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Why is he not cut yet?

Quote from: World's #1 Astros Fan on January 10, 2019, 09:26:32 AM

Quote from: Wheezer on January 06, 2019, 01:27:03 AM

Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 12:44:16 AM
Apparently I'm the local rummy.
Same picks please.

No, I'm the local rummy. And you're what, already 5 points into the usual Oleg hole? Please pardon my crankiness. I'm going to go listen to the CBC on the history of the Periodic Table.

Are we still doing the post 1/1 penalty?  I thought there was some discussion about just extending the deadline, with no penalty.

I haven't looked at anything, so I'm cool with whatever people are cool with.

... I have anxiety about the Cubs continued success. What if KB isn't MVP caliber all the time? Javy probably can't duplicate his MVP season. Schwarber isn't the god we hoped for. Contreras maybe came back down. Heyward, while better, still meh. Darvish died. Lester is getting older. Russell, fuck off, and sucks. Almora is ok. Quintana hasn't been the level that they expected when they traded for him. The farm system blows now.

Now, we're in an offseason where Daniel Descalso and Cole Hamels (who was awesome, but is also old) are the big acquisitions. They could surprise everyone and somehow sign one of the 2 dudes (Machado/Harper), but I don't feel particularly inspired.

I'll love it if my internal doom and gloom about this is completely bullshit and Theo comes to my house to swing his 2019 WS winning balls right into my forehead.

Quote from: Yeti on December 28, 2018, 09:12:31 AM

Quote from: Yeti on December 26, 2018, 11:00:03 AM

Quote from: Brownie on December 21, 2018, 12:07:03 PM

Quote from: Yeti on December 21, 2018, 05:13:28 AM

Quote from: Brownie on December 20, 2018, 02:30:48 PM
Are we doing this again?

Yes, I have my email set up still:
thrillhoistheworst gmail

And Thrill has been paying attention to it because when I go to pop someone in that's died, he's already have done it. So, I can set up an auto-forward (or I'm assuming I can) so both email addresses will have it in case he dies again

Excellent.

Received from Teej, Krut, and TIME TO POST

And from Huey.

I will jam myself into so many DMs. Get the shit in.

I failed to jam into DMs. I received picks from Huey, Oleg, TJ, Fork, BigDrinky (I'm pretty sure that's TW), Butthead, Krut, Wheezer, PenFoe. Missing from last year: Chuck, CT, Saul, flannj, TEC.

Come on, fellas.

Quote from: Yeti on December 26, 2018, 11:00:03 AM

Quote from: Brownie on December 21, 2018, 12:07:03 PM

Quote from: Yeti on December 21, 2018, 05:13:28 AM

Quote from: Brownie on December 20, 2018, 02:30:48 PM
Are we doing this again?

Yes, I have my email set up still:
thrillhoistheworst gmail

And Thrill has been paying attention to it because when I go to pop someone in that's died, he's already have done it. So, I can set up an auto-forward (or I'm assuming I can) so both email addresses will have it in case he dies again

Excellent.

Received from Teej, Krut, and TIME TO POST

And from Huey.

I will jam myself into so many DMs. Get the shit in.

Quote from: Brownie on December 21, 2018, 12:07:03 PM

Quote from: Yeti on December 21, 2018, 05:13:28 AM

Quote from: Brownie on December 20, 2018, 02:30:48 PM
Are we doing this again?

Yes, I have my email set up still:
thrillhoistheworst gmail

And Thrill has been paying attention to it because when I go to pop someone in that's died, he's already have done it. So, I can set up an auto-forward (or I'm assuming I can) so both email addresses will have it in case he dies again

Excellent.

Received from Teej, Krut, and TIME TO POST

Quote from: Canadouche on December 25, 2018, 11:19:55 AM

Quote from: Yeti on December 25, 2018, 10:50:25 AM
Meryy Christmas.

Now turn in your deadpools

If I wanted to get in on that, could someone help me out?

Where to submit: http://desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=9378.msg317046#msg317046

Rules and scoring: http://desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=8319.msg262798#msg262798

Meryy Christmas.

Now turn in your deadpools

Quote from: Brownie on December 20, 2018, 02:30:48 PM
Are we doing this again?

Yes, I have my email set up still:
thrillhoistheworst gmail

And Thrill has been paying attention to it because when I go to pop someone in that's died, he's already have done it. So, I can set up an auto-forward (or I'm assuming I can) so both email addresses will have it in case he dies again

Quote from: Bort on November 28, 2018, 10:44:22 AM

Quote from: Tonker on November 28, 2018, 10:22:49 AM

Quote from: PenFoe on November 27, 2018, 04:02:12 PM

Quote from: Wheezer on November 26, 2018, 01:34:41 PM

Quote from: Canadouche on November 26, 2018, 08:30:46 AM

Quote from: Wheezer on November 15, 2018, 01:18:55 AM

Quote from: Canadouche on November 12, 2018, 07:02:19 AM

Quote from: CBStew on November 05, 2018, 09:37:47 AM
I had that dream again last night.  You know.  The one where I am back in school and on my way to take a final exam in a course where I never attended a class and never opened the text book, but it didn't matter because I couldn't find the room where the test was being given.  This was a variation.  It was a Wednesday and I was booked to perform a guitar concert on the following Monday.  However, I don't know how to play the guitar and didn't own one.  To make it worse, I had picked out my wardrobe for the event.  Leather bell bottom jeans, a shiny, pointy lapeled, print, polyester shirt, a phony leather vest, and a leather cap that a pimp wore in the 1970s.  What a nightmare!

Relevant xkcd. As far as I can recall, I think I've only had one university dream since I graduated. Maybe I'm less likely to have school dreams, since I'm still in schools every day. I have had a few stress dreams about not being prepared to teach.

One of us (tinu) is an outlier. I have university dreams, work dreams, recurrent dreams where I already know the paths through the weird buildings, and wandering-around-lavatory dreams, which have a pretty obvious meaning but are nonetheless baroque. The less REM sleep the better, in my case. And then there's the issue of trying not to try to forget trying to forget this mental garbage-collection.

Screw the peribracial area and the horse it rode in on.

When I was a kid, my recurring stress dream was that I'd try to cross the street, trip, fall, and be paralyzed as oncoming traffic moved toward me.

Oh, yah, the paralysis dreams. I would also pass out twitching in these. Have I already told the story about what happened after I tried lucid dreaming per Omni magazine?

We'll stick with tonk's lucid dreams, thanks.

How the fuck do you remember this stuff?  Even I'd completely forgotten about that post.

That's practically a Thrillho level pull.

RIP

Quote from: Wheezer on November 21, 2018, 03:16:26 PM
Women's shoes with toe cleavage.

Men's feet are worse

I'm glad I haven't ridden him since 2014, when I heard about the ailment
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/kg

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on October 03, 2018, 08:55:03 AM
Pick up the option on Hamels. Not so much on Kintzler.

If it's an either/or proposition, get Machado over Harper.

Maybe see how much Kimbrel is asking for.

Untouchable: Rizzo, Baez, Bryant, Contreras, Lester, Hendricks, Strop, Zobrist

Unmovable: Heyward, (probably) Chatwalk, Darvish

Don't hang up immediately if an offer comes in: Schwarber, Quintana, Happ, Edwards

Adios: Murphy, Wilson, Russell, all the bullpen rentals (I, for one, don't expect the Jesse Chavez lightning-in-a-bottle experience to continue)

Anybody else, all options are on the table.

Chatwalk is probably moveable because there's not *that* much money left on the deal that the Cubs won't pick a chunk of it up

/thread

Quote from: Armchair_QB on October 01, 2018, 05:21:42 PM

Quote from: CubFaninHydePark on October 01, 2018, 02:20:38 PM
They have a bullpen. We don't.

That trade for Wilson was regrettable. So was Joe's decision to use him there.

Agree with you on the trade, but it's not like any of these guys can be trusted at this point.

September:
Jesse Chavez: 1.15 ERA over 15.2 IP.
Jorge De La Rosa: 1.64 ERA over 11 IP
Steve Cishek: 4.15 ERA over 8.2 IP, though he went 9 straight appearances leading into G163 without giving up a run.

Chicago bullpen in September: 10th in MLB in ERA at 3.98.
Chicago bullpen in 2018: 2nd in MLB in ERA at 3.35.

Can we fucking stop with "bullpen concerns"? "Bullpen concerns" is just you telling me that you're a whiny bitch.

The only bullpen concern you should have is that the Milwaukee bullpen has been nuts since 9/1. That, and the Colorado bullpen has been great since 9/1.