Dear Chicago Cubs,

[VOL]

I would like to be the first to thank you for the re-signing of Nomar Garciaparra. He is probably the best cry baby in the game. Allowing Clement to go to the defending World Champions was a great idea. Good strategy on your part. Also, allowing Alou to go to one of your biggest competitions in the National League was a fantastic idea. And just when everyone thinks that you folks there on the North Side can't do any better, you decide that you may not even want Sammy Sosa anymore. The man who is probably most responsible for people coming to your games. To conclude, thanks for making baseball a better place and going back to continued mediocrity.

Sincerely,
VOL

[Cocktooth]

Dear Vol,

Sosa is the biggest cry baby in baseball. He left his team in the last game of the season because it had no playoff implications. I agree with the Alou comment but you have to let people go when your going to get Carlos Beltran, the best free agent out there. And have fun with Clement. He is mediocre in every sense of the word. You can have him, we breed pitchers in our farm system. Wait a minute...it seems like we are the only team in the majors that actually builds players from their farm system...keep fighting those yankees...we will steal away thechampionship

[VOL]

How is Clement all of a sudden mediocre? I know why, because Cubs fans like players until they leave for a much better team, in which case they get criticized and lose their skills they developed. I never understood you people.

[Demitri]

I'm a die hard Cubs fan and always will be. Saying that I never cared for Sosa myself. I've always been a Mark Grace fan myself. I don't understand why we didn't sign Alou back seems kinda stupid. I'm not upset at the fact that we have gotten rid of Clement for the same fact of what Shaw said Cubs breed pitchers give us a few months and we'll have somebody with the same skill or better then what Clement had.

I guess it all really comes down will the cubs win the World Series this year??? Well of course they will

[Saint DH]

Dear VOL,

Please move to Boston and never come back.

[Cocktooth]

Clement was so hot and cold last year...he would pitch great at times and dreadful at times...but see...as a cubs fan i always thought he had upside...but he is just mediocre...lets look at the cubs rotation without him and see if it will hurt us...

Kerry Wood
Mark Prior (HEALTHY)
Carlos Zambrano
Glendon Rusch
Greg Maddux

4 out of the 5 of those pitchers could be number 1's in half of the league....find me a better staff then that...oh yeah...sergio mitre will find spot duty...hes got some nasty stuff...last year was rough cause it was his first...but he will be a 15 game winner before is career is out...you have shilling and then the one guy that used to be a closer..thats all you can depend on....you better be able to score 10 runs a game cause that might be what it takes to win your division

[BigDongedHoe]

I'm gonna agree with Shaw that the loss of clement really is meaningless. He was very mediocre last year and didn't preform for shit under pressure. I am disapointed by Moises Alou leaving and I think that could come back to haunt the cubs. Nomar was a huge signing and I'm very pleased with that, I would love to get rid of Sosa and clear up some money to go get a big name either this off-season or as a trade next year.

You have to realize the cubs have Nomar, Derek Lee, Aramis Ramirez, and Corey Patterson (2cnd year back from injury) all coming back. Take Michael Barrett (who came on strong at the end of last year) and if Sosa could produce the cubs will be every bit as talented as they were last year.

[Cocktooth]

I also agree with BDH....Sosa needs to be gone, but by the looks of things its not going to happen...at least not in time to sign beltran who WANTS TO BE A CUB.....they still have a great lineup....Alou could have helped with his stick. His defense leaves a little bit to desire but his bat won and kept us in many games last year...flat out i hate corey patterson..he is a good baseball player but he is the TO of baseball. He was causing problems all year in the lockerroom and thats something he has got to quit this year....Im going to a few games this year as normal...we gotta get together with some peeps and go up there and sit in the bleachers...ask anthony boley..its a day you will never forget!!!