Hairyducked Idiot
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Fake rallies in mid-season form
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Time zones got me.. I tonight I missed the first five minutes but apparently I missed the first two hours
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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
Hairyducked Idiot replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
https://allchgo.com/2023/04/02/qa-with-offensive-line-expert-brandon-thorn-who-is-the-best-offensive-tackle-for-the-bears-in-the-2023-draft/ I have no idea if this guy is actually an expert or not but he doesn't think Braxton Jones' pass pro problems are definitely fixable so I believe in his credentials. -
If the player development system worked as promised, we wouldn't have needed the 2012-2014 tank to get started.
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Tt is right that skepticism by default isn't going to have a perfect track record. Sometimes things you have every reason to be skeptical of will turn out to be correct. *Maybe* they really have figured out player development and will start having a sustained run of success that doesn't involve tanking half the time. But seeing as how I was promised that by MacPhail and then Epstein/Hoyer (and if I was a little older, I'd have been promised it by Himes) I'm gonna stick with skeptical.
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Because I'd seen that exact show before. Theo was Andy MacPhail 2.0 except the 2016 cubs finished the job where the 2003 cubs didn't. I had to listen to a whole generation of cubs fans argue we had never tried this before when I could remember refusing to include pat cline in a mike piazza trade. Once you start deciding that you like tank and spank as a plan, which Theo showed be did when he tanked 2012, then you're always going to end up stuck in that cycle.
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We were supposed to be getting the depth from the Epstein farm too. That was his big selling point when we hired him, that his Red Sox organizations had a remarkable track record for churning out MLB talent without needing top picks. The whole "tank for superstars" thing wasn't part of what we assumed the original plan was when he was hired, it just became our ad hoc justification later when it turned out that was all they were good at.
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I knew back in 2012 that we'd be doing this all over again, that we'd be right back a decade later doing "OK they've never figured out player development before but now they've totally got it figured out so we just have to wait a few more years before our sustained success comes in." I just didn't think it'd be the same general manager getting a second bite at it. (I know TT isn't saying they've figured it out, just that they believe they have). But if they've figured it out, they've fooled everyone else, because the farm system rankings are aggressively mediocre. There's literally dozens of lists now, so you can always cherrypick the ones that make you look the best, but I've seen more with us outside the top 10 organizationally than inside it, and our best prospect seems to fall in the 25-50 range. There's some promising stuff with the pitching development, but it feels an awful lot like being late to the last market inefficiency instead of being first to the next one.
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Chicago Bears Offseason Thread (the tank must payoff)
Hairyducked Idiot replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I thought the whole reason we hated Nagy was that he couldn't adjust his scheme to the players he had. -
It's just one game, but what I saw was a guy who had no idea where his pitches were going. Even in the clean inning, he left some balls over the plate and put some pitches nowhere near where the glove was set up. You can give him some time because the stuff was downright unfair, but he needs to figure it out before being given high-leverage innings.
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Early results on YoY pitcher velocity
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Bertz's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I seem to recall velocity has some distinct month-to-month patterns over the course of a season, but I don't remember what they are. -
At least Andy MacPhail had to try to feed us that every year to keep us happy. Now you can tell fans that you need to rebuild for three years before you can even try to compete within the division.
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90s cubs without the Sandberg then Sosa star power
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Let's see that rotation depth I was promised
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Agree. This is more or less what I was saying. Sure, there are times you decide you're a little closer than normal and you're willing to be a little more aggressive, and sometimes the opposite happens, but it's a small adjustment and for the most part your fundamental existence should be trying to win the games in front of you, because seasons are a very finite resource. Fans everywhere have latched onto tank and spank as some big brain strategy, a borderline moral imperative, and it's given them an incredible pass on sucking. I knew 10 years ago this day would come, but I had a cubs fan tell me this week that the current regime was going to be the first to really prioritize building through the farm system and that the reason the Cubs aren't good now is they've never committed to that before.
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I think this entire concept that every season has to be a "try" or "not try" is a bad way to run a sports team and i hate that fans have bought into it so much. We talked *so* much poop about "sustained success" in the early Theo days, but here we are trying to play tank and spank again. meanwhile the Cardinals have had one losing season since 2000. If he's not "trying" then fire him and bring in someone who will try.
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I liked him better when he was called Albert Almora
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At least during the tank era we had good prospects to look forward to
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I like Wisdom. He hits home runs for the Cubs.
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Two hits on two pitches out of the zone from two turd hitters.
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Feels like you can just stop caring about the offense once we get out of 1-3.
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Don't lose, losers. Our lineup is so bad.
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It's not really overreacting on two games when he OPS'd .542 and .654 the last two seasons
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can't *really* try to win games 1-0
