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  1. CubinNY
    I'm not reading, but are they just as deranged or did he finally get some help?
  2. CubinNY
    Give them Shaw. He'll fit right in in South Boston. It's too bad they already traded Teal to the WS. Get Tolle or Early.
  3. CubinNY
    Vitters was a bad draft decision. His numbers in high school were good, not great, and then he got Mono his senior year and didn't even play. I'm not saying he shouldn't have been drafted, but maybe not in the 1st round. But we all have guys we dream on. Tyler Colvin was another guy who I thought was going to be an everyday player, and he never made it.
  4. CubinNY
    I get what you are saying, but Prior sort of doesn't count for this one. Dusty killed him, and then that 2nd baseman made sure he stayed dead. I was at the game where he got hit in the elbow. You could hear the smack from the bleachers.
  5. CubinNY
    We are sort of in a bit of a lull until Spring Training starts, and arguing gets tiresome, so let's all share the hopes that were dashed over the years for Cubs prospects. I'm going to give my top 3. You don't have to limit it to prospects who got a cup of coffee in MLB. #1- Matt Murton- He came with Nomar in the great Hendry trade that didn't work (but one of the best NSBB threads ever). I still believe he never got a full shot with the Cubs. He was a line-drive hitter with good patience and little power, who could only play LF. Anyway, he went on to have a great career in Japan. #2- Chris Morel - What a wonderful story, and apparently a great kid. He couldn't play defense and couldn't hit enough to stick as a DH. Now he's in Japan. #3- Arismendy Alcántara - I was hoping for this kid hard. He had all the physical tools, but couldn't put them together. I'm sure there are others, but those three really stand out to me.
  6. CubinNY
    SP are creatures of habit; all a staff would need to do is develop a different habit. If I were a starter, I'd love a 6-man rotation, but a lot of these guys are brain dead neanderthals who want to be tough or whatever machoism you want to use. The hardest part would be the sales pitch. For a team with aspirations of a World Series, it makes so much sense to limit regular-season innings. If they can do it without sacrificing quality, it's something they might want to try.
  7. CubinNY
    When everyone can pay the players, the field gets level. No more used car dealership owners handing out wads of cash.
  8. CubinNY
    Any chance they trade up?
  9. CubinNY
    I love a good conspiracy theory, if it benefits the Cubs, that's great too. I would assume that teams looking would do "due diligence".
  10. CubinNY
    WMU, last year's national hockey champion, is ranked 3rd now and has won 7 straight games against ranked opponents. This is unprecedented for a regional university. They have a great coach. I'm wondering if college coaches hop into the pro ranks, because Pat Ferschweiler, should be a name to watch if so. However, he's an alumnus of WMU and may just love Kalamazoo.
  11. CubinNY
    Given the staff's injury risk, it's never a bad idea to have too many cooks.
  12. CubinNY
    I couldn’t tell, did Trump get booed or cheered?
  13. CubinNY
    Great season, only better things to come from this coach and team. Push Poles out of the room and let coach cook.
  14. CubinNY
    Gallen would be huge. I think he's a bounce-back guy. I mean, look what they did with Boyd.
  15. CubinNY
    No context arguments are the best arguments. Look, all I said was that piece of Halibut was good enough for Jehovah.
  16. CubinNY
    WTF are you talking about?
  17. CubinNY
    If he was a carpenter he never would’ve been asked. They are grifters and Star horsefeathers. In their world a rookie baseball player is a star. Anything they can do to get attention is what they will do. His willingness to go along with it makes him complicit and you can go horsefeathers yourself too.
  18. CubinNY
    Got to stop the dumb penalties
  19. CubinNY
    It seems like more and more inflation at the trade deadline means the Cubs should not be holding back large sums of cash. If the opportunity presents itself just find a way to get something done.
  20. CubinNY
    That is a horsefeathers joke.
  21. CubinNY
    It’s a false equivalence. There is no one like Kirk on the left that people follow because that’s just not something that happens. They are in a cult of the stupid, racist, and misogynistic pretending to be Christians. So your example doesn’t hold water.
  22. CubinNY
    I think just the opposite is true.
  23. CubinNY
    If we say they’ve treaded water and they get a 50th percentile outcome they should be in the 90 win range. If they’ve gotten better they should be 90+. Not everyone needs to have a career year. They’re a good team, how much better or worse is anyone’s guess.
  24. CubinNY
    It’s all a value judgement based on relative relationship to one’s own perspective. But, we all need to do some reflecting on our values. The fact that he left the team to go to a political rally sanctifying a man who made a living by literally being a walking ass hole is a problem for me. Kirk said many things that any fair person would call inflammatory to say the least. He took pleasure in cruelty and called it Christian values. From my perspective, that is a character flaw well within in the range of jackass. Or at least reveals an unexamined life. if he gets hits and plays well I’ll be happy in the same way I was about Chapman on the Cubs.
  25. CubinNY
    Lots of sour grapes. Anyone think the Ricketts would behave this way if the role was reversed? A cap isn’t going to benefit competition, it’s only going to benefit the owners.
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