Zambrano

[savant]

<!--quoteo(post=63190:date=Sep 15 2009, 03:22 PM:name=Kid)-->QUOTE (Kid @ Sep 15 2009, 03:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->The rest of you (sans Butcher) need to realize that this team cannot compete with St. Louis with or without Carlos, and the quickest way of fielding a competitive team is to remove ourselves of all the honorous obligations. Until we do that we will be a middling and maddening ballclub. Right now I am not the least bit excited about our team in 2010 because I expect to see the same group out there.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That is, bar none, one of the dumbest things I've read on here in quite some time. We won 97 games last year to finish 11.5 games in front of St. Louis and have largely the same team this year. St. Louis was injured last season. We are injured this season, and have had extremely substandard years from other players. We're not 11.5 games better than a healthy St. Louis. St. Louis isn't 9.5 games better than a healthy Cubs team.

To say that we can't compete with St. Louis is just fucking stupid. It also ignores that a month and a half ago we were tied with St. Louis.
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I hope to God they re-sign Smoltz. Are you sure Carpenter is going to be healthy again? What is going to happen when Duncan takes his pixie dust out of town? The Cardinals are in no way a lock to wni again next year.

I have no problem with trading Z if we are getting back more than we are giving up. People this is a big market ball club with a big market payroll and a new owner, there is not going to be a re-building.