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the upshot of the cubs playing those early ass japan games is i only have to watch this bullpen 160 times this year

boy that makes me feel old. 17 years?????

midwest cubs fan high five

hes so horsefeathers cool man, favorite signing of the jed era?

watch it happen and then he falls apart after we sign him and jed is like

an outcome where tucker hits the piss out of it so much that it forces the FOs hand into offering him a megadeal would be acceptable

his name is Arm Strong after all

downside of having a 87 mph 4 seamer

nice play by busch, id like to see ethan hearn pull that off!

boomer

matt mervis is starting at 1b for the marlins lol, get rid of this franchise

ahhh it's alfonseca

sounds like you got caught in yet another self-serving lie

a little soda, some darts, a quick round of anal with a guy in a bruce lee bowling shirt, back to the darts, some pool, another soda

what won't this guy lie about jeez

lmaoooo i remember this. it was the dayton swim club in dayton ohio and it was rocket who detailed that story for us i believe. come back rocket!

lmaoooooooooooo you box score scout a bunch of low minors guys, shotgun out a ton of opinions, and run and hide anytime anyone asks you about all of the countless other times you've acted this obnoxious about a nothing prospect. anyone can look at box scores and be wrong 96 percent of the time man, you don't have a special skill, you're just a shut in.

And who owns that website huh? DISNEY

@Ding Dong Johnsonis the mayor actually

White Sox unveiled a patch on their hat yesterday to memorialize how many losses they had last year.

I think when we eventually look back at the jed years, and this probably has as much to do with the Ricketts honestly, it's the timidity that really held us back. Not to relitigate an offseason half a decade ago, but man it's hard to look at that Harper deal and not feel like signing him would have wildly changed the trajectory of how the team has been built since. Talent coalesces around stars, and all of these offseasons of swings and misses since then would have been so much different. But anyway, Jed (or tom i guess, who knows. probably both) was too scared of that relatively paltry commitment. All the other Harper level stars since (this is my opinion but i think it's right) were never interested in chicago because by the time they hit the market, our Harperless roster looked pretty thin and there were clubs with better orgs, better ownership, better rosters and more money. Easy choice to make. But anyway the timidity really has limited us in other ways too. It's easy to say "sign harper duh" but a lot of us have said the same thing about other FAs since whose deals do not look as appeaing anymore. For every "sign Harper" there was a "sign boegaerts" or "sign correa" (i did both I believe.) Looking back, we really came out OK on the SS market that year. Swanson is solid, still young, fits our team identity and isn't overly expensive. Hard to argue against that. But the point of a deal like that is to create flexibility to take a big swing elsewhere. But of course we didn't do that. Every offseason is full of these half-measures and "maybe you can squint and this guy runs into a 3 war season" signings and it's just not enough.

happ making a strong early season push for a gold glove with that rbi double into right field

still have no idea what this is ever in reference to but obviously something you misunderstood as for the ban, im sure its not a punishment for you,that would require the ability to be introspective. my point is it's funny that you're so bad at posting you got banned from posting about politics on a baseball message board. but for real this time, ill let you get back to wondering if the squirrels outside your apartment are CIA listening devices. there will be plenty of opportunities for us to do this again

my fantasy league group text ERUPTED when it happened because one of the owners took him late, specifically mentioning "im gonna get an opening day homer out of him and drop him." and sure enough lol