11/06/2003 10:10:00 AM by Rob

Don't expect anything juicy for at least four days

11/10 is the date that clubs can start talking $ with free agents. This is the way the Cubs are going to go, either that way or bringing up beaucoups rookies from the minors, because I think they have about 10 guys under contract right now.

Which isn't that bad, considering. In the past, the quick fix band-aids the Cubs brought in usually had years of obligation stuck to their asses. This time, of course, nearly everyone good is staying, and nearly everyone old and bad do not necessarily have to (sit down, Damien Miller), although out of all of them, Grud seems to be the first guy they would keep.

The Sux exercised the $5M option on .230 hitting, poor fielding Jose Valentin! Oh, boy, my Sux fan co-workers are stomping around today, red-faces, veins sticking out of their necks like firehoses...guess we'll be the best team in Chicago for at least another year...

BTW: I am NOT an atheist, far from it. My personal beliefs seperate God Himself from all the "religious" trappings set up by men, like the church, the ceremonies, the obligations, and the bibles. IF it is God's word, and there is only one God, why are there hundreds of versions? Why are there Christians and Buddhists and Muslims, anyway? Did more than one God make us? Why don't we all just get along?

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