Heyward and Walden to St. Louis for Shelby Miller and Tyrell Jenkins.

 

Damn.

 

Feel like MLB is going to blow their collective wad before the Winter Meetings again.

Someone remind me why I defected from Cardinal fandom?

 

Oh yeah. I was 10. I couldn't watch Cardinals games. And Frank Thomas.

 

Still happy with the choice, but f*** if the Cards aren't a well-run organization.

This is why organizations like the Cardinals continue to compete year after year. What an absolutely phenomenal trade.

They also got Walden, who's a stud, on top of Heyward. Nuts.

Everyone is on the Cubs nuts with what they are going to do, yet the Cardinals out of nowhere just won the off season.

 

Getting Heyward and Walden for Miller who they weren't high on is an amazing trade for St Louis.

And people thought Hayward wasn't going to get traded. Wow, what a steal by the Cardinals.

 

Still have Wainwright, Lynn, Lackey, Wacha, Gonzales, Garcia (if healthy). I'm sure they'll add some depth.

Still have Wainwright, Lynn, Lackey, Wacha, Gonzales, Garcia (if healthy). I'm sure they'll add some depth.

 

And Martinez if he can figure it out in the rotation.

Everyone is on the Cubs nuts with what they are going to do, yet the Cardinals out of nowhere just won the off season.

 

Getting Heyward and Walden for Miller who they weren't high on is an amazing trade for St Louis.

 

Way too early to say anyone won the offseason, but this has not been a good day for the Cubs.

Good deal for Cardinals, as they had soured on Miller.

 

I would have too. His ERA was alright last year, but his peripherals sucked.

Could have big ramifications for the Sox. Melky Cabrera just lost his most likely destination and Dioner Navarro could become a trade option.

Good call and I hope you're right. Would love to see Cabrera in LF with Navarro platooning with Flowers. That would be two very nice upgrades right there.

Someone remind me why I defected from Cardinal fandom?

 

Oh yeah. I was 10. I couldn't watch Cardinals games. And Frank Thomas.

 

Still happy with the choice, but f*** if the Cards aren't a well-run organization.

 

Any Sox fan should be a Cards fan just by proxy of Cub hatred.

Any Sox fan should be a Cards fan just by proxy of Cub hatred.

 

What if you're too old for that s***? I just want the Sox to get good players and win baseball games.

Any Sox fan should be a Cards fan just by proxy of Cub hatred.

 

I used to be that way until the "Best Fans in Baseball" made it impossible to root for St. Louis.

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 60m60 minutes ago

 

#BlueJays are among the teams showing legitimate interest in Jon Lester, per @bradfo.

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 60m60 minutes ago

 

#BlueJays are among the teams showing legitimate interest in Jon Lester, per @bradfo.

 

It would be awesome if the Cubs come up empty handed

It would be awesome if the Cubs come up empty handed

 

Fans would chew out Theo.

I used to be that way until the "Best Fans in Baseball" made it impossible to root for St. Louis.

 

The cubs proclamations of being the best fans in baseball is not that far off and the cubs, when playing well, draw incredibly on the road as do the Bears and Hawks. Really is sad the Sox can not get into this attraction with Chicago sports fans.

Chris Cotillo ‏@ChrisCotillo 60m60 minutes ago

 

#BlueJays are among the teams showing legitimate interest in Jon Lester, per @bradfo.

 

IF so you would think Buehrle would be heavily shopped

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 2m2 minutes ago

 

Signing of Russell Martin likely takes TOR out of a major deal w/Melky Cabrera. Lose a pick signing Martin, gain 1 if Melky signs elsewhere.

The cubs proclamations of being the best fans in baseball is not that far off and the cubs, when playing well, draw incredibly on the road as do the Bears and Hawks. Really is sad the Sox can not get into this attraction with Chicago sports fans.

 

 

I thought he meant that about Cardinals fans becoming too irritating to tolerate, although still better than preferring the Cubs to the Cards, presumably.

Peter Gammons ‏@pgammo 3h3 hours ago

 

Since the Titanic went down, the Marlins have more world series wins than the Angels, Mariners, Astros, Cubs, Nationals, Rangers, Rockies...

Padres and Rays, combined

It would be awesome if the Cubs come up empty handed

Yes!

 

IF so you would think Buehrle would be heavily shopped

Supposedly the Jays already are and are rumored to be willing to send money with Buehrle.

The cubs proclamations of being the best fans in baseball is not that far off and the cubs, when playing well, draw incredibly on the road as do the Bears and Hawks. Really is sad the Sox can not get into this attraction with Chicago sports fans.

 

Cubs fans are not the best in baseball. Sox fans would come out much more if the organization could put together any stretch of success, but that hasn't really happened in awhile.

FOX Sports Detroit ‏@FOXSportsDet

Alex Avila's $5.4 million option for 2015 has been exercised by the Detroit #Tigers.

 

Thats a lot of money to a player who has gotten a lot of concussions.

Thats a lot of money to a player who has gotten a lot of concussions.

 

 

 

 

Must be frustrating to see Morneau had the kind of season he had for Colorado (finally), but there's no way they could keep paying him with those expectations (performing at near MVP level like five or six years ago).

 

On a personal level, I'm sure fans are happy for him and his family. You just never know how fragile the balance health-wise is until you've witnessed the situations with Stanton, Dravecky, Ray Fosse, Conigliaro, Morneau, Puckett, Heyward, F. Vina, etc. Or Steve Sax, Mackey Sasser, Knoblauch, Pedro Alvarez and Rick Ankiel psychologically being blocked from doing a simple repetitive physical act they've executed hundreds of thousands of times.

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Cubs fans are not the best in baseball. Sox fans would come out much more if the organization could put together any stretch of success, but that hasn't really happened in awhile.

 

Cub fans don't have be induced to come to a game, which is the exact point. They don't have a list of 95 thesis they need filled before showing up. Cubs fans are so much more loyal than White Sox fans it isn't even funny. It is that exact loyalty that allowed them to do the rebuild they are in now. The White Sox could never do that.

Cub fans don't have be induced to come to a game, which is the exact point. They don't have a list of 95 thesis they need filled before showing up. Cubs fans are so much more loyal than White Sox fans it isn't even funny. It is that exact loyalty that allowed them to do the rebuild they are in now. The White Sox could never do that.

 

I dont remember saying that Sox fans were anywhere near the best in baseball. Also, Cubs attendance has dropped by over a million fans annually over the last 4 years.