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  1. CubinNY
    I'm not giving Jed any points for making the Cubs division favorites. Every other team except for the Reds are about the same or worse.
  2. CubinNY
    investments in their property is not altruism. the product is the Cubs, not the Thackery Hotel.
  3. CubinNY
    It has to be difficult to make a team each year to try to fit into a budgeted amount of money. But this is what Jed and Co are paid to do. They don't seem to be able to do that well year after year. It's time for him to go. As much as the Ricketts family are horrible pieces of horsefeathers, they only bear part of the blame. Jed traded Bellinger away to free up money to get... beaten by every other team in contract negotiations for player after player. Their biggest target is a pitcher who can't stay healthy. I said before their motto is "trying to win with one hand tied behind our back", but maybe it's "living on a prayer".
  4. CubinNY
    I'm looking forward to seeing how good he can be. I remember when he was drafted and Marquee interviewed him and he said. "I can't wait to go out and fail with the best of them". That is the perfect approach for a hitter in MLB. I think he's going to hit for average and spray the ball all over the field. I'm more than a little worried about the power, but if he becomes mostly a doubles hitter and plays above-average defense, that is pretty good. I'd love for him to become a star player, a boy can dream.
  5. CubinNY
    Right out of central casting.
  6. CubinNY
    "There's something special about playing in the city, for a team like this with a storied franchise," The city: East Rutherford, NJ
  7. CubinNY
    Their motto should be trying to win with one hand tied behind our back.
  8. CubinNY
    They will have minimal payroll obligations going into the next CBA. And you can safely bet they will hard bargain for a cap. I have no idea how they will accomplish this without opening their books for fair accounting and revenue sharing with the MLBPA.
  9. CubinNY
    They made a good offer given his demands. I suppose it's nice of Jed to thank Tommy Boy for allowing him to pursue great players.
  10. CubinNY
    Hasn’t he used it already once this offseason?
  11. CubinNY
    He’d probably invoke his NTC.
  12. CubinNY
    I'd rather give Shaw a long runway. I'd love Cease, but it's important to balance the need for a TOR pitcher and hope for the future. He'd cost a lot of prospects even if they could get SD to move off of Shaw. If you add the unlikelihood of resigning him it stings a little more. I don't know their plans, but, it still looks like they will play up to the next CBA and then clean the slate expecting a long work stoppage. If that is their plan, Cease makes a bit more sense.
  13. CubinNY
    Wasn't a lat strain, it was a shoulder injury: subscapularis strain. Although all indications are he's going to have a normal spring training and be ready to go for the start of the season.
  14. CubinNY
    Here is a real gem: "That’s just stupid, Boston."
  15. CubinNY
    pedantic as always. The thread cop.
  16. CubinNY
    If I were a slugger who was looking for my next big contract, I wouldn't sign in Detriot either. Their park is an awful hitter's park year over year.
  17. CubinNY
    News flash, they aren't resigning Tucker either if he has a good season.
  18. CubinNY
    Did you read the locked forum? "he's getting paid like a 28 year old 8 war player".
  19. CubinNY
    lol. I don’t want that good player he makes too much money is one helluva answer by a fan of a team who should care about winning.
  20. CubinNY
    I understand the Cubs situation and they made a very reasonable offer to Bregman. I'm not upset with the Jed or Tommy Boy. But I'm also not going to commiserate with billionaire owners about how much one of the best players in baseball is getting paid.
  21. CubinNY
    right. It sounds like sour grapes and people trying to be too smart. Why would you not want your team to have good players? Whatever, to each his own. Play Baseball Mogul on the website, it's fun I suppose.
  22. CubinNY
    If Gretzky played today he's probably only score 50 points a season, but he is 64. If you compare the players by era and how much better they were than the field there is no comparison. Same with Jordan. Same with Brown. Same with Ruth.
  23. CubinNY
    I suppose we can talk about Bregman here now. I'm happy for him. He got a nice contract. I find it funny and strange when fans say, "Boy, I'm glad we didn't sign him to a deal like that." Why does anyone care? The team obviously has the money to do it, or they wouldn't. And it makes the team better. It's good for Boston.
  24. CubinNY
    So bored already. They don't even have good "best shape of his life" articles to read on The Althetic.
  25. CubinNY
    As much as I love gingers that’s a big no for me.
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