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••• 2026 Official Chicago Cubs Thread •••

CYdTracked
Cyforce said:
First you’d have to sit him. Make it apparent Ramirez is going to be Hoerner’s new double play partner. I think he’d request a trade. Then you work a deal hoping you don’t have to eat more than half of what’s remaining on his deal. 27-29 BB reference says he’s owed $81M.
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There is no way he is waiving his NTC just like Happ and Suzuki weren't the past few years when the same ideas were floated out there about trading them. May as well say we should ask Bregman to waive his NTC clause while you are at it. Swanson is basically the infield equivalent of Happ, He gets hot once in awhile with the bat but you can't sit him because he's too valuable defensively. Swanson is probably one of the top defensive SS in the game right now. Just stinks that he can't find that magic he had in his last 2 years with the Braves offensively.

Probably better off trading the guys Swanson and others are blocking to add meaningful help to the roster than gambling by taking on dead contracts by trading or cutting them.
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Milan Momcilovic tweets "entering NBA draft and portal"

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Pope said:
It's weird how there was a time in my life when I'd be obsessing over where Milan is going to end up. However, since I know he's not coming back to ISU, I don't give a rip where he goes.

I'm no longer a fan of his. Not butt hurt, just no longer a fan. Too many other things in my life to obsess over.
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Same. Is this just a symptom of NIL. At this point I don't really have any deep rooting interest in players and could care less what they do unless they end their career at ISU.
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Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

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MeanDean said:
I collect local/regional releases, mostly pre 1970. Even at that I find very few local references.

That being said, I do have one called "Getting Out of Muscatine." It's very much on the order of a Johnny Cash song. Mentions several local companies. I think this is the first time I've tried to find something on You Tube to link here that WASN'T there. I'm sure it was a very small local private pressing. This was particularly satisfying to find and hear since I myself got out of Muscatine.

(Edit: I happened to think I also have a song by the Baroques, a 60's band out of Wisconsin, I believe. They had a single release on Chess/Checker - pretty much a major label - called "Iowa - A Girl's Name" which isn't about the state of Iowa, but a girl named Iowa if I remember correctly.)
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••• 2026 Official Chicago Cubs Thread •••

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Cyforce said:
First you’d have to sit him. Make it apparent Ramirez is going to be Hoerner’s new double play partner. I think he’d request a trade. Then you work a deal hoping you don’t have to eat more than half of what’s remaining on his deal. 27-29 BB reference says he’s owed $81M.
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Is any of that of going to happen? Why would any team be willing to even pay half of that $81m for him? They would be better off just biting the bullet and releasing him. He is not going to get improve, and is not the future.
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What's streaming that's good TV/movies

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BoxsterCy said:
Rushed home tonight to start the new Tom Hanks WWII series on History Channel. Woof. It's really bad. Should have known better, it's just the usual History Channel simplistic crap with a bunch of their usual talking head "historians'. Disappointed that Hanks debased himself to narrate this crap fest.

I guess if you're 12 years old and know absolutely nothing about WWII it would be "okay".
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It's only redeeming quality so far is that they have tons of archival footage that's never seen the light of day.

Didn't really expect it to tell the story at any more than a surface level.
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••• 2026 Official Chicago Cubs Thread •••

Cyforce
1SEIACLONE said:
You couldn't trade him if you wanted to because I doubt any team would want him and have to take on the salary, his contact also has a full no trade clause. He ain't going anywhere without a price. Cubs would be better off biting the bullet and releasing him.
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First you’d have to sit him. Make it apparent Ramirez is going to be Hoerner’s new double play partner. I think he’d request a trade. Then you work a deal hoping you don’t have to eat more than half of what’s remaining on his deal. 27-29 BB reference says he’s owed $81M.
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NBA: *** 2025-26 NBA Thread ***

Darius Bieber
rosshm16 said:
Really hope the Spurs take this series. No offense to any Thunder fans but OKC is just not an enjoyable team to watch. They're like the friend playing Madden PlayStation football who figures out the poorly-programed broken play and just keeps running it again and again. SGA is the most boring 30-ppg scorer ever.
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Pretty telling that the MVP/finals MVP (SGA) etc can’t even reach the Top 10 in jersey sales in the NBA. Nobody likes OKC. Flopping on the offensive end and dirty on the defensive end.
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