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Soooo the cubs have now are defending champs and also have the best team of all time? that's cool. glad i asked. it'll be useful for the next baseball argument i get into with my one friend that is truly into MLB who lives four hours away. side note: NC needs an MLB team bad. Little league/HS baseball/ECU baseball/etc is HUGE. it's a baseball loving town/state but all we have are some bandwagon idiot braves fans. Granted, they will still be idiot baseball fans if Raleigh or somewhere got a team and obsessed with Wins for P and batting average and such, but I think it would really, really thrive. plus I could argue with many more people who don't know dick about baseball. it would basically correlate that i was the TT or Duke of baseball and they'll be the weis21. i would just throw out some type of WAR stat or wOBA (hell even just OPS) every now and then and they'd be like, "hmm. welp i'm in over my head here!"

the giants are now 40 games back of first place LAD. Out of curiosity, anyone know the record of "most games behind at end of season" off hand? (I could probably google this but I'm lonely and want to talk w/ someone online. thx in advance)

i don't dislike bruce at all but wtf is the point of this tweet

well i mean this is a different conversation. assuming both are willing to take a backup QB role, both should be on rosters. that's pretty much the end of this. they're both way more talented enough for that role. so either they don't want to be a back-up and are refusing to sign in that capacity or they should have been signed by like 80 percent of teams yesterday. either way, i'm sick of it all. what he did was a peaceful protest. members of our armed forces have come out time and time again and said they have no issues and that is why they chose to do what they do - to protect that freedom. RGIII was pretty bad last year. I mean in theory I guess he's still a top 90 QB, but teams probably would rather take a chance on a younger healthier guy to hang around the bottom of the roster. Kapernick is borderline starter QB, and while I can get around why he didn't land a starter or even open QB competition roll like the Jets (as there aren't many to begin with), his price has dropped enough that the other factors should have taken over, and the ugly beast this controversy has become makes it even less likely. i mean it's not a hill i'm willing to die on, but RGIII was hurt [insert as always joke; it's allowed] last year, too. he clearly has tools. i certainly understand not wanting to commit on him as a starter or anything crazy like that bc he is probably going to get hurt again and again. but, what's the downside for a "normal backup QB" salary? i mean if the starter goes down then he at least has the possibility of highish level play (he's still young enough and he's clearly athletic if healthy). if he gets hurt while being the backup QB then you go to 3rd string and with the garbage that is 2nd string NFL quarterbacks is there really any difference bt 2nd and 3rd string? at least to the degree that you may (again, not putting my neck out here for this but maybe better odds than most 2nd string QBs) get good play out of RGIII? i think he has matured personally from what i've read/heard (no idea if accurate, of course) but he doesn't seem like some toxic clubhouse personality from all accounts i have heard in the last couple years. i couldn't care less if he signs or not, i just think it's slightly odd. maybe he isn't a great teammate after all or maybe he has contract demands or something but i would pick him up in a heartbeat if i were a gm and needed a backup and everything checked out.

yeah i was asking as far as being playoff eligible (or else it's pretty much meaningless) deadline

well i mean this is a different conversation. assuming both are willing to take a backup QB role, both should be on rosters. that's pretty much the end of this. they're both way more talented enough for that role. so either they don't want to be a back-up and are refusing to sign in that capacity or they should have been signed by like 80 percent of teams yesterday. either way, i'm sick of it all. what he did was a peaceful protest. members of our armed forces have come out time and time again and said they have no issues and that is why they chose to do what they do - to protect that freedom.

Is there a deadline? 5:00 EST? Midnight?

i'm inclined to agree but seems a little too risky

stick with being a baseball genius, pal

kinda neat the cubs are playing such better baseball in the second half. that's a good thing when it comes to the crapshoot playoffs, right?

bandwagon fan comes back when game is clearly decided. typical

surprised they didn't ask laurie to finish out the broadcast with len and jd with all the fun they were having

rene took those words to heart

that old lady that had the drunk dude fall on her a little and she high fived him is going to be featured in prob every postseason game at wrigley

i have 22 min of GoT finale to watch. to finish that or to watch the cubs continue to murder the pirates?

oh and neither of these guys are our one of our 2 best home grown players (or 3 if you wanna cheat and count rizzo's start at iowa) Oh, the days when we were excited about Felix Pie. Dark, dark days to think we could've had two different milton bradleys

omg JD i love you more than kyle for that call of the shot holy horsefeathers

lol

anybody else notice duke hasn't been around much since it was 0-2? just sayin'

when heyward gets a hit off a lefty i feel obligated to tell all you guys that i'm sorry for all my dumb posts and i love y'all. it's a pact i made with myself

#cyclewatch

i love him. that is all.

is KB the best baserunner in baseball? not the fastest, of course, but just best overall

between the steal of home and those two jay catches, that was fun as hell

really appreciate the detailed response and appreciate all you guys that have so much more knowledge and insight about these players than i do