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https://twitter.com/mlbastian/status/1119629105727721475?s=21 Horrific 2017-2018 offseason continues There is really no excuse for this one. Chatwood was a calculated risk that didn't work out and Darvish has been an unexpected disappointment, but Morrow was a giant injury red flag from the beginni...

I know it is silly and there are so many bigger things to worry about, but the more I hear about players going to the "IL", the more I hate it. What was wrong with calling it the Disabled List?

This doesn't look like a potential bottleneck at all... https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/media/116255090-132.html Instead of being able to traverse the upper deck by using the wide walkway under the press box (which actually offered a view of the game), now there is a very narrow walkway that run...

Well, good for Bote I guess. He went from essentially a nobody with no MLB future to set for life within the span of a year.

The core is in place... Hendricks, Bote, and Heyward

Kyle's one of my favorite guys on the team, so I'm happy for him that he's getting paid, but I don't love this deal on paper. The idea of guaranteeing money to a guy still two years from FA who already only throws 87-88 seems unwise. I have the same fear. Hi is my favourite pitcher on the team by f...

That's a start. Now trade him for a bag of balls.

Brian wrote:It's looking like the next 5ish years the only free agents will be people currently under contract with the Cubs.

Surely not locking anyone up with an extension will never backfire.

Anyone have the ricketts email to send them a strongly worded letter I wonder if we will see less Tom walking around Wrigley greeting fans this year. It would give me great joy to see him roundly booed when shown on the big screen, but 90% of fans at Wrigley will be oblivious to what has (or hasn't...

Brian wrote:full no trade

In other words, he will pick who he wants to be traded to once he figures out how much he hates Philly.

Single game tickets are on sale now!

Can we get this thread back on topic with more well-deserved owner-bashing?

Oh horsefeathers off Tom. Arbitrarily hard-capping the payroll in the absolute middle of the competitive window for the team's core is ridiculous. An argument could be made that the Cubs didn't feel Harper was a smart investment. That isn't an argument I would agree with, but it is an argument nonet...

rawaction wrote:Portis and Parker for Otto Porter? You kidding me with this? And they give a 2nd. Wtf?

Another Jr. Keep them coming!

The NL DH could happen this year. Yes, please https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1092969842355945472?s=21 I know I'm in the minority, but I still want no part of the DH. It seems strange to me though that they would even be considering such a change less than 2 months from opening day. If and...

I think there is a nonzero chance that all this negative PR could force the Cubs hand into spending money they hadn't intended to spend. It is still unlikely, but a shock signing of Bryce Harper would completely change the narrative. "You screwed up Dad. Now we have to do something to change p...

I think there is a nonzero chance that all this negative PR could force the Cubs hand into spending money they hadn't intended to spend. It is still unlikely, but a shock signing of Bryce Harper would completely change the narrative. "You screwed up Dad. Now we have to do something to change pu...

Imagine trying to convince the version of yourself from the beginning of 2016 that the Cubs would not only win the WS that year, but that barely 2 years later we'd be at this point, despite the WS-winning team and FO mostly intact. I was just thinking about that last night. If you told me the Cubs ...

Joe Maddon wrote:"And just to go out and purchase players to purchase players, you might not be getting better than you already have.”

Come on Joe. This is Bryce horsefeathering Harper we're talking about, not Billy Hamilton.

MLB off-season is the worst. Free agency in the other major sports is largely resolved within a few weeks, but in baseball we have to put up with months of posturing and non-activity. There is no more hot stove. There is only a lukewarm tub of bathwater, while team owners count their growing piles o...

Man, horsefeathers the Ricketts if this doesn't happen. Tom Ricketts puts a friendly public face to ownership that makes it appear like the team is being run by a baseball-first family business, but the reality is they are in it for the money (which they unfortunately spend on some very questionabl...

One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you look at South Amer...

There is only one untouchable on this roster and it is Tommy La Stella.

Checking on the Senate races yet to be called, it looks like they are all likely to go Republican. As much as I hate to say it, Republicans came out on top yesterday. They won basically every close Senate race, which was pretty much their best case scenario. The results also reinforced Trump's influ...

Why are teams going to be inclined to get a trade done sooner if the Cubs are strapped for cash? Like, who is that going to rush along outside of teams trying to swap bad contracts? I just don't get the people who are so adamant why this is some kind if elaborate ruse when there's little to no adva...