Hairyducked Idiot
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Apparently I have to specify this, but baseball is a small subsection of life and nobody deserves cancer ever, especially not over something as trivial as baseball. Is that clear enough? OK now that context which I would have assumed was obvious and implicit is out of the way: Sandberg trying to position himself as an old-school baseball moralist by taking a dump on the guy who replaced him as the most popular Cub is absolutely ridiculous white boomer BS and he can horsefeathers all the way off. Besides the fact that he was a fielding diva who cared more about his error stats than his team, he's a quitter. He quit on his team in 1994, which is supposed to be the cardinal clubhouse sin. Then he did it again as manager of the Phillies. If you wanna be a quitter, be a quitter. Quitting is awesome and more people should do it when situations suck. But when you make a habit of it, you don't get to position yourself as some champion of the clubhouse just to score some cheap white boomer points at your HOF speech or to try to get every random Jim and Joebob from south of Peoria to clamor for you to be the Cubs manager.
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OK. I hope he beats cancer then horsefeathers all the way off. The HOF speech was pretentious boomer BS.
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The actually gross thing Sosa did wasn't the same PEDs that literally everyone else was using. It was the accusations of spousal abuse that got swept under the rug. Imagine today how it would play if an athlete was being accused of beating his wife with a baseball bat and hitting a rum bottle over her head because she wouldn't give him a divorce.
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Yeah, I'm fine with taking him as a rental, and I'm fine with giving him a very short extension, but I'm not eager to go 4/60 on him or whatever.
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They were illegal and against the rules of baseball. It's "different" because you want it to be different. PEDs were an open secret in baseball locker rooms throughout your entire life until the late 00s cleanup. Here's the reality that a lot of sports fans don't like to think about: If a sport can be improved at through the use of PEDs, and that sport doesn't have an *extremely* rigorous anti-PED program that is constantly updated, then it is functionally impossible to reach high levels in that sport without using PEDs. Everyone's using them or no one is.
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Sandberg wouldn't take a chance on any play that might hurt his precious fielding percentage and errorless streaks. He can horsefeathers all the way off.
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Hank Aaron used amphetamines as a PED You cannot decide who is and is not using steroids by eyeballing them.
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I mean, do they? QB, edge, wr3 ... That's about it. Obviously you can use more depth everywhere, but the roster isn't that hole-y
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I can find plenty of things to complain about poles, but in terms of impact, that one trade outweighs all of them
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My memory is fuzzy. Didn't Fields and Dalton just trade injuries back and forth?
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Yeah, we're 100% trading down from 9, and probably trading down two more times with the picks we get from trading down.
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Redshirting implies it's not a competition.
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If I'm Caleb Williams. undisputed No. 1 OA pick, and you told me I'm redshirting a year behind Justin Fields, I'm gonna start making a stink. You can draft me anyway and I'll probably just have to take it, but I'm gonna make it damn uncomfortable for you for awhile and make all kinds of stink about it. Straight up tell the media 'they shouldn't draft me if they don't believe in me.'
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I don't think "We hope Williams is a good QB and good QBs can elevate bad WR rooms" and "it's disappointing to have a bad WR room" are mutually exclusive.
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Except they did it because they had a good quarterback. We have a bad quarterback.
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Thanks I hate it
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I'll admit it's getting weird, but I think the most likely scenario is still that we dump fields for something at some point this offseason. Whether the holdup really is Williams' medicals or if it's Poles giving up and dropping his price
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I think it's incredibly dumb if that's what we are doing, but if Williams can't blow fields away in a fair competition then it must suck to suck
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Yeah, rypien is a qb3 and even that might be a stretch for him
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Things are starting to get a little weird, if I'm being honest. The simplest, most likely explanation to me is that the bears overestimated the market for fields and poles is stubbornly waiting it out rather than admit it. But that's an ad hoc explanation, my previous belief (the bears know fields sucks and are dumping him so they can draft Caleb) wouldn't have predicted this outcome, so it's worth considering that something different is happening.
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Flacco to the colts, who I thought were a good sleeper destination for fields. All the qb1 jobs are gone and the qb2 jobs are filling up a bit quick.
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Honestly, I'm not that upset with the Bears' approach. Free agency in the NFL sucks. It's a league with brutal aging curves and a system strongly biased towards teams keeping players they want to keep. I just wish we tried a *smidge* harder to not have complete black hole positions that we later have to trade 2nd round picks to deal with, or we end up having no centers who can actually snap.
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Yeah, this feels like 100% spin to cover their butts and protect Fields' reputation, when they just overplayed their hand. They're Bearsing this up a bit, but sometime before the season starts, Fields will be backing up somewhere else, Williams will be our QB and no real damage done.
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Pretty sure the center we traded for is expected to be the starter. We really don't seem to value the position
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I don't think I would describe it as trashing. It's not a great wr track record but no one's perfect.
