Shogo

[Cubswin11]

We've been arguing these same things, multiple times in multiple threads on the board all offseason. Your mind clearly isn't going to be changed off of thinking Almora is actually somehow good and useful on the roster in 2020 and the depth is somehow actually fine. We clearly disagree here.

 

You literally spent 2-3 pages posting last week and posts in here saying Almora is actually a fine player and it’s fine if he’s part of the team next year and you’re implying the bench guys we have are fine. Don’t know how much else can be taken away from what you’ve said other than that. Derwood even called you out as the Almora defender or whatever the other day.

 

The latter part, sure I guess? But that’s literally information we’re hearing as a reason to why they may be moving him or why nothing is being done with adding guys yet. It’s dealing with relative facts and info we’ve heard. Any time a trade involving him comes up or us not making moves to date it’s because of the LT or the LT is playing a role in it. Unfortunately the LT is a part of discussing all this stuff if we want to talk about what’s going on in reality.

 

 

Appreciate you walking it back in one post since I know that's the best I'll get

You owned me there man, wow. Real difference in those words. Caught me clearly walking something back, saying a player is "fine" or "good" are two totally definitely different things.

 

 

I'm not not dealing with "relative facts" in the things I say and still would guess most people are tired of hearing that every mediocre or possible worse FA signing elsewhere or BN tweet is a clear sign that the Cubs' Plan A is to trade Bryant, probably Contreras and Quintana too. Unfortunately Almora and friends are on the roster and discussing the reality that they haven't always been useless trash (in fact, more often than not for many if we're locking in on reality) should be equally fair game as well. I don't see why it's OK that the Shogo thread became another Bryant and Contreras trade thread for a second there but a few posts about the CF depth without Shogo (or 2B without Hernandez/Sogard/whoever) is suddenly grounds for...this

I agree we are all tired of it, but everything that seems to be going on seems to point to those things being things that likely will happen and we're stuck with this LT horsefeathers. They've been useless trash more recently than not and for a decent amount of time with no indicators they can actually ever be good again.

[Outshined_One]

Welp, that's the end of this thread.