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  1. imb
    god damn i miss fred
  2. imb
    im sorry, i didn't realize quoting fangraphs stats you dont understand counts as "analysis. " I have this weird theory where its good to have good players and it's bad to have bad players. austin horsefeathers meadows. shut the hell up
  3. imb
    i can cuss, it was grandfathered in as part of the purchase of the site
  4. imb
    the part where you don't wanna spend $25m/per on a 27 year old gold glove, MVP, all-star who can play 1B/CF/RF (all needs) while also hitting for power, average and a below-league average strikeout rate while simultaneously arguing that we should compete with no one to sign austin meadows, he of the neg-1 war in 30 games over 2 years for detroit, who doesn't even play baseball anymore because of mental health issues. that part, dumbass.
  5. imb
    who cares as long as they're still in the austin meadows sweepstakes
  6. imb
    you could just stop posting stupid horsefeathers and save me the flight
  7. 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"
  8. imb
    insane levels of copium its fine that ohtani isnt a cub, but it's not "for the best," that's insane
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. imb
    its been like 10 days guys
  12. imb
    ralph works for the horsefeathers new york times (athletic) so probably not
  13. 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
  14. imb
    i just might brother
  15. imb
    has a single significant FA even signed anywhere? It's december 6th lol
  16. imb
    im not getting this at all
  17. 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.
  18. imb
    damn bruce out here looking like joe maddon's grandad
  19. imb
    jed got ghosted and doesn't want to admit it. its happened to all of us
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
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