To Bring a Title to Wrigley: A second chance

[twinsGM]

“Mr. Bonds?”
“Yes. It is Barry. Whadda ya’ want?”
Usually, a GM would be trembling talking to this guy, but not me. “I talked to your agent, and I’d like to welcome you to the Cubs.”
“Ok, but I have no idea why you did that. I’m the best friggin’ hitter out there, but all this crap about some ‘steroids’…”
Yeah, right. I wouldn’t care if it was a definite he’d be locked up by the winter and we’d be looked at as crooks. Come on, we’re gonna’ win it all no matter what!

*****

Barry gets an automatic place in left-field, moving Soriano to second base and DeRosa to the bench. I had a pretty good idea of my lineup, and the pitching staff, and I thought how easy it was going to be to beat my record for wins in a season. No, I had never been a GM before, or even worked int he front office, but I got my record of 88 wins in a game of Baseball Mogul while I was supposed to be working.

[BINGLEBOP]

Wow, Soriano's probably the most expensive bench player in history then.

[twinsGM]

Wow, Soriano's probably the most expensive bench player in history then.

Oops, typo. He's the 2B now.

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Ground Rules

Gameplay:
-2008 Chicago Cubs
-Coach Difficulty
-Manager difficulty for PBP

Updates/Entries:
-I will play most games in PBP.
-I will update you on the team's progress every two weeks.

Goals:
-Because of the new owners wanting to make a splash, the only
main goal is to win the World Series. That must be done or I will
probably be fired.
-Score 950 runs.
-Allow less than 800.

Restrictions:
-Only one signing of a free agent of an 85+ rating.
-Only one trade per season in which I get a 90+.
-Only one trade per offseason in which I get a 90+.

Note: This dynasty will mainly focus on the team, and not the storyline as my dynasties usually do. I jsut want to try a different style, the kind I only did with To Bring a Title to Wrigley, my first dynasty. Since I made it to the world series but lost in 6 games and did not get the chance at 2009 because of a file corruption, I am giving myself a second chance.

[twinsGM]

Cubs off to Sizzling Start

Batting

Last	First	Team	G	AVG	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	K	SB	CS	R	RBI	SLG	OBP
Pie	Felix	CHC	12	0.288	52	15	4	1	2	5	10	0	0	9	6	0.519	0.351
Soriano	Alfonso	CHC	12	0.354	48	17	3	1	3	1	5	0	0	13	13	0.646	0.38
Lee	Derrek	CHC	12	0.34	47	16	6	0	3	4	8	0	1	10	11	0.66	0.404
Soto	Geovany	CHC	12	0.326	46	15	5	1	2	5	9	0	0	8	9	0.609	0.392
Bonds	Barry	CHC	12	0.405	42	17	3	0	5	10	3	0	0	14	13	0.833	0.519
Fukudome Kosuke	CHC	11	0.229	35	8	2	0	1	5	8	0	0	7	5	0.371	0.333
Ramirez	Aramis	CHC	8	0.308	26	8	1	0	1	7	2	0	0	8	5	0.462	0.471
Theriot	Ryan	CHC	8	0.25	24	6	1	0	0	3	3	1	0	4	3	0.292	0.333
Cedeno	Ronny	CHC	7	0.25	16	4	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	0.313	0.25
Murton	Matt	CHC	5	0.154	13	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0.154	0.214
Giles	Marcus	CHC	2	0.5	6	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	2	0.667	0.625
Font. Mike	CHC	5	0.2	5	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	0.4	0.333

Pitching

Last	First	Team	IP	ERA	G	GS	W	L	SV	K	BB
Zambrano Carlos	CHC	19.2	1.83	3	3	3	0	0	23	5
Hill	Rich	CHC	19.1	2.33	3	3	3	0	0	23	9
Lilly	Ted	CHC	14.1	3.14	2	2	2	0	0	12	3
Demp. Ryan	CHC	10	6.3	2	2	0	1	0	5	7
Marquis	Jason	CHC	9.2	7.45	2	2	1	0	0	5	4
Wuertz	Michael	CHC	9	2	7	0	0	0	2	9	1
Okajima	Hideki	CHC	8.2	1.04	8	0	0	0	1	7	4
Howry	Bob	CHC	7.2	1.17	6	0	0	0	0	6	1
Lieber	Jon	CHC	4.1	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	2
Wood	Kerry	CHC	3.2	2.45	4	0	0	0	3	7	3
Cotts	Neal	CHC	3.1	0	4	0	1	0	1	3	2
Timlin	Mike	CHC	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Marshall Sean	CHC	1.1	6.75	1	0	0	0	0	1	0

Transactions:
March 1st- Signed Barry Bonds to 1 year, $5.15M
with player option for '09 of $4.85M

March 4th- Traded Donald Veal (P, AA) for
Jesse Crain (P, AAA) and $500,000.

April 7th- Traded Mark DeRosa (2B) for Mike Timlin (P),
Hideki Okajima (P) and $1,500,000.

April 9th- Barry Bonds got his 2,000th RBI on a
homerun against Bronson Arroyo.


Barry has 767 homeruns as the all-time leader.

Team Stories:
-Barry Bonds is leading the team with 5 homeruns, 13 RBI and a .405 average. Barry had a great series against the Reds, going 6-for-10 plus 4 walks, 4 homeruns, and 8 RBI (including 6 in the second game).
-Big Z is 3-0 with a 1.83 ERA in 19.2 innings. He has struck out 23 and walked only 5.
-Rich Hill is also 3-0 with a 2.33 ERA. He has thrown 19.1 innings and also struck out 23 while walking 5.
-Hideki Okajima has thrown 5.2 scoreless innings as set-up for the Cubs. He has allowed 4 hits since the trade.
-The Cubs' ERA of 2.83 is third in the NL.
-Carlos Marmol has allowed one run in 11.1 innings in AAA, allowing 6 hits. He looks set to join the team in May.

Carlos Zambrano is in Cy Young form and is leading Chicago to another one of these.

[BINGLEBOP]

Wow, what's with your tye-dyed schedule?

[twinsGM]

Wow, what's with your tye-dyed schedule?

I colored it in Paint so I'm not looking at the same old schedule.

[RedsoxRockies]

You should have started in the 70's if you are gonna use a tye-dyed schedule.

[metsguy234]

You should have started in the 70's if you are gonna use a tye-dyed schedule.

Or, you know, the 60s... when there were hippies, and tie-dye things were popular... but whatever dude.

Being such a big fan of history, you should know this though.

[RedsoxRockies]

Or, you know, the 60s... when there were hippies, and tie-dye things were popular... but whatever dude.

Being such a big fan of history, you should know this though.

There were hippies in the early 70s...

[metsguy234]

There were hippies in the early 70s...

Of course there were...

[twinsGM]

Gus, please don't hijack yet another thread of mine with this nonsense.

[Red Sox Fan 734]

Ya Gus , come on. Seriously though, im reading

[stevereno159]

lol @ the cubs having a WS or fired saying, we would hadda lot more fireings here in teh windy city