Cut from Bleed Cubbie Blue:
"The 2008 Cubs are already the best team in their division and are winning games without making moves. I'm not going to say anything about Jim Edmonds' supposed bad clubhouse presence or the way he allegedly hotdogs every catch he makes or the fact that he used to be a Cardinal (who cares? He isn't any more); those may be factors in whether you acquire a player, but the bottom line is: Jim Edmonds at this stage of his career is a bad baseball player. The Cubs may be looking to catch "lightning in a bottle" as they did in 1998 when they signed Gary Gaetti. But Gaetti had hit .265/.339/.454 for the Cardinals with 11 HR in 306 AB when St. Louis inexplicably released him on August 14, 1998, and the Cubs actually needed a third baseman at the time. Five days later the Cubs signed him and arguably, without him they wouldn't have won the wild card."
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I was going to post the same thing.
This deal in my words is "kinda gay".
I think it's going to turn out to be "very gay" by the end of the season.
Fffffffffffuck.
So it begins....
The addition of Edmonds could make for an interesting situation in the Cubs’ clubhouse. During a 2004 game with the Cardinals, Chicago pitcher Carlos Zambrano twice hit Edmonds with pitches twice and was ejected.
Edmonds also homered in that game and stood at the plate to admire the flight of the ball, angering Zambrano who began to yell at him as he neared the plate after running the bases.
“I just told him to run the bases and don’t try to be cocky,” Zambrano said after that game.
Zambrano declined comment Wednesday when asked about the arrival of Edmonds in the Cubs’ lineup.
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