Bryants Disco Ball
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I've seen this comparison a lot, and feel the need to point out that Harper is 6 years younger than Pujols was at the time of their contracts. Plus, I think it's a great bet that Pujols is a few years older than he says he is.
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My darkhorse prediction is that neither side likes this relationship within the first three seasons, and the Cubs' brass gets to look like geniuses when really they were just being cheap.
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Thanks a lot. Now I’m refreshing this thread every 30 seconds and surfing other sites hoping against hope that there’s a grain of truth to this. At first, I thought you were serious. Then realized you were joking.
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I didn’t realize the extent of it until i saw multiple references recently, but really it’s up to Boras. Harper, Machado, Keuchel, Moustakas(until today), Marwin Gonzalez, all of the notable remaining FA outside of Kimbrel(and relievers have their own market weirdness outside of collusion) are Boras clients. Point remains the same, but Machado actually is now represented by MVP Sports.
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Just checked Cat's Twitter. Great ratio of following to followers. Great traffic, which includes tweets that have hundreds of retweets and likes. I'm sort of sad how gullable so many people are, but if he's seeking attention, he's done well for himself.
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This is mostly just buying out his controlled years, right? So, I suppose for a pitcher who could throw his arm out, you take the locked in money.
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Becoming a more racist organization than the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans. It has reached that level, right? I don't know the history of the Cardinals that much, so correct if I'm way wrong.
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Wait. So when was Marquis Grissom on the Cubs? I don't remember that transaction at all.
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Free agency is fine. Fix prearb I hear this stuff and am very recently coming to realize that often the intention is to take from the older players to give to the younger players. While I can’t assume that is what you mean, that can also burn in hell I think they are saying to give those older players their big money when they are still young, so that when they are old and not as good, they don't get screwed by not getting the big money they couldn't get when they were still young.
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So just to review, did some guy tell some other guy something he heard from a Brewers FO type, but that the guy couldn't say anything because his friend would get fired? And then sometime in the next few hours he tweeted exactly what his friend said detail for detail and even said what role his friend has?
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I haven't been paying attention to the Cards or their needs much, but couldn't it be Machado rather than Harper? ETA: Oh, wait. Yeah, it's likely more about that extension brought up a few posts above.
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I'm alleging you are the Cat. You love the Cat big-time.
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To be fair to Sofa, I think he's in a zone right now in that he's being negative about every aspect of the Cubs. I don't want to misquote him, but I think he even wrote the other day he'd get satisfaction by us finishing behind the Reds.
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Wait. What?
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It would be awesome if Yu is good to go this season. I've just assumed this whole time the injury will reoccur early in Spring Training and he will then get Tommy John.
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There is a decent chance Trout isn't playing in 2022.
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If Chatwood generated any trade interest, he'd have been traded by now.
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He for sure did. He would break legit news at the Winter Meetings while still a teenager and had the respect of his.......well not peers, but of the industry. On the other hand, it's an embarrassment that the best Cubs message board in the world has given Cat so much pub this offseason. That's something a Brewers board would do. Yeah, but the attention was in a "I can't look away from this trainwreck" type of gaze, which is basically what this thread is all about, right? I guess that could be right. Sort of when people post what R Mack tweeted.
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That’s basically how Dierkes (spelling?) Got MLB Trade Rumors going I believe. He threw a bunch of horsefeathers out and got a thing or two right that drove traffic then just turned in to an aggregator. This would’ve been early to mid 2000’s. Chris Cotilo also got a job based on twitter. Not sure whether he had actual sources though. He for sure did. He would break legit news at the Winter Meetings while still a teenager and had the respect of his.......well not peers, but of the industry. On the other hand, it's an embarrassment that the best Cubs message board in the world has given Cat so much pub this offseason. That's something a Brewers board would do.
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I mean, the guy is basically worthless and entirely full of horsefeathers, but yeah. he's right about this one. none of this offseason makes sense to me What a nice thing you did for Cat by adding "basically" before the worthless part.
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I think that sums it up real well.
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While I agree with the sarcastic sentiment here, Zobrist is old and crusty, and there’s no guarantee he’ll continue to get on base at a —— holy crap! He had a .378 OBP last year?!? Nevermind. Plus he needs like four days off per week.
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horsefeathers yes. Bring on Adam Warren.
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I think he was actually projected to get $4.3 million in arb -- sorry if I'm wrong and spreading bad info -- so hopefully he's getting screwed a bit no matter what.
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This is, for sure, by far the most money they have ever started a season at. I suppose it's possible they could add a MadBum for $12 million, but that might be stretching it. They might be in a total go for it mode, though.