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  1. jersey cubs fan
    those have been over for a long time. Wonder why this is just now news? Because our beat writers suck and probably don't even know what instructs are or to report on an important guy like Vizcaino there when he pitches and it's probably the first time Theo's been interviewed since he threw/specifically asked about him? I don't see how the beat writers "suck" when they don't have access to Theo to ask about these types of things. And Vizcaino isn't really important.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    These things always come down to money. A NTC is only valuable in as much as it is a negotiating tool that can get you more money. Why are you assuming the numbers would be leaked but the NTC battle wouldn't?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    How is a potential difference of $10m/year "moot" in favor of a hang-up over a NTC?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The Nazi's were involved? Holy [expletive].
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I feel like you aren't getting what people are saying. The way you get a young guy to agree to a team friendly deal is by offering him the first "you can retire on that" contract of his life. Most of these guys got maybe a couple million dollars to sign and have made the minimum for a couple years. They have a large incentive to sign early, and will be willing to give up a free agent year or two exactly because this contract will set him up for life just in case he gets hurt before free agency. Jeff Samardzija never went through that process. He got his huge guarantee very early in his career and never went through a season making the minimum. He's made in excess of $2m in every year of his career and even if he gets hurt tomorrow, he should be able to live a comfortable life without ever working again. He has less incentive to sign that extension for below market. And the stories we have heard about the Cubs offer indicate that it is way below market. You can go ahead and think that what he made shouldn't change the equation. But it does when it comes to how willing Samardzija will be to settle for less than the maximum.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Huh? His initial contract wasn't actually all that huge. He got $1m, with a bonus for giving up football, but they actually ripped up that contract and signed a new one the next season when he actually did give up football. There was no "five years later deal" other than the series of one year deals he's been on under Theo's regime.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    The vast majority of your surplus value is going to come from your pre-arbitration players. You should be able to continuously exploit this supply line throughout the course of any one 10-year contract. But even if you somehow do not, you're still trying to win baseball games and, at worst, cutting down on the profits of a billionaire for a couple years.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    This is crazy talk.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see a lot of people making that assumption. The conversation was about unnecessarily fretting that Theo may leave before the team starts to win.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    10 years is much more the issue than 23-24mil per. Very much this. Also, giving anyone a contract that only your optimistic projections having him be worth is a really bad idea. There's almost zero chance of getting any surplus value from that deal. The goal is not to get surplus value.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, considering he's already made millions in his life, there's very little incentive to settle for such a relatively low number.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    There's really no point in shutting Cutler down. Briggs, sure. But Cutler still has to play some.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    That lady in blue certainly did not look comfortable, and you have to like the "COME ONNNN" from somebody with at least a minimal level of decency.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    No idea what this is regarding.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Kind of missing the important part which is where were the defenders in relation to Forte. He might not have had as much space as the receiver. God I hated that play. Was it the throw or a just a receiver slip? Can't remember.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    It is? I thought it was the state of the entire organization that he was in charge of. So the state of the minor leagues don't matter in evaluating the job he's done? Am I off base in saying that's what you're implying, if not overtly saying? Oh it's absolutely the case that the state of the minor leagues pales in comparison to the major league success when evaluating front office work. Anybody can build a minor league system if their only mandate is to build a minor league system. Winning at the major league level is the hard part and the only part that actually matters.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    But Camp walks more guys, strikes out less and hasn't actually ridden that same line as well as Mujica.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't even know that was a thing. I thought the Yankees were at the point where multi-years of eclipsing the mark increased the additional penalty above the tax and they just wanted to restart that time frame.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/this-florida-state-ball-boy-is-a-college-football-hero-1477216313 This is awesome. FSU ballboy is a little excited about being a ballboy for FSU.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    A $4.75m/year starter that is better than Villanueva? Do you have any? Isn't a lot of the point that this guy's walk rate is like half of Villanueva?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    It's almost as if you'd want to make every excuse in the book to pretend that 5 years of losing would somehow not reflect back on the job the front office did.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    The only way you can judge if "a bunch of decisions" are good or bad in the game of baseball is by wins and losses. You can't keep making good decisions and keep losing.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    WTF are you talking about? This isn't about firing anybody. This is about fretting over Theo leaving on his own before the team is good. Jimminy Christmas you keep jumping through hoops to justify an irrevocable trust in Theo's ability to get the job done. If he doesn't get the job done in 5 years, meaning if this team isn't good by 2016, he failed. That's the end of the story. His competition got better. There are more smart guys out there. If you are the only hitter who can hit 30 HR in a season you are a beast. But if suddenly a whole bunch of 30 HR hitters enter the league, you are no longer special.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    But those are the rules of the game. There's no point in excusing prolonged losing because the rules of the game aren't the same they were when he built the Red Sox. Unless you somehow believe the rules will revert back to the form they were at when he was able to exploit them to his advantage.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Not for five years.
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