5/4 Reds (Cingrani) @ Cubs (Samardzija!) 12:05 pm CSN

[illiniguy]

I don't understand how telling someone your plan in advance means that it's justified no matter what.

Oh it isn't, but if you were on board with the hire and after they said what the plan was, it's foolish to then jump off board in a year and a month after the plan starts. No?

 

I guess. But they've spoken in some many waves of doublespeak that anything they do could be found in it afterwards. It wasn't as clearcut as you are saying.

Fair enough. I don't blame them though. I think that after they were hired Ricketts changed things up by making less money available. Which is the only thing that really scares me.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

At this point, I don't blame them either. I blame Ricketts.

[davell]

At this point, I don't blame them either. I blame Ricketts.

This post made my day.

[dfnowak]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

[Guest]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

Edwin will be fine.

[Little Slide Rooter]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

Edwin will be fine.

 

But he's history's greatest monster.

[Tryptamine]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

 

The guy hasn't even had a quarter of a season and he's already an untradeable contract?

[Andy]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

The guy hasn't even had a quarter of a season and he's already an untradeable contract?

Any free agent contract with more than a year and a half left is generally untradeable unless you can talk the Dodgers into it.

[Guest]

100 losses this year?

 

Probably not. Last year, we achieved that milestone due to the fact that we spent the final month and a half or so with Travis Wood as our 1 Starter and rounded out the rotation with pretty much anyone that filled out a job application. My guess is that by that time this season, we'll have at least 2 of Shark, Jackson, Wood, and Villanueva.

I'm sure we'll have at least three. Nobody will take on EJax's contract and we're not trading Shark. And isn't Wood under team control for a few more years?

The guy hasn't even had a quarter of a season and he's already an untradeable contract?

Any free agent contract with more than a year and a half left is generally untradeable unless you can talk the Dodgers into it.

 

Or the Blue Jays.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't understand how telling someone your plan in advance means that it's justified no matter what.

Oh it isn't, but if you were on board with the hire and after they said what the plan was, it's foolish to then jump off board in a year and a month after the plan starts. No?

This isn't anywhere close to what they said the plan was.