Sammy Sofa
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And the next time it'll be some other excuse. But hey, 2 for 6! Reach for the stars! Everything's going to magically align into some kind of wave of man beef in 2015. -
It's pretty stupid to assume that everything in our system will break the way we want it to, to the point where we have both a wave of ML ready guys we want to keep AND a bunch of top talent to trade for hypothetically available guys in 3 years. No way, it totally makes perfect sense. It's how the Royals get to sleep every night.
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Well, at least the Cubs tried hard, which gets them half credit or something.
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Or, the Cubs got twice as many international FAs as any other team did. You do realize there are 29 other teams out there competing for resources right? Of course. I want them to get more. We all do. Pointing out how close they came on their misses accomplishes nothing except emphasizing my point that they need to try that much harder to seal the deal more often with these international signings. What we perceive as the Cubs' financial advantage already doesn't separate them from as many teams as it did before, and that gap is only going to continue to shrink as time goes on.
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http://i48.tinypic.com/rbflg2.jpg Yup, wanting better than 2 out of 5 when it comes to the biggest international FA available is wanting the Cubs to sign everyone. The new FO hyped up international FA singing as being a major part of their building process: so far they've been beaten out on 3 out of 5 chances. No, it's not for lack of trying, but I hope that those misses have inspired them to try even harder and get more of these deals done. I don't think that's an unreasonable wish at all.
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Years were apparently the issue with Cespdes, which is still them playing too conservative for their own good. I'm going to be largely pessimistic about these sorts of situations until more of them start going the Cubs' way, much as I'm largely pessimistic about the foreseeable future until it actually starts to work. I'm not saying I want to be right; I want to be horribly, horribly wrong on all of this stuff.
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Honestly, I'm not. Neither am I. The Cubs seem way to conservative right now and there too many teams willing to drop stupid money. 2nd best bid on Cespedes, 2nd best bid on Darvish, best bid on Soler, (rumored) best bid on Puig, and of course Concepcion yeah, we're just being way too conservative with international talent Yeah, they are, considering they couldn't seal the deal on three of the five guys you listed I really don't care how much many "Good Try!" ribbons they rack up. This is a team that should have stupid money at their beck and call.
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I hope not, though even when you don't have teams spending stupid money you still have the Cubs getting bit by playing it safe when they missed out on Cespedes. It's disheartening to think they're willfully not flexing their financial muscles.
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Honestly, I'm not. Neither am I. The Cubs seem way to conservative right now and there too many teams willing to drop stupid money. The one thing they have seemed willing to do is spend money on guys they can control for several years. They've overspent just because they can and are more willing to do that than trade their quantity guys. Even then they're still spending sensibly. That's not going to cut it when you have teams like the Dodgers or the Rangers tossing around dollars like drunken sailors.
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Honestly, I'm not. Neither am I. The Cubs seem way to conservative right now and there too many teams willing to drop stupid money.
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UNLOCK THE CAMPANA THREAD, YOU JERKSTORES.
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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
Sammy Sofa replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I wouldn't hesitate for a second; if it means getting Upton and Bauer I'm only holding onto Rizzo and Castro. -
gooney is, like, 18 kinds of wrong here, both because he's acting like he's never seen one of the most famous baseball photos of all time and because he's inspired OMC to go on a Cobb binge. I don't know if you're still pissed of post-Sandy or because of the election or what, but this is NOT COOL.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...you're both equally tedious right now.
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Blackouts Be Gone! Lawsuit Names Selig, MLB TV Networks
Sammy Sofa replied to JockJones's topic in General Baseball Talk
I tried some experimenting last night and only ended up with a poop deck. -
Nee look like baby nee.
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The Ricketts own, I believe, 25% of Comcast Sports Chicago, so like CR said, odds are a restructured CSN deal after 2012 would be VERY favorable for the Cubs. Hell, even if the Ricketts didn't have the ownership stake it would still work out for the Cubs just being able to negotiate with a single network. so we should be even more angry that we aren't spending any money? It's not a time machine deal, son.
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The Ricketts own, I believe, 25% of Comcast Sports Chicago, so like CR said, odds are a restructured CSN deal after 2012 would be VERY favorable for the Cubs. Hell, even if the Ricketts didn't have the ownership stake it would still work out for the Cubs just being able to negotiate with a single network.
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No ball-punching .gifs? Lame.
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Yeah, I just had this same conversation with another Cubs fan. It probably seems like more funky things happen to the team you follow, both on and off the field, because you are paying a lot more attention to all the moves they make. Right. It's easy to inflate the importance of something that's pretty much a non-story for basically everyone else beyond these two teams.
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Shocker: Cubs fan can only remember Cubs trades that fell through. Also: Cubs fan thinks trading Dempster and Marmol in 2012 qualifies as "major news."
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I'm baffled by the sheer number of people who seem to honestly believe this. Or that seem to think the rest of baseball is keeping some kind of running tally and laughing at the Cubs over it.
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HAW, DUMPSTER.
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No, the part that determines values of players. There is really no point on arguing this anymore, you seem to be more intent on making up excuses than dealing with facts. Just for kicks, whose fault is it if the team doesn't place a winning bid or value a player properly? It's a blind bidding system; by your standards a team wouldn't be "valuing a player properly" if they bid thousands less than the winning team. Couple that with the reports that the Rangers' bid was far beyond everyone and it's a fool's errand to try and act like this was some great failure.
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The doubly stupid thing about this is that if you're going to harp on missing out on signing a choice international FA then complaining about Cespedes makes soooooooooo much more sense than Darvish. Meatballs can't even meatball right.
