David

Spiegel and Parkins are supposedly going to talk about some details about the Cubs pitch when they come back...if there's anything of substance I'll mention it or if there's an article or something I'll link. But if you want to listen - https://player.radio.com/listen/station/670-the-score

same

Yankees rejection:

They're not in our division. Who cares? I know this is your robot way of saying the playoffs are a crapshoot, but I don't think it's a particularly hot take to not want the best team in our league (who just beat our pants off in the playoffs) to get the best available player in the offseason. i just think it's highly overstated by most people. yeah, i'd rather the team we might play 4-7 times in the playoffs be slightly worse, but it's far from a huge downer for me outside of the fact that he wouldn't be picking us.

also, if that's all it was, you'd think the yankees would've gotten a foot in the door. i still can't believe he rejected them off the bat, lmao

They're not in our division. Who cares?

nah it's not that big a deal the biggest thing is what getting him would mean for us in terms of not having to trade from our mlb positional depth. if he goes elsewhere, it sucks just about equally for me. the dodgers are going to be great and run that division, regardless.

Weird. I see the Cubs being the outlier in that regard to be a very good sign.

yeah but that's just kaplan being his usual blowhard self

Are any of the other finalists also penalty teams? Dodgers, Giants, Padres, and should they miraculously get confirmed as a finalist, the Reds. https://www.baseballamerica.com/international/2017-18-international-bonus-pools/ Soooo that leaves me thinking the dumb ass media (Nightengale in particular) pegged the Mariners as favorites because they can offer more money, despite how irrelevant that obviously is, and not any actual sourced information.

Huh? I thought the report was that Ohtani DIDN'T want to play with Darvish After the Yankee horsefeathers, I don't think we know a damn thing. The Yankee horsefeathers would fit with that report, though. Because of Tanaka.

That is the quintessential Wittenmyer experience. Add no new information, say something accurate from the most pessimistic angle even if it's irrelevant. Are any of the other finalists also penalty teams?

Huh? I thought the report was that Ohtani DIDN'T want to play with Darvish

gone...what was it? Just confirming that Cubs, Mariners, Giants, Padres Rangers and Dodgers have meetings from his sources. Astros, Reds (lol) and Angels haven’t been confirmed/ruled out. Ahh...maybe he rewrote it [tweet] [/tweet]

gone...what was it?

i'm still not sure he's delusional enough to believe his best chance to hit in the long term is to be on an AL squad. it's probably his best chance to not hit at all.

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I'll take Theo over the field. I'd take Theo over each team individually but prob not the field

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derwood gonna derwood tho

it's basically just an incomplete parroting of the same stuff that's been out there west coast (and maybe the cubs since they haven't been ruled out)

He didn't even have accuracy problems today. 12-for-15 and at least one of the three incompletes was a drop. I might have missed a play here and there, but the only inaccurate throw I can remember was the one on the "free play" when there was a penalty and he tried to force in an 8-yard curl. That's also the only bad decision I really remember. It's hard to give him a full evaluation when he only throws 15 passes, but this was the best he's looked so far. Mitch was great today outside of the fumbled snap. And you're right, 1 bad decision and it didn't count. He did have another inaccurate throw for 1 of his incompletions, but I got no complaints about Mitch today. Definitely wasn't the problem. It's pretty amazing, the Bears finished today (if you take out the QB scrambles) 15 passes and 15 run plays. So, they actually called 22 passes (4 scrambles, 2 sacks, 1 fumbled snap). Yet somehow, Mitch was only 2-3 passing on 1st down, with one of those coming on a throwaway play on the last play of the first half. Take out the fumbled snap and a scramble, and Loggains again called 5 passing plays of the 14 first down plays. On those 9 runs, the Bears averaged 2.8 yards per carry. Of those 26 yards on 1st down runs by the RB, 1 was 14 yards. The other 8 runs got 12 total yards. So, the Bears were already behind the 8 ball (the 8 1/2 yards to go ball) when they let Trubisky throw. I feel like that's how it's been for just about all of his starts, and even more exaggeratedly so in the first few.

well this is great news

As was mentioned it was stupid New York “small market” talk since everyone other than them is a peasant in their head. The remaining markets so far are Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, LA, San Diego and Dallas. Those are all large markets. Do you think the Phillies got a formal rejection or did they just figure the interview the other day would suffice?

I'm going to kill you