There was a tweet from Marquee’s Tony Andracki (cool dude) that probably caused several aneurysms the other day, and Brad on Twitter attempted to put it into context:
If we assume that Seiya Suzuki takes a step forward after an adjustment year and Cody Bellinger can at least find some kind of a groove, then it does look a bit better. However, I’m still not thrilled with having to rely on “what ifs” even if the run environment did change because pitchers are just filthy and more difficult to hit than ever. There is an opportunity for the Cubs to add, and while the radio silence on the big gets is a bit frustrating, I’m hopeful that the next time I post some new shit, it’ll be because there’s a super team in the making. Next year’s free agent class is relatively bare, so the time to add is now. I suppose the Cubs could rely on solid pitching to sneak in a few wins and stay in contention by the trade deadline, but why do that when you can make your team better now? Am I just being narrow-minded?
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Honestly, the reason why I held off on writing more was because I really thought some more big deals would be announced sooner, but this slow stuff is annoying. They really should have a winter trade deadline to force roster decisions sooner so they can just focus on throwing money at good players.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I too am sighing
https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1601793227278864386?t=nSIQjuI4D8XWm4OsIzqH5w&s=19
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The Mets now have a payroll approaching $350MM and that’s only because Senga apparently only wanted 5 years at $15MM AAV. If the Cubs could/would not match it, reasons:
1. Crane and Tom lying about how much money they could throw around
2. Cubs can’t convince anyone they’re good enough to play for yet
3. All available dollars earmarked for the other usual suspects, in which case they better god damn sign someone(s) of note
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Rice Cube,
I’m guessing the Cubs were flat out lying about wanting to spend money. Either that or what they already did is them spending money as far as they’re concerned.
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Rice Cube,
Kinda felt like that ship sailed when they signed Tallion, as nice as it would have been to get Senga too.
andcountingQuote Reply
andcounting,
In all fairness, the Mets are a better team and that probably matters…sigh
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Rice Cube,
I mean, it’s New York. A lot of people, given the choice, are going to want to live there regardless of how good the team is. He’d better not suck, though.
andcountingQuote Reply
They need to let more Steve Cohens into the club IMO. Let a Cohen take over the Pirates and Rays, see what happens. I do enjoy the World Series but right now I’d like a Cohen for the Cubs too.
https://twitter.com/kileymcd/status/1601806855357042688?t=grttGWqEIF7gmoVjU6jeJg&s=19
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Can confirm. I obviously make way less than baseball players, but I can’t conceive of a dollar amount that would get me to live in Chicago over New York.
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Perkins,
I do enjoy visiting NYC but my inherent bias from living in Chicago for 12 years plus the affordability in most of the city makes me say “False”
BN shared this today in the bullets, I guess there’s a bit of hope since it’s their own network guy saying that they should probably sign the good players
https://twitter.com/TonyAndracki23/status/1601655819631988736?t=Ne9PXQzZ64WWc5IgBigGNQ&s=19
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Rice Cube,
Yeah there’s nothing wrong with Chicago – I grew up there and tried it for a couple years as an adult and ended up hating it for myself. It’s like…ground zero for a lot of things that harm my mental health, so I pretty much stay away now. It has a lot to offer to people with less baggage specific to the town.
New York’s the best place in the US, but it’s definitely not cheap. It’s home, though.
PerkinsQuote Reply
Cubs are getting outspent all around the world now.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/frank-schwindel-signs-with-npbs-orix-buffaloes.html
andcountingQuote Reply
Where’s berselius? He made a gif in the comments work, I wanna do that too, they’re like my Tamarian metaphors (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
Try it with the one I just posted. Here’s the url for that image: https://media.tenor.com/IIMzJR6AYU8AAAAC/javier-b%C3%A1ez-chicago-cubs.gif
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Do you just post the URL or do you have to use the a href tag?
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Rice Cube,
The img src tag. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
dmick89Quote Reply
I should have remembered the img tag, derp… and also my reaction to the offseason so far
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Rice Cube,
I fail
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Rice Cube,
It’s that particular image. I don’t think WordPress is going to recognize it without the ending of an image tag like .jpg or .gif.
That image url is https://images.app.goo.gl/hnhNdVApGJE5UqmL8
dmick89Quote Reply
If you save that particular image to your hard drive and then upload it to the website here in the backend, you could use it in .gif format from that point forward.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
Ah, maybe I’ll just save it to OV’s library and just reference it later (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
dmick89,
Yeah what you said
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Here: http://www.obstructedview.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EC847BD2-94E9-4400-9088-2077F6EDE2AD.gif
dmick89Quote Reply
I think some websites fix their links so embedding on sites like this are impossible and that way they force you their own sites and can then get advertising dollars out of the extra impressions.
People always want more money. (dying laughing)
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Rice Cube,
Guess we had the same thought at the same time. We’re geniuses.
dmick89Quote Reply
dmick89,
They should give me $300MM a year for payroll so I can run the Cubs
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Why is there no news, not just from the Cubs but seemingly all of MLB?
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After playing several rounds of Angry Birds and with nothing happening, I figured I needed to vent out some new shit –> http://www.obstructedview.net/the-evolving-narrative/
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