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Everything posted by imb
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yeah right, he'll probably play for free lol
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PCA cant hit, this team cannot go into the season relying on him if it truly wants to compete -
Yoshinobu Yamamoto to...the Dodgers? Really? Again?
imb replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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
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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.
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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.
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ahh, the sounds of these sweet summer children getting surprised at the cubs doing nothing in the offseason
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now go find me opinions on austin meadows
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he did always have his finger on the pulse of nsbb
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god damn i miss fred
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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
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i can cuss, it was grandfathered in as part of the purchase of the site
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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.
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who cares as long as they're still in the austin meadows sweepstakes
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you could just stop posting stupid horsefeathers and save me the flight
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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"
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insane levels of copium its fine that ohtani isnt a cub, but it's not "for the best," that's insane
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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
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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
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its been like 10 days guys
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ralph works for the horsefeathers new york times (athletic) so probably not
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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
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto to...the Dodgers? Really? Again?
imb replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i just might brother -
Yoshinobu Yamamoto to...the Dodgers? Really? Again?
imb replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
has a single significant FA even signed anywhere? It's december 6th lol -
im not getting this at all
