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Gigantic Willy Style - The Willson Contreras Thread
CubinNY replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Spoiler that horsefeathers you goon. This is a family board. -
This was an easy call that Judge would stay in NY.
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See if you can use some OF capital and pry away Devers from Boston.
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Depends on how you define it, but guys with significant offensive improvement on past form would be Montero, Valbuena, Coghlan, and Wisdom in recent years. Further back you have Aramis, Lee, Barrett, and Todd Walker too. Have we come full circle? Do we want Jim Hendry back? No. Bellinger's swing hasn't been the same since his injury. I want the Cubs to do the things that a big market team is supposed to do. They have like $50M coming off the books next year if Stroman opts out. They have around $80M to spend this year. I want them to "spend wisely" and make good trades to get good players. Bellinger is fine for a stopgap for Davis or PCA. Taillon is fine as a solid middle-of-the-rotation pitcher for a decent price (big injury concerns). But neither pushes the team into contention.
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He's the best.
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Not really. It's a travesty that they are letting him go. It would be different if Amaya was raking in AAA. Clearly they have decided that he's not what they want at C. We know what his strengths/weaknesses are at this point and the league is trending toward catchers who are good at catcher things and it seems he is not. That's entirely reasonable. They should have gotten something for him, though. I'm not sure what the hell happened at the deadline, but it might just be that the Astros pulled out at the last second (which, well, should've had a backup plan, Jed). I don't think it's a coincidence that we had a few pitchers (very good ones, even!) who essentially refused to pitch to him, too. Maybe wait until next year's roster is put together before calling anything a travesty, tho, IDK. What the horsefeathers happened to you? Reboot time.
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You'll feel better when he loses any concept of the strike zone, swings out of his shoes, and strikes out every PA because of how badly he spazzes out wanting to do damage against them. Not really. It's a travesty that they are letting him go. It would be different if Amaya was raking in AAA.
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I am going to die a little inside each game I have to watch Willy play against the Cubs in a Cardinal uniform.
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https://theathletic.com/3977499/2022/12/07/cubs-cody-bellinger-defense-moves/?redirected=1 That my friends is a bad gamble. If it hasn't healed in 2 years...
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It’s a veneer move unless they make some bigger moves. They can trade him at the deadline if he’s good and they aren’t. Kind of like the last few years. Hopefully Davis is healthy and crushing AAA by the ASB.
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In MLB the Show17 it seemed like every computer-generated catcher was 6"4
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I'd be all for that, but I don't know how much value Madrigal has. He can't stay healthy, has no defensive value, and has no power. He's like a 1970s early 80s-era 2nd baseman.
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This has nothing to do with anything about Sanders and football for the most part. When he played for the Braves I was in college. I and a couple of friends got bleacher tickets for the game. Needless to say, we were giving him a hard time for most of the game. It was mostly in good fun. He was even jawing back and forth with us. In the 8th inning, one of my friends asked him to throw us a ball after warm-ups between innings. He ran towards the infield with the ball and from just behind 2nd base he threw the ball completely out of Wrigley and then said, go get it. He was/is a remarkable athlete. I think he's very smart and if he gets good players whatever coaching deficiencies he has can be masked to an extent.
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Does anyone want to buy a nice oceanside 1/2 acre lot in Kansas?
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I remember not so long ago how excited I use to get during this time thinking about who the Cubs would sign. I wouldn’t call what I am now excited. People talking about dumpster diving when they need a #1. They have all the money they need to go get whoever they want.
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Rumors out of Indy say the Colts are after Harbaugh. If he wins the NC, he stands to make a lot of money either at Michigan or the NFL.
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When they expand the playoffs they have to make it more objective somehow. Like the winners of the big 5 conferences + 2nd place for those conferences, +2 wildcards. I don't know how to determine the wildcards. They need to try and force ND into a conference. If they were in the ACC, they'd probably make it 7 out of 10 years. 2nd place being whoever loses the conf champ or the highest ranked left in each? Whoever loses the championship game.
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That's embarrassing, but in 2 years it's gonna be the coaches of 9-3 teams doing it so we might as well just get used to people doing this When they expand the playoffs they have to make it more objective somehow. Like the winners of the big 5 conferences + 2nd place for those conferences, +2 wildcards. I don't know how to determine the wildcards. They need to try and force ND into a conference. If they were in the ACC, they'd probably make it 7 out of 10 years.
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Swanson is a marginal upgrade and makes Madrigal redundant. That's a good thing, but the price seems high for the improvement. I'm not against it. I still think he signs back with Atlanta. I'm preparing for an eventuality where the Cubs don't sign any of the SS.
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Winner of Big 10 SEC ACC PAC 10 Big 12 Wildcard Team not from any of the above conferences (The ND rule) That should be the playoff. 12 is way too many teams. It's a money grab. Alternatively, make a league out of the teams that make up those conferences (plus ND) and have a six-team playoff at the end of the season. See one of the things I really love about expanded playoffs is that it guarantees that a G5 team gets into the playoffs. This does something that has never happened before in college football - every team conceivably has a chance to win a championship. Always bugged me that 75% of college football teams had 0 chance of winning a title entering every year. Sure we will almost certainly never see a Sun Belt team win a national championship, but they have a route now. In your proposal, this technically is true too but 90% of the time its going to be Notre Dame. I think I've said this before, but they should have multiple championships. There is little chance a team who wins the MAC or Sun Belt, or C-USA is going to play a competitive game against the 2nd place team in the SEC or any of the other major conferences. I don't know how it would be named Major Division National Championship Mid Division National Championship Minor Divison Nattional Championship So on.
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Winner of Big 10 SEC ACC PAC 10 Big 12 Wildcard Team not from any of the above conferences (The ND rule) That should be the playoff. 12 is way too many teams. It's a money grab. Alternatively, make a league out of the teams that make up those conferences (plus ND) and have a six-team playoff at the end of the season.
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Just got past a line the other day from Dracula in which the count refers to Harker’s employer as Harker’s master…Love it love it love it, please add gun slingin’ robot police to the mix weird horsefeathering horsefeathers.
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Looks like Turner to the Phils is heating up.
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Week 13: BEARS vs. Green Bay Packers @ 1 or something
CubinNY replied to raw's topic in Other Sports
Nah, let Love play and hopefully perform well enough to make GB think he's their guy, then hope he tanks next year. Pretty much everyone in GB already thought that after .5 quarters in a preseason game before the start of this season. -
All Chicago sports teams are a tire fire. It's a really bad time to be a fan.