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Hopefully Happ is gone That is my thinking, too. Hopefully they can package him with a prospect and come back with a decent pitcher who can strike people out.

And bring back Riz.

Now go get Carlos.

I don't really know what that means. Saban coached there, no? He's a proven commodity and as smarmy as any big-time coach. He'll fit right in because he will win. If he can't beat Alabama or to a lessor extent, Georgia, that's what will matter.

A lot of horsefeathering money for multiple years for his skillset. I mean, there is no subtext to this signing. He got a really, really good deal. The end.

7 different versions of crap isn't the diversity I was looking for. 31 flavors of suck. They are going to have a hard time scoring runs but only more consistently than before.

So far Cubs have signed complimentary players who could help a team trying to contend. Hopefully, they either make trades or sign a few players who are main guys. I'm hopeful but not optimistic.

Sour grapes? This is basically exactly how he left Cincinnati. They still hate him for it, justified or not. That's all I was pointing out. It's too bad he is leaving, he did a great job at ND. But onward and (hopefully) upward. I mostly agree. 'There is a right way and a wrong way to do this sort of thing. Kelly choose the wrong way. I'm guessing the story got leaked from the LSU side and he might not have had much choice.

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There's no way in hell Turner and Judge don't get extended after how quiet the Yankees and Dodgers were this past weekend. If DeGrom opts out do we really think Cohen won't move heaven and earth to retain him? Nearly everyone else fun is tied to a team option, meaning they only make it to FA if they suck this year. We're likely left with Bogaerts, re-signing Willson, and a solid crop of mid rotation starters. Which is why, I'm leaning towards that they don't have any plans to be competitive in 2023 either. The plan is to maximize income uber alles. My highly uninformed opinion is that the Ricketts Kids are way overextended in the side real estate business ventures designed to suck money away from Cub fans and it's impinging on their ability to field a competitive baseball team. Edit: not to mention their network revenues not meeting expectations.

Sour grapes?

The lack of hearing about the Cubs in rumors (I know Stroman and a couple others we were mentioned amount 6-7 teams but for the most part its been quiet) means either they are likely not spending until after the lockout or all the stuff Jed and PTR said about a retool is BS. If its the latter why lie about it..to keep ST renewals high? I'm probably overreacting. The Cubs were probably not going to get a top FA and they hinted at that multiple times. The 1-3 year contract guys are mostly still out there, so perhaps the plan is still in place. It's just so horsefeathering quiet. It's so frustrating for me because there's a ton of middle ground between what the Rangers are doing (which is a lot of fun, but probably stupid) and pretending like 3+ year contracts are illegal. Like if the Cubs sign Trevor Story for $25M per year they'd have basically the same amount of money committed to 2024-2025 as the Brewers. Hardly backbreaking, even if he busts as bad as Heyward. Now there's plenty left in FA that we could still have the offseason I want, but to your point the silence is deafening. It does not seem like there's much fun waiting for us on the other side of the lockout, just nothing but a handful of Freddy Galvis and Kyle Seager types. Hopefully Jed just runs a really tight ship and we're all flipping out over nothing. I'd take Story on that deal. Just wait until they have their own TV network and own all the buildings on Sheffield and Waveland, then they will spend.

Didn't everyone already know this was going to be a crazy good offseason in terms of talent? Here are the Cubs with a ton of cash, no stars, and they sit on their hands because the timing isn't right or the price isn't right. I guess they can still bid on the dude from Japan.

Self-ownage at the highest level.

I have a feeling this could be similar to the 2014 rankings where TCU dropped from 3rd to 6th despite winning their last game soundly. The committee was reluctant to put Cincinnati anywhere near the top initially until teams started losing. During that time Cincinnati hasn’t played any legit good teams and has looked shaky in a few of them. I bet they are itching to move them out if they have an excuse too. A 1 loss Oklahoma State team coming off back to back wins over top 10-15 teams would give it a strong reason to leapfrog Ok St over Cincinnati even if both teams win and even if Cincinnati beats a fringe top 25 team in Houston. I guess we’ll see Cincinnati does not belong no matter what they do, neither does ND.

i totally expect them to shock everybody with a pathetic payroll this year and blame it on the weirdness of the offseason And they’re going to trade Willy for a trio of 19 year olds at the end February because they couldn’t go the extra year or couple of million. And people will be like it was the right call because the market was crazy!

No way this Alabama team should stand a chance against Georgia.

I feel so bad for Auburn

I love college football overtime.

OMG!

Worst I’ve seen Alabama look in a long time.

Please do not read any of my previous posts regarding OSU V. Michigan

I think that’s not what happened. Occam’s razor: the Bears are inept and the reporter got bad information from a high placed source.

That interception changed the complexion of the game. Michigan simply could not afford to make one mistake.

Just as I was typing “Michigan is looking good to start the game”, they throw an interception.