Marquis, Lieber are fan favorites...

A poll on the Cubs' official team site asks which combo should fill out the starting rotation, joining Zambrano, Lilly and Hill:

Lieber & Dempster
Lieber & Marquis
Lieber & Marshall
Dempster & Marquis
Dempster & Marshall
Marquis & Marshall

As of 10:34 p.m. (MST), with 15,777 votes, the results looked like this:

Lieber & Dempster 17%
Lieber & Marquis 28%
Lieber & Marshall 20%
Dempster & Marquis 11%
Dempster & Marshall 7%
Marquis & Marshall 17%



Obviously the largest group of people agreed with my post here...

And interestingly, if you add up the percentages for each pitcher's possibilities in the poll (i.e. Lieber's total when adding his percentage when combined with Dempster and Marquis and Marshall), you get these results:

Lieber: 65%
Dempster: 35%
Marquis: 56%
Marshall: 44%

What can we learn? Cub fans don't like Canadians.

Sorry, Dempster.