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If we hot 50% on the donate bar and Tim opens that second bottle of merlot, it's go time.

You changed it back already? Do you know how long it took me to find that cubs laptop?

sorry david, but this thread did you in. no human would truly want to wear those [expletive] headphones. so i had to unmask you in your avatar. it's for the best

has derwood finally done enough to get himself banned? I think yes.

Is this an attempt at a funny? Or do you not know they signed Greinke and have Patrick Corbin? lmao greinke is the pastry chef is SCS's kitchen. corbin is the bellboy

that's my favorite moment. the look on rizzo's face was priceless.

nope. never happened

You only pretended to be someone else once, right? you mean at nsbb. not daydreaming during quiet afternoons of baseball mogul marathons, right?

Same here. Like, I mean, the kid is devastated. He's worn #13 and played SS ever since he started playing T-ball 5 years ago, and he's got Castro cards and posters all over his room, and he met Castro last year during ST. This is my son. He's got 20 Castro cards hung around his room. His fave day was meeting Castro and getting an autograph at ST in 2012. I won't repeat what he was calling Theo last night. He almost ended his Cub fandom until I told him this is just baseball. So he said "baseball sucks"

(emphasis added) The counterpoint here is that if the only proof is that 'it makes sense that this was the reason', it sets a pretty broad precedent that could be used in cases that are far less obvious. Maikel Franco filed a grievance too, and he was thought to be a rich man's Josh Vitters until last June or so. People wailed about the Pirates killing their chances by leaving Polanco down for Super 2 reasons in 2014, then when he did come up he was barely replacement level. I wouldn't be stunned if the Cubs lost the grievance, but my feelings are similar to the Maddon tampering stuff. Unless there's some smoking gun where an email said 'Bryant won't start with the team because service time' or something like that, I don't think there's a high chance that Bryant/Boras/Union wins. But winning this specific grievance likely isn't the point anyway. I'd be floored if the Cubs lost the grievance as it would require something pretty stupid to have been said/written and captured in a form that can be used in the hearing. The article quoted by kyle is written by a guy (a labor union lawyer, btw, so not entirely unbiased in a union v company dispute) arguing that "it's not illegal, it's legal" which is far different from "the cubs should/will lose." The league has a CBA. They all agreed to the service time rules. Do they also have to act in "good faith?" Yes, but that's a really ambiguous requirement and this is not kindergarten. If there's any defensible reason for the Cubs bringing Bryant up when they did, then they win. It would be madness to have team decisions subject to some guy (with the benefit of hindsight in the form of 5 months of stats) to evaluate the circumstances, find that the Cubs had a defensible position, but that he'd come to a different conclusion, so the Cubs lose.

yeah it is but at least it's the new york yankees. he'll have fun. not nearly as much fun as with the cubs

If my math is correct, Heyward's value on the open market is like 100 billion dollars

If he's a $12m 38 year old bench player but we get 2 great years out of him, it's worth it.

http://invisiblebread.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/brucewillisdoubletake.gif Tim is currently inviting Dave Stewart to join the Roadkill league

i really like castro, but you're all alone out here. Doubtful. ok, so you and andy can be swinging in the "zobrist at $14m/year is too much" tree together

i really like castro, but you're all alone out here.

Rosenthal failed to mention that Joe is also buying him a shot and a beer, so

Since it's inevitable, would love to see Castro traded to a team I don't hate. Oh and sign Heyward.

Seems more likely Castro gone since Maddon loves to [expletive] with lineups and Javy is more versatile

what does your parenthetical mean? that i would rather have him signed for three years and not four. and on top of that, this is a hypothetical in which he actually is signed by the cubs. i'm not sure if my preference isn't still to hang on to castro instead of signing zobrist. but if he's the direction the FO wants to go, i think 4/60ish is fair. probably did sound a little confusing. that make more sense? yes. i thought you were saying you only wanted to sign him if the 4th year is required, which didn't make sense.

what does your parenthetical mean?

[tweet] [/tweet] Google Translate: Ben Zobrist have accepted offers 4 seasons of #Cubs . Starlin Castro could have their destiny in #Yankees

Oh, what is this fresh nonsense. nothing says fragile psyche like being lauded by your teammates, manager and front office for handling a demotion and change in position and positively contributing to the team in a playoff race.

David is referring to the report this weekend (I think in the Sun Times) that Castro was told after the season that he wouldn't be traded.

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