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Given the GD should really only need a draw. That said, Arsenal please roast Everton so Leeds can have a better shot at safety and the dream of getting to see Pickford react to getting relegated stays alive. Nooo Everton has to stay up. I'd be pissed. Hopefully they can take care of business on Thursday and then the weekend results won't matter.

Random question: which draft luck was worse for the Bulls: -Losing coin flip with the Lakers for the number 1 pick, which was Magic Johnson or -Winning the coin flip with the Kings for the 7th best lottery odds, which led to Sacramento winning the 2nd pick in the draft with those numbers. GarPax was enamored with Doncic and I’m 100% confident they take him at 2 instead of..bagley

This ump is horsefeathering terrible

Schwindel up with the bases loaded and 1 out, we’re doomed. Oh wait we’re gonna pinch hit. Wonder who it’s going to be? Oh great Ortega

I’m shocked that Schwindel, Heyward and Villar couldn’t get it done in the 9th

Well then you just missed 2 runs lol Edit: 3

I don’t think you need a paid subscription to access the game on Apple TV+ but I’m not positive.

Was this the guy that got banned? didn't realize he got banned, thought he just stopped posting. But yes that is the same sulley

Gordo has written some very scathing articles about the Cubs lately. This one is after Rizzo was interviewed prior to his first game back in Chicago tonight (against the Sox) https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/cubs/yankees-anthony-rizzos-new-uniform-reminder-cubs-lost-culture?cid=sm_npd_rsn_chi_twt_mn Rizzo wanted to be a Cub for life and was definitely a bit pissed about the lowball offer (in his mind) and the fact that the Cubs never contacted him in the offseason

Because it's the Bears and between Packers, chance of Lions on thanksgiving, and the need to fill at least 2 primetime games every week, and often more, plus the limits on the best teams doing it every week, the league doesn't have many better options. Yep. I've heard Bears consistently draw well on prime time viewers too. Makes sense as its the largest 1 team market in the NFL but man recent Bears primetime games have been so incredibly awful and unwatchable with the exception of the Steelers game last year.

4 of the last 5 at home in the most miserable part of the season weather-wise and after the season will likely be all but over. Bye in Week 14 when its to late to do us any good is strange too. Still a very easy schedule most likely but the way it is configured is possibly the hardest you can make it on the Bears. The meat heads will think it’s great because of the mythic advantage of “Bears weather” that hasn’t actually been an advantage Season ticketholders are going to take a bath most likely unless they dump their tickets early on. No one is going to pay face value to watch a 3-9 team play in 30 degree temps.

4 of the last 5 at home in the most miserable part of the season weather-wise and after the season will likely be all but over. Bye in Week 14 when its to late to do us any good is strange too. Still a very easy schedule most likely but the way it is configured is possibly the hardest you can make it on the Bears. At least they get that mini-bye with the TNF game followed by MNF

TIL Robertson is on the IL

I know it would take a complete disaster for Peterman to see any time on the field but geez I can't believe that dude is still in the NFL, he was the mockery of the entire league when he was on the Bills. Kaepernick is 10x better than that dude.

Im sure many just want to move on and that's fine. But if you want to read more ex-Cub stuff here is an article with interviews from the ex-Cubs about moving on to new teams but keeping their past ties as Cubs strong. https://theathletic.com/3304353/2022/05/11/former-cubs-stars-ponder-2-life-changing-journeys-with-chicago-and-their-new-teams/

I've heard Lakers rumors as well. At the end of of the day, if the Bulls offer him the max the minute FA opens, I'm certain he'll resign. If the Bulls try to mess around and lowball him, he'll go exploring FA even if the Bulls ultimately offer him the max. If you want to be sure to keep Zach, don't mess around.... he has made it clear that he's looking for the respect of a max level contract.

Is there any other rumors that should have us concerned about him leaving other than the vague Blazers may offer him a contract rumor?

Stupid marine layer

The Cubs last rebuild felt like it took forever but it only took 3 years after Theo took over to build a contender. If you consider this year 1 - equivalent to 2012, lets look at what the Cubs had in assets by this point in the rebuild: -On the major league team they had 1 cornerstone piece in Anthony Rizzo and a 2015 bullpen arm in Travis Wood. -In the minors, only 2 of their top 40 prospects actually contributed to the 2015-2016 Cubs - Javy and Matt Szczur -They had the pieces that would eventually be traded for Arrieta, Strop, Fowler, 1/2 of Addison Russell, Hendricks, Carl Edwards, Grimm and Neil Ramirez (probably missing some) -Farm system was ranked around 15-20 in baseball Curious to see how we compare with what we have right now. Obviously a bit hard to say because we don't know how guys like Davis will ultimately look in the majors and we have no idea what we can get for a lot of the veterans on the staff but it seems like we're in a similar position, maybe slightly better now. Definitely seems like another 2-3 years to get to the point of contention on the surface. You said yourself that that team had the pieces to trade for Arrieta, Strop, Fowler, Hendricks, Russell, Edwards, Grimm, etc. Where are the tradable pieces on this team? We are miles behind the situation in 2012 and we don't have Theo's competence to save us. Pieces traded for these players were Scott Feldman, Steve Clevenger, Luis Valbuena, Jeff Samardzija, Jason Hammel (not on 2012 Cubs), and Ryan Dempster. This years Cubs team could theoretically trade Hendricks, Smyly, Miley, Robertson, Givens, Coldplay dude, Contreras, Happ, Villar and Frazier. Not saying they would trade all of them or that they would all get as much value as they got from the guys mentioned in 2012 (FO had a ridiculously high hit rate on trades), but they definitely have enough tradeable pieces on the team.

Guessing there’s another injury or COVID situation and he’s been called back up. Pretty sure that’s the only scenario that he can come back up so soon

funny, he used to make radio appearances all the time. wonder why he stopped?

lol okay man. I get it, you've got your arbitrary payroll number that qualifies as trying to win, and anything below that is complete abandonment of on field product. All actual spending that happens is explained as farming for trades until they meet that marker, regardless of how little sense that might actually make compared to more sensible explanations. It's just Ricketts anger all the way down regardless of topic or circumstance, your worldview has been made clear. There were clear opportunities to upgrade in free agency. I honestly have no clue why the went after Suzuki and Stroman if they are choosing to surround them with replacements. The Cubs have 2 starting pitchers and Happ, Nico, Wilson and Suzuki. They are great at building a pen, but at some point their luck is going leave. They are intent on letting Wilson leave and the consensus seems to be to trade Happ. They have no stars to trade and teams seem to be coveting prospect. As you noted, the FA market isn’t great. The team is on the road to at least three more years of awful on top of last year and this year. Who else is to blame if not the Ricketts? The Cubs last rebuild felt like it took forever but it only took 3 years after Theo took over to build a contender. If you consider this year 1 - equivalent to 2012, lets look at what the Cubs had in assets by this point in the rebuild: -On the major league team they had 1 cornerstone piece in Anthony Rizzo and a 2015 bullpen arm in Travis Wood. -In the minors, only 2 of their top 40 prospects actually contributed to the 2015-2016 Cubs - Javy and Matt Szczur -They had the pieces that would eventually be traded for Arrieta, Strop, Fowler, 1/2 of Addison Russell, Hendricks, Carl Edwards, Grimm and Neil Ramirez (probably missing some) -Farm system was ranked around 15-20 in baseball Curious to see how we compare with what we have right now. Obviously a bit hard to say because we don't know how guys like Davis will ultimately look in the majors and we have no idea what we can get for a lot of the veterans on the staff but it seems like we're in a similar position, maybe slightly better now. Definitely seems like another 2-3 years to get to the point of contention on the surface.

And he did Guessing he will miss the WC...