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You see, the joke is that there was a man named Aaron Brooks who played quarterback for the New Orleans Saints in the mid-2000s.
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ALFbrot posted:You see, the joke is that there was a man named Aaron Brooks who played quarterback for the New Orleans Saints in the mid-2000s. Also there is/was a basketball man by the same name.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:31
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is ricketts the kind of owner who is going to keep the payroll really high or is he gonna gut this thing after a couple of years cub fans?
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Feb 25, 2016 19:37
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Retail Slave posted:Is he a reclaimation project? Otherwise, why trade a guy like Coglan who was a good guy to have off the bench for nothing? My guess is money. $5m for a 5th outfielder is high.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:38
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Scob posted:is ricketts the kind of owner who is going to keep the payroll really high or is he gonna gut this thing after a couple of years cub fans? I think if a high payroll (and a winning team) is profitable, he'll keep it up. I'm sure he knows that the Cubs being good means increased attendance, merch sales, more national tv games, etc. He seems to be the first Cubs owner just about ever who gives a poo poo about winning.
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Scob posted:is ricketts the kind of owner who is going to keep the payroll really high or is he gonna gut this thing after a couple of years cub fans? It wasn't until last offseason that he let Epstein open up the checkbook and he's nowhere near a contract extension for Epstein, so ... God only knows. Probably depends on the health of his other investments.
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Groucho Marxist posted:Good job on MLB altering slide rules for safety reasons and then getting rid of the neighborhood play, which exists for safety reasons I found this extremely odd as well. Let's make a better rule where players have to slide to the bag and not at players, but then let's make sure that the second baseman has to stand on the bag so he gets slid into!
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Feb 25, 2016 19:44
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It would be extremely good if Donald Trump somehow tanked the Cubs via Ricketts.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:45
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A guy on BCB put up a theoretical OF/C rotation and with a tweak or 2 I really like it: Montero catches 3 games out of 5, Ross 1/5 Game 1: Schwarber LF Heyward CF Soler RF, Fowler bench Game 2: Schwarber LF Fowler CF Heyward RF, Soler bench Game 3: Soler LF Fowler CF Heyward RF Schwarber C Game 4: Soler LF Fowler CF Heyward RF, Schwarber bench Game 5: Schwarber LF Fowler CF Soler RF, Heyward bench You can also do Fowler LF Heyward CF Soler RF depending on park/opposing lineup but any way you slice it RF just got a major upgrade and LF will remain a defensive black hole
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Feb 25, 2016 19:48
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I assume they're hoping that changing the slide rules will make the neighborhood play redundant or something but seems like they're jumping the gun a little bit
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Cueto contract already paying dividends.
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Scob posted:is ricketts the kind of owner who is going to keep the payroll really high or is he gonna gut this thing after a couple of years cub fans? The Ricketts don't give the impression of being tight fisted in the least if they're paying for quality i.e. Non-tanking seasons. I don't thing we'll really know their upper limits till last years rookie crop heads towards their FA years and the Cubs start working on their combined TV deal along with the Wrigley rehab finishing up, so around 2019-2020. I doubt they're going to end up with Dodgers style gently caress You money, but I'd expect the Cubs to be top tier payrolls for a long time.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Cueto contract already paying dividends. I'm surprised Trump hasn't called for having him investigated for spreading terrorist propaganda. http://iant.com/
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Feb 25, 2016 19:54
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I was about to talk about how Fowler helps with the team's strikeout issues and then I remember Fowler struck out more than any Cub not named Kris Bryant last year
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CubsWoo posted:A guy on BCB put up a theoretical OF/C rotation and with a tweak or 2 I really like it: What the gently caress is this and why would you have Jason Heyward start only 130 games.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:and the Cubs start working on their combined TV deal along with the Wrigley rehab finishing up, so around 2019-2020. I doubt they're going to end up with Dodgers style gently caress You money The TV deal bubble is already bursting, so I'd be shocked if the Cubs don't see a semi-significant payroll decrease after they get a whole lot less money than they're expecting from their combined media contract.
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CubsWoo posted:A guy on BCB put up a theoretical OF/C rotation and with a tweak or 2 I really like it: Have they said that Schwarber will catch much? I figured he might get a handful of starts but would mostly be an emergency option. Montero is still under contract through next season and isn't Contreras seen as the more likely long-term option at C?
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Niwrad posted:Have they said that Schwarber will catch much? I figured he might get a handful of starts but would mostly be an emergency option. Montero is still under contract through next season and isn't Contreras seen as the more likely long-term option at C? They clearly want Schwarber to stick at catcher because anyone can see that he's getting fatter every year and his routes in left were somehow worse than Bryant's, but, man, he is really bad at it. I'd guess that Montero is trade bait, but the idea of a Schwarber / Contreras platoon at C just made me throw up a little in my mouth.
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I don't think Montero is trade bait. Don't they really value pitch framing which Montero is really good at?
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the popes toes posted:Fowler showing up unannounced at the Cub's camp Holy poo poo. This gives me goosebumps. The way I learned this news, I was scrolling down my Twitter feed and this video popped up, entitled "Theo Epstein on re-signing Dexter Fowler". From his dour expression and matter of fact tone, I figured the video was simply about him trying to re-sign Dex, but as it got to the end and I realized that we was talking about actually re-signing Dex, I audibly cheered to myself. I love Fowler and this news is the absolute greatest. I wonder if I can buy a discounted jersey before the Wrigleyville sports stores realize he's coming back. 
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Niwrad posted:Have they said that Schwarber will catch much? I figured he might get a handful of starts but would mostly be an emergency option. Montero is still under contract through next season and isn't Contreras seen as the more likely long-term option at C? If they are going to use Schwarber as a catcher in the long run, they have to find ways to get him considerably more playing time at catcher. I haven't read anything that suggests that he will get more MLB time at catcher, I just don't see why they wouldn't try with Montero hopefully moving to catching Lester more often, and Ross getting less time as he moves toward retirement/irrelevance as an MLB catcher.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:09
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Ricketts is only cheap when he needs to stiff stadium workers or get rooftop contracts voided
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tadashi posted:If they are going to use Schwarber as a catcher in the long run, they have to find ways to get him considerably more playing time at catcher. I haven't read anything that suggests that he will get more MLB time at catcher, I just don't see why they wouldn't try with Montero hopefully moving to catching Lester more often, and Ross getting less time as he moves toward retirement/irrelevance as an MLB catcher. Problem there is that Lester is incapable of throwing a good pitch unless he's able to lovingly stare into Ross's eyes for a few seconds beforehand.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:11
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The Cubs were "poor" when it benefited them to be poor. Now they don't need to be.
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Ricketts is currently in the process of tearing buildings down across from Wrigley to put up a hotel complex. They want to develop that entire block around them to be a Cubs-centric money making machine. He definitely realizes that spending money on a good team will make him more money, especially as they further develop Wrigley and the area around it. I don't think the payroll is going to fall significantly anytime soon.
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DeepDickPizza posted:Ricketts is currently in the process of tearing buildings down across from Wrigley to put up a hotel complex. They want to develop that entire block around them to be a Cubs-centric money making machine. Too bad the stadium is a garbage scow.
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Niwrad posted:Have they said that Schwarber will catch much? I figured he might get a handful of starts but would mostly be an emergency option. Montero is still under contract through next season and isn't Contreras seen as the more likely long-term option at C? Schwarber needs to stick SOMEWHERE because his bat projects out to the stratosphere but he has to figure out how to be something close to a below average C or LF since they already have All-Stars slotted in for the usual "Fat guy with big bat, but he's gotta play the field somewhere" positions. Or the Cubs can hope the DH comes to the NL sometime this decade.
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Retail Slave posted:Also there is/was a basketball man by the same name. Indeed there is 
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How the gently caress did the Cubs come out of this offseason with both Fowler and Heyward? I'm completely at a loss, that is amazing. I don't think anyone could have seen that coming. Please don't trade Soler. EDIT: 
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Imagine how different the offseason would have been if Fowler took the QO right away at $16m/1yr, I don't think the Cubs pursue Heyward as aggressively or make as many of the smaller moves for bullpen/back end rotation depth Instead they get Heyward AND pick up Fowler on a 2 year deal that (with option) is only $1m more than the initial QO, what a time to be alive Popete posted:Please don't trade Soler. Soler should stick as the 4th OF, which is fine because as a starter he probably would have missed 50 games due to injury anyway So what does the 25-man look like now 1B Rizzo 2B Zobrist SS Russell 3B Bryant IF La Stella UT Baez C Montero C Ross LF/C Schwarber OF Fowler OF Heyward RF Soler OF Szczur? (mostly because I think he's out of options) SP Arrieta SP Lester SP Lackey SP Hammel SP Hendricks RP Wood RP Warren RP Cahill RP Grimm RP Richard SU Strop CL Rondon CubsWoo fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Really enjoying the increasing theatricalty of contract signing in pro sports. If inly Dex had physically ripped off an Os jersey. We're getting closer.
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I wonder how many teams the Cubs had to call to find someone willing to give up an optionable MLB-ready pitcher for Coughlan or if they just feel they're still in debt to Billy for the Samardzija deal and knew he'd keep quiet about their talks?
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The Jays signed Dom Brown to a minor-league deal. Remember when there was a rumoured Brown/Bautista deal, and some people were in favour of it from a Toronto perspective? Good times.
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Twin Cinema posted:The Jays signed Dom Brown to a minor-league deal. I think there were Dom Brown to every team rumors at some point.
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Unless Coghlan was all in for a ring it'll probably be a net positive for him going to Oakland, he moves from a 4th/5th OF slot to a potential LF starter/platoon job that will hopefully help him land a much bigger contract going into his age 32 season in 2017.
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CubsWoo posted:Imagine how different the offseason would have been if Fowler took the QO right away at $16m/1yr, I don't think the Cubs pursue Heyward as aggressively or make as many of the smaller moves for bullpen/back end rotation depth lmao if you think $8mil would've deterred the Cubs from spending any differently this offseason
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tadashi posted:I wonder how many teams the Cubs had to call to find someone willing to give up an optionable MLB-ready pitcher for Coughlan or if they just feel they're still in debt to Billy for the Samardzija deal and knew he'd keep quiet about their talks? Aaron Brooks is bad
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Sydin posted:Problem there is that Lester is incapable of throwing a good pitch unless he's able to lovingly stare into Ross's eyes for a few seconds beforehand. Watching Lester pitch in Boston was the most boring baseball ever- having to sometimes wait a full minute between pitches while Lester and Ross just stared at each other uggghhhh
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Groucho Marxist posted:Good job on MLB altering slide rules for safety reasons and then getting rid of the neighborhood play, which exists for safety reasons I don't think they're getting rid of the neighborhood play, just making it reviewable so that the ones where a neighborhood play is called with the fielder an unreasonable distance away can get a second look instead of last year's "Welp, sorry, unreviewable" ManifunkDestiny posted:lmao if you think $8mil would've deterred the Cubs from spending any differently this offseason I was thinking of it more from thinking the Cubs had the outfield need filled so they might have offered something similar to what the Cards did instead of the wacky multiple opt-out deal they ended up with
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