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  1. sneakypower
    Okay, is 14 wins for a team with that much money to spend somehow unthinkable? Would there be anything wrong with getting halfway there and putting yourself within variance range? and how do you get halfway there? well for starters, by not trading two of your best relievers, by not toying with the idea of putting another in the rotation, and signing...um, Prince Fielder, for $200 million or whatever (and of course also keeping Maholm and Dempster through the deadline) congratulations, your approach has us winning a more respectable 78 games this year, and facing a future with a very good 1B, but very little else in the way of young, valuable contributors, and significantly reduced financial flexibility
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    we would have had to add something like 14 wins via free agency to project as a contender http://claydavenport.com/PROJHOME.shtml on a semi-related note, did you know: the 2007 (WS winning) Red Sox had only one player on the roster acquired via FA post a 2+ WAR season (Matsuzaka)
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    then we have completely different priorities i just want a clear vision for long-term, sustained success, and i can tolerate a 61-win season, rather than a season clawing at a 70- or 75-wins that runs in direct conflict with that long-term success
  4. sneakypower
    you'd be completely void of any intellectual honesty to say that teams that are making a real concerted effort to contend, don't install a 22-year-old, fresh off a 51 OPS+ season, as their every-day 1B (and weaken their worst position to do so); it's such a patently absurd assertion, and that's just one example
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    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9m8eojDnA1qfn8tp.gif
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    "putting together a winning team" basically means no: Anthony Rizzo Arodys Vizcaino Travis Wood Christian Villanueva Ronald Torreyes Dave Sappelt Jaye Chapman Michael Bowden? Shark as SP edit: don't really want to make this point the focus (and still probably means like, a 75-win season at best) now, debate the merits of those names as you please, but at the very least, if say, Grant Desme were to come around and convince all those guys to pursue a new calling in life, i have to imagine we'd consider that a debilitating blow to our prospects for the future
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    i was surprised you guys kept up with OU as long as you did on Saturday
  8. sneakypower
    i'd like to hear more about that Jim Johnson for AL CY argument
  9. sneakypower
    an emphatic yes
  10. sneakypower
    guess he redeemed himself
  11. sneakypower
    Martez Wilson's the only reason this game's not over yet
  12. sneakypower
    Crosby missed that by 30 yards
  13. sneakypower
    Brennaman just called Reggie Wayne a hall of famer; that doesn't quite seem right
  14. sneakypower
    lol, Brandon Weeden just threw two passes on the same play
  15. sneakypower
    well, that was a fun game
  16. sneakypower
    i didn't want Valentine, but i did want this guy http://ladybaseballopinions.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/bobbyvalentinemoustache.jpg
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    2013

    sneakypower replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    i wonder if there's any player you could try to obtain with that package, that wouldn't make the opposing GM crack up
  19. sneakypower
    you or wsr, i can never tell the difference holy buttfuck, that's the worst lineup i've ever seen
  20. sneakypower
    A+++ would do business with again
  21. sneakypower
    http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/30sznyv.gif
  22. sneakypower
    yup.
  23. sneakypower
    Cutler was PFF's highest-rated QB this week, Marshall the 2nd highest-rated WR
  24. sneakypower
    Pettigrew (per PFF): if Witten's fully healthy now, i probably go with him Pettigrew's safe in fantasy, because he gets targeted like crazy, but he kind of sucks in real life
  25. sneakypower

    2013

    sneakypower replied to tspain's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    personally, i had a lot more enjoyable time watching this year's team than say, the 2010 team Soto was awesome, but other than Castro, a couple relievers (and i guess Wells), it was pretty much a completely wasted year, with no signs really of any future promise- just OK players getting older this year had Castro, Shark, Rizzo, Castillo, Garza, Jackson, Stewart, Valbuena, bullpen kids at least providing varying levels of intrigue, in that you know several of these guys are going to be future contributors on the next team worth a damn edit: this is kind of going along with xzero's point above
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