Cubs' Prospects FUTUREBONER thread

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Despite not being much excitement after the top 3, it's worth noting (from this article on the top 30) that 11 of the top 30 prospects are in Triple-A this year, on a team with no obvious room. 

Seems like we could/should see some of these guys go this year. 

Every team that's selling pitchers at the deadline will have Jepstink on speed dial.

I don't think people use speed dial anymore. They store contact information in their cell phone, and then either look that person up in their contacts and call them or just send them a text message. I give this post two Pinocchios.

Speed dial is picking up the phone and pressing only a button or two to call up the person, instead of dialing the full 10 digit. An these newfangled cell phones let someone pick up the phone, press a couple buttons and call up a person instead of dialing the full 10 digit. It is, as you may see now, a speed dial, after all.

Checkmate, bitch

Yeah, I lol'd when I first read this reply but then re-read it and realized the speed dial is the *only* way people use mobile phones.  BOO, RV--BOOO!

Speed dial is specific to landlines. Note that I didn't claim that the method for calling people on a cell phone was faster than a landline speed dial. The point is that people don't really use landlines (and their corresponding features e.g. speed dial) anymore.

Show me a screenshot of the term "speed dial" as a function in your cell phone menu and I'll eat my hatphone.

Mine isn't as awesome as yours, but I just want to make RV eat another hatphone.

[Tony]

If everyone is basically on speed dial, is anyone really on speed dial?

[flannj]

I just spin the rotary dial really fast.

[CBStew]

I just spin the rotary dial really fast.

I have one of those phones that looks like a candlestick holder for the mouthpiece and a handle on the side to hold the earpiece.  Every so often I grab it and shout into it, "Murphy, stop the presses.  Scrap the front page and have the typesetter set up a new headline..."

[SKO]

I just spin the rotary dial really fast.

I have one of those phones that looks like a candlestick holder for the mouthpiece and a handle on the side to hold the earpiece.  Every so often I grab it and shout into it, "Murphy, stop the presses.  Scrap the front page and have the typesetter set up a new headline..."

I assumed you just refused to adopt a whole new technology after you got so quick with the wireless. Why Stew could fire off a telegram to London faster than the speed of smell

[CT III]

I just spin the rotary dial really fast.

I have one of those phones that looks like a candlestick holder for the mouthpiece and a handle on the side to hold the earpiece.  Every so often I grab it and shout into it, "Murphy, stop the presses.  Scrap the front page and have the typesetter set up a new headline..."

I assumed you just refused to adopt a whole new technology after you got so quick with the wireless. Why Stew could fire off a telegram to London faster than the speed of smell

Well, he could until that damned Kaiser had the transatlantic telegraph cable snipped.

[R-V]

Despite not being much excitement after the top 3, it's worth noting (from this article on the top 30) that 11 of the top 30 prospects are in Triple-A this year, on a team with no obvious room. 

Seems like we could/should see some of these guys go this year. 

Every team that's selling pitchers at the deadline will have Jepstink on speed dial.

I don't think people use speed dial anymore. They store contact information in their cell phone, and then either look that person up in their contacts and call them or just send them a text message. I give this post two Pinocchios.

Speed dial is picking up the phone and pressing only a button or two to call up the person, instead of dialing the full 10 digit. An these newfangled cell phones let someone pick up the phone, press a couple buttons and call up a person instead of dialing the full 10 digit. It is, as you may see now, a speed dial, after all.

Checkmate, bitch

Yeah, I lol'd when I first read this reply but then re-read it and realized the speed dial is the *only* way people use mobile phones.  BOO, RV--BOOO!

Speed dial is specific to landlines. Note that I didn't claim that the method for calling people on a cell phone was faster than a landline speed dial. The point is that people don't really use landlines (and their corresponding features e.g. speed dial) anymore.

Show me a screenshot of the term "speed dial" as a function in your cell phone menu and I'll eat my hatphone.

RV's extended hiatus has rendered his Desipio game so off-kilter that Yeti's pwning the fuck out of him with a simple flick of the wrist.  Sad!

I lost my speedlink to Desipio, now I have to dial in each letter of the URL separately. Very time consuming.

[Quality Start Machine]

Dylan Cease might be good.

[CBStew]

Dylan Cease might be good.

Half of his 45 outs have been strikeouts.  (22)

[Chuck to Chuck]

Dylan Cease might be good.

Half of his 45 outs have been strikeouts.  (22)

He's here by Memorial Day.

[SKO]

Dylan Cease might be good.

Half of his 45 outs have been strikeouts.  (22)

He's here by Memorial Day.

No, Chuck

[Quality Start Machine]

Dylan Cease might be good.

Half of his 45 outs have been strikeouts.  (22)

He's here by Memorial Day.

2019

[Saul Goodman]

Three college pitchers on day one.  Hopefully this starts to stuff the channel with cheap controllable pitching down the road, Cardinals-style.  I don't hate it.

[Saul Goodman]

Three college pitchers on day one.  Hopefully this starts to stuff the channel with cheap controllable pitching down the road, Cardinals-style.  I don't hate it.

Also, this is important: second-round pick Cory Abbott's mug shot looks like the love child of Kyle Hendricks and Anthony Rizzo.

[Quality Start Machine]

In 28 games (97 ABs) in Myrtle Beach this year, Eloy's slashing 278/381/546 with 7 dongs.

Do the Cubs let him finish the year here, or is it time for him to see what the Southern League has to offer?