Forgot about Donnie Moore. Add him to the Cub Closer Corporation.

RIP.

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You know me like that.

I would pay him. When he is on his game he can toss a CG. He is a big and strong pitcher. He has a great athletic frame under him and he knows how to work....from his football days. He doesn't have injury issues and should be a durable pitcher that will pitch a lot of innings. The problem with him is mental. He gets too amped up at times. While I like a lot of what he learned being a football player I think he needs to leave some of the mental approach behind. Less is more, think instead of reacting. Be more like Maddux and less like Zambrano.

This isn't football or basketball or hockey. There is no salary cap. Pay the man.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Theo can sign 4 teenaged Cuban infielders for that kind of money. It's the perfect job,chasing the horizon.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He's consistently at 100 pitches before the 7th, even in good games, I'm not seeing CG stuff.

I remember them all, except I'm drawing a blank on Ron Davis. This was still the nickname era, with "Goose" Gossage and "Dirt" Tidrow.

My dad would complain often about bad Cubs trades, calling their new additions "nothing ballplayers."

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"... go out there and hitch up your trousers, and say: 'Hey baby here I am now. Let me see you run through me now. Let me see you show some disrespect for me while I'm nose on your nose."
- Lou Holtz

Guy hasn't thrown 200 innings in a year yet as he pushes 29. That isn't an innings eater. He may get there this year but really looks like he should be shut down for the year right now.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Davis was one of those big, hard-throwing righties from Texas. Sparky Lyle made him famous in The Bronx Zoo when he described him attacking the post-game clubhouse food spread as if he had never eaten before.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Even before this year, this was a

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He was in a 2 game stretch of dominance then.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Oh well, after 2 games I'm sure teams were lining up with 4 and 5 top prospects to get him! If Rizzo ever can manage to go 4-4, you might be able to trade him for 3 top prospects too!

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Thanks for the reminder. Every once in a while, Baseball Digest would have something about the pitchers with healthy appetites -- including hiding snacks in the uniform...!

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"... go out there and hitch up your trousers, and say: 'Hey baby here I am now. Let me see you run through me now. Let me see you show some disrespect for me while I'm nose on your nose."
- Lou Holtz

That was before Zimmer/Frey. May have been during the brief E.R. "Salty" Saltwell era.

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Go Cubs!!!!