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  1. imb
    Quotes like Rizzo's are why these leagues taking tough stances on DV cases are important. Chapman was never arrested or charged, but he was still suspended. Some would call that unfair, but then Rizzo makes a tone deaf quote like that and reminds you that people, in general, do not take this stuff seriously.
  2. imb
    Pretty much, I chalk this year up to [expletive] happening once in a while. Me myself personally, I still fully expect a great season during his tenure as a Cub. i remember telling you last year that it would be cool to sign heyward but sure would suck waiting half a season for him to start hitting and you assured me this wouldnt happen
  3. imb
    Have you missed the last 40 pages?
  4. imb
    you are a [expletive] idiot and should feel bad about it You're a really nice person. he had some bad Barton's last night
  5. imb
    christ
  6. imb
    So then I'm assuming you know all the facts of the situation, right?
  7. imb
    god arrieta blows.
  8. imb
    fun fact: jose altuve has more home runs THIS SEASON than jason heyward will ever hit in his career how can you be built like giancarlo and hit like elvis andrus
  9. imb
    lol - poor Jed. "Jed's a mess. He;s a disgrace" - donald trump
  10. imb
    You might not be wrong, but I don't think it particularly matters. Chapman is not a good guy, this is the worst but not the only data point in that regard. He put his hands around the woman's neck as part of an argument, shot a gun in frustration, and (this might be a previous incident) hurt his hand punching a car window. Anyone not comfortable or happy with him on the team because of it is not unjustified, especially given the culture around domestic violence and extra especially with celebrities/athletes. It doesn't mean that's the one true interpretation, but debating the minutiae of that incident is not a winning argument, because even if you're right the people upset are still not wrong. I'm now remembering some crazy ESPN magazine article or something talking about how insanely strange his day to day life is in the offseason. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? yeah it talked about how he was always smoking cigarettes and horsefeathers, it was really weird. it was basically like "good thing this dude is hella good at baseball" because america is such a culture shock from his hardscrabble cuban upbringing that he basically just hid in his apartment all day
  11. imb
    I get it, but people are saying he beats women (plural) and should be in prison and basically not given a second chance. I don't agree with that. Are any of you employers? Would you not hire someone who has served their sentence? remember that episode of the office when they found out they were getting some govt reimbursement because they had absorbed that other branch and one of their guys was a convicted felon? maybe that's an inefficiency we're getting on
  12. imb
    i think i agree with that, though i don't think i have much info about what trades could realistically have been made. i mean, if we were willing to deal schwarber, what options open up? i guess i just don't know how much this really moved the dial, in terms of this team winning anything. And if you can trade Torres for something that helps a little less this year but also helps next year and the next year, etc, is that better? I don't know, but I think maybe it is. Added bonus if that thing also doesn't choke women. Would making one trade that included Archer and Colome count as one move? i guess it comes down to that either A.) wasn't an option or B.) the front office determined those two werent worth the asking price. im ok with either
  13. imb
    well sometimes you need to win the world series and not worry as much about winning the award for most team control. 90 percent of our team is controlled for the next half-decade. how much do you think this increases the chances the cubs win the WS this year? how much would any move have increased our chances? I think this increases it as much or more than any other single possible move we could have realistically made.
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    does theo seem like the kind of guy to you to do something big without exploring all available options? (also chapman has thrown 90 less innings than archer this year and has been worth one-tenth of a point less in WAR) I'm in no way disputing the actual talent of Chapman. Just the time we have him under control. Chapman the baseball player is an amazing addition and right up there with anybody we could have reasonably acquired. well sometimes you need to win the world series and not worry as much about winning the award for most team control. 90 percent of our team is controlled for the next half-decade.
  15. imb
    im just not going to fret one little bit about shoring up this team's biggest weakness by giving up ONE ENTIRE PROSPECT that anyone remotely cares about. Had cease actually been included i woulda tugged my collar a little bit and i would have been annoyed (but still happy to have chapman) if eloy had been the headliner. the package we gave up is literally one guy who might just as well turn into felix pie and three pieces of nothing. who cares, let's win a world series But again, not everybody even cares about trading Torres. A lot of us are cool with trading him. We just thought he could be used for another area of weakness but also for a guy in return with lots more years of control. Now in his defense, maybe Theo explored Archer, etc. and Torres was being viewed as the third piece to a trade and it wasn't going to happen so he did this. does theo seem like the kind of guy to you to do something big without exploring all available options? (also chapman has thrown 90 less innings than archer this year and has been worth one-tenth of a point less in WAR)
  16. imb
    umm no Pretty close. It's not unreasonable to be uneasy about paying a high price for a half season of an elite reliever. It can and has been taken too far into prospect clutching, but so is taking the 'Chapman is an elite reliever that makes us better' argument to 'Torres, Cease, McKinney, who cares they're in A-ball'. im just not going to fret one little bit about shoring up this team's biggest weakness by giving up ONE ENTIRE PROSPECT that anyone remotely cares about. Had cease actually been included i woulda tugged my collar a little bit and i would have been annoyed (but still happy to have chapman) if eloy had been the headliner. the package we gave up is literally one guy who might just as well turn into felix pie and three pieces of nothing. who cares, let's win a world series
  17. imb
    You're starting to sound as silly as the people lamenting McKinney's inclusion. umm no
  18. imb
    i really wish we would have traded for a lesser reliever so we could keep billy mckinney and ramon cordoba or whoever. Adam Warren's 6 ERA is gonna be missed, i really wish we could have gotten some team control on a guy like Abad instead of chapman
  19. imb
    Yeah, I'd probably like that fictional trade more than the actual one. I can't say that I would rather have McKinney than Cease. Sure McKinney will be higher on the prospect lists and Cease is a complete wild card, but he is also a rarity in the Cubs system. mckinney is literal garbage so of course id rather have cease than him but jesus christ the wailing and gnashing of teeth over these children in LOW A BALL is really amazing.
  20. imb
    I just threw up. which of cease's 45 innings have been your fav so far
  21. imb
    This is an incredibly weird post. well he's an incredibly weird person
  22. imb
    I AM FURIOUS. CRAWFORD TOO? FOR A RELIEVER?????? has theo lost his mind.
  23. imb
    literally two posts up
  24. imb
    are you out of your horsefeathering mind
  25. imb
    WHO GIVES A horsefeathers. it's an A-ball prospect and three turds. for chapman.
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