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So, are we playing with 2 outfielders this season? Why not? We did when Schwarber was in left. Just kidding. I shouldn’t have done that. You’re in enough pain given your username. Eh, it’s like my fifth name. At this point I should just revert back to Aramis. Sad to see Schwarbs go though. Same. So...

Schwarber Fan wrote:So, are we playing with 2 outfielders this season?

Why not? We did when Schwarber was in left.

Just kidding. I shouldn’t have done that. You’re in enough pain given your username.

SouthSideRyan wrote:Who even cares about Michael Jordan?

Who?

I'm still in shock. losing len hurt me more than any chicago athlete leaving ever has. i guess we all just assumed that he would be here for a very long time. when was the last time the Cubs lost or any other Chicago team lost a real stud in their prime? I was really bothered when the Cubs lost Mad...

I started to make a tongue-in-cheek comment that perhaps the score informed Kasper that the radio pbp job was promised to Zach zaidman when Hughes hangs em up. Couldn’t remember his name exactly. Learned that some pretty gory stuff has happened to people named Zach Zabin and Zach Sabin.

17 Seconds wrote:"officer, just google my name and you'll see exactly who i am"

Baby. Roof.

If the team signing a qualified FA paid the luxury tax in the preceding season, it will lose its second AND fifth-highest picks in the draft (regardless of round), as well as $1M of its international bonus pool in the upcoming period. Ouch. If the team signing a qualified FA did not pay the luxury ...

Nailed it-ish... FORMER Marlins exec Michael Hill should absolutely be on the shortest of short lists of Theo replacements. Maybe the one I'd say the Cubs should dump Theo for now. We already know he can work under meddlesome owners with sinister ulterior motives PTR is just gonna promote the lefto...

The exception is if there's a mandate to cut additional payroll. The ~$25M that trading KB and Willson would save is enough have an adequate offseason in this market. But if PTR says you need to cut like 10+ before you can begin reinvesting anything, then salvaging this offseason quickly becomes un...

Hah, looking at his stats last year, he split time at short with our old friend Addison Russell. As comparison: Kim: .304/.396/.521/.917 27 HR in 554 PA, 11 errors in 84 games Russell: .262/.329/.340/.669 1 HR in 231 PA, 8 errors in 11 games Not sure how Korean League typically translates to MLB, b...

Yeah I'm not sure how insurance works, it just seems like there is something else there because I couldn't figure out why the Cubs kept him tied to the organization for seemingly no reason and why he didn't seem to mind. His side makes a little more sense now, and perhaps the Cubs gave permission t...

https://twitter.com/ChicagoSports/status/1308262283114696706?s=20 https://media.tenor.co/images/9eb2d92b8b784610d75da703e736e760/tenor.gif Did you read the article, or just the clickbait headline? Its obvious that the reporter used the word "worried" and Ross "admitted" he was e...

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Regular Show wrote:

Oh, conveniently cutting it off to exclude Zambrano? NOT COOL.

Na. Very cool. I feel like this acknowledges how much better Z was than anyone ever. He's the moment in history from which you measure time.

This sure doesn't feel like a 95 win season.

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Derwood wrote:

Banedon wrote:

He really needs to be hitting 2nd or 3rd in this order

Don’t move him and horsefeathers him up again like last year.

Yeah, he doesn’t need to move up, our 2 and 3 hitters need to get their crap together.

The Cubs Bullpen has been really good here in September: 44.1 IP, 34 H, 46 K, 17 BB, 2 HR, 45.7 GB%, 1.91 ERA, 2.55 FIP, 3.28 xFIP In fact, it's been good for going on a month now. Kimbrel's first scoreless appearance was on 8/14. If you look at the numbers for 8/14 to the present: 105 IP, 82 H, 13...

Regular Show wrote:

They say “on the Rockies opening day roster” as if its an improvement on his previous situation.

https://twitter.com/TonyAndracki23/status/1286310215621672968 Definitely one of the best trades in Cubs history. Jose was my favorite Cub at the time, but even back then it was obviously an awesome trade. Jose Hernandez was your favorite Cubs player on a team that had Sammy Sosa, Mark Prior, Kerry ...

At the rate people are getting infected lately, maybe we'll hit that fabled mid-20s percent rate and it'll start burning out by then. Pathetically, that might be our best hope. Our bodies only remain immune to the three coronaviruses that cause common cold (some 30% of common colds, I think) for 18...

So... are we just pretending Covid will be under control by April? No, just wishfully thinking I'd guess At the rate people are getting infected lately, maybe we'll hit that fabled mid-20s percent rate and it'll start burning out by then. Pathetically, that might be our best hope. Our bodies only r...

I came up for season tickets this year and passed, when I originally signed up the rough math worked to me coming up 10 or so years from now when I could maybe make something work. But it just didn’t make sense right now for me. I live ~3 hours away and could maybe get to 12-15 games a year on an o...

"You're going to look back in 30-40 years and say there was only one Shoshei Ohtani" I feel like this is true but not in the way the author maybe meant. I think it's going to be true in a Glenallen Hill, Rob Deer, Aroldis Chapman, Dwight Gooden, even Kerry Wood kind of way rather than a Ba...

Michael Cerami makes a solid point on Cubs talk podcast (Jeff Nelson filling in for Kaplan). He says the Cubs will either win less than 75 or more than 95. If they're in the middle of the pack they will be sellers to get under the tax cap and position them to spend 2021. We all know the impact of th...

Every time I see a new post in this thread I think there’s been a trade. /s

That makes sense, but we know they've been working on this a while. Extensions don't generally just get knocked out in a couple weeks or in a relatively quick manner (Bote one being an exception). Cubs have been trying to do some of these extensions for years now... Just seems like there is more ex...