Fly ball or at the plate?

Ok, ok. Bullshit aside, this is ridiculously poor luck. :(

Did trading Ludwig completely kill the birds?

It appears to be a death sentence. After that trade, we've got one great hitter, one good hitter (both of whom may be injured), two streaky-at-best hitters, and everybody else is either injured or sucks.

Damn Pujols take it frikking easy jeezzz. We lose you we are defintely done this year.

That looked like a nasty sprain.

John Mozeliak has done a pretty good job the last two years.

Luke Gregerson for Khalil Greene

Giving up Mortenson (serviceable #5) and Peterson because he waited too long to trade for Holliday

Giving up Perez and Todd for DeRosa, who was worthless.

Ludwick for a player we could have gotten for no prospects whatsoever.

40 million to Kyle Lohse.

Extending Ryan Franklin for two years


He's so ****ing bad it defies explanation.

The good news? He's making us forget all about Haren for Mulder.

Your GM isn't that bad, compared to Jim Hendry, who has arguably fielded two terrible Cubs team in franchise history, with a 110+ million payroll (probably higher, but don't have the numbers).
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Yadi just swung at a ball 2 feet above the zone.

JD Drew for Waino...........just to clear the palette

When he inherited a team with two of the five best pitchers in the league, if not all of baseball, and the single best player in the game by a wide margin, not to mention the best defensive catcher, and the best pitching coach, it's pretty hard to do much worse than this.

We have three replacement level players in our everyday lineup. You can't do much worse than that as a GM.

No, but what does the Cubs have, outside of probably Aramis and possibly-to-be-a-star in Castro? Those are the only players I can think of as Zambrano isn't worth a shit, Soto, no idea what to expect out of him and most other players are either scrubs or unknowns. The only player that I like is Marmol who has a filthy unheard of K-9 ratio, other than your normal wildness. Impressive that their season was finished well before the ASB, considering they have all that money.
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Are you implying Aramis is good?

The Cubs have nothing, there's no doubt about that.

But Mozeliak inherited all of that, minus Holliday. He's done nothing but make the team worse since his arrival.

The mere state of not sucking as much as the Cubs doesn't exactly make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

When he isn't injured, yes.
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