re: Cubs talk

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Get rid of Zambrano, Soriano, Ramirez at the dealine and lets work on getting back in the race of the Central next season.

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easy to say, but its hard to get rid of contracts without paying off most of them.

Zambrano probably could garner some interest

Ramirez, maybe.

Pena, maybe

but we'd have to probably pay off a lot of their remaining contracts for this year(and some next year in Z's case)

Soriano isnt going anywhere with that contract. And Fukodome isnt either, more than likely.

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Fukodome

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Ramirez

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Pena

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But at some point, they are going to have to take some lumps financially to get rid of these guys. They are not improving the team and really havent done so since 2007-08. Its getting to the point where I cant stand to watch the games anymore. I'm excited about Castro, Barney, and several others. But with these big time, no production contracts around, we'll be chilling at home in October for quite some time.

Fukodome, Pena and Ramirez= FA's next year


Zambrano is a FA year after next i believe

Soriano is the only real bad one at this point.


about $55 million come off books next year