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you guys should really know the drill with omc at this point. i read the first five words of that post before scrolling away. not even close. -
nocode come post a picture of yourself with jon lester holding a sign that says nocode and today's date or i am switching teams
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i call not it
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Kaplan is going to show up for his show with black eyes, saying he fell. 8.9
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theo should call lester and tell him he has david ross tied up in the trunk of his car. we tried the carrot, now let's try the stick.
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God that would be so much [expletive] fun if he did that SPOILER ALERT the cubs are not exactly kansas to boston's illinois
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Castro 6 Valbuena 5 Kemp 7 Rizzo 3 Soler 9 Montero 2 Baez 4 Lester 1 Alcantara 8
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mark me down for team nocode. if he was fake and somehow kept himself from playing this card last night, he's the most powerful troll in the world. i believe.
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Sign Ross, sign Lester, release Ross, everyone wins. my thinking exactly.
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The Winter Meetings Thread
treebird replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
if we demand a magic pitch-framing catcher, i sure would like to see us set our sights higher than terrible david ross. if we want ross to prove to lester that we think he's just swell, http://i.imgur.com/6nbRi1c.jpg -
i liked 6/140 a lot more than 7/175. i would kind of rather trade baez and whatever for a pitcher at this point.
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ConstableRabbit just had a heart attack. ending sentences with a preposition is not the Cub Way
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mojo just had to leave the room
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The Winter Meetings Thread
treebird replied to David's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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this is so dumb. you can acknowledge there is a "chasm" between the two and still not think that chasm is worth tens of millions of dollars. if you actually went by what the framing numbers say, correct me if i'm wrong, but that gap would be worth close to $30M in one season. So even if you cut that by 2/3, you're almost there on framing alone. saying stuff like that is not a good way to convince people to take pitch framing numbers seriously.
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i don't think montero would get 3/40 and i don't think he's 50 runs better than castillo (or anyone) at pitch-framing, but he's such a perfect mirror image complement to castillo that i'd love to have him at that price. it wouldn't be great if we gave up a bunch for him, but i think that's very unlikely to happen. getting his contract for nothing would be good. doing that and dumping some of jaxon would be even better.
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sounds fantastic
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2/-20 when you account for the fact that the cubs didn't sign sammy sosa to a 20 year 800 million dollar extension in 2005
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your exwife
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rizzo is from florida and a baseball player. we should be impressed he's literate.
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damnedwithfaintpraise.gif
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excited to see what we can get for rizzo now that we have to run him out of town
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i guess i misread, i thought his name was still attached but he had very little to do with the show at this point. either way the show isn't very good anymore. which is fine! it had way more great episodes that most any other thing.
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i feel a lot better if that is the deal
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he needs to be a distant second. if the top guy is lester, this is fine. if it's not, this is a mess. There's plenty of room for "over" guys between Lester and Hammel. Scherzer, Shields, Liriano, a trade for somebody like Zimmerman. But I don't expect the Cubs to go after any of those guys, so I suspect if Theo loses on Lester you're going to hear a lot of the usual mantra chanting - not selling out the future, "15 months", etc - and Hammel will have been the big signing two off-seasons in a row. i think there's an effectively zero chance we go after scherzer or shields. liriano and zimmerman are very unlikely but theoretically possible. that mantra chanting is wholly unacceptable to all non-bretts.
