SouthSideRyan
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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.
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I did not expect this from TT
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Rolette County, ND's favorite team is Duke.
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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. ??
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Better polish up that resume Roast.
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Lot of rollover
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Have you ever listened to Ron Coomer?
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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.
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We supposedly wanted Sanchez and Tanaka but maybe we didn't really want them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Neutral site games are 2nd only to relegation in terms of consistently repeated baseball ideas that make no sense at all.
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I would think other organizations would view CJ as a future reliever.
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Ohhh you mean a tuna sandwich
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This is Mojo's doesn't tip on a haircut.
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Chris Johnson has a 3/23.5 contract. Unless you're thinking he'd be involved in a Jaxon trade
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I'd be very surprised to see an IF acquisition.
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There's no way they'd do it *four* times in a row, anyway... yeah you keep pretending that anything but like 5 perfect signings/trades would've put 2012-2014 in contention well, maybe 2014 with tanaka but then again yeah maybe not not to mention those teams didn't have an everyday lineup, bullpen, and TOR starter (and solid 3 or 4 imo) just about set with only like $45M in committed payroll or something Or 2014 if they added anything of long-term value in 2012 or 2013. aside from rizzo, arrieta, and the bullpen arms + CJ that they got from the trades? they pretty much maxed out payroll every year but this year unless you think theo is lying and has chosen to leave tens of millions of dollars in the ricketts' coffers every year. So you think 73 wins + Tanaka was the best case scenario for 2014?
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He asked him if a hot dog was a sandwich.
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He's is but Hansbrough is weirder. Again, he's a white guy over 6'6" He's weird by definition.
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He's going to wind up in the dumpster next to the birthday cake
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So if I mistakenly slice my bread in uneven portions, what would you call them with bologna in the middle?
