The Fire and The Passion?
Bad......con....tract.....?
A bad contract that was just sort of unavoidable: Aaron Rowand (5 years, $60 million). He will be paid $12 million per for the next three years, which is a whole lot of money to pay for a below-average hitter who probably has been pretty wildly overrated defensively for three or four years. But, hey, he came off that big 2007 season -- .309/.374/.515 -- and he'd had one year like that before (2004 in Chicago) and he had the great defensive rep, and he was a free agent, and somebody was going to overpay for him. Brian Sabean was the lucky winner.
Meathead Sox fans suddenly felt a sharp pain through their craniums and they don't know why....
Oh, don't worry Cubs fans - you're well represented too with Carlos Zambrano and Alfonso Soriano on this list...
Rick Armstrong 
Jim Owczarski 
Mike Knapp 
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