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  1. ChiCubsFan
    Yeah, that wasn't exactly a routine play for an infielder. Got it. I couldn’t tell from the replays I saw that were zoomed in.
  2. ChiCubsFan
    I briefly caught a replay of it, but why was an infield fly rule not called? Too deep?
  3. ChiCubsFan
    You mean two others or two including Dame? One is obviously Steph so if it’s two others (so three total), who is the other one? Poor wording. Steph and Dame. That’s it. I wouldn’t bet against MJ developing that kind of insane 3pt shooting ability if he played in this era, though.
  4. ChiCubsFan
    There’s 2 people in the history of the world that can do what Dame just did. That was an unreal stretch of basketball.
  5. ChiCubsFan
    Oh okay. Yeah, that I knew. Just thought someone was comparing this team to 2015. 2021 *might* turn out as good, but it’s definitely a different feel than 2015. Very encouraged by the cost-controlled arms, though. Hope we finally figured out how to develop pitchers.
  6. ChiCubsFan
    2015?
  7. ChiCubsFan
    That’s special stuff there. None of them had a chance.
  8. ChiCubsFan
    Tommy Nance.
  9. ChiCubsFan
    This bullpen is nasty
  10. ChiCubsFan
    Yeah that was odd. Especially with Molina due up, who just missed a HR in his previous AB and Adbert missing location and hanging sliders over the previous 2 innings. Should have gone to the well rested bullpen
  11. ChiCubsFan
    Such a bad win. Dotson, Green, Mokoka should have all been starting and playing 30-40 minutes. Easy to brush it off as using it to evaluate those guys in real game situations. Like what the hell does Thad dropping 20 points do for us? Markkannen and White with efficient 17 and 19 point games? Ugh. Just so dumb. Resting Zach and Vuc was not enough.
  12. ChiCubsFan
    +/- is trash. Thad doesn’t fit well with Vuc. I really wish we would have moved Thad for a late FRP when we had the chance. He’s a solid rotation player and has value, but his money is probably better spent on other parts of the roster. We can probably move him in the offseason if needed to create space for Lonzo, for example.
  13. ChiCubsFan
    Agreed. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep him.
  14. ChiCubsFan
    hopefully that doesn't keep them from blowing up everything outside of zach/vuc/williams. i'm worried that coby's hot scoring streak will make them keep him. They probably should. Unless someone is giving a lottery pick for him? He seems to have kind of figured out what can make him an effective offensive player. He’s not trying to do too much and mostly just being a catch and shoot off ball scorer. This works when you play with Vuc and Zach, who both need the ball a lot. Occasionally he’ll push the ball on the fast break and use his speed to create offense before the defense can get set. This works, as opposed to when he was trying to drive in the half court and running into multiple guys fighting over who got to block his shot. His defense, while better, has still been bad. Particularly his pick and roll defense. The whole team sucks here. Not sure what the plan is this offseason. You don’t really have many assets to make a trade for someone like Brogdon, who would be an ideal trade target. Maybe Ball still on the table? But I believe you have to renounce everyone for him and I kind of want to hang onto Theis. Would a sign and trade for Sato, Thad, White work? Would NO have any interest in them? With Zion being point forward maybe Coby is a good fit there.
  15. ChiCubsFan
    Blowing up the lotto balls, but nice to see the team playing solid basketball with Lavine returning
  16. ChiCubsFan
    I'm admittedly a contrarian on this point, but moving Quinn's guarantees doesn't make him harder to cut later on. Yes, it creates a potential big dead cap penalty in 2022, but it's offset by the 2021 savings you need now. The only difference is timing, but it's all a sunk cost. And sunk costs shouldn't determine personnel decisions. The only cap downside is it makes it much harder to trade him in 2021, but I'm assuming that's a very narrow possibility anyways to the point that it's of zero concern. Correct in that it’s the same net money over time, but still makes him harder to cut. You’re paying him less now to pay him more next year when you cut him. Overall, it’s the same money, just paid during different cap years. And paying him more guaranteed 2022 money makes him harder to cut after this season. We aren’t seriously competing this year, so why pay him more next year or in 2023 just so we can sign some stopgap CB to marginally improve the team? Unless the plan is to use the money to sign some previously cut players to Covid-deflated 1 year contracts and then let them walk, thus improving our future comp picks?
  17. ChiCubsFan
    I liked the Dolphins draft, but could have loved it with a few changes. I get why they went Phillips at 18. He is a top 5 edge rush talent, but his floor is also the ground with that concussion/injury history. Edge is such a need with the current roster and Coach Flores’s defensive scheme, that it’s risky relying on a guy like that. I would have preferred Darrisaw there and then grabbing a lower ceiling/higher floor edge rusher where they took Eichenberg. Loved the Holland pick. Allows McCain to be cut to save 5.5-7M (pre or post June 1) or moved back to nickel where he excels. I’m guessing they keep him around an extra year to play primarily nickle, before cutting him next offseason. Missing out on a RB was disappointing. I really wanted Khalil Herbert if they weren’t going to move back up into the end of the first for Javonte. At least the Bears got him.
  18. ChiCubsFan
    When does Fields start his first regular season game?
  19. ChiCubsFan
    Love Jenkins. Don’t love giving up a 3rd, but worth it.
  20. ChiCubsFan
    Raw, how do you rank the RT that are left?
  21. ChiCubsFan
    He was the consensus #2 (almost 1b to Lawerence) at this point last year and nothing really happened negatively to Fields or positively with Lance/Wilson that changed that in my eyes. I love this so much.
  22. ChiCubsFan
    I just want a QB. There is just no way on Earth that I can get excited about the 2021 Chicago Bears if they don't draft a QB in the first round tonight. Even if its extremely high risk, even if they have to give up a boatload to be in position, I just want a QB. If he fails he fails and nothing has changed. If he succeeds you've solved the most important position in sports for the next decade and can actually start to talk about building a real contender. So Fields, Lance, Jones, whatever just find a way to get one or the only thing that I have to look forward to in the next year of Chicago sports is the Cubs July sell off This is where I’m at. Really hoping the Niners take Jones and we can trade up to 8, 9, or 12 for Fields or Lance (would prefer Fields, but will take either). None of it matters, if you don’t have the QB. Take another shot. And it’s not like any of these guys would be an overdraft if taken where the Bears can realistically get to.
  23. ChiCubsFan
    Chase and Pitts will be gone by 6, mayyyyybe 7. And trading what it would take to get up into the top 10 in a draft with 5 legit QB prospects, and then taking a top 15ish overall type corner, would be a bad use of resources imo.
  24. ChiCubsFan
    And I thought our rotation was going to be sneaky good.
  25. ChiCubsFan
    Who’s filling in for pat on the radio side?
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