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This is the most boring horsefeathers game I've ever attended. -
I'll be in the bleachers for this one. I fully expect to leave the park with at least 2 HR balls given up by Jamo.
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My post was more to say: if the Cubs *aren't* going to trade Shaw for Skubal, how can they beat a team with a deep farm system (such as the Dodgers) in making a potential deal for Skubal?
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I don't even know if the Cubs even have the ammunition to acquire someone we'd think of as a "star", be it a SP or a bat, right now in what we'd consider a fair deal. Their most exciting prospects are in A-ball, and their high level young players in the majors range from "great defensive 2B/3B whose bat might come around" to "positionless guy with a decent-but-maybe-really-good bat?" to "our manager periodically forgets they're on the major league roster". Like...I think of Shaw for Skubal as a huge overpay, but what else would the Cubs have to offer that would get the Tigers to trade for him compared to what a team like the Dodgers could offer?
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I mean, if you want to get a bench bat, sure, go nuts, but almost all of the realistic starting-quality available names at 2B/SS/3B/OF are marginal upgrades from the Cubs' current starters, with the *possible* exception of Yordan Alvarez, and even assuming he is available, the Cubs don't have the resources to pull off a trade for him and also get a good quality SP. I get the desire to build an uber offense that isn't subject to slumps the way the current team is. However, this team's pitching is atrocious, even if you think Shota and Taillon are due for a turnaround and Boyd/Cabrera will come back healthy at full strength, and the Cubs are much better off dedicating their limited resources to fixing it.
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Don't forget, it's also populated with the sort of people who are mad at political correctness because they can't drop n-bombs in public any more.
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I meant to knock it over; Lord knows there are enough parking lots nearby to address size issues.
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Remind me again how many rings the Brewers have and how many the Cardinals have.
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Is there anywhere in the city the Bears could even put a new stadium? Friends of the Park would immediately kill anything built near the museum campus, and the Bears complained about the size of the Michael Reese and US Steel sites when those were previously discussed. Any disused industrial site would require a sale along with wrecking balls and remediation. Maybe a deal with Reinsdorf for the Guaranteed Rate site?
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I sincerely hope they're using the "stay in Chicago" excuse as a front for tanking that horrific bill, and not because they actually think it could happen.
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Finish the following sentence: "If Wemby avoids major/nagging injuries over the next decade..."
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I love PCA the same way I love Baez.
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Generally speaking, yes, it should be enough to get it done since Shaw's present value will almost certainly eclipse the value of any single prospect who'd be on the market and most other teams aren't looking to trade similarly situated major league players at this point. Whether or not Shaw *should* be available is another conversation altogether, but I'd have to think that trade would be better than anything else the Tigers would reasonably expect to receive.
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Jordan Wicks Will Get At Least One More Start
Outshined_One replied to Brian Kelder's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If you can throw 85 mph (or 80 mph lefthanded) and always wanted to be a big leaguer, buy a ticket to his start, because there's a chance your name will be called out of the pen. -
In short, it's complicated. Technically, the AH stadium would result in the Bears paying property taxes where they are currently paying none, so in that regard, it would increase the tax revenue. There also is the issue of the tax burden increasing for the local area, especially if AH has to shift it to homeowners if the Bears are paying a substantially lower amount, which is a fantastic way to piss off the locals. So, the question that should be asked is, if the AH site were instead developed as residential/commercial, say like the Glenview Naval Air Station, would that be more beneficial to AH, Cook County, and Illinois than a massive stadium complex? That site won't remain vacant for long if the Bears pull up stakes and move to Hammond, so it's a valid question.
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Except the illustration actually supports the contrary point. This season isn't over, and there's a shitload of baseball left to play. Ten losses in a row suck, but the 2017 Dodgers had a 1-17 run, including 11 losses in a row, they still made the WS that year, and they lost the WS in large part because their opponent engaged in a massive cheating operation (cue the Bregman guy). There's nothing wrong with criticizing Hoyer's decisions or individual players, but the people who are ready to walk into traffic over this team would benefit from some perspective.
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Are you even reading what you're writing? Because we're not even at the halfway point of the season. All of this hand-wringing could be meaningless in less than two weeks if they go on an 8-2 run.
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One of them hasn't been, and that one apparently decided to pay a visit to the Springfield Mystery Spot over the offseason.
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Here's the report they were discussing. Pappas was a blowhard, but Andy Grimm actually had a number of interesting points. This was one particularly interesting point that was raised: As those of you in the north/northwest burbs (likely) know, Old Orchard is a bit of a dead zone at the moment with a handful of anchor tenants, along with ongoing discussions regarding converting parts of the mall into residential spaces. The fact that it still pulls in that much tax revenue puts things in perspective regarding the Bears stadium.
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Who's who by fWAR since 2023?
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Everybody point and laugh at the "Enhanced games"
Outshined_One replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
You can't convince me that this isn't a money laundering operation. -
Jaxon Wiggins to the Iowa IL
Outshined_One replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
At the major league level, absolutely. In the minors, they're better off now than they were this time a year ago, as hard as it seems to believe. We've gone from trying to make Nick Dean a thing to having a strong cadre of lower level guys who could find themselves on Top 100 lists (particularly Wing and McGwire) a year from now. -
Josiah Hartshorn & Mason McGwire Promoted to Hi-A
Outshined_One replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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That sums up one of the major issues in a nutshell nicely. If the NFL gets to offload the cost of training and development onto the NCAA, why shouldn't MLB get the same benefit? Perhaps that saves teams money over the short term, but how often are players ready to contribute to a major league team right after the draft, much less AAA or even AA? At least the NFL draft seems to produce dozens of guys who can produce in the NFL their rookie season, but baseball is such a different animal that this mindset makes zero sense to me.
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Huh, so we never really started an NFL offseason thread after last season. Might as well start one for the offseason and this coming season. Brian Flores got the green light to continue his discrimination case in the courts. In fairness, having the NFL commissioner be the arbitrator for those disputes is pants-on-head stupid.
