vitoSCOTi, Bob, rogue, among others would prefer Jim Crow.

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think of all the stupid nicknames they can coin for him a la Frank The Tank.


The Crow? nice work, Zach Zaidman.

Eric Draven? better

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

I dont give a fuck what his name is. Hit and catch the ball and you can call him anything you want.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Too much has to go right (or even perfect) based on their current roster. They are going to strike out a ton. Not sure if they'll hit enough. Defense shouldn't be a problem. Starting pitching is more quantity than quality. As CCFC said, bullpen is a question mark.

Hope I'm wrong but I just don't see 78 wins.

He pretty much gets called PCA at least in the media. My vote is to go with Dewey.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

The mclaskys should buy the cubs and promise to invest their entire net worth into players and actually do nothing but put those dumb little blue hats on all their white fans

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Odd that a team full of mediocre position players who've had a rough last couple of years is proclaimiing to be vastly improved from last year's bunch of mediocre position players when most people see slight improvement. Who really cares if 1 year and gone contract guys have good years anyway when they're only keeping seats warm for possible future Albert Almoras? This is a team with a promising young pitching staff. I don't believe for a minute this is a good team and all of Hoyer's, grandpa's, and the Score's bs. I don't think they believe it either.

After Kap and Gordon Wittenmyer left NBCSC "Cubs Talk Podcast" then braindead Tim Stebbins' got laid off they haven't done an episode other than a Leila softball Tom Ricketts interview. They finally posted a new Cubs discussion episode. With 2 nobodies and who's the new host? Yes it's generic Score Cubs shill Leila. Kap and GW by themselves only ok. But together they had a great animosity and would slug it out making for a good listen. Leila as host is the unofficial death of "Cubs Talk Podcast".

One of the nobodies is the Kermit the Frog sounded James Neveau. He's also on the Blackhawks Talk Podcast and used to be Zawaski's co-host before Jay moved over to that new sports talk entity. Neveau is useless. Agree on the new-look Cubs Talk; very generic and misses the banter between Kap and Gordon.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

From a betting perspective 77.5 is a good number tough to go either way. The tricky part is if the Cubs are around the .500 mark in July and still in the playoff race they have minor league talent to pull off a major trade.

That would mean Bellinger and the others that were brought in were performing well. If that was the case, I wonder if they would white flag it and get a good haul for those guys. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Sounds like we've heard this bs before with who? Wow! The guy is in the batting cage Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day.

Good article in yesterday's Sun-Times comparing the Cubs & Cardinals "culture". The St Louis Post Dispatch has done similar angles before.

I bet a guy 100.00 Cubs finish ahead of the Cards

Hawaii You Casino

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Grandpa Rossy's '23 "high quality humans" sitting at 77.1 wins.

PECOTA believes the Cubs have only a 9.5% chance to make the playoffs and a 4.2% chance to win the division.

cubbie chubbies were whipped out all over the radio this morning

Do people really think that highly of Nico Hoerner, or is it just a subsection of cub fans who call the station?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Its a Cub fan thing. You know that.

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Ron Coomer discussing Cubs catching this year compared to last.

When Willson was catching the team ERA was over 1 run higher than when the other guys were catching... possibly even 1.50 higher.

Actually Contreras ERA was .30 higher than Gomes and .08 lower than Gomes & Higgins combined.

I'm just happy we don't have to listen to Pat say "CONE-treras" anymore.

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Here we go with the first Cubs '23 miraculous 20 lbs weight gain in 5 months. He's got a hole in his swing already on high strikes.

THIS

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+1

These "Player X added 25 pounds of muscle" stories always end up working out.

Cubs players on roids.

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Kap & Gordon Wittenmyer have a new Cubs podcast. Looks like no dreadful Tim Stebbins which is a plus. A snake oil salesman and a lunatic fringe liberal have some great Cubs talk together. Had some good Cleavinger opinions near the end of the first episode. Leila taking over their old NBCSC podcast is struggling to get a few hundred views when Kap & GW would sometimes get 10k on YT.

Suzuki bulks up like Giolito, and then gets hurt with the inevitable oblique injury right out of the gate.

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How was that going to help him anway when he keeps staring at the ball all the way for a looking K

The Cubs/Score/Marquee have repeatedly called Bellinger a gold glove CF. His one gold glove in '19 he was a gold glove RF (115 games), not a gold glove CF (25 games).

Coomer dropped his guard with P & S and said he was stunned by Suzuki's weight gain in the shoulders.

Compare Suzuki next to his interpreter.