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Well for $3 I guess we could take a chance in 2020. Regular price, 3 bucks, 3 bucks, 3 bucks.

If he actually remains a Cub, I can’t imagine he will be with the team at spring training. They’ll avoid the media attention as much as possible. He will likely have an “extended spring trading” during the first 40 games of the regular season. Is that how PED suspensions at the beginning of the season are handled?

sir we're at yikescon1 I'm pretty sure airing of grievences on social media is excused during the festivus season.

Wrong. Nothing has ever happened and never will. This offseason is a black hole of signings.

I just pretend Heyward gives half his annual salary to Rizzo out of guilt. It makes me feel much better.

Back-up shortstop to start the season until Russell is off suspension.

Mine too. This is proof they were right.

Hi, Mark!

I can't imagine a big spending GM/owner getting all hot and bothered about missing out on a free agent to the White Sox. This isn't Steinbrenner and the Red Sox or Mets in the 90s/00s. I don’t think it’s the threat of losing him to the White Sox, it’s putting out a team that has money as being really interested to drive up the price and expedite the process possibly. The White Sox get to act like they’re relevant to their fans to drive interest because they were in on a premier FA and “are close to being relevant.” Their season ticket renewals are probably due around now, doesn’t hurt to dangle the Harper/Machado apple out there for fans to renew under the assumption something big might happen. While I agree this makes sense, I can’t imagine the Sox doing it if there was ANY chance they would ultimately lose out to the Cubs. Any other team, yes. But losing to the Cubs is not the happy ending you describe.

Which doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things because if they don't move another $20+ million this will be their 3rd consecutive year over and the penalties start getting really ridiculous. EDIT: And they just blew most of that on Joe Kelly. The Dodgers were under the tax line last year. Only Boston and Washington spent above the CBT. This has to change in the next CBA, right? This system encourages high spending teams to spend less every other year.

In 1930 he had 0 HRs and only struck out 3 times. His BA and BABIP nearly one and the same.

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Can't imagine their fnancial situation is much more accommodating than the Cubs. Yeah, I don’t get this.

Deal? Theo; “You can just have Chatwood. Really! Merry Christmas!” Seriously though, how does it count towards luxury tax numbers if the Cubs trade Chatwood and pay, say, half his salary?

No idea what will happen but I wouldnt doubt if Bryce definitely wants to be a Cub. I met and talked alot of baseball with Harper once. He did say him and KB talk about being in the same lineup "all the time"... this was 2 summers ago. There's no doubt. He wants to play with KB. He wants a legitimate chance at a championship. He wants the deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford covered three feet deep in $100 bills. If he can get all three here, he wants to be a Cub.

little bit of both. Yeah. Little bit of both.

I will never be able to hate the ricketts’. I was a fan under tribune ownership.

It's not really a bounceback deal. The Blue Jays are eating his entire salary. Wherever he signs, it will be for the $500k league minimum with the Blue Jays making up the rest for the next two years. So it's more a question of what team offers him the best opportunity for him to continue playing. I think the Cubs could be reasonably high up that list. We have a lot of roster flexibility, so he only needs to play when he's feeling up to it. There's plenty of other big names on this team, so nobody would expect much of him. They could just slot him in at SS 2-3 times per week and bat him 7th or 8th and let him work his way back on his own schedule. Good clubhouse atmosphere and a team that should definitely compete. There's a lot to like. This is the perfect opportunity for the cubs and they should do it RIGHT NOW. The league minimum salary doesn't change their finances enough to give the team taking Russell off our hands any more leverage (as if they don't have enough already). Then you can shed Russell's salary and issues and free up money for Harper. Do it.

Enough Harold Baines talk! Lee Smith is a stinkin hall of famer. One of my earliest childhood memories was the day I learned the n-word. My grandfather moved over from Scotland and had a thick Scottish brogue. When the cubs would get into trouble in the 8th he would yell as only a Scotsman can “Brrrring in the big N—.” Grandpa understood high-leverage situations much better than he understood human equality. He was old-world blue collar (a tank mechanic in the British army during WW2), it was 1983 and I was 6. Grandpa loved Lee Smith. This second round draft pick meant hope for the future. He loved the Cubs. It was better than having to hear about those bloody Irish. He’d put the rabbit ears up on the tv in his garage to catch WGN (in South Bend, IN) and sit with his pipe and his beer and watch the game shirtless every afternoon after getting off from the factory at 2:30. He usually only caught the last few innings, but that was fine by him, that when his favorite player, Smitty, pitched. My mother was second generation, rejected her heritage and embraced this crazy thing we Americans call civil rights. She didn’t know grandpa shared his vocabulary and his Miller with me. Lee Smith is a legend from my childhood. I admired his raw strength, his sweaty brow, his max effort delivery, and that he was something good about a 5th place Cubs team. The next year he saved 33 games and the season. Lee Smith made me a Cubs fan. He was also instrumental in causing me ask, “mommy what does n- mean,” just before getting my mouth washed out with soap. Grandpa passed 8 years ago yesterday, but he would be happy to know that his favorite player made it to the hall.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/drillers/pro-baseball-cubs-hire-drillers-hitting-coach-terrmel-sledge/article_40143101-68ed-5e17-84fe-1e6d9730f083.html Home run records? Now those are three words I haven’t heard in very long time.

Yeah apples to oranges. Give numbers from December 10 last year. What he’s saying may be true but the numbers are disingenuous.

this post could go in basically every thread ever made here every thread except your four fastest you mean eta also this ftw

I think you mean “spoiled and undercooked.”

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Unfortunately it appears the Cat has been outed https://twitter.com/hotcubstakes/status/1071861432445272066?s=21 I cant believe I googled Barry Manilow Vegas to try and verify if something named CharlestheCat was lying about being in Vegas. But, I did.. and Manilow had a return tour in Vegas through October and is back again in 2019.. so a Manilow advertisement is very lucky. So CtheCat still good, and Harper to Cubs done deal is what this means. Same here. Lol. Seems this cat has 9 lives. Although, the shows in 2019 are not at the Paris. Although, that would be a good place to advertise them. Someone help. I care way too much about this, even for a snowy Sunday afternoon.