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Good win. Wilson is the man.

They are so bad at the small things.

I will say that Boog and Suttcliffe have better rapport than Boog and JD. I get a feeling JD doesn’t care for him.

Givens giving taters out.

Hosmer always looks like someone told him a mildly funny joke just before he stepped into the box. And he just hit HR.

Effross pitched masterfully in that inning. He should bring back a good teenager in a trade.

Catchers interference brings in a run.

Cubs making dumb decisions on defense.

I'm sorry, I can't help myself. Suttcliffe going full Santo-Brant Brown on Vargas.

He looks like he’s 15-20 pounds overweight. He was never a super in shape dude but he looks bigger than normal. Yes, I don't remember him being this girthy before. I assumed it was due to extra clothing in the cold weather, but not in the Whale's Vagina.

Suttcliffe calls a HR for Villar and he strikes out on three ptiches.

Heyward with a single. Cubs up 5-2. All with 2 outs.

And Frankie laces a ball off the wall. Nice follow of the breaking ball.

Where is JD? On vacation I assume.

Frank batting a cool .189

Suttcliffe asking Boog inane questions that people who don't watch baseball ask.

Suttcliffe is so awful I wish I had a selective mute button.

The smart baseball move is to trade Wilson, but he's been by far my favorite Cubs for a while. He just had a great AB. I'm really going to miss him.

Any word on Howard? I was looking forward to seeing him play on Friday.

I would never watch another game. Check out the comments. Have people lost the [expletive] mind?

Why is he flying to San Deigo? I thought he was sent down.

There were clear opportunities to upgrade in free agency. I honestly have no clue why the went after Suzuki and Stroman if they are choosing to surround them with replacements. The Cubs have 2 starting pitchers and Happ, Nico, Wilson and Suzuki. They are great at building a pen, but at some point their luck is going leave. They are intent on letting Wilson leave and the consensus seems to be to trade Happ. They have no stars to trade and teams seem to be coveting prospect. As you noted, the FA market isn’t great. The team is on the road to at least three more years of awful on top of last year and this year. Who else is to blame if not the Ricketts? The Cubs last rebuild felt like it took forever but it only took 3 years after Theo took over to build a contender. If you consider this year 1 - equivalent to 2012, lets look at what the Cubs had in assets by this point in the rebuild: -On the major league team they had 1 cornerstone piece in Anthony Rizzo and a 2015 bullpen arm in Travis Wood. -In the minors, only 2 of their top 40 prospects actually contributed to the 2015-2016 Cubs - Javy and Matt Szczur -They had the pieces that would eventually be traded for Arrieta, Strop, Fowler, 1/2 of Addison Russell, Hendricks, Carl Edwards, Grimm and Neil Ramirez (probably missing some) -Farm system was ranked around 15-20 in baseball Curious to see how we compare with what we have right now. Obviously a bit hard to say because we don't know how guys like Davis will ultimately look in the majors and we have no idea what we can get for a lot of the veterans on the staff but it seems like we're in a similar position, maybe slightly better now. Definitely seems like another 2-3 years to get to the point of contention on the surface. As much as I hate it, they need to trade Wilson rather than letting him hit FA. He's about the only "tradable" asset that will bring in good value that is not more than three years away from MLB. Maybe Happ, but he's a really nice complimentary player and not someone who will command a good prospect or two. Short of that would they consider trading Hendricks and what would he bring back?

I'm on board with that. He seems to be at least complicit in all this. Then again, whoever they hire will be the same type as them.

Tickets for decent seats for last night's game were selling for $6 on the secondary market.