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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Quit trying to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring and besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. They're more democratic.
So baseball season is quickly approaching, and it makes me extremely happy.
Baseball season in Chicago is a very special thing, and it's even more special when you live where I live. It means drinking all day on the weekends and playing beer die for 12 hours until you decide it's time to stumble on over to Donkey or Bacci for some late night eats. It means counting down the days till 'Hot Girl Day.' It means making really stupid comments and seeing if people walking by react. It means saying 'Sup' and 'You gonna eat that?' all day long. It means people walking by asking what the score is, even though there's a huge scoreboard hanging next door. It means grilling all day from lunch to dinner. It means tricking girls into hanging out with us by asking them to comment on absolutely absurd situations.
But most of all, it means taking entire days just relaxing on the front porch listening to Pat & Ron call the game while you enjoy a couple beers with your friends, meeting new people and making new stories.
I'm excited this year because competitive baseball starts earlier, instead of sitting through meaningless spring training games, we'll be treated to the World Baseball Classic, which I enjoyed in '06 (even if there is no England team).
As for the Cubs, I'm not pleased with how this off season went. We let one of my favorite Cubs of all time go (Kerry Wood), we traded one of my favorite current Cubs (Mark DeRosa) for 3 pitching prospects from Cleveland, and we heard all winter about how Jake Peavy was going to be a Cub. For all you people who believed the Peavy hype, let me ask you this, has there ever been a trade that Jim Hendry pulled off that you heard about for more than 1 week? Other than trading away Sammy Sosa, there isn't. We went through the exact same situation last year with Brian Roberts.
The Aaron Miles signing really gets me, along with Parker Brothers, no wait, Milton Bradley. Now granted, if Bradley stays healthy, he can play ball. But the odds of that happening are not good. But Aaron Miles is no Mark DeRosa, and he was signed essentially as his replacement.
I'd love for the Cubs to go out and get a proven 5th starter. I like Sean Marshall, and if he can eat innings and win a few games for us, great. I just think there's better options. We also need someone for when Rich Harden goes down, cause you know he will. I'm not sure Samardizja is ready to start in the big leagues. I don't want to see what happened to Joba Chamberlain happen to Samardizja. Joba was great as a set-up guy, but kind of faded into obscurity last year when he moved to the rotation.
2 awesome videos of the day today, cause I couldn't decide which one I wanted to post. They're Favrellous!
Awesome song of the day:
Baseball season in Chicago is a very special thing, and it's even more special when you live where I live. It means drinking all day on the weekends and playing beer die for 12 hours until you decide it's time to stumble on over to Donkey or Bacci for some late night eats. It means counting down the days till 'Hot Girl Day.' It means making really stupid comments and seeing if people walking by react. It means saying 'Sup' and 'You gonna eat that?' all day long. It means people walking by asking what the score is, even though there's a huge scoreboard hanging next door. It means grilling all day from lunch to dinner. It means tricking girls into hanging out with us by asking them to comment on absolutely absurd situations.
But most of all, it means taking entire days just relaxing on the front porch listening to Pat & Ron call the game while you enjoy a couple beers with your friends, meeting new people and making new stories.
I'm excited this year because competitive baseball starts earlier, instead of sitting through meaningless spring training games, we'll be treated to the World Baseball Classic, which I enjoyed in '06 (even if there is no England team).
As for the Cubs, I'm not pleased with how this off season went. We let one of my favorite Cubs of all time go (Kerry Wood), we traded one of my favorite current Cubs (Mark DeRosa) for 3 pitching prospects from Cleveland, and we heard all winter about how Jake Peavy was going to be a Cub. For all you people who believed the Peavy hype, let me ask you this, has there ever been a trade that Jim Hendry pulled off that you heard about for more than 1 week? Other than trading away Sammy Sosa, there isn't. We went through the exact same situation last year with Brian Roberts.
The Aaron Miles signing really gets me, along with Parker Brothers, no wait, Milton Bradley. Now granted, if Bradley stays healthy, he can play ball. But the odds of that happening are not good. But Aaron Miles is no Mark DeRosa, and he was signed essentially as his replacement.
I'd love for the Cubs to go out and get a proven 5th starter. I like Sean Marshall, and if he can eat innings and win a few games for us, great. I just think there's better options. We also need someone for when Rich Harden goes down, cause you know he will. I'm not sure Samardizja is ready to start in the big leagues. I don't want to see what happened to Joba Chamberlain happen to Samardizja. Joba was great as a set-up guy, but kind of faded into obscurity last year when he moved to the rotation.
2 awesome videos of the day today, cause I couldn't decide which one I wanted to post. They're Favrellous!
Awesome song of the day:
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