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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    My two year old has threatened to hold his breath until he dies *and* hate me forever if he does not receive additional cookies at snack time. I don't want him to die or hate me forever, so clearly he has the leverage on me. About meathead fan reaction, Ricketts gives as many metaphorical poops as Truffle does real ones. If Ricketts cared about that stuff, Hendry would have been fired two years ago, Sandberg would be the manager and Soriano would be released.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Too much is being read into how long this is taking. This thing has a ridiculous number of moving parts. Just trying to piece together what's going on from the reports, Epstein has a list of people he wants to bring with him. So the Cubs have to agree to give up prospects, the Red Sox have to agree to take the prospects, the Red Sox have to agree to let the other personnel go, and the other personnel have to agree to go.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd probably cave on McNutt too. Which is why I'm glad Ricketts owns the team and not me.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    More SoSH eavesdropping fun: I notice the frustration coming mostly from one side in this, imo, which tells me exactly which fan base is realistically assessing the situation and which one is reading their own team's metaphorical press releases.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    My guess is that if we're hearing about a market inefficiency in an SI piece, several teams have already gotten the biggest gains there are out of it, and several more teams are trying to catch up.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The vast majority of those managerial decisions, even in the 8th and 9th inning, are just deciding between 51/49 scenarios where the difference is not great even over the course of an entire season. Pitcher management is the only thing I'd worry about.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Drain their brain. Make a Front Office Superteam. All of a sudden, working for the Cubs is going to be the cool thing to do among young, smart executives. When a lot of talent starts flowing in one direction, people want to be a part of it to prove that they should be considered on that level.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is Ricketts really going to go before the Cubs fan base and say he couldn't get our Savior because of a bad defensive SS and a .500 pitcher?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I read them purely for the entertainment value. There's no need right now. We have teams being eliminated from the postseason, including a division rival. Misery porn > stupidity porn.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    IMO, 75% chance this gets "done" today, with done being counted as at least media reports saying it is done.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://isittuesday.co.uk/
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Using B-R's franchise transactions page, I come up with Todd Wellenmeyer, Angel Pagan, Jason Marquis, Michael Wuertz, Al Aburquerue, Ted Lilly. Not exactly a list I'm crying over.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Something's value isn't determined that way. You have to look at scarcity. Epstein's marginal value is how much he brings over the next best candidate, not how much better he is than Jim Hendry.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    The ratio of intelligent posters to meatheads over at SoSH is pretty weak for a forum that is invite-only based on intelligent posting in some stupid sub-forum. It's pretty tilt-inducing. In summary: Everything that can possibly be interpreted in a way that benefits Boston must be interpreted that way, regardless of how absurd it sounds. Longer summary:
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Both sides come out uncomfortable but not destroyed by backing out now. The whole "One side or the other has all the leverage" stuff is just coming from meathead fanbois.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Very amused at Boston fans telling Cubs fans that Cubs fans are wrong about how Cubs fans feel about the idea of the Cubs walking away.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Here's what this is really about: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2011/10/15/theo_epstein_compensation_talks_drag_on/
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    You have to apply the common sense test here. Let's presume for a minute that the whole "Tarnishing their reputation" thing is a Cubs-fan concoction and future young, bright executives will have no problem with going to work for a team that will hold their career hostage if there were an opportunity for advancement. The Red Sox would still have to eat $6.5 million to make Epstein sit out for a year. There are two options here: 1) The Red Sox are willing to eat $6.5 million over the difference between Josh Vitters and Brett Jackson 2) The Red Sox are posturing to try to squeeze whatever they can out of negotiations. Unless the Red Sox are stupid and insane, No. 2 seems infinitely more likely than No. 1 to me. And I don't think the Red Sox are stupid or insane.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is it too late to retroactively rename my son?
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    +1 for TT being in charge of the negotiations
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    They also have the right to live with the consequences to their reputation of breaking protocol by sinking an executive's ability to take a better position with a different organization while doubling his salary.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is a week old but I just saw it over on SoSH: http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/this-just-in/21145356/gammons-mm-francona-really-beaten The Red Sox were never going to give up Youkilus for Beane, as has often been stated and used as a baseline for what the Cubs might give up for Epstein.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    This is going to be just like the actual agreement. Lots of speculation, much of it contradictory, lots of emo drama about "will he or won't he come to the Cubs." On Monday, we had reports of every possible distinction and the consensus was that it might take all week before we knew. On Tuesday night, we found out he'd agreed. There's going to be lots of drama and emo speculation about whether or not compensation will make it all fall apart, and how this will go well into next week, and then suddenly the deal will be done.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    You don't think he cares how tickets sell in 2012 just because he knows eventually they will sell? I don't think he's going to flinch on something like this because he's worried about fan reaction to it.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I do not trust you.
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