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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
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Javier Baez Does Whatever the Fuck He Wants Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to CubInOK's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Offseason Rumors
jersey cubs fan replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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 -
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.
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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.
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2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to Drew Doughty's topic in Other Sports
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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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rooting for a process is dumb or a lie people tell themselves, which is just as dumb
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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?
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Nothing? Has it gotten better? No. There has been zero effort to making the major league team competitive.
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Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition
jersey cubs fan replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Lake Takes the Plunge This title is a bigger F up than the transposed bb/k numbers. -
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.
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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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A season that the Cubs finish at .500 is going to feel a lot different than a season in which they do what they've been doing of late because .500 is going to feel like contention for a good deal of the season.
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Olt walks
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I briefly explained to my wife how good he could wind up being while watching his HR last night, and she was genuinely impressed. I immediately regretted my decision.
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Honestly, I cannot fathom how anyone could come to these conclusions. You must lead a difficult life. Well the first item is essentially a fact so it can't be THAT unfathomable And as always I'll never understand why having a viewpoint on the cubs that is negative speaks to anything about a persons life. It's called "goony money" for a reason Leave me out of this.
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I do not understand what they have accomplished in spite of limitations. Kind of a loaded statement. The organization is unequivocally in a better position right now than it was in 2009. Even with the understanding that its easier to build one with high draft picks. None of what has happened did so in spite of limitations. The only thing they did was stop spending and/or concerning themselves with the present. It's the inherited patience of the customer base for the brand that has allowed them to suffer only miniscule short-term financial consequences, something no other pro sports team could absorb so easily. Had the timeframe been shortened, or had they won more games, of if they found an outsized number of hugely valuable pieces via a lower cost than others, that could be impressive. But they've only improved the system with very high picks they got from sucking so bad for multiple years.
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I do not understand what they have accomplished in spite of limitations.
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It's the NFL, anybody could be a free agent next year.
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The Bears want to keep as much of Cutler's cap hit in the current season in order to maintain the ability to cut him after year 3 without taking a hit. That means not going gung ho in free agency this year, but they can still address needs.
