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Kyle Tucker, Cub

In News And Rumors by Rice Cube15 Comments

Mostly to get a new thread, but yeah (pending official word). Jed Hoyer did a thing where he got a star, and the 2025 Cubs season is looking more promising. With Kyle Tucker in the fold, and Isaac Paredes out, that opens up third base for someone else (possibly in-house, or another fun move), reduces the need to move Nico …

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Mets Reportedly Secure Juan Soto’s Services

In News And Rumors by Rice Cube52 Comments

In news that surprised very few people, first broken by Jon Heyman after his little tiff on the radio (his anger was probably justified to be honest) and confirmed by Jeff Passan, the New York Mets have reportedly signed Juan Soto. This was probably always going to happen, as there was little reason for Soto to leave New York even …

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Dreamcast 98: Turkey Day Musings

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With Turkey Day around the corner, we jabronis got together to talk about the MLB awards, speculate on what’s going to happen with Juan Soto’s ridiculous contract-to-be, and explore the trade speculation surrounding Nico Hoerner and Cody Bellinger. Also some discussion on what Jed Hoyer needs to do to keep his job past 2025, plus bonus Bears talk. You can …

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The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot

In Major League Baseball by Rice Cube45 Comments

The BBWAA announced the writers ballot today, which will give another pool of candidates assuming the Veterans Committee actually elects somebody this cycle. Here is the link and I’ll list my preferred candidates below: Should be near unanimous: Ichiro Suzuki Will probably get in first ballot: CC Sabathia Holdover guys I’d vote for: Bobby Abreu, Carlos Beltrán, Andruw Jones, Manny …

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Dreamcast 97: Buy In

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RC and AC hang out to talk about team building, Jed Hoyer’s job security, the offseason approach, and fangirl over the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won the World Series. If things actually happen quick we may emergency pod, but things seem slow for now so we wait. You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. …

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Team-Building Exercise

In Commentary And Analysis by Rice Cube32 Comments

Today is a pretty important day, whether you want to help preserve whatever this democracy is now or you want to try to burn down Parliament (don’t do that last one, didn’t work out so well for the last guy). I already did my civic duty but since it’ll be a while before we know what happens, I thought I’d …

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The Quest to Exceed Mediocrity

In Commentary And Analysis by Rice Cube28 Comments

The Dodgers overcame their bajillion injuries thanks to the talent they amassed with a very enviable and ludicrous payroll. We can’t even poo poo that because it’s kind of what we wish the Cubs would do, and while the Cubs aren’t the Pirates or the A’s, there is a gulf between their payroll and those at the top. Granted, a …

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Let the Offseason Begin

In News And Rumors by Rice Cube21 Comments

The World Series is over, unfortunately a bit sooner than I’d like since one team showed up and the other one kept tripping over themselves. Then again, it appears that full on free agency will begin on Monday, which happens to be five days after the Dodgers clinched. They already have a parade set up for Friday, which is a …

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Dreamcast 96: The Dream Matchup

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As Rob Manfred climaxes from another LA vs NY matchup, MLB will get their marquee championship event with the best team from each league, among the fattest payrolls with the brightest stars in the largest media markets in the world. Topics for this episode include: You can check out the podcast page or just click on the embedded players below. …

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Pennant Chase In Progress

In Major League Baseball, Playoffs by Rice Cube113 Comments

I feel like the term “pennant chase” is used kind of to describe the race to the postseason during the regular season, but you don’t actually get to win a pennant until you are the last team standing in the league championship series. I guess you also don’t get a pennant once you win the World Series because the prize …