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SouthSideRyan

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  1. Ole Miss just won
  2. That seemed like a dumb timeout
  3. 37-8 at Stanford is pretty damn good no matter what he was left with. Yeah he has definitely continued what Harbaugh built in terms of good O linemen and front 7 guys but his offenses are downright Flinstonian and he's supposed to be this offensive guru It is strange
  4. 37-8 at Stanford is pretty damn good no matter what he was left with.
  5. What did they move to the SEC or something?
  6. Finally you say something right in this thread.
  7. I think a 2nd round pick is so insignificant that it should basically be ignored when evaluating whether to sign a FA or not.
  8. Did Tim pay you to say that as some sort of subtle advertising? "Site returning soon!" The DuCross brothers take time from foraging through discarded pizza boxes to remember what having hope was like.
  9. Rolette County, ND's favorite team is Duke.
  10. St. Louis mayor's response to this: http://online.wsj.com/articles/st-louis-to-america-dont-be-jealous-1412273454 And SB Nation's response to that: http://www.sbnation.com/2014/10/2/6895281/mayor-st-louis-responds-cardinals-hateability-pompous-ass There's nothing so humble as bragging about how superior your humility is. It also kind of implies Chicago is now in the Midwest. ??
  11. Have you ever listened to Ron Coomer?
  12. You of all people are going to try to say that having extra money(and not a trifling amount either) to spend is meaningless? You're going to approach an offseason with X to spend differently than when you have X -15 million to spend. Plus we're talking about a multi-year deal here. Without Soriano, maybe they would've been able to more easily stretch for a guy like Sanchez or [insert your 'IFA that got away' here] knowing that for half the deal they'd have ~20% more payroll available to them. Maybe Scott Baker becomes Liriano instead, I dunno. I do know that when you're working with financial limitations, having a huge chunk of your payroll in one post-prime player who later was traded and became dead money is going to make a material difference in your planning. My opinion is that thus far their strategy is that they have a number they feel a guy is worth and they won't go much beyond that. Maybe this changes now that they're interested in being good, but in previous seasons I don't buy it.
  13. We supposedly wanted Sanchez and Tanaka but maybe we didn't really want them.
  14. Yeah, I'm not getting how this is a nit. Or how this is picking out some minor detail to discuss. It's calling into question the quote that happens to be the title of Brett's post.
  15. Yeah, how did he substantially hurt us in a season where we "rolled over money" for the future. I doubt an extra 14M to spend was going to make us go out and sign Ellsbury.
  16. Haven't they said this pretty much every offseason? And if it was true, wouldn't that call into question the "The Cubs can't legally spend any more money due to debt service" narrative? I don't really think those are incompatible statements given how little payroll was committed heading into the offseason. It's a pretty meaningless statement, but not a contradiction IMO. Well it would be in previous years.
  17. Haven't they said this pretty much every offseason? And if it was true, wouldn't that call into question the "The Cubs can't legally spend any more money due to debt service" narrative?
  18. Neutral site games are 2nd only to relegation in terms of consistently repeated baseball ideas that make no sense at all.
  19. I would think other organizations would view CJ as a future reliever.
  20. Ohhh you mean a tuna sandwich
  21. This is Mojo's doesn't tip on a haircut.
  22. Chris Johnson has a 3/23.5 contract. Unless you're thinking he'd be involved in a Jaxon trade
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