Andy
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Everything posted by Andy
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Jesus I forgot Milton Bradley wore it. I was going to say he might be the first to play some innings in RF since Sammy and double-checked myself, and there he was.
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Mookie Betts and David Price Traded to the Dodgers
Andy replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If LA can't win the title in a year Houston's been cleaned out by a cheating scandal, Boston gave them their best player just to count money, and the Cubs sat out the off-season just to count money, that would be depressing for them. -
Mookie Betts and David Price Traded to the Dodgers
Andy replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This is the only sport where elite players get traded just because they're expensive. -
So they have us as the division favorite, again. What could go wrong
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It's baseball and there won't be much to do on most spring and summer evenings, so I'll be watching most of the time. I'm not excited for the season as a whole but I'm excited to have Anthony Rizzo, Javy Baez, (hopefully) Kris Bryant and a few other guys in my life for a few months.
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Sure, why not
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Chris Myers (the dude sideline reporter last night, if you're unfamiliar with the name). They announced it at Cubs Convention.
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I'm glad I have a non-swoosh jersey (bought a Santo 10 years ago and will probably never buy another). That said, those are otherwise ok. I approve of getting rid of the number on the front of the road grays. Makes it cleaner. The smaller front patches on the other 2 will probably take about 3 minutes of getting used to.
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Would be a great time for Ricketts to employ that 'If Theo comes to me with an idea that would improve the team, I generally approve it' logic that he claims to have. If ever there was a move that would help the Cubs be competitive post-2021, which is what they claim to want, this is it.
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I really don't like the idea of trading Bryant, but getting Arenado, given that he's already locked up long term, would likely be more than 100 cents on the dollar. If that's an option it should be done like yesterday.
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Couldnt they just lower the number of days it would take to get your first year of service time? Teams do this because they rationalize that being without that player for 2 weeks at the beginning of the season is not that bad. If they had to wait until May 15th to call that player up, I'm guessing that would be less tempting for a team looking to contend. If I were czar I'd make it more like half the season = a year of service time. Maybe less. September could be excepted if a guy makes his MLB debut in that month. -
Don't believe it's been officially announced, but since Sinclair owns the Fox Sports RSNs, which all have figured out in-market streaming AFAIK (I can stream FS Detroit games in-market), I have to assume the same will be true of Marquee.
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The Fox part was pretty obvious when they named Chris Myers 'backup play by play guy' - and well deserved for Len - but the radio part is sort of fun.
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Pitchers don't suck at hitting because they don't work on it enough, they suck at it because hitting his hard and pitching gets better and better. Scrappy McJunkball could scratch out a hit or two against the scrubs that pitched in yesteryear, not because he put in the time and effort. Right, and pitchers are the only guys on the field who are there almost entirely for their extremely valuable contribution to run prevention. Just about everyone else advanced in the game because of what they can do for run scoring primarily. The dudes who have both the natural talent to hit MLB pitching well and pitch well to MLB hitters are beyond absurdly rare. These things are true, but if not for the DH being standard just about everywhere after high school they probably wouldn't be as utterly useless at the plate as they are now.
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Nothing sums up this off-season for this franchise like back-to-back posts floating Arenado to the Cubs followed by 'no actually we want Scooter Gennett'
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The DH is dumb and lame, but this fight was lost when the DH started becoming a regular thing at lower levels of the game and pitchers no longer bothered working on their hitting. Might as well just get it over with.
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That last part is probably the most important. Sammy got a deserved reputation for being a surly prick over the years, and also cut himself out of baseball once he was retired (though who knows how welcome he would've been anyway). While it's unfair, that's definitely a big factor in him not being accorded forgiveness.
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Bryant can play the outfield. Put it this way, there is literally nothing, within reason, the Cubs can do right now that would increase their chances of winning a title this year more than going to get Arenado. Especially if the most likely alternative is him playing for St. Louis. This is entirely true, apart from the fact you are implying that trading for Arenado is included in the "within reason" realm, knowing what we know about budget constraints that are obviously being imposed. That's fair. I wasn't counting the violation of self-imposed constraints as being unreasonable, but obviously I'm daydreaming here.
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That's from the Mooney interview/article in The Athletic last week about adding Kimbrel and Castellanos last year, it's time for Tommy to nut up. The rallying cry for shipping Bryant out is to protect the future of the team, well here's your MVP caliber 3B locked up long term (after you give him another guaranteed year for removing his opt out) on a silver platter. Sure it's complicated but get it done. Full up with a better one already Bryant can play the outfield. Put it this way, there is literally nothing, within reason, the Cubs can do right now that would increase their chances of winning a title this year more than going to get Arenado. Especially if the most likely alternative is him playing for St. Louis.
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Players really ought not to have to choose between being paid what they're worth and having any hope of being on a competitive team ever.
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The Packers are just making one stupid mistake after another. Blowout city
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For whatever it's worth [tweet] [/tweet]
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Lame-ass 'proper channels' cop-out by Mendoza. It's pretty damn clear that no amount of going through the 'proper channels' was going to stop Houston from doing what it was doing.
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When you've even managed to piss off Anthony Rizzo...
