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That's the dirty little secret of The Plan. Unless they go on an unparalleled run in the current MLB environment, they aren't going to win enough to make up for the hole they've put themselves in. Why do they have to balance anything out? Just wine nought toget into the post-season crap shoot every year. Fun fact: the Cubs have something like the fifth or sixth best historical winning percentage in MLB The issue is the phrase "every year". They've already spent a lot of time not winning enough to get into the "crap shoot" any year. You can't take a dive and focus exclusively on the farm system while losing an inordinate number of games and then claim you've won consistently. These years happened.

Yes. But I get the sense half of you wouldn't trade the Astros for the Angels right now. I honestly don't think you would. Even if PTR is broke and they [expletive] up the future TV rights, there's enough young talent already here to go on a Tampa type run, never breaking 100 mill in payroll. that's what we're hoping/shooting for? Five 90 win seasons over seven seasons is good; however, I do not think that is good enough to justify the prolonged dive these guys took. Even if that does begin next season, and you ignore 2012, that would mean five 90 win seasons over nine years. You would need a couple of those to be 100 win type juggernauts to start to justify the garbage time.

What does that mean? I don't think anyone here is giving an opinion. No, they are casting judgement about what they know about actual doctor's opinions.

There seems to be a lot of medical opinion experts on board here.

This makes absolutely no sense.

The way the system is set-up, the big market teams are making the most money by far thanks to their local TV deals. The comp draft pick is a relatively minor bone to throw to the poors so they will keep playing along with a system rigged heavily to profit the biggest organizations. i'm struggling to understand how the example of getting local broadcast money equates to a "system rigged" in some sense, it's a debate between the haves and the have-more's and #whocares, but if i'm a spender, i'm not particularly inclined to let the non-spenders benefit disproportionately, which i think they are. and not necessarily because of the "competitive balance pick", though that did set off my rant MLB is structured in a way that the owners of the biggest teams have benefited far more, and are in position to benefit far more for the foreseeable future, than the smaller markets. A decade ago there was a strong push to try and spread the profits but in the end all they did was share a little bit and give them a relatively minor thing, the comp draft pick. The big owners don't care about the comp pick. It is meaningless in the grand scheme of their earning hundreds of millions of dollars while the schmoes try and turn relatively minimal profits. It is appeasement so as to keep those schmoes, and some middle market teams on the side of the big guys. You are making a much bigger deal out of the comp pick than any owner. They aren't getting screwed.

While I get the sentiment, there are definitely lots of people who really do hate him. And they are terrible human beings.

Anybody excited for the new season? http://deadspin.com/police-texas-football-players-sexually-assaulted-woman-1610285609

thief

Apparently Arsenal players are walking around Hoboken, maybe they can be my new team.

well said?

I don't remember him having arms like that. Retirement doesn't test.

Was the commissioner lenient enough?

Lazy white people

You can't tell me those eyes don't care.

The way the system is set-up, the big market teams are making the most money by far thanks to their local TV deals. The comp draft pick is a relatively minor bone to throw to the poors so they will keep playing along with a system rigged heavily to profit the biggest organizations.

One hesitation and Bonifacio beats it out... nothing wrong with that play. The problem in the inning was our best hitting striking out with the bases loaded. It is much dumber to rely on a mistake by an opposing major leaguer in order to have success than having a good hitter not make an out. The problem with your theory here is that Bonifacio isn't really a good hitter, at least not outside the month of April this year. I wasn't talking about Bonifacio, I was talking about rondon placing the blame on our best hitter striking out.

One hesitation and Bonifacio beats it out... nothing wrong with that play. The problem in the inning was our best hitting striking out with the bases loaded. It is much dumber to rely on a mistake by an opposing major leaguer in order to have success than having a good hitter not make an out.

Tommy Birch ‏@TommyBirch 10m I-#Cubs manager Marty Pevey said INF Lars Anderson has been sent to AA and OF Manny Ramirez has been placed on the disabled list. #MiLB

The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments is in response to all the 90 loss seasons. Cespedes is just another brick in the wall, but that doesn't mean fans who actually care about results of the major league team are not allowed to wish they signed him. Or does it?

bases clearing 2B by Bryant

conte on active PUP, not available. Kyle Long unavailable at start of camp due to virus (twitter followers should know) slauson fully cleared, mills same, Steltz tentatively ready to go on Friday

RC Cola camp?

http://www.csnchicago.com/page/livebears streaming press conference

Quietly long overdue. As opposed to Hannemann getting bumped up to Daytona. That one was overdue on an age basis.