Hank White fan club
Henry Blanco got the better of his former Cubs teammate, Ted Lilly, in the third inning of the World Baseball Classic game Wednesday night in Toronto. Blanco, who was starting at catcher for Venezuela, homered in the third inning off Lilly, who started for Team USA. Lilly was pulled after giving up three hits over three innings.
– Carrie Muskat
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That’s exactly why Rich Hill should be pitching for the USA.
By the way, the Cub A team is doing good in the world baseball classic. The Cub A team is pretty good. But how come it has all Cubans on it? That makes no sense.
Hank White. Very original. Nice to see that Carrie reads the well written and entertaining Cub blogs.
My favorite Golden Girl was Betty Blanco
Go Hank! What was Hendry thinking?
Very good defensive catcher, throws out base steelers,
good mentor for Soto, decent hitter…but…NOT A LEFTHANDED BAT??? So…let’s bring in re-tread, former
Cub Paul Bako, decent defensive catcher, not known for mentoring young hispanic players, worse arm than Blanco,
CAN’T HIT (see “former Cub, above”)…but is a LEFTHANDED BAT!!!! Gotta have him on the roster…AND for ONLY 25,000.00 LESS THAN
BLANCO SIGNED FOR WITH SAN DIEGO.
Might well have just committed to Koyie Hill and save even
more money, at least he’s younger and knows the CURRENT
Cub staff more than Bako. Yeesh.
Hard to argue with Joey. Why didn’t anyone else think of that?
This was the second worsest move this offseason. First, of course, was trading our future Cy Younger, Rich Hill.
And Rich Hill bats left handed, too.
There is a rumor going around (at least there will be now), that one of the commentators on this Blog is actually Rich Hill. Anybody think who it could be?
Nick Swisher? Bring back Steve Swisher, he can still hit better than Bako.
What about playing Fukudome at ss so our middle infielders are both left handed hitters.
Excellent! Nice to know there are other genuine, knowledgable fans out there paying attention to Hendry’s
“genius moves”. STEVE Swisher…good one!!
Was Hendry brilliant in trading for Aramis
Ramirez? MAYBE, could’ve been just luck too. But by trading
DeRosa JUST TO GET MORE LEFT-HANDED may come back to
haunt him. Derosa was one of the top producers on the team, AND multi-talented. NOW by trading him, Hendry created a bigger concern…who’s gonna back up Ramirez?
Oh my God, ther are bringing in EVERYBODY…Koskie, Scales,
and now German???? Oy. He essentially swapped DeRosa for Bradley, how about just ADDING BRADLEY and keep DeRosa at second base and he could then fill in FOR Bradley
WHEN Bradley goes down AND fill in FOR Ramirez WHEN
Ramirez goes down, end of concern. And going more left handed? I would have rather he traded Lee and insert a
home grown HITTER in Haufpaur, not to mention Fontenot
could play second when DeRosa is playing RF or 3B and he
didn’t have to sign Miles. But DeRosa’s was in his last year,
God forbid we try to win it all WITH him before he walks as
a free agent (can’t let THAT happen!!). Oh well, he did after
all get THREE bodies for DeRosa, all pitchers but maybe they
are SO TALENTED that one could catch, one could play center and one could play second!!!
I’ll be scratchin’ my all season regarding Blanco and DeRosa.
I’d rather have a right handed hitter than a left handed
bench warmer/DL warmer. My Cubs angst is season form!