40 in Iowa in December? HELL YEAH!

Many things have been going on with the Cubs this past month. The Winter Meetings brought much excitement but provided little in big trades or deals…..just as I had hoped it would.

See,

If the New Regime would have went out and purchased a few big ticket players I would have been excited for a moment, but then, when reality set in that nothing had really changed for the Cub Mentality  I would walk the halls of my office wringing my hands.

I am glad that our new Regime has put the brakes on and stopped the madness.

Does this team need and enema? Yes, and Theo is there with his gloves on.

Dale Sveum new man in the Dugout.\

Dale Sveum (who was a pretty darned good player batting hitting .236 with 69 home runs) was brought in to act as a new type of manager that can actually lead this team instead of wash his hands of it midway through the season RE: Lou Pinnella. How many times did we hear “Sweet” Lou say basically this: I have done all I can, it is up to them to perform. This should not be the case with Dale, He has a history of being no-nonsense and aggressive (maybe too at times with getting so many people thrown out at home). He should keep a handle on our new roster.

And speaking of our new roster. Good lord changes have been made that needed to be done years ago. Ramirez is now a Brewer, Zambrano is on double secret probation with a tendency toward being flushed to single A, Pena is gone, Koye Hill has finally been put to rest (The catcher impostor as Das Hoopes calls him) and many other changes. Kerry Wood will be back and now we have potential to get Paul Maholm (From Pirates) as a semi-fresh left hander as well as contracted Jeff Baker, Blake DeWitt, Matt Garza, Geovany Soto, Ian Stewart, and Randy Wells…although I think Randy Wells is lost cause….but I will defer to Theo on this one. We also dumped Tyler Colvin and DJ LeMahieu and acquired Ian Stewart. Got all that?

And check this out from Paul Sullivan’s Article on the Trib:

Power outage: Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Pena combined for 54 home runs in 2011, 36 percent of the team’s totals. New right-fielder David DeJesus had 10 with the A’s in 2011, while Stewart had none for the Rockies. Wood suggested to WGN Morning News anchor Larry Potash that power isn’t a priority of the new regime.

“We’ll go out and do the best we can,” he said. “I think they’re going to put baseball players on the field. I don’t think we need big power hitters. The first 21/2 months the wind blows in so no one is going to leave (the park). And then when the wind is blowing out, (anyone) can hit one out.”

DAS HOOPES has expounded on that last fact tirelessly (albeit loudly and over overprice crappy beer) that power really doesn’t do us any good for a good chunk of the home games, and that we need to be more concerned about small ball. I agree.

The single reason we have so many Fat Cub fans: McWrigley

Now please burn it as soon as possible: McWrigley.

‘As predicted by my beautiful wife this McDonalds will soon be a ugly memory of the past. On our inaugural first trip to wrigley as a newly minted couple, she was having the time of her life hanging with Das Hoopes and the MetroWebers. When she glanced over and started laughing at the horribly out of place Mc D’s and stated “that can’t be there for long” well 3 years later you have been proven correct and the Ricketts have purchased it. At the very least it will be a parking lot soon.

That is right, this team STINKS. At the beginning of the season I tend to be be the guy that looks at things in a postive light…..it all stems from a pretty rough childhood and my love for the underdog and loathing for all things mundane….but I digress.

Can you imagine being Len & Bob or Mr. Pat Hughs and Keith? Think about it. You have your dream job, you go into work and you get to sit around and talk about baseball all summer long, I mean how cool is that? Then comes along the Ricketts and their bloated, baseball ignorant GM and then proceed to deficate out in the middle of my Wrigley Field. Day and and day out I hear the talking heads trying somehow to keep us interested and not turning off the radio/tv, for the most part they are successful and I keep listening. Here is your medal, congrats on being the only voices in the sport that are capable of polishing a turd known as the 2011 Cubs Season.

Here is what needs to happen for the rest of the year.

1. Trade Big Z. Yes lets get some money for him before he kills his leg by breaking a bat. Look I am not angry he did it, in fact I think people are making a big deal out of it just for the hell of it, but to be clear, the anger managment it working but you can see a blow up on the horizon. We need to start over.
2. Keep Playing the Kids
• Castro is a keeper
• Darwin is a keeper
• Coleman is a keeper (not really a kid but this is my blog)
• Campana is a keeper
3. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BENCH SORIANO. His is a good man and comes from a great family but get him off the field. Get what you can for him, move on.
4. Get rid of Jim Hendry, some how, some way.
5. Start to live with the fact that the Ricketts are not baseball people, I can live with it and so can you. Lets just try to send a message to them on who they should listened too.
6. Keep Playing Fuk. He is gone this year and we can make more money to pay off sorianos contract with all the LAME “fuk u do me” t-shirts I saw in Wrigleyville. Before you go and say that is only tourists, I can assure you it is not, I saw plenty of locals with them on.

My oh my.

T

Just when you thought Q’s comments might wake up the cubs we go and blow it again.

Das Hoopes Weighs In!

I told you so!