Another feeble offensive outing for the team.
Soriano will most likely be back tonight, but that's a lot of pressure on one guy...and a streaky guy at that. Once again, Lee/Ramirez/Soto -- big O'fer. Give them all a day off. Play Hoffpauir, Ward, whoever...it's hard to watch the way it is right now. Lee doesn't even seem to care. I am sure that he does -- it just doesn't show. Another rally killing double play? Aw, shucks. Oh, well, back to first.
Another well pitched game wasted. Marquis did just fine. Quality start by today's standards. Bullpen blew.
Here's a thought. Trade Lee and some minor league talent for Mark Teixeira. Shake things up a bit. Add some LH power. Thoughts?
Well, at least we are still in first. For now. At least for another day or two. Lou had better figure out a way to win on the road, or this season is going to go down the tubes quickly.
Go Cubs. Let's score some runs.
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no, no, no Sherm, you don't panic and trade he best defensive 1B in the league (although he looked bad on a play last night). The team needs to get rotating days off. They are tired. Aramis hasn't had a hit since he got back from his cock-fighting trip...and embarassed himself last night posing as if he'd gone yard, then the ball gets caught on the track. Horrible.
At least with the Cubs losing, they don't need Wood anyway.
If management doesn't have the gonads to bench guys during slumps and bat them where the ought to bat instead of where the WANT to bat -- then we need to shake it up and make some trades. Third in the central gets you nothing but a long off season, and the next owners (unless it happens to be Mark Cuban) might not spend as freely.
It will not do to have the league's best ERA at season end if we don't score runs and win games. Theriot and Fontenot are the only two guys hitting, and they hit 1 and 8. And Fontenot will surely sit when Soriano comes back.
I say shake it way the fuck up. Trade Lee for Teixeira. Why not? Trade Ramirez to the Mets, along with Sean Marshall or some bullpen help for David Wright (if they'd do it)
Something. We need to do something. Otherwise, if we do win the division, we'll have a repeat of last year's debacle in Arizona.
Only two good things came from that playoff in Arizona last year, and they were the ribs and mac/cheese that Mojo made.
Although Arizona's line-up last night said "treat me like a pinata" and we failed to do so, Panic is not yet in order. Trading DLee and A-Ram is blasphemy. NOBODY has a better tandem, they are just both sucking whale sperm simultaneously right now.
Time off is indicated, play Hoffpauir, Cedneo, and definitely Fontenot. I really didn't think I would Miss ALF all that much, but now I welcome him back.
The goal is not to be in first all season long, but at the end. This is our first major slump. The Cards and Brewers really haven't had one yet, though the Brew crew was playing consistently below expectations for 2 months.
Try to look at it like the stock market, panic trading usually leads to losing your shorts, keep your good stocks as they will produce over the long run.
There is nothing wrong with improving your tandem...even if you have a good one. You telling me you wouldn't take Teixeira and Wright over Lee and Aram? If the price was right?
Shake it up, or risk falling, falling, falling.
And you can't compare baseball players to the stock market. That's just silly.
The Cards and Brewers have both had minor slumps, and neither will have a major one because both are far better hitting teams than the Cubs.
That's just silly talk.
Texeira and Wright are not on the same team, and Wright is not available. If he were, he would not be a straight up deal, so No I'd stand pat (not lilpat).
I am not sure that either Wright or Teixeira are better than Aram and Lee. They both look a little slow, weak, and soft right now. The issue very well may be a lack of strength and conditioning with a high probablility that the season is lengthened substantially when players cannot freely chemically enhance themselves.
Bring back the juice.
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