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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: The Cerebral Assassin

By Sam Fels March 16, 2020 0

It feels like there’s some volatility in all of these, until you get to Kyle Hendricks. Since coming up full-time in 2015, Hendricks has put up 3.2 and 4.2 fWAR every season except ’17 when he was hurt for a month, and he would have then as well. His K/9 has been between 7.2 and […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: We Comin’ Out The Yu

By Sam Fels March 12, 2020 0

Funny that this one comes a day after Steven Souza Jr. As at this time last year, Yu Darvish was viewed kind of in the same light, except with a much heavier contract and much more pressure. He was injured, and we didn’t know if he would even be upright much less effective. First he […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Steven Souza Jr.

By Sam Fels March 11, 2020 0

There’s probably more attention on Steven Souza than he would have ever guessed, or anyone who knows him would have guessed, simply because he was the only signing the Cubs made this year for the lineup (Jason Kipnis very well might not count). He’s also more of a symbol, which isn’t really fair to him […]

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Let’s Just Call It “Smell Ya Later”

By Sam Fels March 10, 2020 0

Funny, when you’ve been doing this 12 years, you think about the end a lot. And then it gets here, and you still don’t know what to say. So I guess it’s best just say it. Today is my last day captaining the good ship FFUD. The time has come for me to move on. […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: J-Hey What Can I Do

By Sam Fels March 10, 2020 0

It says something, though I’m not sure what, that in a winter when the Cubs main objective was to lower their payroll there was barely a whisper about moving Jason Heyward. After all, there can’t be a player who’s had more of a disconnect between his production and his paycheck. But some of that view […]

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The Hawks Missile Crisis

By Sam Fels March 9, 2020 0

As Feather points out regularly on our podcast, “reading the tea leaves” has gotten frustrating and fatiguing. It’s just about all we can do these days, given how little the Hawks let out and what does get out never puts them in a good light these days. To say Duncan Keith is tired of Jeremy […]

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Atop The Sugar Pile – 3/9: DEEEAAATHHHHHH

By Sam Fels March 9, 2020 0

It all came crashing down on the Hawks this weekend, so who did what as yet another season is meaningless before St. Patrick’s Day, if it ever meant anything at all. The Dizzying Highs Corey Crawford – It feels like the Hawks are heading toward some sort of Bay Of Pigs with their veteran players, with […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Maybe He Won’t Put Us In AA

By Sam Fels March 9, 2020 0

Perhaps we should have known things would go a little backwards on the Cubs in time when this regime’s first ever draft pick turned out to hit a bunch of ground balls, didn’t walk much, and was surprisingly slow. Kind of everything they told us they wouldn’t do when they walked in the door. Albert […]

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Game #69 – Blues vs. Hawks Preview: You Know What You Are

By Sam Fels March 8, 2020 0

vs. RECORDS: Blues 40-18-10   Hawks 31-29-8 PUCK DROP: 6:30 TV: NBCSN (All Women Broadcast) MOS EISLEY CANTINA: St. Louis Gametime There’s not much I can add to Pullega’s wrap from Friday night. There could not have been a more clear illustration of every failing of this organization–players, coach, and front office–then puking up a game […]

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Game #69 – Blues vs. Hawks Spotlight: Doug Armstrong, And Patience To Learn

By Sam Fels March 8, 2020 0

When a GM is in a job for over 10 years, as Blues GM Doug Armstrong will pass into this summer, it’s either a sign of an organization’s inertia or incompetence, or a sign of sustained success. Or in the case of the Hawks, both. And it may be that’s the case in St. Louis […]