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Marquis on his way to the Rockies while Bradley is a done deal?

Ok, so we haven’t started the makeover on the blog yet, however I had to get this news posted tonight. I just heard on ESPN1000 and Bruce Levine said that Jason Marquis will be traded to the Colorado Rockies while the Rockies will be sending the Cubs reliever Luis Vizcaino. The Cubs will only eat $1 million of the Marquis contract so that is a good thing.

It sounds like the team will now sign Milton Bradley to play right field. They are able to do this since they moved Marquis’s contract.

And get this, Levine said that talks with the Padres are once again on for Jake Peavy? Say WHAT?!?! I wish this would just happen or not happen. To make that happen however the Cubs will probably be trading Mark DeRosa in the next three to four days. DeRosa is a fan favorite so it will be hard to see him go if it does happen.

Let’s all set back and see what happens. Look for the deals about Marquis and Bradley to be announced in the next week.

Chicago Cubs Blog will be going through some changes

Good afternoon everyone, I just wanted to let you know that soon we will beginning to make some changes to the blog. I plan on implementing some much needed design changes as well as some cms changes to the blog starting this afternoon/evening and stretching into the first or second of the new year probably.

If you notice something isn’t working, please check back later as some of the changes will take a little while to roll through. We will have a great user friendly design and commenting system that I am very excited for! Make sure your gravatar’s are ready as well because we will have those enabled finally as well.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe New Years!

- Cliff

2009 Cubs Club Information

Good afternoon everyone, hopefully everybody is all geared up for the Holidays this week and has all their shopping done! Just wanted to inform everyone about an email that I received from the Cubs today about the 2009 Cubs Club. There are some positives but some negatives to this club that I will blog about now.

Ok first off this new club is being seperated into three categories. The Standard, The Ivy, and The Marquee. Pretty much the difference in each membership is the price, and how many tickets you will be able to buy during a special pre-sale. That is where things get negative for me and I’ll talk more about at the end of this post.

The standard membership entitles you to the following for $19.95:

• 2009 Membership Card
• 2009 MLB.com Gameday Audio
• Cubs Club sticker
• Exclusive E-mails and Web Content
• Members-Only Section
• Exclusive Message Board
• Interactive Cameras

The Ivy membership entitles you to the following for $129.95:

• Everything included in the Standard membership PLUS
• MLB.TV 30-Day Trial Subscription
• Opportunity to purchase up to 4 tickets in a special Ivy-level pre-sale
• Special Gate entrance at Wrigley Field

The Marquee membership entitles you to the following for $249.00:

• Everything included in the Standard membership PLUS
• MLB.TV 30-Day Trial Subscription
• Opportunity to purchase up to 12 tickets in a special Marquee-level pre-sale
• Cubs Marquee Club t-shirt
• Non-game on-field event during 2009 for all marquee members

Ok so basically you can shell out $129.95 or $249.00 for a pre-sale that the team plans on offering. Who knows what games these will be for and what tickets will be available during these pre-sales. I don’t like it one bit considering you can usually pick up tickets to any game during the onsales. The only way I see these memberships being a good deal is if you get discounted ticket prices for your four or twelve tickets, but also receive a pre-sale for any playoff tickets that might go on sale. Other then that it just doesn’t seem worth it to me.

What’s your opinions on these memberships? Just another way for the team to bring in some more money? Do you plan on buying any of them and if so, what is your reasoning?

Adam Dunn wants to be a Cub?

Good morning Cubs fans, hope everyone is off to a great weekend as we gear up for next week with Christmas and all. I found a pretty interesting rumor this morning while ready newspapers and other blogs that will probably get a lot of you thinking if it could possiblly work.

Could Adam Dunn be a Chicago Cub?

Dave Kaplan reported on Thursday night that Adam Dunn is telling people if the Cubs will have him, that’s where he wants to play. So Dunn wants to play 81 games in Wrigley where he would probably break a few windows during BP but do the Cubs really want him? Can you imagine how terrible the defense would be in the outfield? Dunn is worse then Soriano in the outfield and I really want no part in that. How many times has Dunn messed up out in the outfield when he was playing against the Cubs? I dont want any part of that.

The offensive numbers would be great even though he strikeouts quite a bit. However he always draws a lot of walks to bring his OBP up but I still don’t think his offense makes up for his terrible defense. Dunn has came out and said he does not want to switch positions (moving to first base) and that is one reason why not very many teams are that interested in him during this offseason.

In the end, I don’t think Dunn will be a Cub.