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  1. So...baseless speculation without any link to actual news, and without any link to actual Cub happenings. This is worthy of a thread now? It's a step below the old "BREAKING NEWS!!?!" threads.
  2. A couple of the early mock drafts I've seen have the Bears picking WR Michael Floyd in the first round. I'd be ok with that.
  3. And yet, the Cubs and their offseason moves are largely irrelevant to the White Sox and their offseason moves. There are fewer and fewer franchises these days run bafflingly poorly, and the Cubs making a baffling move hardly precludes comment on what has to this point been a terrible series of moves on the south side.
  4. Yeah, if everything breaks right for the Sox they're definitely looking at a .500 season next year.
  5. If the prospects do happen to be high end, I petition the thread title be changed to "Sean Marshall traded for Prospects + Travis Wood"
  6. The only other move they made was trading Santos for a prospect. It's not like they signed Reed Johnson to a 1.5 mil deal. Besides, we're really in no position to laugh at them as I'll be shocked if they don't finish with a better record than we do unless they have a massive all out fire sale. You may have missed it, but they completely overhauled their coaching staff as well.
  7. Way to go, Bickell.
  8. When did Marshall become a LOOGY? He's like a triple LOOGY. He gets three outs, and they don't have to be situational.
  9. Law of averages. White Sox were bound to make a good move eventually this offseason.
  10. http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/additional/large/office_space_kit_mat.jpg
  11. See, six minutes of time with 5 players on the ice, and two goals.
  12. I dont think anyone had any illusions that Darvish would go for a higher bid than Matsuzaka. To bid 20 million dollars to me seems like a cheap pr move. So they can say 'well we bid on darvish.' Nobody knows what the Cubs bid on Darvish. It wasn't the highest bid, so even Darvish's Japanese team doesn't know. If anyone did know, it wouldn't be a New York columnist that mentions something on Twitter off the cuff.
  13. Hard to win when you take 8 penalties in two periods.
  14. A question for those who are upset about the offseason moves to this point: what would you have done differently? Go 10/275 for Pujols? Anticipated a posting bid higher than $52M for Darvish? Spent the money on a 3 year deal for Ramirez?
  15. Twitter is buzzing that Jim Tressel was hit with a 5 year show cause penalty that is going to basically end his college coaching career.
  16. An interesting article at Grantland on the MLB Prospect Bubble, suggesting that teams aren't getting good prospect value by trading away good major league players anymore.
  17. So, even after all the misinformation via Twitter about the bids, people reporting the wrong winners, and full knowledge of the secretive process of the bids, we're still just going to accept that a New York source somehow knows the Cubs bid?
  18. Well, Leonard came to play, and Richardson/Paul came to play in the last three minutes. That's the only reason they pulled it out at the end.
  19. Guys weren't really up for the game, bench was useless. Cornell (like UNLV) played a collapsing zone the whole game, and the best way to combat that is to run them off the court and beat their defense to being set, which Illinois just refused to do the entire game. If any team going forward doesn't just sit in a zone the whole game against the Illini, they're making a huge mistake.
  20. This situation is different, though. A team trying for Darvish was basically on their own in determining how much of a posting fee a player was worth and offering it. If you weren't the high bid, there was no chance to increase it, and there was no way to know what other teams would bid.
  21. We owe them a marginal low A player, not a lopsided trade involving major league players.
  22. The Hawks now lead the NHL in points per game.
  23. If you're trading Garza, you're looking to trade production for potential. The potential has to line up to at least feasibly equal the production of what you're sending out, or else it's not worth making the trade. Trading production for farm system depth isn't really much to write home about.
  24. I'm not sure I could hate football more than I do right now.
  25. He seems to be more concerned with who will benefit the most from the entirety of Fielder's deal as of this very moment, and not so much on how easily the franchise can absorb the contract or how much a team can build around him. So, in that sense, since the Rays are a borderline playoff team with an absence at first base, Fielder makes perfect sense for them both short term and long term. Same with any team that's potentially one piece away from a playoff spot like the Giants, Brewers, Marlins, Cardinals and Indians.
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