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uhh, no one? When has anyone even debated that You just said: ...seemingly as if some people had been advocating the former. I guess I just took it the wrong way. Im saying that was the two options the front office faced. You can suck with your old, expensive, bad roster and lose 100 games and get nowhere or you can suck with a bunch of fill ins, trade the old guys for whatever you can get, lose 100 games but be making incremental progress. Those weren't the only options though, unless you think everyone is like Sanchez and didn't want to sign with a terrible team. I dont think anyone of significance would, especially since we weren't going to toss a soriano-esque contract at them.
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uhh, no one? When has anyone even debated that You just said: ...seemingly as if some people had been advocating the former. I guess I just took it the wrong way. Im saying that was the two options the front office faced. You can suck with your old, expensive, bad roster and lose 100 games and get nowhere or you can suck with a bunch of fill ins, trade the old guys for whatever you can get, lose 100 games but be making incremental progress.
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uhh, no one? When has anyone even debated that
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Meaning 1 out of 11 "core pieces" were acquired through trading the cancerous vets and 1 out of 11 acquired from being really bad at the major league level. The point isnt that the core was acquired by trading off soriano, soto, whoever, it's that they weren't going to be able to add pieces with an old, expensive, bad roster. You can suck with Zambrano, Dempster, Garza, etc, or you can suck without them while acquiring something you think might help in the future. Why do you think Anibal Sanchez went to Detroit instead of Chicago? Maybe because Detroit is competing for a World Series and the cubs are trying not to lose 100 games.
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You're right, definitely not mad
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Highway to the Erik-zone
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I said "feelings hurt," not mad. Of course, since you couldn't successfully parse out a single like, 10-word sentence, maybe you are mad.
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Lmao are your feelings hurt? Poor guy. Maybe if you could have stopped yourself from acting like an authority on a subject you haven't paid attention to for at least two years, you could have avoided degrading yourself so publicly. This is what I was talking about from the very beginning. The guy was clearly stating that the cubs were treating this like a scenario where they had to shed themselves of this nonsense roster before progressing, rightly or wrongly. But because you just couldnt stand a post being made that didn't term it how your limited understanding wanted it termed, you got all excited and made a fool of yourself, per usual.
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I think you might literally be the only person in this thread using the term ''fire sale." Just call it what it is, a concerted effort to shed as many assets as possible and to acquire as many sheddable assets as possible. You're pompously droning on and on about things you clearly haven't been paying attention to, its pathetic.
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undoubtedly Moving 7 players over 2.5 seasons just doesn't strike me as a fire sale. well yeah, when you ignore 200 roster decisions and focus only on 7 trades I can see how that could happen
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When Sammy Sosa injured himself sneezing, why didn't he tell police that he was injured fighting off a gang of ninjas
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undoubtedly
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lmao x2
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72 percent of 2012's cubs roster is no longer on the 40-man. if that doesn't count as a purge to you, well, i dont know what to say.
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thatsthejoke.jpg
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"oh man i didn't get a no-hitter im so sad i guess ill go drink my sorrows away"
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lmao Please, show me this dramatic blow up of the "old team." Byrd, Soto and Dempster traded in 2012. Soriano, Garza and Marmol traded this year. My God, it's like the post-WS Marlins in here, what with all of the flames and all. you've already said you don't pay attention to the minor leagues (clearly) and from this thread, it's clear you're not paying attention to the major league team, so ... http://i.imgur.com/MkjEDx3.jpg What is it, would you say, that you do here?
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Ugh
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lmao Please, show me this dramatic blow up of the "old team." Byrd, Soto and Dempster traded in 2012. Soriano, Garza and Marmol traded this year. My God, it's like the post-WS Marlins in here, what with all of the flames and all. out of 53 players baseball reference lists as appearing on a cubs roster during 2012, I count 15 still on the 40-man, including such luminaries as rafael dolis, josh vitters, brett jackson and chris rusin.
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http://blogs.roanoke.com/andybittervirginiatechfootball/files/2013/09/9.23p-hokie-stone.jpg that looks like someone photoshopped a sim city 2000 map onto a god damn helmet
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lmao
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Royal
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THU, SEP 26 San Francisco at St. Louis, 8:25 PM SUN, SEP 29 Baltimore at Buffalo, 1:00 PM Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1:00 PM Chicago at Detroit, 1:00 PM NY Giants at Kansas City, 1:00 PM Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 1:00 PM Arizona at Tampa Bay, 1:00 PM Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1:00 PM Seattle at Houston, 1:00 PM NY Jets at Tennessee, 4:05 PM Philadelphia at Denver, 4:25 PM Dallas at San Diego, 4:25 PM Washington at Oakland, 4:25 PM New England at Atlanta, 8:30 PM MON, SEP 30 Miami at New Orleans, 8:30 PM http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/1913r7llrzsyegif/original.gif
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kill any student workers this week, brian kelly?
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Week 3 Bears (2-0) @ Steelers (0-2) 7:30 CST Sun NBC/780
imb replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
http://media1.sulia.com/static/user_images/9/2013-09-23/2ad4d9fb-4c68-4401-bcbe-99b93e26584f.gif I only saw it out of the corner of my eye last night and i was going to joke that defenders are terrified of hitting QBs in the open field, so they keep letting up and getting run over, but this looks like cutler legit trucking a dude.
