Jason "The Professor" Parks has left BP and is moving to Arizona to work in the scouting department for the Cubs. He had headed up the BP scouting and prospect department ever since KG moved to the Astro's.

I guess those journalists may actually know something about scouting contrary to popular position heldby many esteemed CSEMB members. He is NOT the first and will not be the BP alum to move into the front offices of a MLB team.

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We know they know enough to draft guys they can't sign. That's for sure.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down to get it!

You assume success of these individuals. This has not occurred. If it does not occur it is just a bad hire by two questionable organizations.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I've never heard of a Cub fan assuming success before.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down to get it!

Are you now bragging that the Cubs hired a blogger?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It's the Cub equivalent of Score Search.

Welcome to the team Maya Gavin!

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This is the only Professor I care about.

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-- source

Hanley: BP Journalist? The Cubs have been shitting on the fans for years and now they hire a gas guy for more indigestion?

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That Bill James guy is a fraud too!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Him and Hot Sauce were my favorites.

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bill james is not a talent evaluator. What he does is much closer to hard science

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This event will push the Score further into the abyss of shit and garbage.

This should really help the rankings of the Cubs minor league system.

Interesting how the Cubs are named "The greatest minor league system in the history of minor league systems" and then they go and hire them.
This leads to these options.
1) The Cubs are trading positive press for jobs.
2) This was the baseball literati sucking up to the Cubs so they could get close to them and eventually get jobs with them.
3) Theo is only interested in Yes Men who want to simply talk about how great he is.

This is troubling for everyone involved.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

4) Cubs can use the inflated value of their prospects in future trades to fleece other teams.

Good point.

This may be yet another example of Theo trying to game the system. MLB may need to modify its rules once again to stop him.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'd like to see THAT rule modification.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

FIVE REALLY-SMART-GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES!!!

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That's a strech...

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

Im not sure Kris Bryant is even a real person

Don't be snarky.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Whatever happened to Snarky Poster?

He was the goods

Hired by the Cubs too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

He called everyone by their full name. But Theo's name is Theo and Jed is just Jed

The conclusions may be a stretch. It is not a stretch to understand he was analyzing Cub prospects for an independent organization while engaged in negotiations with the Cubs resulting in some bias.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

It's not a stretch. It's the truth.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

as I have said earlier, everyone used to think ND gained great recruits based on Tom Lemming's scouting until it was discovered that Tom Lemming adjusted his scouting when a recruit chose ND.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You call everyone by their full name You call my doorman, Sammy,. "Samuel" but you didn't even say "Samuel" You went "Sam - U- EL!"

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