May 10, 200520 yr The rest of the article is a cry-fest about the Flubbs pissing away quality young arms but this really stood out and made me laugh my fool head off. Garland is the working voodoo doll that most haunts Cubdom. Not only has he finally grown up and meshed his wicked stuff with a maturing mind, he is doing so for the -- arrrrrrgh! -- White Sox. It wasn't as if people didn't know about the teenage Garland, a high first-round draft pick, when Lynch traded him for reliever Matt Karchner in July 1998. The smarter precincts of Cubdom feared Lynch was mortgaging the future for a bit pitcher. Evidence took time to materialize, but they were right. Karchner had a brief shelf life on the North Side and is out of the sport. Garland, with a 6-0 record and 2.42 ERA, might start the All-Star Game at age 25. Gotta love watching a moron like this implode just like his scrub baseball team is.
May 10, 200520 yr This years list of ex-Cub pitchers with huge years is just staggering. Basically every pitcher they have ever let walk away is having a huge year. It will be interesting to see if they trade another young arm away to get a SS and/or Closer.
May 10, 200520 yr Just think the Scrubs gave away the two 6- 0 pitchers in the ML to date... Dontrelle and Garland...
May 10, 200520 yr Don't forget that Dontrelle was ALSO a Cubs prospect....I think he was traded for Clement and (gulp) Alfonseca
May 10, 200520 yr Trading Dontrelle was comparable to when we traded Sosa. 10 years later people will look back and think WTF? The reality is those trades helped each team get into the playoffs. The Garland trade, on the other hand, was stupid. Even if Garland remained mediocre the rest of his career, it was stupid. Karchner was a mediocre RP when the Cubs traded for him. You don't trade your top prospects for mediocre RPs.
May 10, 200520 yr Here's the basic equation; If you're a pitcher on the Cubs = you are SCREWED If you're an ex-pitcher of the Cubs = you are SCREWING them.
May 10, 200520 yr The rest of the article is a cry-fest about the Flubbs pissing away quality young arms but this really stood out and made me laugh my fool head off. Gotta love watching a moron like this implode just like his scrub baseball team is. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think he's making a personal statement, at least outwardly. Seems to me he's writing from the perspective of the Cubs fans and perhaps the Cubs organization.
May 10, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(JimH @ May 10, 2005 -> 07:55 AM) I don't think he's making a personal statement, at least outwardly. Seems to me he's writing from the perspective of the Cubs fans and perhaps the Cubs organization. I didn't take it as one either but it was funny none the less.
May 10, 200520 yr I didn't take it as one either but it was funny none the less. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, agree, there was definitely some humor there! Things are pretty bad on the north side at the moment.
May 10, 200520 yr Like I said earlier Garland's story is the stuff of legends. That alone boosts his value to the White Sox & is why I think they will try to sign him to a multi-year. If he does go on to win 20 this year that will definitely boost ticket sales next year. More so than if any other guy did that. As for the Cub it's pretty sad when you think about it. They did get good years from Clement but it cost them Willis in the process. If they had signed Clement in the off-season it would have reduced some of that sting. If they had signed Lieber in the off-season it would have re-vitalized the cubby nation. But they did neither. It's only $ & they have plenty of it.
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