Today, my Blackberry (which came behind to hold up about 2:16 this morning, interjection RIM) is all a-Twitter with the ultimate Milton Bradley news. In box you haven’t listened (how is which possible?) he’s headed to Seattle for a man declared Carlos Silva. Who the ruin is Carlos Silva? I don’t…



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From the Cubs Media Department comes Exhibit A in the box for banishment Jim Hendry:
CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs currently acquired right-handed pitcher Carlos Silva and money from the Seattle Mariners for outfielder Milton Bradley.
Silva, 30, is 60-64 with dual saves and a 4.72 ERA (592 ER/1128.2 IP) in 295…



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Milton Bradley to the Mariners
Carlos Silva the to the Cubs
Carlos Silva is terrible.
That is all I have to say.



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Via twitter from Carrie Muskat:

Sources endorse Milton Bradley headed to Mariners for Carlos Silva — happy christmas #cubs fans

Well. Clearly, Carlos Silva has been one of the misfortune pitchers in ball the final dual years. This is not a understanding you’d have in a vacuum, and unless Silva has a formerly undisclosed damage or a little arrange of large automatic problem, the Cubs won’t get any decent prolongation out of him.

However, I ask you to recollect what happened 7 years ago, when Todd Hundley “had” to be traded underneath matching (though positively not identical) circumstances, and Jim Hendry incited him in to Eric Karros and Mark Grudzielanek.

Karros had only come off dual unequivocally bad years and a lot of Cubs fans wondered, “What do we wish with him? We have Hee Seop Choi ready to take over 1B.” Grudzielanek was likewise horrible in 2002, posting a Neifi-like .665 OPS.

Yet by the finish of the 2003 season, both of these players had played poignant purposes in the NL Central championship season, and Karros is still remembered fondly by Cubs fans for the full-page ad he took out in the Tribune thanking all of us for his noted season.

Let’s wait for and see. For me, I’m happy which Jim Hendry managed to repair his inapplicable designation from a year ago, despite at a tall (for now) dollar cost. Maybe Carlos Silva will retrieve what he had in Minnesota and be value the contract.

Next stop: signing a CF.

Photo pleasantness Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau

Earlier this week I went on jot down as supporting the city of Mesa, Arizona in the bid to keep Cubs open precision there. Things have been heating up. Earlier this month the city legislature of Mesa was ostensible to customarily authorize the output of up to $750,000 for dual brand brand brand brand new buildings to host indoor batting cages for the Cubs. However, there’s right away a catch to that:

If it’s probable for ears to do a double-take, cave did this sunrise when Mayor Scott Smith pronounced “the overpower … was deafening” from the Chicago Cubs
about office building batting cages for the organisation at Fitch Park.

After Smith’s comments, the legislature unanimously authorized the $684,021 stipulate — but with the chapter which no income is to be outlayed until a little of the doubt about the team’s destiny is resolved.

And in an strong bid to finish which “deafening silence”, Mesa City Manager Chris Brady will be in Chicago today to verbalise with Crane Kenney and Tom Ricketts about the destiny of open precision in Mesa.

Which creates this morning’s post even some-more timely. I not long ago sent a little questions around email to Mayor Smith, who courteously concluded to answer them. After the burst you’ll listen to firsthand from Mesa Mayor Scott Smith. In addition, I’m attaching a check to this post so you can denote your opinion. Please review the subject delicately prior to you answer.

BCB: The Cubs have lerned in Arizona given 1952 (except for one year in Long Beach, CA in 1966), and in Mesa invariably given 1979. You’re right away removing a plea from a organisation in Florida which wants the Cubs to move there. Can you report the routine you have been receiving to keep the Cubs in Mesa?

Mayor Smith: First, Mesa has identified for the Cubs sites for a state-of-the-art stadium, use fields and clubhouse/training facility. The track site includes skill befitting for the growth of a Cubs-centered party district to be well known as “Wrigleyville West.” We have additionally introduced the Cubs to in isolation developers with whom they will partner in the blurb development. Each of these sites and growth partners some-more than encounter both the ball operational needs and the commercial operation opportunity/development intensity for the Cubs and fans. In short, the Cubs and their fans could have in Mesa the really most appropriate Spring Training comforts and knowledge in all of baseball.

In November, the Ricketts visited Mesa. The City brought together domestic leaders from the city legislature to Arizona Governor January Brewer, and village and commercial operation leaders to acquire the Ricketts and to denote the unmatched abyss and extent of domestic and village await for the Cubs in Mesa. Even Senator John McCain appeared around video from Washington. The Ricketts visited all of the intensity track sites and listened from any of the in isolation developers.

We have sought to denote to the Ricketts which over 50 years of Cubs open precision in Mesa brings some-more than tradition: it additionally brings exquisite village await and commercial operation event which cannot be replicated.

The multiple of strenuous domestic await from the federal, state and internal leaders total with so most good growth options convinces me which Mesa has delivered the most appropriate package the Cubs can ask for.

BCB: What have been a little of the locations being deliberate for a brand brand brand brand new Cubs open precision site?

Mayor Smith: We presented the Cubs with 6 intensity sites for a brand brand brand brand new track and open precision trickery in Mesa. All of them have been located in the eastern partial of the city, in tighten vicinity to the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway in between Greenfield Road and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. All of the intensity sites have easy turnpike and airfield access. The Cubs have indicated a welfare for a integrate of sites in northeast Mesa, and those crop up to be the front runners.

BCB: The Diamondbacks and Rockies brand brand brand brand new complex, opening in 2011, is on Native American land. Are you deliberation partnering with one of the internal tribes?

Mayor Smith: We have been open to the probability of partnering with a tribe, but have not had anything alternative than what I would call really spontaneous and non-substantive talks with any genealogical organization.

BCB: Will the HoHoKams still be endangered in using open precision for the Cubs, or have been the Cubs formulation on using open precision themselves?

Mayor Smith: Our initial priority is to keep the Cubs in Mesa. The purpose the HoHoKams will take should the Cubs stay has not nonetheless been determined.

BCB: In your perspective — and obviously, as mayor of Mesa you wish the Cubs there — since should they stay in Mesa (or in the Valley) rsther than than move to Florida?

Mayor Smith: First of all, the Cactus League is THE place of preference for teams and fans in the spring. That is the reason since usually one organisation has changed from Arizona to Florida to sight in the past twenty years. That organisation was the Cleveland Indians, and they changed behind to Arizona final year! Over the years, Mesa has proven it can broach the excellent open knowledge for the Cubs and the fans. HoHoKam Stadium is the third track Mesa has built over the years for the Cubs, and we can do it again! We have the air blower base, we have the undiluted open weather, we have the sites which yield the most appropriate commercial operation event for the Cubs. Springtime in Arizona is a partial of Cubs tradition. Cubs fans wish the Cubs to stay in Mesa. Cubs players wish to stay in Mesa. Cubs employees overwhelmingly wish to stay in Arizona. It is no collision which the Cubs sell out scarcely each open precision diversion and consistently lead the Cactus League in sheet sales. Why Mesa? I’ve listened Florida contend which Mesa has good things, but where have been the beaches? Well, beaches have been great, but there have been over 12,000 miles of seashore in the United States; there’s usually one Sonoran Desert, usually one Grand Canyon, and usually one place for the Cubs to outlay the spring: Mesa, Arizona.

BCB: Are you rebuilt to encounter or kick any suggest which comes to the Cubs from the Florida group?

Mayor Smith: We will benefaction a suggest which will yield the Cubs with the most appropriate precision and air blower trickery in baseball. We reason which the sites in Mesa additionally suggest the most appropriate long-term commercial operation event for the Cubs. We have been not going to rivet in a behest foe with Florida, since I don’t reason we have to. If we had a poor offer, I’d be concerned. However, I know Mesa has submitted a stellar suggest which has unmatched domestic await and illusory opportunities for a “Wrigleyville West”. When you have put your most appropriate feet forward, there is no competition. We simply goal the Cubs have their preference formed on the merits.

BCB: Is there anything else you’d similar to to contend about this emanate which hasn’t been lonesome in the alternative questions?

Mayor Smith: We can usually do so most to remonstrate Cubs tenure which Mesa is the right place for open training. We need the assistance of all Cubs fans. If you wish the Cubs to stay in Arizona, greatfully let the Cubs know by calling, writing, emailing, voting, or commenting on line. Fans need to verbalise up, or the traditions we reason dear will be abandoned and will be taken from us. Let the Cubs know how you feel!!!

This seemed to be fun the alternative day, so let’s keep it going with turn two. This one is not indispensably Cub focused.
Clue # 1 – I am the usually player to ever strike for the cycle inside of the initial fifteen games of my career. (I did it in diversion # fourteen opposite the Brewers)
Clue [...]



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On a Dec day which could ring for years to come, dual contenders were fortified, one was crippled and an additional was born. This is because the offseason matters, says Lee Jenkins.

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