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  1. jersey cubs fan
    We aren't talking about a black/white situation. It's marginal setbacks that can incrementally harm a player's ultimate productivity.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah I'm not sure what he's saying there. Is he saying that Bickell has a knee injury now? or he had one? Bickell had a knee injury earlier.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Shouldn't be too hard. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
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    Depressing about Soler. Would hate that we missed out on Cespedes and Puig and threw our eggs into Soler (and Conception) basket only for him to disappoint. I wouldn't worry about the Soler hand-wringing in a season he played baseball for the first time in two years. Didn't he play in 2012? My concern about Soler is largely about the fact that he is already 22 and has played less than a season's worth of professional baseball (over 2 years) and missed a bunch of time and already has "I can retire on this and never think about caring for my children or my children's children" money. When you consider the normal failure rate of prospects and then add in the setbacks along the way already for Soler, it's a big uphill battle.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    was just going to say that. although this just makes it even more awkward in my opinion, since you bring attention to the matter with a transaction involving well known names before a release.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It's really not that complex and the context is very much understood. The Cubs knew they could get away with losing a lot for multiple years because of the inherited brand value established over the years and instead of trying to build up the farm system while trying to succeed at the major league level, they chose to focus their efforts entirely on the farm system. Some people think that was the only way to do it and are totally cool with it. Others don't think that.
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    joan was good
  11. jersey cubs fan
    What in the actual hell? I didn't see this here. Possible we just gave him away? It's not like he's got value on his own. guys, he died have some respect
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Why do people insist on inventing false choices? This isn't a game of Sophie's choice. They've intentionally decided not to try when they very well could have done both. You still clinging to your idea that finances aren't playing into anything? Oh my. This blanket excuse that somehow financial pressures outside of their own making forced themselves on the team is ridiculous. The Cubs chose to be very bad for a few years. They actively chose that path. It was a decision made by the powers that be. Some people are fine with their favorite team losing a lot. Some people try to convince themselves they are fin with it. Others find it annoying.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Oh yes, by all means. Brett wrote a long article that revealed very little, if any new information and therefore we must praise the decision to lose as much as possible for many years. Makes sense. No one(I don't think) is praising losing. But it is what it is, I don't see the point of whining about an extra 10 wins in our current situation. Translation, the team sucks but you are a bad person if that disappoints you and you express disappointment. Good people invent a new thing to enjoy and call it cheering the process.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    They could and they may but they might also LTIR Roszival. Presumably, the Hawks already had a plan for how they were going to add Teuvo under the cap. That plan may have changed in light of Kane's injury. What remains to be seen is if he spends any time with Rockford to get used to the smaller sheet. The other thing to keep in mind is that if Teuvo plays more than 9 games they are burning a year on his entry level contract. It's a little bit like the rule MLB has where it's better to have the rookie start the year in AAA for an extra year of team control. If they send Teuvo to Rockford for a week, they might be able to use him just enough to get through the 1st round of the playoffs before deciding what to do about his contract. Last thing they'd want to do is be in a position where they use up that year only to get eliminated in the 1st round. Do the playoffs count against those 9 games? According to what I read earlier, yes. Although I know very little about how NHL contracts work.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Oh yes, by all means. Brett wrote a long article that revealed very little, if any new information and therefore we must praise the decision to lose as much as possible for many years. Makes sense.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    If it takes 5 years of consistently losing in order to get to a point where you can consistently win, then you aren't consistently winning. http://i.imgur.com/J7BMq.gif Yes, please leave. Or at least stop lying about enjoying a process that somehow requires year after year of losing in order to increase the likelihood of someday winning consistently.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    You have fun watching a professional baseball player in the Cubs organization have success. That is not enjoying the process. It would be just as fun watching Javy develop if the Cubs were 81-81 in each of the last three years.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    If it takes 5 years of consistently losing in order to get to a point where you can consistently win, then you aren't consistently winning.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I totally get the aspect of it that Theo talked about at some point...that following these guys from day one and then seeing them come together to achieve big league success is going to be really awesome. Like, picturing Javy coming up to the plate in an NLCS game at Wrigley or something after following his minor league career and everything...that's gonna be really cool. I get that. But watching the big team lose in the meanwhile is not fun in any [expletive] way. It will be fun when Javy does something in the NLCS, and slightly more enjoyable because he will have been a Cub since the day he was drafted. But mostly that will be enjoyable because it will be a Cub succeeding in the NLCS. And that still does not in any way reflect rooting for the process itself.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    rooting for a process is dumb or a lie people tell themselves, which is just as dumb
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Well, it takes you to a pretty dark place once you admit that your owner is mediocre. There's not much that can be done to fix that. So I can actually understand the defensiveness a little. It's not like you can't win titles with a mediocre owner. That's hardly a dark place. Surely it reduces the likelihood of sustained winning. What the hell has Bill Dewitt ever done?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Nothing? Has it gotten better? No. There has been zero effort to making the major league team competitive.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Lake Takes the Plunge This title is a bigger F up than the transposed bb/k numbers.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Well, it takes you to a pretty dark place once you admit that your owner is mediocre. There's not much that can be done to fix that. So I can actually understand the defensiveness a little. It's not like you can't win titles with a mediocre owner. That's hardly a dark place.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It is intellectually dishonest to talk about a collective doom boner on here. I would argue it is aggressively ignorant to talk about it actually. This isn't a group of fans following a good team and unable to enjoy it. This isn't a good team just going through a brief period of struggles. There isn't an unjustified level of fear about the team doing poorly despite evidence pointing toward success. This is a god damn awful baseball team that has been awful for several years and an ownership/management group that has done nothing to make it better. This isn't a farm system competition. This isn't a league that hands out trophies based on rankings of prospects. The only thing that matters is wins and losses by the major league team and this major league team loses far too often to pretend these are good times. Only a truly idiotic person would accuse a Cubs fan of being unfairly critical of what the organization has done.
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