The only thing this guy is good at is turning a first place team into a fourth place team. When he calls Scott Boras, he asks permission to speak. How many more years are the Cubs stuck with this loser?

Knew we were fucked when Epstein left us with this dope, fired in 18 months.

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Scott Boras doesn't bother with talking to GMs. He just goes and targets the two or three most desperate or insane owners. He has said so, on the record, albeit with more polite language.

Boras is still mad about Kris Bryant, and doesn't want any of his clients to actually sign with the Cubs. He treats the Cubs how Jerry Reinsdorf treated St. Petersburg.

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Epstein left after he put together a bloated roster of shit. I'm thankful for 2016, but that was nothing more than a prayer answered by the baseball Gods. The best position players on the roster ended up being Hendry guys.

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Theo could close deals though. Jed was part of the shit though, he should have been fired when Theo left.

Maybe so. I'm not bothered by them not giving these short stops ridiculous money.

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Rizzo, Bryant, WS MVP Zobrist, Chapman, Lester, Arietta, Contrares, Schwarber GTFO here with this was Hendry's guys

Theo knew how to build a champion, just not how to sustain it.

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wasnt Baez the only Hendry guy?

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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.

Yes, I forgot about Hendricks, he was also a Theo guy.

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Calm down and read. When it was all said and done, Baez and Contreras were the Cubs best position players. They didn't let. MVP Bryant walk out the door. They traded married Bryant. Rizzo's back was shot and they sacrificed Babe.

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I'm calm Point is Theo's guys won the World Series not because of the baseball gods, but because he put together a World Series Championship team. You make it sound like he won off of Hendry's guys and got lucky.

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How could that have been sustained? He bet on " the core" being good for a few more years , they werent. Every GM wouldve done the same. Worst move was not getting Verlander , he mightve given them one more legit shot at a title.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Well, there was no sustained success. Theo caught lightning in a bottle, and the Cubs became the Marlins 5 years later. As I said, I appreciate 2016, but that's not what Theo sold us. It's also undeniable that Baez and Contreras were the Cubs best players when they tore it down. Both were Hendry guys.

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Almora, Russell, and their top minor league pitching prospect for Verlander would have gotten that deal done when they could have really used him for that playoff push. Joe knew that Almora was a bust but did a good job trying to protect him and put him into positive situations until Theo could trade him. But Theo overvalued his guys.

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They wanted Schwarber. The guy the Cubs allowed to walk for nothing. The best player of the bunch.

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The Cubs just had to offer more than the Astros.

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Nah dude.. that's a solid 4 year run, no lightning in a bottle like white sox. Not even close really

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That is 0% lightning in a bottle, it was the plan to build for the championship window over four 90+ loss seasons. One could argue three straight trips to the NLCS plus a World Series win along the way is sustained success. When you get good, you have to eventually pay the players that got you good now you just have to wait 2-3 years to see if the prospects they got for Rizzo, Baez, Bryant, etc. pan out.

Babe is the best player they drafted and they allowed him to walk instead of paying him $8M. Every other player ended up sucking almost overnight.

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Nobody gives a shit if you draft 95% of a team or trade for 95%...or sign 95% free agents, results are the only fucking thing that matter.

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You are correct. That said, you may be more likely to do as the Cubs did with drafting, trading and taking advantage of controlled salaries to have lasting results. All through the 80s the Yankees spent all kinds of money and were not in the Series every year.

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It was very much because of the baseball gods. Each team the faced in the playoffs experienced a debilitating injury that impacted the series. Then, when they reached the world series and were all but dead, the gods sent a rainstorm to delay the game and provided Heyward with the eloquence of angels

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Cub win totals were inflated by 3/5 of the division announcing even before the season started, that they would not be looking to compete that year. This was still during the unbalanced schedule era so that was more than 1/3 of their games. They used that bloated record to be able to play the worst team in the first round of the playoffs which allowed them to get to the LCS. If you look at their records once there, when they finally had to play a legit team, they weren't close to competitive...except for the one year the team they played experienced a debilitating injury.

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Jed has been a bad executive when Theo wasn't present. That isn't just true of Chicago. He has a mediocre track record.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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That is true. His last transaction in San Diego was Theo fleecing him out of Rizzo

Every year in every division two teams are garbage, the only exception is AL east.

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Sox went 11-1 in the playoffs while the Cubs needed Cleveland to kick the ball around in game 6, then Champman gave up a bomb to Rajai Davis-- who hit 62 career HRs in over 4200 ABs-- to tie it late in game 7. 2016 WS is literally the definition of lightning in a bottle.

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lightening in a bottle dont win 103 game and pretty much lead their division the entire season

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I didn't say a word about the regular season in the above post.

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a team that does that in the regular season cannot be considered a team that catches lightning to win the WS.

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