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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I bet they still agree to a deal. This just feels like posturing. Japanese teams need this money, they'll fold to whatever MLB demands. Although if it were cancelled, that's the dream scenario for #poortomricketts. Then they can leak that they were all ready to make an insane bid on Tanaka but couldn't and don't want to spend that money on anything else.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    You need to cast a wider net if you want to keep up with my comings and goings. I've been going at it with Arguello most of the day in his comments. That's how I ran into DiCaro in the first place, she was bragging about holding court on Twitter.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not remembering anything along those lines, that would mean they were offering something like 5/45. You have a link? Nope, just going off of memory. Every time I've seen a number floated of the Cubs' side of an extension, I've thought "really, that's all?"
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Last I heard, the Cubs wanted to give him normal arbitration bumps and then buy out three FA years at something like $10m each.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I have ZERO issue with not giving him a NTC. Apparently you do? A little, but I've been pretty unimpressed with the numbers floating out about the Cubs' side of things. I wonder how serious he would be about the NTC if the money was more realistic. I don't have a huge problem with trading him at this point. Whatever, we suck and we don't seem to want to not suck anytime soon. But being unrealistic about trade demands is probably going to make us feel really good about ourselves but not actually do anything positive.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm really looking forward to us congratulating ourselves for not selling Samardzija short of a blow-away package for a year and a half, then dumping him at the deadline in 2015 when we're 70-92 and getting half of what he's worth now, all because we don't want to pony up for a big-kid level extension.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think my favorite sex tape ever was Hulk Hogan.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Vitters/Sweeney/Lake Villanueva/Barney/Watkins/Rizzo SomeScrappyVetToLeadThem
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Garza stays healthy and if Castro doesn't suck and if Rizzo and Samarzdija take steps forward and if the bullpen had held together and if we'd gotten some pythagorean luck and if the Pirates hadn't been so awesome.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    They tried last year. It seems like they feel burned by it.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Haven't we been stealth bidders on a bunch of guys we didn't get. It's starting to mean to me that we'll sign him if there's no market for him. Keeping in contact with agents just in case every other team forgets a guy exists and we can get him for free is exactly the kind of jackoffery that this front office really loves themselves over. I put it in the same category as arguing for three days over which foot to hit first base with or whatever.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    As opposed to a budget that lets you do infinite things?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    One of the coolest sports moments of our lives.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    They're going to get actual Tulo. They seem to be aiming a bit higher than Castro.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Both PSD insiders today agreeing that what they are hearing is the Cubs may not hit $90m in payroll.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Red Rising" was better
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/free-agency-heats-epstein-pleased-cubs-progress Our FA targets referenced either directly or indirectly in interview with Epstein: 1) A Scott Baker-level starting pitcher 2) A reliever who will give us a discount for being named our "closer"
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    No way to know. Tanaka's team decides when to post him.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I feel like this will backfire and encourage teams to be more reckless.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    If we keep swearing there's no way the Cubs will punt seasons, eventually we have to be right, I guess. Not to mention, that's only a slight delay in Baez's ordinary development schedule and it's exactly dead center of Bryant's normal development schedule.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wait, wait, wait... so if the top 3 bids are $60 million, $40 million, and $20 million, the people who bid $60 million only have to pay $40 million? It's not an issue of Tanaka getting to choose between the top 3 bidders who he wants to negotiate with? Is this new information? http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/11/latest-on-the-mlbnpb-posting-system.html This one says it's average of top 2, but we may find out officially as soon as tomorrow.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, and I think that should have little to nothing to do with whether or not we decide to trade him, because other teams know that and it's already priced in to a large degree. As someone said higher up, the difference in our evaluation of the likelihood of a rebound vs. other teams' evaluation of the likelihood will likely inform our decision. But not just the literal fact that he'll likely rebound, because duh.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Of course, given what we know about his talent level, aging curves, and the role of organizational philosophy in his troubles betting on at least a partial bounceback is perfectly reasonable. Don't get me wrong, if the Mariners go crazy and offer Seager and Walker we should jump on that in a heartbeat. But I don't see anybody ponying up. I agree, and I think that bounceback should be priced in if we decide to trade him. I mean, if we weren't pricing in a bounceback, we'd just waive him because he was subreplacement last year.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    LOL WUT In other words, who knows what will happen. Just do whatever. http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/09/30/loss-aversion-and-the-stock-ma/ Much of people's reluctance to trade Castro comes from this phenomenon.
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