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my only concern is that this takes us out of the austin meadows sweepstakes

Jed cooked boras. Tears in my eyes

that one year of chelsea where he basically rode Kante into the dirt and won a UCL in a year when the team's top scorer had 7 goals (all penalties) because they played 5 at the back with three world class CBs bought him a lifetime of teams talking themselves into him

dont overthink it. this problem only occurs when one guy gets mad at the liberal slant of this board and starts trying to turn it into twitter

ok but those are always on his mind

its probably counsell intuiting that ross is very bald and very dumb and going "i need to see this for myself before i write it off."

you should have minded your own business

yes you do, stupid

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