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Quote from: Wheezer on November 14, 2016, 04:26:38 PM
Turns out that a friend of mine from high school has been working as a personal chef for some of the Cubs the past couple of years, including all of Hammel's meals this season.
Quote from: Cannonball Titcomb on November 14, 2016, 10:23:47 AMQuote from: Oleg on November 14, 2016, 08:45:52 AMQuote from: PenFoe on November 07, 2016, 02:18:25 PMQuote from: Tonker on November 07, 2016, 02:08:31 PM
A couple more entries:
Ricobene's. HOLY SHIT WHAT A FUCKEN SAMMICH. That thing was fucking HUGE and I only had the regular. It was really, really, REALLY good, too. Like, "I'm totally going to make the trip down to DA SOUT SIDE MY FRENT to get another one next time I'm in town" good. The fries were also excellent, but they were gilding the lily, really. Yuge thanks to Fork and Larry for going out of their way to make sure I filled in a gap of which - in hindsight - I should have been thoroughly ashamed.
Gene and Jude's. Once again, Fork's Culinary Tours came up trumps and this little beauty filled the gap between second lunch and high tea very nicely indeed. It's a bit weird in that they bill themselves as a hot dog place but there's no poppy seed buns, no green relish, no tomato and if I remember rightly, not even a pickle spear. Still, what they do is very good and almost embarrassingly cheap. And not a bottle of ketchup in sight, so it gets the Huey seal of approval, too.
I had a couple of pizzas, too, but there was so much confusion with regard to where they had come from (I think we nearly ate somebody else's pizza at one point on Saturday night), that I can't really review them.
Also, Fork's BBBQ is the balls, and Hawk and NHawk are just ridiculously, fantastically gracious, generous and above all, delicious hosts.
And as for that cake, Chuck? I'm not exaggerating, that thing had to have been twenty thousand calories. I could hardly eat it all.
We were absolutely delivered someone else's pizza on Saturday night, but I don't recall anyone eating it. I think the delivery came back pretty quickly.
That said, I don't remember what actual pizza came. I remember the french fries and that we're still waiting for Oleg to order BBQ from Fat Louie's.
This was, at least partly, your fault.
He wanted tofu ribs?
Quote from: CT III on November 13, 2016, 09:22:34 AMQuote from: Yeti on November 13, 2016, 12:01:04 AM
.... I kind of enjoy For The Love of The Game. I will say a good chunk of it is due to Scully narration, but still.
That movie is fucking terrible.
Quote from: Tony on November 11, 2016, 08:15:01 AMQuote from: PenFoe on November 10, 2016, 09:29:43 AMQuote from: SKO on November 10, 2016, 08:16:26 AM
Half of the country voted for him. I don't care if Jake is one of them. A lot of people who mean a lot more to you than Jake Arrieta probably did, too. Not saying you can't be mad at him, or them, or this entire country, but angrily dismissing them as nothing more than idiots and bigots isn't the right response either. I thought maybe it was, but it turns out that years of just dismissing an entire swath of the country's complaints because even the valid complaints were surrounded by racism and sexism makes those people mad, and only creates more anger and it was enough to make this tragedy happen.
If Jake's a Trump supporter, fine. Throw the baseball well and I'll look past it. I'll write it off as ignorance and I hope he learns from it, like I hope they'll all learn from it. We're going to have to pick our battles for a while, folks. This isn't the one I want to have.
Yep.
If I can get through Thanksgiving with my Trump loving brother and sister-in-law, I can get through a baseball season with Jake just fine.
I do not know if I can get through a Thanksgiving with my brother and sister-in-law.
Quote from: Canadouche on November 11, 2016, 09:30:11 AMQuote from: R-V on November 11, 2016, 09:12:37 AM
I just want to make sure I follow your logic here, Kurt: we have two choices for our next President - Theo Epstein or Tim Cook?
Only if I'm operating with little logic.
Quote from: CT III on November 10, 2016, 12:01:15 PMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on November 10, 2016, 08:47:23 AM
Longtime, iconic voice of Arlington Racetrack, Phil Georgeff, 85.
I acknowledge your geode.
Quote from: Bort on November 10, 2016, 01:05:40 PMQuote from: CT III on November 10, 2016, 12:13:32 PMQuote from: Saul Goodman on November 10, 2016, 12:12:17 PMQuote from: CT III on November 10, 2016, 10:55:06 AMQuote from: SKO on November 10, 2016, 10:46:39 AM
Let's talk about some goddamn baseball, people.
Who is going to give Rich Hill a lot of money to watch him spend next year on the DL?
Who gives Cespedes the massive contract they should have just given him last year rather than wait and overpay him when he's another year older?
Will the White Sox sell, add, or once again just stand there doing nothing and hoping 85 wins fall into their laps and it works out?
White Sox are gonna trade for Miggy. Book it.
Montero or Cabrera?
YOU KNOW WHO I MEANT
Miggy Cancel from season 9 of The Biggest Loser?
Quote from: SKO on November 10, 2016, 03:14:37 PMQuote from: PenFoe on January 17, 2014, 01:19:22 PMQuote from: CBStew on January 17, 2014, 01:17:44 PMQuote from: InternetApex on January 17, 2014, 12:55:37 PMWhat makes me crap my pants is that we are 5 and half weeks to go before Spring training and here we are trying to decide if we are going to the World Series this year or the year after.Quote from: Slaky on January 17, 2014, 12:47:26 PMQuote from: Fork on January 17, 2014, 12:45:31 PMQuote from: Yeti on January 17, 2014, 12:12:57 PMQuote from: Slaky on January 17, 2014, 12:04:37 PM
So let's have a fun exercise in the vein of TJ's post.
What if the Cubs are (with roster as presently constructed) somehow hanging in the race in July. It's late July and let's say the Cubs inexplicably hold a 3-4 game lead in the division. Maybe the Cards have some crippling injuries. Maybe the Pirates are back to being the Pirates. But let's just say Cub pitching has far exceeded expectations and while they still can't hit for shit, they're just not giving up enough runs to lose.
What do you think happens?
Again it's a slim lead nearing the trade deadline and in this fake future I've created everyone's waiting for the other shoe to drop. The Cubs don't have the players to win the division. Sell? Buy? Stand pat?
I think it'd be really interesting to see what the front office would do.
I think I want them to stand pat. I'm no genius, but I feel like if they're that close with the current roster (they might have had to call someone up to be in that position, though), then 2015 should be fantastic,
At this point, the project is getting closer to fruition. Even if the Cubs conten at midsummer, there's no reason to deviate from that. The only non-pat-standing that could happen in this instance would be the addition of Baez if he tortures AAA pitching like he did to AA pitching.
So with the consensus being "stand pat" with the exception for Five Head Todd's pointless offering - imagine the shitstorm from the Haughs, Sullys, Morrisseys, Telanders, et. al. if the Cubs didn't beef up the roster with a division lead in July.
It would be just about the greatest spectacle in media history.
If we're talking about a slight division lead and the deal on the table is a player who helps now but not so much in the long run in exchange for Baez, Bryant, Almora or Soler, I think you say no. The opportunity to win the division is not worth sacrificing a player you're counting on to build your franchise. If they would be getting back someone that actually could help over the next two years - a pitcher with a decent upside, say, well, yeah. Do it probably.
I think the theory STAND PAT isn't even feasible without knowing what the deal would be. It's a more useful exercise to look at their assets and decide what they should want back in return. When I read the original hypothetical I thought it was with regard to a "white flag" type of trade. That's a question we'd have to ponder at the moment too. If the Cubs were 3 games up in July and a contending team wanted to know what they'd take for Snork, I think it'd be wise to consider what prospects they've got that can help us beyond Snork - even if it made the CubbieBlueStews of the world crap their pants.
Neither, Stew.
I'm sorry.
2016 though.
Consider it an 85th birthday present.
Quote from: SKO on November 10, 2016, 08:16:26 AM
Half of the country voted for him. I don't care if Jake is one of them. A lot of people who mean a lot more to you than Jake Arrieta probably did, too. Not saying you can't be mad at him, or them, or this entire country, but angrily dismissing them as nothing more than idiots and bigots isn't the right response either. I thought maybe it was, but it turns out that years of just dismissing an entire swath of the country's complaints because even the valid complaints were surrounded by racism and sexism makes those people mad, and only creates more anger and it was enough to make this tragedy happen.
If Jake's a Trump supporter, fine. Throw the baseball well and I'll look past it. I'll write it off as ignorance and I hope he learns from it, like I hope they'll all learn from it. We're going to have to pick our battles for a while, folks. This isn't the one I want to have.
Quote from: Brownie on November 07, 2016, 05:37:40 PMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on November 07, 2016, 04:52:38 PMThis is better, no?Quote from: R-V on November 07, 2016, 04:46:15 PM
To Chuck's point about EJax, Hammel and Fowler coming off the books, has anyone done an estimate of what the 2017 payroll commitment looks like at the moment? Guessing it is not an easy exercise considering how many arbitration eligible guys they have...
This is a pretty good place to start.
ETA: Grab 2016 off the pulldown to get a handle on what guys not on long term deals made this year.
Quote from: Tonker on November 07, 2016, 02:08:31 PM
A couple more entries:
Ricobene's. HOLY SHIT WHAT A FUCKEN SAMMICH. That thing was fucking HUGE and I only had the regular. It was really, really, REALLY good, too. Like, "I'm totally going to make the trip down to DA SOUT SIDE MY FRENT to get another one next time I'm in town" good. The fries were also excellent, but they were gilding the lily, really. Yuge thanks to Fork and Larry for going out of their way to make sure I filled in a gap of which - in hindsight - I should have been thoroughly ashamed.
Gene and Jude's. Once again, Fork's Culinary Tours came up trumps and this little beauty filled the gap between second lunch and high tea very nicely indeed. It's a bit weird in that they bill themselves as a hot dog place but there's no poppy seed buns, no green relish, no tomato and if I remember rightly, not even a pickle spear. Still, what they do is very good and almost embarrassingly cheap. And not a bottle of ketchup in sight, so it gets the Huey seal of approval, too.
I had a couple of pizzas, too, but there was so much confusion with regard to where they had come from (I think we nearly ate somebody else's pizza at one point on Saturday night), that I can't really review them.
Also, Fork's BBBQ is the balls, and Hawk and NHawk are just ridiculously, fantastically gracious, generous and above all, delicious hosts.
And as for that cake, Chuck? I'm not exaggerating, that thing had to have been twenty thousand calories. I could hardly eat it all.
Quote from: Eli on November 07, 2016, 02:13:02 PMQuote from: SKO on November 07, 2016, 02:09:34 PMQuote from: Eli on November 07, 2016, 01:30:56 PMQuote from: Cannonball Titcomb on November 07, 2016, 01:07:22 PM
Y'all cry an awful lot.
I've started to think there's something wrong with me for just smiling a lot about the Cubs winning a World Series instead of crying all the time.
To each their own. Not surprising that those of us most prone to feeling the DOOM and rage are also the ones most incapable of controlling our emotions when they actually do win it all. Don't care how you celebrate, point is we're celebrating together.
I was being earnest, so no judgment from me. I think I had always assumed it would be more emotional, but it's really just felt like, "That was a blast, let's do it again sometime!"
Quote from: CT III on November 07, 2016, 11:14:00 AMQuote from: Oleg on November 07, 2016, 10:56:21 AMQuote from: Quality Start Machine on November 07, 2016, 10:31:29 AMQuote from: R-V on November 07, 2016, 10:20:27 AMThe commemorative SI is already at book stores and newsstands. There's a Sporting News one as well.Quote from: thehawk on November 07, 2016, 10:13:32 AMQuote from: R-V on November 07, 2016, 10:10:33 AMhttps://www.amazon.com/2016-World-Champions-Chicago-Blu-ray/dp/B01L1SDZ5Q/ref=pd_ybh?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01L1SDZ5Q&pd_rd_r=F0WP6NNNEVF3A12XV54S&pd_rd_w=bbqMi&pd_rd_wg=hh8zP&psc=1&refRID=F0WP6NNNEVF3A12XV54S
DPD. When I was a kid I remember the commercials for the Sports Illustrated World Series commemorative package that included a retrospective videotape/DVD along with some sort of souvenir, and thinking about how awesome it would be to get one of those for the Cubs. Do they still do that, or does MLB Network or someone else?
They also do an 8 disc set of the World Series
Awesome, thanks.
I'm just glad that the World Series hasn't meant any changes on the fringe.
It's a new day.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 06, 2016, 03:42:52 PMQuote from: PenFoe on November 04, 2016, 04:29:17 PMQuote from: Saul Goodman on November 04, 2016, 03:10:16 PM
This dude is such a class act. Compare Chris Coghlan. Coghlan loses his regular spot for like a month in 2015 and can't wait to start bitching about it to reporters. Heyward struggles all year, and doesn't ever blame the team for changing his stance. Doesn't complain about all the tinkering even once. Gets benched in the playoffs and doesn't say a word. Instead he just keeps bringing his solid D, puts some good hits and baserunning together, and calls a team meeting for a reality check that rallies them to win the damn World Series.
There's no one I want to see succeed more next year than Heyward. What a pro.
I'd rather see Kris Bryant succeed.
Really going out on a limb there, big guy.
