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  1. CubinNY
    The point is that they can't get a fair value in a trade for Nico because the things he does well are more valuable to the Cubs than they will be for most other teams. What kind of a return are they going to get for a singles hitter who plays Gold Glove 2nd base? Maybe if some team sees him as an SS. It would be hard to line up a trade. The 3rd base stuff is extrinsic to trading Nico. They don't need to trade him.
  2. CubinNY
    assuming a lot.
  3. CubinNY
    Imagine the smell of the air for the Gary Bears. It might be an environmental hazard to play there.
  4. CubinNY
    Nico is worth more to the Cubs than he will fetch in a trade. Jed's built this team on pitching and defense.
  5. CubinNY
    Because he was.
  6. CubinNY
    The Cubs and the Yankees are the same team to an extent. The owners have the same outlook, so I'd say the Cubs have a 50/50 chance if it's just the two teams left standing. However, I'd bet that Cashman is much more likely than Hoyer to talk his owner into something uncomfortable.
  7. CubinNY
    They are waiting for the Imari. If he doesn't sign they will go after King or make a trade for a pticher.
  8. CubinNY
    I'd say somewhere in the middle, just like him.
  9. CubinNY
    Don't be obtuse. And it remains to be seen what kind of a pitcher Horton is or even if he can pitch a full season, seeing as how he's never done,... since high school.
  10. CubinNY
    Every year it's the same thing. The media ties them to a top teir free agent and then they end up signing whoever will sign for X dollars for X years. That's how they got Swanson. Going into that year's offseason, Dansby was the fourth SS by a large margin. He would have been hitting 8th or 9th in the batting order in Atlanta. They paid a price for Tucker and then teased at an extension, knowing full well it wouldn't happen unless a lot of other things happened first. And every year we have the same conversations that go something like this: "I'm glad the Cubs didn't sign him to that contract." "He must have wanted to go to team X, because the Cubs offer was similar." "This guy they just signed kind of sucks, but it at least they didn't overpay." "I wouldn't sign player X to that fourth year either." God forbid they pay one penny more or one year more than "good value".
  11. CubinNY
    They share the same philosophical underpinnings for operating an MLB team. Tom has said multiple times he doesn't want to pay for past performance, and the best way to build a sustainable winner is to build from within. Jed is his sock puppet. The only problem is that they are both mediocre white guys who produce mediocre outcomes. Look at the guys he drafts in the top rounds- they are all a different version of Ian Happ.,
  12. CubinNY
    The rickets are pocketing tens of millions of dollars every single year maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars we don’t know
  13. CubinNY
    They are only competitive because they’re in a division with a bunch of small market teams who are getting advantages that they don’t get. And they refuse to use the one advantage that they have. It’s like the Ricketts have morphed into the Wrigley family and have their lackey Jed to make sure that they appear competitive so they can get the blue hairs to come into Wrigley and spend their money.
  14. CubinNY
    So much horsefeathers. Every horsefeathers team makes a lot of moves every year.
  15. CubinNY
    He never gets his horsefeathers man he settles for whoever will take the least amount of money
  16. CubinNY
    I mean, did they not go after Otani and a bunch of other people that they wouldn’t pony up the money for I mean, I don’t know why I have a visceral reaction to that post but I do it’s just so horsefeathers incredibly naïve and stupid and a historical
  17. CubinNY
    Jesus Christ. This is awful. I mean it stinks like horsefeathers after a hard night of drinking warm Busch Ice. Jed has not been successful by any metric you want to throw out there. It's always changing. to fit whatever narrative you want. Now it's all-star games? Give me a horsefeathers break. They shoot for 90; they've made it once during his tenure. He's awful, the Ricketts are awful, and no matter how much lipstick you want to put on it, it's an ugly ass, I don't know, think of the ugliest animal you can think of—my God.
  18. CubinNY
    What's to talk about? What does renewed interest mean? They had a zoom with him in November or something. I would imagine this is some plant story to in an attempt to 1) Get Boston to give him more years and 2) get Cub fans excited. Unless his market evaporates, he's not going to be signing with the Cubs on a short-term deal. THE END
  19. CubinNY
    Sold them and the Tribune to Sam Zell, who sold them to the Ricketts.
  20. CubinNY
    Do tell...
  21. CubinNY
    The Cubs sign FA to a contract that avoids the possibility of them being totally upside down. Speculation: Tom and the sibs have PTSD from Heyward. Although "they give Jed a budget every year and he makes the decisions.", I have to believe that Jed is making contracts in an avoidance mode.
  22. CubinNY
    This was fun for a while, but it’s off to ignore, both sad and inevitable.
  23. CubinNY
    Thank you!
  24. CubinNY
    This might just be a me issue, but when I try to sign into the site on my phone, it says my password isn't correct. I put in my email address and password that I use on my computer.
  25. CubinNY
    Tom got a new name. My IQ is approaching triple digits, I'll have you know.
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