All of you folks out there looking for some last-minute Christmas deals can just head on over to Cubs.com for the DEAL OF THE CENTURY! Remember a couple of years ago when the Cubs started a Fantasy Camp and they were charging $7,500 for the experience, and nobody thought that was worth it, so they lowered the price to $3,000? …
So the Marlins are spending money that isn’t actually theirs
Patrick Hruby has an article up on The Postgame that pretty much talks about how the Marlins are spending and likely to get rich off the taxpayers’ dime without any reciprocation. If I were a Florida taxpayer, I’d be pretty pissed off about this.
Cheatingiest Cheating Cheater
Barry Bonds was sentenced today. The Barry Bonds case is over. Bonds, as we speak, is being sentenced. The penalty: 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service. This, by the way, is what the probation office recommended. Prosecutors were seeking a 15 month jail term. Meanwhile, the US government wasted millions of our dollars. Just …
Waiting for Yu
Someone please just hurry up and tell us Yu Darvish is not coming to the Cubs.
CAIRO’s Extremely Early Projected Standings
SG published the first projected standings for his CAIRO projections (version .3) yesterday. They make a lot more sense to me than the early Oliver projections. TM W L RS RA Div WC PL Brewers 92 70 700 646 52.5% 14.3% 66.7% Cardinals 90 72 708 648 36.8% 19.3% 56.2% Reds 84 78 724 704 10.1% 10.8% 20.9% Cubs 74 …
“You better know who your ninth starter’s going to be”
I’ve been a bit confused by one of Theo’s comments since taking over as President of Baseball Operations. “We need starting pitching. You can’t take your chances very seriously as a club if you go in to the season without, not just five guys you can point to, but six, seven and eight guys. You better know who your ninth …
Can the Oliver projected standings be right?
At the bottom of The Hardball Time’s Oliver forecasts page they have the 2012 projected standings. They were updated yesterday, but I know this was done before the Brewers signed Aramis Ramirez. National League Central Team Wins Losses CIN 90 72 STL 88 74 MIL 86 76 CHN 82 80 HOU 65 97 PIT 62 100 Oliver projects 1.2 WAR …
Cubs Seriously Debating Whether to Offer Koyie Hill a Contract
When the Age of Theo was ushered in, we thought that certain Cub traits would be washed away as the Superfriends were assembled. Surely, we all agreed, paying for guys who had “intangibles” would be one of the first things out the door. Right? Not so fast. Bruce Miles, opting not to jump on the “Let’s make fun of Steve …