southsider2k5

I don't get it either. He didn't earn the job, and hasn't been healthy. Nothing about the season he had last year should override that thought.

I disagree.

I disagree.

And the history shows it will be mid tier players who don't get us over the top. But keep handwaving.

You are chasing 40 to 50 games in this division AND you are behind in the quickest way to catch them. Yes, you are that far behind.

If the best example of a quality free agent signing happened a generation and a half ago, I think that makes that argument for me.

This is more than your simple hand wave. We can see what we have in the system and who is left to trade. We also have decades of free agent history here to base future expectations off of. We also know we trail all but one ALCentral team in MiLB systems in the vast majority of the system rankings, which is also important to note here, as it means we aren't just chasing 40-50 games now, we are also behind in future expectations. If anything the idea that everything will just work out is the one that seems suspect.

The Robert return has already crashed to the point where it sounds like we aren't getting a front line player for him. Maybe a starter or two, but something big? Sure doesn't sound like it. That leaves us our own Dev, which takes a lot of time, if ever... Our drafting, which takes time, and Free agency, which isn't happening while Jerry is the controlling partner and this team sucks. Again, I dont' see it.

I definitely wonder the same thing, but no one has asked it, so we get to keep wondering until it is asked and answered.

With the lack of front line position players, and the doors mostly closed to get anymore, I think I am being pretty optimistic.

We are still looking at two pretty big red flags in the back injuries and the velocity hitting ability. That is without moving off of SS because he is built like a TE.

This roster is 4 or 5 years from being potentially good again. About the time we MIGHT be decent, would be dead in the middle of when the front wave would be hitting free agency. I see no decent reason NOT to save that year with there being zero hope of anything good coming out of this team this year. Their most realistic goals are things like not setting the single season loss record again, and not losing 110 games.

And so predictable, so I don't have to hear how this is hindsight once it happened.

You have already wasted a year with the #1 pick QB in an era where FA QBs are getting close to half a billion. You have to get Caleb a line yesterday. You also have caproom. This is obvious moves.

Great week or so for the Bears. It gives them their draft back. Now they don't have to go OL early and often. We will learn what the Bears offense really is this year for sure.

I know we need hitters, but there is definitely a thought for leaning into what we do extremely well.

It happens. Heck in my hometown we have a 3 block area which was a hospital for like 150 years. It was torn down in the 90's. If they had just let it go to R1 or R2, it would have been instantly sucked up and built on. Instead they have been looking for something big to re-complete the area, all of the way down to wanting a small grocery store to be an anchor tenant with street side businesses on top of an 8-10 story residential tower building, including some affordable housing. There is nothing wrong with the lot that should have left it empty for 30 years, but their ambitions are bigger than the marketplace has been historically. It's not a vast conspiracy to hoist this property on some unsuspecting sucker, it's just an ambitious goal.

Yes there is. Much like Block 37 staying empty for decades, its a huge plot of land with a complex history and instead of filling it with the easiest project, they keep trying to maximize it with the biggest possible projects in order to make a signature project. Nothing was wrong with Block 37 and yet it was still empty. They keep swinging for the fences in this spot as well, and we all know what happens when you swing for the fences... most of the time you miss.

Yes.

I thought it was your day to watch him?

Guys who don't have closers love to say s%*# like that.

That is pretty much the idea behind investing. For funzies, gold closed at 493.75 that day. Today it is 2911. That is 5.9X

So we went and pretty much lost an entire rotations worth of pitchers in the last month.