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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
Dude, read your posts, You sound pissed. Thats okay embrace the horror. We have been in that place for 3 years. We are/were pissed. It's just rival smack.
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What the **** are you talking about?
I'm not pissed about this team probably not going to the playoffs. I havent been pissed about this team not being a legit playoff threat since midway 2017.
Go back and ****ing read my thoughts on this teams ability to do something in the playoffs in years past. I saw this shit coming with the Chapman trade. Ya that one worked out because it got a WS, fine, that still doesnt take away how shortsighted it was. Then the following season a similar trade was made twice to get Wade Davis and then Jose Quintana and I absolutely ****ing hated that shit because they gave up a top 5 prospect and a top 60 prospect with 2 throw ins for ****ing what? A once former "potential ace" who was in the middle of his worst season as major leaguer after his batman was traded to the Red Sox 7 months prior. They got a soft tossing finesse lefty and paid such a stupid ass price for it that the White Sox didn't even bother trying to negotiate a better deal in the month or so left they were allowed. Rick Hahn practically laughed in Theo's face immediately after by saying no one else was really even close to the Cubs offer, look what I got! Meanwhile a little known guy over in Detroit named Justin Verlander wasn't exactly quiet about wanting to be traded to the Cubs and how much do you think it would have cost to land him compared to Quintana? He
wanted to be in Chicago so extending him wouldn't have been an issue but hey at least we got a 4th starter/bullpen arm for the playoffs and we control him for the next 3 years at "half price" and we only gave up what it would take to get an ace to get him.
Now you did all of that and what did you do to address the offense that ranks up there with the Orioles for the most games scoring 1 or less runs? Nothing. Go ask Jacob deGrom how many wins you get without run support. Sure this team scores a lot of runs but thats an illusion because one game they'll score 11 and for the next 2 games they wont even have 11 hits combined. I believe the Cubs are dead ****ing last in making contact. How do you score runs if you can't make contact with the baseball? Hope to play the Pirates 162 times a year, even then its iffy because just before the ASB they lost 3 out of 4 in a series against the Pirates.
Now today you still need to fix the offense, going to have to find a guy to do what you thought Quintana was going to do, and what is left to make a trade? Its like watching Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
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My absolute biggest fear is that Theo looks at this 2nd half with Castellanos, who got an adrenaline injection when he was traded from the Tigers to a team that was in the playoff hunt and has played out of his mind, and throws a bunch of money at him while ignoring that he's pretty damn close to rivaling Baez for chasing pitches out of the zone and has a not so nice swinging strike rate. And that's ignoring his defense on a NL team. Ya he can catch the balls hit at him but let me know how many doubles dont turn into triples with the way he plays the corners.