Aaron Kennelly

We opened the gates of hell.

I need more dongs in my life.

I love the idea that tickets are an investment instead of tickets to a baseball game. I don't even mind that so much, with the caveat that you are right: they are just tickets to a game. But if someone sees them as an investment, then whatever. It's just... spare me the indignation when you admittedly made a ton of money on World Series tickets. In that case, you've certainly been made whole.

My favorite part was evanstonian complaining about how much money he sunk into the team while they were bad and how he was entitled to now recoup off of that, when he probably made like $100 million on World Series tickets.

I really like this. It's great that he has an option year left. I like the whole "former top prospect that is still pretty young" thing. And, mainly, there's the "him getting out of Coors" thing. I know his velocity is down and he sucked in the minors, too (mostly in Albuquerque, but still). But I would imagine pitching in Coors to be a daunting task. Who knows how that affected him mentally and physically? Let Bosio work his magic, and if it doesn't work, no biggie.

It's equally likely that he is already hurt and is "scheduled to start throwing off flat ground again." Schrödinger's Cub.

It's equally likely that he is already hurt and is "scheduled to start throwing off flat ground again."

He is both stupid and crazy. And that combination makes him evil.

Yay, Eloy!

I like it. It makes sense and it adds depth. I'm not really counting on anything, but it's a nice flyer. And on a one-year deal, I like him a lot more than Ross. I still want Monty starting, though. I want him to take a rotation spot and run with it. It would help us so much when looking forward.

Friedman's gonna make the most efficient 88 win team you ever saw Forsythe is a solid player. And I don't really have a problem with this deal for them. I don't love it, but it makes sense for them. But it sure seems like Friedman puts in a lot of effort to barely improve his team -- like, he's used way too many assets (cash and prospects) to only be this good. It's fine that they are willing to pay a bunch of money to chase a half-win here and win there. But with practically unlimited funds, it seems like it would be easier to make substantial improvements. And they keep treading water.

I love that he is able to adapt and improve himself. Last year it was with flattening out his swing. Now he is doing this in case teams start pitching him away more. These aren't superficial changes. He's actually looking for ways that he can improve himself, without taking away from things that he already does well. It is crazy to think that he could still get better.

I swear I was thinking that exact thing before I scrolled down and read your post. I double taked and thought it had to be Miggy. I wasn't really paying attention and thought it was Miggy when I scrolled passed it. When I read the post, I scrolled back up and was sure it was Rizzo instead until the full picture loaded.

That was really good. My favorite part was when he was talking about the first few years here, when we sucked. And they were spending game days up in the box following the minor league games, and how they had to "literally wipe the smiles off their faces when they went down into the clubhouse."

Willson had such a big smile on his face the whole time today. I'm so happy for him. He is living the dream.

It's silly, but I do enjoy being known as that. I enjoy everything that comes with winning the World Series.

He should make a ten- or twenty-part series about the Cubs.

The young guys are all so awesome. An extremely likable bunch. I'm most looking forward to watching Schwarber play a full season. He'll add another element of fun.

One more thing that I forgot. I freaking love baseball because it is an awesome sport. I enjoy other sports but not like I do baseball, so I always miss baseball during the off-season. It can't come back soon enough.

no more "same old cubs" when something even a little bad shows signs of happening. this is my favorite one. All of this. Plus we are really freaking good still. And we still have all of those awesome young players that were so fun to follow last year. And they are now World Series champions, and everyone else knows it, too. It's going to be amazing. And I can't wait.

Same here. Plus a hoodie I didn't have yet. My favorite thing was the one present I didn't get. Nobody bought me Al Yellon's book.

I really like this idea, bukie. And you're doing a great job so far. For those of us here at NSBB, who intently follow the Cubs every single day, this should be really fun to relive these moments.

I can't wait to get excited about his 2017 off-season swing change.

This thread is horrible, but it did make me aware that I am 2,367th in line, which is a lot closer than I would have thought.

If think that Maddon not admitting that Chapman was gassed is a little weird. He clearly was. And the slider/fastball pitch calling reasoning is bull horsefeathers. Chapman always throws fastballs, because they are travelling 103 mph. He rarely uses the slider. I've thought maybe he should mix in some more sliders occasionally. But he doesn't, and he's still really good. The notion that he pitched differently because he had different guys catching him is stupid. It was quite obvious what was going on in Game 7. That being said, I still think Joe is a really good manager. And I'm not going to dwell on a couple of questionable decisions he's made, when I've liked his moves more than not on the whole. Also, we won the World Series, so I literally don't care at all about those decisions. It simply doesn't matter now. We won the World Series. All that is in the past. And the past includes us winning the World Series. In the heat of the moment, I questioned him using Chapman in Game 6. But it didn't end up mattering. Maybe it was because Joe got lucky. But who cares? We won. I'd rather think about the good things from our only World Series championship in a century. I'm also completely over Chapman. I don't care to even think about him anymore. He's a garbage human. And he acted like the garbage human he is when we traded for him. He just isn't likable. And I won't look back fondly on him being a Cub. We rented him and used him like the piece of meat he is, and we won the World Series. C'est la vie.