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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is that new? My twitter says that's new.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    The only way he could refute it would be to actually spend some money to add a player of consequence. I'm kind of looking forward to him doing that at some point.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that they didn't bid as high as the Rangers doesn't really mean he didn't want him or he felt burned... And yet, the "Cubs are planning on giving up on 2012 and going cheap" hypothesis remains unrefuted. C'mon, Theo, just a little refutation? Pretty please?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Because the team as comprised is really bad and the number of pieces out there that can change that are shrinking rapidly. I'm still going with 74 wins with what we have now, and that's with some awfully generous projections for guys like LaHair and Stewart. Fielder gets you to 78. A second base upgrade gets you to maybe 80. Where are the 10 wins worth of pitching depth to be had out there?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    At least we get some Toronto fan misery porn out of it.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    And twitter is going nuts about it. Okay, now I really wish Toronto doesn't get him. What kind of worthless idiots fall for fake Twitter accounts?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's Theo's job to start the fun.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Opinions and reports are separate. Unless you have an agenda. Even so, I doubt that he'd risk his professional reputation by spreading false rumors and trying to pass them as actual news because he has an agenda. Think about how certain sportswriters in Chicago have "reported" on certain members of the Cubs and post that same thing again. Their MO isn't to make stuff up. It's to act like what their personal goats do is different from what their favorite white athletes do.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Opinions and reports are separate.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    51,908,000
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Am I the only one extremely annoyed by the use of the term "front-runners?" You can't be a front-runner in a race that is already over. You are just the winner or you aren't.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Were you asking me that and who the hell is that? its the person you share an IP address with... http://nesmaps.com/maps/MikeTysonsPunchOut/sprites/MarioTKO.png
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Endorsements. Yep, coming to the US is certainly not going help you get endorsements. Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui have become unrecognizable in Japan since coming to the US. It's not as if Japan wakes up at the crack of dawn to watch them play. Ichiro Suzuki only makes roughly $10m a year in endorsements in Japan, but that's not as much as $6m. Honestly, it's not. You would even be able to reach the rabid Iranian contingent of baseball fans. I hear President Ahmadinejad is a big fan of baseball, and the US of course. Alright, I give. Darvish is *totally* going to accept a small base salary with heavy, creative non-guaranteed money.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Endorsements.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, let's role play. I'll be Yu Darvish's money and you be the Cubs. You offer that. I say "No, I want guaranteed money." Now what? You have 40 million in guaranteed money. Go back to Japan. Keep in mind Matsuzaka only got what, 50mil? You could get 30 more than that. You do realize I make about $12 million a year in Japan and you are offering me less than that. I'll repost next year and see if the team that wins is actually taking this seriously. *click* Well, that was productive.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, he's a lesser known sportswriter... Sounds like some fringey wannabe who is hoping that if he tweets it right before it happens, it'll seem like he had inside info and he'll gain lots of followers.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hahaha, suck it reporters. Oh wait, you almost all had it right all along.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, let's role play. I'll be Yu Darvish's money and you be the Cubs. You offer that. I say "No, I want guaranteed money." Now what?
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Should find out in about two hours.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The odds aren't equal.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    But why would there be? At this point, probably a handful of Cubs employees, A couple of people at MLB, and maybe not even the Japanese team yet know what the Cubs bid was. Perhaps nobody is talking the Cubs, because the Cubs aren't talking to them. Personally I don't think the Cubs won, but that isn't because no random reporters are talking about them. Well, we got Ian Stewart, and there were serious rumors. We got David DeJesus, and there were serious rumors. The lack of serious rumors doesn't preclude it, but it means "Not the Cubs" is the odds-on bet.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Few days ago it was Toronto, now it's Texas as the favorites. So nobody knows who has won. I'm betting on "Not the Cubs." Why because no idiot reporter has guessed the Cubs yet? Or because Nick whatever his name is has a pulse on the Cubs? If anything, the fact that randomly that the Blue Jays were almost unanimously anointed winners for several days and now all the sudden the 'smart money' is on another team should give even more evidence that these bozos don't know what the hell they are talking about. Because absolutely, positively nothing indicates that it *is* the Cubs except a vague BN report that we "wouldn't be surprised" if we won. And because taking the field against the Cubs is an odds bet.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Few days ago it was Toronto, now it's Texas as the favorites. So nobody knows who has won. I'm betting on "Not the Cubs."
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    That team is so bad that it's going to take several offseasons to fix it. 1. Trade Garza and Marshall in three team deal for Rizzo, Perez, Olt + another prospect 2. Trade Marmol to Angels for Hank Conger + (pitchers like Garrett Richards and Daniel Tillman) 3. Trade Soto to Dodgers for Jerry Sands 4. Play out 2012 5. Sign Cole Hamels: 5/100 6. Sign John Danks 5/75 7. Sign Matt Cain 5/75 You head into 2013 with a rotation of Hamels, Cain, Danks, Perez and McNutt. Young cornerstones in Stewart/Olt, Castro, Rizzo, Jackson, Conger and Sands. If Stewart is good, you trade Olt for another outfielder. If he flames out, you have Olt. You now have one of the best rotation in the National League, along with one of the best young cores and still plenty of money to spend. The Cardinals get a year older, the Reds lose Votto, and the Brewers lose Greinke and Marcum. That offense scores 550 runs. Maybe the pitching can make that hold up, though.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    still not as bad as ian stewart's. I wonder if there are any other sub .550 ops guys out there the cubs would be interested in. Buy Low
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