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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's because you're Kyle. You only disagree because you're Nuts. (That one worked on *two* levels. Parallel fronts!)
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    I agree that there is a point at which they will transition from what they did last offseason to a period where they use the farm system to make trades for quality MLB players. I just don't see any reason to believe that point will be the offseason after this season, especially given the state they've put the roster in and the comments we've had from the front office. They were content to tank this season and they seem perfectly content to tank the next one. The certainty that they won't do it again seems like something people have talked themselves into more than anything based on the evidence.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Distinction without difference, imo.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    brettjackson No. 2 for the day.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    You mean like spending six months saying it would be inexcusable for the Cubs to slash payroll and rebuild, and now saying it was understandable given the circumstances?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's an interesting way of phrasing it. It'd be a lot more persuasive if the same confident tone hadn't been employed in being completely and utterly wrong about last offseason's direction.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hope you guys are right. That reads an awful lot to me like some sort of Stockholm Syndrome rationalization.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jackson's fly outs are becoming more exciting to me than Vitters' singles.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was just about this time a year ago that TT (and myself, and others) repeatedly made it abundantly clear that we didn't have to go through this year of suck. Epstein disagreed. What makes you so confident that this time will be different? Because the arguments are different. I admire your persistence.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    It was just about this time a year ago that TT (and myself, and others) repeatedly made it abundantly clear that we didn't have to go through this year of suck. Epstein disagreed. What makes you so confident that this time will be different?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Samardzija. Hmm, that's a good one. I like the way you think.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    You don't think the Cubs will have anything they can trade worth as much as Marshall was last year? Are you still hung up on Sappelt? Not as much, but I'm regaining my confidence in Wood and I still like Torreyes a ton (bad BABIP luck notwithstanding, his skills have held up well this year). If Garza and Dempster are gone at the deadline, who is left that can be a part of that type of trade. Soto, I guess, if he has a strong second half?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't doubt that we'll have the ammunition. I doubt that we have the desire. Sure, they did it in Boston. They also signed impact free agents in Boston, and we didn't get any of those last offseason.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    As implied above, Baseball Prospectus has become more or less entirely worthless. Too many "writers" not enough interesting analysts.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Other than hope, what are your reasons for thinking the Cubs intend to go that route? Because the Cubs are run by smart people who have previously employed a nuanced approach? How did they fill holes this offseason? They traded for Stewart, Wood, Volstad, and Rizzo by using young assets(Cashner, Colvin, LeMahieu) and selling off older guys(Z, Marshall). They backfilled from within for 1 rotation spot(Samardzija) and 1 lineup spot(LaHair, to be replaced by Rizzo). Outside of one quote(which to me is more evidence about a distaste of building through free agency than wanting to build a OOTP team), why would we think that the new Cubs way is exclusively to hoard prospects and try to make all of them pan out? Okay, I get what you're saying now. Yeah, the 2013 Cubs aren't going to be filled entirely with pieces already in the organization today. But I don't expect any "prospects for impact player" trades. Unless Garza is still around, we won't really have anything left that could bring a haul like the Marshall trade did. That just leaves crap-for-crap trades like Stewart/Colvin or prospect-position-shuffles like Cashner for Rizzo.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Take it up with Theo. It wasn't my first choice on how to run an organization, but it's what we've got. No, it's not. *checks 25-man roster* Yeah, we do.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rizziculous
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Take it up with Theo. It wasn't my first choice on how to run an organization, but it's what we've got.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    He regretted giving in to the pressures of always being in on every free agent and constantly playing the arms race battle with the Yankees. He regretted being so heavily veteran free agent focused. There's some middle ground here people between the obscenely stupid everybody from within scenario and what the Red Sox started doing in their desperation to stay on top and compete with the Yankees every single minute. Agreed. But I don't think Theo's interpretation of that middle ground involves the Cubs making any moves for impact, prime-year players this coming offseason. I wouldn't at all be surprised if it's the same flow-chart as last year: Do we have a young, potentially core player ready to take the spot? If no, is there someone cheap available that we might be able to flip into some trade value at the deadline? If no, then find some organizational AAA roster fill with a tiny hint of upside and just let them take up space.
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  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because I didn't care about the rest. I took that interview as an obviously tongue-in-cheek response/hypothetical, because God help us if it isn't. You cannot strive to make a team like that because you WILL fail at least 9 times out of 10. You took that as tongue in cheek? It seemed completely honest to me, and it completely explained everything he's done so far as president of the Cubs. Why wouldn't it explain the near future?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    but is shanghai-ing them in AAA the answer, especially when you're obviously rebuilding? No, there's a nuance involved. If you want to stockpile prospects at the deadline, that's not the worst outcome. Use the rest of the season to evaluate, then decide what areas you want to try to fill from within, and use the rest to get assets that can potentially fill those holes. Use your haul from dealing Dempster/Garza to get you Headley, use Vitters and Jackson to make a run at King Felix. Those are rudimentary examples, but you get the idea. There's more than one avenue with prospects, not just Buy and Hold. Other than hope, what are your reasons for thinking the Cubs intend to go that route?
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    lol pretending you didn't jump off your wood wagon during ST I jumped off so hard, I twisted my ankle. But my seat is still warm.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Travis Wood looks pretty good, but I'd need to see Chris Volstad's spring training stats before I decide which one I want in the rotation going forward.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    By the time we're ready to compete, he'll be 35. Pass.
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