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marmol had airpods, time travel confirmed

there's a nottinghamstrings joke somewhere that im not gonna figure out

this thread actually made me hate blake snell

you got a deal

gitmo for you pal

i think you just accurately nailed every choice, 100 percent. nothing left to say lol

what do you call not trying to sign good baseball players because it doesn't matter if you win or lose genius. look, at the end of the day im horsefeathers around for laughs and im still right and you're trying too hard

we're all saying the same thing, you just don't realize it because you're too busy cosplaying your objection your honor lawyer horsefeathers on nsbb outside of the few and the proud, no one wants to win because you can make easier money not trying. some teams are Capital T trying because their org is in better shape thanks to smart FOs or sexy coastal locations that can lure big names. the cubs would have gladly paid ohtani $500m or whatever, not because they would win with him but because they'd turn that $500m into a bil. When he poofed they said nevermind. It's not like they were in win-now mode when they were chasing him, he would have been good for the bottom line. we're talking about why no one is signing these FAs. no ones signing them because it literally doesn't matter whether you win 78 games or 86 games, and there's no difference between winning 68 games and 78 games. go back and find the part where i said no one wants to compete with the dodgers and yankees payroll, counselor. i said no one wants to bother spending $20m for marginal improvements when all the stars will only go to 2 or 3 locations. what's the point when the money flows regardless

no kidding, its almost like 27 teams see 3 teams with a huge revenue advantage and are saying whats the point. great point man

"as i said endlessly" ok dan patrick keep us updated

shut the horsefeathers up rob

lol baseball is so cooked. everyone sees what the dodgers and the yankees are doing and have just given up

he's probably a $25m a year guy or something like that but the cubs shouldn't even bother if they're not going to be a serious franchise otherwise. either try to be good for real or don't waste my time.

new amber alert just dropped

they never pulled them out

It's almost the weekend so im being optimistic the reason the dodgers are the Dodgers is because Big market/access to more money Farm that consistently produces very good players, giving them financial flexibility They use that flexibility to target specific stars in trades (then extend them) or FA. This keeps their payroll and LT number manageable The Cubs currently Are in a big market with access to more money A farm that never produces horsefeathers (outside of the magical 2016 run) Not the same level of financial flexibility because we're overpaying for midtier guys like taillon because we are not developing good depth Hence, our payroll is more susceptible to getting fucked up through FA because we can't yet supplement the roster with cheap depth Out of all the big acquistions this year, 2 (ohtani, yamamato) clearly do not have any interest in the cubs, and Soto required something of an overpay in prospects (which i would be willing to do, but i imagine the cubs weren't because...) They want Counsell's first year to be about integrating prospects to see if he can get more out of the MLB readyish guys, banking on development from the prospect tier that's still a year or two away, and figuring out how far away they truly are. My guess is they don't spend until the farm is producing guys, and then they go and try to make one or two big splashes in FA to push the team over the top. If you look back to the only success the franchise has ever had, it came when they were producing stars (Rizzo, KB, Javy) and depth guys like Soler or whatever. Once those guys were cooking at the MLB level, they spent on Heyward (Jed's lament) Lester and Zobrist then filled it in with trade deadline acquistions to fill holes. By Monday i'll be in a bad mood again and be much less forgiving but for 72 hours this is how i feel

yeah right, he'll probably play for free lol

PCA cant hit, this team cannot go into the season relying on him if it truly wants to compete

is there even a hint of evidence that he's wrong or are we just moving into the bargaining phase of offseason grief?

the dodgers won 90 games 5 times between 2013 and 2019 and more than 100 games once during that span. They weren't dipping into the top bin of free agency because they didn't need to, something you can't say about any iteration of the cubs since theo left. the rest is just nonsense

i mean on day one we said, this means one of two things - either they're going to spend and they want a good manager to guide a championship caliber team, or they're looking for cheap wins to maintain the status quo. One of those two seems more likely right now and it's not the first one.

you can basically boil this down to a spreadsheet. They know how much investment yields however much return. This isn't about winning, they did that once. Now they want to sit back and make money. They're never going to spend $300m on a player because they can make a profit without doing it. That's the end of the story. The entire plan is to stay middle of the pack so the fans don't completely disappear, tease them with moderate improvements, and then hope they get lucky with prospects again and can win without spending. It's just how it is.

ahh, the sounds of these sweet summer children getting surprised at the cubs doing nothing in the offseason

now go find me opinions on austin meadows

he did always have his finger on the pulse of nsbb