***Official 2009 N.L. Central Thread*** Congrats to the Cardinals***

[craftsy21]

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

Hernandez and Locke are very promising.

Hey, at least McCutchen will be put on display.

for two years, til they trade him away for more prospects.

 

[dmxfury]

See you later Nate. I actually don't mind this trade though, strange enough

 

[tylerdub]

hmmm, if I were a Pirates fan I would just stop being that.

Watching Cubs baseball is giving me headaches and I think it might also be giving me SARS.

 

[tylerdub]

There ya go Micah!
Doing what needs to be done, wonder who Lou will go with in the bottom?

 

[pacmagic2002]

Another loss.............Another game with merely NO OFFENSE. They need to make some trades, BAD!!!!!!!!!!! Khalil Greene project didnt work.......Actuallyfailed horribly.

I dont know what can be done........Barden has frozen up and couldnt hit off of a tee ball stand if someone had a gun to his head right now...........Soofrustrating.

 

[arstyle27]

Finally, a win on the road......

Nice to see McClouth out of the Central. I'd take dude on my team any day of the week.

 

[sickickz23]

Wow a Cubs win on the road. Rare.....

Micah continues to make me look good on my campaign to replace Derrick Lee in the third spot.

 

[tylerdub]

Originally Posted by arstyle27

Finally, a win on the road......

Nice to see McClouth out of the Central. I'd take dude on my team any day of the week.

I couldnt possibly agree with this any more.

 

[DownByLaw]

pacmagic2002 wrote:

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Another loss.............Another game with merely NO OFFENSE. They need to make some trades, BAD!!!!!!!!!!! Khalil Greene project didnt work.......Actually failed horribly.

I dont know what can be done........Barden has frozen up and couldnt hit off of a tee ball stand if someone had a gun to his head right now...........Soo frustrating.
Seriously

We should have been swept, but an offensive arsenal dressed in Cardinals uniforms showed up Tuesday night, just to disappear afterthe game. Our offense is pure trash!

 

[kiddin like jason]

Khalil Greene project didnt work.......Actually failed horribly.
My boy has serious personal issues.

Andrew McCutchen's Major League debut - 2-4, 1 run batted in, 3 runs, 1 walk, 1 stolen base and a Pirates win over the Mets

 

[sickickz23]

Wow, Z is sure making himself look like a fool. This team smells like implosion by ASB.

 

[tylerdub]

Z needs to learn something about poise. The fiery latino act needs to go. Have some poise under pressure and your team mates will feel it.

 

[dmxfury]

It isn't hard to be a Pirate fan though because you know what to expect and have such low expectations anything positive feels good. Pens and Steelersstress me, Pirates are fun and nothing beats going to PNC. That being said I would prefer them to win games, but it will be a few years

 

[DownByLaw]

Carpenter pitched a gem and received support from Albert.

 

[craftsy21]

[h2]Pirates light candle, vent frustration[/h2]

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Pittsburgh Pirates players, frustrated and doubtful about management's intentions of winning, are not happy that starting center fielder Nate McLouth was traded to the Atlanta Braves for three prospects.

"Wow," second baseman Freddy Sanchez said Thursday of the trade, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I think the biggest thing was the shock factor. It's obviously a tough pill to swallow. Our No. 3 hitter just got taken away, the guy who leads our team in home runs and RBIs, and we were 6½ games out. We could still have been right there. I think we still can. But we're all just kind of wondering right now ... wondering what it is."

On Wednesday, the Pirates dealt McLouth, one of their best players, to the Atlanta Braves for outfielder Gorkys Hernandez, one of the Braves' top prospects, along with pitchers Charlie Morton and Jeff Locke.

On Thursday, at the clubhouse table where McLouth used to play cards with relievers Sean Burnett and Jesse Chavez, a candle bearing McLouth's uniform No. 13 was lit, and sat alongside a photo of him in uniform, the Post-Gazette reported. "We'll miss him," Burnett said.

Other players were angrier.

"There ain't a guy in here who ain't [ticked] off about it," said first baseman Adam LaRoche, according to the report. "It's kind of like being with your platoon in a battle, and guys keep dropping around you. You keep hanging on, hanging on, and you've got to figure: How much longer till you sink?

"It's fine. Heck with it. We're not the GM. We don't run the team. If they feel like it's the best move for three or four years from now, great," LaRoche said, according to the report. "Unfortunately, that does me no good. I've still got to be in here telling guys it's going to be fine with Nate gone. Well, you can only do that for so long until guys just kind of ... well, they know."

Manager John Russell, who summoned players into his office to hear them out on Thursday, said the trade should not be taken as a sign the Pirates aren't serious about winning, according to the report, echoing what general manager Neal Huntington and team president Frank ****elly said earlier about the deal. He also said the team still had a job to do, despite the players' feelings.

"The players lost a friend, a teammate and a good player," Russell said, according to the report. "They might be thinking that we've thrown in the towel, but it's time to turn the page and play baseball. It's time to move on."

Russell said that before the Pirates beat the New York Mets 11-6.

"I thought the guys responded very well," Russell said after the game, according to the report. "They still know we have some things to accomplish here. They went out and played very good baseball today."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

 

[DownByLaw]

That's tough being a Pirates fan. Look at it on the brightside, at least you're not a Brewers fan.

 

[arstyle27]

The Pirates as an organization are a joke. Any good player that comes up with Pittsburgh is bound to be traded when his salary calls for a raise.

 

[arstyle27]

Zambrano has been excellent tonight. When he plays like this, he's all-world.

 

[arstyle27]

Cubs Win !! I thought Gregg was gonna blow it for sure.

 

[jdcurt2]

Had some chances to win that game

We're slowly plummeting.

Hopefully the real Dumpster shows up tomorrow night and not the one whowore a Cubs uni last year.

 

[pacmagic2002]

We got whipped by the rockies.......Why do we always have problems with suck #*% teams????

Damn bullpen..........Wain only gave up 2 runs in reality........they just couldnt locate tonight.

Hopefully we run the able the rest of the weekend and monday, we need these "easy" wins (dude was 0 and 6 before he played us, damn shame)

 

[DownByLaw]

The Rockies are one of those teams that seems to have our number. Seeing Wainright not on his game sucks. Our offense should be put on a milk carton

 

[pacmagic2002]

It wasnt Wainright that was the problem, he was pretty good............. it was the damn bullpen. Wain only allowed 2 earned runs and 1 earned run on the walkby Dennys to score that run.

Ok....Wain walked the first batter...........But the breakfast restaraunt walked 2 in a row and allowed 3 earned runs....then Jason Motte walked 1 and allowed3 earned runs.....then whoever this dude J. Todd is walked 2 and gave up another 2 runs.

i dont know what the problem was......it was like they were scared to pitch to them or something.

 

[dacomeup]

We need to get healthy!

 

[zack54attack]

Big game for The Cubs tonight. We need this one to carry momentum