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    Yeah, that’s true. There’s a lot of arrows seemingly pointing that way right now. But who knows for sure.
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    Copium. But ill take it!
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    Leafs player: this seems imminent.
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    I just can’t stand him.
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    Glad we spent so freely on a manager as opposed to, ya know, people who actually play the game.
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    This organization is really unbelievable sometimes. Just gross.
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    And where is the tour of wrigley or the spring facility featuring our manger?
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    I agree with some of this. We do work in secrecy very well. Probably better than any other team. Not to go in circles here, but what are other possible reasons for Jed’s outburst today? I feel like in his shoes, I’d be laughing at how utterly clueless Bob Nightengale is and not even be acknowledging his existence further than that. I think we have to place some stock into the slow build up of Dodger/Jays talk we’ve heard the last week and consider we might know we’re out of this thing and that’s why Jed got pissy. I just can’t see him responding to Bob otherwise. Reading Counsells comments as well, he essentially ignored a follow-up question asking if the cubs had met with Ohtani. Which leads me to believe he was earnest in his response that he, personally has not. That’s not very encouraging. I’d assume our shiny new manger would be involved if we were being seriously considered here. To me, it’s clear we’re out. I will gladly eat a horsefeathers ton of crow if I’m wrong though.
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    Really discouraging Yamamoto isn’t plan b to Ohtani. We could have gone for Senga last year and Yamamoto this year and had Horton waiting in the wings. But it’s alright. We have Jameson Tallion.
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    I genuinely don’t think that’s what I’m doing here. Though, maybe Nightengales report alone would have made me feel this way. To me, it seems that the tide has been shifting the last week and each new report seems to have us lower on the totem pole and more in the background than we were two weeks ago. Trust me when I tell you this, I want to be wrong about this more than anything. But something seems awfully pessimistic in regards to the cubs right now. I’m ready for the Hoskins, Glasnow, Chapman offseason to get over with already.
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    This thread seems split into groups of people who have come to terms with this and groups that haven’t. To me, it’s very, eye obvious and I can’t see how anyone has any hope left.
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    Oh not at all. I agree there. But we were greatly behind the curve then with the lack of DH in the national league too. We shouldn’t have gotten as far as we did to be honest. Now, the playing field is even (in that regard) and we seem to have been booted rather early on. We’ll never know all the details of course. But in my mind that’s an issue with the pitch we gave. And unless something drastic happens nothing is really going to change my mind about that.
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    I’m talking about earlier when he said he was close to writing an article about us being out or close to out. Can’t remember the wording. But I’m gonna double down on my point. Bob reporting that we’re no longer a factor while Dave Roberts was giving out information he should have kept to himself would actually make us look really, really good. It would show we’ve kept quiet enough to be considered “out” when we’re still in. That’s why Hoyer coming in hot is alarming. Something pissed him off enough to get into it with Bob in front of other reporters. That doesn’t strike me as a good sign.
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    Where?
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    Did Rogers update his stance from earlier? Last I heard he seemed to be sorta backing this up. I’m trying to figure out why this would have irked Jed so bad. Cause to be honest, if Bob is wrong and the cubs are in this, you’d almost think Hoyer would appreciate this “report” from Bob. It would indicate the cubs have done the exact opposite to what Dave Roberts did this afternoon and kept a lid on their interest level.
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    Yeah, that makes me nervous. Have to wonder if some of Jed’s frustration was that it’s true and he knew it came from his camp.
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    I mean, in my opinion if you went from coming in second the first time to being eliminated before the jays now, there was something “wrong”. Either with their pitch or not fully comprehending the dollars necessary to play poker here.
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    Ehh it’s built up aggression. I’ve been pretty oissed with them for the last two years. Anything they do wrong is just amplified for me now. To be entirely honest with you.
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    I’m shocked the jays are in this (and seemingly beat us out) That’s just not a team I saw as having any chance.
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    If we came in second on Ohtani last time and six years later are eliminated before we can even get a meeting that involves our major league manager that’s embarrassing, and someone failed miserably along the way.
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    How? I think Jed is good at building a farm. I don’t think he’s proven very capable of building a major league team around that. He seems to (I’m assuming it’s him. Could be Tom too. Could be both) have a dislike for the mega deals. Which is fine. There’s risk with them. I get that. But the problem is we’re a big market team. We’re supposed to be the one of the teams that take on the mega deals. The rules are skewed for competitive balance purposes so big market teams can act like big market teams. I'm sorry, but I want more than Dansby Swanson. Jed is Theo without the balls.
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    No, not this one succinct event. It’s the selling of Darvish for high schoolers. It’s the sitting out on major contracts time and time again. And I’m sorry, but if Jed Hoyer couldn’t sell this organization enough to even get a meeting that involved our manger he failed miserably at his job. Again. The man needs to run the guardians or the rays. He’s simply not built to lead a big market team. In my opinion.
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    I’m really flabbergasted that Counsell hasn’t even met with Ohtani. I know, I know “he’s keeping it discreet” horsefeathers. He’d no comment it if that were the case. If he answered that he actually hasn’t met with him how the hell did we get eliminated so early. This organization was embarrassing. Tom and Theo came in. We win. And now we’re back to being an embarrassment.
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    Yeah, forgot about the Yankees asking price for Soto. That’s too much. I’ll see myself out.
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