Cubs May or May Not Have Added a Cuban
We're still on Jorge Soler watch, which I suspect will result in a brand new member of the "Putting Cub in Cuban" club. All the stories supposedly shooting down the van Dyck article suggesting the Cubs have a tentative deal in place basically restate what the original article already said: they can't make the agreement officially official, so officially there's no official deal. That's not a refutation. I highly suspect the Cubs make this deal. But my suspicions are generally highly suspect, so believe what you will.
Cubs' Win-Now Mindset
The Cubs are not focused on the future, despite their obvious focus on the future. Or something. I can't possibly improve on MB's assessment of the Cubs' win-now approach heading into the spring
That’s probably a good philosophy because once spring is over so is the winning.
Dale Sveum is a bit more optimistic, saying the Cubs aren't rebuilding, they're just building. Which essentially means the Cubs aren't deconstructing a dynasty, they're building on a sandlot.
You're killing me, Smalls.
Fukudome —–> White Side of the Rivalry
Kosuke Fukudome is signing with the White Sox for 1 year, $1 million. Cue throngs of incredulous fans wondering how a past-his-prime player could be signed for less money four years after signing for a lot.
Video Aisley Recently Posted about the Cubs' New Spending Tendencies
Tweet MB Recently Enjoyed
6 things you might not know about the all new #DallasTNT: hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tca-…
— Dallas (@Dallas_TNT) January 17, 2012
Is There a Cubs Game Today?
No.
Shape of the Day
Hey Mish, I’m glad you found time to make a valentine for yourself.
http://i.imgur.com/ZS39T.gif
Has anbody seen the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012_swimsuit/models/kate-upton/12_kate-upton_20.html
@ Mucker:
http://hasanybodyseenthenewsportsillustratedcovergirl.com
@ Mucker:
Josh wrote:
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Mucker wrote:
Jebus.
Berselius wrote:
So awesome it wins two threads!
I’m the asshole.
@ Mucker:
Cue the Josh “she’s ugly” bit.
But for reals, that girl is ridiculously hawt.
Rodrigo Ramirez wrote:
Supposedly she’s dating Mark Sanchez and I already hated him so I know I fucking loathe him.
Mucker wrote:
Goooood…goooooood….
@ Rodrigo Ramirez:
Done.
/Stereotype’d
@ jtsunami:
ROR.
In other Soler-related news…
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/14/the-yankees-may-get-in-on-the-jorge-soler-action/
KLaw’s cunning insight on Soler:
Hey Mish, what kind of gas mileage do you get in this thing? I love
catsthe ears on the helmet.Holy shit. The Cubs just offered me season tickets in the bleachers.
If I decline the offer, they still keep me on the list for season tickets where you aren’t a football field away from the action.
I believe this new gambit will fail.
@ Suburban kid:
Wait…so if you refuse bleachers seats, you get better seats?
Excuse me while I (dying laughing)
I’m guessing if SK takes the Bleacher seats, he would get a chance at the better seats next year before the wait list people do. (Assuming there are just as many dropouts next year as there apparently were this year).
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/2/14/2796560/the-ten-worst-swings-of-the-2011-season
Suburban kid wrote:
Ask if you can have the bleacher tickets for $10. Offer to bring your own bologna sandwich.
WenningtonsGorillaCock wrote:
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
$3421.60 to sit on a bench.
Although, they have a “skip the weekday day games” deal for 55 games at $2,352.00
@ Aisle424:
Correct.
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A special Valentine’s day cartoon I recently enjoyed:
@ Suburban kid:
The good news for you is that if the stadium is half-empty anyway, bleachers tickets will let you get into the bowl area so you can relocate yourself as an added bonus.
Rice Cube wrote:
They do? They used to be totally separate.
@ Aisle424:
I wonder if what I said is only true for the single game tickets then. When I bought bleachers tix the seat nazi told me that I could go anywhere in the park with those, even to the bowl section.
I went from 13,269 on the good seat waiting list in October to 4,279 in February.
I wonder if they sent this bleacher offer to 4000 people.
Suburban kid wrote:
@ Rice Cube:
Weird. So I could buy two bleacher seats for $60 and have as many friends as I want buy $10 Upper Deck reserved seats. Then one by one escort them from the bowl to the Bleachers using the bleacher ticket stubs as the pass back into the bleacher area.
Aisle424 wrote:
No.
Al Yellon wrote:
Really, this is unnecessary. Don’t you have your own blog for one-word condescension?
Aisle424 wrote:
That’s unfair to the fans who paid full price for their tickets and couldn’t afford an escort.
Aisle424 wrote:
It only works one way, based on what I understand. If they want free reign of the park, they have to buy the bleachers seats. So folks who get the $10 Upper Deck tix won’t be able to get into the bleachers because they don’t have a bleachers-specific ticket, but bleachers folks could go into the bowl.
Which doesn’t really make sense because the bleachers kind of suck if you actually want to watch the game.
It is also possible that the seat nazis telling me this information were full of shit, so you may wish to find an alternate source.
Rice Cube wrote:
That doesn’t mean it wasn’t true at the time you heard it.
When the fuck is this Soler thing going to be officially official? We need something concrete to disagree with MB about.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/14/running-down-the-rosters-chicago-cubs/
@ fang2415:
In the meantime, tell him Escoffier was a fraud who wasn’t fit to
open the cans of Campbell’s productssous chef for Sandra Dee.fang2415 wrote:
they are on the five yard line.
@ fang2415:
I did have a source, but that source may have been senile.
@ Mish:
Every appraisal of our system seems ignore Whitenack and McNutt. If those two are healthy, shouldn’t they be considered for a spot as strongly as Travis Wood?
@ GW:
I’ve heard that it’s not even close and that the Cubs are in a pack of 7-8 teams vying, depending on how serious you think the Yankees are.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I thought Whitenack had TJS. But I agree about McNutt.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
that was a reference to the theo compensation, which was on the five yard line about six months ago (dying laughing)
@ Rice Cube:
Whitenack did, but he’s supposed to be back this year. TJS recovery is much shorter nowadays.
@ GW:
Fuck me, the memes are getting deep here. (dying laughing)
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Okiedoke. I thought they needed a full year like Adam Wainwright did. But more power to him if he rehabs fast.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
(dying laughing)
@ GW:
So Selig will take care of it in about 5 months?
(dying laughing) @ this:
Nice job, AC.
@ Mercurial Outfielder: Whitenack has a few years to go and McNutt struggled last year so he still has some work to do.
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
TWSS
Yeah I didn’t think Whitenack was that close, even before TJS. McNutt would/will be a candidate if/when he can pitch like he did in 2010, but I think it was a big enough setback last year that they aren’t going to rush him.
Len Kasper on the Score today argued that Kerry Wood should really have his jersey number retired by the team when he retires.
His reasons: K/9, TJS, Hometown discount.
Len Kasper, your stat nerd cred is hereby revoked. Please go say 14 Hail WARs and 15 Our FIPs.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I will give you many faget points if you write these Hail WARs and Our FIPs.
Our metrics that are on spreadsheets, blessed be thy multipliers…
Rice Cube wrote:
They can if you give them the extra bleacher ticket to flash when they go from the bowl to the bleachers. So you have two people buy bleachers and have one person take both to the bowl and have all the $10 seat people come back using the extra bleacher ticket. Bleachers are general admission so you could theoretically do that for as big a group as you want. You’d just have to probably switch off who brings the ticket from the bleachers to the bowl so the seat Nazis don’t recognize you by the 5th time you do it.
So Ramirez gets his number retired too, right? He gave the Cubs TWO hometown discounts. So did Dempster. Fuck it. Let’s just retire all the numbers. Instead of flags that people can see honoring the players they can have little stickers on the foul pole.
@ Aisle424:
+1 faget point for using the fox/chicken/farmer in a boat analogy for Cubs tickets (dying laughing)
The Cubs could use these for their retired numbers:
I think ACB should get a flag in Wrigley for their contribution to Cubdom.
@ mb21:
They might have to switch to hexadecimal soon. I can’t wait to see Brett Jackson sporting the “4A” jersey.
@ Mish:
We would demand that the ACB flag just be the number 21.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Perfect.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
@ Rice Cube:
The coloring is a bit off, but it’s a start. Sorry for the fail skillz.
They should retire Mitch Williams number. I saw him when I was a kid and he managed to hold the game to a tie.
Off topic…if Jeremy Lin didn’t turn the ball over 20 times a game, he’d be pretty darned good at basketball.
But that kid can play.
So my wife’s family owns a funeral home.. I think we just found the next market inefficiency:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098849/Drive-funeral-parlour–mourners-want-come-dead-stop.html
Face —-> Palm http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/daily-facepalm-2-15-12.html