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Cubs add Chapman for Torres, et al. imb wishes we paid more
imb replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
well sometimes you need to win the world series and not worry as much about winning the award for most team control. 90 percent of our team is controlled for the next half-decade. how much do you think this increases the chances the cubs win the WS this year? A lot -
https://twitter.com/MattGoldberg/status/1103314761079549958
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I know writers don’t get to pick their own headlines, but a writer should be immediately fired and blacklisted for something like this its a defensible position isnt it? Post-2017 he was two years removed from a 9-war MVP season (as a 22 year old!) and was fresh off a 1.000 OPS season where he was only held back by injury. Post 2019 he was fresh off a downish season where his defense slipped and he was in a market that didn't appear to have a great fit for him. You can argue that a player's worth is different than "what someone will pay for him," but in this context his "worth" is dictated by the market and it's not necessarily wrong that you could have probably held out and gotten him for less. Maybe.
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New murder doc on netflix but instead you got espn on? Here, you now have to watch Mike Matheny try to read his own handwriting for 5 minutes
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look if for some reason we are stupid enough to eschew all the cool popular media that exists today in lieu of watching men hit baseballs with a stick, we should be forced to watch fat managers tumble around the field making lineup changes.
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same for me but Jerome Williams Alfonseca was stronger than I realized. the extra fingers probably helped
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im for the three-batter rule strictly because i like seeing the fucked up "oh my god why is this happening" face that relievers make when they suck butt and also the "oh my god why is this happening" face fans make when their relievers suck butt. it will be bad when it happens to us but good when it happens to everyone else so therefore in conclusion the good outweighs the bad, do not respond to this post
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How does it definitely make the game better though? Because we’ll save maybe 7 min a game on pitching changes (not to say this won’t make games longer since there’s chances for blowups for guys forcing them to face 3 batters and creating long innings)? There’s far more downside than upside, imo. i dont know how it makes the game better, i just dont think it makes it worse either, just different. I really dont care one way or the other so i dont know why im even posting (very on brand for me.)
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i think the three-batter minimum is kind of stupid but i also think you'll get to the end of a season and be like "oh that was bad like 4 times overall" so who cares
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it hurt to unfollow PFT commenter last year but i dont regret it
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every derwood tangent ever someone: posts a thing derwood: makes a post misunderstanding the post me: horsefeathers post someone: derwood that's not what they were saying derwood: i know that obviously
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darin
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remember all the attack ads people made? it truly was a different time
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there wasn't a single aspect of that thread that was not embarassing
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i had so many good ones from back pre-crash when the board was hopping with crazies. Goddman, you aren't kidding. Though sulley tried to singlehandedly keep it going for a while. oh horsefeathers if you go log in on the archives site they're all still there edit: omg lol i have the letter omc sent tim and 1908 about me, amazing
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i rarely ever get one but got a lengthy one recently that said i should ignore this poster's posts and that i'm dumb. fred did PM me once when my location was "Pirate Country" and asked if I wanted to catch the Cubs @ Pirates game with him. I guess the board crash deleted that one : ( i had so many good ones from back pre-crash when the board was hopping with crazies.
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As an idiot who just got nailed with the MLB TV auto-renewal yet again, mineaswell watch some oh god dammit
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bitch we know
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this thread has taken an extremely normal turn at the hands of this extremely normal guy. thankfully it's distracting everyone from the fact that bryce harper is playing elsewhere on a contending team for the same AAV we gave yu darvish
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lmao i didn't remember it being in PMs but sure enough for transparency sake here is the first pm he sent me along with my first reply. can't imagine why he didn't include it a million dollars
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Except you accepted the +200 so don't pretend that's what I was harping on. I wouldn't say you welched because we didn't agree to an amount after your million dollar offer, but you wussed out because you were talking out of your ass, which is a frequent occurance. at the risk of making fun of a disabled person, if you can't read the obvious sarcasm in those quotes then you should ... work on ... comprehending posts better
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it was in the playoffs when we were getting our ass beat by the dodgers and i made the stellar prediction that we would not make it back to Chicago for the end of the series.
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imagine going through life thinking every time someone says the words "i bet" in a sentence it's some binding deal that means they actually want to bet money with some rapey stranger on the internet they've never met
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That’s why I think the blackjack analogy is apt. “If he is a superstar for three years and opts out, great!” Is like saying “I bet $10 on a 50/50 bet, and got back $15, great!” Opt-outs chop a chunk off the high end of expected value for the team, which drives down the average expected value. And yes, that can be worth it if you get concessions elsewhere in the contract, but just because you and I get that doesn’t mean everyone does. yeah but how it actually works in a baseball sense is you can: * bet $10 on a 50/50 bet and if you win you get back $15 * or not bet at all. there is no table where you can bet $10 on a 50/50 bet and get back $20. So what do you do.
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The bolded part is not "pretty bad," in fact it's pretty good. You got your money's worth for the time that player was on your team. If you had not offered him the opt-out, he wouldn't have signed with you and you would have had to give your money to someone else who might have been good and might not have been good. You also now have $25 million you can spend again on another player (or a pro-trump pac if you're a ricketts) You know what sure would have sucked? (this is not directed at Bertz) If Jason Heyward had been an MVP candidate for the last three years and had opted out. Sure would have been terrible to have him have been awesome. And as a further gut punch, we would have had more than $20 million to spend this offseason. Wonder who we could have signed with it.
