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Redeye Flight posted:Yo Giants we have one (1) lightly used Ricky Nolasco you can have for, like, a popcorn machine He's a starting pitcher though right? Our rotation is fine, it's the bullpen that can't hold a drat lead
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John Wilkes Booth posted:I'm really interested in seeing where Cespedes goes despite it likely not panning out at all. He's still got a hell of an arm though. The Giants will sign him To be a closer
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Redeye Flight posted:Yo Giants we have one (1) lightly used Ricky Nolasco you can have for, like, a popcorn machine But a nice one, though. Not one of those cheapos that breaks in a week.
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R.D. Mangles posted:we're all just waiting for JD Murders Remembered he exists, checked his Twitter feed, found out he's a vocal rear end in a top hat Trump supporter. Trade you for a prospect with a weaker name tool but better sense of social justice.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Also I signed 4 different guys to be closer Four elite closers might just be enough for the Giants to get through 9th innings without blowing the game, but personally I'd shoot for 5-6 just to be safe. ffoecaf posted:A closer who is not a garbage human being. That'd be pretty nice, yeah.
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Carlosologist posted:Who's on everyone's free agent wishlist? I don't think the Yankees will sign anyone of note, but there's a nonzero chance they sign EE to fill out DH and one of Chapman/Jansen to close. Any other moves will probably be trades or something Definitely hoping the prioritize hitting. Maybe Wieters, Encarnacion, maybe Fowler Hoping they don't break the bank for Desmond Lourdes Gurriel 
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Also I signed 4 different guys to be closer From everything I heard about Casilla et al this year, I'm definitely not holding it against you.
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It's still baffling that, for whatever reason, the Giants were incapable of seeing that Casilla was struggling, then blowing it, and endlessly feeding back into the problem forever. Or maybe they were just ignoring it, like when Posey spent the second half clearly hurt.
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Julio Cruz posted:...when? B-R says .763, and even then it's only over 169 PA so it's hardly predictive. He finished at .763, but his OPS was .860 when they sent him down to the minors and he threw that big fit by refusing to report. Pancakes posted:Remembered he exists, checked his Twitter feed, found out he's a vocal rear end in a top hat Trump supporter. So he'll fit right in St Louis
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TMMadman posted:How long did it take you to hear back from them? I texted yesterday and sent a picture at the same time, but I haven't heard back from them. So I texted again and sent a different picture of the same UPC after the automated response this morning, but I still haven't heard anything back from them. I think they might be getting slammed now, or some delay, as the one I sent this morning hasn't gotten a response yet to the picture itself yet. Did you get an initial response back after just texting "football" to it?
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SourKraut posted:I think they might be getting slammed now, or some delay, as the one I sent this morning hasn't gotten a response yet to the picture itself yet. Did you get an initial response back after just texting "football" to it? Yeah, when I first did it, I sent football and the picture at the same time. There was an immediate automatic response about sending the picture before my picture went through. Then I sent another picture about an hour later. Then since I didn't hear anything this morning, I went ahead and sent football again and then another picture of the same code. That was like 12 hours ago and still nothing.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:The Cubs are so completely packed with talent, a lot of players are going to just not be good enough to start for them everyday. La Stella had an OPS of .860 and they couldn't even fit him on the 25-man roster. Soler would be starting in OF or DH for the majority of MLB teams, but he's a bench bat for the Cubs. It sucks for Montero, but it's part of being in the hyper-competitive world of Major League Baseball. That was because Joe loves Chris Coghlan for some dumb reason. La Stella should have been on the playoff roster.
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Sydin posted:N: Apparently Miggy was talking poo poo about Maddon yesterday. He was their 3rd best catcher this year. Not sure what he expected. Especially when going up against a team like the Indians who can run. If you want to play more, don't spend most of the season hitting like poo poo and unable to throw out a runner. I have to imagine Miggy will play more next season with Ross retired. I'd say trade him but you'd probably have to eat a chunk of his salary and the odds you'd find a better replacement is slim.
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Niwrad posted:That was because Joe loves Chris Coghlan for some dumb reason. La Stella should have been on the playoff roster. I disagree. La Stella and Coghlan had similar numbers as Cubs, and Coghlan had positional utility. TLS has only ever played 2B and 3B at the MLB level and you're not using him in either position in a playoff game so TLS is solely a PH in October/November.
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CubsWoo posted:I disagree. La Stella and Coghlan had similar numbers as Cubs, and Coghlan had positional utility. TLS has only ever played 2B and 3B at the MLB level and you're not using him in either position in a playoff game so TLS is solely a PH in October/November. You only needed a PH. The team has like 8 guys who I'd rather see in the corner outfield spots. Only reason Coghlan played was when Joe got shook and started loving with things.
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Sure Miggy didn't play much, but in the games he played he had a pinch-hit, game-winning grand slam in the NLCS and the winning loving RBI in game seven of the goddamn world series, dude is a loving hero. He also had the dumbest cool hit of the season, which was the walkoff dinger against Milwaukee that let the Cub celebrate clinching the Central even though they technically won it the night before when St. Louis lost. e: Niwrad posted:You only needed a PH. The team has like 8 guys who I'd rather see in the corner outfield spots. Only reason Coghlan played was when Joe got shook and started loving with things. dude, they won
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TMMadman posted:Yeah, when I first did it, I sent football and the picture at the same time. There was an immediate automatic response about sending the picture before my picture went through. Then I sent another picture about an hour later.
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SourKraut posted:Yeah, I think they're just slammed/something isn't working. I'm hoping to see a response either tomorrow or Monday morning. On the website it says it could take 48 hours. Does anyone know if they are making more of the locker room stuff? That hat and jacket are cool. Would be silly if they just made one run of them. I'm ordering like $350 worth of bobbleheads. 
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MLB Offseason N/V: Internecine Cubposter Squabbling
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Niwrad posted:On the website it says it could take 48 hours. I'm hoping they'll make more since I really want the Under Armour jacket, but I'm a bit worried they'll stick to the limited edition run and not make anymore available online.
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Niwrad posted:You only needed a PH. The team has like 8 guys who I'd rather see in the corner outfield spots. Only reason Coghlan played was when Joe got shook and started loving with things. And Coghlan had similar/better numbers as a Cub than La Stella this year TLS: 169 PA, .270/.357/.405/.763, 105 OPS+ Cogs: 128 PA, .252/.391/.388/.779, 111 OPS+
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CubsWoo posted:And Coghlan had similar/better numbers as a Cub than La Stella this year Coghlan was compete trash in Oakland this year though. I don't know, I'd rather have La Stella up than Coghlan at this point. La Stella also makes contact at a much better rate which I think is valuable in certain postseason situations.
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Dexter Fowler, Anthony Rizzo, and David Ross all played strippers in a sketch on SNL tonight  
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The same trio plus Bill Murray all sang Go Cubs Go during Weekend Update. Winning the World Series is pretty great. 
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And now they just sang Go Cubs Go with Bill Murray. It wasn't even a sketch, really. Just goofiness. Actual host Benedict Cumberbatch has slowly been written out of the show...
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SNL cut the chorus in half, so all the Cubs who'd heard the song a billion times before sang the right version instead of the edited version. Bill Murray had to cut them off with the next verse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OJScLPeZM Take The Sauce Bucket Challenge
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Sydin posted:N: Apparently Miggy was talking poo poo about Maddon yesterday. Sydin posted:And even if they could stick Schwarbs behind the plate, trading Miggy means Schwarber doesn't get the benefit of having a veteran catcher around to help him develop. I'd say Contreras has himself a pretty firm grounding, but I don't know if it's firm enough yet to immediately turn around and start helping Schwarber. Kevlar v2.0 posted:The Cubs are so completely packed with talent, a lot of players are going to just not be good enough to start for them everyday. La Stella had an OPS of .860 and they couldn't even fit him on the 25-man roster. Soler would be starting in OF or DH for the majority of MLB teams, but he's a bench bat for the Cubs. It sucks for Montero, but it's part of being in the hyper-competitive world of Major League Baseball. Niwrad posted:He was their 3rd best catcher this year. Not sure what he expected. Especially when going up against a team like the Indians who can run. If you want to play more, don't spend most of the season hitting like poo poo and unable to throw out a runner. I like Montero, but his best days are behind him. He's a good catcher and came up clutch several times this season, but he just hasn't been hitting like he used to. With all of his strengths and despite some hitting problems from him & Heyward, the Cubs still ended up with the best possible result so you can't really complain too much. The main liability was his arm, and coupled with the fact that Cleveland liked to run there was no surprise that they needed Contreras behind the plate most of the time. We discussed as much here, except, for some reason Miguel was the only one who couldn't figure it out.  I mean, it certainly couldn't have hurt to communicate it to everyone, but also if he had questions he should have spoken up.With that being said, Montero will be fine. Ross has ridden off into the sunset, so Miggy is literally the one veteran catcher. Contreras is making good progress, but it's nice to have at least a couple catchers for multiple reasons, and I wouldn't make Schwarber anything close to a regular catcher for a couple reasons. Who does that leave left? Federowicz? Miguel will be fine, and if he can maintain that hot bat from the latter part of 2016 he might get re-signed if the price is right and the market isn't overflowing (I wouldn't re-sign him for $14-15M/year though.) This is a pretty awesome Rockwell spoof. I'd actually love a larger print of it, as sort of a "Dewey Defeats Truman" callback (also from 1948, and coincidentally the newspaper was the Trib!) Rand alPaul posted:Rizzo looks like he's done this before http://www.csnchicago.com/chicago-cubs/cubs-star-anthony-rizzo-twerks-his-way-beer-money-victory
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ffoecaf posted:Seriously I desperately want that parade jacket I hope there's more Me too. 
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I don't see it happening and don't even think it is worth the price necessarily but it would be cool to me personally if Coco Crisp became a Blue Jay. In Jays news, they didn't send a QO to Michael Saunders (good) and picked up their option to keep Grilli for $3M (good)
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The Berzerker posted:I don't see it happening and don't even think it is worth the price necessarily but it would be cool to me personally if Coco Crisp became a Blue Jay. I am really excited to see who ends up stepping on the Michael Saunders land mine.
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Hand Knit posted:I am really excited to see who ends up stepping on the Michael Saunders land mine. I'm so bummed about how he fell of a cliff this year. I want him to be good, even if he winds up being good for someone else.
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Patrick Spens posted:I'm so bummed about how he fell of a cliff this year. I want him to be good, even if he winds up being good for someone else. The best part was Wilner made a prop bet with Joe Siddall that Saunders would hit 25 home runs. Wilner was tapdancing about how smart he was for the first two thirds of the season, and then Saunders finished with 24.
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