ConstableRabbit

That comment was related to the interpersonal relationship between on-air talent and their employer and personal reasons as to why/why not the talent stays or goes. Of course the product is the customer’s business. To that end, you or anyone else could stop consuming said product and prove that the employer’s calculation in changing the product was incorrect. Currency can be exchanged for goods and services. You said it's none of our business who they employ. It is very much our business who they employ. At least half of our discussion, probably way more, is specifically about who they choose to employ. You made a really stupid comment, don't try and snark your way out of it. I’m more interested in learning more about how little the Cubs will get your attention *this time*. You could spend tens and tens of hours reading and posting about them in 2022 but this could be the last straw as well!

My hottest in the moment take is that if Len wanted to do radio so badly then they should've put Pat(who has very much lost his fastball) out to pasture. i don't disagree, but they'd never do that (and len would probably want nothing to do with forcing him out) aren't you my anti-vin scully buddy too? Vin sucks forever but Pat is a legend (except for his awful 2016 WS final out cal)

I mean, it’s not anyone on this board’s business who the Cubs employ, hire, or fire, but yes, Len disrupting his career trajectory (and likely income!) over sharing airtime or his employer’s dress code would be immature and childish. The dude seems like a great guy and he can do whatever he want: I hope that he’s happy! But if that was the reason he probably wasn’t in it for the long haul anyway. It's not any of the customer's business what product the company chooses to sell them? What the horsefeathers kind of nonsensical corporate apologia is this nonsense? That comment was related to the interpersonal relationship between on-air talent and their employer and personal reasons as to why/why not the talent stays or goes. Of course the product is the customer’s business. To that end, you or anyone else could stop consuming said product and prove that the employer’s calculation in changing the product was incorrect. Currency can be exchanged for goods and services.

this is dumb as horsefeathers why the hell is he obligated to put up with dumb horsefeathers he doesn't like at work if he doesn't have to? that makes him a child? FOH and i'm pretty sure he never complained about the suits publicly (and even sorta did the opposite). if he had a problem with it, he has every right to look elsewhere and it's none of your damn business why he was or wasn't happy with his work environment. I mean, it’s not anyone on this board’s business who the Cubs employ, hire, or fire, but yes, Len disrupting his career trajectory (and likely income!) over sharing airtime or his employer’s dress code would be immature and childish. The dude seems like a great guy and he can do whatever he want: I hope that he’s happy! But if that was the reason he probably wasn’t in it for the long haul anyway.

If Len decided to leave the Cubs because he didn’t want to occasionally share the broadcast booth with a third person or because he didn’t want to wear a suit then he’s a child. I sincerely hope that’s not the reason.

Lol who do you think that messaging is for? Len took a lower profile job that almost certainly pays less with one of the worst organizations in baseball. Saying the reason was to follow a particular passion is throwing him a bone vs “Len said he didn’t want to work on any Marquee/Cubs programming in the offseason and didn’t want to do the convention” or whatever the actual reason is. We could of course just have one of the 100 reporters who follows the Cubs get to the bottom of why he’s not with the Cubs but sports journalism isn’t exactly hard hitting. Instead we get Sharma printing a press release...

BAMA is in. Ohio St is in. If BAMA beats Florida, that opens up a slot. If Notre Dame beats Clemson I have to think the Aggies absolutely have a shot but I’ll bet the the ACC gets two teams if Clemson wins. FWIW, I think Florida can beat BAMA which means two SEC teams. Ohio State is in danger of not playing enough games to qualify for the Big Ten championship game, no? They also have to *ahem* win that championship game.

I moved further from the ball and that kept me in to out. Too much sometimes. I spent the entire range session today going aggressively in-to-out and I was still managing to slice it. I think I have a really bad open-club-face problem. I can see it even when I practice in slow motion, my natural movement is to let my wrists break and open up like crazy. I have some ideas on how to fix it, maybe? I'm wasting so much time on this stuff because I "don't have time for lessons." I think this is the source of my distance problems too. I'm not a great athlete by any stretch, but I'm a healthy adult male who can get a normal amount of swing speed going, but I'm getting *way* less distance than the average golfer reports. I think with the higher irons, the backspin is letting it straighten out, but the backspin is still killing the distance. Then the longer clubs would be almost a decent length if it was going straight instead of curving so much. How do you have so much time during the day to go golfing? Take some lessons and become really good.

Cry more. Wisconsin can’t win in Evanston no matter who the refs are.

The game is in Wales.

Do you say Latinx when all of those referred to identify as Latino?

COVID precautions are more in place for those who aren’t playing football and at risk of serious complications or death. It’s one thing to give another dude a concussion; it’s another to give him a virus that can show no symptoms that puts his asthmatic wife in the hospital.

Carl Edwards choked in a big playoff game again and Ernie Johnson didn’t stop talking about Trea Turner (who did nothing). Also, mold.

Just because you want it to happen and be miserable doesn’t mean we should expect it. on monday you'll somehow be baffled this happened again Dude, do you just watch the Cubs in order to be miserable and negative? Following sports is supposed to be a fun hobby. Why not spend all of those hours with friends or loved ones?

What? ? Who gives a horsefeathers about what hypothetical Cardinals fans would say to try to invalidate a banner? Just a bizarrely negative spin on what would be a great outcome for any season.

What?

On that note I’m not sure anyone is licking their chops at the idea of facing Yu and Hendricks back to back. That’s a lot of smoke in a 3 game series.

I’m so glad we didn’t sign him

It has to be a top 5 (maybe 3), 9 figure contract for a SP of all time. Finally had time to put this together. Full list of $100M+ contracts for pitchers per Cots. This isn't just free agent deals though, if that's what you meant (Verlander, for example, had two years left on his deal before his extension in 2013). So if you meant FA deals, I didn't sort for that. This is also WAR over the length of the contract, not just with the team that signed the player to the contract. It also doesn't factor in if a player opted out, like Sabathia did during his first deal. So true FA deals for guys who stuck around, Scherzer and Sabathia were definitely better. Greinke's Dodger deal would have been had he not opted out. Lee's was better because of how much value he provided in only four years. The rest either were worse or were extensions. Pitcher Years Dollars bWAR fWAR David Price 16-22 $217M 10.4 10.6 Clayton Kershaw 14-20 $217M 32.5 34.1 Max Scherzer 15-20 $210M 34.9 32.9 Zack Greinke 16-21 $207M 17.0 15.7 Justin Verlander 13-19 $180M 35.7 33.6 Felix Hernandez 13-19 $175M 16.4 15.9 Stephen Strasburg 17-23 $175M 15.2 14.0 CC Sabathia 09-15 $161M 21.3 24.5 Masahiro Tanaka 14-20 $155M 16.9 18.2 Jon Lester 15-20 $155M 13.8 17.0 Zack Greinke 13-18 $147M 29.5 23.2 Cole Hamels 13-18 $144M 26.3 20.9 Johan Santana 08-13 $138M 15.3 13.9 Johnny Cueto 16-21 $130M 8.7 6.3 Matt Cain 12-17 $128M 2.7 3.9 Barry Zito 07-13 $126M 2.4 6.5 CC Sabathia 12-16 $122M 7.0 10.0 Mike Hampton 01-08 $121M 2.9 8.8 Cliff Lee 11-15 $120M 20.2 19.7 Jordan Zimmerman 16-20 $110M 1.2 4.8 Kevin Brown 99-05 $105M 22.8 27.4 Homer Bailey 14-19 $105M 0.4 5.7 Contract not long enough: Cole (20-28), Strasburg (20-26), Sale (20-24), Corbin (19-24), deGrom (19-23), Darvish (18-23), Wheeler (20-24) Pretty cool that Lester and the guy the Cubs initially targeted (Tanaka) are so close.

Yelich is dog horsefeathers at Wrigley and always has been. I doubt it. Real question, are things like this a coincidence or do batters just not see the ball well in some ballparks but do in other parks? Darryl Strawberry and Pujols come to mind as players who crushed the ball at Wrigley, more so than other parks, even when the Cubs had good pitchers on the mound. It depends; sometimes it's because of the pitchers they face in a particular park, sometimes it's a coincidence, and sometimes it's not easily explained.

More like orc costs, right?!? Looks like accounting's back on the menu.

What were ratings for April through mid-July? About the same as their costs? You think the Cubs org had 0 costs between April and July?

What were ratings for April through mid-July?

Yelich is dog horsefeathers at Wrigley and always has been. I doubt it.

Remember when Carlos Marmol completely lost it? There have been a ton of relievers who've had 1-2 good years and gone to complete horsefeathers. You can't compare Marmol -- who had a couple of good seasons and 1-2 spectacular ones -- to guy on a HOF trajectory like Kimbrel. It's baffling.