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This is like being on Ebay.
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Hard to imagine that as a possibility.
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That would surely test my faith in Theo.
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Well at least we know it was okayed by the Administration.
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Whoa does he have a source There are a lot of things I would "love" to do. Takes at least two.
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http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Jennifer-Lawrence-ok-thumbs-up.gif Why do I love that GIF so much?!
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Steve Trachsel 2007.
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Guess I should go to Jewel now. Do they have seat belts? Married? They have the missing ingredients for tonight's taco salad.
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Guess I should go to Jewel now.
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lou brock MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH wait are you really old enough to remember that? No, but when you became a Cub fan in the early 70s that was always there. It was probably worse from '64-'68 when the Cards were playing in October. But the playing careers and attitudes surrounding them contain a similar arc. Brock was 25, had been productive (remember the offensive context was different), had not "grown," the Cubs were in surprise contention, and felt they just needed one more established starter. I understand that one thing has nothing to do with another. As an aside, my grandparents had lived in St. Louis but my grandfather was working in Iran as the superintendent of Jewish schools (times have changed, huh?). They came back in late 1964 and bought the house that Lou Brock was trying to buy. As a kid I was told that story with the part that the seller didn't want to sell to him because a ballplayer playing baseball would break all the windows in the neighborhood. Made sense to me. Then I got older... Many of us think that certain of the local media are unfair to Castro because of his ethnicity. Makes sense that Brock may have also been unfairly maligned which made it easier to trade him.
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Moving Castro makes sense from a baseball and a business perspective if Baez hits .220. But the parallel between Lou Brock at the 1964 deadline and Castro today makes me weary from a totally irrational standpoint.
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Should I learn how to spell his name? What would it take to get him? I think it's a good fit.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes, 4-28-15
Lefty replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Was that his dad? Some context please. -
That he's not really a fan of the player represented by the club?
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4/21 Cubs (Wood) @ Pirates (Liriano) 6:05 WGN
Lefty replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Why bother with replay? Why bother with Schlitter? -
Yeah, like it is not nuts that you can have a claim on a large portion of my income. Why do I have to pay for your 'generosity'?
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He's owed either $52.5 million for two years or $37.5 million for one year. I think we owe Jackson $22 million for the next two years. We were prepared to pay Shields some amount for three years. Assuming Lee has physically recovered, do these facts coalesce into any scenario where we can trade Jackson for Lee as part of a package that leaves us where a Shields signing would have vis-à-vis payroll?
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Major League Baseball is a really hard game.
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So we can start speculating on the "haul" for Castillo?
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javi baez deep concern and probably giving hope up thread
Lefty replied to treebird's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Has he already spent his time with Manny? -
I doubt he's available.
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Wouldn't Myers coming to us make sense? Maddon and Hoyer have connections with the principals and if Myers wrist is satisfactory, isn't he the kind of guy the Cubs are eagerly collecting? In a three-way deal, Alcantara, Castillo, Wood and Castro for Myers and Hamels?
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Well, there were 707 runs scored against the cubs last year. Miguel Montero had 24 runs above average, while castillo was at -24.4 - so 48.4/707=6.85%. Yeah, seems a bit crazy, but you know, I remember reading a Maddon quote in which he claimed Molina saved 50 runs by his pitch framing abilities in 2012, so it's in the ballpark. And thanks for the welcome everyone! Welcome. You don't think very much of your mother, do you?
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I still think the FO would prefer a left side of Bryant and Russell. I can see a trade w/Dodgers like Castro, Jackson and Wood for Crawford and Greinke.
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Now that the Rule 5 draft is over, shouldn't we be getting someone to complete the Straily trade?