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  1. SouthSideRyan
    PTR successfully broke the fanbase.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    One of the main reasons in having a good farm system is to have assets for trades, especially impact moves. Nobody gets anything extra for hording their [expletive] prospects. Not saying you have to keep them all, next trade deadline when the Cubs are hopefully contending, we'll have the pieces to go out and improve the team and fill needs. there's a handful of guys that will have to be exposed to the rule 5 after this year i don't know all of them or really how it works, i just know that part Anybody we wouldn't roster wouldn't be worth anything in a trade.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Then [expletive] trade Hamels in the offseason. Surely putting all of our offseason eggs into the top pitcher on the market basket (while competing against a team who clearly wants him with endless pockets) would never fail.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    That's 35 years of control we're giving up.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Holy [expletive] [expletive].
  6. SouthSideRyan
    I want Hamels because I don't think we stand a chance at Price or Greinke in the offsesaon, and I think those are the only pitchers better than him available for next year.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Nah, they've been expected to get 2 starters. Everyone seems to think Hamels winds up in Texas though. It needs to be mentioned how [expletive] broke this CBA is though. The poor Marlins selling off the 34th pick to the Dodgers is just pathetic. Basically to get them to take the Morse contract. That's how [expletive] fucked up the Marlins are, not the CBA. Stealing money from everyone.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I cannot because that is incredibly stupid. 2015 was never the year! It's incredibly stupid, and way more common than it should be. I STILL hold out hope that Hamels will be following Lester and Arrieta in the rotation come Friday. Its stupid to fall back to that as an excuse for standing pat, but its not stupid to look at the situation (2.5 games out of a spot for a 1 game playoff on the road to get into the division series) and the market (seems to be a lot of teams rich in money and prospects chasing guys like Hamels and Price) and the team (a bunch of high potential but struggling and inconsistent young hitters, 3 of them in their first full seasons) and make the determination that it's not worth giving up someone the caliber of Schwarber (or maybe even a rung below) for a 10% better chance of making the division series in one season when there are several attractive FAs to go after in the offseason that won't cost a top prospect (but will cause the loss of a first round pick). At least that's how I see it. Who has ever talked about trading Schwarber for a rental? There's a chasm between trading Schwarber for Dan Haren and trading guys who wouldn't be drafted in Rule 5 3 years from now.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    I cannot because that is incredibly stupid. 2015 was never the year!
  10. SouthSideRyan
    I wonder if someone stole that from me because I said it in the game thread last night. Edit: Hmm...it was a 23 year old Cubs fan from Arkansas. You guys know anyone like that who frequents our game threads? Ryne BHogg
  11. SouthSideRyan
    I think they'd manage to resist the temptation to go to a 10 man rotation.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Neil Ramirez can probably be transferred to the dead DL.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    Why are people concerned with dumping Rule 5 guys who won't get drafted anyway
  14. SouthSideRyan
    The Diamondbacks and Mets just passed us in run differential. The Phillies have gained 7 games on the Red Sox since the ASB. And still sit 6 games behind them for worst record in baseball.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    He's been pretty bad since he's been back. Velocity is down. Oh God...Schlitter. More likely Medina.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    He was farting around in AAA for Texas 3 seasons after being acquired and installed as their starting catcher. He picked up 25 PAs over 2 months for Boston in 2010.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    He absolutely did nothing in '06 and '10
  18. SouthSideRyan
    See? If Rizzo bounces back to being Rizzo and, like, one of Soler or Bryant starts hitting like expected things suddenly start looking very different. There's a lot of baseball left, but typically masochistic Cubs fans are convinced it's impossible that something like Rizzo just being Rizzo will happen. But they're only a wild card contender and going from 0% to 6.25% chance at a WS isn't worth nearly as much as going from 6.25% to 12.5%
  19. SouthSideRyan
    This narrative continues to drive me insane.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    Out of curiosity, why? Or is it just an aging shortstop moving to another team? The talent the Cubs gave up for Nomar (Francis Beltran, Brendan Harris, Justin Jones, Alex Gonzalez) isn't really comparable to this trade. Justin Jones was probably the key to the deal in some respects, as it got the veterans that Boston wanted to shore things up, but really, if you wanted to say Justin Jones then is comparable to Jesus Tinoco now ... that would be fair. Jeff Hoffman is a better talent than any piece in that deal, even including when Brendan Harris got a bit over-hyped. Miguel Castro has more starting potential than Francis Beltran did at his best. Yeah, I don't really see the comparison outside of the superficial, franchise shortstop got traded side of it. The Rockies got back a guy roughly the equivalent of Cabrera.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    And before, nobody cared about being first.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    You wonder if he can play 2b? I wonder if he could swing 1b.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    The Brewers are 24-8 over their last 32, including a 15 game win streak in late June/early July. And they've been hitting the [expletive] out of the ball over that stretch. Kind of boggles the mind that even after that, they're still 19.5 back in the division/10 in the WC. Their 23-39 start to the season doomed them by June, but that's mostly because they never seemed to have more than 2 of their starters healthy at the same time over that stretch. No idea where you're getting your numbers but they didn't go 24-8 over their last 32 (it's 18-14), they didn't have a 15 game winning streak (it was 8) and not only were they never 23-39, but 16 game under .500 wasn't even their low point (it was 25-46, after which they're 17-8). lolollol
  24. SouthSideRyan
    So have all of us, except for Banedon who likes to watch with Stevie Wonder with the sound turned down. Why would Brandon not be able to see just because he's watching with a blind guy.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    How many guys need to be coaching Schwarber at all times? What is Henry Blanco doing during all of this?
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