Making firm offers to Sanchez and Tanaka and asking to take on Hamels in consecutive years, each for approximately 20 million per, does support this "could have been a Cub front office" man's thesis.

I have a feeling Epstein views his fandom the same way William Shatner viewed Trekkies.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.