...when Murph has anal retentively "allocated" a certain part of his show to talking about the Cubs?

Heard a snippet around 12:30 when a caller starts talking about the Vazquez trade, and Murph interjects an aside of "OK, you wanna talk about the Sox now, we were going to talk about them at 1:00." To my knowledge, Murph is the only Score host who's so touchy about what topics can be brought up when.

I realize it kills Murph that the Sox have been incredibly active in the offseason, making these huge deals, while the Cubs have been relatively quiet, but if the fans want to talk about the Sox, why not let them have at it instead of trying to allocate his show to being 50/50 Cubs/Sox?

He did the same stupid thing during October, a month in which discussing Cubs baseball and their future did not hold a lot of interest for Score listeners.

If people are talking more about the Sox today than the Cubs, is that any surprise?

Because he's a whiny, brittle, bitter little prick. I hope that helps you.

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Murphy said about a month ago that the offseason talk this offseason was going to be mostly about the Cubs. He said the Sox team would basically be the same. Wrong Murph...Sox have had a kick ass offseason. Never underestimate Kenny Williams Murph.

Do you know how pissed Murph would be if the Sox got Tajada. He would strip down to his Cubbie underoos and jump off the Bernie's Sports bar roof with his Budweiser and his Buggle in hand.

As he falls his last words would be "My death is caused by you Andy McPhail.... thats McPhail.... F-A-I-L .......Splat!

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Because he's a whiny, brittle, bitter little prick. I hope that helps you.





This POS show will be history soon.

I'll give him a pass as it cannot be a good time to be a Cub fan right now.

Ill give my cub fan friends a pass. But cmon Dolphin. This guy hosts a sports show. He can cry when he goes home to the wife. But do your job and have White Sox fans talk about there team. Its his job dude.

When the only people showing up at the Cub park for the games are the MLB scouts, gays, and the WGN (world gay news) TV crews and the season tickets are up for grabs Murph would be a perfect voiceover guy to do a season ticket radio spot. I envision the same commercial they do with "Nick" for the White Sox with a few changes:

1. "Cubbies" will be used to substitute all the White Sox references
2. Instead of "you can put it on a board" he will yell "it's outta here"

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If I were a Cub's fan, I'd be throwing the 'ol belt around the shower rod 'bout now!

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Well, I'm a Cub fan and normally I undo the guy's belt and throw myself onto the rod.

So what's the big deal if the show is Cubs-centric? Every night for a few hours, they talk nothing but Bears. Now they have a show with North that's nothing but Sox. So what? Nobody was ever promised that Murph's show would be fair and balanced for all teams. The show is what it is.

With a catch line like Andy McPhail, that's F-A-I-L, how could you not talk Chubbies? Seems a waste of such clever material...

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True, but the Cubs certainly aren't stronger than St. Louis right now. The Astros are primed for a big fall, but Milwaukee is improving. Pittsburgh & Cincinnati are annual shitstains, so I guess that helps...

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I was watching "Eye for an Eye" Yesterday, and Judge Extreme Akim asked two male ex-lovers who were fighting over a dog and who met on a gay softball team which one was the pitcher and which was the catcher! Personally, I like variety in life, so you can call me Double Duty!

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Murph plays the quote from Rev. Watkins

"The Cubs don't have to get better, the other teams have to get a little bit worse."

The central better be getting weaker, because the Cubs are definitely not fine.

Firstly, their entire team concept is bankrupt. So even if they sign the All-Star team, they won't win. Offensively, they have no idea how to work the count. Thus, they give the advantage to the opposing team's pitcher on a daily basis. That is not going to change. They do not value fundamentals. Their baserunning is abhorrent, and Pierre alone cannot remedy that. Their pitchers only know one way to get people out: the strikeout (save for Maddux, who might be their best pitcher after Zambrano). These are not characteristics of winning baseball teams, period.

Secondly, this offseason has seen them sign, perhaps, the 2006 versions of Mike Remlinger and LaTroy Hawkins. Yes they signed Pierre, but he can only play one position at a time, and last I checked, a team needs three outfielders, not one.

Last, I think Jim Hendry has been exposed these past few years. Honestly, tell me what he's done in four years, besides get a hot player in Kenny Lofton for two months? Yes, Lee and Ram are fine players, but those were salary dumps by their respective teams, nothing more. To think Hendry swindled those teams into trading for Bobby Hill and Hee Sop Choy is absurd. I already mentioned Hawkins and Remlinger. How about Lenny Harris. How about the demise of Corey Patterson under his watch. How about Nomar. How about having two starting second basemen in 2004, then perhaps keeping the wrong one while the other goes to the World Series. And the coup de grace... if you don't like Dusty Baker, well, who do you think hired him, and continues to employ him?

If I were a Cubs fan, your post would really piss me off, because it's dead on.

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All these cub fans saying that the divison is weaker are funny. I remember last year them saying the Cardinals will come back to the pack.(they won 100 games). They said that the Astros were garbage after they lost Beltran (they went to the World Series)

Mark Grudzielanek did not go the World Series.

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...He was sitting in the third row behind the Astros dugout in Game 3.

Whoops, my bad! Grudz went to a World Series team, not to the World Series. My faux pas.

Nas, you do make good points about Hendry. He's not a bad GM (and certainly better than we've had), but I don't see the evidence yet to justify the tremendous praise he gets. He's had two straight "bad years" now.

I understand he had to unload Sosa, but come on, that means he could do nothing else for the entire offseason (save for getting Burnitz which was a nice pickup), when the team was obviously in need of help after the collapse at the end of 2004? I think he relied too much on the hopes of making another 11th-hour trade-deadline deal in 2005, but in today's game, too many teams are in the wild card hunt to be able to rely on that every year.

And yes, he does get some credit for what Lee and Ram have become. But I don't fault him for his talent evaluation as much as the lackluster and hapless play on the field by his teams. They play like a fantasy team. There is no effort by the players or by the coaches to address the reasons why the team is not competitive on a nightly basis. Do you agree, at least somewhat? And if so, why should I think that will change in 2006, regardless of who he might sign or who he might trade away?

By the way. I am a Cub fan, just so you don't think I'm ripping them just to be an a-hole.

Hey I hope you're right about next year. Not entirely sure about Dusty, although he was dealt a rotten hand last year.