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if you had time to sit and prepare for the pitch, sure, but the video seemed to show the batter getting the info just before the pitcher goes into windup. There's not a whole lotta time to adjust to a pitch at the point, and thats where it can be detrimental to the batter rather then helpful. The o...

...... it's very difficult to overstate what an insane advantage it is to be essentially told the pitches if you had time to sit and prepare for the pitch, sure, but the video seemed to show the batter getting the info just before the pitcher goes into windup. There's not a whole lotta time to adju...

No setting up a system with cameras in your home park so you can instantly relay signs to a hitter is capital C cheating. I'm not even sure there's a huge benefit(lots of hitters have said they don't even want that information), but when you're systematically getting it in a way that isn't possible...

So if we're doing a whole "retool not rebuild" thing, what are the potential options? I see five...am I missing any? 1. Trade Willson 2. Trade Q 3. Trade Schwarber 4. Trade Heyward 5. Trade KB I think #1 is clearly the most attractive, as doing a whole Willson/Grandal swap is something th...

For the record, I don't want anyone anally raped in prison or any place else. Rape is not cool. I was just thinking about the Ricketts again at lunch and got angrier. They own an entire city block of retail, hotel, and apartments around Wrigley, Wrigley, the Cubs, TD Ameritrade, and God knows what ...

I have been curious about this, just as a fun topic and interested to hear if others would scoff at this. Taking into account service time and arbitration contracts, etc., would you trade any two Cubs players for Juan Soto? Which I guess would mean would you trade KB and Javy for Soto? I'm thinking ...

Brian wrote:

How exactly should this take 'months'?

I'm imagine this would make it difficult to trade him.

We bypassed a couple of guys everybody seems to want to hire a guy no other organization showed the remotest interest in even interviewing. Given the organization's track record over the past three years, it seems only natural to be a bit uneasy about that. Didn't he interview with the Twins last y...

I'm pretty much always in favor of labor over ownership IRL, but always in pro sports. If the Cubs lose a year of control, so be it. I'm cool with that short term pain if it can somehow contribute to structural change. I feel like I'm a good person. Sometimes I feel bad that I don't care at all abo...

I have to be 100 percent honest: I hope we have him for two more seasons and not one. Not one part of me hopes he wins this hearing.

I will accept being called names.

UMFan83 wrote:Brewers are about to go 17-2 in their last 19 games with more than half of them without their MVP bat. Such a stupid season

And if this score holds up, they will have allowed three or fewer runs in 15 of those games. What the ever living horsefeathers is going on here?

horsefeathers them so hard.

He also has missed multiple games due to the knee earlier this month and will likely miss the last six with an ankle injury. The guy is banged up a lot, that's all. You can do this kind of injury listing for pretty much anyone, probably mostly worse. Bottom line he's played 147 games this year mini...

Not career threatening. But for two months now he's had a knee that has apparently hurt his production. That's coming off a season in which he had a bad shoulder for like four months. The Cubs aren't going to trade him, but they are going to try. This knee thing is a whole different level from the ...

Outside of the shoulder thing, and he has a 5 fWAR season this year saying it's behind him, what other career threatening injuries has Bryant had? Please add and don't subtract former MVPs in their 20s Not career threatening. But for two months now he's had a knee that has apparently hurt his produ...

I don't want to be annoying so I promise I won't say this every time it comes up, but every proposal that includes trading Bryant I have to scream into a pillow to avoid deleting out of spite. It is a bad idea and you should feel bad for considering it, you very bad people you. He's forever trapped...

I would for sure be down with getting Betts, but also more, for the extra year of Bryant.

No we are not “screwed.” That sequence of moves is so unlikely, just not realistic. The problem isn’t the core, the core is still pretty damn good. The problem is the margins and complimentary pieces to supplement what the core lacks, which can be addressed in the offseason. You just don’t blow it ...

What good does Bryant for Betts even do besides subtract an MVP candidate to replace him with one hitting FA after the season? How is Bryant's 26-27 any different from Rendon's 25-26 outside of being way better? Well, it's more replacing Bryant with Rendon but then also getting another star for KB....

The 4 best SP, the best reliever, and 4 position players(3 of them stars) are basically chiseled in concrete, it’s gonna feel familiar unless you start making trades for the sake of trades. The reckoning starts one way or another after next year, when you have half the rotation plus Rizzo out of co...

The 4 best SP, the best reliever, and 4 position players(3 of them stars) are basically chiseled in concrete, it’s gonna feel familiar unless you start making trades for the sake of trades. The reckoning starts one way or another after next year, when you have half the rotation plus Rizzo out of co...

Here's my first go of it C- Vic 1B- Rizzo 2B- Nico SS- Javy 3B- KB LF- Schwarbs CF- Heyward RF- Nick Bench: Margot (CF), Fraizer 2B/OF, Bote IF, Kemp IF/OF, Castro/Martin C Pitchers (13) Rotation: Lester Darvish Hendricks Gray Q Bullpen Kimbrel Wick Estevez Ryan Wieck Phelps Underwood Mills Underwo...

Also, I feel like Cole Hamels has cost himself years and millions of dollars with his injury-riddled second half.

I brought this up last week, but Yu can opt out of his contract after the season if he wants. I still don't see it happening, but he's making things interesting for himself.

Tryptamine wrote:Even if he somehow only gets a short sentence, I can't see MLB ever allowing him to step on the field again. Pretty huge blow to the Pirates.

You might have too much faith in professional sports.

When I say his last name, I say it as Horner. Like Bob Horner. I bet that's not the way it is actually said, therefore I'm not saying in out loud yet. Let me know.