USSoccer
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Wow. Nice pickup by the perennial losers. He won't help the main flaw on that team, though. They concede late like it's going out of style.
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You can't judge that trade and whether you'd make others like it so heavily based on the fact that you managed to have one of the worst possible outcomes thus far. I'm not sure that it was an unexpected outcome, though.
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Hard to get too excited when Guatemala pretty clearly gave up after the Gomez goal.
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You have much more confidence than I do that he has some weird ability to have an sustainable, incredibly low HR/FB rate on non pop ups. You have more confidence than I do that any pitching prospect we end up getting back will end up better than Travis Wood is.
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Because that's what I'm saying. From what I'm reading, you're pretty much saying "well you never know someone might crazily overpay". Which I guess is fine in theory but in reality the return on Travis Wood isn't likely to be all that high, which you're smart enough to know, and again, I think the front office should be held to a higher standard than just strip mining anything not pre-arb extended from the major league team to accumulate a bunch of prospects with a massive attrition rate.
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How can you realistically have any idea whether this is true or not without knowing the potential returns? Because the potential returns aren't likely to be high enough to justify trading a perfectly good pitcher who will still be young enough to be around when we're ready to begin to think about maybe competing in 201x. That's fine - if the returns aren't high enough then don't trade him just to trade him. But you cannot definitively say that he's more valuable as a Cub than he is in a trade unless you know potential returns. The potential returns for a guy who's having his first good season aren't probably more valuable to the Cubs than the guy himself could end up being. You do realize that they will still have to at least attempt to put out a team going forward, right? Unless you think somehow the financial picture of the team will benefit from being gutter-awful for a few more years and they can just set up big screens showing minor league box scores and people will still show up. But hey, by all means, if you think securing some teams' #15 prospect and some filler for him will somehow help the major league team be better, go for it.
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How can you realistically have any idea whether this is true or not without knowing the potential returns? Because the potential returns aren't likely to be high enough to justify trading a perfectly good pitcher who will still be young enough to be around when we're ready to begin to think about maybe competing in 201x.
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There's not much in the FA TOR market for the next few years, so I'm not sure it's worth it unless we get an awesome haul for Garza. Any future trade for a TOR starter will really cut into the progress made in the minor league system. Yes, we wouldn't want to cut into the waves and waves of prospects in order to acquire a good player. One of them might turn out to be a good player.
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It's pretty rich to expect the guys actually on the team to subscribe to the already stupid enough notion of the waves and waves of prospects coming to save the team in 6 years, and therefore it's okay they blow now.
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I don't like the Sunderland move.
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I was really, really impressed with the Brasilian crowds. I expected to hear stupid assed drumming all game, but it was like a ramped up college basketball game.
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What can we expect for their next contracts? Are they going to have to decide for one over the other? They'd better not. Those two should be one-club guys for their whole career.
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I didn't realize Kane and Toews are only signed for two more seasons.
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Toronto fans had to enjoy that ending sequence. This.
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Man...seeing all those happy families out there with those guys. That's awesome. You don't see that in other sports.
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Is that Saad with his brother? Awesome. Also, it's amazing that Kane is the guy right there greeting all the family and friends coming on to the ice. You'd never have imagined he'd have been that guy a couple years ago.
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Andrew Shaw is hard as a coffin nail.
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Kane. Class. Great comments.
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"how heavy is it"....awesome also, I think Boland is an insane person
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[expletive] YOU BOSTON
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BOOOOOOO-URNS
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That makes up for the anticlimactic finish in 2010
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Or Kane, maybe.
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I hope they can fit a Conn Smyth through Crawford's glove side you [expletive].
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EVERYONE CHANT FOR THE LOSING LOSERS