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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/blue_jays_believed_to_outbid_yankees_2iwMCIwJ1gcFbjA9QYntaM Basically, everyone but Theo is comparing bids behind the scenes and the Blue Jays seem to be the highest, but the Cubs are doing their thing where they don't tell nobody nothin', so we still don't really know.
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    If they don't make serious run at him they are punting 2012. So if the Mariners or Blue Jays offer 9/225, what do you do? Punt or sign a stupid contract?
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    So Fielder is about to be a Boras client who is also the last major piece available in a market where a lot of teams seem to have money available? The odds of getting him on a reasonable contract are virtually nil.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Toronto is a pretty diverse multi-cultural city. It's not Kansas City. But it's still Canada. Lucky guy.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cafardo would likely have an Epstein connection. But, like all offseason reports, who knows where he heard it, and even if he did hear it from somewhere inside, then who knows if the source was lying or not.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Twitter consensus is that the Toronto Blue Jays won and that an announcement is going to come by the end of the night. No idea if that means anything or not, but that's the buzz.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Most of those guys can also hit.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    There's a tangible benefit. Theo obviously doesn't want the rest of the league (agents and teams) to know what he's going to do. Keep all options open while you negotiate what you want. Keep fans interested in the names they hear. This would hardly be the first time the Cubs showed interest in the top names all winter only to come away with something else. It's practically Cubs Marketing 101 (while acquiring your biggest piece before the convention is Cubs Marketing 201). Coming in 2nd or 3rd in every major free agent bidding is also known as the MacPhail Doctrine.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Erik Bedard got 1/$4.5. Zambrano at 1/$3.6 would cause Hoyer to exceed the monthly texting limit on his cell phone plan* because of all the other GMs just spamming him with "Yes!" messages. * - He has a cell phone with a text plan because he seems to still think he's in SD and has to be frugal.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    This. I figure there are two options. 1) It's not really true. 2) Zambrano really did do something truly heinous that the Cubs kept under wraps in the media but somehow all of MLB knows about. I can't think of what that would be. I'm going with 1.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's crazytalk. If that's the case, we're lucky to be in a league with so many dumb GMs. It's only crazy if they think we've bottomed out the price. If they think waiting a bit longer could get him to come even cheaper then they're doing the right thing. Not really. Because they have to worry about the other 28 teams taking him. Zambrano at $3.6 million is a super-duper steal. That's a fantastic bargain. You can't risk waiting to try to drive it down another million because you certainly have to assume that someone else will take it if you don't.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    The only hard fact that we have to this point is that the Cubs were unable to sign Pujols. A report that we made a substandard offer isn't a hard fact, it's a report. For all we know, the Cubs may have offered 10/270 thinking that would be enough and the Angles barely won the bidding. With the very, very limited amount of actual, real information we have that we can count on, almost any hypothesis could seem somewhat reasonable. My reason for jumping into this, however, was to ask why you thought Theo would float out rumors that we were interested in Pujols/Prince/Darvish when we really weren't. Drive up the price of those players on rivals, keep a perceived position of strength in trades. Why would he sneak outside in a gorilla suit or lie to red sweater guy at Starbucks? Man likes his secret-agent games.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's crazytalk. If that's the case, we're lucky to be in a league with so many dumb GMs.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think we are, too. I just think the hard facts we have this offseason equally fit alternative hypotheses. The biggest reason I'd say it doesn't make sense is that the Cubs would be risking the torching of their own revenue stream. Bad teams don't make as much money as good teams.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    So the widely reported offer to Pujols, bid on Darvish, and interest in Fielder is just an elaborate smokescreen? Would we put that past Epstein? Even if we take every one of those reports at face value, which given Epstein's love of sending out mixed signals isn't something we should do, then what have we got? A very substandard offer to Pujols that he knew wasn't going to be accepted, an unknown bid on Darvish and "interest" in Fielder. That's not exactly writing a check. You sound like a truther. There's actual evidence against the truthers. Tons of it. So far, the Cubs' biggest offseason acquisition is a McDonald's. I'm not saying the Cubs really are going with a super-cheap payroll. I'm saying that rumors of substandard Pujols offers don't contradict it.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then we also need to start accepting the fact that we aren't going to be good for the next 4-5 years if that's the case. i said 2012, not beyond. of course it could just be that they're operating in extreme stealth mode and maybe we'll get fielder and/or darvish, but i've gotten the feeling for a while now that they aren't going to make any serious attempt on 2012. when it started becoming apparent that they were actually shopping garza, i kind of lost hope for next year. If you do that for 2012, you enter the offseason of 2013 with a very bad roster with a whole lot of holes to fill. You are looking at 2014 at the earliest, and possibly even longer than that.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    What's the benefit to Theo and the Cubs to feign interest in Pujols, Prince, and Darvish if we have none? It's not like the Marlins, where fans need to be appeased - Cub fans by and large are going to have faith in Theo's plan, at least early on, no matter what that plan is. The reported interest in Pujols did seem token, as you stated, and that likely wouldn't have seriously driven up his cost to the Cardinals. The Brewers had no shot at Prince whether we feigned interest or not. The Blue Jays and Rangers were the perceived leaders for Darvish from the start and there's no real benefit to the Cubs if they pay a little more for him - especially if the plan is to suck for the next few years. I just don't see a benefit to us by feigning interest. Helps us deal Garza without seeming desperate to move him? I'm not saying it makes a ton of sense. I'm just saying "Half of the contradictory rumors flying around have the Cubs seeming willing to spend money but not enough to actually get any players" doesn't strike me as a counterpoint.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Crisp as a CF has tons of short-term upside. As a LFer seems weird to me.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Then we also need to start accepting the fact that we aren't going to be good for the next 4-5 years if that's the case. And we'll waste millions on guys like DeJesus and Crisp in the process. Not to mention the many, many millions in lost revenue that comes with being a bad team for too many years in a row.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    So the widely reported offer to Pujols, bid on Darvish, and interest in Fielder is just an elaborate smokescreen? Would we put that past Epstein? Even if we take every one of those reports at face value, which given Epstein's love of sending out mixed signals isn't something we should do, then what have we got? A very substandard offer to Pujols that he knew wasn't going to be accepted, an unknown bid on Darvish and "interest" in Fielder. That's not exactly writing a check.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    They've got to want to see Darvish against big league competition before pulling the trigger on a deal like that. The rotation isn't exactly stocked as it is. They trade Garza - Darvish blows - Zambrano -?????. Dempster isn't getting younger. That'd be a whole whack of question marks. Nobody's a guarantee. Everybody's a question mark. Garza could blow his arm out. Or he could just go back to what he was before last season. Based on everything we know about Darvish, he should be awesome. That's enough for me.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I guess the Nippon Ham team's acceptance isn't official until the end of four business days.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I absolutely think he's considered that, but that's not *the* reason or anything.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Japanese team is only told the amount of the highest bid and given a yes or no. They don't have the option of taking any other bids.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    For around $60m plus another $50-70m to sign him I hope we didn't. 6/$130? Yeah, if I had to.
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