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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Daniel Palencia
* Drew Smyly
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 10 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

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Patrick Wisdom, INF 

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Julian Merryweather, P
* Justin Steele, P  
Jameson Taillon, P 

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Caleb Kilian, P 

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Submitted by Rob G. on
My apologies for the brief distraction but it appears that the MVN overlords have taken it upon themselves to alter our posts based on an apparent strict no profanity policy. If you are as appalled as us by these actions, please let your voice be heard by emailing the offending party. Now back to your regularly scheduled Dempster-bashing.

Comments

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:38 pm

What’s ironic is that the censoring is being done in the name of bringing heightened professionalism and class to the MVN world. Evidently, not quite appreciating how unclassy, petty and professionally disrespectful they have been towards one of the blogs on MVN that holds itself to the highest standards of writing and analysis. Seriously, if I’m a blogger of any talent, would this incident inspire me to come write at MVN?

Submitted by crunch on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:38 pm

if its censored from titles i could buy it...but content within the posts...nah. headlines seem to feed into into 'latest articles' feeds which bleed into the whole of MVN and not everyone's community is our community when its applied on whole. still...its a sticky subject. just my POV on the issue.

Submitted by mannytrillo on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:47 pm

It really shouldn't have been in the title, but anywhere else should be fine, IMO. But whatever, like Tans has said, MVN has shown very little love to this site, so I don't personally give a shit (censor that) about MVN. I don't, and won't read any other their other stuff and don't clink on any advertisements, so blah...

Submitted by Doug Dascenzo on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:51 pm

(Censor) this! This is some mother(censoring) bull(censor). These (censoring) (censoreholes) can go (censor) themselves. I find poor writing much more offensive than profanity, and as such, believe that the entirety of Josh Martin's blog should be censored.

Submitted by Dennis on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:58 pm

From this passage:
Joining MVN Question: “Will I have full creative control of my writing?” Answer: Yes, of course. We do not censor or limit your work at all. We simply as [sic] that you use “TV language” and that your writing pertains to the team(s) you are covering. No four-letter words or terms referring to any area of a person’s backside. Swear words and misspelled words will be edited on occasion by one of the directors if they see such an instance.
I would assume this refers to the so-called "Seven Dirty Words" as popularized by George Carlin.

Submitted by Rory on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:59 pm

Does anyone really care...can't we simply state a thought or make a statement without using profanity. I appreciate free speech as much as the next guy but making a big deal out of this is petty. Thats my POV!

Submitted by Wild Thing on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:03 pm

Email sent. Since joining MVN, TCR has experienced a plethora of issues reeking of a lack of professionalism. Blog errors, long lag spikes, server issues, etc. Any remember when the site was first "converted" to the current system? It was pathetic. Errors, lack of features, and no warning whatsoever to the user base. I still think the layout is shitty - why squeeze all the content into ~500 pixels in the middle of the screen, forcing me to scroll ad nauseum? MVN blows goat balls.

Submitted by Little Nate Lewis on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:14 pm

MVN is as amateur as it gets. TCR is much too good for the bullshit they put up with through this partnership, from both a technical and a professional standpoint. The writing and analysis done by all of the authors is more than good enough to stand alone. Hopefully the changes made to TCR this winter are much bigger than a new MVN layout.

Submitted by Wild Thing on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:14 pm

I appreciate free speech as much as the next guy but making a big deal out of this is petty. What a horrible argument. Should we only make a fuss about "big" issues? Liberty is rarely stolen overnight; a slow death is much for effective.

Submitted by iowaCub on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:21 pm

"I appreciate free speech as much as the next guy but making a big deal out of this is petty." Free speech 4eva (so long as it's not petty)! Home of the Free and UnPetty - smell it!!!

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:22 pm

Does anyone really care…can’t we simply state a thought or make a statement without using profanity. I appreciate free speech as much as the next guy but making a big deal out of this is petty. Thats my POV! I think if you read the post and the context (a direct quote from a rather famous baseball book), you'd understand the reason for the usage and why it was appropriate. Thanks for all your input and help everyone else.

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:24 pm

I sent this email to MVN" "Censorship is shit." Is that constructive?

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:26 pm

Trans: Trans? Trans: Yes, Trans, what is it? Trans: No Good shall come of this.

Submitted by iowaCub on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:57 pm

In all fairness to MVN, it's possible that minors could read naughty words like 'shit' on TCR, start using those naughty words in their schools at lunchtime or during science class or in front of wholesome people like Senators who scope for dudes in bathrooms or some such, and, furthermore these minors might actually become 'shit'. You are what you read on TCR, my elders always told me. Or something like that.

Submitted by cubswinthepennant on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:07 pm

Well there could be issues with RSS feeds. Sites like Yahoo syndicate MVN and don't want to see a lot of eff words and expletives . Here's what's displayed right in the middle of my Yahoo page: # [CENSORED] - 2 hours ago My apologies for the brief distraction but it appears that the MVN overlords have taken it upon themselves to alter our posts based on an apparent strict no profanity policy. If you are as appalled as... # The 2007 Ex-Cub Factor - 3 hours ago Hi, everyone. What’s new? With the Cubs back in the playoffs for the first time in four years I thought it was a good time to dip my toe back in the Cub Reporter writing pool again. Truth be told with... # Will Jim Hendry’s [CENSORED] Work In The Playoffs? - 8 hours ago In Moneyball , Michael Lewis quotes Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane as saying: “My [censored] doesn’t work in the playoffs. My job is to get us to the playoffs. What happens after that is [censored...

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:17 pm

The most balanced account of all this that I can give is: A. There is indeed a professional obligation to produce elegant writing that can be read by as broad a readership as possible. This is, after all, a for-profit business MVN is running. CWTP has a very nice example, there. B. But there's a conflict involved, there, with the professional aspirations of the TCR writers to have the intellectual freedom to use whatever word then need and wnat to use, when they need and want to use it. We aren't 16 year old kids who are running around spewing offensive language for the shock-humor of it, we've proven that as authors we are quite responsible with our wording, and it's a pretty basic professional courtesy to let us police ourselves. And ultimately, B is the more important concern for me and the rest of the gang here... Trans: Trans? Trans: Yes, Trans? Trans: No good is still going to come of this. But well said. Trans: Aww, buck up, Trans. The Cubs are in the playoffs!

Submitted by Evan Brunell on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:20 pm

#28: Exactly. We basically have a monopoly on the feeds on Sports Illustrated's team pages. Why would they want swear words there? Also, to clear something up: Rob chose to put [CENSORED] up. I personally was okay (not pleased, but okay) with "sh---t." Oh and about the complaint about the width of the posts: I hate it too and plan on changing it this winter. PS: Rob, we aren't kicking you out. I don't act that way. I'm more interested in coming to a mutal agreement than acting like a dictator. Some of you emailed me with really constructive thoughts on this issue. To those: I appreciate those emails. If you have any other issues, I'm an e-mail away.

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:24 pm

D-mn, I feel like I still want to be angry at something. Um, the width of the posts sucks.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:33 pm

Well I'm still angry you won our fantasy league Joe so I got that going for me. And if it wasn't made clear earlier, the bigger issue for me is that the hardwork of Cubnut was altered without permission as was an earlier post of mine - that's plain and simply wrong.

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:36 pm

As I've said before, developing and effectively hosting our own site is neither all that hard nor all that expensive. You have a lot of talented professionals (think Cubster or Trans but instead of orthopedic surgeons and PhDs of history you have designers, developers, business analysts, accountants, business consultants, etc) whose collective skills could get this done both cost effectively and very,very well (certainly better than MVN). Speaking of the Most Valuable Network, what added value does TCR receive from this relationship? MVN should take better stock of the quid pro quo here as in my professional opinion (which does actually have some value to a number of local businesses), it's a little one sided. When they piss all over the writers of what is by far their most popular blog they risk upsetting the apple cart in a way that gets progressively more difficult to right.

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:43 pm

I guess having someone mad AT me is good enough for now. I just get especially angry at censorship. But now, I'm also mad at mister_whipple...he left out bible scholars. He can be my nemesis for the day.

Submitted by Jeff Kallman on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:43 pm

For whatever my thoughts are worth---If you can't say it without profanity (unless you're quoting someone directly, though even there you can find particularly creative parenthetical substitutions for such [four-letter synonyms for execrement]), you're not much of a writer. Remember this, ladies and gentlemen: Censoring the manner in which an idea might be expressed is not the same thing as censoring the idea. A critical point the pottymouths among us forget, whether by convenience, ignorance, or a combination of the two. Now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming . . .

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:44 pm

...and aren't you just a little happy that the 'fantasy guru' didn't when two years in a row, Rob?

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:48 pm

The Joe, that hurts me that you're mad at me. Let's sit down and see if we can come to a mutually beneficial resolution. Or you can just suck it, you *&%*(@#!

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:58 pm

And another thing...Who is this Jeff Kallman and why is he such a blowhard? Let's leave the censorship meta-discussion for Fark, shall we? The point as I understand it isn't that potty words are good or bad, but that Evan and MVN went and made changes unilaterally. Had there been a frank discussion with the authors in advance of the changes it would be a different issue. To be fair, MVN is the whipping boy for us frequently because we don't much notice them unless something goes wrong (which it does a little too often, in my opinion). But this specifically was a poorly calculated move which in my opinion warrants more of a mea culpa than what we saw above and a clear delineation of new policy moving forward. But this ain't my blog and I don't carry any weight around here so this is really just the ramblings of an anonymous coward, albeit one who has been hanging around since the last time the Cubs were in the playoffs. [Mora]PLAYOFFS?![/mora]

Submitted by Jeff Kallman on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:25 pm

Jeff Kallman is known around these arterials as MVN's Catbird in the Nosebleed Seats, and it wasn't he who first raised the censorship issue (never mind that it wasn't he who first hung up the C-word at all) or discussion---he merely joined in, as was (or so he thought) his right. And if all you've got is to call him a blowhard, mister_whipple, perhaps you should have quit while you were still squeezing the Charmin.

Submitted by cubswinthepennant on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:35 pm

Jeff Kallmann is someone who talks about himself in 3rd person Lest he not be talked about at all.

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:36 pm

To borrow a line from The Big Lewbowski: You're out of your league Kallman. It's Jeff Kallman that should quit while Jeff Kallman's ahead. You can't just come here and start messing with our guys. We will rain a shit storm of flame posts at you if you do. You're new here, act like a rookie and be nice.

Submitted by Bryan on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:41 pm

As long as parachat isn't censored... then again... there'd be no parachatting topics besides baseball...

Submitted by iowaCub on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:41 pm

Jeff, I beg to differ, censoring the manner in which an idea is expressed is censoring the idea. You're censoring the style of the writer, pal. If these TCR dudes wrote in completely laconic prose none of us would read them, (ok, except for maybe Chad, whose as Spartan as they come, but I digress). The key to a story or point is in the telling. Unless you believe we're all children and can't handle the 'adult' talk, then there's no reason to censor. The marketplace of the the TCR community's conceptions are self-policing of what is tolerable and what is not. That should suffice - if someone is gratuitously swearing as an end and not a mean, it's pretty apparent to us that such a person is a douchebag. Or at least isn't creative enough to hang with the likes of the Big Low and The Chad. Arbitrary distinctions, OTOH, of what is 'mature' and 'civilized' don't impress me. We're using what could be allowed on TV as the standard? Whose TV? Mine? Trans'? Johann's? Joe's? BTW - those 'TV' standareds themselves have changed over the years as well. They were a little more strict back in the day, long before Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake gave me nightmares which made me resume sucking my thumb.

Submitted by Little Nate Lewis on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:55 pm

Remember this, ladies and gentlemen: Jeff Kallman = Josh Martin readership levels, which is about 2 comments per post. Just ignore him like everyone else does. And IowaCub.... you sound like my constitutional law professor. :)

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:57 pm

The Chad:That whole Jim Mora Playoff shit reference never gets old. Gets me every time. I know what you're sayin' Chad. The only thing that I enjoy more is when Michael Wilbon does his ridiculous impression of Jim Mora. It may be tragically unhip to say so, but damn I love PTI. And Jeff Kallman, I really wasn't trying to hit below the belt like commenting on how no one seems to read your blog. That kind of comment would just be plain mean. I was simply trying to point out that almost every post on this thread dealt with this specific instance of censorship and the problem with MVN censoring the TCR writers, rather than your argument in favor of the merits of writing long, arduous, wandering posts without either randy words or an internal sense of when to stop writing. That argument just seemed a little broad for our current discussion and perhaps even a bit of a straw man. p.s. TCR is the deep end. There are a lot of smart, passionate people here. Being pedantic is generally not recommended.

Submitted by iowaCub on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:06 pm

Lil Nate, bro, sorry about that! You probably come here to escape that con law legalese type soliloquies! I'll lock it up, promise! But what else is a Cub fan to do, the night before our 1st playoff game, than to get Meta on MVN's axe?

Submitted by The Joe on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:15 pm

Censorship is harshing our mellow. Cubs in the playoffs, woohoo! TCR Keeper champion, woohoo! We all have a lot to be thankful for. Rob, of course, has one less thing to be thankful for than me, but that's cool too. Go Cubs.

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:36 pm

In that spirit, let me just add to the love and say that TCR gets ginormous props from me for being one of four crucial websites that I read daily (CNN.com, drudgereport.com, ESPN.com, and TCR for those keeping score at home). The Cubs are in the playoffs, TCR still rules and all is good in the world.

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:14 pm

I think our goal for the rest of the season should be to: 1. Use the most obscure curse words and euphemisms possible 2. Use the most innocent words that sound naughty, or that have a false cognate, etc. etc. (My friend who will never let you borrow a smoke - he's being niggardly with his faggots.)

Submitted by Jeff Kallman on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:21 pm

mister_whipple: As Archie Bunker would have said, no intense offended. ;) I wasn't exactly arguing in favour of writing long, winding anything, though I don't think there's any crime in actually writing sentences of more than five words and paragraphs with more than one sentence, either. (Which means, among other things, that I'll never cut the mustard in Bill Plaschke's parlour.) But since censorship in word or in concept seemed to have become the topic---indeed, the headline, which is what lured me here in the first place---hence my observation. nohit: Only in such context as mister_whip offered through no fault of his own. P.S. You gave me one more 'n' than I'm entitled to have. I'm not greedy. Chad: I only wish I was a rookie. I'd be about three decades younger and able to get away with more. iowaCub: Prose minus the profanity isn't anything close to laconic. Ask among others Red Smith, Jim Murray, Thomas Boswell, Roger Angell, or (when he wrote Can't Anybody Here Play This Game, anyway) Jimmy Breslin. Little Nate Lewis: I'd rather have two intelligent comments a post than two hundred inanities a post. So, I'm sure, would you. mister_whipple, again: You think someone here has extracensory perception or something?

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:24 pm

Trans: sent sound: ~phhhhhheeeeeeewwwwwww~ I just ululated with great relief, Evan!

Submitted by Bleeding Blue on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:35 pm

Can we just agree that all-baseball selling out to mvn has wound up being a really bad deal for the quality of TCR? The only things I can see that TCR has gotten from MVN is frequent server outages, a piss-poor censorship policy, and mvn-approved trolls like Josh Martin hanging around the site.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:37 pm

I just ululated... ========= Omygod, for a brief moment I thought I was reading an OB-Gyne blog...

Submitted by mister_whipple on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:39 pm

Oooh. This sounds like a perfect opportunity for some Washington Post neologisms! As in "Ineffable: A person you absolutely cannot cuss in front of."

Submitted by iowaCub on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:44 pm

"Ask among others Red Smith, Jim Murray, Thomas Boswell, Roger Angell, or (when he wrote Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game, anyway) Jimmy Breslin" Jeebus effing Christ! Those guys post at TCR too????

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:46 pm

There're a lot of good food for thought in this thread on which to chew.... Or on which to masticate. God, I love masticating on food. A nice cannoli noodle is great for mastication. Taking a joke too far, T.

Submitted by Jeff Kallman on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:52 pm

mister_whipple: Does this mean "ineffable" is synonymous to "priest"? iowaCub: You didn't get the memo? ;) Transmission: Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.

Submitted by Gary Playerr on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:55 pm

Jeff, I couldn't agree with you more since when is censoring a word considered censoring an idea. Personally, I think any of these tangents that are discussed are a waste, I just want to read and discuss Cubs baseball. Thank goodness we have something to discuss.

Submitted by Newport on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:57 pm

If I can't come here and drop a few F-bombs when Neifi decides to end a game with a bunt, or when Barrett gets pickeled in a pickel....then quite frankly, my visits will decrease. Thusly decreasing traffic for MVN, lowering the sellout value of MVN ad space. Suck my balls MVN, suck my balls.

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:58 pm

"Chad: I only wish I was a rookie. I’d be about three decades younger and able to get away with more." I don't care how old you are or how long you've been blogging, here, at TCR, you are new fish. And I don't know if you were a fan of Oz but I don't want to tell you what happens to 'new meat' in prison.

Submitted by Cubster on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:12 pm

I love masticating... ======= Omygod, nevermind...

Submitted by Transmission on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:13 pm

:)

Submitted by Jeff Kallman on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:18 pm

Gary---At least this year "Cubs baseball" isn't tantamount to "promiscious celibate," "cacophonous silence," or "Mets relief pitching." Me, I'm torn. Four teams I like are in the postseason (it would have been five but for the Mets deciding to show the world how the 1964 Phillies would have done it with undermanaging rather than overmanaging) and two of them get to rumble each other in round one. My Valium bill is about to hit the ceiling, but it isn't the Cubs' or the Indians' fault. Thanks a heap, Red Sox and Angels.

Submitted by nohit on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 10:38 pm

Jeff: Yeah, I saw the extra "n" after I clicked to post my note, but unlike our MVN overlords, I can't go back and edit posts...

Submitted by dc60124 on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 10:16 am

not a good few days for my internet to mal-function. i hope to come back and say "hooray, cubs"; instead i come back to a censorship snafu. and the [censored] article lays on the page directly next to an opportunity for me to watch lindsay or jessica or pamela burst out of their costumes. if there is intent to protect wee little ones from language, how 'bout some protection from silicone and bikini wax?

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