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  1. CubinNY
    You may want to try that picture again. Photobucket resized it smaller for some reason but I put the bigger image back out there. :D Thanks for all the compliments! I'm still riding high after yesterday's game. That one is much better. You have a lot talent for taking pictures or a really good camera, or perhaps both. Thanks
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    I just uploaded the last pic for my desktop.
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    As long as we're thinking outside of the box here. Johan Santana (rumor is he wants out of Minnesota) Pie + Marshall + Gallagher (or any three players they want not named Lee, Z, or Aramis) Sign one of the many competent FA CFers who will be flooding the market, Andruw Jones maybe? Don't waste valuable resources on Tejada. If A-Rod becomes available make a big play for him (not likely). Soriano Murton Lee Aramis A. Jones DeRossa Soto Theriot Z, Hill, Lilly, Santana, ? That would be a tough team to beat in a seven game series.
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    That was before today, at least I am assuming it will go down after today. Cubs = 97.4 Brewers = 2.6 Wow, it's really that much in our favor now? I could see the crew ripping off, say 5-2 in their last 7 at home. Cubs would need to win 2 games, on the road. That's losing 2/3 in each series. Ok, it's definitely in our favor big time but I would have thought more like 80%. If you played the season out 100 times from this point, wouldn't you think a team thats 3.5 games up with 6 to play would win it more than 80 times? Remember the computer doesn't know that a few days ago it was tied. The Cubs could have been 20 games up in mid-August and now 3.5 up. Either way, the odds that a team has managed to be good enough amass a 3.5 game lead through 156 games will be able to win enough to make the playoffs an extremely high perentage of the time In other words, the computer doesn't realize it's the Cubs. Correct. To paraphrase that tired old Berra cliche "It ain't over til it's over, especially when you're talking about the Cubs." Despite what history says below, I'm not prematuring anything, my champagne can remain on ice. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3033679 If any team can do it, we all know it will be the Cubs.
  5. CubinNY
    interesting He made you type that
  6. CubinNY
    Point is it may be true for the Brewers but they can't cry. There's no crying in baseball!
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    To refute this, I'm saying that a player's performance does not shift whether or not there is a base runner on or not. The fact that his numbers are different with runners on is all just a matter of coincidence. A player doesn't suddenly gain better offensive ability (or worse), based on the situation at hand, i just cannot believe that theory. Wait, you actually can't believe that it's possible that there exists a player who performs either better or worse under different levels of pressure? Not just "I don't think the evidence supports it" but "I don't see how there could be a mechanism in place for this to be so" That's tremendously weird. I don't see how it could be possible that every player in baseball could be completely unaffected by differing levels of pressure, personally. That's not what he's saying at all and you know it.
  8. CubinNY
    Why do you say that? This topic has pretty much been beaten to death. But, a> Your argument is predicated on the fact that the Trib hasn't spent money on the Cubs until recently, and that is clearly wrong. b> Winning and money are correlated, but corelation and causation are horses of a different color. c> Most of those winning teams also don't behave like the Cubs front office. Getting more of the same only this time with passion won't get the Cubs anywhere.
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    The Cubs just want it!
  10. CubinNY
    I would think that any owner would want that. The question is how to go about doing it. I don't want a new package of feces with the same old faces of retread GMs, scouts, AGMs, and mangers who all Played The Game and use the same old conventional wisdom that has got the Cubs 99 years of crap. I don't know that these guys will do that sort of thing, but I have my suspicions. Especially if Steve Stone is in any way linked to them. It's pretty simple in today's MLB for a big market team like the Cubs. Money. As long as Isiah Thomas doesn't decide to run an MLB team, teams that have spend money generally win. The others get hope to strike lightning with the right group of prospects and role players getting hot the right year. The formula is simple. Maximize revenue and invest a fair portion of your revenue back into the team. Something that the Tribune company has not ever done until maybe this past offseason to boost the value of the team for sale. I have no solid proof of this, but we will see what these smart businesspeople decide to bid on the team after they see the books. I doubt they would bid all those hundreds of millions on a team that can't make money like the Trib has claimed for so many years. You couldn't be more wrong. And on every level.
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    This qoute to me is kind of silly I would think that any owner would want that. The question is how to go about doing it. I don't want a new package of feces with the same old faces of retread GMs, scouts, AGMs, and mangers who all Played The Game and use the same old conventional wisdom that has got the Cubs 99 years of crap. I don't know that these guys will do that sort of thing, but I have my suspicions. Especially if Steve Stone is in any way linked to them.
  12. CubinNY
    wooo hoo! Up 2 games with 8 to play
  13. CubinNY
    Come on Dempster. Please don't blow this
  14. CubinNY
    What an exciting game! Come on Demp Shut them down.
  15. CubinNY
    Geo Soto!!!!!! There is no telling how many games the Cubs would be up if he'd been catching since July!
  16. CubinNY
    What a wild game. I wish I were at Wrigley right now. Crazy.
  17. CubinNY
    This could be one of those 15-12 type games.
  18. CubinNY
    I am so effing excited right now!
  19. CubinNY
    Soriano is channeling Ricky Henderson lately! Go Fonzie!!!!
  20. CubinNY
    When Marqui is like this he does not get better. I hope Lou gives him a short leash.
  21. CubinNY
    No Ron :( on the radio
  22. CubinNY
    if that were the case, I would think it would show up in P/PA and IsoD. P/PA v. lefties - 3.73 v. righties - 3.73 IsoD v. lefties 61 v. righties 62 they are not appreciably more patient against righties than they are against lefties. And that's the problem.
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    then i don't think you understand the question The question posed by the OP is pretty clear: It's a ridiculous question - why do we give a rat's ass about this type of "fan"? Who cares? It's not the case for 99.9% of the posters on NSBB. i don't think people "like" that the team hasn't won in 99 years. however, i think that once the team does win, you won't see a ton of support for the team if/when they tank again. the comparison to the Red Sox doesn't hold water, as Boston was a perennial playoff team before 2004 and since. the Cubs have showed no ability to put together two straight postseason years much less a decade of them. do people really think that Wrigley will be filled to the rafters every day if the Cubs put up a 95 loss team after winning it all? I don't That's the worst argument I think I've ever read on here. The Cubs wouldn't be selling out if they post a 95 loss season no matter what. Look what happend at the end of last year. This entire thread is a text book example of specious reasoning. I don't get it. It's moronic to conclude that winning would hurt the Cubs in popularity, even if they suck the next year.
  24. CubinNY
    no patience, it is that simple.
  25. CubinNY
    And what I'm saying is this is ridiculous. "True fans" is a stupid phrase. The theory that many fans find the team trendy because they lose is stupid. The theory that marketing would decline if they won is asinine. It's a stupid topic that should be deleted. Immediatly, it would skyrocked, however, in the long runs, people outside Chicago would not care as much, and wed become another hated big money team like the Yanks and Red Sox. Holy moley, the Yankees and Red Sox probably have the two largest fan bases in baseball. The Cubs, Dodgers, and Giants are probably in the second teir. I think you are not approaching this logically. When I was really young I liked the Minnesota Vikings of Fran Tarknington, Alan Page, Chuck Forman, Sammy White, George Marsahall etc.. I still like the Vikings today even know they suck and play in roller dome. Whatever fans the Cubs get by winning will be a plus.
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