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You know I gotta say I'm kinda sad that Matheny is gone, and now we have the idiot manager that says dumb horsefeathers all the time.

I didn't think this would happen with Maddon in charge...

Duke Silver wrote:New Face of the Franchise.

You know Tom still probably loves the guy because he went to horsefeathering Duke.

CaliforniaRaisin wrote:https://twitter.com/tedcahill/status/1097323688465031168?s=21

Tough break (literally). I'm assuming it's his throwing hand/wrist right?

This injury will affect his power numbers, but it shouldn't affect his defense (I think), which is his calling card.

JudasIscariotTheBird wrote:Those are the words of a compromised man.

Compromised or just lacking integrity? The path he's taken from critic to Trump loyalist is disconcerting and sad. I'd like to say I'm shocked...

https://mobile.twitter.com/BenLindbergh/status/1096456617841881089 Injuries, changes in pitcher usage, and a heightened awareness of prospect-success rates have shifted the way talent evaluators view the best up-and-coming arms in baseball. Good thing for Theo & company because we really don't h...

The man has no filter. He can't stop from blathering things that are damaging to his objective. I can't stand listening to that idiot. I overheard 30 seconds of his presser today. He's like a rambling old man who loves to hear the sound of his own voice, no matter the crap coming out. He's like a r...

I didn't watch, but it seems like from what you posted and David in the other thread, Mark Gonzales' camera is not the only thing out of focus. https://twitter.com/MDGonzales/status/1096500588320194560 It was pretty bad... I listened to it, and he definitely had scripted answers (someone probably c...

Not a fan of Jim Bowden, but FWIW he's putting out a top 200 list on The Athletic. So far, he's published 101-200. Looks like Amaya will be the only Cub in his top 100. Here are the Cubs listed thus far. (He seems to think Cole Roederer didn't play last year, so let that be an indicator of the qual...

Kevin Made is a Dominican SS with a wiry, athletic frame. Has shown good ability to hit in games despite being skinny and is expected to get a bonus that surpasses $1 million. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoW7xo_Hflb/?utm_source=ig_embed Ben Badler also said the 2019 class is very talented and the m...

https://twitter.com/BleacherNation/status/1095772768220692480 Remember when projections (not necessarily PECOTA but others) had the Cubs winning like 105 games a couple of years ago? pecota is big on framing right? i bet if we swapped out contreras for grandal we'd just to first If framing really i...

I'm hoping (and praying) that Sinclair somehow horsefeathers this up and can't make good on this deal and the Cubs are forced to look for another distributor. It wouldn't be the first time they screwed up...

SAVAGE: https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1095764974834610177 It warms my shriveled heart to see, between this and her response to Trump hilariously calling for her to resign, how she's more than willing to not blink when she gets swarmed by everyone looking to take her down. That was great. Also, n...

yay, actual quality photographs - https://twitter.com/briancassella/status/1095400860161458176 At least Bote's shirt isn't trash. Yeah, it's definitely not trash; it's horsefeathering amazing. I love that shirt. Every Cubs player should have to wear "El Mago" merch/apparel. https://pbs.tw...

I wonder about the prudence of basically committing your full IFA bonus pool for one premium prospect like in the alleged agreements of the NYY and A's with Dominguez and Puason, respectively. You can always trade for more space/pool money I guess, but teams might not cooperate. I don't think I'd wa...

Some of it may be deference to this FO's success in drafting 1st round college bats, but I don't recall any other recently drafted players taken in the range of Nico that debuted in the top 100 of a national publication the next year . I mean, Ian Happ was taken 9th overall in 2015 and was only ran...

Isn't the rule change basically going back to the way it was done before? I could swear I remember a bunch of two sport athletes getting mlb contracts in the past. Yeah, so major league contracts were common for the top prospects (and Scott Boras clients) in the draft going back a few years before ...

Kudos to Sandusky, Ohio.

Kyler Murray chooses football (or at least is making a public show of it). A's really effed that one up. We all knew they messed up. It was super high-risk/high-reward and they got burned. I think you could defend the selection at the end of the 1st round, but not with the #9 pick in last year's ML...

OleMissCub wrote:

Are we sure that's him? He isn't holding a beer.

Some of it may be deference to this FO's success in drafting 1st round college bats, but I don't recall any other recently drafted players taken in the range of Nico that debuted in the top 100 of a national publication the next year . I mean, Ian Happ was taken 9th overall in 2015 and was only ran...

I find it hard to complain about McLeod when the totality of his drafts and signing periods has been pretty stellar. More balance would obviously be nice, but dumping him because he can't develop pitchers would seem to be a real "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" situation. To be ...

I will say that I don't think the NBA is above some lottery tomfoolery to get certain teams high picks. I will go to my grave believing that they gifted the Bulls the #1 pick in the DRose draft, for example. Bulls and Knicks could use some lotto help, hopefully the league obliges. Yeah, it was weir...