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  1. CubinNY
    The punishment was just. It isn't the NCAA where wins can be vacated.
  2. CubinNY
    Bret says the Cards and Rockies talking Arenado.
  3. CubinNY
    "Suffice it to say, things have taken a hard left turn off that course." I would say a hard right turn.
  4. CubinNY
    Other than Holt I’d take him back over any of these other names out there. Pretty much how I feel as far as 2B options go. Zo will sign with the Angels if he does.
  5. CubinNY
    Why is that the measuring bar? We are a big market team in a division of mid-size market teams and outspend all of them by quite a bit every year. Fans complain when the Yankees or the Dodgers outspend their competition, but we've been doing it for quite awhile. Guys like Steinbrenner took his profits and put it into the team on the field while Wrigley used the Cubs as a tax write off. In the last 4 years... What about the five years before that when they were intentionally sucking and filling Wrigley? They can go horsefeathers themselves. And also they should use their financial advantage like a cudgel, destroying the competition in their division because the competition gets extra picks and charity from the rest of the league that the Cubs don't get.
  6. CubinNY
    By....who? Who do you think is in charge here? The owners, in collusion. But I don’t think Ricketts has a lot of pull among them as fairly recent member of the club. The Ricketts family was one of the prime proponents of putting teeth into the luxury tax penalties. Being an MLB owner isn't the same thing as being in a fraternity.
  7. CubinNY
    I appreciate the rest of your response, cutting it here so this page doesn't go on forever. Looking forward to seeing your KB trade ideas, because like people have been saying, I've yet to see one that I think makes the team better and gives them a better chance to make the playoffs. He doesn't have to do that, only accuse everyone else of thinking they are smarter than Theo and also sucking each others dicks because we cannot think for ourselves.
  8. CubinNY
    “Group think” in a post is dead damn give away that a post is worthless. The Cubs don’t have to trade Bryant. There is no realistic scenario where trading him makes the Cubs better.
  9. CubinNY
    For me the comparison is more general: two depreciating assets at 3B with salaries preventing their respective orgs from getting better. Bryant's salary alone is projected to be just under 10% of the cap and could break that number next year. Cozart will cost $5+ million to roster than Bryant will in 2020, a big factor in what made him easier to move Would quit horsefeathering talking about a “cap” like it’s a thing. I haven’t put anyone on ignore in several years, but damn .
  10. CubinNY
    I hate this horsefeathering thread.
  11. CubinNY
    Look, I get you really don't want the Cubs to trade Bryant, but it's going to happen... Just make your peace with that fact now. The ruling on his service time issues will happen in early January and the trade will happen shortly after that (KB probably loses that fight). The parameters of the trade will have been established by then. I won't say whether it's smart or a good/bad move until I see the trade package we get back. It'll probably be the Braves or the Nats or maybe the Phillies (if they are willing to include Bohm in the package). Not that it matters now, but I wanted the Cubs to go after Rendon super hard this offseason. If no money issues then sign Rendon and move KB to RF and make the necessary trades to free up cash to do so. If money is really tight I would sign Rendon and trade KB and whatever players are needed to make it happen, but even that wasn't possible (which completely sucks). It's a bad, unneeded move regardless of what the Cubs get back.
  12. CubinNY
    Yes, please. The idea that a franchise almost literally swimming in its own cash would need to trade an extremely productive recent MVP to improve its team (to say nothing of the idea that improving its team would be virtually impossible under that scenario), rather than just going and signing a few players to do so, is horsefeathering bat horsefeathers crazy and anyone who subscribes to that idea out of hand is basically too stupid for any insult to be effective. I think that's pretty logical. Guess not. Carry on. He's not wrong. The Cubs are a big market team so, the only reason to trade the best player who is in his prime and still two years from free agency is... I don't really know the reason.
  13. CubinNY
    That guy is the most worthless news spreader who ever called himself a journalist.
  14. CubinNY
    Yeah, he was... What am I missing? He was traded, but it was because the Cubs wouldnt meet his contract demands with people at the time claiming that they wouldn't pay him what he wanted because he was black I was 7 and in pain. I apologize for not remembering a dark period in my young life.
  15. CubinNY
    How about the Cubs just don't horsefeathering trade their best player? I'm having flashbacks from when I was 7 and the Cubs traded Bill Madlock. I cried then, and I'll cry this time too*. *I know Madlock wasn't traded.
  16. CubinNY
    I'm betting Addison finds himself playing baseball in Japan for a few years, at least.
  17. CubinNY
    Respecting CBT threshold. horsefeathers them. The Ricketts are about the worst possible outcome we got in new owners. They are going to make 10s of millions of dollars in profits on their TV network and Wrigleyville while "respecting the CBT threshold".
  18. CubinNY
    oh PTR definitely sucks ass. I love that the owners are able to create an artificial spending ceiling, but that's capitalism. PTR and the baseball geniuses are about two years away from making the Cubs intentionally bad again and lowering the payroll. Perhaps sooner if they deal Bryant. If I'm Rizzo or any of the "core" and they deal Bryant to clear payroll and get a prospect(s), I'm not signing a contract with them.
  19. CubinNY
    The thread title is weak.
  20. CubinNY
    Nah, they're incredibly overrated. On average, fans especially but even teams fall victim to optimism bias when projecting out young players. Athletes fall apart at a way higher rate than we are comfortable baking into our projections. Having them under non-guaranteed team control >>>> owing them guaranteed deals. It depends on your grading criteria. If you're talking about how many of these deals work out for teams versus how many work out for players, I believe it's pretty close to 50/50. If you're looking at raw dollars though, teams come out WAY ahead. One Chris Sale or Evan Longoria deal is probably equivalent to four or five deals going the other way. The venture capitalist approach.
  21. CubinNY
    Reminds me of the Billy Beane/Lenny Dykstra conversation reported in Moneyball.
  22. CubinNY
    with ballsy moves like these, the Cubs are poised to reclaim their spot atop the NL Central. It's a minor league deal where it's implied that Morrow wants to pay the Cubs back for all the time and money they've invested in him. If that's the case, there is literally no downside to this, nor does it get in the way of any other move. Not suggesting otherwise, just making a joke.
  23. CubinNY
    with ballsy moves like these, the Cubs are poised to reclaim their spot atop the NL Central.
  24. CubinNY
    I sort of checked out of a lot of Cubs related stuff, but it doesn't seem to me that they are poised to recapture dominance. It seems more like they are trying to hang on to relevance.
  25. CubinNY
    There are no Marlin fans and their never well be, baseball is a failure in South Florida.
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