Tryptamine
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I'm enjoying all the hot takes about how Boras took the Cubs to the cleaners on this contract.
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Cubs not exactly flashing the leather here early
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Yeah they're likely done, but it would just be a shame because they're one big move from putting a stranglehold on this division.
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Man, getting Chapman or Monty on a similar deal would make this team the unquestionable central favorite. With that said, adding one more good pen arm would make me happy too.
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I have very little to no expectations, but these two would make them that clear cut division favorite that they should have been.
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Good god, Everyone catching me in the 2 minutes I took to edit my post
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aww you caught me before I fixed the numbers
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So let's examine those poor unfortunate owners. Let's pretend for a moment that owners only manage to break even every year, they don't, but let's pretend. Ricketts bought the Cubs for 900M in 2009. In 2023, Forbes valued the Cubs at 4.1 billion dollars. That is 455.55% growth in 14 years, or an annual return of 32.5%. Basically they double their investment every 3 years even if they don't receive $1 in profit from the operations of the franchise. So forgive me if I'm not overly sympathetic to poor Tom Ricketts.
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I expect Mervis to be traded any moment now.
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I've said this before, but it's actually kind of amazing that the owner who finally brought the Cubs a championship has managed to make himself hated this quickly. You almost have to actively try to ruin that type of good will. You have guys from the '85 Bears who will never pay for a drink in Chicago until the day they die, meanwhile, the vast majority of Cub fans hate Ricketts less than a decade after a World Series.
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I'm going to be surprised if any of them are a Cub. I think the roster likely is what it is at this point ignoring some camp invitees that end up in AAA.
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I did have a fear earlier in the offseason when we found out the Cubs basically weren't even really in on Ohtani or Yamamoto, but I didn't think it would actually come to fruition. That fear was that Counsell wasn't the splash move we thought it was. In fact it was actually an incredibly cheap move. Why throw hundreds of millions of dollars on a player(s) to energize the fan base, when you can instead only throw 30M at a manger that will energize the meatballs just as much?
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Apparently buying up half of Wrigleyville and having Marquee is not enough income to exceed the cap, which is so laughably disgusting. Just another reason I have no idea why you people give that ghoul even a dollar of your money. The worst part is we're probably stuck with this jackass for the next few decades.
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If more people started taking this stance, I'd be out of a job.
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I can't even muster the energy to do more than sigh at this point.
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I'm baffled as to why you'd give your money to the Ricketts.
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Embrace the mediocrity
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PCA and Busch are unproven. Tachuman is very likely to regress and even if they sign Bellinger, he is very unlikely to put up another 134 wRC+.
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At this point I think it's more unlikely than it is likely.
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Soto isn't happening. Alonso shouldn't happen, especially if he's getting anywhere near the length of contract he wants and I severely doubt Bregman happens either both for financial and Matt Shaw related reasons.
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The same reason I don't watch the Bulls, I'm not interested in a team that's trying to do the least possible things to just possibly barely sneak into the playoffs. Jed had every opportunity to grasp the division and instead choose this. Why should I be excited, by what so far, has been a failure of an offseason? This isn't like watching the 2015 Cubs where there were minimal expectations and watching the rookies was the only thing you had. This is a team that barely missed the playoffs last year and yet they choose to do almost nothing to the point it's arguable that the team is even as good as it was last year. They had prospect capital and they had money, they choose to not fully utilize either to upgrade last year's squad.
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If the season started today, I'd watch about 5 games this season.
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A December signing and still waiting out the market 1/3 of the way through February are 2 vastly different things.
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I mean, isn't it sad that we basically know going into near year's FA that, despite the inevitable million rumors, the Cubs aren't going to land Soto? I imagine it will be the same case with Sasaki. I'm going to hold out hope on Murakami because the more I watch the bigger fan boy I become, even though I know it's tremendously unlikely.
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Based on how he continually waits out everyone else. He was aggressive on Bellinger in 2023, but it was a 1 year deal so there really wasn't much downside. I've yet to see him really be like, this is my guy and I'm going to get him, if I have to overpay a bit so be it.
