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    :?:
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    It'll be Figgins. figgins is a good player but will get overpaid. still, i'm not convinced the cubs would have enough money to sign him.
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    hawpe is one of the few rockies players who doesn't have gigantic home/road splits - .287/.379/.503/.882 home and .280/.375/.487/.862 road for his career. the rocks aren't in bad shape salary-wise next season; they'll probably let atkins walk rather than offer him arbitration, street will get an arby raise, so will de la rosa, and clint barmes is arby 2. but they should be able to keep hawpe a relatively team-friendly $7.5M next year. smith is interesting but his home/road splits are monstrous this year. i'm not totally sold on him and spilborghs being more than 4th OF, but they're worth looking into. i think you're right about fowler, he's got a good future and can cover a ton of ground in coors. gonzalez is also certainly someone that they regard as a fixture in their outfield of the future. still, i like your thinking on this. if the cubs are in the trade market, they need to be looking at teams with an OF surplus and low/mid payroll teams. the rockies fit both those criteria.
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    is that going to be a touchdown? or does he get the ball where he picked it off?
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    every conference sucks. seriously, the acc sucks, the pac 10 mostly sucks, the big east really sucks, the big xii has a lot of mediocre to bad teams. i assume that the big ten will be middle of the pack as far as the bcs conferences go when all is said and done.
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    This is not a thread to discuss milton bradley. given the recent developments, one would have to assume that the cubs are going to trade him on the offseason, they'll be getting very little in return, and they'll have to eat most of his salary. there have already been a couple of suggestions in the other thread, and i'll carry them over here. it's important to realize that, if the cubs are paying most of milton's salary next year, they'll have about $122.5M in salary obligations to 9 players, plus another guy they're paying to go away. (note that johnson is a FA after this season and would have to be resigned; he was paid $3M in 2009)
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    i'm pretty sure it has to be paid. i think shawn chacon was paid on suspension by the astros after trying to beat up their general manager. if you get paid for that then, unless bradley has gone on a raping spree, the cubs are going to have a hard time justifying not paying him.
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    bobby abreu maybe? his fielding blows but he's been easily worth the $5M the angels are paying him. it seemed like the market settled and he was the last one standing; there may be another situation where everyone is all set and the cubs end up with bobby abreu or reggie sanders type. as for trades, maybe cody ross? he's due for an arbitration raise, similar to josh willingham last year, and the marlins didn't get all that much for willingham because they needed to dump salary. ross isn't great but he'd be a plus fielder in right and could probably be had without giving up a ton.
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    i can see trading him, but i think they could have DL'ed him with knee inflammation or tried to work with him to shut the hell up the rest of the year, and then try to accommodate him by dealing him to a handful of teams he wants to play for. as it is now they've basically ended up in a situation where they have to eat most of his contract next year (and i think the year after - i don't see any reason why they could get out from under 2011) and get nothing in return, there are no good in-house options and with the $10M committed to bradley the next two years, it's going to be really hard to get acceptable production from RF without giving up some good players from the farm. i dunno, just seems like other teams do a lot better job of damage control than the cubs do. i suppose it doesn't matter much because, barring some miraculous improvements, the cubs are just going to be mediocre and boring in 2010.
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    nice work cowboys.
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    i hate both these teams so i'll just root for marion barber to score more TDs. i have him in a keeper fantasy league where the average score the last two years was about 85-90 points; i have 122 and am losing right now (to someone who had chris johnson and philip rivers, and a bunch of other a-holes who scored touchdowns).
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    Good thing Bradley produced THIS YEAR for us. this year is over. I'm concerned about next year. I don't particularly want Micah Hoffpauir or Mark DeRosa in RF next year don't respond to him, he's awful. rob is right... you can hate bradley all you want, but how are the cubs going to get any better by trading him for basically nothing and having to eat his entire contract? there are plenty of "see you guys are wrong, he's a complete a-hole!!!" but no actual suggestions on how to resolve the situation without the cubs being lousy next year.
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    enjoy watching your team of nice guys lose 85-90 games next year. but hey at least we'll get to watch sam fuld smile and grit his way to a .670 OPS.
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    is the bears' O-line going to be this piss poor all year? because i have matt forte on my fantasy teams and this is starting to piss me off.
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    i'll take the atmosphere of a home night game. i can only think of one night game we've lost at home in the last few years, ohio state in 2007, and that was with no quarterback (technically it was anthony morelli, but he was a joke).
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    he's the reason i picked baltimore in that game.
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    learn to stay in your stance you fat bastards.
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    nice D seattle
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    holy crap that guy was either drunk or is a complete idiot. That doesn't look terrible to me, it's just a different approach. If you beat power conference teams(or in FSU's case, Miami), you get rewarded. It's not universally consistent(like most ballots), but it's not so different than some of the blogpoll ballots that use that approach. if florida played houston they'd win by 30. ole miss at 24? usc 25, oklahoma 22? none of these make any sense.
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    holy crap that guy was either drunk or is a complete idiot.
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    i'm glad they can call holding on a kickoff return and not on a brees pass when the left tackle who's 5 yards away from any other lineman is hog-tying our left end.
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    i pretty much assumed this was a loss with mcnabb out, disappointing to see all the turnovers and the poor defense.
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    yeah i'm pretty sure that most of the "also receiving votes" teams are better than washington.
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    i have a feeling that this offseason is going to be a disaster and i'm going to be interested in the cubs for about a month next year... similar to 2006.
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    so holy cross beat harvard by a touchdown, outgained them, it was harvard's first game of the year, holy cross was 2-0, harvard was ranked #22 and holy cross was unranked. fcs coaches poll now has harvard at #25 and holy cross the top team in "also receiving votes." wtf.
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