Convention Notes - Day 2

Update: Bleed Cubbie Blue has a great post about Day 2. Sadly, it confirms my line-up suspicions fears. Clearly, Roberts is still on the table, otherwise no one would be freakin' out about tampering. They could just come out and say it is a dead deal. Just hold your horses until Erik Bedard get shipped to Seattle for Adam Jones, IMO.

Bruce Miles comes in with a fresh column. The "Angelos killed the 9 player trade" rumor was the first topic - of course. Hendry said the report "was not accurate". Meanwhile, Lou reminds us he's fine with Mark DeRosa playing second base every day.

Lou is still considering hitting Theriot 2nd, with Fukudome 5th. Center field is open for Sam Fuld and Felix Pie - and I think that is still in play, even if they get Marlon Byrd, or facsimile thereof. In any case, I can't imagine batting Geovany Soto 7th and Theriot 2nd. I'm hoping for, realistically, this line-up

Soriano
Fukudome
Lee
Ramirez
Soto
DeRosa
Pie
Theriot

but I think we'll get

Soriano
Theriot
Lee
Ramirez
Fukudome
DeRosa
Soto
Pie

Which isn't horrible. But, Pie won't get many good pitches battng 8th, and Soto will lack protection, too. And all those PA's for Theriot will hurt the team.