Irrelevant Dude

Jenkins was back in. So we have that going for us.

Take that QB run out of the playbook.

This Vikings team looks as bad right now as any team the Bears have played this season. That said, they will probably come out on the second half and start dominating offensively.

There's something funny about a 22 year old rookie having "Sr" on the back of his jersey.

Maybe they should run into Gill every time. That might be his only decent punt all year.

Yep. It's getting annoying.

That's a heck of an interception.

Jenkins hurt? Of course.

Fields 13-14 and the one incompletion was a throwaway. It's crazy to only be up 3-0 right now.

Held to a field goal. I guess this is the absolute perfect tank scenario.

Bears on pace for 53 minutes time of possession.

8-8 and no points?

I'm pretty sure Justin Patton is a made up name. Never heard of the guy.

Absolutely. I won't be surprised to see the All-Star game awarded to Vegas in 2028. By the time they get around to Wrigley, we're going to be due for renovations again.

And the Season Ticket Waiting List is no more... https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cubs/ct-chicago-cubs-season-tickets-20231120-m5jmrbyb7fbxnblntxsmcwmawm-story.html

Let me tell you about a guy named Brian Roberts...

Lynn had negative WAR in 2023 and is going to be 37 next year. I'm not mad about the Cardinals paying him over $10M.

These are the same people who have their Windows desktop full of file icons because it takes extra clicks to organize them into proper subfolders, aren't they? Seriously though, I recognize the ignorance in saying "This is how it was before, so this is how it should always be." But it does feel like we're stuck in between right now and need to go one direction or another. We have a transactions forum that sometimes gets used and sometimes doesn't. We have a draft/amateur forum that rarely gets posted in except around draft time. We have a general baseball talk forum that is sometimes hard to distinguish from the Cubs discussion. And we have a Game Threads forum that archives all the game threads, but not the current day's game. So, where do we go from here? Is it better just to merge everything into two forums, Cubs DIscussion and Minor Leagues, and get rid of all the others that aren't being used consistently? My personal preference is to keep things organized into logical threads and categories, but maybe there just isn't enough activity anymore to justify all the separate forums. At some point though, when you combine everything into just a few generic categories, the site becomes not all that much different than a Discord channel and it can be difficult to follow. How didn't I know that the Cubs signed Player X, or put Player Y on the injured list? Oh, it's because that discussion took place inside another larger thread that I didn't read on that particular day. I just think we need to pick a lane. If we're going to keep the subforums, let's try to use them. If not, there isn't much point in keeping them around.

Today's game didn't really do anything to convince me Fields is the guy, but I'm not entirely opposed to using multiple high draft picks to strengthen everything else around him. In the somewhat likely event that Fields doesn't get the Bears where they need to go in the next 1-2 years, and Bagent continues to be nothing more than a respectable backup, then presumably they will have built up the surrounding core to the point where they can go out and do whatever it takes to sign/trade for whatever QB is available at the time to plug into a good situation. There is a lot of risk involved in drafting QB's, so I'm coming around to the idea of the Bears maybe deciding "let's not draft another one."

Unbelievable, and yet completely believable.

I thought he was going to take off and run for sure. I don't know if I've ever seen him step up and deliver a throw like that.

Well, the Transactions forum used to be for ALL transactions, not just the Cubs. So if you wanted to post or discuss anything related to signings, it would be there. Now we just have a bunch of renamed sub-forums that nobody uses, and a single Cubs discussion forum that encompasses almost everything.

Why is this in Cubs Talk? What even are forum categories anymore? Remember when transactions actually went in the Transactions forum?

Hughes is a bit of a surprise.

At some point in the future, when Ohtani can no longer keep up with the load of both hitting and pitching (assuming his arm is healthy), would the logistics of the DH position make it too difficult to use him as a closer? Losing the DH every time a team inserts their closer certainly wouldn't be ideal. Does that make him a starter or nothing for the rest of his career?