Attacking an opposing player with a baseball bat is just a cultural difference that us Americans should work harder to understand.

Add pud to this guys resume next to fiction writer.

He did not attack an opposing player

I'm paraphrasing Gordon. He referenced cases like Juan Marichel who certainly did attack. I know you are seeing this as an anti Cub argument which has got your irrationality up.

Dont blame me for your incomplete descriptions

It was not in the paper. This statement was on the radio this morning.

Gordon is probably his middle name too. He seems like the kind of guy who go by "L. Gordon Whittenmeyer" or something. Douche.

Yep.

i think Gordon is a pretty cool name. you don't come across it too much anymore

Gordon is probably his middle name too. He seems like the kind of guy who go by "L. Gordon Whittenmeyer" or something. Douche.

I assumed your response would be informed. I should have learned not to make that assumption by now.

Last part though was typical Chicago beat writer garbage:

"Why haven't they started renovating the clubhouse?"
"Why haven't they installed the new batting cages?"
"Why haven't they started spending money on renovations not dependent on the rooftop situation settling?"

Well Gordon, you're a reporter! Get your lazy fucking ass working and find out! I bet it's really easy once you ask sources (if your lazy ass has any) as to the Ricketts/Bus Dev's reasons. Why the fuck are you asking Mully and Hanley these questions. Useless prick.

I think they're rhetorical questions. We all know that the rooftops don't have shit to do with anything. They're just cover for Joe Ricketts' tying up of little Tommy's purse strings. A convenient scapegoat. These guys are some of the world's biggest con men.

Here's two more questions:

1) Would the Cubs have won more than four games by now if they had signed Ervin Santana and Nelson Cruz?
2) Would they be more watchable?

No as well as the pitching has been excellent.

And when you gave up 3 and scored zero or gave up 2 and scored zero again, your pitching wasn't good. That's baseball.

I don't know how you could think that. This is where advanced statistical analysis has taken us. To some strange idea that the game is played in component parts utterly unrelated to anything else occurring in the specific games. You're not going to open your paper and see scores like 13-8, 9-7, 10-5 constantly the way you did five or ten years ago. Games are going to be 4-2 or 3-1. And when you gave up 3 and scored zero or gave up 2 and scored zero again, your pitching wasn't good. That's baseball.

Right and if you gave up 8 and got the Win like Cliff Lee on Opening Day, you pitched well.

You're pretty much saying Baseball is SP vs SP, but its certainly not.

Fine whatever. There's plenty of other threads to rag on Theo. This is for Wittenmeyer's lazy shoddy work. For 2-3 years now he's been crying about the Ricketts without doing any research or work. He just makes generalizations and puts in the lightest effort to skate through his job. He's exhibit A of why print media is crashing. Entitled good ol boy writer who thinks shit should come on a platter for him since he has a press credential.

I disgaree with you. He's the only guy that isn't swallowing the Theo/Ricketts con job hook, line, and sinker, and promoting the company line about "the Plan" and you resent him for that?

I disgaree with you. He's the only guy that isn't swallowing the Theo/Ricketts con job hook, line, and sinker, and promoting the company line about "the Plan" and you resent him for that?

Among who?

Who is accepting it? Im just asking, I dont follow the local media as close as you. I think Rosenbloom has been pretty critical