Andy
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Everything posted by Andy
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Obligatory 'horsefeathers him he's a racist' stuff aside, if Hader couldn't beat the Brewers in an arbitration case when the way they've used him the last couple of years makes self-evident how valuable he is, then something needs re-examination.
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My favorite thing (other than the obvious WS stuff) to watch from that run is the comeback in SF. I LOVE the comeback against SF. Javy, Zo, and Willy were so swaggy. Joe Maddon managed circles around Bruce Bochy that night, pinch-hitting Coghlan in the 9th knowing SF would bring in a lefty and he could counter with Contreras. Probably his best work as the Cubs skipper.
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It's just a perfect game. The only tension live was the nagging feeling that of course something is going to go wrong, but there is never any real danger. Kyle Hendricks at his most Kyle Hendricks, a couple of dongs, Kershaw's soul being taken, and a clinching at home. You know, I can't speak for anyone else, but after the early Javy error was erased, I can't say I ever had any real nagging doubts. Once the offense woke up in Game 4 I was pretty damn sure we were winning that series the rest of the way.
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Looks like the skeptics nailed this one [tweet] [/tweet]
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Yes, the 28-player limit was announced at the same time as all this other crap IIRC.
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Spring Training 2020 (aka Mark Gonzales blurry photo szn)
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Rizzo is unequivocally right to be pissed off, but it's pretty clear that from the moment the CBT became a thing that the owners DID mean it to be a salary cap. -
This is how it works out when LaVine is your best player. The Bulls might be a bit better if they had better complementary pieces, but the league is too good for LaVine-as-best-player to result in much of anything. Mind you, I still really like the guy. Plays his ass off every night.
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Why is it that teams and players try to knock out extensions around this time? D'backs and Ahmed, and I think there was another one recently. Cubs and Bote happened around this time last year. It would've made the offseason a lot better if they got this Baez extension done sooner... Bote happened a few days into the season, which compounded the weirdness of it.
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Extremely, six anonymous '17 Astros talked for this one and it made it sound like several players were a little leery of this scheme and Beltran basically ignored them and eventually everyone else followed like sheep because he's a 'respected veteran' or whatever. I’m judging this based solely on your summary, but it sounds like players trying to cover their own asses by throwing Beltran under the bus. Yeah, that thought occurred to me too
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Extremely, six anonymous '17 Astros talked for this one and it made it sound like several players were a little leery of this scheme and Beltran basically ignored them and eventually everyone else followed like sheep because he's a 'respected veteran' or whatever.
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He's not much of a defender these days but a pretty good bench bat and platoon guy against righties. I like this.
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Literally everything about this is horsefeathering dumb. If MLB wants to reduce tanking, institute a draft lottery and/or get rid of amateur spending caps, and get rid of the dumb-ass competitive balance tax. This is nothing more than a cheap sideshow to distract fans from the horse horsefeathers way this sport is being run by its power brokers. I'm so damn sick of Manfred and his arcade video game nonsense.
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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.
