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[MLB photo] COL vs CHC, 9-13-2023

Chicago Cubs, Dansby Swanson / photo by Wongeol Jeong   Chicago Cubs, Dansby Swanson / photo by Wongeol Jeong   Chicago Cubs, Seiya Suzuki / photo by Wongeol Jeong   Chicago Cubs, Seiya Suzuki / photo by Wongeol Jeong   Chicago Cubs, Seiya Suzuki / photo by Wongeol Jeong   Chicago Cubs, Seiya Suzuki / photo by Wongeol Jeong   (Denver = Wongeol Jeong) Colorado had the final game of their…

[3sportsguns]

Winning Teams Make Moves

The NFL is on the precipice of the biggest free agent quarterback class of all time, the type of class that could really alter the NFL landscape. Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Dak Prescott, Ryan Tannehill, Phillip Rivers, Jameis Winston, Teddy Bridgewater, Marcus Mariota and Case Keenum are all free agents at this point for the 2020 off season. Not every one of those players is a no brainer starter but there's plenty there for a lot of NFL teams to consider.

Winning teams make moves to try and bring the championship home. The Houston Rockets did exactly that in the NBA. They surprised the basketball world by shipping off Clint Capela to go small ball all the time. Now plenty, myself included, don't think that's the way to a championship and Daryl Morey is just throwing things against the wall to see what works. However, it's a team that saw the writing on the wall and made a change to try and find what works.

Meanwhile you look at the Chicago Bears and their loyalty to Mitch Trubisky at the end of the season has teams frustrated again. It's fair to say it was coach speak as they aren't going to throw the kid under the bus before they can even make a move, but a lot feel like Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy's statements rang true. If Chicago runs it back then much of the same came be expected as the jury seems out on Mitch.

There aren't a ton of draft resources available after the Khalil Mack trade, still not one I regret, but that was a win now move. With the Mack trade, money he's making and their key players cheap it was about maximizing the chances. Instead the double doink ruined a promising season and last year was awful. If Trubisky isn't the answer then the GM needs to do everything in his power to take advantage of the window for his team that shares a division with Minnesota and Green Bay.

Look no further than the same city as the Chicago Cubs are waving the white flag. MLB has a problem as a league because of teams treating the luxury tax as a hard cap, but Theo Epstein was handicapped last year and all about admitted they were giving up on their window. Now, with the young players the veterans and getting more expensive the run looks like it could be at the end.

David Ross was hired to replace Joe Maddon, still a bit of a questionable move to me, but the culture change is the argument with the core of the World Series team still around. I'll have a longer leash for that argument of change IF the brain trust doesn't start tearing down the team. All off season has be filled with rumors of Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Wilson Contreras possibly being trading, among others. A team with a lot of stars still in its prime is considering rebuilding?

The truth is Maddon was a scapegoat, and deserved some blame, but much like the Boston Red Sox, Epstein has handicapped the team with bad free agent signings. The inability to draft pitching put more pressure to spend excessive money on the staff. The first wave of big prospects were key in breaking the curse but it has fallen off dramatically. Where are the waves of prospects, international signings, any reinforcements?

It's not that great being a Chicago sports fan right now, mostly because of terrible management. It says a lot that the best front office, the Chicago Cubs, are in the same boat. Winning teams make moves, look at the Boston Celtics and their lack of aggressiveness. Are they really a threat to win a championship? Apparently one World Series was good enough for the Cubs, the Bears QB position will stay broken, the Bulls are a mess, the hope may just lie in the Blackhawks. It has been a rough few seasons coming down from all the win now moves but with three Stanley Cups it's a lot more understandable.

[georgiajourney]

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[fiction-bks]

GENRE: CONTEMPORARY. AGE-GAP. ICE QUEEN. SINGLE MOM. WORKPLACE.⁠ ⁠ ❤️ABSTRACT: "Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny job at the Wellington estate is the answer to her problems, except working for beautiful, successful Brook Wellington wasn't in the job description. Brook's priority is her six-year-old son. Can Cassie and Brook deny their growing attraction and keep things professional? Or will they sidestep propriety and give in to temptation?"⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 This was my first Kris Bryant book and well, I fell in love. I usually have a hard time re-reading romance because I already know what's going to happen or I don't get the same high I get when I read it the first time. I was worried this might happen when I first read this book last year. So I decided to give my memory sometime and my emotions some distance for them to craze this book again. And well, it worked like magic because I enjoyed myself almost like I did the first time. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 Crushes, oh well, we all suffer that fate but this was just really emotionally beautiful because, ice queen, nanny and age-gap is such a meal. The book was really enjoyable. I laughed, screamed, rolled my eyes and swooned… that I definitely did. And Noah was so adorable. Erica and Nana; just love.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 BROOK WELLINGTON IS THE WOMAN, (I feel like I say this to most ice queens but fuck). Brook had stamina, Can't be competed with and I would definitely be intrigued if course. It seems ridiculous to say a character is hot but my visual picture of Brook Wellington, she is just perfectly hot. I think I crush on her, just a little. ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 And finally my baby, Cassie Miller, I love you, despite all those insecurities that at some point seemed meaningless, but we are all humans and see things differently. I loved you the most. Cassie Miller was everything good about this book. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #wlwbooks #krisbryant #sapphic #sapphicbooks #lesbianfiction #lesbianbooks #boldstrokebooks https://www.instagram.com/fiction.bks/p/CYHVazEOEZS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[franklong12]

Chicago Cubs honor Kris Bryant with video tribute for his return to Wrigley with San Francisco Giants A video tribute, a No. 17 tile from the ... Read the rest on our site with the url below https://worldwidetweets.com/chicago-cubs-honor-kris-bryant-with-video-tribute-for-his-return-to-wrigley-with-san-francisco-giants/?feed_id=83043&_unique_id=613e4df2b6a2a #ChicagoCubs #KrisBryant #MLB #News #SanFranciscoGiants #wrigley

[plentygems]

🔥2021 Topps Opening Day Turf War Diamond Relics🔥Lobe how they actually used dirt from the park! 1. Luis Robert / Kris Bryant 2.Ronald Anuna Jr / Juan Soto 3.Anthony Rizzo / Paul Goldschmidt #ToppsOpeningDay #Relics #Luisrobert #KrisBryant #ronaldacuñajr. #juansoto #anthonyrizzo. #paulgoldschmidt #Turfwar https://www.instagram.com/p/CPV3CGEsjyS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mc-cards]

⚾️ #mondaymood 🌬 🏆 2016 Topps Heritage N°70 ‘67 Kris Bryant (asrc) @cubs . . . . . . . . . . . . #baseball #baseballcards #sportscards #thehobby #moderncards #throwback #collectables #cubsbaseball #windycity #cubsofinstagram #cubsfan #bryant #krisbryant #asrc #allstarrookiecup #hofhopeful #roy #cubs #cubbies #chicago #16topps #worldchampion #3b #thirdbase #tradingcards #mccards #mlb #toppsbaseball #wrigleyfield @topps @mlb @espn (at Wrigley Field) https://www.instagram.com/p/COaibwUMP6W/?igshid=xz7wtuip0jfn

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[MLB] Kinley, finish the game without allowing any runs

Colorado Rockies, Ty Blach / photo by Wongeol Jeong   (Denver = Wongeol Jeong) Colorado had the final game of their three-game series against Chicago.   On the 13th local time, in an MLB game held at Colorado’s home stadium Coors Field, Colorado secured a 7-3 victory over Chicago, powered by home runs from players like Nolan Jones.   Chicago Cubs, Jameson Taillon / photo by Wongeol…

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Kris Bryant got DRILLED with a 96 mph fastball - Helmet does a 360 & lands back on his head... 😳 . . #KrisBryant | #Cubs | #EverybodyIn | #MLB | #CubsBaseball | #GoCubs | #FlyTheW | #MLBBaseball

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GSMC Baseball Podcast Episode 395: Rumors, Rumors, and More Rumors

[3sportsguns]

The Ride is Over

Besides winning the 2016 World Series the best moment for Cubs fans was signing Theo Epstein. He is a revered leader of a franchise and seemed like finally the right kind of management that could lead the Cubs to the level they had been waiting over 100 years for. The brain trust of Epstein, Jed Hoyer and Jason McLeod tore it down and built a World Series winner, but that window seems shut.

Epstein broke the curse of the Great Bambino and Boston, he had broken a drought already, but let's not forget Boston was happy to see him go. Epstein had built a World Series winner in Boston, and won two, but was also the reason the team got stuck in payroll purgatory. Carl Crawford, Mike Cameron, Julio Lugo; plenty of contracts Epstein handed out tanked the two time winners. Sounding familiar Cubs fans?

Epstein drafted a lot of players to help those Boston Red Sox win but then depleted the farm system and cap space by making big moves to keep the contention going, instead it shut the window. The brain trust made the Cubs one of the best  with top draft picks and shipping out everyone from the previous regime, but where has that been since they won the World Series?

Coming in to the 2020 season the Cubs farm system rated as 23rd out of 30 teams in all of baseball. Their highest rated prospect in the top 100 is number 63 Brailyn Marquez, who's with the major league club. They have two other prospects in the top 100, OF Brennen Davis who's at A ball and C Miguel Amaya who's also with the big club. Chicago's top 10 prospects has three with the parent club and the rest at A ball or lower. For the rest of the top 30, three pitchers are in the majors and every other prospect is A ball or lower. The farm system is weak.

When you're competing you're going to value production for the parent club, but Epstein is always talking about parallel fronts, but it isn't happening. After that big wave that included Kris Bryant, Javier Baez, Kyle Schwarber and others, they haven't been able to replenish it even in to the middle rankings of the majors. Epstein and his brain trust regularly draft position players early, where has the pitching been?

Epstein's biggest shortcoming, and the biggest contributor, to the down fall of the Cubs will be his inability to develop pitchers. While the top ranked prospects that are with the club are mostly pitchers, are they any top end starters? Jon Lester, Yu Darvish, Jose Quintana, most of the rotation has been bought and that has left ownership saying 'We don't have any money to spend.'

It has been the exact same with closers. Aroldis Chapman, Greg Holland, Craig Kimbrel, all closers either bought or traded for. Now, let's be honest the Chapman trade was inevitable. While it hurts to see Gleyber Torres develop for the Yankees, especially with Chapman signing right back with the Yankees, that's the price for the World Series. However, the White Sox got in to the playoffs in big part because of Eloy Jimenez. The trade for Jose Quintana was a big set back from the Cubs and an indictment the organizations failure to find in house pitching.

Epstein is entering the last year of his deal and there are already rumors he'll stay a lame duck and just walk away. It's hard to envision after 2016 that just four years later we'd get to 2020 and be okay with Epstein walking away. For Chicago that's probably just, and should be, the beginning of a lot of changes for this Cubs team.

Chicago already tried spending to extend the window and it has just seen disappointing season after disappointing season. The window is closed. It's time to blow it up and start fresh. For the first time in a few seasons the Cubs will have some payroll open up with Lester a free agent, 25 million team option, Quintana's 10.5 comes off the books, Tyler Chatwoods 13 expires. That leaves the Cubs with 87 million, though Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber and Javier Baez enter their final years of arbitration with seven other players on the big league squad in arbitration.

Anthony Rizzo has one more team option at 16.5 million that will likely be picked up. I'd imagine Lester will not have his option picked up but could be back at a cheaper price. The talent is there, but it's been well documented the issues management has had trying to get a deal hammered out with Baez and Bryant. Again, who would of thought after 2016 those two wouldn't be sure bets to get another Cubs contract, but they may have played their last games at the friendly confines.

It was shortened season for 2020 but Baez still only hit 203 with eight home runs and 24 RBI. There's no doubt he has the 'It factor' on defense, but where has the offense been in the post season? Kris Bryant hit 206 in 2020 with only four homers and 11 RBI and has struggled to stay healthy since winning the MVP. Both are going to expect huge contracts but have been the core of a team that has regularly disappointed. Rumors came out of last season's off season that whoever would sign the Cubs would keep and they'd move the other, but now both could be gone.

Expect the rumors to ramp up this winter as both still aren't signed and, while they're value is depressed now and could keep them on the roster to start 2021, it doesn't seem Chicago will pay them as they blow it up and restock the farm system. Anthony Rizzo could join them on the way out despite being the leader of this team. Rizzo is 30, hit 222 with eleven homers and 24 RBI and has not gotten an extension either.

Kyle Scwarber seemed inevitable to come to a railroad situation at some point as he's more suited to be a DH and now enters his last arbitration year. The theme is reoccurring for 2020 as Schwarbs hit 188 with eleven dingers and 24 RBI in 2020. His price will be more reasonable for Chicago, but he was benched during the season for his defense and needs to be a full time DH.

David Bote and Nico Hoerner, while not the same caliber as the big stars, provide solid options at a cheaper rate for the Cubs while they rebuild another winner. Albert Almora was sent down during the disappointing 2020 season but Ian Happ broke out in a big way. Those three, along with Wilson Contreras at catcher and Victor Caritini needing a position, could be the core of the Cubs offense before 2021 is over.

You draft and trade to develop the type of players the Cubs had, but whatever this team was going to do looks like it has been done. During interviews throughout the season the stars knew what this year could mean for them and they were bad and flamed out in disappointing fashion in the playoffs yet again. Of course there's always a risk of never getting back, but signing the stars means the team won't change and it could be continual competitive purgatory.

With the stars at a depressed value it's likely they could start the season in Chicago, but will they finish 2021 in the Windy City? If Epstein truly is in a lame duck year how does he manage the team? Will Hoyer take over after he leaves or do they try and win before they possibly bounce? Running it back would be a mistake and it's time to to restart. Very rarely have we seen continued top competitiveness in the MLB and it looks like the Cubs need to go back to the basement and figure it out again.

[libraryofsports]

[fiction-bks]

GENRE: CONTEMPORARY. FOODIE. ICE QUEEN. WORKPLACE.⁠ ⁠ 🌟 ABSTRACT: "Determined to fulfill her dream of becoming a chef and winning a coveted scholarship to study cooking in Italy, Ki Blake rushes in late to the first class of her final semester at Kirkwood Culinary Academy and is stopped in her tracks by Taryn Ellis, the school’s newest instructor. A beautiful and accomplished chef, Taryn has walked away from her promising career in the city’s top restaurant to devote her life to her five-year-old daughter. It’s up to both Ki and Taryn to decide whether they have found something genuine or whether the taste of romance they’ve had is truly enough."⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 This one was different, felt different for me. I don't usually read foodie books. I read this one, mainly, because of the sapphic challenge and I like Kris' way of building different characters. This is mainly how confident or not the character is gonna be in chasing after she wants and loves. This usually intrigues me. ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 I enjoyed the connection between Ki and Taryn and her daughter was also cute. The scenes when they finally gave into their intense emotions was written interesting way because the Taryn had reservations. Understandable of course because both of them had enough to lose. ⁠ ⁠ 🌟 One thing though that didn't sit well with me was Ki choosing not to go after she won the scholarship. I am not trying to be in way for HEA but when I read that scene, to me, it just seemed so ridiculous. Like what was the meaning to the competition then. Because really, even I got a little stressed during that restaurant scene when that arrogant prick sabotaged Ki. All that stress for nothing. Other the side, we can't judge others of their choice, to each their own. The cafe ideas was brilliant though. God, who doesn't want to go ti Italy or what happened to, "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be." That also seems a little ridiculous, like why do I have to let you go, if I love you. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #wlwbooks #sapphicbooks #boldstrokebooks #krisbryant #lesbianfiction #lesbianbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CYEHZR8skRM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[neatandniceshop]

I was lucky enough to take my sons to Wrigley Field for the Cubs Game this weekend. This was their first time - what an experience! Cubs won 16-6! Rizzo got hurt and my son was super bummed. Kris Bryant did awesome!! . . . . . . #cubs #chicagocubs #krisbryant #rizzo #anthonyrizzo #chicago #wrigley #wrigleyfield #baseball #baseballboys #memories #family #experience #wrigleyville (at Wrigley Field) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hVGJrlA1G/?igshid=xrbho25ysck1

[harcourtdaily]

One time for Wrigleyville. Fly the W! My old stomping grounds. I see you @hebrubrantley. 💪🏾🔥🙌🏾⚾️🐻 #hebrubrantley #chicago #uptown #wrigleyville #cubs #mlb #baseball #krisbryant #home (at Wrigleyville) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvuTLtklRsK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8dpcyg5zx3cc