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  1. Irrelevant Dude
    Ok now that is just hilarious. I guess maybe Robert is having sushi for dinner tonight.
  2. Irrelevant Dude
    I think that's more of an "oh ho ho" rather than "oh oh oh".
  3. Irrelevant Dude
    Yeah, this has gone off the rails. Not his fault by any means, but the secrecy has definitely contributed to the absolute looniness of the whole process.
  4. Irrelevant Dude
    This was all a ploy by Shohei to find the leak. He found it. Toronto, you are the weakest link. Goodbye.
  5. Irrelevant Dude
    After he finishes Season 2 of the Wire, perhaps.
  6. Irrelevant Dude
    And if Bowden and Nightingale are right... In any normal job, that's enough for Morosi to get fired, right? Everyone is in a rush to be first and who knows what sketchy sources they are trusting to get there.
  7. Irrelevant Dude
    No way. Tom is saving up to buy the Diner Grill.
  8. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm fine with Ohtani going to the Blue Jays, but the thing that is mildly annoying is that this was seemingly a winnable negotiation. If he would have gone to the Dodgers, then we probably assume it was going to be the Dodgers all along for various reasons, but what does Toronto have that Chicago doesn't?
  9. Irrelevant Dude
    Poor Baltimore.
  10. Irrelevant Dude
    He is actually going to fly to every city and whichever trip doesn't get leaked is the team he will sign with. We win, since apparently he was never here.
  11. Irrelevant Dude
    Yes, but how do we know he isn't just really good friends with Tucker Barnhart and is accompanying Tucker on a free agent visit to Toronto?
  12. Irrelevant Dude
    Turns out I don't know how to embed tweets anymore.
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    I have it on good authority that someone just reserved a table at Byron's Hot Dogs.
  15. Irrelevant Dude
    One thing to consider is that IF Carolina wins the 2 or more games they would need to tie New England, doing so would directly impact their SOS in a favorable way.
  16. Irrelevant Dude
    I just realized the Bears get the Panthers second round pick in 2025 as well. This is the trade that keeps on giving. It is hard to believe this Panthers team will get substantially better next year, so that will likely be a very early second rounder to stack on top of everything else.
  17. Irrelevant Dude
    I'll feel really good about it if Carolina loses this weekend. The Saints aren't a good team and it's a winnable game for Carolina. If they don't get this one, the path to 2-3 more wins gets very difficult.
  18. Irrelevant Dude
    Carolina has 5 games left. They only need 2 wins to tie the Patriots and Cardinals and then it comes down to strength of schedule. It is still far from a certainty.
  19. Irrelevant Dude
    They haven't, but I read something where Boras said Harper is seeking an extension and that they were open to listening on Alonso.
  20. Irrelevant Dude
    I don't know. Suddenly Boras seems open to extensions (with Alonso and Harper), so watch the Yankees immediately lock Soto up long term.
  21. Irrelevant Dude
    The most expensive of which being Jose Quintana, a desperate attempt to overpay in talent for a cost-controlled starter who wasn't very good and cost the Cubs a future ace plus a solid (albeit injury prone) outfielder.
  22. Irrelevant Dude
    I'm beginning to think the Bulls winning without LaVine isn't a coincidence.
  23. Irrelevant Dude
    If you horde all your prospects, most of them are going to turn into pumpkins. Some teams are really good at identifying the most likely future pumpkins and dealing them before they ripen, but the Cubs don't seem to have figured that part out yet.
  24. Irrelevant Dude
    Let's look at it another way. If I'm an opposing pitcher facing the Cubs, who do they have in the lineup that scares me? That isn't to say they don't have good hitters, but they are lacking a true threat in the middle of the lineup. MAYBE Seiya can be that guy, but otherwise it is a lineup with several good, but flawed, hitters. That is probably true of most lineups, but it would be nice to have someone who could be consistently relied upon to deliver in the 3 or 4 spot. Similarly, it would be great to have a dominant starting pitcher at the top of the rotation. The Cubs may have pitching depth, but they are seriously lacking at the top and are leaning heavily on Steele. I don't think it is realistic to expect him to repeat his 2023 performance, but hopefully any regression in his performance would be offset by an improvement by Taillon. If this team does make the playoffs though, who do we feel good about giving the ball to in a deciding game? I'm not sure how much of this really matters, and maybe the team can be just as good by accumulating value in other areas, but having a dominant hitter and/or pitcher in the mix would just make things FEEL so much better.
  25. Irrelevant Dude
    Seriously though, that was my glass half empty way of looking at the Counsell signing. People wanted to make it out to be a sign that the Cubs were going to spend big and be aggressive (and they still could), but what if instead they are just going to continue hovering around the luxury tax threshhold and simply saw Counsell as a way to buy a couple wins for "free".
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