. He's a fly ball pitcher which will not paly well in Wrigley when the wind is blowing out.

The Cardinals will look forward to hitting off him!

This would be an awesome signing by the cubs, maybe he can play CF, and he is the nice Lefty bat the cubs have been looking for, he can even pinch hit and pinch run. No brainer to me

The Mets could use a guy like Marquis. When you got Glavine and El Duque as your 1,2....you need all the help you can get.

lmao and the mets arent the team who just gave ted lilly a 4 year 40 million dollar deal

sure they did. Pedro was a non factor after april, and then the rotation went glavie, elduque, tracshel, maine, perez/lima/gonzales/williams/bannister/soler.
I am not worried in the least about the mets. I still find people like teetz that make fun of other teams, while he is a cub fan, hilarious.

Yeah Nrmax, like you dont make fun of other teams all the time then talk like your team is god. You arent guaranteed shit this year either, your pitching staff doesnt even have a Ace. You have 2 40 year olds at the top of your rotation, and a busted up perez that was ran out of pittsburgh of all places. I will laugh my ass off when your mets are garbage this year,even though you have beltran who has 2 positives since joining the mets.... He had a good season last year, and the year before that the best thing he did was run his face into mike cameron.

"The Mets could use a guy like Marquis. When you got Glavine and El Duque as your 1,2....you need all the help you can get"

Tell me what team won 97 games last year ???

Did the Cubs ???

Oh no... that's right... the Cubs GREATTTT pitching landed them dead last in the entire national league....

That's because those games are the closest thing the Cubs had to the postseason last year...

Every game the Cubs played against the Cardinals they treated it like it was game 7 of the world series... It was the only time the Cubs played respectable baseball all year.
I am not a Cardinals fan as my name would tell you but answer me this ptk420biatch... Would you rather win the world series or the head to head match up with a division rival..... Cards fans are laughing at that post right now...

PTK, we won the World Series. The Cubs haven't won one since 1908. If winning a season series 11-8 is more important than winning a World Series, then I can understand why the Trib company never feels any pressure to produce a winner.

I live here in Chicago now, so I see this syndrome everyday. It makes Cardinal fans and white sox fans laugh.

ptk, u make it sound like we had some dominating pitching staff last year and they all left. Are pitching in 06 was no better then it willbe in 07, most likely worse, because the mets will acquire somebody who is better then trachsel (another cub great). The mets dont need a great starting rotation, because their bullpen is crazy, and i dont care that chadbrad left, because wagner heilman sanchez, feliciano, burgos, dave williams is still a pretty dam good pen. Not to mention the most dynamic lineup in all of the NL. I dont care if we have 2 40 years olds. I would rather have 2 40 years olds to short deals then ted lilly locked up for 4 years 40 million lol. ptk have fun finishing in 4th , if your lucky that is.

yeah I gotta givr the Mets credit on the Burgos deal. That kid throws fire. All they gave up was a SP that had control problems and couldn't be counted on. I read the article on the LaRoche/Gonzalez deal. Thats why big John is the best. Now i wanna see a true leadoff man big John. I got faith you can get it done.

Ummm my point was cards fans talking about how they cant wait to hit of marquis if he becomes a cub. That wont mean shit, we pitched 9 rookies last year and still won the season series against the cards. Basically 1 out of every 6 of our wins were against the cards, which means yeah that is pretty positive to me in that pathetic season.

PTK, your parents did get married, right, so how can you make that statement?

As for the Cubs cards Series, we did spank you 5 out of the last 6 times we met, as our injured players came back. We didn't use injuries as a scapegoat like you whiny Cub fans do.

El Duque.......stud #2 pitcher

nrmax, you're right. I think both of our teams will be in the hunt again. I trul;ye enjoyed the NLCS,though i'm sure you didn't enjoy it as much. I'm still amazed at "The catch" after 2 months!

hah yeah it was a good series, suppan was the man in that series, and it couldve went either way, but whatever. Teetz i would take el duque as my number 2 over lillypads lol, the mets dont need an ace, all they need is a bunch of guys that can go 6 innings and 3 runs, when pedro comes back we have r ace for the playoff push, which unfortunately, the cubs will not be taking part in

teetz i never said anything about glavine being overpaid, i just want u to find for me wherei said anything about that. All i said was for him to hurry his ass up and make a decision so the mets can get on with their offseason. I only make fun of the cubs when u say some shit about my team first. I have pity for u though, it must be really awful being a cubs fan, rex grossman is awesome to

Cardinals fan, that is a bit un called for to talk shit about my parents. But yes if you must know they are married. You are just mad because I stated the truth that cards fans are rednecks.

hah yeah it was a good series, suppan was the man in that series, and it couldve went either way, but whatever. Teetz i would take el duque as my number 2 over lillypads lol, the mets dont need an ace, all they need is a bunch of guys that can go 6 innings and 3 runs, when pedro comes back we have r ace for the playoff push, which unfortunately, the cubs will not be taking part in

You better watch it, your bf allaboutthephils will get mad if you keep flirting like tis. Oh, and its a given the mets are already in the playoff's huh,lol. Oh I forgot you claim minaya has something up his sleeve.

And I quote....."Glavine is a bum, Omar, dont offer him a contract" - nrmax88

So you got a "BUM" as your ACE.

Face it, you like any move the Mets make and if you don't get a guy...you call him overpaid and even say 46 year old Cuban sidearmers are good.

Grossman gives us the best chance to win; however he also gives us the best chance to lose. With Harris now out, we'll need offense to hold it's end of the bargain. The running game is now potent so really, we only need Grossman to stop having his rookie miscues. The good news is we have 4 weeks to figure it out. Unless Grossman is horrendous in this next game against the Rams, I'm keeping him in there.

teetz u can make fun of the jets all u want, seriously, their in the playoff hunt, and they werent supposed to win more then 3 games, i couldnt be prouder of them, and chad may not be able to throw a ball hard, but he can manage a game, unlike Rex, the bears r good because theyre de is sick, but rex wont cut it when playoff time rolls around. I would take el duque over lillypads anyday, argue all u want. I dont even know why im arguing with u . The mets were the best team in the NL, cubs were the worst.

lol ptk, it isnt a given the mets are a playoff team, but it is a given that the cubs arent.

"chad may not be able to throw a ball hard, but he can manage a game"

Yes he sure made great decisions against the Bears. My favorite was when he did a 180 spin and threw a dying pigeon right to Vasher.

"i couldnt be prouder of them"

I think I'm gonna cry.

"I would take el duque over lillypads anyday"

Lillypads?.....is that a burn or something?

"The mets were the best team in the NL, cubs were the worst."

Get over it....the 2006 season is over.

Oliver Perez is terrible

If you go to google and type in Daryle Ward and click on Daryle Ward's espn player card and scroll down a little bit it will say that the Cubs and Daryle Ward offically agreed on a 1 year deal.

Uh OH, Darryle Ward????. I guess i was wrong, the cubs are now an immediate world series contender. ahhhahahahah

No, but beind 25, throwing gas with a nasty slider and getting a chance to work with one of the top 3 pitching coaches in baseball does, nice try tho, again.

Perez is a bum and you would think as high as Heilman was comin out Peterson would have a stud pitcher by now. He got drafted and came up as a SP. In my eyes he is a failure. No argument Duncan is the best. Mazzone a distant second whoever the Twins guy is 3rd Righetti 4th. I give the successor to Oaklands staff a higher grade than Peterson. He wanted Zambrano so bad and didn't do dick with him. He is a bum. The Reds guy is pretty good to and Dave Wallace although I don't remember where he is I think Pitt.

I will give you one thing though he is better than Mcdowell so far. But I think you give him a couple more years and he will be better than the over rated Rick Peterson. I need Zambrano so bad. Ill make him a star. Yeah trade Kazmir. HaHa worst trade since Nolan Ryan HaHa

Trading kazmir was one of the best trades in mets history actually, I couldnt be any more happy with that deal. Thanks tho. Maybe the braves will make the playoffs again in 10 years. Good luck with that

Noi kazmir trade no omar, no omar, no pedro, no pedro, no beltran , no beltran, no delgado or lo duca or wagner. I love that deal. Duquette is doin a good job with your boy mazzone in baltimore right now. Let me know how that turns out, or when mazzone stops smoking crack and gets rid of little twitchy rock back and forth

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Hey big market teams get to spend money cause there is another overrated guy in Omar. And are you really serious if you said Peterson is top 3 and you are dissin Mazzone who you got in the top 3 then.

Got to go watch my Steelers kick the Browns ass. Nice exposin your bitch ass. You probably got to go too its time for your Dungeons and Dragons game aint it. Fuckin Nerd.

Lol the steelers are awful, good comeback, but im not into dungeons and dragons, im actually about to go into a harry potter blog, and then after that a startrek blog, but good guess tho, haha.

I agree with you jball he does think he knows alot. But all he does is crunch numbers but nobody on here claims to be an english major. If you are lookin for good grammar take that bullshit to the classroom. We talk shit bout our teams on this here site. Everyone is die hard. Even though I don't agree with the points nrmax makes. When he gets in trouble with me all he can say is the braves suck. But I respect his passion for his team.

It must be somethin within the organization it seems like all their young talent winds up hurt. Wood Prior Cruz when he came up was a beast only to blow his arm out. I know there was like 2or 3 more I just can't remember the names at the time. Seems like Zambrano is the exception not the rule.

I'll do what I want Phils and I been on here for awhile I just change my names.You are another one thatonly cares about numbers huh. Probably never picked a bat or ball up in your life. I observe the way the game is actually played not how its read in a boxscore. Some people worry bout how much a player makes or what they bat. I follow how guys play the game.If you are a Phillies fan you should know what I'm talkin bout. That 93 team was a team of ballplayers. Nailz Daulton, Hollins, no superstars ball players. They threw numbers out the window and played the game the right way.

Phils, the cubbies may not be the best team in the league, but their fans are loyal as hell. If a player in any sport in Philly has one bad game even after tons of all star performances, the fans let him know. Yeah, winning is great, but the bottom line is only one team is a winner each year. It doesn't matter if you guys won 30 more games than us, in the end we got the same consolation prize...nothing. Unless you're a cards fan, you can't really talk about how bad another team is. Get excited about your own team instead of bashing others. And as far as the numbers game goes, a pitcher can have a horrible ERA and pitch a ton of quality starts mixed in with one or two horrible games, so that number is meaningless sometimes. Also, a pitcher can have horrible numbers, but come up big in big games (i.e. Jeff Weaver). What's up with Kansas City having money to pay Gil Meche by the way?

I am not whining about the Cub's injuries-simply stating fact that they occurred and severely impacted the Cubs season. If Glavine, Pedro and Delgado got hurt-I'm sure nrmax would discuss it in his posts as to why the Mets fell apart. Can't expect teams to compete with injuries.

I admit, the Cubs have some major holes that they are filling this off-season, but last year was a bust mostly due to injuries.