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  1. UMFan83
    Why? They fucked up too
  2. UMFan83
    If the home opener wasn’t on Monday I could have totally seen Joe getting fired with a sweep this weekend
  3. UMFan83
    I don’t care if it’s the 7th game of the season, heads need to roll and fast
  4. UMFan83
    Pitching hitting and defense all contributing tonight
  5. UMFan83
    At least I can spend my summer in the greatest summer city on earth and not that podunk cheese outpost
  6. UMFan83
    Ok time to fire the next pitching coach
  7. UMFan83
    The lack of developing prospects (especially pitchers) is what kills me. When Theo came aboard he said all the right things about creating the "Cub Way" or whatever its called. Overhauling the development system from the top down, creating consistency across all levels, writing a literal manual that the instructors and coaches would follow. With this we would consistently be able to churn out major league talent. Early on we were doing that, but its just fallen off a cliff since 2016. People are being pretty patient about the state of the farm system but (correct me if I'm wrong) I would guess that an elite development organization would have the organization in a better position than this after the Quintana trade cleared out the last of the blue chippers 2 years ago. Feel free to tell me if I am expecting too much too soon. I guess I'm just frustrated because I didn't expect the Cubs to be in a position where the major league team has stagnated, we've maxed out our budget, our potential trade assets have declining value and we aren't expecting much help from the minors anytime soon. There are plenty of worse spots to be in but in terms of the teams that are currently considered contenders, its not an enviable position to be in.
  8. UMFan83
    I'd be really interested in how different a Hoyer led FO would act, if much at all. Obviously we have the datapoint of his short tenure in SD which seems pretty mediocre overall. This article was written after Jed took over in Chicago and doesn't have the hindsight of 8 years. The article is so old it considers a Ludwick for prospects which include Corey Kluber trade to be a win for SD because they didn't give up much for Ludwick. They also praise him for rebuilding the farm system but in retrospect none of the guys him and McLeod drafted amounted to much. They did manage to land Rizzo in a trade of Adrian Gonzalez but other than that most of his transactions look like veteran pickups to make a below average roster average, nothing overly impressive to me. https://tht.fangraphs.com/evaluating-jed-hoyers-brief-stay-in-san-diego/
  9. UMFan83
    Going to have to get a lot worse to reach homeostasis. I can sustain myself on 2016 for at least another 20 years.
  10. UMFan83
    6 yrs/$126m and we have to lift him after 4 IP to keep his confidence high.
  11. UMFan83
    Is this the thread where we are allowed to say karma’s a bitch?
  12. UMFan83
    Hahahahahaha horsefeathering Chatwood?
  13. UMFan83
    I think you need to send Carl to Iowa and let him work out his delivery and wildness.
  14. UMFan83
    Wait did Joe really pull Darvish in the 5th after he got in a jam and brought in Carl who is having command issues and had to rework his delivery overnight? In a 1 run game? Unfucking real.
  15. UMFan83
    Welcome to Yu’s blowup inning
  16. UMFan83
    I swear to god KB seems to hit worse when he gets into hitters counts
  17. UMFan83
    I’m really anxious to see how he does. He seemingly can only be either really good or really bad and both would be entertaining in completely different ways
  18. UMFan83
    I'm sure it was a priority for them. But the likelihood of finding someone willing to absorb a 5/$106m contract for a guy who can't hit and whose value is tied to skills that are likely to decline with age is not great. They might have been able to get some team to take him but they'd probably be absorbing a contract almost as bad to do so, and Heyward probably has more value in 2019 than whatever garbage they'd get in return.
  19. UMFan83
    Hey things may be bad right now but fear not, Addison Russell returns in about 4 weeks!
  20. UMFan83
    4 games out of 1st on April 3rd
  21. UMFan83
    Good to know you can still get Javy out by throwing nothing but balls occasionally
  22. UMFan83
    He’s not great at pitchers but he used to be ok (Strop, Arrieta, Hendricks and to a lesser extent guys like Monty, Grimm, Cahill) but since his untimely demise his lookalike replacement has just been awful with almost everything he has done
  23. UMFan83
    Does Joe make it to the home opener?
  24. UMFan83
    Honestly I’d love to sell off and build up the farm again. Not a full sell off of course but one that won’t set us back too far. Maybe we can dump some salary in those trades so we actually have money to spend
  25. UMFan83
    This is actually pretty entertaining in a sick way
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