You want a young guy to build around. Jeff is old. Make an offer for Lopez. Hes a guy who can get that for you for the next 12 years ideally.

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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

Cubs always seem to struggle in cold weather.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

At least we have the Bulls getting Zion and the Blackhawks getting some Russian guy no one's ever heard of before to look forward to in October.

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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

Schwarber should have been hit for in that spot. He had no chance. 4 K's tonight, each one looking worse.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Enough with Schwarber. He had another error tonight in left. He has been useless at the plate tonight. He is a bumslayer at this point. He puts one out every now and then but he has some atrocious at bats with RISP. I would rather have Bryant out there with Bote in the lineup.

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

Is this Collins dude like 5'2?

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

He was pretty good for the Royals at one point in time.

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

Ja Hey is on FIRE!!!

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

Another awful Almora at bat. He can go to Iowa at any time. He is a late inning replacement at this point.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Zagunis can go as well. Haven't seen anything good from him. Should have just walked, but swung at a pitch a foot off the plate.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Almora's OPS is .485!!!! They have no one to replace him with now that fellow strikeout king Happ is in AAA. Notice how "bench player" Descalso is leading off and starting damn near every game for Joe.

15 total strikeouts tonight. Brutal.

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

Well, that was a bad loss. Lots of blown chances. The Pirates were brutal defensively, but the clutch gene is lacking with most of the lineup. It's hard to believe they were averaging over 7 runs a game, most of their lineup is hitting in the low .200's

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

Pirates were +150 tonight boys, with Darvish on the mound in this cold hope some of you took this opportunity to cash in on a loss.

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

1 yr of Adam Jones cost AZ 3 mil.

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

Last I checked, Happ was 4 for 18 with 7 Ks in the minors.

LaStella and Heyward lighting it up!

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Theo and Ricketts look so ridiculous for missing out on some these guys. That Ricketts interview on Monday was embarassing. Never been a fan of that asswipe.

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Fuck Edwards and Zobrist

I did. And it was +160 dummy. But wish I put down more cash.

Rubber game tomorrow.

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is 4 K's a golden sombrero?

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Jay Hey deja Vu. Red-hot last year too during a stretch. Joe: "This is a new swing. He worked so hard" He'll revert back to his old swing and lack of production again like he always does with weak year-end stats.

They should move the game an hour up tonight, it's gonna get crappy by the 7th or 8th inning.

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How can a team go from so likeable to so hateable

I would have liked to see Darvish get the chance to pitch out of trouble in the 6th.

Yup. He was abysmal last year with runners on. Epstein needs to admit his mistake and move. This guy blew his load against Cleveland and he'll never get back to that. Trade Schwarber for whatever you can get.

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Was it cold in the dome last weekend?

This is his 8th season with the team. He is pretty open about a belief he should move every 10. That would put him through 2021.

Rob Manfred has a contract through 2024. I wonder if he would be open to grooming Theo for a few years. It would be good for him to see a labor battle from, nominally, the third party perspective but not be the guy who takes the heat. Then he becomes commissioner in 2025.

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

this is starting to look more like a team character rather than just a bad stretch.

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

It’s over.

Just sit back and enjoy it.

Maddon had his charity fundraiser thing last night, and I’m thinking the Cubs didn’t want to launch him before that. He’ll be gone shortly.

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They should try and trade Heyward while he's hot.