<div dir="ltr">I'll grant that Theo seemed to get what he could in the trade -- Garza is a free agent, so it was get something now or get nothing if Theo was determined not to sign Garza to a new deal. <div><br></div>
<div>But why not sign him? He's still relatively young, and the Cubs have a good core of starters plus two of their supposed building blocks (Rizzo and Castro) in place. The idea that good players in their late 20s are too old for the Cubs' competitive horizon is depressing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll stand by my Jerry Krause analogy. The Bulls stumbled into Jordan (thank you, Portland!) And Krause made one good deal (for Pippin). Then he thought he was smarter than everyone else and ran the franchise into the ground after Jordan left. Theo stumbled into a championship in Boston (<i>not </i>by dumping for five years and signing teenagers, but by buying decent ballplayers), and now he's like Krause in annointing himself a genius and playing wild games with his new toy franchise. I hope I'm wrong, but can't see it ending well ... </div>
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Date: 07/23/2013 7:04 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> <br>
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