2010-11 Cubs Offseason: I, For One, Welcome Our New .196-Hitting Overlord

[Internet Apex]

So having a decent first sacker over a shitty one won't affect the record? Incorrect. Your point about Hendry is a fair one but everybody here already understands that. Your belaboring it does nothing to advance the Fake Interweb GM Fun Time we're trying to have and only makes me not like your internet self even more than usual. It's victory Monday. Get your head out of your ass. FAT LANTZ TO THE RESCUE!!!

Having a decent first sacker won't affect their record enough to matter given the deficiencies in too many other places.

But you knew this and are just being argumentative. Why don't you go hang with the President.  I hear he recommends your usual lunches.

Italian beef? Smart president. It is possible that the Cubs get career years from 11 guys, win the Wild Card and get to the World Series. Did you ever think of that? No. You won't allow yourself to. You're too fucking awesome for that.

[CBStew]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

[Internet Apex]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

Sweet. 

[Bort]

It's a pretty terrible spot for the Cubs. For those not wanting to see Fat Lance or Pena, what would they do? There's no one that can really play 1st in the organization right now. Certainly not Nady or Colvin. Nady might not even be back.

There's really no way to come out looking good at first base. I just hope Jim gives a year or two at most to the guy he chooses.

TRADE FOR KILA KA'AIHUE

Isn't that some kind of rum?

[Chuck to Chuck]

Italian beef? Smart president. It is possible that the Cubs get career years from 11 guys, win the Wild Card and get to the World Series. Did you ever think of that? No. You won't allow yourself to. You're too fucking awesome for that.

Do I ever think of that?  Yes.  Then I realize that disassociating myself from reality that much would qualify me to sit at Wrigley's left field foul pole.

[Quality Start Machine]

Italian beef? Smart president. It is possible that the Cubs get career years from 11 guys, win the Wild Card and get to the World Series. Did you ever think of that? No. You won't allow yourself to. You're too fucking awesome for that.

Do I ever think of that?  Yes.  Then I realize that disassociating myself from reality that much would qualify me to sit at Wrigley's left field foul pole.

got a visor?

[Internet Apex]

Italian beef? Smart president. It is possible that the Cubs get career years from 11 guys, win the Wild Card and get to the World Series. Did you ever think of that? No. You won't allow yourself to. You're too fucking awesome for that.

Do I ever think of that?  Yes.  Then I realize that disassociating myself from reality that much would qualify me to sit at Wrigley's left field foul pole.

got a visor?

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Chuck that he is cooler than Al Yellon.

[Yeti]

It's a pretty terrible spot for the Cubs. For those not wanting to see Fat Lance or Pena, what would they do? There's no one that can really play 1st in the organization right now. Certainly not Nady or Colvin. Nady might not even be back.

There's really no way to come out looking good at first base. I just hope Jim gives a year or two at most to the guy he chooses.

TRADE FOR KILA KA'AIHUE

Isn't that some kind of rum?

If it's fruit flavored, IAN would know it. Obscure snobby kind, then it'll be up PenFoe's alley.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

Sweet. 

Fat Lantz and Tall Lantz, together at last?

[Internet Apex]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

Sweet. 

Fat Lantz and Tall Lantz, together at last?

Pause.

[morpheus]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

Sweet. 

Fat Lantz and Tall Lantz, together at last?

Who *wouldn't* want to see a Fat Lantz/Tall Lantz footrace?

[CBStew]

On "60 Minutes" last night retired Justice Stevens repeated the canard about Babe Ruth calling his shot in the '32 Series.  Even Ruth wouldn't claim that he called his shot.   I can forgive Stevens for not carrying the day on Bush v. Gore and Citizens United, but isn't it bad enough that the Cubs lost the Series?  Do we have to have a Superman myth to explain the loss?     (No.  I wasn't there.  It was at the height of the Depression and I couldn't afford to risk losing my job.  I had four kids for whom I was paying college tuition.)

[CBStew]

Fat Lantz is on record as hating the Cubs.  Which qualifies him for membership on this site.

Oh.  ... I stand by my ignorance. 

[CBStew]

On "60 Minutes" last night retired Justice Stevens repeated the canard about Babe Ruth calling his shot in the '32 Series.  Even Ruth wouldn't claim that he called his shot.   I can forgive Stevens for not carrying the day on Bush v. Gore and Citizens United, but isn't it bad enough that the Cubs lost the Series?  Do we have to have a Superman myth to explain the loss?     (No.  I wasn't there.  It was at the height of the Depression and I couldn't afford to risk losing my job.  I had four kids for whom I was paying college tuition.)

Perhaps Root's daughter is not an unbiased witness.  But it is true that like the Billy Goat Curse the story took on a life of its own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWj0-Xh6Jag

[Internet Apex]

Stew, you're talking to yourself again.