Bruce Bochy is the best manager in baseball. He’s got three World Series rings from teams nobody took seriously to prove it.

“There’s no way the team goes as far as it did last year with Renteria at the helm.”

I don’t know anything about Ricketts, who I assume is the owner. As stated, I don’t really care about the Cubs outside of the media’s perma-hummer (b/c of the $$$ a potential World Series run represents) and Joe Maddon’s weak-ass sabotaging of the previous manager.

“Except had Sandoval simply given the hometown discount and accepted that offer, he might have obeyed the weight clause and for all we know still declined/had shoulder problems/ been horrible.”

“This isn’t Westeros.”

Hmmm, Frazier is solid, probably not a star, though. Those others...yeah, I’d be a little suspicious.

I have zero allegiance to the White Sox.

“Afterward Rangers manager Jeff Banister said Bush was not throwing at Bautista with purpose. He’s also got a bridge to sell you.”

Haha, Bautista called that a sucker punch?!?!

Especially because the Simmons brand has been dead for years and only ESPN-as-McCarthy-Silverman kept it upright.

Hah, yeah, probably.

There would be few things funnier than watching the media swoon over the Cubs and Joe Maddon all season, then having the White Sox win the World Series.

Or a trimmed-down Sandoval might’ve returned to being an MVP candidate who played superb defense. In which case, the Giants’ offer would’ve been a stroke of genius.

Nope.

Rick Porcello doesn’t deserve to mentioned with the other three based on his work in 2016, alone. Although Hanley also seems on the path to baseball redemption.

My only conclusion is that the poster is either a Dodger fan, a Red Sox fan or Ben Cherington.

“’Letting him go’ would have meant no contract offer at all, or one so pitifully financial that it wouldn’t be construed a real offer.”

You’re simply wrong about the contracts.

You have to be willfully ignorant to believe Curt Schilling no longer has a national platform simply b/c he’s no longer employed by ESPN.

Except that, if your drunk uncle had a national platform and used it to publicize those emails and complaints.