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Brown getting knocked around pretty well in his 2nd inning. Can't keep the ball down
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When I travel to NY on the show, I always play one game at the Polo Grounds. Can you imagine a park like that right in Manhattan?
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Prepare for your heart to be broken. That's about 1/6 of the total payroll the Ricketts plans to pay year over year. Tommy Boy said multiple times he doesn't want to pay for past performance, so here we are.
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I though he was a switch hitter.
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that's a good guess.
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The player has the patch on from the Wrigley anniversary so that is a giveaway. I'm going to say the dearly departed Luis Valbuena.
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I read a blurb that said Nico is just now starting to throw. If Shaw isn’t ready either due to injury it’s going to be a real struggle at the onset of the season.
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I like how they talk about all these ****** pitchers the Cubs brought in for ST to get work as “depth”.
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True story- Darvish’s neighbor sued him for putting up a wood fence instead of an iron fence at his house in Evanston.
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Big Mo looks like gained 15 pounds in 3days. The pin stripes aren’t his thing.
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Alcantara has a nice balanced swing
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He seems smug, and I feel for him, sort of. However, he can't spend his way out of this, even though that would make the team better in the near and midterm. Given the boundaries, it's his job to put the pieces together, and he hasn't done it well. He's not awful, but he's not good. When he leaves, we will see him in a different light—I think that depends on who they find to replace him. Andrew Freedman can run a small organization as well as a large one, and I don't think Carter Hawkins is all that much, either.
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I remember when ESPN started and they had demolition derby and bunch of other stuff. Now they have cornhole tournaments. Life is a flat circle in the declining stages of capitalism.
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Corey Patterson?
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Jed got a foot out the door already
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Kim looks like a high schooler.
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little bit o batting practice for both teams.
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Yamamoto vs Poteet Game one. Big MO does look like he slimmed down. Yamamoto is nasty right off the bat.
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Agree.
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It's not an either/or situation. The owner calculates how much profit they want to take. They are all profitable. But it's a club more than a sport. The club makes the rules and pressures its members to follow them. In the case of the Ricketts, Wrigley is used to finance a lucrative empire with Wrigley Field as its centerpiece. The real product is Wrigley, and it's about as bankable as any product in sports. The Ricketts 'break even" comment rubbish, is an aspirational assertion that they see in the future.
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Cubs are on MLB.tv today at 2 pm Central. I can't help but be fired up.
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I'm following this thread from afar. I'm not the biggest hockey fan. Why is it taking so long for the Hawks to even become respectable on the way to being good? Like shouldn't they marginally improve year over year?
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2025 MLB Draft Thread
CubinNY replied to Outshined_One's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Holliday at 9. I thought he was supposed to be better than his brother -
That's a generous interpretation, but it certainly is plausible. Perhaps the most credible is that Ricketts gave Jed parameters that he believed would likely not work for Bregman. Given Jed's recent comments of 1) going out of his way to damn with faint praise the Ricketts family for allowing him to pursue Bregman and 2) his measured choice of words explaining to the media- I think you/Bertz may be on to something about Jed's leash and also his frustration.
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They wanted Bergman for two years. They were willing to bet they could offload him if they needed to as they did Bellinger. That's my take.
