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Cubs win

Almost blown. Come on guys you can do it

Well at the very least Dest is going to Milan on loan https://twitter.com/sart29394271/status/1565094419707138053

Dest to AC Milan seems like a good outcome, no?

Because we claimed him on waivers we are taking on Leatherwood's contract rather than the Raiders having to absorb it. His cap hit is roughly $8m this year and $4m next year. Not a big deal given the Bears future cap situation I guess. Edit: I might be off, I pulled that info from a cap site. Here is more info

Interesting on Leatherwood. Hopefully the Bears look at him as a project to fix his issues and not someone to count on this year. Interesting that they didn't claim any WRs.

This was a good analysis. He wasn’t effusive in his praise at all, he pointed throughout areas Fields needs to improve (particularly decisiveness in the pocket) but also showed areas where he has improved from last year. I definitely appreciate that more than 100% effusive praise

Starter leaves, pen immediately blows up the game. Rinse and repeat

Had some sort of leg/ankle injury running to first on a double play grounder and limped off the field. Then hit a home run and hobbled around the bases. Still in the game. Cubs up 1-0

You could also read the tweet above that says only 22 of Pace's players are left on the roster. I...just wanted to verify it myself

yay - still one of us!

If I counted correctly, 22 of the 53 players were on the Bears last year. 9 on offense, 11 on defense and 2 specialists

I was waiting for jersey to post this thread. Maybe he was waiting for game week, oh well. The Bears probably aren't that good but there's a lot to look forward to seeing this season. Definitely more than other years where we knew we'd be bad going into it (aka the John Fox years). The line opened in most places at Bears +6.5 and I've seen that line jump to +7 or +7.5. Playing at home against a west coast team with a less experienced QB, I'm tempted to take Bears but its close.

Did they really? Yikes. Zimmer didn't want Mond so he did him no favors but I never thought Kellen would be any more than backup QB in the league at best. To be fair it was mostly trolling twitter discourse. I don't think most normal Vikings fans thought so.

Vikings fans spent last year telling Bears fans that Kellen Mond was somehow better than Justin Fields. Kellen Mond just got cut after 1 season in Minnesota.

I didnt see the play but why was Reyes stretching his into a double with the go ahead run on 3rd and 0 outs?

Not that it matters at all but it’s probably cost us 3-4 games since the deadline

Starting your major league career with 9 scoreless innings is pretty sweet, especially with the 2 games being against the Cardinals and Blue Jays.

I have somehow Mandela Effected Sergio Mitre beating Roy Halladay into having occurred in Toronto. I would have put like $100 on the Cubs/Jays series from 2005 having been in Canada. I definitely remember it being at Wrigley. I actually drove by the park about 2 hours before the game and mulled parking and trying to find a ticket but thought there’s no need to waste money to see that scumbag Mitre try to beat Halladay. You might have gotten it mixed up with the Cubs beating Halladay in Toronto in that 2008 series. I remember also thinking “welp Halladay is going to shut us down” before they game (UMFan a pessimist? Shocker) and they got to him and won.

Since the last game thread was started after the game was over, here is today's game thread before the game starts. Assad makes his 2nd start going up against Berrios Cubs have played 3 previous series in Toronto: -Cubs were swept in 3 games back in September 2014 -Cubs won 2 of 3 from the Jays back in June 2008, including outdueling Roy Halladay -Cubs lost 2 of 3 back in June 2003, in a series I remember nothing about. Lineup:

Just wait a year and don't gut the farm system? I’m all about the minor league system, but I highly doubt Ohtani ever makes it to free agency if he’s traded. If a team makes the move, it’s with the plan to pony up and extend him. So if there really are plans to trade him, I’d prefer the Cubs make a significant offer. Also I’ve heard a couple times that the Angels really liked Horton so maybe he’s a guy you put in there and take out one of the other top guys. That was my 1st thought, but I've also heard people say that he will definitely test FA no matter what. But I don't know if that's based on assumption or something he's said. He seems like a guy that would be more than happy to sign an extension if the money and team was right. Rumors at the time were that the Cubs made a very strong impression on Ohtani when he originally came over and some even say we were his 2nd choice. Even though much has changed since then, I imagine he still has a favorable impression of the Cubs. But if he's for sure going to test FA, there's no sense in trading for him now, as some team who stands to benefit more from his ~8 wins of production next year will likely pay more. The concept of trading for a player and hoping he loves playing for your team enough to resign has been a hit and miss strategy for teams like the Cardinals, so I'd rather just let him to go FA and hope his positive impression of the Cubs pushes him to Chicago (assuming the money is right). If he's willing to sign an extension at the time of trading then absolutely lets give up some of that prospect depth. I think what I originally proposed is a little much, it was just a random first thought. But I would expect the Angels to ask for a top 100 prospect, another top 8 prospect, and a pre-arb major league player or near ready AAA player with upside.

I didn't catch Gameday but apparently Corso was like this throughout the show:

Paul Goldschmidt and Albert Pujols are actively aging as well. They've also managed to get positive value from the aging corpse of Molina until his age 39 season.

Sounds like Little and Estrada