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  1. minnesotacubsfan
    God I hate seeing our RotY/MVP/WS champion talk about being/not being traded
  2. minnesotacubsfan
    yea buuuut,,,,you're living the dream!!!
  3. minnesotacubsfan
    or, 87
  4. minnesotacubsfan
    i hate how Nolan starts to make me feel ok about losing Bryant. Then I think about Bryant providing many many bombs in CO, and I hate it even more
  5. minnesotacubsfan
    that's the problem with defenses, you can't hide weaknesses, and once guys begin to age, the weaknesses abound. sure, but 2012 had an old, physically 25% of his glorious self Urlacher still manning the helm. He wasn't that big of a loss. The biggest hole was Tucker himself
  6. minnesotacubsfan
    times 16 teams tho
  7. minnesotacubsfan
    I thought about the idea of shortening the season, but that takes away ticket sales to even those not making the playoffs. Whats reasonable? 150 games, losing 6 home games? 145 you lose 8-9 home games? Would that even matter?
  8. minnesotacubsfan
    Deciding to lead off the guy with a career .373 OBP, coming off a season he was over .400, and is 8th in MLB in OBP since 2014 doesn’t seem like a gut feeling. If it is, it’s at least a better feel than running Almora, Kemp, Descalso, etc out there at leadoff. yeah, to me we have a bunch of dudes i'd be fine with (on numbers alone) doing it, and there's definitely no justification for throwing actual terrible hitters there. the only wildcard to me is how the individual player reacts to it. heyward and schwarber might be totally fine there or might have totally been in their own heads about it (i believe both have said as much) - but we know rizzo embraces it. primarily, I meant his hint at "other guys" in the tweet.
  9. minnesotacubsfan
    I hope it isn't just Ross's gut feeling....
  10. minnesotacubsfan
    The difference between being the #2 seed and the # 5 seed can literally be the division you play in. How does a 1 game lead incentivize trying in that scenario, which happens nearly every year? Well in the first round, the team with the best record plays the wild card winner, so they would definitely have a better record than whoever they are playing, and then of the other two division winners, the team with the better record would get the advantage. In my head this only applied to round one. It creates level of incentives around having the best regular season possible and winning your division. I misses the part of it being applied to only the Divisional series. However, I worry its only a temporary fix: teams adept at tanking will continue to tank (as only a few wt the top are effected by this addition). The issue lies in the ownership, to me. I don’t know how you fix that unless you start taking away reams from the Jeff Lorias, and dare I say Ricketts of the world.
  11. minnesotacubsfan
    Dbl pst
  12. minnesotacubsfan
    It's not a need, it's a reward. You want to incentivize trying, which is a problem in baseball right now. The difference between being the #2 seed and the # 5 seed can literally be the division you play in. How does a 1 game lead incentivize trying in that scenario, which happens nearly every year?
  13. minnesotacubsfan
    Why the hell would a stronger team need a 1 game advantage? Just play it straight up, if a team sneaks into the playoffs and then runs the table, thats a great sports story. 2019 Nationals, Giants vs NE, baseball Giants etc. i dont want to watch the NBA where every damn year its the top team winning it all
  14. minnesotacubsfan
    I hope he wins
  15. minnesotacubsfan
    A bump from 5 to 7 teams doesn’t seem all that significant. Choosing your opponents is bonkers
  16. minnesotacubsfan
    I feel a kinship
  17. minnesotacubsfan
    what a strange hill to die on Chad kelly? wtf cares
  18. minnesotacubsfan
    I'm going out on a limb on this one and saying the XFL is perfect for Trestman, in soooo many ways
  19. minnesotacubsfan
    Sure, but it takes two seconds to look over an account and tell which is which or at least which one is for sure [expletive]. you're absolutely right. [tweet] [/tweet] that reads like a Fox news headline
  20. minnesotacubsfan
    [tweet] [/tweet]He's definitely going to end up being a reliever, but potentially a very good one if he can remain healthy. Twins marked him as "untouchable" last offseason or close to it. 100 mph sinker lol goodbye elbow
  21. minnesotacubsfan
    As if devaluing players worth wasn’t already in ownerships wheelhouse
  22. minnesotacubsfan
    My understanding, and I don't think I've seen a refreshed study on it so it could be a weird steroid era anachronism, is that super athletic players age far more gracefully. The idea being that these guys have multiple way of contributing, so if one area falls off they still provide value in others. When Miguel Cabrera dropped to being a league average hitter last year, he was completely unplayable. When Javy is 35, he'll probably still be solid defensive 2B/3B who mashes lefties. This could be out of date though, for the same reasons that aging curves have started skewing younger and younger. I’m more worried about Javy’s offensive profile eroding long term (high Ks, low BB, low Contact%, quick twitch bat speed, base running, etc) than I am about defense. I have faith he can be fine and even plus defensively somewhere well in to his 30s (2B/3B/LF). It’s an extreme but look how quickly Carlos Gomez fell off. my love for Javy is so strong that it couples with my hate for the Ricketts in a way that I have no problem with the idea of watching El Mago swat at mosquitoes with his bat for the next 15 years in a Cubs uni its not like ownership is going to buy a WS, and we've seemingly forgotten how to build a farm system anyway
  23. minnesotacubsfan
    He should start a handball channel for his new team on their quest for Olympic gold. The stories begin to write themselves
  24. minnesotacubsfan
    Ahhhhh, the sweet sweet essence of leadership He should just start his own sports channel
  25. minnesotacubsfan
    It better not cut into his Very Cavalleri filming time. OTOH that version of Jay every Sunday morning on ESPN might help the world to see what we see; a kind, thoughtful genius
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