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Maybe we send the Cubs into a July swoon?

aboz Who is your avatar?

Let's get this started NOW Make them pay for trading you away for Matt freaking Karchner, Jon.... :fthecubs

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Boston ties the game.....Ortiz with a single to tie it up 3-3 now

Rauch....keep it up baby

K K K Who the hell has got into Jon today?

Kong should focus on hitting and getting on base....hitting HRs is not what we need, especially in the playoffs when against quality pitching you can not hit it out of the park

Why is Jose so much better wth ducks on the pond as opposed to when there is no one on base? One thing I will never figure out...

Wow Jon

To me it all comes down to how much money do we have to spend, how much do we give up when we get someone here, is the other team going to give him up right now and ultimately what do we lose in the worst case scenario? Yes, Estes has a high ERA, but guess what it is still better than our # 5 pitcher's ERA right now Colorado is done for the year Estes only makes $600K this year You can get him for NOTHING While he is giving us a fighting chance every 5th game, in the meanwhile go get the stud/s that you need for one starting position and bull pen using the real prospects that you have to give up Bo Sox got Suppan last year and he helped them out quite a bit in getting them a fighting chance every 5th day Right now WE DO NOT EVEN HAVE A CHANCE EVERY 5TH DAY....look what happens today We have to stop burning our bull pen so early in the season, since our BP sucks and we cannot keep trotting out Marte and Shingo every freaking day Some of you f***ing hypocrites need to think. Suddenly our payroll is not going to increase by leaps and bounds. Suddenly we are not going to get these prospects in our minor league that will get us anyone and everyone. Suddenly, we are not going to find a stud prospect to pitch for us every 5th day

And Josh, my point is unless you figure out a way to get Garcia, you are better off at least trying to win the game that the 5th starter stars in instead of just giving up before it starts Go get Garcia, Glavine and Randy Johnson...sure ...I know we have another 100M flexibility in our payroll

Yes aim higher....of course, but until Seattle is ready to deal Garcia, what is wrong in getting a 5th starter to stop losing these games See what happens tomorrow when Rauch gets rocked again....if Kenny had gotten Estes in the off season, I bet we would be at least 3games above Minny right now

Then give them some scrub prospect....big deal...the Rockies will be ready to unload anyone and everyone soon

So you prefer rauch, diaz, wright, cotts to estes? If we do get more good pitching we can always send him down....his salary is really low, why not take a chance while we continue to bleed thanks to no 5th starter Not like we have to give up anything to get him

Estes is only paid $600K this year....really cheap Give the Rockies some draft pick or some A prospect

Many of you may kill me for this, but I would love to have someone like Shawn Estes on this team right now He is 8-3 this year despite playing in Colorado and would be a perfect 5th starter this year for us If we get a stud, then we put Scho in the BP That way we get Stud, Buerhle, Elo, Garland, Estes as the 5 starters for the remainder of the year And we send Cotts down and let Scho be the other left hander next to Marte for the BP Marte, Shingo and Scho would make this a 3 deep BP

No way we win this game....hopefully this anti-jinx works

Ozzie has no choice but to put Mike Jackson in a game some time or the other. Adkins, Jackson, Cotts are not going to shut down anyone Marte and Shingo can shut down anyone Politte can be someone who can throw 97 pass everyone or get hit by everyone...depends on the day and time I guess ... very inconsistent

I agree with Brando that he is not a #1 The biggest problem with this Sox team (and the ones for the last 5 years) is that they are frankly cannot hit against a very good pitcher or pitch against a very good batting line up They get beat in that match up every single time We cannot hit Hudson, Mulder, Zito, Garcia, Vasquez, Shilling, Clemens, Pedro etc EVER....and I see many teams that get wins against these guys by producing some offense In the same sense, our pitching has never shut down a quality O (the NY series notwithstanding but even then NY was struggling with ARod going 0.200 then)...if we played NY now, they would kill this pitching for 10 runs minimum How can we contend in the playoffs with this mediocre crap?

Lee will shut us down, I fear When is the last time we did well against a good pitcher?????

Here is the article from the Trib which mentions the Cubs may let Clement walk...they may be wrong, but it makes sense ------------------- The two main players who could depart are Matt Clement and Moises Alou. The Cubs are unlikely to pick up the $11.5 million option on Alou, despite his strong showing in '04, taking the $2 million buyout instead. They still could re-sign Alou if he agrees to a major salary cut. Clement stands to receive a sizeable multi-year offer from another team. He may have to take less to stay, however, because the Cubs are likely to pick up Ryan Dempster's $2 million option and the other four starters already are set to return. ------------------------------ http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines

The Cubs are going to pick up Ryan Dempster's $2M option and get him as the 5th starter next year....they will let Clement walk...they cannot afford him

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I would love to get both Clement and Elo Then we would have 5 legit starters in Buerhle, Elo, Clement, Garland, Scho next year We better not go into next year with no #5 starter