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  1. UMFan83
    We've been saying that for 3 years. 92 wins (NLCS), 95 wins (most in NL in regular season) and last years horsefeathers show the last 3 years. If you think the true talent is closer to 2017 and 18 (I do) than 2019, Pythag agreed, then yeah we don’t need major changes to win. Small tweaks to optimize things are going to put them in a plenty good spot to win 90+ and what more can you really ask for? True but they are claiming that they don't have any money to spend and are already down a starter, 2B, utility guy and several bullpen arms. We have to somehow fill those holes while dropping payroll. Not saying that trading Kris Bryant is my first choice or second or 5th, and horsefeathers the Ricketts for makin them drop payroll, but I think minor tweaks will have us worse than before.
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    Is there any chance we can find some team out there willing to make a trade like the Red Sox and Dodgers made in 2012 (involving the Red Sox dumping Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford) or has this stupid luxury tax horsefeathers completely changed the environment where that can’t happen?
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    Little over 14k paid attendance. Already back to pre-Skiles years attendance
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    I saw that earlier and the actual report read like a suggestion more than anything
  5. UMFan83
    Yeah, he was... What am I missing? He was traded, but it was because the Cubs wouldnt meet his contract demands with people at the time claiming that they wouldn't pay him what he wanted because he was black
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    Along with that... There is no point in trading Bryant if the arbitrator is still weeks away from making a decision unless you are certain that the Cubs will lose the dispute. If you trade him now you will get less value than you should for your franchise cornerstone, and if you wait for a ruling before trading him, the offseason will be basically over. Also, damn you front office but putting yourselves in a position where trading KB might be considered an acceptable option.
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    Damn!
  8. UMFan83
    Sounds like the Nats made their choice between him and Rendon
  9. UMFan83
    This sounds bad and as mean/evil as anything the owners might say (resources? assets? deteriorating in value? Jeebus, are sports training people to be bizness evil? We're talking about 27-28 year old people! People who are really good or better at their jobs! What more can be asked!?) thats a bizarre tangent to take this discussion but ok.
  10. UMFan83
    aka 324 regular season baseball games over two ML seasons including two playoffs that will end with a champion series apiece How is this treated as bad, something to run away from, and not something that was always going to happen that everyone knew about going in? It's not bad, its just another example of resources deteriorating in value as they get closer to FA.
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    a historic and as-fun-as-you-could-possibly-script world series and 3 straight nlcs appearances and 4 seasons of 90+ wins (including a 95, a 97, and a 103) in a row? yeah, ok, sulley. it was a really horsefeathers outcome we got out of that. thats not what im referring to. I'm saying the position we were in circa 2015 with all the prospects and financial flexibility and this is where we're at now with a mediocre farm and no payroll space and a roster whose best players are 2 years from FA. The in between was amazing and the rebuild has been a success by every measure.
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    Yes, I think its a perfectly reasonable take to be angry at ownership for limiting payroll but also to call out the front office for not getting a return on the money they spent. It really sucks that in 2015 we had a ridiculous number of high end prospects and a ton of money to spend and this is where we ended up. I really hope the behind the scenes hirings by the FO fix whatever sort of malice that has infected the organization
  13. UMFan83
    I know the Bears chances of making the playoffs were incredibly small but since they are playing better I thought it would be fun to hold out a small amount of hope as I watched the games today. Unfortunately it’s looking like a worst case scenario day -Vikings win -Packers win -Rams winning 21-3 Rams winning is most damaging IMO. Bears can win over Vikings by the Packers beating them and the Bears winning in week 17. But the Bears would need the Rams to lose twice and the Seahawks were one of the best remaining chances for them to lose. Anyways, yeah was a long shot going in but even bigger long shot now
  14. UMFan83
    Well you’d better get to horsefeathering work. Already lost a starter from last year and several pen arms are FAs.
  15. UMFan83
    Using last weeks CFP rankings and an arbitrary number like 10, OSU is 3-0 (UW x2 and PSU) and LSU is 2-0 (Georgia and Florida). If you extend to top 12, OSU is still 3-0 and LSU is 4-0 (add Auburn and Alabama)
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    It’s crazy how easy Clemson’s schedule was this year. Just looking at the Sagarin rankings (not sure how good this metric is) and Michigan played 5 opponents this year that were ranked higher than Clemson’s best opponent. Michigan: -Ohio State (1) -Wisconsin (7) -Penn State (11) -Notre Dame (14) -Iowa (16) Clemson: -Texas A&M (17) Note: I am NOT implying that Michigan is better, on par or even slightly worse than Clemson. I was just looking at their schedule and when I saw how bad it was, compared it to Michigan since I’m a UM fan. Clemson would have probably made the playoff in another conference but damn do they have it easy in the ACC
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    Ohio State is in unless they get absolutely crushed and even then maybe they are. The discussion that's interesting if Wisconsin wins, especially by a decent margin, is Wisconsin vs Oklahoma. I don’t think Wisconsin would get in over OSU. After all OSU did beat them earlier this year, has played a harder schedule (I think), lost one less game, didn’t lose to Illinois, and overall has played significantly better with both metrics and the eye test. I do think they’d have a shot to finish over Oklahoma although that would cause quite the drama to have a 2 loss conference champion over a 1 loss. But Oklahoma has not looked all that impressive from what I’ve seen this season and I don’t think they are one of the 4 best teams this year
  18. UMFan83
    Take one guess what happened
  19. UMFan83
    The Warriors are 2-0 against the Bulls and 2-16 against every other team in the NBA since Curry was injured. Why did we think this team was going to be decent again?
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    yes https://www.footballdb.com/games/boxscore.html?gid=2004091907 Holy crap, how did I not realize that the Bears somehow won at Lambeau 4 years in a row? (2004-2007) Since then they've won in 2013 and 2015
  21. UMFan83
    Best case scenario: Mitch is really turning the corner Worst case and most likely scenario: Mitch plays well enough for the Bears to not bring in any competition in the offseason and then he turns back into Mitchell Trubisky next year.
  22. UMFan83
    Maybe he's finally said horsefeathers it, if I don't play aggressive, I'm going to be done after 2020. It's about time, at this point, there's literally nothing to lose perhaps, he's figured that out as well. I think part of his issues were playing extremely tight and conservative. Not sure if that was Mitch being scared of throwing INTs or Nagy not trusting him to make the right reads, or both. But certainly looks like Mitch is throwing downfield with more confidence. And he's thrown 5 INTs in his last 4 games after throwing 3 in his first 7 games. And that's fine...I'd much rather have him throwing downfield and risking the occasional INT than having him throwing dump passes to Cohen for 3 yards all game. We'll see. The whole town gave up on him already anyways, what else does he have to lose besides his job (which he was going to lose anyway playing how he did)
  23. UMFan83
    The 6-7 Cowboys have a 70% chance of making the playoffs The 7-6 Bears have a 3% chance of making the playoffs :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: 5% now according to 538. The odds are so low...if the best case scenario happens this weekend (Vikings lose to Detroit, Packers lose to Washington, Rams lose to Seattle), their chances shoot all the way up to 18%. If the best case scenario happens this weekend and next (Bears beat Packers, Vikings lose to Chargers, Rams lose to Dallas), it goes up to 55%. Basically, Bears need to win out, have the Vikings lose 1 of their 3 non-Bears games (or Packers lose 2 of their 3 non-Bears games) and have the Rams lose 2 of their 4 remaining games. If they go 2-1 (with 1 of the wins being Minnesota) that turns to needing a 1-2 record for the Vikings and 1-3 record for the Rams. Not going to happen, but at least we can try to win out and then spend all offseason lamenting Nagy not trying to get a few extra yards for Pineiro's game winning FG attempt against the Chargers.
  24. UMFan83
    Me too but when Daniel Winkler is available priorities change.
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