2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (LOL NO)

[Timby]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Why the hell does Cespedes keep getting traded, anyway? I mean, I'm glad the Mets have him, but why didn't any of those OTHER teams hold onto him?

Cespedes has a unique clause in his contract that gives him the right to be outright released at the end of his contract, meaning the team that's holding him at the end of his deal (now the Mets) has only a five-day negotiating window after the end of the World Series to keep him -- they can't give him the QO and under the terms of the CBA, any outright released player can't be re-signed by his previous team until May 15 of the following year. Teams keep trading him because he'll be a somewhat attractive target in free agency (even though his on-base skills suck out loud) and they want the opportunity to acquire him without giving up a draft pick. The Mets grabbed him because they can't afford future salary commitments right now, so this was a budget-neutral move.

 

[Kronos]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Cespedes over Bruce is a pretty clear indicator that the Mets either couldn't or wouldn't take on future salary obligations.

Getting Bruce would have required the Reds to have really wanted to move him, they appear to think they can win in 2016 with a rotation of unproven kids and a guy with his arm held together with tape.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

I'd like to thank MLB umpire Jim Wolf for shitting the bed today in Toronto. What a joke!

--Sran

 

[tomalak301]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

I'd like to thank MLB umpire Jim Wolf for shitting the bed today in Toronto. What a joke!

--Sran

That game, like many others this season, was really poorly managed. Wolf really should be disciplined by the league for that today, but he won't be because for some reason Umps are immune to that kind of thing. To issue a warning in the first inning and still allow that to get out of hand, and then throw out a Blue Jay player for hitting the Royals, when the Royals have done in at least two times prior was just bad.

Also, the Royals were supposed to be a good story from last year to this year. I watch that team not and it almost seems like they have a superiority complex and it's really off putting. I know now I'm rooting for them to NOT when the World Series.

 

[Corran Horn]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

This seems like it's the year of the umpshow, I agree.

 

[Kronos]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Bring on robo umps.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

I'm watching the Mets vs Nats on ESPN. It's like being broadcast by 3 drunk frat bros. Its awful, how does anyone watch this.

ETA: Back to back home runs. Mets up 3-1

ETA More: Duda hits a two run home run. Mets up 5-1

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Nice win for the Mets, nice sweep of the Nats. I know we have a fairly easy schedule going forth but there is no way I imagine Washington not winning the division. There is no wildcard probably coming out of the NL east.

 

[Starbreaker]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Jim Wolf looked like a clown tonight. Does he hate Canada?

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

No, it's more an indifference

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Apparently, Jim Wolf making an ass of himself wasn't enough. Now, players from both the Royals and Blue Jays have taken to Twitter to continue the antics of yesterday. Why am I not surprised Yardano Ventura was involved?

--Sran

 

[Corran Horn]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Cubs/Pirates should've never been allowed to start given the weather conditions.

What a waste of two TOR starters. Oh well, at least they gained in the WC.

 

[Timby]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Dave Dombrowski is out in Detroit.

This feels like a really oddly timed move.

 

[Danny99]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/141101968

What the fuck?

Not only does Wolfe hate Canada, the MLB does too. Ventura was as much at fault as anyone and he gets off scot free?

Seriously?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

None of this would have happened if Jim Wolf hadn't put down that warning in the first inning. Totally uncalled for.

 

[Timby]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

None of this would have happened if Jim Wolf hadn't put down that warning in the first inning. Totally uncalled for.

Wolf is a terrible umpire, but one cannot ignore that the Royals under Ned Yost have been headhunters all season (I think this is their sixth or seventh bench-clearing incident in 2015).

 

[Corran Horn]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

None of this would have happened if Jim Wolf hadn't put down that warning in the first inning. Totally uncalled for.

Wolf is a terrible umpire, but one cannot ignore that the Royals under Ned Yost have been headhunters all season (I think this is their sixth or seventh bench-clearing incident in 2015).

I'll stipulate to both - umpiring is terrible this year and Ned Yost is an idiot.

 

[Danny99]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

Loathe for me to admit that I agree with Gregg Zaun, but he said on the Sportsnet broadcast that if you are going to lay down a warning in the first inning, the next time Ventura threw at Donaldson, Ventura should've been gone.

I'm glad Sanchez is appealing. His ejection was the biggest piece of BS.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

None of this would have happened if Jim Wolf hadn't put down that warning in the first inning. Totally uncalled for.

And he won't get in any trouble for it, either. Lifetime membership in the Good Ole' Boys Club must be a wonderful thing; you can suck at your job and never face any consequences.

--Sran

 

[Corran Horn]

Re: 2015 MLB Season - Can the Cubs FINALLY win the World Series? (No.)

None of this would have happened if Jim Wolf hadn't put down that warning in the first inning. Totally uncalled for.

And he won't get in any trouble for it, either. Lifetime membership in the Good Ole' Boys Club must be a wonderful thing; you can suck at your job and never face any consequences.

--Sran

I was going to start naming the umps for which this is true and I just got so sad I'm going to go curl into a ball now.