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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    C'mon dude, a guy just got injured .... Yes. That's why their season is probably over.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    NFL hastily writing a rule that makes it a penalty for two pass-rushers to approach the QB at the same time.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Season over. For the Packers.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's a bad spot.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's very, very early and there's tons of game to play, but it's fun seeing this team be exactly as good as we thought they were.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh yeah I forgot special teams probably still sucks.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the Bears win, they become the official best team in Chicago.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    If this team has to settle for the Wild Card (they won't), they should decline it in shame.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jesus, why would you do that to him?
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wonder if it's anything like baseball, where you can swear as much as you want, but you can't use any form of the word "you." "You're a thief" would get you tossed much quicker than a long string of tirades. I'm gonna split the difference and say that Serena was out of line and deserved all those penalties, but that if she was a white male star she would have gotten the star treatment on two of them.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is no way Spencer Kieboom is a real person's name.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    My rule of thumb is that when you have to say "We don't have any great guys, but we have a ton of them, so someone is sure to turn out OK," your organizational pitching sucks. Guys who don't look amazing but could potentially figure it out are a dime a dozen. You can always fill up your minors with them whenever you feel like with minimal investment.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    From 2012-2014, the Cubs used 13 out of 14 picks between the supplemental first round and the 5th round on pitchers. Their plan definitely involved having some major league pitchers by now. If that part of the process had gone according to plan, maybe we'd still have Eloy Jimenez or signing Darvish wouldn't have seemed so enticing. The front office is brilliant, but it's OK to admit when things haven't gone right even in the process.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    a couple of seasons ago the farm system was focused on hitters not pitchers. I dont think the shift in philosophy didn't happen until after the org shake up you are referring to. They sure did spend a ton of supplemental and 2nd-5th round picks on pitchers for not caring about them.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    :nono: Yes, definitely counts for nothing. The Hamels trade wasn't made for some burning desire to have Eddie Butler and Rollie Lacy. It was a salary dump. Who cares? It's still turning farm system pitching into quality pitching, no matter the motivation. No it isn’t. It’s turning available cash into quality pitching. Butler wasn’t even a product of the Cubs farm system in any meaningful way. He came out of Colorado’s. He fake to us as a veteran MLB:AAA shuttle guy. The original plan for developing pitching failed and this isn’t a controversial statement. Didn’t they even acknowledge this a couple of seasons ago when they shuffled some jobs around in scouting and development?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Originally that plan was to draft hitters with the high pick but still get pitchers by drafting them in bulk with supplemental picks and later rounds. That approach netted pretty much nothing. Does trading Eddie Butler and Rollie Lacy for Hamels count as pretty much nothing? How about getting Chavez for Tyler Thomas? Those are just the recent ones. Just because we haven't had young studs developed through the system doesn't mean that we've gotten "pretty much nothing". Yes, definitely counts for nothing. The Hamels trade wasn't made for some burning desire to have Eddie Butler and Rollie Lacy. It was a salary dump.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's been an organizational philosophy though. Draft and develop badass position players, which are more predictable. Trade for and sign pitching in free agency because of the unpredictability. They weren't forced to make high risk moves...it was a strategic choice. Originally that plan was to draft hitters with the high pick but still get pitchers by drafting them in bulk with supplemental picks and later rounds. That approach netted pretty much nothing.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    They won the World Series not even two years ago. There is nothing they could do that would make me actually upset for awhile yet
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I want Counsell to do the Dennis Green rant after the game
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Everything is fine now. All wins are good wins.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    He didn’t throw a single strike to Cain
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I’m sorry but the Brewers walking it off here would be hilarious.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Now this is podracing
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Season saved
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The process included being really bad at developing pitching internally, forcing them to take high risk moves.
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