OT: Prince Fielder to AL

[Uman85]

I apologize if it looks like I was dissing Paul Konerko. That was not the intention, it was more to say that Paul Konerko is a first baseman who is defensively better than Dunn and Prince Fielder combined and therefore it made no sense for the White Sox to overpay for Prince Fielder. Bad timing, too much money, not enough positions.

No worries. I knew you were just throwing a name out as an example. It's all good.

 

[Uman85]

I disabled sig, so no. Not a splash? That's basically buying ourselves a top 10 prospect in the MLB. That's a pretty big thing to do. Then you go and compare giving a guy who has never played above A ball 50-60 million dollars to giving a proven MLBer 10. Right, that makes a whole fuckload of sense. If you say it's not a big splash, then I guess it's not a big splash.

Yeah, I was wrong about them. So what? That's why I'm not the guy in charge. But I can totally get behind what Thoyer is doing.

Thoyer.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Tony Campana: Not-So-Princely Cub

 

[Rice Cube]

No worries. I knew you were just throwing a name out as an example. It's all good.

And now...there will be peace. :buttrock:

 

[Uman85]

And now...there will be peace. :buttrock:

 

[DewsSox79]

I disabled sig, so no. Not a splash? That's basically buying ourselves a top 10 prospect in the MLB. That's a pretty big thing to do. Then you go and compare giving a guy who has never played above A ball 50-60 million dollars to giving a proven MLBer 10. Right, that makes a whole fuckload of sense. If you say it's not a big splash, then I guess it's not a big splash.

Yeah, I was wrong about them. So what? That's why I'm not the guy in charge. But I can totally get behind what Thoyer is doing.

do you know the def of a big splash? you are delusional kid.

 

[DewsSox79]

Thoyer.

yeah the whole CO theoisms are getting old.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Care to elaborate or are you just going to make pointless posts? We already have WFH for that.

 

[Uman85]

Care to elaborate or are you just going to make pointless posts? We already have WFH for that.

Pointless posts? You're the king of that, or should I say the captain.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Pointless posts? You're the king of that, or should I say the captain.

You still haven't made a point....

 

[Uman85]

You still haven't made a point....

Neither have you...ever.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Neither have you...ever.

Yes, I have.

You have to take into account the new CBA, though. We'll never be able to do this with another IFA. You don't consider Darvish a big splash. That's basically the same contract. Of course there is no posting fee, but he'd be an equal contract with far less experience(meaning he has played at a lower level.) Sure, it's borderline, but it's a big signing nonetheless, plus when you take into account that we'll likely get Soler and Concepcion too.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Please stop being such a kaplan of message boards.

How dare you criticize me. My local neighborhood stray cats told me that the Cubs were landing both Fielder & Pujols.

 

[Chi_Sports_guy]

Cabrera will most likely play third, and fielder first. And maybe the will take turns at the DH position. We'll see what happens. But as far as baseball goes...GO CUBS GO!


May the Force be with you.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Yeah, he's gone half the off-season building assets building toward the future, but now he's going to change things up.

he could...you dont know that

*Maybe* he does have a different plan, but it's not hard to see how the Cubs are being connected to the Cubans and let's be serious here, Theo isn't a Special person. He realizes that this is the last chance we can assert ourselves as a big market in the international free agent scene. Do you *really* think he's going to pass up the opportunity?

no duh...and i never said he wasnt going to sign some cuban prospect

but Theo plays the card close..there's alot that goes behind the scene..perhaps other clubs have interest..or perhaps particular players want more

i'm not saying the cubs wont get a couple of signings..i'm saying that there's no way of exactly knowing until its done

 

[Rice Cube]

I'd recommend that if you want to discuss Cespedes, do it in the thread in the rumors forum.

This thread is for lamenting how good the Detroit Tigers will be for about two years before all those contracts collapse on each other :lol:

 

[Rice Cube]

i'm not saying the cubs wont get a couple of signings..i'm saying that there's no way of exactly knowing until its done

This is true, especially since the Chicago media no longer has an inside edge. All the big transactions were leaked literally hours before they were finalized. That's true of most transactions before officially official, but in most cases there were no signs that such a transaction would happen until it did happen.

 

[DewsSox79]

he could...you dont know that







no duh...and i never said he wasnt going to sign some cuban prospect

but Theo plays the card close..there's alot that goes behind the scene..perhaps other clubs have interest..or perhaps particular players want more

i'm not saying the cubs wont get a couple of signings..i'm saying that there's no way of exactly knowing until its done

hence Fielder going to the tigers. thats baseball for ya, you just never know what is going on.

 

[nwfisch]

Angels/Tigers ALCS?

 

[Jntg4]

How dare you criticize me. My local neighborhood stray cats told me that the Cubs were landing both Fielder & Pujols.

Stray cat joke is almost as old as the JoeHawks88 nameplay. Stop.




On another note, I guess CO's gonna have to wait to laugh when the Cubs sign Fielder... it's going to take at least nine years.