Great story about a great player

Feb. 6 (Babe Ruth) is the biggest

From the looks of it, Nov 15 (Gus Bell) has the lowest total.

"Multiple teams are in contact the Cubs about outfielder Milton Bradley, with one source saying, "You would be shocked at the level of interest."

The Cubs remain confident that they can trade Bradley without assuming the vast majority of the $21 million remaining on his contract over the next two years.

New owner Tom Ricketts has set a limit for how much money the Cubs will include in a deal, one source says. The Cubs can take back a contract but pay only a fixed amount of cash."

Obviously this is great news, and it's good to see that Ricketts is smart enough to know that simply releasing Bradley for nothing is the absolute worst thing that could be done.

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Levine is just speculating here, but I would not be surprised if the owners push this through to help finance the sale. I'm not a huge fan of the extracurricular jumbotron stuff but the current setup is pretty lacking in the informational stuff that would go on it.

The Club has to pay ~$30mm to the banks each year, and if the Jumbotron ads bring in 25-30 million I'd much rather see that than a slash in payroll. The scoreboard isn't going anywhere but I wouldn't be surprised if they set something up like they did for the winter classic, or put it on the buildings on Waveland behind the LF bleachers.

Aside from the ambiguities in the testing data that Al quoted earlier today, we must remember our duty to the law.

Is there a easier way to translate spreadsheet -> html? I'm too impatient to type in all the numbers into my little table

I was pretty surprised to see this. He's having a nice season, but still - goes to show how much the offense has underperformed this year

"This trade is a perfect (and rare) example of what can happen when a general manager executes a successful trade of a veteran player who has just one year left on his existing contract."