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  1. CubinNY
    Had to have been drunk. I'd bet the farm.
  2. CubinNY
    Best non pitcher drafted
  3. CubinNY
    The more I think about after reading as much as I could about the guys they drafted, the more I like this draft, even if doesn’t produce depth. Especially the hitters. Their history is taking safer college bats with hit tool led skills. This year they went gas on power. The floor is there for this team, they need some high ceiling. But the risk is there and I’m ok with that. its similar with pitchers but in a different direction. They went spin and velocity. I’m not sure I love the Townsend pick, but it was solid for where they picked. On paper, they get a big A+ for effort and a sold B overall.
  4. CubinNY
    Nice for Ayers. It would really be something if he turned out to be a 1st division catcher for a few years.
  5. CubinNY
    I don't know anything about Soccer, but the "travel" league stuff is rampant in all sports outside of football. I have friends who have paid tens of thousands of dollars over the years in fees, hotel rooms, equipment, etc., so their kid could be one of the cool kids on a travel team. In some cases, as a bench warmer and in others as a regular contributor, whether it be baseball, soccer, volleyball, or whatever. Exactly 1 played D1 soccer and then decided she didn't want to play after a year. I think a few others played JUCO or small school sports in college. I guess the point is that everything is a product now. It's a shame b/c I had so much fun playing summer ball, and at the end of the season, we had "all-star" tournaments that cost nothing extra. It's kind of interesting that it appears to be hurting us on the world stage.
  6. CubinNY
    Yes. they will not want to share anything that isn't specifically related to a game or NIL merch. They will want to exclude local broadcasting fees and all the stuff that really makes them money, b/c these are negotiated by market. They (the owners) are such a representative of whatever stage of capitalism we are in. They'd rather kill the sport than share one dime they don't think the players are owed.
  7. CubinNY
    What's the point of this? All the owners can get together and decide to share the wealth if they want to do that. They don't need the player's permission.
  8. CubinNY
    You almost get it. Money is not the solution to the Angles and bunch of other team’s problems. So why make the argument in the first place? A cap and floor is only good for the players and for baseball if there is a fair and unbiased accounting of revenue. Does anyone think the owners are going to open the books for an independent audit? owners like the Ricketts use the baseball team to market non baseball revenue like concert and hotels and and a bunch of other stuff. How does that get accounted for. The cap is a pretext wedge the owners are using to suppress wages and steal money from the players. Others have pointed out if they wanted to do pure revenue sharing they can do that today without the players. In the age of Trump the extremely wealthy have no shame and their cravenness is naked.
  9. CubinNY
    Is it me or are the Cubs having a really good year on the farm?
  10. CubinNY
    There seems to be a confluence of variables that make this draft really interesting, not necessarily immediately but in the next few years. The Cubs had a bottom end 1st round slot, the looming CBA stuff, and bunched up talent made it very difficult. There will always be winners and losers in any draft year. Hopefully they put their chips down on the right numbers at the roulette table.
  11. CubinNY
    Can we talk about the overall Cubs draft?
  12. CubinNY
    Good pick ?
  13. CubinNY
    Just to add, the payroll disparity and competitiveness issues are only tangentially related. There will always be an LA Clippers or Cleveland Browns in baseball, and likely more than one. A cap and floor only means that teams can't spend over a certain limit and must spend a minimum. It does not mean all of a sudden that the Rockies are going to have a shot b/c the Dodgers can't spend.
  14. CubinNY
    They think (and are probably correct) that the fans are on "their" side because they are positioning it as "good for the game" while moving the union to the position of "this is not good for the players". Most fans don't care about the players or the owners, only to the extent that they want their team to be competitive. Every time someone bitches about the Dodgers in the media, they are doing the owners' bidding. The Dodgers aren't the problem. The players are in a tough position PR wise, but I hope they stick to their mission even if it means no baseball in 2027.
  15. CubinNY
    I would live in Toronto during the summer if I could.
  16. CubinNY
    Their pen is so horsefeathers bad.
  17. CubinNY
    I heard he was on life support and brain dead. oh, what's that? Wrong Mitch. Nevermind.
  18. CubinNY
    I know nothing, but that first sentence scares the horsefeathers out of me. On the other hand it seems it could be written about any pitcher these days.
  19. CubinNY
    A distinction without a difference.
  20. CubinNY
    The Assad haters.
  21. CubinNY
    All you Assad haters can suck it!
  22. CubinNY
    It was a much different environment but teams like the Rockies (07) and Marlins (03), weren't great teams, but they were playing the best sustained baseball going into the playoffs. Obviously the Rockies lost and the Marlins won, the point is this Cubs team is capable of winning 11 to 13 games against any teams who make the playoffs; it's not that likely, though.
  23. CubinNY
    anything is possible in a short series.
  24. CubinNY
    They have painted themselves into a box b/c they have a formula that appears to produce good, not great teams by drafting and signing (in free agency) good, not great players who fit their formula. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the process, but it relies on positive outomes that are possible but slightly improbable. On the plus side, they have Josiah Hartshorn who looks like a true find and if he continues on his path is a game changer. They have some real potential in some of their starters so we will see. They have a set lineup for the next few years with room for catcher, RF, LF, and 1st base (potentially). They do not have much pitching certainty (who does?). So their top prospects or at least tradable for SP have no place to play. It puts them in a potenitally tough bargining postion. Jed and his team will need to be very creative to improve this team to move the margins from good to great. They should get into the playoffs. If that is the goal every year then their formula is working. I think we'd all like the bar set higher, but the ROI for guys like Jed and Tom isn't there. It will be interesting to see what they do this year, if anything.
  25. CubinNY
    One pitch Kip
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