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  1. squally1313
    Putting my reputation at risk here to say that Poles and Eberflus were on Pardon My Take yesterday....Spotify has time stamps, it's about a 45 minute interview. A little light on actual substance but some good stuff in there.
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    The team seems kinda built to just put as many balls in play as possible (and give up the same) and try to win the BABIP war through speed and defense. I’m far from convinced it’s a path to success, but it should make for a really fun brand of baseball to watch.
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    The Seabrook one is the only contract that truly bit them, and it was completely unnecessary and bad the day they signed it. But there were dozens of avoidable mistakes along the way that doomed them. Also true Bryan Bickell also says hi, though his was just mostly bad (not Seabrook bad) until his diagnosis. Probably a similar situation with Toews and whatevers been going on there the last couple years.
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    Man, we're going to be so good in 2028. Sometimes you just have to commit to not being a good hockey team for 11 or so years in order to get yourself in the right spot. I mean, look at Edmonton, they had high draft picks for a few years in a row and just look at all the success they've had.
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    Illinois seems extraordinarily poorly coached
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    They did lower ticket prices, but they are still top 5. Honestly, I think they are trying to pay down a lot of debt they incurred when they remodeled Wrigley. At the same time, they have massive tax breaks due to its "historic" status. But I think they've invested heavily in outside ventures that are tangentially related to the Cubs and using the Cubs to leverage those things. We don't know due to the less than transparent way MLB works. Not accusing you of being pro-Ricketts or anything but like...this is the stuff that bothers me. You want to know an easy way to pay down debts? Just tap into that $26b your family got from the sale of TD Ameritrade. It's these dumb accounting games all these billionaires play to justify a growing profit margin or whatever other dumb terms they use that most of the public will eat up. If you spend money on the team in line with all the other major markets and suddenly you aren't making as much money as you'd like, go sell the horsefeathering team and cash in on the $1b+ increase in value since you bought them.
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    I'm kind of leaning toward me (or someone else who volunteers but that seems unlikely) to just start every game thread in the morning. I don't want to work up a bunch of strife over this. Again, we're in this for the long haul. Things can and will change but I'm kinda leaning toward me just doing this every day. I'm in for this. Sure there are plenty of us willing to spot start. Think it's ultimately much better to have the thread already in place and then let people take it in whatever direction they want (the right direction being TV show gif themed, obviously). I remember getting, really, the bleakest form on anxiety as I tried to decide if I should start the thread...if someone else was also doing it at the same time, if anyone cared, what I was going to say etc. Will be better to just have it up and open.
  8. squally1313
    Honestly, as much as I’d love to go back to the eras of a long list of thread starters and people ‘vying’ for the best record…probably best to figure out some sort of system to make it as automatic as possible. Was always the clearest sign that the board was going through a dead spell when you’d look for a thread in the fourth inning and not even see one there. I assume we can automate something that comes out at like, 7 AM or whatever of every game day?
  9. squally1313
    I remember getting (correctly) roasted pretty hard here when that story came out, since we're all in the spirit of reminiscing about past times here. Given the trainer story that came out after this, and the pretty universally accepted fact that everyone in the locker room at least knew about it, if not played a part in the cover up, you really 'should' just write that whole era off in terms of any of them being redeemable human beings (or, at the absolute most generous, anything beyond 'incredibly stupid young adults'). Everyone can decide for themselves how much it taints their memories from those Cup years, and how much this trade should impact you. It's going to be jarring seeing him in another uniform, and I'm already conflicted for when we inevitably bring him back, either in the offseason or by overpaying for him in a couple years. It would also be nicer if there was a single player from the current roster I thought was like, the leader of the next generation. But ultimately we've been clinging to Kane/Toews (and until recently, Keith/Crawford/etc), and it's been what...7 years since we won a meaningful playoff series? Hopefully this just marks an end to this era, and hopefully at some point they start meaningfully building towards the next successful one.
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    I know almost nothing about how that site puts together their metrics, but I'd put Keith right up there with him, especially if you discount just like, the cumulative stats Kane has put up after Keith left.
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    Certainly not expecting any of the actual data, but a little curious on the actual financials of a forum like this given the pretty low traffic. In the middle of a Mad Men rewatch and I keep thinking back to when the people they originally sold the company to decided to sell them (right before they make Lane fire them to start their own agency) and Don keeps talking about just buying the company back for themselves. I share Sofa's concern about the new guys coming in, trying a few things, and then just pulling the plug, and even though Brock says that isn't the case....everyone has someone to answer to. I'm not naive enough to think that like, the remaining 16 of us would band together and start paying out of pocket, but just financially curious on what all is involved. Really, in a roundabout way, this is just me belatedly thanking Tim for keeping this thing up and running all these years. I'm sure it was a lot easier during the 2014-2017 stretch, before we all mostly decided we hated the Cubs and maybe baseball in general.
  12. squally1313
    Don't forget the 2026 second rounder. Don't forget that the first round pick is top 10 protected.
  13. squally1313
    This is why it's good. There's really no downside once folks get used to it and stop their pearl clutching My favorite thing about baseball the last 20 years has been the slower pace of the game compared to other sports. I loved that the action stopped and I could sit there for a bit evaluating and speculating on what everybody on the field would be doing. Every pitch changed the optimal strategy somewhat, and I loved trying to anticipate that. There is no longer time to leisurely assess all these various shifts in strategy. I recognize that how I enjoy the game is in the minority. But let's not pretend it's just conservative pearl-clutching. There is an actual downside that sucks some of the fun out of the game for certain viewers. (though, to be fair, the Ricketts family was already doing a good job of destroying my fun the last few years.) This kinda sounds like you're describing chess (which also uses clocks). At the end of the day, it's an athletic sport...maximize the percentage of time during the game where the athletic stuff happens. Be incredibly strict and firm on this stuff for the next month and hopefully you don't even remember it exists once we get into the regular season.
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    Bingo. Maybe I just need a faster internet connection/operating system, but the idea of having to switch entire apps every time the game goes to a commercial break (and back) is just a complete deal breaker for the current half-baked version of this team. Especially if I'm going to be a minute+ late on streaming anyways, I'll just stick to what I have and wait for the big highlights to pop up on Twitter (yes, another wonderful ownership structure, but at least it's free).
  15. squally1313
    Start with the bases loaded. If you're worried about lopsided scores, just do a soccer/PK thing and make it so the winning team officially wins by 1 regardless. It'll increase variance of scoring results and also speed up play.
  16. squally1313
    I did the free trial of Apple Arcade and messed around with the app version of FM23 but there's so much detail built into the game that it seemed almost impossible to get the full experience through the touch screen on my phone. IMBs summaries are holding me over until I just decide to become a laptop gamer guy, albeit the nerdiest possible version of one. IMB....also kinda seems like, for the type of thing you're doing, I could probably get away with FM22? I'm not a big enough soccer fan to have the outdated rosters really bother me, especially if I start by toiling away at some low level. Unless the features/gameplay is markedly improved in this one.
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    ????
  18. squally1313
    The Reinsdorfs are doing exactly what they set out to do.
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    Yeah had that same thought, but too lazy to figure out if it's an outlier amount or not. 16 guys total from the organization, which, if that was the average, would mean 480 MLB/MILB players in this thing, which seams really high for a total of 20 teams, with some of the teams made up almost entirely of non-MLB/MILB players. Really wish this was going on like, right now, and not in the middle of March Madness, but guessing if you moved it up a month you'd get a lot less participation.
  20. squally1313
    This reads more to me like a list of players who can maybe get them some more first round picks to stockpile now that, for example, all the West teams have a new team to try and chase down.
  21. squally1313
    Some pretty questionable LBJ takes going on here.
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    NFL Playoffs

    squally1313 replied to raw's topic in Other Sports

    Agreed, keep the Brady discussion in the "Eat the Rich" thread where it belongs
  23. squally1313
    Oh no. Darn. That's really too bad.
  24. squally1313
    Rory goes birdie birdie to beat Reed by one. Setting aside all the various issues of playing a tournament in Dubai, pretty fun victory for the good guys.
  25. squally1313
    For better or for worse, that was a 108 win team that probably underperformed. Everyone in charge seems content to shoot for low 90s.
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