Beating your ass in the Cubs section. It hurts being this good.

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This worse then your attempts to shit on the Packers while being a Bears fan.

You had one of the worst teams in baseball for over a decade and made the playoffs last year due to going 21-3 vs the Tigers, Pirates and Royals and 14-22 vs teams that were trying.

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Frank has Conns on the run!

They seem to forget that Theo spent a lot of money on players who way underperformed. Theo did the same thing in Boston as well.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

What do the Packers and White Sox have to do with the Cubs getting swept out of the playoffs three times over the last five years?

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Yep. Horrible drafting and little development of drafted players, plus overspending on guys all contributed to the current situation. If Theo is such a phenom as a baseball GM/VP, why doesn't the Cubs system churn out players like the Cardinals and Dodgers?

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Cubs going the poor small market route certainly is newsworthy

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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

2016 Cubs were the best team in baseball that year. Of course it seemed like everyone they beat sucked because they were the best.

But ya, Frank C. raped Conns here big time.

It was a big con. Thats what it was. I was skeptical back when they said it, but now every Cub fan has been part of a huge con w/ the streams of revenue and waves of talent bullshit. The worst is chicubs reddit. the most ignorant cub fans to ever walk the earth reside there.

Ricketts is turning out to be a real bad business man. Wasn't it his father who made the billions and the kids are the ones who are living off his wealth?

He was naive to think he could come into the city and put one over on the politicians. Well, they showed who the professional cons are in Chicago big time!

Did that stupid hotel ever get built? fucking worst idea ever.

Theo's run was a tank period followed by a very good stretch. Hendry's teams were more randomly successful (i.e., on/off/on/off). In totality, Hendry had the same number of 1st place division finishes in the 9 years previous to Theo's 9, and averaged 81 wins vs 84. But Epstein ended the curse, so he'll get the praise.

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And Ricketts should also get praise for hiring Theo and allowing him (at least in the first few years) to spend on big free agents.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Yep

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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you have to be fair to Theo on the development/evaluation side and note how many of his prospects are all star level players for other organizations. They made trades to win a world series. I respect that even when it comes back to bite.

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

Wittenmyer: Yu Darvish trade embarrassing for big-market Cubs, MLB

https://sports.yahoo.com/wittenmyer-yu- ... 59516.html

No problem with the Chapman trade and what they gave up. But the inability to draft starting pitching is what killed them.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

it's not just drafting, it's their development. Dylan Cease had some interesting tidbits during his Barstool interview. He talked about how the Cubs minor league system stunted his growth by not letting him throw or work on his breaking pitches. The Sox changed that with him.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Yes, the Dylan Cease with a 1.44 WHIP last year. He has it all figured out now.

Caller Bob lands another haymaker on a cub obsessed sox fan.

Trading Darvish was a good idea.

They fucked it up and forced it though. Bad trade and bad things on the horizon for the Cubs and the next few years.

Hopefully one or even two of these lottery tickets hit in some way, but Tom Ricketts is no longer interested in winning. That much is clear.

Gordon has had a hard-on for the Cubs for a long time, but he really went scorched earth.

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it's as if the Sox have to unfuck what the Cubs did to him in the minors.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

His stock has gone down since the Sox acquired him.

Yeah I wish I could argue against this but it seems pretty clear.

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

Yes, we will all wait with bated breath as the team that developed pitching studs like Carlos Rodon, Carson Fulmer and Reynoldo Lopez magically "unfucks" Dylan Cease.

Gordon is basically Ogie when it comes to baseball. He hates Ricketts on general terms, and would be much happier if he could just not cover them but still get paid. He's a miserable cretin.

So when he's actually correct, like now, it's like the boy who cried wolf.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

The Sox busted one of the most sure fire pitching prospects in recent memory, Rodon. Pure comedy in this thread

I, too, laughed heartily at the return the Cubs got for one of the best pitchers in the NL over the last 18 months.

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It is a good laugh. Almost as funny as LaRussa's BAC higher than Moncada's batting average.

Remember in 2018 we couldn't wait to get rid of Darvish.

Len Kasper is just smiling right now