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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    yeah, we showed those potential world series champions who's boss! SUCK IT LOSERS The Best Fans In Baseball can't really enjoy this, knowing yet again they are going to sneak away with an undeserved title as the worst team in the playoffs. It just feels hollow to them.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Man, it must suck to be a Cardinals fan right now and have to deal with this.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Score is butthurt that they are getting scooped on all this, and are now ripping Kaplan for "Not saying anything different but framing it in a different way" and have used that as a chance to launch into a rant about ... Crane Kenney. Changing the station.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. That's a weird thing. You are weird.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is that 720?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mentally pronounce it "Bane-uh-don."
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    So I take it you are up to 45%?
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Just listened to a 670 scoreboard update and no mention of Epstein being in town already. I'm pretty sure they'd be repeating that each update if they had it.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm one step ahead of you.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I haven't lived in New York in six years. I haven't lived in CT for six years, either. My name is still Kyle.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I, of course and as always, could be very wrong, but my guess is that all this means the Cubs will not be major players for Fielder or Pujols. It just doesn't seem like the Epstein/Moyer style to do that sort of deal so shortly after taking over. I keep coming back to the due diligence the Red Sox did on Crawford, hiring a PI to follow him months before he became a free agent. Epstein may have had some time to think about the Cubs, but it can't have been that much time. My guess is that their immediate offseason focus is pitching. Trying to make two or three viable MLB starters appear in one offseason is no easy task and may take up most of the available resources.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    What color was the source's shirt?
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Vitters and Chris Carpenter.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Epstein Limbo Day 8 Odds of deal completion: 80% Page goal: 20 Topics of conversation: Chicago media's bizarre reverse boner for Crane Kenney, attempts by the Red Sox to spin the Cubs as incompetent, trying to learn to love Ryne Sandberg.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think "given up" is the right word. He just has to improve his defense, plate discipline and power to become a viable major league starter. He's not exactly close. But the reward if he puts it together is great.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sooooo much internet smugness riding on this not being significant player compensation to Boston. And the other way around.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    huh? Until the WS starts.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Taking the most backward organization in the majors and turning it into the most advanced is a part-time job.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Die in a fire.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I just think this has more to do with gymnastics for titles for everyone involved than it does for actual duties. I doubt they're paying Theo all that money to not make all of those types of calls. And there's no way they won't be collaborating on all remotely significant decisions. It seems silly to even suggest otherwise. Like others have said, this seems far more like Paxson/Forman than MacPhail/Lynch. Reads more like MacPhail/Lynch to me. The most attractive part of his resume is his ability to build the organization. We want him commissioning the new Cubs computer system, rebuilding the development system from scratch, writing the Cubs' organizational handbook, etc. I don't care if he's the one who sifts through waiver claims.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Correction: president of baseball operations. Call them what you will, but for all practical purposes, Theo will be GM and Hoyer will be Assistant GM. I don't think that's true. It seems to me that Epstein wants out of the day to day grind of GMing and wants to be able to focus on the bigger picture.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    @SIJonHeyman My sources confirm that feces may not or may have been thrown during negotiations today.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    This thread epitomizes all that is wrong with NSBB these days. http://www.glogster.com/media/6/41/13/43/41134341.jpg
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bruce Levine claims a "source" says the Cubs would be able to have a press conference announcing a new executive during the World Series off days. http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7123358/chicago-cubs-announce-theo-epstein-hire-world-series
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The fact that this is probably not what is happening proves we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
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