SouthSideRyan

And Nintendo owns the Mariners...

Good Morning WHY IS IT A GOOD MORNING, BECAUSE YOURE GOING TO THE YANKEES? IS THAT IT (^^) could be construed as a picture of a bear. certainly not a yankee or dodger. Looks like a Mii head

Think we've got another truther

He's ours. Jesus he's so [expletive] bad at this. Who? What? CT wants everyone to know how bored he is. Repeatedly. Everything is boring after being in LAW SCHOOL

Re: the housing thing, it's in the very least against the nba cba because Forman was living at Cubans place when he played for the mavericks and stern forced him to leave

point of sale

I think he's dying.

Oh yeah, I have an irrational hatred for Pete Carroll. [expletive] is a truther. I hope someone asks him what he thinks about 9/11 on media day so he's exposed to the whole country for the raging douchebag he is. You realize that the % of people that believe that 9/11 was a shadyass event is actually extremely high. I cant remember what newspaper did a poll on it, but it was something like 40%. That's not a reason for hating Pete Carroll. Sure it is, I easily hate more than 40% of the US

I didn't know places exist by Kyle where you could spend 50 bucks on a date.

Aren't you glad you didn't cancel your date?

And I thought Logan's nickname was forced.

Annnnd I'm soft. (Can white people talk about their non erect members?)

Can we go back to one vote per poll if just to stop people from woefully misunderstanding data?

They don't suck but if we have to keep payroll down until the second the tv contract starts it's possible they (wisely) choose tanaka over samardZija. We're not competing this year so if they swap shark for somebody who can be in the rotation in 15 they may view it as a wash

D-Backs? Towers either bid 1Y/1M or 12Y/400M

It's been pointed out elsewhere, but our front office isn't stupid. If they know payroll is going to hover around the pitiful level it was at last year, they aren't going to tie up 1/5 of the budget in one pitcher.

Pretty sure IU and Illinois will be this year. Illinois lost on the road.

5 minutes left, tie game. It's Jonny Marlin time!

We have never seen the comcast numbers. Fangraphs has it at 450K/game.

I still don't buy this. Sure, there were people that didn't want to spend money on Pujols or Fielder or Darvish or Sanchez or Upton etc... But I think those were just individual evaluations on those players. I don't think there's ever really been a faction of this board that is dead set against spending on any big free agents. Yeah, people weren't dead set against spending money on any big free agents, they were just dead set on spending the money it took to actually acquire big free agents.

If we sign him to that contract he'll have more money that @poortomricketts. (Getting them in before the tv deal) You should probably make @richtomricketts as a contingency if the TV deal goes through and start having twitter wars with @poortomricketts. Who do you think you're dealing with here? I've had it for a few days now.

Injuries are part of my concern, sure. No matter the reason, the BoSox lost their ass on Matsuzaka. A total of 2 quality seasons for more than $102M spent. It wouldn't worry me as much if I thought the Cubs would throw money at the problem if it didn't work out the way they hoped. But if he's a bust, I have the feeling the Cubs would allow it to hamper future negotiations. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my fear. And just for the record, I'd love for Tanaka to be a Cub no matter the cost. I'm just worried about what happens to the team as a whole and the approach going forward if Tanaka where to bomb. It's just an inherent risk when you sign a big FA, especially a pitcher. The Cubs are in the position where they need to spend to acquire someone like him. He's young, they desperately need starting pitching, they have money to spend, there's this rumored TV deal..it's all good. I agree with this. He's the proper guy to get. However, this board always thinks we should spend whatever it takes to get everybody. But I always try to point out that you can't have everybody, so you better be really happy with the one or two we eventually get. (I know about the Dodgers, we aren't them). So, when people wanted Albert Pujols, that's your ticket. You don't get him and three others the next three years. I really, really don't believe anybody would be happy with Albert and the remainder of his contract just a few years in. Instead you prefer nobody all three years?

Why in the [expletive] couldn't they??

Best news of the Convention

Wesley Wright was just asked if he would consider getting the whole team to grow beards and not cut them until they win a World Series. I hope you punched that guy in the face.