This show talks about "Cubs fans" as some strange, alien species they can only hope to one day understand. There are millions of them in your metropolitan area. I hope you can figure them out one day.

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So Kerry Wood is a "mascot" and it's sad that people like him despite the fact that he wasn't really that good for the team.

I can't wait for the next thought about how Bernstein loves Omer Asik who pretty much is the Will Perdue of this team.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Defensive positioning talk!

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That's different.

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Paul Sullivan ‏ @PWSullivan

Asked Turk Wendell in 1997 why he tossed glove into stands in 11th inning of 15-inning loss: "There's no luck left in that glove."

Sully been around a while. Turk was a funny dude.

Goff

Don't let the funny hair and small stature fool you. Paul will slap a bitch. He will.

berns.... he rips deng all year (I have no problem with that). now when the Trib (who?) says the core going forward is rose and noah, berns has a conniption because the all-star deng is not considered part of the core.

so bernsy.. who ya crappin??

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That's 5p tomorrow...I hope White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper gets some "WYC" consideration for talking on both sides of his mouth on the Chris Sale situation.

matt rodewald mumblin' and stumblin' again. he's alway garbling things. my grandma would have said "he sounds like he's got kluski in his mouth."

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It's already been a long day for Rodie. After all, he does traffic on NBC5's local version of "The Today Show"...

idiot KW picked a closer, Royce Ring, in the first round and traded him the next year for virtually nothing as far as I recall.

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He's traded a lot of prospects when they went "ALL IN", and look where they're at now...

Says he traded him for Roberto Alomar.

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Twice.

He traded Royce Ring for Roberto Alomar twice?

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People out there trying to take pictures of Goff

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Obviously

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Shark, you are the greatest,

with excuses for EVERYONE at the station. Keep up the pathetic spin.

I know!

SHARK, being a spin master doesn't suit you, you're "reporting" of all things 670theScore has also taken a nose dive into the toilet....

Oh, and poor Rodie, he had to read a piece of paper and a teleprompter twice in a day! Oh boy! He must be all tuckered out!

Kerry Wood had a nice year last year and several suitors in the off season, including Kenny Williams. It was not a bad move to re sign him given the Marshall trade

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I thought that the position they were taking seemed to be that you should have only Hall of fame type former players only associating themselves with the team after their careers are done to be particularly solid.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

It was bad for the money.

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NO, NO, NO! Omer Asik is a real DAMN basketball player! Kerry Wood is a pleasant memory and the owner's plaything.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

Will Perdue was pretty good too

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I don't think it's quite that. I mean, there are scores of players who associate with their former teams despite falling short of Cooperstown. Dan's point, which was a good one, is that Kerry Wood's plan to fashion himself not as a mere alumnus of the Cubs but as the next Ron Santo is a bad idea inasmuch as Wood is not one of the best ever to play the position, but more importantly, which I think he only touched upon, he's not a particularly charismatic human mascot. We shan't turn this into yet another referendum on whether the character Ron Santo played on the radio was cute or a hate crime upon baseball, but what can't be denied was that Santo's personality and his life on and off the field made him a very engaging figure. He wore his heart on his sleeve till the end and paid for it with derision and not living to make the Hall. Kerry Wood just isn't a larger-than-life character. He isn't yet, and I don't think he will be, because if he had it in him we would've seen it by now. I mean, even when he dropped an F-bomb the other day, he was pretty low-key about it. Basically, he sounds like almost every baseball player of his generation: kind of dull, reserved, stoically self-assured; you'd accuse him of holding back on you if you weren't so suspicious that what you see really is what you get. To make Wood the next Santo is like making Urlacher the next Ditka. Lots of luck.

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Good enough to get traded straight up for a Hall of Famer.

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I agree but you can't blame Wood for wanting to help secure his post-baseball career. It's not like he's forcing this on the Cubs. They probably created the idea and obviously signed off on it. It's not like he's standing outside the stadium singing "Go Cubs Go".

The Cubs will always be an organization that celebrate former players as part of the package of the team. I mean, people still think about how awesome it was that Wood threw 20 strikeouts in an otherwise unremarkable career. It would be like if the Sox fans talked about how awesome it was the time Pat Seerey hit 4 home runs in a game 10 years after the fact. It's just one of the things that makes the Cubs different. Doing something "historic" is more important there(unless you are Sammy Sosa).

If Wood can parlay his career into a second career as one of the Cubs mascots good for him. The bigger question is if it's a good idea for the Cubs and if we should give Theo a pass for the travesty of not thinking that Cubs baseball is simply about how to win a title.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

They should put it in his contract that he must never be seen out of uniform, like Ronnie Wickers.

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