PackLandVA
-
Posts
4,367 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by PackLandVA
-
Every time I hear “gold glove LFer Ian Happ”, I’m befuddled. Every ball hit to him looks like it’s an adventure. -
Aaron Judge crushed the second pitch he saw over the CF wall. Picking right up where he left off in 2022.
-
Not Cubs related but Aaron Judge just crushed an 0-1 pitch over the CF wall. Picking up where he left off 2022.
-
Any of you have the annual “Little League Parade” where teams decorated pickups. Nothing like cramming 12-14 in the bed of a pickup and driving around town.
-
I always wonder how significant it for the players adjusting overnight to temperature extremes. Grant it, the weather out here in AZ has been much cooler than normal. But to go from sunshine and upper 60s / low 80s to the crap weather in Wrigleyville….upper 40s, ugh!,
-
The Packers GM actually stated earlier this week that the Packers do not need a First Round pick to complete the trade. I think the Jets and Packers brass know exactly how this will unfold (for the most part), but feel no need to make it public. What I’ve read is the Jets want some type of “trade back” from the Packers if AR only plays one season. It’s really all just speculation at this point.
-
Game Thread Sign-ups: March-April 2023
PackLandVA replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I’ll give it a go, although I may need a reminder. I was full of suckage the last time I played along. -
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
-
If the Angels are actually shopping him at the deadline, that to me would assume they’re “out” when it comes to his next contract. Given that, I could see a scenario where they get a haul, but not necessarily an historical haul. If they know they can’t/won’t sign him, to get a great package in a trade might be appealing instead of getting nothing by holding out out for the best deal (which may never come).
-
The algorithms come for us all eventually. That’s what that one line from Nolan’s The Dark Knight was about probably I have found Olberman to be a smug, arrogant lecturer pretty much the entire time he’s had a public voice.
-
WBC Championship Game Thread
PackLandVA replied to CubinNY's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
That was two terrible approaches to ABs by Realmuto and Mullins. You have the fastest guy in baseball on first base with one out as the tying run and the next two hitters swing at first pitches. Seriously??? -
Cubs / Reds cancelled. In the 4th inning. Due to rain. In Arizona. In Phoenix. Who’da thunk?.?
-
Don’t the validity to this, but I’ve heard a contract can’t be renegotiated in the first year. AR signed his extension one year ago today. Jets May need his contract renewed/extended order to create the cap space to take on his contract. And that couldn’t be done prior to today. If true, makes sense.
-
Caissie with a line drive RBI single to right in his first WBC AB. Mervis did the same (minus the RBI) earlier today. Two really hard hit balls.
-
USA is stacked offensively and defensively, and relief pitching looks pretty solid. But if they fail to make/win the WBC, I think it will be due to their very pedestrian starting pitching. Wainright, Mikolas, and Lynn don’t really do it for me. I do like Merrill Kelly, though.
-
So I guess it’s an upset, but Venezuela just pretty much handled the D.R. 5-1.
-
2023 Spring Training Games Thread
PackLandVA replied to Bertz's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Wesneski with 4 innings (so far), 12 up, 12 down with 4 K against Dodgers SS. -
Stroman starts Puerto Rico's opening game and goes 4.2 with 2 Ks, 0 BB, 2 H, 1 HR, 1 ER.
-
Just a reminder for anyone who may have missed it, I posted this in a different thread: Here's a link: https://www.techhive.com/article/627464/save-50-bucks-on-mlb-tv-with-this-hidden-deal.html I received the email link within a few days and everything works just ducky!
-
Jung-Hoo Lee may not get much more of an opportunity as Sout Korea is 0-2 so far. Not completely certain of the tie breakers for their pool, but having already lost to 2-0 Australia, they may be eliminated already. My guess is his still be highly sought after in next year's FA class.
-
Was watching a little bit of Korea/Australia and they brought up Lee and him possibly being the “next big thing” in MLB.
-
This is absolute nonsense thinking from a fan perspective. The fan has nothing but upside in this scenario. If he doesn’t live up to the contract the owner eats it and you start looking for a qb again, something you’ve already been desperately doing for decades. My opinion has nothing to do with who "eats" the bad contract (if that's the case). It has more to do with having a huge contract tied up on a player with an injury history in a league with a hard salary cap. Directly impacts the composition of the rest of the roster.
-
I agree he’s a helluva talent. And by the comparing numbers, he’s certainly worth a lot in general financial terms.I just don’t know that if I were the Jets or a fan of the Jets, I’d be willing to take on that contract for a guy with his style of play and recent injury history. And for the record, while I think Rodgers would probably make the Jets significantly better/more stable on offense, I don’t believe he is their answer either.
-
And finally an actual meaningful* game! *sort of
-
Netherlands and Cuba in game 1. Cuba has MLBers for first. Time ever. They load the bases with one out (3 BBs and a Robert K) only to hit into an inning ending DP. Who the hell has the car horn and why is it allowed.
