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Did you spend your weekend the same way I did? Sitting in an empty white room, bouncing a tennis ball against a wall and thinking about the Milton Bradley-Carlos Silva trade? No? You went to an ugly Christmas sweater party? Oh. Why the hell are THOSE suddenly popular, by the way? Anyhow, I've come ... Read More

Still fuming over the Milton Bradley-for-Carlos Silva trade? Me TOO! I'm going to throw back a few beers and try to forget that today ever happened. But first, let's toss my two least-favorite people in the world into the HATEUDOME- er, Fukudome! VS. Jim Hendry Carlos Silva ... Read More

Hello, gang! There were a lot of good comments this week, but today's news that Milton Bradley was traded to the Mariners for terrible pitcher Carlos Silva led to a bushel of good nuggets that trumped them all. My favorite one of them all came from paintersix, who had this to say: I think Ricketts is a dumbass as well. I ... Read More

Or: How I Learned to Stop Caring About the Cubs and Hate Jim Hendry. It's almost official. Jim Hendry is about to pull off the most monumentally stupid trade since he traded for Steve Trachsel. It appears that Milton Bradley is headed to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for the amazingly terrible Carlos Silva. (HT: Dolan) ... Read More

Back in the glory days of video game baseball (read: MVP 2005), Jose Vidro was a favorite target of mine when trying to upgrade my Cub franchise. At the time, the pudgy, switch-hitting second baseman was under-appreciated by a virtual Omar Minaya, and could be had at cents on the dollar. Perhaps Vidro was the apple of my ... Read More

The Cubs have apparently shipped Ronny Cedeno and Garrett Olson to the Seattle Mariners for former Mets reliever/swing man Aaron Heilman. I'm going to shamelessly name-drop here. I was Heilman's R.A. when he was down at Notre Dame, and he's one of the nicest, most level-headed people I've ever SMOKED in darts. I'm glad, for his sake, ... Read More

The only time I read Bleed Cubbie Blue is when someone on Desipio links it. For someone on Desipio to link it, the writing must be worse than normal. So when I saw a link to the hilariously stupid "Building A Cubs Champion: Introducing Your 2009 Chicago Cubs" I had to click it. I now fully understand ... Read More