2025 Cubs

[1060Ivy]

Hope all is well Straw and you’re enjoying your baseball-lite life

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Belli trade is a variation of a salary dump.

Given the budget, Cubs didn’t have room for an expensive a part time outfielder / infielder / DH / insurance policy

[jstraw]

No I did for a couple months, but Bluehost finally got their shit together.

On their own? Or did you have to help them?

[jstraw]

Hope all is well Straw and you’re enjoying your baseball-lite life

Things are pretty good, thanks. You good?

[rok]

I need proof that Cody Poteet is a real human.

[funkster]

Basically as Ivy said, salary dump.


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[funkster]

Hope all is well Straw and you’re enjoying your baseball-lite life

Things are pretty good, thanks. You good?

Didn’t you mess up your foot or knee? How is it?


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[jstraw]

Didn’t you mess up your foot or knee? How is it?

I'm going to take this over to Sarge's.

[funkster]

Interesting, good zips numbers for cubs offense

https://bsky.app/profile/dszymborski.fan...lp4c4q6s23


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[MrSheps]

Hope all is well Straw and you’re enjoying your baseball-lite life

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Belli trade is a variation of a salary dump. 

Given the budget, Cubs didn’t have room for an expensive a part time outfielder / infielder / DH / insurance policy

Yeah, I'm guessing if the Cubs were willing to eat more of his salary, they could have gotten a decent prospect from NYY, but they preferred to have the money. Now, could/should they have traded Belli at the deadline last year to get someone real in return is another question. Not sure what offers they had, can't recall if he was healthy then, etc. But this was pretty clearly all about freeing up money, the trade will be defined but what they now do with the money. They wanted Belli to opt out, would have to pay a little if he did, and are now basically where they wanted to be, plus an extra arm with some options for the pen. I don't mind this at all.

[jeffy]

No I did for a couple months, but Bluehost finally got their shit together.

On their own? Or did you have to help them?

On their own. I'm guessing the next PHP release forced them to fix their auto-update script, but who the hell really knows at the end of the day.

[funkster]

Ricketts inviting Sosa back into the fold. The Cold War is over.


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[MrSheps]

The whole, "He has to apologize first" thing is/was weird. They obviously coordinated this, but I'm not sure I get the apology. He used steroids, so did a lot of guys. Keep him out of the Hall, sure, but why make him apologize? I thought it was about him quitting on the team that day? Tom wanted him to apologize for using steroids? Grow up, dude, no one needed an apology. He wasn't hitting 66 without them, the whole premise is off.

[funkster]

I honestly don’t care either way anymore lol


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[jstraw]

Ricketts doesn't even know what the issue was. Of course it was him quitting on the team. I'm over Sosa, the boombox shit...the 'no habla ingles" shit. Who fucking cares about Sosa? The Cubs and MLB exploited the home run derby when they all knew he was juiced. Everyone can apologize. Why does Sosa care at this point. It's ancient history.

[jeffy]

Woops, double post.