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  1. squally1313
    Remember when we had too many shortstops who hit dongs? Can I interest you in too many second basemen that slap oppo singles?
  2. squally1313
    Giving a lot of people who do not deserve the benefit of the doubt the benefit of the doubt, I could see a scenario where they didn't think they were going to get enough to justify trading him and then this offer kinda blew all the others (Red Sox, etc) out of the water. But I think it's just easier for me to stay mad at PTR/Ross/etc. I don’t know why people would expect the Cubs (or any team for that matter) to let a player they are maybe trading take a final at bat or play a final game. I would have been super pissed if the trade fell through because he got hit by a pitch and broke his wrist just because we wanted him to have one last ovation. Then put him at first base for the top of the ninth or something. If you know you're trading your starting first baseman for two prospects, wanting to win is clearly out the window. Ross said before the game he hoped that he could get them in to PH to get an ovation, and then let Kyle Ryan hit for himself in the 7th inning.
  3. squally1313
    Giving a lot of people who do not deserve the benefit of the doubt the benefit of the doubt, I could see a scenario where they didn't think they were going to get enough to justify trading him and then this offer kinda blew all the others (Red Sox, etc) out of the water. But I think it's just easier for me to stay mad at PTR/Ross/etc.
  4. squally1313
    Wouldn’t be surprised to see a Lester retirement coming soon. Doesn’t want to miss any part of hunting season.
  5. squally1313
    Saw a few good posts in there, but got derailed by prospect/Ricketts/Columbus Blue Jackets talk. So trying this out for the few hours before we have to start talking about KB. I’ll start here. Stealing it from the other thread, but this is the first memory I have of him. We sucked, but it was just nice to see the pride, the leadership, etc. [bbvideo=560,315] [/bbvideo]
  6. squally1313
    Heyward striking out so KB doesn't get a chance at potentially one last AB seems fitting.
  7. squally1313
    Saying it would be cool to get Rizz and/or KB a nice ovation in a pinch hitting spot and then letting Kyle Ryan hit for himself in the bottom of the seventh is certainly a choice.
  8. squally1313
    5th round pick last year out of Auburn, pitched well in single A (2.63 ERA in 27 innings) and has gotten rocked in 4 starts in high A.
  9. squally1313
    Uneventful Javy AB, with first base open. Would be pretty funny to have 'Say goodbye to KB/Rizzo Day' also be a bench clearing brawl day, but looks like it'll stay calm.
  10. squally1313
    There goes that LTIR money.
  11. squally1313
    Hard to get too mad at losing to the best three innings/game of Vottos career. Wouldn’t think the cubs will retaliate for that pitch to KB, especially because it made no sense to be on purpose in that scenario, but we’ll see.
  12. squally1313
    From my understanding, there is room during the offseason to make moves that put you over the cap You have to be under it once the season starts, but then the LTIR comes into play. Seabrook and Shaw immediately go into LTIR which allows for their salaries to no longer count against the cap, freeing up something like $11 mil. But free agency starts tomorrow morning. Do we know if he's even going to show up? Wouldn't it be nice to know if we have an extra $7m to spend or not? Do they really think they were Jones (minus Keith, minus Boqvist) and a goalie away from contending?
  13. squally1313
    If Fleury reports, the Hawks are down to like $500k before agreeing to contracts with any of the restricted free agents. Goodbye Zadorov (which, awesome), probably DeHaan, Subban, Delia, etc. For one year, maybe of MAF. What are we even doing here.
  14. squally1313
    Why am I still up watching this, I asked myself. Javy.
  15. squally1313
    This is dumb
  16. squally1313
    Athletics Cardinals Diamondbacks Mariners Nationals Orioles Indians To be fair to OMC, he can counter with 'Wahoos' as a shortened version of the name. Nothing wrong with that one at all.
  17. squally1313
    Well you can't have it both ways. If he's not really a top 3 pitcher, which, fine, that means his numbers aren't really dropping off, right? He's just settling back to what you thought he was/is, which is still valuable? Maybe we don't get a Preciado, but maybe a Darvish in the rotation means less time the offense spends watching some garbage pitcher get knocked around and then have to chase leads, or a bullpen that isn't exhausted by July. But, whatever, all in the past at this point.
  18. squally1313
    Sure, but he went from being a top 3 pitcher in baseball to a top 15 pitcher. At 2/39, that's still plenty valuable.
  19. squally1313
    New filings/allegations are horrifying, and, while being far from the worst part of all of this, the reports that the abused players were taunted by their Blackhawk teammates after the incidents leaves me feeling pretty sick about following that team obsessively for six or seven years.
  20. squally1313
    If he tweaked something, he wouldn't be out there. I think it's probably just overuse and a bit of arm fatigue. He needs 2-3 days off and then hopefully he'll be fine. Yeah, if you include the ASG he worked in 5 of 8 days. Most likely just that. Which raises the question of why the hell he was out there. That's not an unreasonable workload in general, but while we're being so shamelessly careful with KB's hamstring it seems weird to push Kimbrel that much. Well the alternative explanation there is that KB is much more hurt than they're letting on (he can't play the infield in the bottom of the 10th?). They just need to knock over the first domino at this point. Playing this series against a team with a similar record/skill set who is clearly not in a selling position is giving them too much incentive to win. Bring up those AAA arms and let's let them Marmol their way home the rest of the year.
  21. squally1313
    Also no one is saying that they're that good. They're not! If you wanted to sell me on 'Cubs outperforming the Brewers the rest of the year', sure, maybe I would listen. But the Cubs are not 100 percentage points better than the Brewers, or really anywhere close. They played, and lost, too many games, which sucks because the division was very gettable until a few weeks ago. Now it's very much not. (Unless this whole thing is a bit, in which case, please stop. It's barely funny when the funnier people here do it.)
  22. squally1313
    TWTW
  23. squally1313
    1.5% per FG! Completely ignoring that the lead that have to maintain is, for our purposes, nine point five horsefeathering games. Completely ignoring the other two teams who have outplayed us, record wise, this year. Let's say he's right though, just for fun! Let's say the Brewers play the rest of the year like a mediocre team, like, say, the Cubs so far this year. That's 33-34 for the rest of the year, or an 89 win season. In what world do you see the Cubs going 43-25 to finish the year?
  24. squally1313
    Wait, I'm confused. It was my understanding that Rossie was hired because he could communicate with the players and get the most out of them. Willy is a Taurus, he's basically saying it's in his nature to speak his mind and be honest. Let's relax here he's not subtweeting somebody. Yep, he probably got some horsefeathers either internally or on social media for throwing unnamed players under the bus with those comments a few days ago, so all he's saying is that he says it to their face too.
  25. squally1313
    Not sure about everyone else, but I guess I'd be ok with Jose "17th in pitching fWAR since 2010" Quintana.
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