mul21
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Man, that's not going to fly at all. $245 million is peanuts and I have to imagine there's something in there to allow teams who are way over some time to get under. The Dodgers, Mets and Yankees are all $90+ million over that cap this year. 10 teams are at $245 million or more for 2026.
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What are you specifically talking about here? I assume going to 32 teams is the expansion part but TV changes look like what? Shared revenue across the league like the NFL?
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The only thing I saw that I thought would be a non-starter for the owners was an increase in super 2s from 22% to 44%. That seems like a huge jump in guys eligible for arbitration after 2 seasons.
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Jordan Wicks Will Get At Least One More Start
mul21 replied to Brian Kelder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Yeah, I think the Cabrera injury accelerated the timeline he was on. I'd bet the plan was to get him another start or two in Iowa to build a little more endurance and refine his stuff a bit but they really didn't have a choice. -
Did Counsell forget how to do those things after leading the Brewers to beating the pants off the Cubs for several seasons before he came to Chicago? Your arguments have no basis in reality.
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As Bernstein pointed out (and I think that report does as well), you're not looking at just the stadium here, you have to look at the development as a whole. First, what tax dollars are being generated currently by an unimproved site vs. what tax dollars, even at a reduced rate, will be generated by a new stadium. Also, those tax breaks ONLY apply to the stadium itself in most cases, so all the entertainment complex development that happens around the stadium will be taxed at the going rate and generate additional income for the municipality and state.
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Man, the culture of immediate gratification makes people really dumb.
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The Bulls have never gotten past the play in round with their former front office and finished over .500 once in their tenure. Let's not pretend that's a nearly apples to apples comparison. They also never consistently trended better in successive seasons like the Cubs have the last 3 years.
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Something I've been wondering in the midst of this slump and the one we saw last year is if there's an adjustment that's been made to how these guys are being pitched and have the coaches missed or been slow to getting these guys to adjust to that? Or are the players just missing hittable pitches, swinging at the wrong ones and looking at good ones?
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I'm not a huge hockey fan, but I can tell you that I'll always root for bad things to happen to anything that involves Stan Kroenke, so I'm pretty happy with the Avs getting embarrassed.
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Chris Davis had 2 unlucky seasons as a full time player and not once in his entire career did he run a season OBP as high as PCA has in the last 3 games where he's scalding the ball with only one hit.
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Walk, stolen base, sac bunt, sac fly in the bottom of the 9th, Pirates win 1-0.
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Any hot takes on the USMNT roster?
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The way I'm reading the "Chicago officials" is local politicians and if they decide to punt, then the Bears are SOL unless they decide to fund everything themselves, which we know will never happen.
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100% agree with this. There's obviously technique involved in the NFL, but it's much more about physical abilities than anything else outside of the QB position. There's so much more nuance to baseball than football that it's an apples to oranges comparison.
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Ah yes, the big brained problem of being unable to locate your breaking ball. He got Walker out because he found it again.
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What if I told you they're getting a gold glove 3B with a league average OPS+ that would land him in the top 10 3B in MLB? Does that sell better?
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It is funny how they've got their mouthpiece Finebaum out here arguing how it would devalue the regular season to go to 24.
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Again, you're making judgements without all the information. How many chances have they had vs the others on this list? I bet it's more, and in some cases, a lot more.
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In this same vein, a friend of mine was bitching about Happ, Bregman, Suzuki and Busch all being top 10 in LOB but that also means the Cubs are getting a ton of guys on base and eventually there's going to be regression to the mean and the offense will start scoring runs in bunches again.
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Cubs (Brown) vs Braves (Sale): 5/14/26, 6:15pm
mul21 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Yeah, as much heat as Jed has taken for building middling teams, the pitching infrastructure he's put together to both find arms and develop JAGs into useful pitchers has been really impressive -
As Jason pointed out, that's not enough information. If they were all singles and he didn't walk at all, sure, maybe I agree with you. If he hit 10 HRs, 5 doubles and 5 singles along with 20 walks, suddenly you have a guy who has a .333 OBP and is slugging .550 for an .883 OPS, which is a stat you just said you like.
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You should have just said you only judge players based on batting average to start the conversation and we could have cut out all this debate and just collectively laughed at you for being stuck in 1998.
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Elton Brand is what comes to mind. Tons of skill but just not enough athleticism to ever be THE guy.
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I would hate it. As much as we joke about Hawk and his TWTW, I think there is a facet of a player's makeup you really do have to look at. A good friend of mine is a basketball junky and a Kansas fan and Peterson absolutely drove him crazy with the I'm playing today/no I'm not stuff. I want no part of that dude and while he's probably not as talented and I'm biased as an Illini fan, I'd take Wagler 10 times out of 10 over Peterson based on the information we have on both of them right now.
