Dexter Fowler, Starlin Castro and Jonathan Herrera are gone.

Replaced with Adam Warren, John Lackey and Ben Zobrist.

Hmmm... Cubs trying to find more "fan friendly" players for the north side?

Mods please delete and ban op

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Ageist

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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I assume MSNBC is covering the winter meetings.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

I doubt their decisions had anything to do with race, other than the pennant race and acquiring players best able to help win that race.

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Go Cubs!!!!

You need to call that into four shows tomorrow, dope.

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Oh, my god...

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What about erasing the curses?!

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I cringed.

Sure he is... just ask EJAX, Big Papi, The Indian, Miggy Mont, Pedro Strop, Q-Berry, Carl Edwards Jr., AJax,ManRam, AddyR......

Another sub division FAIL..... #GraspingAtStraws

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But it probably is smart business too that their top players are all white. That Rizzo and Bryant are also good looking guys has to be a plus for their popularity amongst female fans, which is good for the gate too. It might be coincidence, or it might be smart business.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Are negative Hanleys possible?

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When posting stupid thoughts is called out, Steve doubles down!

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
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THEY'RE WHITE! THEY'RE ENTITLED!

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You're such a fucking idiot.

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See I was right!

Lackey is about the opposite of a fan friendly guy, he's an ass.

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(EDIT: Here) Is he?

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Did that Regular Racist mult ever come to fruition?

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Motte, Russell, SHitter, Olt and Sammy do not agree.

Americas Meatball factor is off the charts. Sox need to do something for their fans...Chicken Tenders on a stick?

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What MLB needs is an infusion of black players. I think the skill level of MLB has suffered as a whole because of the lack of the black athlete. I grew up with guys like Banks,Williams,Jenkins,Madlock,Stargell,Mays,Gibson and Morgan. The list was endless compared to today.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

If you look at the history of the game, the ethnic group with the lowest socioeconomic status usually stood out. It began in the early days with the Irish. Then you had the Italians. Once blacks could play in the big leagues, they began to dominate. To the point where the leagues became lopsided due to the overall reluctance of the AL to sign these players and the NL's quicker embrace of them. Unlike the Irish and the Italians, black people have been held as a sort of permanent immigrant class. But once the game became global, there were new underclasses in places like the Dominican and Cuba. Add to that the popularity of other sports, and it's kind of natural what has happened.

I don't think we need to socially engineer the game. Sure, I would like more black guys to play, and more white guys, and I'd like baseball to become the national game of France and Iraq too. The more people who play, the better the big league game is going to be. But I don't think it's something over which to wring one's hands.

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We should have been trying to sell India, Australia, and the rest of the Anglosphere on baseball instead of try to sell ourselves on soccer.

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He is from Boston.

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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!

Truth

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Valid question. Remember when Omar Minaya did this with the Mets?

Whites and Jews are the latest market inefficiency.

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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!

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