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  1. Derwood
    #karma I have seen this before but don't get it, but then again I don't get the whole hash tag thing anyway. I get that you guys don't like Beliema, but he still gets another year at Ark before I start to really worry. If you're a Big 10 fan and DON'T hate Beliema, there's something wrong with you. He's just the worst
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    How many of our current core prospects are in the system due to the major league team sucking? Five? Everyone but Soler and Alcantara Unless you're talking about sucking brought about by this PLAN, and to the depths they sucked. Then it's Kris Bryant, and whoever we draft next year. And Russell, Hendricks, Ramirez, etc. those trades don't hallen if the Cubs are contending for a post season berth
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    How many of our current core prospects are in the system due to the major league team sucking?
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    It mattered to the seven front offices that got fired in that stretch, I imagine. The seven front offices no one remembers because the team won a bunch of World Series? Those front offices?
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    I didn't say they had to win 100 games for three straight years. But you absolutely have to consider the horrible job they have done in the first three years fielding a major league baseball team when all is said and done. This losing counts. If they win the next three years you can't claim they built a consistent winner when it took 3 years of excessive losing to get there. It will take a very long time of major success to justify what has happened to date. Maybe they do it. Maybe they don't. historically, why does the losing matter? The Yankees missed the playoffs for 12 or 13 straight seasons in the 80's/90's before they hit the Jeter years....did that losing "matter" in the long run?
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    They need to make the playoffs enough to end their tenure having done so a reasonable percentage of the time. Jim Hendry made it 3 times out of 9. Epstein's got some work to do to beat that. Ok, I slightly misunderstood your point. I thought you meant "they" were the Cubs, not that "they" were Theo/Jed. My bad
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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, they've sucked (historically sucked) the last 3 years, but that doesn't mean you have to win 100 games the next 3 years to "balance" anything out. That's stupid.
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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
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    apparently not, as they are attributing a lot of young pitchers' arm troubles to throwing cutters in high school
  16. Derwood
    I have absolutely no idea what to expect. After 25+ years of having the same coach, I'm now on my 3rd coach in 3 seasons. I can't say I envy those of you who have had high coach turnover. It completely blows up your expectations
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    well that escalated quickly
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    I read that Mirotic had a clause in his contract that he couldn't be traded for 1 year, but that either the Bulls or T-Wolves were going to pay the "penalty" for breaking that clause
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    Right, but THEY SHOW UP TODAY!!!! I do always want to see who is wearing who. Tap Out Ed Hardy Affliction
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    NOBODY BEATS THE RIZZ
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    Baez is so coming up once they get rod of Bonifacio http://www.therewasnodoubtaboutit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/in_rod_we_trust.jpg
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    Maybe his wish was to be a backup NBA point guard
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