Lefty
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No. It’s years of propaganda. All fans should side with the workers. I don't know that it's necessarily propaganda, as much as it is that sports fans have a feeling of "ownership" in their team. Players come and go, but your team is your team...so a fan's natural interest is in the team's benefit. I agree that fans should side with the workers, but I completely understand why they don't generally. Maybe only the dogmatic are responding to my post, but there few fully righteous and few utterly irredeemable. Like someone posted before, this is something between millionaires and billionaires. It's not exactly Joe Hill. I can root for Darvish to sign with the Cubs on a contract representing good value for the team. Am I missing something? Is anybody reading this hoping Eloy Jiminez doesn't succeed so we win that trade? For the record I would only wish failure on someone trying to harm me. Other people's success doesn't reach that level.
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It's not "siding." It's understanding someone else's position.
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Heaven forbid, I wouldn't want to anybody to think I didn't. I now know how our grandparents felt about FDR. I just mean I trust Theo to do whats in the best interest of the Club. It sounds like Theo gauged the market for Darvish pretty well so if they lose him to another team, it's cool. Agreed.
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Heaven forbid, I wouldn't want to anybody to think I didn't. I now know how our grandparents felt about FDR.
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I get the sense that Darvish doesn't want to play for the Cubs because of lifestyle issues like weather and distance. For a strictly baseball purpose, who wouldn't want to pitch for these Cubs!? In that light, NO WAY does he go to the Brewers. I suspect when it is all said and done he ends up with the Rangers somehow.
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i think that's when we announce the acquisition of brian roberts too I know it’s just speculation but I don’t think it’s the craziest thing to think what I said is true and there’s a gentlemen’s agreement in place on no announcements today. SoxFest starts Friday. An announcement before then wouldn't be very sporting either.
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If we don't get him, I really don't care where he goes. If he signs with the Twins I will realize that I never really wanted him. The Twins?
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Is there something to be said for the Brewers trying to keep Darvish from signing with the Cubs for any kind of reasonable contract?
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I agree, its gotta be Jake. The only other possibilities to me are Holland or Moustakas. And it'd be hard to see a 3B sit out, waiting for an injury to happen. I think the free agent is Logan Morrison based on other things I have read about him.
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Is it possible this paves the way for Montgomery to start?
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Assuming Twins and Astros out on Darvish, we are competing with Dodgers and Yankees; an unenviable financial position. If the luxury tax is so punishing, how can they be in at all?
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..or that it's Koji.
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I am focusing on the fact that he's in LA.
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I am starting to think that Arrietta will be reintroduced at the Cubs Convention. Not an optimist by nature. I would love Darvish on a decent deal, whatever that means nowadays. Does anyone think the front office looks for excuses to show loyalty as a signal to future targets? If Arrietta comes cheaper than Darvish in terms of years and money, a baseball decision can be couched as a decision to stick with "our guy." I assume that the FO is more sanguine about Arrieta's future than many of us are.
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i really want to believe TLS is unmarried and has no children and just happened to be in the neighborhood in a donkey kong costume so they had him jump into a picture. The kid in the Bryzzo hat looks like Tom Brady.
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I still think Baez is a serious candidate for a trade this winter.
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Who is that?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 7-4-17
Lefty replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
What a weird game... And then they had their fireworks at 2:30 am. For the MLB equivalent look up Mets at Braves 7/4/85. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-19-17
Lefty replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
When I saw a one-hitter at SB I looked at the line score: who is Swarmer? Looking at the box score brought warm feelings. -
Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-12-17
Lefty replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Iowa Cubs "won" 18-5. I was trying to figure out how those stats added up to a loss. Even though I am in my 50s, and we finally won the World Series, I am still checking out the minor leagues first thing in the morning. -
I thought I remember reading that he still lives in Chicago and bought his own tickets to attend one of the WS or NLCS games (cant remember which one) last October. Coached a friend of mine's kid in a Lincolnwood little league last summer.
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Has it been announced that Schwarber is returning to the AFL?
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Postscript. I have posted this before, but in 2003 when Gonzalez booted the ball I absolutely melted down. My oldest was in kindergarten and went into shock when he saw me (my postgame 1984 meltdown may have been worse). His mother had to come down from her bedroom and physically carry him upstairs. She was sure that I had damaged him. Last night after the 8th inning my oldest son calls me from U of I. He is distraught; probably been crying (I guess it runs in the family). What do you say? I consoled him, but you can't make him feel better. And there is still a game going on. After they win he calls me and is sobbing uncontrollably. I guess I did damage him.
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Good luck everybody. I am probably on the older side for this board, and I must admit I had a little sobbing spell in the bottom of the eighth Game 6 against the Dodgers. Just came out of nowhere. Growing up, nobody talked about 1908. It was always 1945. And the "curse" was not to even make the World Series. I suppose interleague play has blurred the NL/AL distinction. The NLCS was huge because of the sheer heartbreak of 1984 and 2003. That was my personal hurdle to overcome. And now my overriding emotion is the fear of Chapman losing the game in the 9th or later. I am not a drinker but I have a few bottles of Mike's set aside for tonight to deaden my nerves. Everybody else: ENJOY!
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I've met Bauer and he is not a jerk. But he is a thinker and you can imagine that doesn't always go over well if you are a rookie.