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I know people hate Yankees-Red Sox ESPN slobbering, but honestly I love it, at least when it covers the time when they deserved it.

 

ESPN 30 for 30 shorts on the A-Rod trade: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10410371

 

Someday, that Epstein will show up ... *wistful sigh*

 

that could have been a full 90 minutes

 

Same with the Richard Jewell one.

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It made me go back and rewatch Four Days In October on Netflix.

 

Ugh. I know that story has been told a million times, but it could have made for a really good doc. The one they ended up with was just such a predictable, slobbering waste of time.

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It made me go back and rewatch Four Days In October on Netflix. It cannot be overstated how awesome it would be for the Cubs to be good and relevant and maybe actually win in the postseason once.

 

I'm not a fan of Jon Greenberg at all typically, but I read this thing he wrote and for some reason this one sentence really resonated with me:

 

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/10452278/keep-faith-new-chicago-cubs-era?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

But for all my realism, I have faith in the Cubs baseball side and not just because I'm starstruck by Epstein's $30 words.

 

The guys under Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer, starting with farm guru Jason McLeod, are well-rounded, intelligent baseball scouts and analysts, Plus, the near-complete dereliction of the major league club has given the entire department ample time to focus on evaluating young talent. These guys weren't hired to build an instant winner and they weren't given the resources to do so.

 

But the depth in the organization will be scary in the coming years, if it isn't already.

 

Soon, the Cubs, the big-league Cubs, will be deep, talented and rich. A World Series can't be promised, but the foundation of sustained success (my favorite Theo-ism) will be laid down.

 

One day, everything will come together on the North Side and it will be glorious.

 

A good baseball team at Wrigley Field is a thing to behold, a daily reminder of how baseball can excite a city. It's as close to sports perfection as you can get.

Getting back to that is the goal.

 

But until then, enjoy Jason Hammel and try the bison dogs. Cubs baseball is back!

 

Damnit Cubs...be good already.

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On the flip side, I see Epstein talk about how it felt when Aaron Boone hit his game 7 walk-off and how they immediately knew they had to get better, and I have trouble imagining him feel that same way about a Cubs team.
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Ryan Dempster won't pitch for the Red Sox in 2014 due to physical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his kids, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Red Sox are expected to place the veteran on the restricted list, meaning that Dempster will not receive his $13.25MM salary in 2014, according to Rosenthal.
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Ryan Dempster won't pitch for the Red Sox in 2014 due to physical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his kids, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Red Sox are expected to place the veteran on the restricted list, meaning that Dempster will not receive his $13.25MM salary in 2014, according to Rosenthal.

 

Kind of vague. Hope it's nothing too serious.

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Ryan Dempster won't pitch for the Red Sox in 2014 due to physical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his kids, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Red Sox are expected to place the veteran on the restricted list, meaning that Dempster will not receive his $13.25MM salary in 2014, according to Rosenthal.

 

Kind of vague. Hope it's nothing too serious.

Apparently it is some lingering neck issue and he didn't want to pitch through it, though he hasn't ruled out pitching next year/

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Ryan Dempster won't pitch for the Red Sox in 2014 due to physical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his kids, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Red Sox are expected to place the veteran on the restricted list, meaning that Dempster will not receive his $13.25MM salary in 2014, according to Rosenthal.

 

Kind of vague. Hope it's nothing too serious.

Apparently it is some lingering neck issue and he didn't want to pitch through it, though he hasn't ruled out pitching next year/

 

I'm glad to hear that it's a neck issue and not some life-threatening illness. I worried when a competitor like he is leaves over $13 million on the table to spend more time with his kids.

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Ryan Dempster won't pitch for the Red Sox in 2014 due to physical reasons and a desire to spend more time with his kids, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. The Red Sox are expected to place the veteran on the restricted list, meaning that Dempster will not receive his $13.25MM salary in 2014, according to Rosenthal.

 

I wonder if this means the Red Sox go out and snag someone like Jimenez now

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he can make at least $25 of that $13,000,000 doing low-intensive harry caray impersonations on fox pregame shows
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Dempster's daughter has a rare genetic condition that is often fatal in childhood.
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[expletive], even I remember that being news when he was on the Cubs. I think she was born in 2010 or 2009 and was diagnosed almost right away.
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So in for the Cardinals to hit like a normal team with RISP.

 

Or, if we can be so lucky, worse than a normal team. Do they know what negative variance is?

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So in for the Cardinals to hit like a normal team with RISP.

 

Or, if we can be so lucky, worse than a normal team. Do they know what negative variance is?

Most of the last decade or so seems to indicate no on that.

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On the flip side, I see Epstein talk about how it felt when Aaron Boone hit his game 7 walk-off and how they immediately knew they had to get better, and I have trouble imagining him feel that same way about a Cubs team.

 

Are you implying because he grew up a Sox fan that loss ate at him on a whole different level?

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