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  1. CubinNY
    Cubs D a little shaky to start the season especially in the IF.
  2. CubinNY
    Nice!
  3. CubinNY
    Sweep these pussies
  4. CubinNY
    2-0 feels pretty good!
  5. CubinNY
    They should retaliate by hitting the Brewers' best hitter. Based on the first two games here, it looks like that is still Ryan Braun. Post of the year, thus far.
  6. CubinNY
    Take those walls!
  7. CubinNY
    Davis hit a HR today, he’s ready. Time to retire Heyward. Or let him caddy for Davis to “show him the ropesTM”.
  8. CubinNY
    Enough about the past. Will Jed force Ross to stop playing Heyward at some point in the season, discuss.
  9. CubinNY
    A lot
  10. CubinNY
    I sort of agree with you, but the offers were considered to be below fair market value at the time. But in a free market, the value is what you can get. I think Rizzo is upset because he signed a below-market value extension while they were blowing smoke up his ass about being the face of the franchise and other ego-boosting nonsense and when it came time to pay him all the sudden it was a cold numbers game. I'm a labor guy, so in my mind, they kind of treated him pretty horsefeathers, if you can call multi-millions of dollars that. I get it, but when he signed that $73M extension (about $30M was club options, to be clear), he was far from a certainty to be worth anything close to that. He was pretty bad in 2013. I also don't think the offers were below fair market value. I wouldn't have wanted the Cubs to sign him to the deal they offered him. Anyway, he's a selfish anti-vax idiot so whatever Yeah, that's revisionist nonsense
  11. CubinNY
    Yeah Rizzo isn't wrong writ large, but he literally was offered more money by the Cubs than any of the 29 other franchises even came close to offering, so it's weird that he specifically is being such a jilted lover about this. Like if it was Schwarber, who actually did get better offers when he was cut loose, it might make sense. He's also only considering loyalty going one way. The Cubs seem to have made very fair offers to all their stars. They chose to pursue a bigger paycheck. Nothing against them - this is their one chance to get that fat paycheck. Just don't complain about loyalty afterwards. I sort of agree with you, but the offers were considered to be below fair market value at the time. But in a free market, the value is what you can get. I think Rizzo is upset because he signed a below-market value extension while they were blowing smoke up his ass about being the face of the franchise and other ego-boosting nonsense and when it came time to pay him all the sudden it was a cold numbers game. I'm a labor guy, so in my mind, they kind of treated him pretty shittily, if you can call multi-millions of dollars that.
  12. CubinNY
    Way to get out of the blocks!
  13. CubinNY
    All he needs is a perm and a pornshache and he could be Juan Pierre.
  14. CubinNY
    His mechanics have always been bad.
  15. CubinNY
    I like the Cubs approach so far.
  16. CubinNY
    Walk is good too.
  17. CubinNY
    A bad lounge singer. I'm picturing Bill Murry on SNL.
  18. CubinNY
    I was looking at the lineups and that Brewers team is going to have to rely on pitching to win. This division is so winnable if they really wanted to field a competitive team.
  19. CubinNY
    Yeah, Heyward is probably going to get the Neifi treatment this year, but a matchup like Burnes is really hard to parse out who the right choice is. I'd have gone with Frazier though knowing what we know I do wonder if their internal defensive modeling thinks much higher of Heyward than public metrics. Public metrics and the eye test think Ortega and Happ are below average in CF, so I can see a path to thinking Heyward is a 10 run improvement defensively that mitigates a fair amount of the offensive gap. Maybe Hermosillo is someone who maybe challenges in that regard, but he's not exactly a sure thing with the bat against RHP either. A cost/benefit analysis would suggest that the marginal improvement in offense wouldn't mitigate the loss in defense. I can sort of buy that, but 10 runs seem like a lot to me.
  20. CubinNY
    This is the first year since it's been offered that I'm not buying MLBtv or the DirecTV package. I may buy it at some point in the season but I'm not buying it to start the season. I don't care enough about this team right now.
  21. CubinNY
    https://www.audacy.com/670thescore/sports/chicago-cubs/jon-heyman-cubs-dont-spend-enough-considering-their-revenue
  22. CubinNY
    The guy reporting this is saying, without saying, that Boras didn't tell Correa about the offer. A lot of players don't want to be told how the sausage gets made, and basically just want to know when it's time to choose between best and finals. If Boras thought 7/220 or whatever was a bad offer, it's not weird that it never made it to Correa. I had a few agents represent me before for various things and in all of the contacts I've signed, it is very explicitly spelled out in the contract that they have a duty to provide informed consent. I cannot imagine sports is any different. However, Boars very likely, and probably did tell Correa all the offers and let him decide, with Boras's input. Whether the Cubs actually made that offer or decided to retract that offer, we will probably never know.
  23. CubinNY
    The guy reporting this is saying, without saying, that Boras didn't tell Correa about the offer.
  24. CubinNY
    I'm calling [expletive] here. Yesterday the Ricketts were called out by a national media guy for fielding an inferior team on the cheap. This is a bogus story fed to friendly media by an ownership group who are about to field a 70 win team on $140M payroll with the 3rd highest ticket prices in baseball. If Boars didn't give Correa this information he would be subject to disbarment and civil litigation.
  25. CubinNY
    Davis 0-3, 3Ks
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