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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Same as above. Pay full price twice (first prospects, then extension) for a guy with a velocity drop and elbow injury in the last year? No.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is stretching into boring territory. I need to know whether to make fun of the Cubs for overpaying for Girardi or for being spurned by him.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Could be a real candidate, could be a favor to someone Hoyer worked with in San Diego (if he did, too lazy to look it up)?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    He dared his boss to fire him. That's not exactly a victim.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    We can't trade a pitching prospect because we don't have enough, whereas all we'd be getting is a star MLB hitter, something we are loaded with?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    My mind immediate jumps to the 5-6 milion IFA budget we're not allowed to spend more than 250k of at one time. For one year, tho...and then possibly alternating years after that. Didn't they change the rule after this year to make the "alternating years" strategy less appealing or completely moot?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because whether you do or not, I care about the baseball budget *and* the MLB payroll. You can feel free to only care about payroll if you want, of course.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hard to tell. They do seem to like having the best of everything outside of the MLB roster.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    And I said baseball budget every time, because that's where it's coming from. Maybe the difference comes from MLB payroll. Maybe it comes from IFAs. Maybe it comes from the draft. Maybe it comes from scouts. But it's coming from somewhere, there's no free lunch.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    You don't know that. Stop saying things like you know that. It's entirely possible that whatever money goes to him isn't money that would otherwise have been spent on player payroll. Of course I know that. There's no special Girardi Budget, and they aren't going to take it out of the Marketing budget. Paying the manager comes out of the baseball budget.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then Kyle shows up, blows up the comments section. lol To be fair, I was blowing up BN's comments this morning before that article was posted. And his argument for why it's impossible for the business side to pressure Epstein was nonsensical, even if the rest of the article was good.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    It all comes out of the baseball budget.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're one week short of the 10-year anniversary of the last Cubs playoff victory. With the Pirates winning the Wild Card game, that's something every team in the division (including the Astros) have done since.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wait, I thought I changed my opinion too often?
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's exactly what we said when Epstein was hired. No *way* he'd be hired just to gut the payroll and run an expansion-style rebuild.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll be surprised if he makes it through the offseason without being waived again.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    And now there's a round that's best-of-1.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not a tiebreaker.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Why not just have a single elimination tournament at the end? Everyone will have a shot and it'll be so exciting they'll all be game 7s, forced game 7s. Why not just have a 30-team, 174-game round robin with the best record being the champion?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    All it took to get the old Theo to wake up was to want the same thing as the Yankees.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    less bald, but getting closer.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Shorter and heftier.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    If this is your attempt to bring a new negative shtick, try again. It was awful. It was simply an expression of my skepticism that players who suck and have something wrong with them are likely to get better, either because sometimes what's wrong can't be fixed, and sometimes because that's not really the reason why they suck.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, I do have two hands.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't know how we'll find room for him at 3b now that we have Ian Stewart, who turned out just fine after his wrist was fixed.
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