Pudge Fetish

I have to get my Ivan Rodriguez fetish out of my system before the new year. I am still mightly pissed at the Cubs for dissing him. I remember the big fuss was the Cubs would not sign him to a 3-4 year deal. Pudge brought his demands down and was willing to accept a 3 year deal at $10 million dollars a year.

But no way were the Cubs going to pay Pudge $10 million a year for any amount of years. STUPID MOVE!

If the Cubs had signed Pudge more than likely this franchise would of already been celebrating a World Championship and Pudge would be in year #3 of his deal with no signs of slowing down. Averaging a .315 BA, .370 OBP, 17 HR's and 85 RBI a season to go along with his stellar defense Pudge would of been well worth his contract by now regardless of what he did in the up coming season.

Always nice to look back in hindsight. Oh what the Cubs could of accomplished with Pudge behind the plate. But knowing the Cubs luck he would of blown out his knee and never played again.

Look on the bright side we have Michael Barrett on the cheap. "Cheap" being the key word.