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  1. jersey cubs fan
    No offense Brock but I think this is a job for a cubs fan. I nominate @Duke Silver
  2. jersey cubs fan
    That was bringing me to the beginning but maybe that was early on in the process
  3. jersey cubs fan
    What’s the best way to get to the last unread post in a thread? I’ve been clicking on the “x minutes ago” and it takes me to the last message, but bypasses the last message I would have read.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    That cannot be true, at least for final year of arb. Guys get huge bumps in pay at the end. 6 in the final year seems unpossibly low for anybody that is any good at all.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Hoerner guaranteed 3 more years in IL and at least 3 more trips to IL
  6. jersey cubs fan
    How did the social forum disappear?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    This organization has done more than any other to maybe actually finally get me to be a fan of one of my local teams I’ve lived near for almost 30 years. It helps that my daughters like them but I’m going to my 6th devils game of the year this week and may look for playoff tickets. blackhawks caving on the pride night jersey was a seriously messed up move after a series of unprecedented screwing up of their fan relations. They’ve traded/given away so many young players in recent years and are so far from ever competing again. They deserve to have the lottery go against them. Maybe be forced to draft the Russian guy and have him never come to the states. Start playing your better prospects next year and finish strong enough to draft 7 or 8 and never get a chance to bring in a stud. Then you’ve got to give away the guys you drafted last year by 2026 so you can hope to reload in time for the 2030 draft.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Bears
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I’m just dying to make a “tank win” in the Blackhawks thread or at least talk about how cowardly their pride night jersey decision was.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I’m so lost this is weirdly intoxicating. Although that may have been the hangover
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I’ll be drunk at a hockey game around that time so I’ll try and get a few last shots off
  12. jersey cubs fan
    As if you know what the concept of love is
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, just as soon as we stop saying every free agent was actually offered more by another team, or that teams were surprised their guy was available when their turn in the draft came up, or that were ecstatic with our draft class. It’s a harmless catch all phrase that actually does have some meaning because there are definitely teams that will target needs above best player overall. Baseball teams do a version of this all the time, going heavy on pitching or college hitters or whatever else they might be lacking in their system. Not to mention purposely taking a lesser player for signability reasons rather than actually taking BPA. There is no such thing as a universally accepted best player available at any slot, but there are versions of it in every war room and teams either stick with that or let doubt creap into their minds and take the guy that might actually fit their situation instead.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I go to the main forum page to check the status of the donation statistics If we have to click through a website to get here that’s gonna by a bummer
  15. jersey cubs fan
    There’s no way to quantitatively value football players and therefore any BPA discussion begins and ends with some variation of the consensus view of the people in the room doing the evaluation. They group these guys in similar brackets and it makes sense to take a guy who fits best from the group that is available at your pick. You might have 2 guys standing alone, then 3-6 more in the next group. If one of that group is available at 9 he technically fits the BPA distinction. But if the next group is 7-11 and the rest of the groups are empty, any one of those 5 will be the BPA by default and should be taken based on fit. See, that all just sounds like ... drafting. I've always assumed when people were talking about BPA they meant it as some sort of philosophical approach, with drafting for positional need being the opposing philosophy. It actually apparently just means "take a pretty good player who also you kinda want," which seems to me to be vague enough to be useless, but at least now I know it doesn't mean what I thought it meant. You thought this was yahoo draft set to auto pick?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Pretty amazing how much money they’ve put into a team that Vegas isn’t sure will win 77 games.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    There’s no way to quantitatively value football players and therefore any BPA discussion begins and ends with some variation of the consensus view of the people in the room doing the evaluation. They group these guys in similar brackets and it makes sense to take a guy who fits best from the group that is available at your pick. You might have 2 guys standing alone, then 3-6 more in the next group. If one of that group is available at 9 he technically fits the BPA distinction. But if the next group is 7-11 and the rest of the groups are empty, any one of those 5 will be the BPA by default and should be taken based on fit.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    So just a regular Saturday night in nsbb.com
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I mean cool, that’s fun, but Myles garret is getting old and spent his entire career on a crappy team. Defensive studs are fun but they don’t win you games.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    What in the name of Joey Tribbiani was the reason for putting Pete Alonso's name in quotation marks? Because they were quoting the fans that were “chanting that man’s name”
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I may or may not believe all of this, but here's a bullet point list that I would imagine would be used in the pitch: 1. One of probably the 5 most historic franchises in baseball 2. Top 2 baseball market in the US 3. One of the 2 easiest divisions in baseball and an easier road to the postseason 4. Top 5 farm system that will place several prospects in the majors in 2024 and 2025 5. 2023 team just won 82 games and is on the right track 6. We're also going to sign another big free agent to help out (Giolito? Matt Chapman?) 7. Positive reviews of the organization and how they take care of players/families (nutrition, training, helping acclimate to Chicago, etc.) I don’t think anybody outside the Chicagoland area believes 2 to be accurate. And not many agree with 4. Major leaguers also probably don’t care about that. 5 is meaningless and 6 would have to be a prove it scenario. 1 and 7 are really what you have to hang your hat on and that’s touchy-feely stuff that may or may not sway a player.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I reserve the right to make a snarky “all they did was sign linebackers” post in the future but this seems additive.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    The obvious shirts guys will make a fun slogan referencing you on a t shirt
  24. jersey cubs fan
    You really gonna try and make me open Twitter to read this thread?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I wish the Cubs had a better owner. Turns out $300 million is also what it would take for me to live in Philly. As somebody who has spent a ridiculous amount of time in SE PA for hockey reasons the past two months, I’d settle for $275 million.
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