IMU wrote:
Yet you have him winning 85 as a lock, and he is under control of the White Sox until 2021. 7 wins a season would take 12+ seasons to get to 85.
So I ask you...why are you optimistic about the team's future? You ridiculed the North Side organization for the way they went about improving their team, and stated that the White Sox and Hahn's method of retooling on the fly was superior, as it was not at the expense of the fans and would be just as successful.
Right now...why are you optimistic?
The Cubs prospects that had never proven anything in the minors have come up and the Cubs are a much improved team.
The White Sox have Abreu, Sale, Rodon, Micah Johnson, Eaton, Garcia, Quintana...and have severely regressed. Is there something or someone in the pipeline we're not aware of? Any upcoming influx of cash that can be spent on free agency?
the cubpacalypse is coming! hoo-ray! hoo-ray!
i can't wait for this cubs team to inevitably get good and really start to validate guys like IMU whose troll games will be backed up by on-field success borne of picking in the top-5 for a few years! it's like boy those natinals did a spot-on bang-up job hitting on that harper kid, you know?
but i guess the lesson is that sometimes you're SUPPOSED TO lose (especially when it helps your owner pocket 100mil+ over 4-5 years) because then after importing a visionary who can get some high draft picks and turn top-5 players into top-5 players then and only then will this revolutionary concept of getting a bunch of good young players come to fruition and the rest of baseball will take notice.
* jots down "GET A BUNCH OF REALLY GOOD PLAYERS" in his "how to win at baseball" notebook *
hell, i often wonder why there aren't like 5 teams that actually try to win and the rest try to lose... i mean seriously what business do the seattle mariners have going out and trading for nelson cruz? they're not gonna win the world series, and yet now that that they got a big 40+ HR bat in there to go from 70-75 wins to 80-85 wins they're just going to draft lesser players and then they're going to have to face IMU as he wags his finger like WHY ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC? TAKE A LOOK AT THE CUBS.... THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO!
baseball would be way more fun if only 5-10 teams tops really tried to play baseball and the rest just packed it in and accepted the cubs' plan as the only viable plan. hopefully the job done here has a lasting influence on the game cuz lord knows ~20 odd baseball owners will love pocketing a shit-ton of cash during those 4-5 year suckfests.
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