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  1. imb
    You're starting to sound as silly as the people lamenting McKinney's inclusion. umm no
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. imb
    I just threw up. which of cease's 45 innings have been your fav so far
  5. imb
    This is an incredibly weird post. well he's an incredibly weird person
  6. imb
    I AM FURIOUS. CRAWFORD TOO? FOR A RELIEVER?????? has theo lost his mind.
  7. imb
    literally two posts up
  8. imb
    are you out of your horsefeathering mind
  9. imb
    WHO GIVES A horsefeathers. it's an A-ball prospect and three turds. for chapman.
  10. imb
    Guys the holdup is that the Cubs are trying to reverse their position in the negotiations. They knew the Yankees had all the power, so they took them right to the edge of a deal (it's called "edging" google it) and then said "actually if he won't sign an extension you can't have Torres." Now the Yankees are in a position of trying to please the Cubs because all the other suitors pulled out once the Cubs and the Yankees paired up
  11. imb
    This is what I would have believed last year. But I thought I finally grasped that it's all a crapshoot and it doesn't matter who you add. Like people here have said you could add Chapman, Miller and Jose Fernandez and still have an 80 percent chance of losing. Oh well. I'll admit I'm an idiot. I'll be happy landing Chapman and not worry about it. As someone else said, it might only move the needle by 2%. But the front office may feel that the future value Torres is worth less than that 2% for a variety of reasons. Or that, considering our relative strengths (eveything except RP) and weaknesses (our RP) securing the back end of games is worth more than 2%. Part of the reason the playoffs are a crapshoot is because one game can wildly swing an entire series, going from bad to great in the bullpen is worth a light hitting blocked teenager.
  12. imb
    http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jck.gif Oh man what will we do without a shitty RP we sent to the minors and a guy who can't hit
  13. imb
    using that logic, very good teams should practically never make trades at the deadline for players who will be free agents at the end of the season. Right. I think if a team thinks they are going to be in the playoffs and they believe the playoffs are a crapshoot no matter how many good players they add, that they won't trade their top prospects for any of them. case by case basis. this would help solve a glaring weakness, this isn't going from castro to russell and expecting it to win you a short series.
  14. imb
    yeah, guys, can anyone tell me why theo, GM of what might be the best team in baseball that just happens to have a bullpen weakness, wants to acquire one of hte best relievers in the game? can someone help me out here
  15. imb
    There's no such thing as a final piece to a World Series puzzle. I see Torres as almost entirely as a trade chip. Never pictured him playing for us really. But given his standing, he should be able to get us more than a rental on a (an insanely good one) reliever. If Theo does this without an extension, does that mean he doesn't buy the theory that the playoffs are a total crapshoot or that he doesn't want to assume we are in the playoffs? What would be his motivation? what? he's probably assuming that arrieta and lester are hitting their decline phase so this may be our best shot at the next few years and that strong RP is our biggest weakness
  16. imb
    i seriously couldnt care less well we should be able to get more for torres than two months + playoffs of chapman. period. maybe so but a stud rp is what the cubs want and the seller is controlling these negotiations. id rather do this than watch him go to cleveland
  17. imb
    my issue with giving up torres (if it's only a rental) is not that we don't keep torres...it's that we don't get more than 2 months of chapman for him but if we extend him i'm good i seriously couldnt care less
  18. imb
    horsefeathers torres, I want a world series
  19. imb
    pretty sure that whatever theo does here will be smart and good so im not even concerned
  20. imb
    i feel like chapman will be here by the end of hte night
  21. imb
    Lots of people are grossed out by the different type of spaghetti noodles. I like the thicker ones, but it seems like plenty of people don't like those because they are "more wet" than the thinner ones tend to be. Personally, I don't like the thinner ones because it seems like they tend to clump together. nice
  22. imb
    ahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahaahah
  23. imb
    http://www.cultjer.com/img/video/magnolia_trailer_hd.jpg
  24. imb
    is a doughnut a sandwich
  25. imb
    3.71 is not nearly 4. Umm what oh man his plan to pitch to more contact has resulted in him being less effective and it's gotten him a whole 1/3rd of an inning more per start. so not only is he worse he's also dumb.
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