Theo Epstein and friends are currently responsible for building three last place teams. Has that ever happened before?

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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

Oh, JORR...

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Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

JORR,

this fact has not been lost on me. All this does is put much more pressure on these guys.

The part of this whole thing that is really interesting is Boston pissed and looked for something when Theo left and SD basically let Jed walk out the door?

When one team lets a guy walk with no interest, you need to really look at why.

2015

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“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.’”

Back to the Future

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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.’”

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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.’”

i joined nashova's fantasy league last year. it was decided that there would be 14 keepers after last season, my team was shit, so i decided to go scorched earth and enact a 3 year plan to build a dynasty. i was laughed at.

now i've got mike trout brett lawrie stephen strasburg madison bumgarner craig kimbrel, jeremy hellickson, migcab, dayan viciedo, jesus montero, and oh yeah even anthony rizzo for shits and giggles.

clearly, i'm a better GM than theo epstein and i should be running the damn cubs. otherwise, how can people say that the cubs need a scorched earth run and then get pissed when they're in last place? the darkest days come right before the light.

Anthony Vincent Rizzo - 1B #44 Iowa Cubs (Triple-A Chi Cubs): 62g 228ab 45r 83h 17h2b 1h3b 22hr 57rbi 21bb 45k 2sb 2cs 7e .364avg .425obp .737slg 1.161ops

TRADE BABE LAHAIR WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME!

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WELL HEY, they DID day the cubs win the world series by beating miami. at least we've got a miami team now =)

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good dolphin is mad he didn't think of this thread idea first.

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

Questions for those critical of the current Cubs front office:

Would you prefer Hendry? Also, if not Theo then who was a better option? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm asking a legit question. Was there a better option out there than Theo?

I'll hang up and listen for my answer.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

There will be no answer.

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I don't understand why when some GMs lose in the playoffs, the conventional wisdom is "they did a great job, the playoffs are a crapshoot", but when others lose in the playoffs they are no-good bums.

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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

They don't even have to make the playoffs for them to have done a great job. Sometimes GMs do a great job and put a great team on the field and the team just collapses.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

How can a great team collapse though? Doesn't the fact that it collapsed, by definition, mean it wasn't a great team? It seems like Hendry is regarded as a bum even though he built the best team in the NL and got beat in the playoff crapshoot. Can't do anything about that. It's just bad luck. Right? Or are the playoffs only a "crapshoot" when that suits the argument?

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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

if you keep thinking like that your head is going to explode

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Sox fans talking about the Cubs and not worrying about their own 1st place team. Shocker. Not that I can blame them. Who the fuck wants to talk about the Sox anyways regardless of their success.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I look at this thread as more of a general baseball discussion than a Sox/Cubs thing.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

I agree with you. I was mocking the Theophiles who said that pretty much verbatim about the 2011 Red Sox.

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

Many fans wanted Andrew Friedman.

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