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  1. SouthSideRyan
    This is going to be a bad take and not popular, but I don't want the Cubs to morph into the old Steinbrenner's Yankees where we buy FAs every offseason and outspend every team. Like if Mark Cuban bought the team and allowed the Cubs to spend as much as they see fit and didn't care about making a profit... On the one hand I'm happy the players are getting more money and all the revenue is being put back into the team, but I would hate winning that way. Like it's awesome if we outbid the Yankees for Cole, but I personally would kinda hate this team if we kept doing that and had a payroll over $300 million. I'm fine with a team near the luxury tax with times going strategically over. I want the luxury tax line bumped WAY up in the next CBA discussion. Next year it will start at $208M and then goes up to $210M. I'm hoping it gets bumped up to $240M in the next CBA since teams treat it as almost a hard cap. I hate the Yankees and I hate teams that buy their way to a championship (which I know the Cubs didn't do). They should always be in the top 3-4 in spending, but I don't want them to be #1 in spending except in strategic, special offseasons. Thumbs down button press.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    The tl;dr is that going over the tax for the 2nd straight year is more like a ~25 million cost than a ~5 million cost, and doing so for a 3rd straight year is upwards of 50 million. "Putting it another way: The system in place makes it much cheaper for the Cubs to have a $207 million payroll in 2020 and then a $250 million payroll in 2021 than to have a $209 million payroll in 2020 and then a $211 million payroll in 2021. It’s an absurd extension of the way these penalties are structured, but it’s true." And then cut 35M from the 2022 payroll to get back under!!
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Seems Eagles/Cowboys would make more sense.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Packers would've had to lose to the Lions if the Vikings beat them. Otherwise both would be 11-5
  5. SouthSideRyan
    They were always an ATM.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I think you're confusing odd with really boring.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    I think it's more likely that the Bears go 2-1 and the Vikings and Rams go 0-3 than the Bears going 3-0 while they go 1-2.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I think a 9-7 Bears playoff team is more likely than a 10-6 one. The Eagles don't matter, they and the Cowboys are both 6-7 and they play each other. Neither one can win the wild card.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Plus if we didn’t lose so much by letting Maddux walk we never would’ve been able to get Bryant
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Then do the same with Jason Neighborgall and we got ourselves a stew.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I had no idea how terrible Josh Harrison was last year.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Add teams to Orlando, Jacksonville, and Pensacola, the relegate all of Florida to AA. Florida is already in the SEC. Sweet Jesus this is fantastic, giving it a heart was not enough
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Bleach was maliciously poured onto my Cubs World Series hoodie and I had to toss it. I've been checking back regularly, but they only have it in small. I need L or XL. STORYSTORYSTORY
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Ryan Sweeney is the backup plan
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Not bad for 9ers fantasy defense (NCAMFT)
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Who is that terrible douchebag? Don’t answer that. Just never bring it up again. Trubisky.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Not the MLer Chris Young. Either of them.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Illinois easily handles Nichols.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    I'd rather have a pretzel than a nestle crunch.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    There's a larger conversation taking place in the journalism thread
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, and Carlos Correa were all #1 overall picks. Verlander and Bregman were #2's, while Greinke and Rendon were both 6th in their respective years. Max Scherzer and George Springer were #11's (Springer in probably the best draft class of this century), and Trea Turner 13th in his year. The merits of tanking can be debated, but this series does not make the argument you seem to think it does. High draft picks being good doesn't = tanking works. Strasburg was drafted a decade ago, and is on his second contract. Rendon 8 years ago, and under no circumstances does a tanking team draft in the double digits. The Nats are not a tanking success story. Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander have nothing to do with the Astros tanking.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    I feel like I'm a good person. Sometimes I feel bad that I don't care at all about either the players or the owners, other than I wish good health for them. Wishing good health for the owners probably makes you better than I. I mean I don’t necessarily wish them BAD health...
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Astros admit they were wrong about what happened, Fire Taubman.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/wide-open-3s-and-ranking-how-each-nba-team-fared-at-making-defenses-pay/ This from 2016 breaks it down by team shooting percentage, but more interesting was this So they were a couple shots off from the 2016 average in openness allowed.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    I'd imagine that's close to league average when "open"
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