Hairyducked Idiot
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Misclick
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#wearegood
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For whatever it is worth, those Yankees were more like the Blackhawks that immediately preceded the current run: honestly trying very hard to be competitive but failing miserably and hitting on the resulting picks. I agree we wouldn't have exactly what we have now if hadn't tanked. But if Epstein and his organization really as magical as claimed, we could have had one or two playoff appearances already banked and still a decent young team to work with.
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A great example of what I am talking about when I say that some fans, maybe even most, don't get what the aging curve in 2015 mlb looks like. Primes are short and early, it is quite possible that we are right now seeing the best guys like Rizzo or even Bryant will see. Heck, it is looking quite plausible that Casto had his best at 22. Or maybe not. Every career path is different. But it isn't just plugging guys in at 22 and soaking in how awesome they are by improving every year through 27.
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I am enjoying the present. Enjoying the young talent and not thinking Epstein has done a superlative job can co-exist. I think people are overestimating our future. If they really do run off 7 playoff years in 8 starting with this one, great, I'll tip my cap to Epstein and give him all the credit for it. But that isn't as much of a slam dunk as some think. Pitching is fickle and primes are shorter and earlier than people think. We could easily have more mediocre or bad seasons in our immediate future if some things go wrong or thy whiff on some decisions.
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They're not winning 107 games. They are, however, 8 games in front of us with a +70 advantage over us in run differential. It shouldn't be controversial to say that they are way ahead of us.
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I sometimes wonder what's turned you so edgy lately. I don't think it's a desire to fit in with the cool kids. Maybe it's a life event, but sometimes I suspect that you get the most aggressive when the gap widens between what you want to believe and what you deep-down suspect is true.
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Jim Hendry was a bad overall GM. He had a few good signings, a couple really good trades, but his overall grade as a GM is probably a C. Any GM with a Chicago budget can put together a short run of success, but it's something else if you can produce sustainable success - Cardinals, Giants, Red Sox, Yankees. Do the Giants really have more sustained success than the Hendry Cubs? They made it through the playoff crap shoot the last three times they got there, but that was their only three appearances in the last 11 seasons.
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Time will tell, but my suspicion is that's wishful thinking. Scouting and especially projecting prospects is just as crazy and difficult as ever.
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Pat Cline was a top-100 prospect in some spring preview magazine I bought as a kid.
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It wasn't troll bait, and you're better than calling it that. Some things are good, some things are bad. We all know the good things. I can list them again if you *really* want. But that doesn't mean we can ignore the bad things. Starlin Castro is a sucking wasteland. We're still lightyears behind the Cardinals. Almora and Baez are on the quick train to Busttown. In Theo Epstein's *fourth* season, we still might not be a playoff team. I'm not saying everything is terrible and bad. I'm saying that maybe, just maybe, it isn't trolling to not effusively praise him for tanking three seasons to give us a team with the 13th best run differential in baseball.
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Sale
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#wearegood
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Our SS 4ever!
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It was way shallower than you think it was. Billy Hamilton would have been out.
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With the fly ball being the first out? Absolutely not. On the second, maybe.
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If I'm the Twins, I walk Coghlan and play 6 infielders.
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Three-run HR plz
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He's out.
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At this exact moment? Probably Dodgers and Cardinals is about it that I'm sure of. There's a few others that are at least in the vicinity: Mets, Astros.
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Where did it come from? Do you, in fact, ski?
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No internal options would be better. He's at -0.6 fWAR for the year. Maybe he's going to snap out of it soon, but at this pace it wouldn't take much at all to be an improvement.
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I'm less interested in what Castro needs than what the Cubs need. We're rapidly approaching the point where that may involve his removal from the lineup.
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Is there anything you know about me that makes you think I would ever intentionally talk to the people in my neighborhood?