The Palmerio Saga Drags On

From ChicagoSports.com

"We've been talking, but so far nothing is really going on," Hart said.

Palmeiro's reason for not wanting to join the Cubs is unusual. He apparently found out the name of the prospect the Cubs planned to send to the Rangers and didn't feel that player would help the Rangers in the long run.

What do you think we are going to give Texas? Guzman? Beltran? One of our top prospects for a 2 month rental? He must be as crazy as Jim Hendry for pursing this guy.

"I didn't feel it would impact our club," Palmeiro said. "If it would have been a no-miss prospect ... some guy that would have gotten us over the hump and made a difference, I really would have considered it."

Well its pretty clear Palmerio could care less about helping the Cubs even if he was traded here. His comments are "our" and "us" all referring to Texas. Like he expects them to rent him out for 2 months and get awesome prospects in return. Who cares about the Cubs as long as it helps "US" meaning Texas. Not "US" as in the Cubs. Not that i wanted him anyways.

In other news the Cubs inquired about Tony Womack....

"The Cubs inquired about Colorado's Tony Womack, who was recently acquired from Arizona. But Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said the minor-league player the Cubs offered was not to the Rockies' liking.

"We really don't have any interest in that name," Hurdle said. "They don't seem willing to talk fair trade. As far as I'm concerned, it's a moot point."

Hendry dodging another bullet. I am glad Texas and Col are stopping Hendry from making monumentally stupid decisions. But this also sheds a little light and proof on how the Cubs do business overall. Notice how Colorado's GM stated, "They don't seem willing to talk fair trade." Thats just the way Hendry and Andy work. If they cant get an absolute steal of a trade they wont do it.
Clement and Alfonseca for Tavarez (please stop whining about Willis), Ramirez and Lofton for Jose Hernandez, John Lieber for Brant Brown. Seriously when have the Cubs in say the last 10 years done a fair trade? Or maybe i should say since when have they done it under Andy and Hendry?

The way i think the Cubs work is low ball offers and half hearted trade attempts. Thats why they hardly ever trade for anyone good unless the other team is in a fire sale and dont get FA's. Cubs management thinks its an honor to put on a Cubs uniform and if you dont accept its low ball offer it is that players loss. Sadly it almost always ends up being the Cubs loss and another teams gain to the post season.
The Cubs almost never negotiate with players. They will throw out 1 offer and wait. The player will say i want more than that. Then the Cubs will withdraw the offer and say they dont need him or his salary demands were too much. Ofcourse the press release the next day is, "Well we tried to get him, but his demands were just to high." Or some BS. No its more like the Cubs demands were too low contract wise.
The best example of this is Pudge. Cubs kept trying to push thier low ball offer of $7-8 million thinking they could get a steal. I mean come on what was Pudge going to do? Sign with the lowly Marlins? Hahahahaha he wouldnt dare. Yeah BTW how are those Marlins doing? He sure handles young pitchers pretty well huh? Ehh maybe that was just another rumour spread by the Tribune to have another excuse to not sign him.