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  1. squally1313
    Anyone have any interest in two bleacher tickets for tomorrow's game? Weather looks pretty perfect but going to go play golf instead. Send me a message if you're interested....they're going for pretty cheap on Stubhub right now so happy to give them away free of charge to someone here instead, just make a donation or remember me when you have an extra World Series ticket down the road.
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    Fixed
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    Does this work for FG too?
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    Yeah sure, totally fair. Just saying that the other options that are more or less on par financially are pretty much all in the same boat in terms of actual ability, even if they don't invoke such...frustration as someone so aggressively mediocre as Hosmer.
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    Zips projections: Solano: .274/.326/.381 Hosmer: .273/.329/.409 Do we need another guy who can play the infield with the rest of the roster? He hasn't played in the outfield in 10 years.
  6. squally1313
    Can you name specifics? Santana put up a 102 wRC+ after two years of being a below average hitter and signed for 8x the money. Jesus Aguilar put up a .660 OPS last year in over 500 PAs. Franchy Cordero hasn't been an above average hitter since 2019. Are you talking Brandon Belt? $9m isn't 'not much more money' than $720k and kinda ruins any future Mervis has.
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    Not to reduce this solid article too much here, but.... "someone they were able to add for a league-minimum salary". That's kinda the whole point right? Feel like he's been lumped in with the Bellinger and Mancini deals when we are paying Hosmer a fraction of the money we're spending on those guys. The difference between any realistic Mervis projection and a very slightly above replacement level Hosmer over a few weeks stretch is essentially splitting hairs. If we're still having this conversation in the middle of May (which is contingent on Mervis continuing to mash), sure. Otherwise, we've got much bigger problems here.
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    Late afternoon rain storm going into the game?
  9. squally1313
    I think Ross is a bad manager, and especially bad at bullpen management, though I think that's probably something that most fans would claim of their own managers and the grass isn't always greener. Having said that, I've been trying to figure out how to articulate my issue with all the bullpen optimism/positivity that we've had around here the last couple years. I'll preface by saying I don't really have a better option, so this is really just me complaining, but it feels like the last few springs we've looked at a list of a dozen potential options, and then over the course of the season two or three of them turn into pretty effective dudes, and everyone calls it another successful bullpen build. And then they get traded (for reasons I'll explain here shortly), or hurt, because pitchers break, and we start the process over again the next year. But everyone kinda ignores the 3-4 months it takes of just throwing these guys at the wall to see what sticks, and having to live with the results of the dudes that don't pan out. And so we blow a bunch of games early on and end up in a spot where we're sellers at the deadline, and the couple guys that are actually dudes go elsewhere. It's just...a frustrating cycle. And again, I don't know a better approach besides stumbling on a Hader/Williams combo somehow, minus the whole white supremacy thing.
  10. squally1313
    Just an all around banner performance from Ross. Feels like the team needs to perform a little better to actually put his job at risk, but he’s got to go. Front office put an end to 2016 nostalgia when they dumped all the actual good players from that team.
  11. squally1313
    Well I guess starting game thread 4 is better than starting game thread 3. Rough weekend, but hopefully the Reds and their made up players are the cure to what ails us. Although this dude, of course, last pitched on 9/30 where he went 5 1/3, 2 hit, 3 K, shut out ball against (you guessed it!) our Chicago Cubs, so who knows. Pretty pissed Succession is already off the board, and for a Sunday game with minimal activity here anyways. Though I'm guessing we'll need to start reusing ideas pretty soon here. I never watched WKRP in Cincinnati but I have spent my fair share of time in southern Ohio, amongst the people who live there, and thus I think this show is appropriate thematically: Let's go win a series.
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    Stro (with some help from the blessed pitch clock) is cruising.
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    Was it?
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    Sure why not. I like at least three TV shows, so should be some good options left for me.
  15. squally1313
    First Mad Men gif to pop up, couldn't be more perfect
  16. squally1313
    "Mercy" "What in the world" Will have those words bouncing around in my head for the rest of time.
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    Another request for formalizing the distinction of having spent way too much of my life here.
  18. squally1313
    If anyone can figure out how to just show the threads/topics that were updated since the last time I visited, let me know. (Also checking to see if I have all the numbers at the end. Which, whatever, my name is incredibly dumb anyways.)
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    Anyone figured out how to duplicate the old Active Topics? Don't really want to see the most recent individual posts in reverse chronological order. Also asking to see if I got the numbers issue at the end, which I assume I do. No rush on updating/fixing this, as my user name is dumb anyways.
  20. squally1313
    Yeah 2 and 7 might disqualify the bottom half of the league, maybe even two thirds, but they were never going to consider throwing this kind of money around anyways. The teams you are actually competing with are all going to be able to offer those things, and we're probably trailing most of them in the rest of your list.
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    The obvious shirts guys will make a fun slogan referencing you on a t shirt We will try to limit the amount of people in the bleachers reusing their old Fukudome tshirts and bandanas to a reasonable number.
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    Trout has 6,174 career PAs. Has three swinging strikes in 24 of them. Only modification is that they should move this to the all star break every four years, even if you have to slightly shorten the season. Do it now while the momentum is there and everyone wants to be involved in this.
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    So horsefeathering cool. Anyways, can't wait for....Jameson Taillon!
  24. squally1313
    This whole approach is so self-fulfilling. Don't slightly overpay for good players unless you are rich and also in contention already. Probably won't be in contention because you don't have any of those good players. The idea that teams at or below the spending habits of the Cubs (15th, 10th, 6th, 2nd, 4th the last 5 years in opening day salary based on some sketchy website) shouldn't pay market value for the dude who hit 50 home runs last year is absurd. You're basically just hoping for some perfect storm of prospects arriving collectively at the same time and then hopefully having the right players available to supplement. I don’t mean to be a broken record but Schwarber is the very best example of the biggest problem not even being stinginess, but rather, inconsistency in hitting instruction and player development that left you unable to value him properly or feel comfortable committing to him after 2020. There was room for an extension at well under $20MM per year for him; they just didn’t ever get to the point where they (let alone he) could justify signing one. Outside of him turning into a GB hitter for 60 games in 2020 and getting overly punished BABIP-wise for it (.219), his career trajectory isn't all that strange. Not giving him $8m or whatever it was is pretty unforgiveable, especially when they turned around and signed Schwarber-lite for 75% of it later that offseason.
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    Everything is relative. The Cubs don't have a lot of stars, or any for that matter now that Willson is gone. This year they have a lot of complementary players and a lot of hope for some breakout performances. I think they will be close to .500, maybe better if they get some breakouts and everyone stays relatively healthy. This whole approach is so self-fulfilling. Don't slightly overpay for good players unless you are rich and also in contention already. Probably won't be in contention because you don't have any of those good players. The idea that teams at or below the spending habits of the Cubs (15th, 10th, 6th, 2nd, 4th the last 5 years in opening day salary based on some sketchy website) shouldn't pay market value for the dude who hit 50 home runs last year is absurd. You're basically just hoping for some perfect storm of prospects arriving collectively at the same time and then hopefully having the right players available to supplement.
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