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alexai = soriano

from mlbtraderumors.com 5:00pm: Topkins tweets that the deal should be finalized within an hour. 4:40pm: Sherman says that no money is changing hands in the deal, so the Angels are absorbing the over $20MM owed to Kazmir over the next two years. 4:33pm: Joel Sherman of The NY Post hears from a source that the deal is done, and Kazmir is "definitely going to the Angels."

Kazmir is terrible... 5.92 era. He had bad year last year.. probably never recovered from injuries. 20million still owed over 2 years.

AB 145 AVG .324 HR 12 RBI 32 SB 6/6 BB 20 OBP .413 SLG .641 OPS 1.055 He's raking for DB's AAA team

LOL.. he just dropped another and cost them a run. First Cubs game I've watched in months this is awesome.

Soriano is terrible.. already made an error and just missed another that he should have caught then it got by him.. he's terrible. He makes Dye look like a gold glover. It just cracks me up the Cubs are stuck with Soriano, Zambrano, Bradley, Fukodome for big money for a long time. I don't think they'll be getting any better for years unless some Yankee like money is put into them.

LOL... Nick Green 2.0ip 0er 0h Dotel/Jenks 2.0/ip 3ER (SO FAR)

This bullpen makes me want to puke... hopefully Link and Nunez come up in Sept. and they're effective.. Linebrink, Dotel, Pena are garbage. Macdougal and Aardsma would look great in that pen right now.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 06:05 PM) I think that falls on either the scouts and/or Walker, probably a combination of both. Vets hit really well in '06. In '07, we hit an injury bug. In '08, a lot of our guys slumped. AJ didn't even hit as good as he has this year. Dye was probably the most consistent even though you could tell his bat speed had slowed down. Overall though, this year, minus PK and AJ, our guys have seen regression. Ever since 05, even in august/early sept 05 dye/thome/konerko get in these alwful slumps of popping out with horrible ab's. This year we won't have one guy with 100rbi, and at the pace we're going one guy with 35 HRs. Teams that don't have a guy with 100rbis don't make the playoffs. neither do teams with crapped out bullpens and old, injured 4 and 5 starters, have Dewayne Wise/Lillibridge on the roster when there's not a major injury. It's just not the hitting, but the whole team has major holes still.

Did they find Bartolo yet?

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 27, 2009 -> 03:03 PM) Apparently, an article I think it was, came out and stated Walker doesn't handle the vets, just the new guys coming up. So with guys like AJ, Thome, Dye, PK, it's all on them. Walker handles guys like Getz, Alexei, Fields, Beckham(though I wouldn't tinker with him at all), Quentin, and god knows about Rios. I'd say, although I'd like to see Walker fired, he's done somewhat decent. I think there is better out there though. And I want a hitting coach who isn't afraid to coach older guys. Bring back Hriniak. Thats why he needs to be fired.... the vets haven't hit since 05. This team hits more lazy popouts in one game than any other team does in a week. They need to make adjustments because pitchers get scouting reports and hitters have to make adjustments so they're not getting pounded with a pitch they can't or in there redzone. There ABs are crap for being so talented..

Sox = Cubs ... but the sad thing is we added two large contracts DURING the season that have done jacks*** for the Sox so far... and tony pena, kotsay... makes me want to puke.

"Sax packed with Sox" (RedSox)

Trade him

and we're back to .500... twins will takeover 2nd place.

Makes me sick... they give you five outs and two runners on base (one in scoring position) and no one scores.

I like JD, THome, PK, but two of three gotta go because they hit way too many POPUPS especially in clutch situations.. and they're slow.

Another crappy JD ab... he needs A FEW games off..

Linebrink sucks.. This ballgame is ova

His batting stance looks different than it used too.. nice job greg walker

"That'll be an error on Nix" "Pods gets picked off again" "I wish I could cuss right now" "STRETCH!!! It won't." "I don't know what Alexai's doin out there" "The hit by pitch from Contreras" "Linebrink comes on" "And he throws it away!" "High fly ball" I think he's getting frustrated too.

9-1... only 1 loss to Boston. Everyone else gets swept, we take lead in division.

THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE!! \

Tonights the 22nd one of the season.

Paul Bonerko Chayson Dix The Cuban Airhead