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  1. UMFan83
    He did say that Ohtani was traveling to Toronto today, not that he was en route so I guess he could be leaving later on lol Who knows, what a circus.
  2. UMFan83
    Bowden saying the same thing, but his track record is spotty too. Morosi is the only semi legit reporter that has said anything about being in Toronto I think
  3. UMFan83
    I doubt ever. We're talking what 15 games where the weather if iffy and even in that month of iffy weather there is occasionally really nice weather. It probably affects like 7-8 games a year depending on what you consider too cold
  4. UMFan83
    That is the funniest thing ever
  5. UMFan83
    You do know that Toronto plays in a dome right? lol Yes the weather might suck but his point was playing in cold ass weather kind of sucks and Toronto is an option that allows him to avoid it when at home.
  6. UMFan83
    Even PlaymakerDavid seems to be giving in
  7. UMFan83
    Maybe by then Jed will be allowed to use all his savings from not hitting the payroll number Tom gives him and we can make him a competitive offer
  8. UMFan83
    I'm dubious about the press conference too. I've seen 7pm ET and 6pm ET but it makes no sense to have a PC without a physical and unless they did the physical in LA or Florida last week, I don't see how they can make an official announcement today.
  9. UMFan83
    Pretty sure the Ohtani airport video is fake. Obviously he's clearly in Toronto though
  10. UMFan83
    The "Ohtani?" plane is currently flying over Illinois air space for the next 4 minutes or so (clipping the NW corner of the state). How exciting!
  11. UMFan83
    Kind of funny to go from playing in one of the most competitive divisions in baseball to another one of the most competitive divisions in baseball. He'll get to the playoffs with Toronto but not exactly maximizing his chances of winning a title IMO.
  12. UMFan83
    Jed said that to throw people off and stay off the radar.
  13. UMFan83
    Why do I feel like there's a 90% chance we're sitting there in mid-February waiting to find out if we resigned Bellinger to salvage our offseason? Seems like one of those FAs where its going to turn into a battle of wills between Boras and interested teams. The good news is the Yankees have their OFs, the Blue Jays with Ohtani are out, I doubt the Dodgers will give him a long term deal after non-tendering him a year ago. Probably will have a mix of teams like San Francisco, LAA, Seattle and the Cubs bidding for him. If SF gets Yamamoto, that settles their fans demand for a big FA. Just speculating LAA after losing Ohtani and keeping Trout.
  14. UMFan83
    Jed is being so secretive about this that he had Ohtani fly to Toronto to take his Cubs physical and sign the contract so that everyone would think he's signing with the Blue Jays. We're going to be sitting there on Opening Day wondering why the hell Ohtani decided to not sign with anyone when the Cubs Twitter account will release the lineup with Ohtani hitting 4th.
  15. UMFan83
    It was leaked, I don't think they leaked it. Their GM appeared on a Zoom call with a plain white background during the winter meetings and claimed he had a conflict that prevented him from being there. Not their fault if the media did some digging from that and figured out the truth. Or maybe it was stupid for them to even have a suspicious Zoom call and should have had someone at the meetings speak to the media (similar to Carter speaking for the Cubs the first day), but its different than brazenly telling everyone you met, what you did during the meeting etc. I mean in reality the whole thing about staying quiet about meetings is stupid and even stranger if it affected the Dodgers' chances but I'm going to pretend its why they didn't get him anyways because its so much funnier.
  16. UMFan83
    Does Dave Roberts get fired if he signs with the Jays? Even though it would be ridiculous to not choose a team because they leaked a meeting with that player, I'm going to pretend that's why.
  17. UMFan83
    There was a rumor a few days ago that if they signed Ohtani they would look to trade Bichette and Vlad or something to that effect.
  18. UMFan83
    I'm still below where I was before the switch. I had almost 88k in March, now around 86k. Haven't checked my post count in a while so I'm not sure if it went up but not quite to the level it was at before.
  19. UMFan83
    Toronto fans are sneakily annoying as hell. You kind of forget they exist until something good happens and then they become obnoxious. It gives me so much joy that their beloved hockey team is a punchline for its inability to win a Stanley Cup.
  20. UMFan83
    Wonder what Bears odds are of 1 overall now. This is starting to feel real
  21. UMFan83
    Copa Draw for US: USA Uruguay Panama Bolivia Hardest pot 2 opponent by ranking, 2nd hardest pot 3 opponent but will have the easiest pot 4 opponent unless Trinidad somehow beats Canada. Seems like a pretty solid path to advance for the US
  22. UMFan83
    I'm not going to dox this PlaymakerDavid dude, but its pretty easy to find information on him online. Based on his LinkedIn profile, he definitely has connections within the professional sports world, but its also a stretch to assume (based solely on his LI experience) he has the kind of connections that would be in the know about one of the most secretive FA recruitments of all time. He also definitely also has connections to Vegas and famous poker players (Phil Helmuth looks like an investor in one of the companies he was involved with that was recently acquired for $54m) so maybe that's where its coming from. But either way, this is not some random dude hiding behind a twitter handle. He might be getting info that isn't correct but I don't know if hes just completely making horsefeathers up.
  23. UMFan83
    Let’s go PlaymakerDavid!! Could absolutely be making all this horsefeathers up and in fact almost certainly is but whatever. He was super down on the Cubs chances last night for the first time and now all the sudden is going back to being very positive.
  24. UMFan83
    Kind of sounds like the Cubs were in on Soto more than we might have thought?
  25. UMFan83
    Past tense like already went to Japan or is in Japan now? Interested to know if he went before all the reports about the Cubs being out. Seems like quite a wasted effort to go to Japan if you weren't willing to offer the rumored rate (not saying that's definitely why the Cubs are out or if they're even out at all)
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