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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Heard this before

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

MLB The Show 16 just come out?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Pavlov's Dogs.

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Agreed

Positive Cub thread = Bell


Pavlov's Dogs = Sox fans running to disagree

It's pretty cool knowing your team already has this thing wrapped up. Can just sit back and enjoy the season now.

In fairness, we don't really know what Sox fans would do with a negative Cubs thread given that it has never existed.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

have you put jimmymeatball on ignore?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The only thread I remember him making was the "LaHair > Konerko" thread.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

So you do have him on ignore. Gotcha.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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As I suggested last year, Sox fans should have gone for it...why not? Gonna get shit if they sucked, so why not shoot for the WS and actually say it? Thats true swagger !

Say you are going to do and then do it....85 Bears did it, Jordan did it all the time!

Shaq told the story to the Dan Patrick show, of how MJ dominated his teammate, Nick Anderson:

“I’m coming down. I’m going to dribble it between my legs twice. I’m going to pump fake and then I’m going to shoot a jumper. And then I’m going to look at you. And that’s exactly what he did.”

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

My first post here was ripping the Cubs as they headed into the playoffs with 97 wins in 08

You've gotten exponentially worse with every post you made here.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Who's gonna pitch?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/sta ... /league/nl

http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/sta ... /league/nl

Because pitching was such a problem for last year's Cubs team. And they've only improved it.

Along with the top offense in NL, they have a top 3 pitching staff.

The 30 for 30 crew has already shown up to Mesa.

"Those Were Our Years (A Heartwarming Tale of Perseverance and Prosperity)"

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I doubt that.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

What?

When swapping Haren for Lackey and adding Adam Warren are the only two moves of any weight, how would you consider that regressing?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Great chance for you to win some money if you are right....

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Cubs fans better really hope they win it, because this shit will be very difficult to live down if they dont.

You really think those overall numbers you linked to are going to be better in 2016?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Board was the exact same way around 2007-2008. This year should be amusing.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

To a degree its the first thing you have been right about.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Michael must have forgotten to mention the part where Anderson picked his pocket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3omh3nvCcrk

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Huge pressure on this Cubs team...to deny it is foolish. Not sure any player really feels it that much though. Heyward and Lester will feel the pressure of a contract.

Just the longevity, not even a questions Maddon knows the meaning of it more than any of them....all those years in the AL East battling with the Jankees and Red Sox while his team spent about 20% of what those guys spent.

Now he is in the big boy leagues, no sneaking up on anyone, you are now the hunted....different world my friend.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

100% truth.

In Mesa? No. Why should they? Once they start playing games though, and the media is asking about them winning day in and day out and day in and day out, and every single interview and guest spot they do-- after the initial greeting-- is a question about what would it mean to win in Chicago, the pressure then mounts day by day. This will be especially true if they get off to even a decent start. To deny that is absolutely foolish.

Just look at last season. All we heard was how that Cubs team was "different", and they didn't care about the past. Then they bundled themselves up, went out to face the Mets, and struck out like crazy and dropped balls all over the outfield, and in 4 short games the dream was dead.

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Sure there are raised expectations. Having a stacked team that is coming off a season where they won 97 regular season games, beat the Pirates in the Wild Card, beat the Cardinals in the NLDS before improving the team, is good reason for high expectations. They actually had a fairly pedestrian season up to the All Star break. But it was afterwards that the team gained steam, with Russell taking over at SS and Schwarber being called up. The team should have far more self-belief and enter into 2016 confident in themselves and each other. I think that confidence trumps any pressure and Madden is the perfect guy to deal with that anyway. 2016 is going to be a blast.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Idiot post but here we go again.

Yeah, 108 years was no big deal. The 109th is gonna be the one that we that makes this all difficult.


Most of us here have the scars from 08, 04, 03, 84, even 69 (dolphin was in law school at the time)

You simply cant do anything else to us. We are like a loner cop with 2 weeks to live...We have nothing to lose, baby!

You are really on this. I agree. The only thing Ill say is I think it's a good thing a lot of them are young (and dont know enough to feel pressure)