Pretty much what you said. Look, I'm a Reds fan who has been burned by many of these "can't miss" prospects. I just hear these MLB Network and ESPN gurus talking about how great the Cubs are going to be the next few years, and they might. I just think we need to wait and see if these guys pan out. You can't tell me if these same prospects were with say, the Twins, and not the Cubs and Theo they'd be getting all this love. Because it's the Cubs it gets overblown. Same would go for the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, etc. As Cubs fans you all might not see that. I'm not trying to get in a pissing match with any of you. I just think we need to let the prospects, not just for the Cubs but all teams, produce before claiming future championships. Not that you guys are but just in general.

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Posted by The Sad Banana

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Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:37 am to msudawg1200

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Pretty much what you said. Look, I'm a Reds fan who has been burned by many of these "can't miss" prospects. I just hear these MLB Network and ESPN gurus talking about how great the Cubs are going to be the next few years, and they might. I just think we need to wait and see if these guys pan out. You can't tell me if these same prospects were with say, the Twins, and not the Cubs and Theo they'd be getting all this love. Because it's the Cubs it gets overblown. Same would go for the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, etc. As Cubs fans you all might not see that. I'm not trying to get in a pissing match with any of you. I just think we need to let the prospects, not just for the Cubs but all teams, produce before claiming future championships. Not that you guys are but just in general.

Yes, I get it. I totally get it. I got Boston and New York fatigue. I totally have St. Louis Cardinals fatigue.

But the point is that they get it. And now the Cubs get it. And while the Cubs aren't there yet, the arrow is trending that way. And it's the sustainability that is so exciting. This is just the first wave of prospects and already there are like 5 or 6 in the top 100, 4 in the top 20 in most publications.

For the record, I don't really care what guys on TV have to say. I do care what publications like Baseball Prospectus, etc have to say.

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Posted by piggidyphish

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Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:41 am to msudawg1200

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ou can't tell me if these same prospects were with say, the Twins

you mean like Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano. I know almost as much about them as I do my team's prospects because they are talked about so much. Hell Buxton is the #1 prospect in a lot of publications.

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I just hear these MLB Network and ESPN gurus talking about how great the Cubs are going to be the next few years, and they might.

That doesn't only factor in prospects, it's also manager, revenue streams that are about to open up, and established young players with good contracts. It's a netword that goes 24/7 365. It's going to come up. If they think the cubs are going to become good, should they not say it?

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