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  1. WrigleyField 22
    So my pop culture scouting report is Moore is Luis Mendoza. I guess Bedard must be Banks then
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    Yea, even for the one year Babe Ruth did this, 1917, he didn't have enough qualified ABs. I But certainly the fluky dominant AL pitcher going 1 for 2 is one way to get that. my big baseball stat ned/savant friend gave me Bob Lemon and Wes Ferrell off the cuff too.
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    your best non Babe Ruth answer for lower right corner today...
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    don't most 19 year olds suck at shooting and it's way more about projection?
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    Well calling it early at least. Is this a possible way to get an injury exemption too?
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    I can't avoid tunnel thought on this. Whoever the first player on a team I think of I can't move my mind off them, even if they're not applicable at all.
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    I'm as awful as I thought I'd be. But all 5 players I got right were former Cubs, even for the Rangers column. And yes that means I missed ARod for Mariners/Rangers 🤣
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    There was a good article about Eagles and Roseman earlier this offseason. He talked about how many people, even in the org just automatically assumed they needed this big blow up after his sabbatical where Kelley had complete control for that one year. And again after 2020. And both times, it was basically "lol no" Anyways my next burner Twitter account should be "Windows are a myth". Everyone is awful at most of it, so the best bet is to be trying as often as possible IMO.
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    Cleveland spent around a bad QB in Baker and then just rolled all that aggressiveness into building around Watson (well see now with a full season of Watson how that works out). But the absolutely worst case is you are rolling right into another cheap QB and that's your opportunity to reset
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    (also I haven't checked Jack's numbers, though he's very good, so I'm sure they're good). But that leaves Bears $24M short right now on cash floor while every other team is above it already. There's no competetive advantage to spending that little. Even with rollover of cap space, it's way past dimished returns and it can actually be difficult to "catch up" that fast with some yet to be determined big spending splurge.
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    Spending big around a cheap QB is exactly what you should do. Just cuz Trubisky was a flop, didn't make that a bad plan. Frankly the Bears were never in real cap trouble or cap hell. Covid crunch was a major complication (that every team had to manage to some extent). And you can obviously pick apartment individual decisions on players, but there was not a overspending problem in the Pace regime. Flat out, no qualifiers. Zero reason to look like this for a third straight year.
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    Yea, Naperville lacks any ready made site for something on that scale. I don't know if they're bad at it, per se. They just don't have a lot of leverage within the state and no one would ever buy threats to leave the state. Whatever leverage talking with Naperville/Soldier Field can buy them is probably worth the menial effort, but, yea, no one is gonna get fooled.
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    But the delusion is crazy. I've legit seen people think that the tank and build foundation thing is actually some simple and foolproof process. Example: You all just aren't willing to SACRIFICE
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    I'm not gonna complain about ending the Cubs drought haha
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    I blame Sam Hinkie
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    Disagree.
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    I don't know if it's recency bias of all the poor PG play the Bulls have had lately, but if they're trading up that high, I want Scoot, not Miller. And I'm pretty generally anti tank, but I'd do a Lavine centered trade and roll the dice. But I wouldn't sell off every last piece to fully tank. Would have no problem keeping around Derozan on his last year as vet leader. Would need a unprotected pick or a player pick combo to move him in that case. But I'm also an extreme casual as far as basketball these days so don't listen to me lol
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    Really thought the slow play Brewers trojan horse had worked and nsbb was nuked.
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    Figured. St. Louis is basically 5 hours from every Midwestern city. I went to SLU and every Midwestern City was represented with a cache of students, 5 hours from home.
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    Trying to triangulate you Anyways, according to drive time stadium to stadium, Lucas Oil edges out Soldier Field by about an hour of drive time. But considering the broader CHI base and prob better flight options, and a fan base that travels, likely thier strongest road revenue turnout for the city. Nashville also about equal drive time as Chicago fwiw.
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    It's a consensus of at least 3 and #4 will weigh in soon
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    If we let them ruin generational it will really put into question my "#1 Dad" mug.
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    Based in what I saw their attendance last year was a hair over official capacity (100.4%). But some of these stadiums have such low "official" figures with big expandable or SRO capacity, I don't really know what that means. They have a pretty big stadium. Is it possible the easily sell out 97-100% of official capacity but have a +3% SRO capacity they dip into only a few times a year for big draws? http://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance/_/sort/homePct You can see other sites that track it differently though (for example counting Dallas as their official 80k instead of the expandable 100k capacity). Not sure what Arrowheads deal is there.
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    It's called protecting the brand
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    Yea that's what I mean. In any sport the "generational" tag needs to be reserved at least for guys who would have been easy #1s the year before they actually came out / were eligible. Caveats with really strong/weak drafts being beside the point. If it's just a guy who's an easy #1 in his draft year then he's a bona-fide/consensus #1 or something, but not a "generational prospect". Probably arbitrary, but that's how I've been likenining it with cross sports references. Like so far out ahead of the field theat everyone saw it/would have capitalized on it for like 24 straight months.
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