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  1. Thusly Boned
    I think what we're seeing from the Cubs is sadly becoming more common: simply shooting for a .540ish winning percentage and just doing enough to get in. Using a slice of their saving to patch holes along the way. Outside of a small handful of teams, I think this is going to become a widespread approach. We're not the only fanbase having this conversation. It's easy to see why greedy types would go this route, as recent history shows it's just as effective hurling truckloads of cash at the roster. And odds are that the team that comes out on top in 2024 isn't going to be the one that spent the most money, again. And that'll just validate all the other owners who want to go the same way. Almost everyone wants to be the Rays, not because they have to, but because they're stingy. As a fan, this sucks, because the product just isn't as entertaining as it could be, and it's riskier than loading your roster. The fact your FO is making the choice not to field the best product they can reasonably afford is galling. The most popular team in the third largest market in the country should absolutely be mitigating risk by throwing money at their problems.
  2. Thusly Boned
    The draft can't get here soon enough. The "discussion" about what the Bears are going to do was already tired a couple months ago. Now it's insufferable, and I'm barely exposed to it. The "Keep Justin vs. Draft Williams" civil war is one of the dumber things I've seen in ages, and given the usual level of discourse among football fans, that is really saying something.
  3. Thusly Boned
    I can't imagine the chances there are good. He's coming off a nice rebound season after multiple bad ones; if he signed a one year deal and regressed significantly, he probably wouldn't get a good shot at a lucrative multiyear deal again. It would validate all the uncertainty around him. It'd be a huge roll of the dice to sign a one year deal.
  4. Thusly Boned
    I just can't see anyone going there, at least in guaranteed money. If he's gonna be stubborn about it, this might drag into March.
  5. Thusly Boned
    IIRC, B2B loved bagging on Epstein (at the time) as well, and pining for Hendry. Seems to be a pattern of being malcontent. But he wasn't alone, a lot of people really hated the teardown phase of the Epstein era.
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    "full time", lol
  7. Thusly Boned
    I was listening to the Parkins and Spiegel bit with Cowherd just a while ago, and while it was an excruciating listen, the takeaway seemed to be this: Williams and his camp have concerns about the Bears, but won't pull and Eli/Elway and refuse to play if drafted. And honestly, anyone in his position would be an absolute fool to not have major concerns, as the franchise has done an almost inexplicable job of screwing the pooch throughout their recent history, and particularly their very recent history, and especially with regard to their offense/QB. Plus they have a defensive HC who could end up on the hot seat very easily, so it's totally within the realm of possibility that he would end up in the same position Fields was in having a new staff within his first year. But that doesn't mean he would flat out refuse to play for the Bears. I'd bet that he will, and that they Bears will draft him. But if I were him, the prospect would make me a little queasy.
  8. Thusly Boned
    Most of it is, but the quick delivery bit says Caleb and screams "not Justin" to me.
  9. Thusly Boned
    Yeah, but also some blame for not walking away sooner, perhaps. The team ended up with decent enough returns for those two, but I felt at the time that the core was sold off a little too late.
  10. Thusly Boned
    I don't hate it, I just don't care enough about this particular matchup to outweigh my amusement at the silly people sent into apoplexy by all the attention the Swift/Kelce ting is getting.
  11. Thusly Boned
    I'm a little wary of what the cost might be there, given his age and contract status. I'd love to have him, but I'd be surprised if whoever trades for him doesn't overpay.
  12. Thusly Boned
    I can't believe Campbell passing on points and going on 4th there; if I'm a Lions fan, that's gonna gnaw at me for a loooonnngg time. Well, since I definitely won't be watching the superbowl, I hope they talk about Taylor Swift non-stop all game, and cut to her between every play just to piss the meatheads off. Maybe advertise it as the Taylor Bowl.
  13. Thusly Boned
    Yeah, right or wrong, it's patently obvious the team didn't like what they saw in Mervis, and don't plan to give him a major role. Trading for Busch and all but naming him the 1B was the final nail in the coffin in my mind.
  14. Thusly Boned
    No idea if it would be feasible, but make it so all owners have to share their financials with the league, set a payroll/baseball ops budget floor for each team that is a fixed percentage of their revenue, and if they don't meet that payroll/baseball ops budget floor, penalize them the difference. So they end up spending the same regardless. Like a reverse luxury tax.
  15. Thusly Boned
    Yeah, there is a little bit of taint on that 2016 team, tbh. In retrospect, part of me is glad Chapman blew the lead in game 7 so I didn't don't feel like we won because of him (but that's probably just cope). But Shannon is the star of the current Illini team; if they were to win anything of great significance this year, it's almost certainly going to depend in large part on him, and I hate that now. Should he be able to play until there is some kind of disposition? Maybe. But he absolutely shouldn't be lionized.
  16. Thusly Boned
    That's true, but it's not a binary either. Dumbass college kids most often simply aren't going to have the same level of self-awareness (with regard to biases among other things) that many other people have. That's not an absolution, it just is what it is. It's still gross for them to cheer him, but maybe incrementally less so than say, one of their professors doing it or something. Regardless, the whole production is really disappointing, and it's scenario we see way too much of.
  17. Thusly Boned
    I think it's reflection of confirmation bias and how cult-like sports fandoms can be. That's not a defense of anyone, but a condemnation of sports fandom in general. Unfortunately, it seems to be nearly the status quo for communities around teams/organizations/schools in situations like this to circle the wagons, at least until the guilt becomes undeniable (and sadly often beyond that point). We've seen it countless times. And I hope it didn't actually happen, but odds are something bad did. And as an Illini fan, unless we get a pretty categorical retraction from the victim, anything positive that happens that Shannon is involved with is going to have the stank on it.
  18. Thusly Boned
    Ryno was my favorite athlete as a kid; my room was practically a shrine to him and the Cubs. I definitely don't feel the reverence for him now that I did when I was tween, but this still really sucks.
  19. Thusly Boned
    Yeah, and a lot of that delusion stems the extreme confidence that comes naturally, and a lot is they're drinking the kool-aid their agents are serving. But most of them aren't rocket scientists, either. Owners are another thing. I think they should be compelled to spend, at least at a level that correlates to their cash flow. For the health of the game, craven profiteering should be dissuaded.
  20. Thusly Boned
    Well, the things Fields doesn't do well are well documented, and have been for a while. Nothing you've said any any point hasn't already been said multiple times by dozens of analysts at any point over the past couple of years. And there are numerous people on this board who demonstrably know more about this stuff than you do. You also have to remember where you are posting - you're in a game thread, where people are being reactionary and irrational. You can't come into these, be insanely repetitive, negative, and I-told-you-so-y and then be surprised when people tell you to f off.
  21. Thusly Boned
    The problem is that you're not remotely the only person who saw these things, and none of your insights have ever been revolutionary. You're just really insufferable in pointing out the obvious repeatedly, and always going the extra mile to needle people and exaggerate Field's faults. People don't rag on you because you're right and they don't like it, they rag on you because you instigate an think you're being clever about it. You're not. Stop playing the victim here.
  22. Thusly Boned
    I think they should probably all go, but if I had to rank these three in terms of who needs to be put out the airlock, this is how I would do it: Getsy Getsy Getsy Flus Fields Getsy should go regardless of what they do at QB. But I agree that if you are going to get rid of any, you should just dump all three.
  23. Thusly Boned
    No, it has to be that you're an angsty Bears fan with no self awareness, because it can't possibly be that Kyle doesn't know what he's talking about, or is just running an inane bit to get under people's skins. The reality is that people can stomach the clown show when the Bears aren't losing, and actually say what they're always thinking when things are going really poorly.
  24. Thusly Boned
    Both things can be true. This is absolutely bad for the sport, but there is not a firm correlation between spending a crapton of money and World Series wins. It does suck a lot of the fun out of the regular season, though. I suppose the only positive is the schadenfreude when a team like the '23 Mets horsefeathers the bed. In a better world all these owners would just spend their money on their teams, but we don't live in that world, and what the Dodgers are doing is really exasperating. And while I won't pretend I wouldn't be mostly cool with it if the Cubs were the Dodgers in this story, it would feel slightly dirty. Like being a fan of an NBA superteam. Parity makes everything more fun.
  25. Thusly Boned
    I'd be surprised if it's not the Yankees. I think they just need him most, particularly after putting so many eggs in their offensive basket, and specifically in 2024, and at the expense of what was already a less than deep pitching staff. I think there's huge pressure on them to add top shelf pitching.
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