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  1. champaignchris
    This. Especially if the plan was to acquire some other veteran to backup/mentor Williams after Fields was traded. If the offers for Fields are that low, the best use of resources may be to bring him back for another year. i don’t think Poles/Eberflus have handled Fields perfectly, but where we’re at right now has basically been the inevitable result after Pace/Nagy drafted him on their way out the door and he didn’t immediately save their jobs.
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    Heh. This post made Andruw Jones cry. But that has more to do with the HoF voters being idiots than the right-ness of your post. Setting the expectations for PCA at Andruw Jones/Jim Edmunds levels is unrealistic.
  3. champaignchris
    Purdue 8 for 10 from 3 in the 2nd half. Illini 0 for 6. That’s the difference in the game.
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    Also, kickers are so much better than they used to be. The entire NFL made almost 70% of their fg attempts from 50+ this year. Teams really would only have to move the ball about 40 yards to have a legit shot to end the game.
  5. champaignchris
    Man, that highlight has everything. Capped off by the patented Chip Caray, “Out! No, safe!”
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    The people talking about lack of witnesses and lack of video evidence are doing so because the alleged occurrence happened in a crowded public place with several security cameras running. I’m a criminal defense attorney. Based on what’s been released to the public, I would be very confident taking Shannon’s case to a jury.
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    I can’t count how many times I’ve driven right by the Sox’ stadium on my way to the Cubs and thought, “I should go to a Sox game some time,” and I’ve never done it.
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    My read from the Illinois basketball community is that they’re in complete shock. They weren’t expecting charges. Shannon isn’t the kid you worry about getting into this kind of trouble in the first place.
  9. champaignchris
    They’ve scored 120+ in 6/11 without LaVine. They were 1/19 with LaVine. 106 is their lowest point total in the 11 games without LaVine. They scored less than that in 10/19 with LaVine.
  10. champaignchris
    I realize I should add minutes to this: White 32>39, Williams 23>33, Dosunmu 15>29. Overall the three have added 31 minutes, 23 points, 7 rebounds, and 3 assists, more than making up for LaVine’s lost 35-21-4-3, while Derozen, Vucevic and Drummond have all seen their scoring nudge up a couple points per game.
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    It’s crazy what’s happened with the younger players in the 11 games since LaVine got hurt (points-rebounds-assists): White before: 13-2-4 White after: 24-6-6 Williams before: 7-3-1 Williams after: 14-4-1 Dosunmu before: 5-1-1 Dosunmu after: 10-3-2
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    He was the guy the Cubs thought they were signing during the second half last year. It seems like they fixed whatever was going wrong in the first half. Over his last 15 starts he had 8 QS and a 3.53 ERA. If the Cubs can get that guy all year, they’ll be fine with Taillon as the #3 starter.
  13. champaignchris
    So, the Brewers just sent Houser and Taylor to the Mets for a 23-year-old AA pitcher coming off TJS. The division is. Just, Right. There. Four players - Chapman, Hoskins, Imanega and Hader - or pick your combination of four. I don’t care. But that’s all it takes to get this team in the playoffs. Do it, Jed!
  14. champaignchris
    Boxberger and Fulmer at about $7 million between the two wasn’t “nearly zero investment.” They were bad/hurt, and performed significantly below their career numbers, but the investment was there and had they posted their expected 60-65 innings of 3-3,50 ERA baseball, the bullpen would have been a different story. For whatever reason the Cubs weren’t able to repeat the recent success they’d had with Givens, Robertson, Chafin, etc.
  15. champaignchris
    It’s not that he’s leaving money on the table. It’s how he’s spending the budget he gets, spreading it out among lesser talent instead of concentrating it on top-tier talent. A guy who gave multi-year contracts to Smyly, Barnhart and Mancini last year isn’t exactly being frugal.
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    I would add to this that getting into a bidding war for their new manager doesn’t make much sense if we blame the Ricketts for the penny pinching. I know manager salary is a drop in the bucket compared to player salary, but if it were an ownership directive to scrimp and save rather than Hoyer’s roster building philosophy, paying $8 million a year for a manager when you could be paying $3 million a year for a different, perfectly credible manager doesn’t make sense. it doesn’t make any difference to ownership if you go $5million over market for a manager or a relief pitcher. Money is money. So the reason management is willing to reset the market at the field manager position but not for players probably isn’t due to ownership preference.
  17. champaignchris
    As of December 12, last year, the Cubs hadn’t done anything of note either. They signed Bellinger on Dec 14, 2022. EDIT: I’m wrong. They announced the signing on Dec 6. He wasn’t officially signed until the 14th.
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    When the Cubs inevitably sign a marginal reliever to a minor league contract. NSBB: “No! Not like that!”
  19. champaignchris
    Deshaun Watson out for the rest of the year for shoulder surgery. You don’t root for a guy to get injured… or in this case, maybe you do.
  20. champaignchris
    Not just that, but they were 43-33 and tied for first place on June 24th. They then went on a 2-13 stretch, falling to 8.5 out and started selling off.
  21. champaignchris
    Right. A losing record over 4 seasons, 3 straight missed playoffs, fairly epic collapses before the trade deadline in 2021 and at the end of 2023. Heading into the last year of his contract. They certainly weren’t going to extend him. Like I said in my last post, I’m way more surprised than I should be.
  22. champaignchris
    This is shocking. it shouldn’t be shocking. Makes all the sense in the world. Counsell is a free agent and widely considered one of the best managers in the game. Ross is headed into the last year of his contract after missing the playoffs 3 straight years.
  23. champaignchris
    From 73-75, the Bears went 11-31 (.262). That’s the worst 3-year stretch in team history by winning percentage From 21-23, the Bears are 11-31. If they go 2-7 the rest of the way, this will become the worst 3-year stretch in team history..
  24. champaignchris
    There has to be an extension already worked out with Sweat, right? This doesn’t make any sense at all if not.
  25. champaignchris
    Yeah. It certainly begs the question what the plan is. If they’re not accumulating young talent, what are they even doing here?
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