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  1. imb
    i swear to god im going to start slapping people if you guys don't stop talking stupid. two pages of how it's not a good idea to resign our best hitter, a 27 year old who can play gold glove centerfield and 1B, a guy who ticks every single box in what we're looking for in a hitter, and the next idea is "hey lets sign the guy who can't get out of bed in the morning"
  2. imb
    insane levels of copium its fine that ohtani isnt a cub, but it's not "for the best," that's insane
  3. imb
    feels like more of an optics thing than a real issue the $700m man playing for $2m a year so the best team in baseball can afford to consolidate even more good players. It sounds gross regardless of the LT implications
  4. imb
    baseball is really in trouble, the inequities get bigger and bigger each year and eventually the talent consolidation is going to be too much for the small markets to compete. the only way any of them manage to hang around presently is the insanely awful mlb pay structure where you get free players for half a decade before you have to trade them to the dodgers for their 84th best prospect
  5. imb
    its been like 10 days guys
  6. imb
    ralph works for the horsefeathers new york times (athletic) so probably not
  7. imb
    my conspiracy theory is that the blue jays floated the bichette trade rumors to make it seem like no way in hell would they be in on the $600m man, letting them negotiate in anonymity
  8. imb
    i just might brother
  9. imb
    has a single significant FA even signed anywhere? It's december 6th lol
  10. imb
    im not getting this at all
  11. imb
    i think the cubs are very in on Ohtani, because he's a once in a lifetime (or twice in a lifetime i guess) guy, he just doesn't want to play for us. i think outside of the absolute top end guys (I guess soto fits here too but the asking price is too much) the cubs are willing to see what they have with horton, pca, shaw, caissie, alcantara, whatever, before they go in for like a second-tier star. I don't think that's a good plan necessarily but i think that's what's on Hoyer's mind.
  12. imb
    damn bruce out here looking like joe maddon's grandad
  13. imb
    jed got ghosted and doesn't want to admit it. its happened to all of us
  14. imb
    Probably Ohtani realizes he just spent more than half a decade on a lost cause roster, watching Trout fade into injury obscurity without ever playing a meaningful game and said you know what, i dont want to waste my only big contract on a maybe
  15. imb
    Did you know in the last 15 years, only once has the world series winner also had the fWAR leader? (Betts/Red Sox 2018) the cubs are going to be fine
  16. imb
    this thing we do every offseason where we go "the reporters telling me what i want to believe are real and the ones telling me bad news are making it up" never fails to get a laugh.
  17. imb
    I know this is easy to say at this point, but guys ... the best player in baseball is a free agent and the idea that he would sign with the cubs (THE CUBS) over The best team in baseball With an unlimited budget Who has actually cleared payroll for him already and they live right down the (very long) street from where he already resides its disappointing but don't waste time being disappointed you didn't win the lottery.
  18. imb
    Ehh I dunno. I think it certainly helped that he was the cheapest, but they were probably out on correa for health reasons, out on Turner because his defensive profile didn't match the cost (I wanted turner to be fair but im also a dumb dumb) and they were never gonna give Bogaerts $280 mil. Tom, of all people, actually sold me on Swanson after the signing and yeah it's just one year but it was probably the right call.
  19. imb
    ohtani inexplicably choosing the cubs over the dodgers was always a longshot. i just take solace in the fact that almost every time i get my heart set on a FA, we don't get him and it works out fine anyway
  20. imb
    regardless of all the nonsense, its much more likely ohtani picks the dodgers over the cubs
  21. imb

    Glasnow...Now?

    imb replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    glasnow seems kind of redundant considering our top prospect (gallardo) is the best pitching prospect in the minors
  22. imb
    crazy that he's just 33. I remember Jersey saying something during Starlin's rookie year about how easy it would be for him to get to 3,000 hits.
  23. imb
    what the hell
  24. imb
    yeah when is the Bozo Bowl kicking off anyway
  25. imb
    we could give the money to SSR, he then invests it in some Israeli-government bonds, allowing the eventual winner to profit off of supporting our fiercest political allies.
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