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10/2 Marlins (Sanchez) vs. Cubs (Darvish) 1:08 CDT
Bull replied to Derwood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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So PTR is now Good Guy Greg?
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Did you read the article, or just the clickbait headline? Its obvious that the reporter used the word "worried" and Ross "admitted" he was enough to pull him. "another at bat, something serious happens and he's done for the season." Awful reporting and you're awful for posting it. edit: and moreso for associating the great scoob with it.
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Oh, conveniently cutting it off to exclude Zambrano? NOT COOL. Na. Very cool. I feel like this acknowledges how much better Z was than anyone ever. He's the moment in history from which you measure time.
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This sure doesn't feel like a 95 win season.
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He really needs to be hitting 2nd or 3rd in this order Don’t move him and horsefeathers him up again like last year. Yeah, he doesn’t need to move up, our 2 and 3 hitters need to get their crap together.
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Yeah they’ve turned in to a good group here. And if anything they have a really nice core that might not need a ton of resources spent on it next year outside of a vet Jeffress type deal. Kimbrel/Wick/Tepera/Underwood/some combo of the 3 lefties (Ryan/Osich/Wieck), Adam, and then internal guys like Adbert/Miller/Callaway/Megill/Rodriguez/Steele/Mills. They shouldn’t need to really spend money on the pen. Nothing has gone as expected this season, except Lester getting old and Almora being Almora. And oddly enough the record. Hitting was supposed to be awesome instead of awful, rotation a question mark and bullpen booty. Everything backward, yet same net result. Funny game, this.
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I know you have to take 2of3 at home, but this felt more like a relief than a reasonably expected result. Even in a blowout.
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William’s older brother is good.
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They say “on the Rockies opening day roster” as if its an improvement on his previous situation.
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Jose was my favorite Cub at the time, but even back then it was obviously an awesome trade. Jose Hernandez was your favorite Cubs player on a team that had Sammy Sosa, Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, good CPatt, Big Z, etc? I mean, your favorite could be whoever but that's weird as hell lol He was the strikeout king before striking out was cool.
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Does tonight’s game get its own thread or go here?
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Our bodies only remain immune to the three coronaviruses that cause common cold (some 30% of common colds, I think) for 18 months. So probably not. Obvious disclaimer, we have no idea if that is true for this one which is so much different From those three in so many other ways, but this is probably with us until a (yearly) vaccine comes along. This virus is like MERS and, obviously, SARS, and immunity to those lasts years. That’s ... encouraging
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No, just wishfully thinking I'd guess At the rate people are getting infected lately, maybe we'll hit that fabled mid-20s percent rate and it'll start burning out by then. Pathetically, that might be our best hope. Our bodies only remain immune to the three coronaviruses that cause common cold (some 30% of common colds, I think) for 18 months. So probably not. Obvious disclaimer, we have no idea if that is true for this one which is so much different From those three in so many other ways, but this is probably with us until a (yearly) vaccine comes along.
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Same here. I got back in line at the back :(
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"You're going to look back in 30-40 years and say there was only one Shoshei Ohtani" I feel like this is true but not in the way the author maybe meant. I think it's going to be true in a Glenallen Hill, Rob Deer, Aroldis Chapman, Dwight Gooden, even Kerry Wood kind of way rather than a Barry Bonds, Mike Trout, Nolan Ryan kind of way. I don't think his crazy skills will translate into counting stat greatness or even a long enough period of rate-stat greatness for history to take notice. Like I'll be sitting in my hovering rocking chair sipping on imitation iced tea supplement 42 and I'll start jabbering about Shoshei Ohtani. My grandkids will stick their heads out of the hatch of their sensory immersion game cube (trademark) buried in the floor and say, "who?", and my son will say, "honey, time to give the old man his morphine/propofol patch. He's babbling again". I'll fade off into a hallucination of my personal field of dreams as I crap myself.
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Yeah, but what if he is....? We could trade him at the deadline and sneak under that luxury tax threshold.
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Michael Cerami makes a solid point on Cubs talk podcast (Jeff Nelson filling in for Kaplan). He says the Cubs will either win less than 75 or more than 95. If they're in the middle of the pack they will be sellers to get under the tax cap and position them to spend 2021. We all know the impact of three-peat luxury tax offense. I'm not sure I agree with him in the final analysis. I think the guys that step in for Heyward, Chatwood, Willy or even Bryant will not be bad enough to turn an 85 win team into a 75 win team over the last two months of the season. But if you adjust that to either over 90 wins or under 80, I think he has a point.
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I recognize all the individual words. I'm just having trouble seeing how they connect to each other.
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Every time I see a new post in this thread I think there’s been a trade. /s
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I wonder how much of it is finally getting face-to-face time. Like teams and agents work through the broad strokes of a deal throughout the offseason, but it doesn't get finished until the player and team are in a room together. Another thing is that most players cut off negotiations at the start of the season. Baseball execs love nothing more than doing jack horsefeathers until the moment before they absolutely have to. It also has a lot to do with the timing of arbitration hearings. Which timing is AWFUL. They need to do arb near the beginning of the offseason so that teams know what they're dealing with.
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This would require billions of dollars in booth renovations. No money to field a winning team until 2095.
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Pitchers don't suck at hitting because they don't work on it enough, they suck at it because hitting his hard and pitching gets better and better. Scrappy McJunkball could scratch out a hit or two against the scrubs that pitched in yesteryear, not because he put in the time and effort. Except that in high school (and travel ball), the pitchers are often also the best hitters, because they're the best athletes on the team. So pitchers don't inherently suck at hitting, they just get asked to stop doing it the second they turn pro It’s not because they get asked to stop doing it, it’s because they face world class hurlers instead of that guy from River City high. It’s the same reason Michael Jordan couldn’t hit. Just because you the best ever at shooting a large inflated ball into a metal hoop, doesn’t mean you can hit a small hard ball with a stick at an world class level. Pitching is an entirely different skill than hitting.
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Cubs Manager Search (Ross to be hired - Kaplan)
Bull replied to Cubswin11's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Pro Trading Kris Bryant Because It's Dumb And We're Bored Trading kRis Is Bad and Ultimately iNEffectual TRIBUNE