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Who's Your Top Favorite Cubs from Your Lifetime?
UK replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
My Top 10: Maddux Sosa Baez Wood Sandberg Sutcliffe Bryant Rizzo Arrieta Prior Least fav: Hundley Danny Jackson Alou Morgan and Guzman for being Maddux replacements A Gone Estes Maldonado Bowa Players I oddly liked: Dernier (why I always wanted to wear #20 as a kid) Kevin Foster Jeff Pico Kevin Roberson Juan Cruz Also, the Great Mark Bellhorn! -
Somewhere the White Sox are taking notice... https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/baseball-league-restarts-in-taiwan-with-robot-and-mannequin-fans-in-seats/
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I fudged numbers quite a bit. When it's was their 60 time, h/w. Do what it takes to get the crosschecker to see someone you really like. Oh yeah, I've heard plenty of stories of scouts fudging the numbers to make a prospect they like look better on paper and get more subsequent looks. It happens a lot or used to happen a lot... Now, with draft models and computer-ranking systems in place in many scouting departments, I wonder how much it happens or if it still matters? Not nearly as much as 10-15 years ago. Odds are the organ has seen them anyways. Showcases have blossomed so much and combined with travel ball, hiding players is much more difficult.
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I fudged numbers quite a bit. When it's was their 60 time, h/w. Do what it takes to get the crosschecker to see someone you really like.
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I've enjoyed watching these old games. But holy crap is Chip Caray bad! I don't recall him being as awful as he truly was. Joe Carter made Caray look good. Caray with Stone at the end of their run (when they would trash the team espec Alou) was fun. That was a rough era for Cubs TV broadcasters.
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It's not that Foles is terrible, it's just that he had a bad contract and most importantly, no trade market and yet the Bears likely bid against themselves and lost. It was a buyer's market and they still managed to overpay. ...how much is a 4th round pick really worth? More than Foles (unless you're the Bears).
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Oh that's right, I forgot that Pace decided to flush our 4th away for Foles. Fantastic. Gambling on a 4th round QB in the draft or trading that pick for an established starter in Foles. I'll take the Foles trade. It's not that Foles is terrible, it's just that he had a bad contract and most importantly, no trade market and yet the Bears likely bid against themselves and lost. It was a buyer's market and they still managed to overpay.
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2020 Draft Thread
UK replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
(Given the status of the draft) They should be bring back DF&Es or better yet, allow college kids to be drafted before they get near their 21st birthday for the next two drafts. -
I can only hope the rumors of Leitao and extending his contract is just that.
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Punishing them by making them spend less is not ideal. A 30% luxury tax at 104 compared to 208 is much more than the likely 4-8 mil annually saved on draft pools.
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MLB has been horribly weak. Ideally... I would strip them of their 2017 title. 5 year postseason ban. For the next 10 years the luxury tax of 30% would be enabled at a payroll at 104mil. MLB draft pool would be capped at 2.4 and International pool at 2.15 mil for the next ten years as well.
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shut it, cvnt You had me at hello.
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I just wish OMC would not have deleted his post calling Weis a "cvnt".
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Did anyone else think the refs were pretty bad throughout? Obviously the delay of game was missed but there were several hits to the QB head and one obvious helmet to helmet against Jimmy G that should have called as well as someissed offsides. I thought KC's offensive line did a fair amount of uncalled holding too.
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Cubs Manager Search (Ross to be hired - Kaplan)
UK replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Brad Childress will not be back.
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49ers 27-13. GB doesn't have the luxury of playing a team with no ground game. Rodgers won't have time, Adams won't be open on every play and if SF can stop Cook, they can stop Jones.
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I can't wait to watch the "what could have been" bowl
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He's a safe pick for Nagy given their history. I would have preferred Callahan (Wash) or Matsko (Car).
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If KC doesn't lose their OC to a HC job, I would inquire about their current QB coach Kafka.
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Definitely Stoops best coaching job.
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I don't think the OC has to call plays to have an impact. He just has to have some input, especially in the run game design. He also needs to have the ability to notice tendencies, as I feel Nagy's worst aspect of his playcalling is the inability to set plays up based on previous play calls, defensive tendencies, etc. A guy that has "been there before" could really have a lot of value, even if not calling plays...though i believe Nagy would give up playcalling if the right OC comes along. Pat Schurmur is the most interesting possibility to me. If he doesn't survive with the Giants (and this is his 2nd stint of back-to-back sub 6-win seasons as a HC), then he has experience and ties to Nagy. As for up and comers, Mike Kafka, Chiefs QB coach comes to mind. Other than that, not too familiar with names. Maybe Freddie Kitchens if he doesn't survive in Cleveland. I'm hoping for Shurmur as OC and playcaller. I don't know how a high quality coach would want to come into a lame duck situation combined with a HC who calls the plays.
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As long as Nagy is the playcaller and it's his system, the OC is non-existent as far as value. Typical Bears and typical behavior of what a shitty run organization does. How did Ragone avoid this one? He's more responsible than Helfrich.
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This is my nightmare offseason. You use more or less all your cap space locking yourself in for years to a painfully average QB, and you still need at least two starters on D (plus a ton of depth), your OL is in shambles and your TE position is a black hole. That's a "dear god, let me get some bounces this year so we can maybe go 10-6 with a divisional round exit and that's probably enough to save my job" offseason. Agreed as I'd much rather go with Mitch and get rid of them all after next year but if I'm going after some FA to compete with Mitch, they better be decent. That previous list minus Carr is all below avg.
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If you're willing to have Trubisky be a 9 mil backup, give me Bridgewater, draft a QB in the mid rounds and let Mitch walk after next year.