Deadlines!!!!

Hopefully not always will.....right Theo?!?!?

I had been considering writing some posts before and during the MLB trade deadline that would have been awesome but instead i decided to become obsessed with Sid Miers Civilization V so hooray for that.

What you will undoubtedly be happy to hear is that i have decided i am restarting this blog but this time it's just going to be me rambling on once a week minimum about whatever i want to ramble about. So I'm starting my deadlines for posting a new blog post (lets say every Monday morning there will be a new post) and this first one which i am posting on Thursday is 3 1/2 days late. Yeah, awesome start Eric and we're moving on.

So here we are a few days after the trade deadline and all i have to say is GOD I HATE BEING  A CUBS FAN!!!

I mean lol at how unlucky they were again. Truth be told i still think they did alright. I mean Arodys Vizcaino has a floor of an above average closer and a ceiling of a 1 or 2 SP so I'll take that. But when you consider the plan Theo and Co. had in place it just baffles me how things could manage to go so wrong.

It was obvious the wheels were coming off when Dempster tweeted that the trade to the Braves, a team which he approved being traded to, for Randall Delgado was not official and then the Braves responded by pulling the offer off the table. Now the Cubs recovered and ended up trading Maholm and Reed Johnson for Vizcaino who before the year i liked a lot better than Delgado and whom i still like better despite the former undergoing Tommy John surgery. Still this was a classic moment where you realize things just aren't going to go the Cubs' way.

I started to get really depressed when the Cubs did nothing for a week or so thinking they had given up and we'd be stuck with all our vets and not be ramping up our minor leagues at all. When Garza got injured i considered suicide, then switching teams, but in the end the Cubs optimism came out and i thought, "Hey, the injury isn't so serious a team will probably give us less for him than before his injury but he's still a very valuable commodity.)

Then i woke up the day before the deadline and saw the Cubs had traded with the Braves except it was Maholm and Reed Johson for Vizcaino, nice. Oh look at this the Cubs traded Soto to the Rangers for some mid-range prospect, nice again.

I was hopeful the Cubs would make something happen with either Dempster or Garza with Soriano to the Dodgers for one of their top two pitching prospects but that didn't happen. In the final hour Dempster decided to quit being an asshole and accepted a trade to the Rangers in which the Cubs got a couple mid-level prospects so that'll do.

In the end Theo is still a god and i love the direction the Cubs are going. Garza didn't get moved but the Cubs have a nice problem to think about in trying to move him for some prospects over the winter or signing him long term and making him a cornerstone. It would be nice to see the Cubs unload Soriano through a waiver trade (he will obviously clear waivers due to his horrid contract) and get a meh prospect out of the deal/save a few million. It would have been nice for the Cubs to unload Lahair to ramp up the minors a bit more and give a couple young OF'ers a shot (Campana, Jackson, etc) but in the end given the obstacles it was a good deadline for the Cubs.

Thre thre thre thread saver: