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  1. Rcal10
    The real question here is “how do you have no liquor”????
  2. Rcal10
    How can you forget the Happ homer? It was talked about for pages because Happ dared to “celebrate” the homer. 😬 That said, I doubt Counsell sits a guy who was a regular all season. The Mo love reminds me of football fans always wanting the back up QB to play.
  3. Rcal10
    Didn’t Happ homer against Peralta last game? I know his numbers prior to that were bad, but he did homer last game.
  4. Rcal10
    First, it’s Rea, not Rae. Amazing you like him so much and don’t even know his name or how to spell it. Next, Brown wasn’t pitching better than anyone the last few weeks of the season since he wasn’t even pitching. Tailon pitched on Thursday, so he wasn’t an option for either start. So it comes down to Assad or Boyd. And as I said numerous times, I agree with you that I would have done Assad. Didn’t like Boyd on 3 days rest. But that said, Boyd actually did well against SD in his short start. Pitching him on Saturday did line him up for normal rest today. I would rather have Boyd in Wrigley then in the road. Has he been held to game 2 he would have had to pitch game 5 on the road again. This is all the things Counsel has to consider when choosing a pitcher. Obviously it didn’t work. But it was no more risky then pitching Assad, who is a pitch to contract guy against a team who loves that sort of guy, since they make a lot of contact. Good chance Assad doesn’t fair much better and then we get Boyd in game two against the Brewers in Milwaukee. Don’t really like his chances there either. If Boyd is going to pitch I want it at home. The decision to start him in game 1 makes that possible today.
  5. Rcal10
    So you would start Brown? I do see reasoning there. But I wouldn’t call him a good option based on his entire years body of work. He is an option among many iffy options.
  6. Rcal10
    I also never said you said they would have won had they used Assad. Maybe you should practice what you preach and learn to read better. All I said was I agreed with you with who I thought should have started game one but that doesn’t mean the result would have changed. You have repeatedly suggested Counsel’s decisions cost them the first two games. That is suggesting had he chose someone else they would have won. That is what I am saying cannot be proven. You have also repeatedly suggested he has other great options. That is also not true. He had several iffy choices, no matter who he picked. None of the pitchers you have suggested are good. Again today, he has a few options. None of them good. But whoever he picks, if that guy gives up a few runs you and many others will be here to suggest how he was dumb for his choice. And again, without any proof that whoever you wanted would have done better. The FACT is he doesn’t have a good choice. But he has to make one and hope that guy pitches well.
  7. Rcal10
    Who are these good options you speak of?
  8. Rcal10
    More a response to Schwarber being the last man standing from the 2016 team. Javy is still playing and also in the playoffs. I don’t miss him on the team, but do like that he is doing well now with the Tigers.
  9. Rcal10
    Javy says hi.
  10. Rcal10
    Rea threw 60 pitches on Monday. He isn’t starting tomorrow. The people criticizing Counsel for pitching Boyd on 3 days rest are some of the same people wanting Rea to pitch on 2 days rest. Kind of ridiculous. Might see Civali and Brown, however. I think it will be Boyd. Hopefully is Wrigley success can continue.
  11. Rcal10
    You are going to get your wish, I believe. But who starts for the Cubs?
  12. Rcal10
    Ok, so I should have said IMO pacific time is the best time for people who love live sports and don’t stay up until midnight. I am in Az, so I get half Pacific and half Mountain. I, personally, like pacific best. Allows me to calm down after Cubs games instead of watching them until 10PM and then trying to go to bed. Game ends at 8. Time to watch other tv and forget about the game.
  13. Rcal10
    Every horsefeathers game the announcers have mentioned Turang is the best defensive second baseman in MLB. Never bothering to mention Nico, once. Turang isn’t even the best fielding second baseman in THIS GAME.
  14. Rcal10
    Actually Pacific time is the best for live sports.
  15. Rcal10
    Not sure. As Jason pointed out they didn’t want him to be able to opt out after 1 year. But your reasoning that it would have taken them over the LT doesn’t prove correct either. The salary for LT implications (because of deferred money) was no higher than the $30M annual they were offering. Matching the Red Sox exact offer or sticking to their offer would have had the exact same impact on the LT line. Again, no veto by Tom. At least not because of LT.
  16. Rcal10
    I would still disagree. Tom didn’t want to give that particular contract. The Cubs offer was as good as the Red Sox. So that is not vetoing signing him. That is not structuring a contract a particular way. Bregman could have just as easily taken the Cubs offer as presented and been a Cub. He chose the Red Sox. I also think he knew playing for the Red Sox would make his numbers look better than has been played for the Cubs. That is not Ricketts fault. And, I am not someone who defends Ricketts. I just don’t think saying he vetoed a signing is fair.
  17. Rcal10
    A lot more fist pumping than slow clapping. Again, same reaction as I would have when a roll of the dice goes my way for a big win.
  18. Rcal10
    I must have missed the story of Tom vetoing signing Bregman. When was that reported? He probably put a number on what he would spend, but did he actually tell Jed he couldn’t sign him? BTW, I agree with everything else you said. I just don’t know about that veto of Bregman.
  19. Rcal10
    I actually think what you are doing, is justified. I am doing the same thing. I know the playoffs are a dice roll, but even a dice roll upsets me when it doesn’t go as I want it to. The first photo is what fans of teams winning are doing.
  20. Rcal10
    I don’t blame Jed for not paying the cost at the deadline. I blame him for puttting himself in the position to have to trade for a starter and not realizing what the cost would be. He should have know trading for MOR/TOR (controlled) starting pitcher at the deadline would cost more than he was willing to spend, in the off season. So make a deal then don’t doesn’t get to the TDL.
  21. Rcal10
    Oops, read it wrong. My bad. Too early in Az. Also too stressed to bother reading!!!!😓
  22. Rcal10
    Assuming they don’t go after Tucker, which is probably a safe bet, do they sign a different big bat? There are a lot of them. Schwarber, Bellinger, Alonso, Bregman, to name 4. Bellinger actually makes sense with his versatility. He won’t be that huge bat they would want, but he would allow them to replace Tucker with a guy who will make probably $10M AAV less and sign for probably 5 less years. Then sign either Gallen or Cease. If they need to cut cost for these two signing maybe they let Shota walk. They go FA pitcher, Horton, Boyd, Tailon to start the season. Fill in 5th spot with Brown, Rea, Assad or Wicks. They have Steele probably around Memorial Day and Wiggins sometime around the ASB. I am fine with keeping Shota too. But not sure money works for two big signings without moving his money. This is just one option. They can also just trade for a front line starting pitcher if they bought a bat. Mo becomes trade bait. As does every other bat in the system. Look into Ryan, Gore, Alcantara, Cabrera or any other young controlled pitcher that works in the front of the rotation.
  23. Rcal10
    Curious. Why is this Busch’s ceiling?
  24. Rcal10
    I think this is Roger’s making two separate statements that, while the first one is probably true (they won’t resign him), the second one can’t be proven wrong. The only way his second comment can be proven wrong is if they actually do sign him. To me this is an easy thing to report and claim you were right. I do think his productivity this year gives a lot of people pause on wanting him to sign here. So I would not be surprised if the Cubs don’t even really make any kind of an offer. But, to me, that doesn’t mean they never considered it. Just like many here have changed their mind on Tucker, I think that could have very well happened to the Cubs. End result is he won’t be here. Just dont think there is a way to prove either way if it was the original plan or not.
  25. Rcal10
    Ok, fine. So even if he does trend like the others, does that mean if his WAR is 5 next year than he will trend down to 3 in the 5th year? Using your criteria would be that be the case? Wouldn’t that be a total of 20WAR over 5 years? Well with the 5/$125.
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