<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td width=5> </td><td align=center><img id="story-photo" width="478" src=https://2cic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/c/stories/19/baseball/bryant_schwarber_happy_kamil.jpg><br><font size=2></font></td></tr></table><table width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><a target=_blank href=/story/Cubs-News-and-Notes-Trading-the-Cubs-core-Venables-Hamels-future-Hot-Stove-more-16110 class="newstitle"><font style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Helv, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; color: #D12325; text-decoration: none">Cubs News and Notes: Trading the Cubs' core, Venables, Hamels’ future, Hot Stove, more</font></a><br><br><font class=newsbody>Theo: “The bottom line is that we haven’t been able to sign a lot of our key players to contract extensions, so we have to face that reality…”</font> <a target=_blank href=/story/Cubs-News-and-Notes-Trading-the-Cubs-core-Venables-Hamels-future-Hot-Stove-more-16110><font class=fullstory><b>Full Story »</b></font></a></td></tr></table>