01-23-2009, 10:37 PM
I think it's going to happen. I'm dead serious when I say I'd be shocked if it didn't. That's not optimism at all, it's being realistic and seeing what's going on. I'm the same person that says that I don't think they'll win a playoff game again in my lifetime.
Gammons said today he thinks it will happen and thinks Ricketts is perfect for us.
Just look at this situation. Why the fuck else would we trade Marquis? As I posted, Randy Wolf had a 3 year 28.5 million dollar offer from the Astros. Marquis is a more valuable pitcher than that guy. He goes out every year and will give you 190+ innings of solid pitching. These guys aren't cheap. Now we're looking to acquire another pitcher like this? Why would we deal Marquis? And don't tell me to get Luis Vizcaino. When you have Rich Harden in your rotation, you need 4 other guys you can count on to go out there every 5th day and rack up innings. Sean Marshall has never done that at a professional level.
We've acquired 5(?) pitchers since these initial talks. Now we've added depth to our system to allow us to trade some of these guys we were hesitant to before, or to give a couple of these guys to them. They've been known to want Garrett Olson.
We wouldn't give up DeRosa and Marquis solely for Milton Bradley. There's no way I'll believe that. This is a guy you can't expect to play more than 90 games and DeRo was our MVP last year.
Ricketts knows that if he allows the Cubs to spend an extra 15 million(which is nothing after youve spent 900 million), he'll get on the good side of fans right away. He knows he has to do this. He could give us the freedom to make that move and not give us a payroll bump for a few years and he can still point back to this.
If it doesn't happen, it wasn't because Hendry didn't try. This has been is plan all along, no question.
Gammons said today he thinks it will happen and thinks Ricketts is perfect for us.
Just look at this situation. Why the fuck else would we trade Marquis? As I posted, Randy Wolf had a 3 year 28.5 million dollar offer from the Astros. Marquis is a more valuable pitcher than that guy. He goes out every year and will give you 190+ innings of solid pitching. These guys aren't cheap. Now we're looking to acquire another pitcher like this? Why would we deal Marquis? And don't tell me to get Luis Vizcaino. When you have Rich Harden in your rotation, you need 4 other guys you can count on to go out there every 5th day and rack up innings. Sean Marshall has never done that at a professional level.
We've acquired 5(?) pitchers since these initial talks. Now we've added depth to our system to allow us to trade some of these guys we were hesitant to before, or to give a couple of these guys to them. They've been known to want Garrett Olson.
We wouldn't give up DeRosa and Marquis solely for Milton Bradley. There's no way I'll believe that. This is a guy you can't expect to play more than 90 games and DeRo was our MVP last year.
Ricketts knows that if he allows the Cubs to spend an extra 15 million(which is nothing after youve spent 900 million), he'll get on the good side of fans right away. He knows he has to do this. He could give us the freedom to make that move and not give us a payroll bump for a few years and he can still point back to this.
If it doesn't happen, it wasn't because Hendry didn't try. This has been is plan all along, no question.
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