GO: Dream Team

Choose one Cub for each position, including one starting pitcher and one relief pitcher, to concoct your Cubs “Dream Team”!

Your choices can be current Cubs, former Cubs, dead Cubs, living Cubs, or any other category I failed to mention.

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Tom_C

c-gabby hartnett – jody davis
1b-cap anson – mark grace
2b-ryno (i wanna see someone not pick ryno) – hornsby
ss-banks – woody english
3b-santo – stan hack
lf-1984′s Gary “Sarge” Matthews – riggs stephenson
cf-kiki cuyler – 1984′s Bobby Dernier
rf-billy williams (he could play rf) – Sosa
sp-3 finger brown – maddux
rp-lee smith – sutter

I did a starting lineup and a back up…
Buddy

Give me nine Derrick May’s and I’ll give you the pennant. Or the end of civilization. I can never remember which.
Jedi

2B – you’ve come to the right place for that Tom, there’s a strong anti-Ryno contingent lurking in the shadows here.
Jedi

Lizzie, am I building a team for one year or for their careers? I mean there is a scenario where 1989 Jerome Walton and 2004 Mark Prior actually makes sense. I opted to take guys based on their performance with the Cubs…
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Gabby Hartnett
Mark Grace
Ryne Sandberg
Ernie Banks
Ron Santo
Billy Williams
Hack Wilson
Andre Dawson
Ferguson Jenkins
Lee Smith
http://elizababble.com/ Lizzie

Not really sure Jedi (this one was Joe’s idea so I’m not completely sure what he had in mind) but I think the idea was if you were to field a team today, compiled of players who were Cubs at any time, who would you choose. So in that way it seems to be more about their full careers. Joe can jump in and correct me if I’m wrong.
http://elizababble.com/ Lizzie

I don’t think it’s so much an anti-Ryno contingent as it is an anti-Ryno-as-the-Cubs-manager-at-the-present-time contingent, of which I am a member. But that doesn’t mean I’m anti-Ryno. I love him. I just don’t want him to be the coach right now.
Tommy

C      Gabby
Hartnett

1b     Cap Anson

2b    Ryne
Sandberg

3b     Ron Santo

ss     Ernie Banks

OF   Billy
Williams

OF   Hack Wilson

OF   Andre Dawson

P       Ferguson
Jenkins

RP    Bruce Sutter
Tommy

Sorry my formatting stinks. You know how hard it is to pick just one pitcher? I wanted to put Maddux too but his salad days were as a Brave.
Tommy

I think Joe Morgan has something to do with that. He’s always been jealous of Ryno. The only year he has missed HOF Day? The year Ryno went in.
Jedi

It goes beyond that with some.
Doug S.

I’ll counter with my Cubs nightmare team.
SP -Julian Tavarez
C – Todd Hundley
1st – Hee-Sep Choi (a reach, not really nightmare calibur)
2nd – Neifi Perez
3rd – Todd Zeile
SS – Shawn Dunston
OF – S0rian0
OF – Corey Patterson
OF – Milton Bradley
RP – Marmol
RP – Hon mention – Kevin Gregggg
Seymour Butts

I’m on board with Tommy’s picks.
I’m getting really Gregging tired of that Gregging commercial already.
Seymour Butts

I repeat myself, WE STILL HAVE TOO MANY CARLOSES!
Jedi

Today’s game = Vomit
Tommy

Speaking of Carlos, did ya see Mr. Pena hitting a grand salami on Opening Day for his new team?
Tommy

scary how close we came to having the same dream, Jedi.
Tommy

I really wish we could have a Sosa free blog
Allan Bendert

I would put Kenny Hobbs in there are second but pretty much agree with everyone else. I would put Banks at first and Dunston at short.
Tommy

Kerry Wood deserves the same treatment Corey and Neifi received from this auspicious forum in years past.
Jedi

No, no he doesn’t. It’s two games, and Wood has been as committed to the Cubs as any player, taking less money/fewer years on more than one occasion. He negotiated himself into a corner this past year knowingly and willingly…I don’t like his on-field performance either – but what he’s done off-the-field and the accommodations he’s made in contract negotiations should have bought him a lot of goodwill before the fan base turns on him.
Jedi

I highly doubt our dreams are anything alike.
BLPCB

Why couldn’t he do that last year in April?
BLPCB

How about Tubby for starter? Glendon Rusch was terrible
BLPCB

That commercial is so stupid
Tommy

Suit yourself. Mine involves a ticker tape parade up Waveland Ave.
Tommy

If Banks goes to first then my ss is Don Kessinger.
Seymour Butts

I don’t have an issue with Wood either. This is the declining stage of his career, and he made great accommodations to be a Cub at this time. His role this year is up in the air at present.
Hard to fault the brain-trust with trying out their closer, but if the pattern holds, you can’t possibly do any worse trying Dolis as a closer.
Give Carlos a week off, try to milk a few watchable outings out of him, and find a dum willing trade partner. He’s killing a not as bad as expected team.
Eddie Von White

Don Kessinger
Glenn Beckert
Billy Williams
Ernie Banks
Ron Santo
Johnny Callison
Willie Smith
Randy Hundley
Fergie Jenkins with Phil Regan (in relief)
https://twitter.com/#!/tmilesmarker Tommy

Met Callison – a real a$$.
cap’n obvious

for this upcoming season, because I and most of you know how it’s going to end, maybe nominations for the Cubs ‘nightmare team’ by position might be more fun.

I’ll start.

P-Anthony Young. Lost 27 straight games. Not all as a Cub, but still….

C-I’m going wiwth Koyie…who got a ridiculous number of AB’s for a guy that couldn’t hit the ball out of the infield.

1B-Fred Merkle. I learn a lot from deadspin.com. Best known for Merkle’s boner. Doc Raker is jealous, if only of the nickname.

2b-Doug Strange. The name says it all, in a race with at least 6 thoroughbreds…for the worst 2B.

3b-Ken Rietz. Yes, he was a Cub. Hard for me to admit it, too. Kevin Orie is grateful.

ss-Neifi. Argue and I will fight you.

lf-Alf. He’s clearly not the worst ever, but certainly the worst per dollar.

cf-Doug Dascenzo. short, slow, no arm, no power, and couldn’t hit for average. Your basic zero tool player. 5 career home runs, and an average of .234. Probably the best pitcher of all the shitty Cubs who have toed the slab at garbage time.

rf-David DeJesus. Watch and learn.

closer/reliever-Will Ohman. Still waiting for him to throw the ball 60 feet in the air.

manager-While I can’t blame Bruce Kimm for the mess created by Don Baylor, I also can’t blame Quade for the mess created by Hendry. I’m going with Dusty Baker, who screwed up the most talented Cub team I can remember. He rode Wood and Prior like a 230 lb jockey in a 400 furlong horse race, and we all lost.

GO: Dream Team

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