General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Brian]

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check out this moron

 

look at his header pic

[CubinNY]

 

check out this moron

 

look at his header pic

He's a conspiracy dude.

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[Ding Dong Johnson]

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[Bertz]

[Derwood]

[UMFan83]

This guy is such a douche but its funny to see him ranting like a fan because he doesn't know what else to do.

 

[jersey cubs fan]

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[CyHawk_Cub]

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[CyHawk_Cub]

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This guy is such a douche but its funny to see him ranting like a fan because he doesn't know what else to do.

 

 

i wish we had an owner that cared about the product on the field

[imb]

This guy is such a douche but its funny to see him ranting like a fan because he doesn't know what else to do.

 

 

the guy who constructed the team is complaining about the structure of the team

 

we're allllll trying to find the guy who did this

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This guy is such a douche but its funny to see him ranting like a fan because he doesn't know what else to do.

 

 

the guy who constructed the team is complaining about the structure of the team

 

we're allllll trying to find the guy who did this

 

was he more involved in constructing the team than a typical owner?

[Cubswin11]

This guy is such a douche but its funny to see him ranting like a fan because he doesn't know what else to do.

 

 

the guy who constructed the team is complaining about the structure of the team

 

we're allllll trying to find the guy who did this

 

was he more involved in constructing the team than a typical owner?

You know who Stevie Cohen is, right? He’s literally a sociopath billionaire that ran a hedge fund who should be in jail for endless securities frauds. Guessing a guy like that, who tweets like one of us has input on the roster construction of the team he owns.

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I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

[Cubswin11]

I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

So sending out a tweet = caring about on field product, even though they’re at .500 and out of the playoffs, but his personality that is pretty public can’t leave us to believe he’s pretty hands on?

[imb]

I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

 

Hey sorry dude I didn’t mean to come across as like antagonistic or anything. I wish our owners wanted good players too. Cohen just seems very hands on and I thought it was ironic that he was complaining about his own offense that just added Javier Baez when I’m sure he Ok’d that deal

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I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

So sending out a tweet = caring about on field product, even though they’re at .500 and out of the playoffs, but his personality that is pretty public can’t leave us to believe he’s pretty hands on?

 

of course. i'm not saying you were wrong. i was asking.

 

I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

 

Hey sorry dude I didn’t mean to come across as like antagonistic or anything. I wish our owners wanted good players too. Cohen just seems very hands on and I thought it was ironic that he was complaining about his own offense that just added Javier Baez when I’m sure he Ok’d that deal

 

it wasn't antagonistic at all.

 

i was just imagining it as him hiring the baseball people and then being pissed that they built a shitty team. also i didn't know how much of scumbag he is, so i was giving him the benefit of the doubt i guess.

[jersey cubs fan]

I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

So sending out a tweet = caring about on field product, even though they’re at .500 and out of the playoffs, but his personality that is pretty public can’t leave us to believe he’s pretty hands on?

 

of course. i'm not saying you were wrong. i was asking.

 

I know who steve cohen is but I didnt know anything about him being extra hands on with actually trades and signings and stuff like that. how many owners actually are?

 

Hey sorry dude I didn’t mean to come across as like antagonistic or anything. I wish our owners wanted good players too. Cohen just seems very hands on and I thought it was ironic that he was complaining about his own offense that just added Javier Baez when I’m sure he Ok’d that deal

 

it wasn't antagonistic at all.

 

i was just imagining it as him hiring the baseball people and then being pissed that they built a horsefeathers team. also i didn't know how much of scumbag he is, so i was giving him the benefit of the doubt i guess.

Never give a hedge funder the benefit of the doubt, let alone one who the feds made stop running public money.

[OleMissCub]

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

As the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the Players Association looms this offseason, Major League Baseball made its initial proposal to the MLBPA on Wednesday. The pitch reportedly included a new salary minimum of $100 million for each team, according to Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Coupled with that change would be a lowered luxury-tax threshold of $180 million, with a steeper penalty than teams currently pay now.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/18/mlb-proposes-salary-floor-lower-luxury-tax-mlbpa

 

This is only a proposal, and it almost certainly won't make it through as initially described, but anything along these lines seems really bad for the Cubs. It would give the Ricketts' another excuse not to go over $180 million.

[d_money]

As the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the Players Association looms this offseason, Major League Baseball made its initial proposal to the MLBPA on Wednesday. The pitch reportedly included a new salary minimum of $100 million for each team, according to Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Coupled with that change would be a lowered luxury-tax threshold of $180 million, with a steeper penalty than teams currently pay now.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/18/mlb-proposes-salary-floor-lower-luxury-tax-mlbpa

 

This is only a proposal, and it almost certainly won't make it through as initially described, but anything along these lines seems really bad for the Cubs. It would give the Ricketts' another excuse not to go over $180 million.

Lower the LT to $180M? I know it’s the first round of negotiations but horsefeathers that. That’s laughable

[Andy]

As the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the Players Association looms this offseason, Major League Baseball made its initial proposal to the MLBPA on Wednesday. The pitch reportedly included a new salary minimum of $100 million for each team, according to Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Coupled with that change would be a lowered luxury-tax threshold of $180 million, with a steeper penalty than teams currently pay now.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/08/18/mlb-proposes-salary-floor-lower-luxury-tax-mlbpa

 

This is only a proposal, and it almost certainly won't make it through as initially described, but anything along these lines seems really bad for the Cubs. It would give the Ricketts' another excuse not to go over $180 million.

Lower the LT to $180M? I know it’s the first round of negotiations but horsefeathers that. That’s laughable

I think we pretty clearly learned during the COVID return to play negotiations last year that anything the owners propose is going to be absurd and ridiculous. The players are either going to have to accept whatever stupid demand the owners make or probably go on strike.