The Mighty Mite

The Cubs won 3 NL Pennants in the 30s and again in 1945 besides a few in the early 20th century. It is WS wins that they have come up short, tied with us with 3 but we win the tie breaker for beating them in 1906 in the WS. I'm pretty sure they've been in 11 WS to our 5.

So sad.

Keep your eye on Dodgers prospect Bobby Miller who is the grandson of my best friend when I was growing up in Rogers Park on the northside of Chicago. Unfortunately my old friend died 20 years ago and will not see his grandson become an MLB pitcher

Amen to that.

Who cares whether it's Moncada, Moncado or Avacado, the guy is a bust and I am keeping my fingers crossed that he's traded before the 2023 season starts.

Yeah, we drove by the stadium last week on the way to dinner, from the road you could see extensive damage. Ian really did a number to our area and so many things still have to be fixed plus the massive clean up is ongoing and who knows how long it will take. The roofers down here are going to busy for a least a couple of years, it's amazing seeing so many homes with blue tarps waiting for new roofs. We live in a condo with our street having condos on one side and single family homes on the other, our condo didn't lose a shingle as we had a new roof put up in April and most of the other condos made out well but every single family house is tarped.

I always thought that Walker was going to be maybe a superstar especially with that sweet swing of his but it was not to be and then he had a seizure in 1988 just about ending his career.

I'm old and wanted to put Appling on my SS list but I never saw Luke play and I'm not THAT old.

Amen brother.

When has he ever done that?

Yep.

My take is they couldn't get together on money or years.

Didn't realize that, I wonder if the Sox are interested.

We should try prying a catcher from the Ray's, they have 3 with Mejia, Bethancourt and Zunino. Zunino is coming back after surgery last year and not sure how he will be.

Shortstop has been pretty good, off the top of my head since 1952 we’ve had Carassquel, Aparicio twice, Hansen, Dent, Guillen, Valentine, Uribe, Ramirez and Anderson. Might have left off a few, we had some years that were pretty bad at short also.

Pass.

I think we need to get a tie with England and then England beats Wales.

We needed a win against Wales, it's going to be hard now to advance out of the group, need at least a tie against England to have a chance.

I bet he does too, he'd be a gazillionaire.

Please delete.

That’s cool but for whatever reasons he’s just not as good as he was touted to be.

OK thanks.

Why wait so long after the season ended, I've had 2 knee surgeries and sometimes things take longer than expected, season ended 6 weeks ago, that is 6 weeks more to get the knee in shape.

These were the best followed by the current units which we’ve had since 1991. The 1971s were good but thought they were better for the Red Sox. I hated the 1976-1981 and the 81-86, horrible unis. One of my big wishes is MLB players all wore their uniforms alike, after all they are called uniforms, they should all have the same colored shoes and I wish they went back to the stirrups, straight long pants look sloppy.

Grifol has his work cut out for him, let's hope he can turn this mess around.