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WTF this literally pisses me off. For all the crap Cubs fans get about Bartman, the only people I hear talk about him are fans of other teams and it's been that way since pretty much mid-October 2003. Feel free to celebrate the 2003 NLCS win when the Cubs are in town but leave Bartman out of it, you poverty organization. It's not being edgy its offensive.

Unfortunately unless Columbus gets a point tonight, the Hawks will have a 30% chance of picking outside the top 4. The NHL needs to change the draft odds, its ridiculous how slanted they are for the team that finishes with the least points. Anaheim: 25.5% of Top 1, 44.3% chance at top 2, 100% chance at top 3 Columbus (with 0 points today): 13.5% chance of Top 1, 27.9% of top 2, 59.9% chance of top 3 Chicago: 11.5% of Top 1, 23.0% chance of top 2, 30.4% chance of top 3 That meaningless point last night cost us a 30% chance of picking in the top 3

Fully understand that, which is why I said with hindsight it was brilliant, but I think he'd do the same thing again if PCA and Matt Mervis wanted 6-7 year extensions several years from now. They were great players when the contracts were being discussed. I get it - don't give out big money and years to players in their decline years as a general concept it makes perfect sense, but I also believe there have to be exceptions for great players. Which is how the Cardinals ended up with 31 year old Arenado and 35 year old Goldschmidt finishing 2nd and 3rd in baseball last year in WAR en route to winning the division with ease. And how the Yankees benefitted from 29 year old Judge breaking the non-steroid HR record.

I don't like it as an unbreakable rule that no one should get more than 4-5 years. Sure I really like the Nico and Happ extensions but the Cubs are a team with good players and no great ones. Their farm system seems full of potential good players but no great ones. You don't get great players unless you pay them a bunch of money or your farm system is developing them so something has to give. Given the benefit of hindsight I'm not saying they should have resigned Javy or KB, but the fact that they didn't at the time makes me think that they will do the same thing in the future.

I think its a very fair article about finding the balance between appreciating his contributions on the ice and letting his silence in the Kyle Beach matter tarnish his legacy to some degree. His comments about it really really disappointed me and I can't help but think about them every time I think about Toews.

Hey Hosmer is off to a solid start! Ermm...maybe not so far https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2023/04/14/eric-hosmers-start-hasnt-really-been-as-good-as-it-looks/ More Sorry for the weird quote boxes, I have no idea how to easily quote different chunks of text without making it look weird. Kind of frustrating

No, he was 4th.

I see a lot of people comment about Jed not wanting to sign extensions, and tons of people on Twitter using Happ's extension to say 'haha i told you so' but my perception of the situation is that Jed wanted to resign most of these guys, he just wouldn't bend his principles to do so. Like he extended Nico, but it was 1 year beyond arbitration, he extended Happ for 3 years. Way back when they extended Hendricks it was for 4 years. They went pretty far in extension talks with Javy but couldn't get it done. My guess is that Javy wanted a 6+ year deal and Jed didn't want to commit to that many years. Same thing with Rizzo as rumors are Jed only offered 3 years (I think) and Rizzo wanted more. I don't think Bryant extension talks got very far off the ground because it was always thought that he would command a long term high dollar amount contract and Jed (and Theo even) wasn't comfortable with that. So yeah, I strongly believe Jed wanted to resign many of these guys, but he takes an unemotional approach to his roster building and does not want to bend his principles even if they are the emotional heart of a championship winning core. He got deals done with Nico and Happ because they were willing to take less years to stay in Chicago. And if you want to throw some Ricketts blame in there, then yeah I think part of the reason he is so unwilling to commit long term is because he knows there is a budget he has to stick to and can't afford to make mistakes the bog down the franchise for years like Heyward's deal did.

Oh man you spoiled the number 1 prospect

Hawks lose in OT anyways. Need a win from the Ducks tonight and a Jackets point tomorrow.

The Bears are the only team that knows how to tank right. The Bulls went through a complete tear down rebuild and picked 7th 3 years in a row. The Cubs traded all their players away but built 71-75 win teams.

Of course the Hawks tie it with 2 mins left and are going to get at least a point. hawks will officially not have the best odds at bedard Edit I'm an idiot, I forgot the Jackets still have a game left

Ducks up 1-0

Still need the Ducks to get a point tonight otherwise tonight’s results only increase their odds by 1%

Correct. Then we get our pick next year but lose it again in 2025 in the DeMar S&T deal with San Antonio

The most tenured Chicago athlete after today is Kyle Hendricks, who debuted in July 2014. Crazy

Agreed, its felt rather dead lately. I've been surprised to visit after 4-5 hours and seeing maybe 1-2 new posts. I have to admit that even as a "power user" I still feel uncomfortable with the new layout and it doesn't "feel" like home. I was hoping it would by now and I'm sure it will eventually, but maybe this is causing regulars to not visit as much even if its not intentional.

Losing last night doesnt change our chances of Wemba. If you lose in the play-in you go back into the lottery based on your regular season record. So the Raptors would still have worse odds than us if the Bulls lose tomorrow. Winning tomorrow does of course change our odds from something to nothing. At the end of the day, I get that this play-in is completely meaningless in the long run, but we're in it so I'm rooting them on. Our odds are 1.7% chance of getting Wemba and 8.1% chance of keeping our pick...not consequential enough for me to actively root for losing at this point. If our odds were something like 10% chance of landing Wemba if we lost, I'd definitely be rooting for a loss. But something that comes up 17 times out of 1000...not worth it to me.

And then for some reason he decided to take his anger out on the Cubs the rest of his career.

Hey you bought us and told us we could be ourselves 😂

The loser of the 7/8 game is 1-3 so far in games against the 9/10 winner. Ridiculously small sample size to take much from it but it kind of makes sense that that team would struggle knowing they had 2 chances to win 1 game and now their down to 1, while the 9/10 winner is coming off a win and has the mentality all along that they needed to win 2 games.

OK I was a little excited watching that. Good horsefeathers for Zach to singlehandedly bring the team back. So we either make the playoffs or we have a 1.5% chance of Wemba, I'll take that lol

Even more depressing when you realize the Bulls are not at all up and coming and were built to win now

Is anyone actually going to watch this game tonight and if so is there any excitement for it? Normally with a loser goes home type of game I'd be sad about the possibility of the season being over, but I really don't think I'll care much if we never see this Bulls team after tonight lol