Wednesday, November 19, 2008

November Cubs Chatter

In an effort to digest the majority of the Chicago Baseball Cubs news from November, we're breaking out the bullet points. If you have no particular interest in the Cubs, or baseball in general, you can just shuffle on. Meet me back here later? Ok, cool.

  • Lou Piniella is your NL Manager of the Year. Hooray? I love that every story about this is absolutely obligated to include this line near the top: "Voting was done before the playoffs."
  • Jim Hendry tells Kerry Wood to just walk away. Good move, I think, but is anybody else a little heartbroken?
  • Ryan Dempster gets a fancy new contract. Clowns everywhere approve.
  • Cubs acquire Kevin Gregg for Jose Ceda and others. This guy doesn't like it. I haven't seen Ceda throw, but I have seen Gregg, and this is certainly true: Kevin Gregg, even healthy and pitching well, is no Kerry Wood.
  • The Cubs might not get all sold, they definitely won't be sold to Mark Cuban, and they need all bids in by December 1st. Breaking news: business talk is boring.
  • Aramis Ramirez wins the NL Hank Aaron Award, which goes to the best offensive player in the league. Shockingly stupid, given that he wasn't even the best hitter named Ramirez in the NL. Wait, what's that? Voted on by the fans, you say? Oh: still stupid.
  • Geovany Soto wins the NL Rookie of the Year Award. That was easy to predict, if you saw him play late in '07, but I was a little off in my numbers projections, since I had Soto hitting about .370, with 30 Home Runs and 140 RBI's. Yeah, I was crushin'.
Expect updates throughout hot-stove season, and expect them to be euphoric if the Cubs can get their hands on a leadoff man.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You will never learn.

You must come over to the dark side, where the good guys wear black.

Only then will you truly experience happiness.

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Okay, not happiness. But less angst.

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All right, about the same amount of angst when calculated yearly, but I'm talking about cumulative angst, with compounded heartbreak.

We have slightly less of that.