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My extremely uninformed opinion is that Bryce returns to the Nats and Machado goes to the South Side. He'll fit right in with their fan base.
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On 2.4.19 with the team they have seemingly assembled are you excited about this year?
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Isn't the definition of a mystery team, that it's a team no one knows about? Once the team is exposed, it's no longer a mystery
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I don't think they care about fans expectations for signing. I think they want to get the most money they can, so they will wait until then. Setting arbitrary deadlines is good for the owners, not the players.
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it's so irrational, but until he signs I think the Cubs have a great chance.
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I bet she’s a Mets fan. Blech! She from the Bronx.
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No, but the NFL team that drafts him will forever be mocked for taking a 5'10" QB And Kyler Murray will likely be more wealthy than if he stuck with baseball.
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This Harper nonsense is giving me Carlos Beltran flashbacks.
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Last year is just that. The rotation isn’t terrible, but it’s not great and getting older real quick.
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WTF is PTR/Theo going to do at the deadline if the Cubs are sitting in 3rd place, 1 game out of the WC and 4 out of the central and he needs a TOR starter?
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4th? They’re still the best team, the margin has been cut down but they’re still the best and if things go remotely close to plan they aren’t finishing horsefeathering third or lower. Why so serious?
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Doubtful 4th?
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“We like our team” sounds a lot like a Hendry offseason.
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The Cubs are going to finish in 3rd place, aren’t they?
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Petition to delete this thread and pretend Bryce Harper is a nasty social disease.
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That's amazing quality. Interesting that Ruth and Gehrig shared a bat. BP bat. Lou had Mark Prior calves.
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horsefeathering Ricketts.
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I just read it. It’s a [expletive] article. It makes no account for context. As IMB wrote a few pages back, baseball isn’t a business, it’s a closed economy that’s allowed to make its own operating rules. If every owner was a Jeff Loria or the Rays shitty owner group the club would cease to exist. Also, there are far more lucrative investments these people could make. But the main return is the value of team.
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They had me until the last paragraph.
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I want to talk about these shitty owners some more.
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It’s another form of collusion. The owners have decided to limit themselves and act as one with regard to total salary. George Steinbrenner is long dead. It’s about maximizing profit. I don’t think they care about individual huge contracts, but they do care about the total amount of payroll for each team. The Ricketts are on board if not the leader of the group. Baseball isn’t a business, it’s exempt from antitrust laws. It’s a club that makes obscene amounts of money for those in the club.
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I dunno, there might be plenty of fans expressing congratulations to the Ricketts for their swelling bank accounts, based on the ready defense of billionaires I've seen across Cubs interwebs. I don’t get why people take sides with the owners.
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Cubs need to clear space before they can sign a cheap middle reliever. Or How I learned to rub Fentanyl directly on my forehead.
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Sources: Boras.
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Yeah, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Most high school kids get chewed up by the system, and 10 years later have nothing to show for it. Granted, this gives the NCAA more power, which is never a good thing, but kids going from high school to the minor leagues usually doesn’t end well for the kids. Neither does going to college though lol. Most of the higher ranked HS kids that wind up in college, wind up getting less money than they would have, if they'd have turned early. There's no easy solution. But, in all honesty, I don't see amateur players being a big part of the next CBA. After looking at Bertz' idea..... Its just tweaking some things. An extra year of arb, a bit more minimum salary...... Personally, I think the players need more than this, but its not a horrible compromise. In the end, a lot just depends on what EXACTLY the players are wanting. Right, the player's union has no interest in doing anything about people who are not part of the union. The minor league players need to unionize.