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I keep forgetting with all this Cubs madness going on. I've barely watched the preseason. Anyone want to help me with projected lines/pairings, or some insight into who to be excited about based on the play in camp? The lines are really anybody's guess. There will probably be a lot of flux since Q wants balance but that means breaking up the superpak line (Kane-Anisimov-Panarin). Schmaltz is likely the best RW of the young guys and Motte the best on the LW. Tootoo is this year's designated guy that the fans will hate because he's there to bring grit, sandpaper, etc. Hossa might get moved to Kruger's wing if someone else shows they deserve a spot of Toews' wing. On the defensive side, Kempny and Forsling have good passing skills and instincts but are likely to struggle a little bit in their own end. Edzo will blame that on Campbell because REASONS! TVR sucks and Roszy is old.
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I think the Oil wanted Pokka and the Hawks wouldn't do it. That's not something I read anywhere just speculation but it makes sense since their defense is awful.
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It might have been but he's with the Blues now. Hopefully Yakupov is as lazy and disinterested as they say he is. It's sounding more and more like Forsling is making the team. Fortin will get 9 games to show what he can do.
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I am addicted to golf but have difficulty getting time away from my wife and kids to play. My wife wants me to teach my kids to play. My daughter is left handed but plays field hockey right handed so I'm not sure how to approach teaching her to play. My youngest son is 7 and I'm not sure if that's too young. based on baseball, he's pretty coachable but he gets frustrated easily. He's right handed but bats lefty. Teaching the kids to play would allow me to play more but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy that.
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That's part of the problem. I worked in the golf business for 5 years and got used to playing for free. The other big problem is time.
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Some friends of ours convinced my wife and I to join them for 9 holes of golf. As near as I can tell, it's been 10 years since the last time I played. I didn't really want to go but it was a beautiful day and I hit the ball well enough to post a decent score. So now I may be sucked in to playing golf again. So I actually watched a bunch of the Ryder Cup matches. There was some great gold played. I know a lot of people like that the US Open brutalizes the players by making playing conditions ridiculously hard. This event proved that watching great players make great shots and score is pretty fun too.
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did anybody on the blackhawks get hurt? no? great tournament! In that respect, Team Europe winning means that the only Hawks left that will actually play are Toews and Hossa. It's too bad that the finals are best of 3 since team Europe could conceivably beat the Canadas once. Not likely but than neither was the miracle on ice. zero chance Europe can beat the Canadas twice.
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This is the exact type of game that bad Bears teams inexplicably win. Gotta win enough games to not get a top 3 draft pick.
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Team USA ends the tournament with a thud.
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The Fire don't even belong in the same league as the Sounders. Horribly run franchise. We went to DC United last year and it was great. No one in my family follows soccer except me but we all enjoyed it.
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It's actually a lot of fun to play. It's not as weird as Irish Curling or whatever they call that insane sport where they kill each with sticks. I think you mean hurling :wink:
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Field Hockey is tough to follow since the rules are often counterintuitive to other sports. For example, a player cannot put their body between the ball and an opposing player (like the way you box out in basketball). Every year, they either change or add 5 new rules. It makes it a nightmare to ref since most of the people watching don't have a really good grasp of the rules but still feel like they know enough to bitch about every call. I mean, it's not as weird as handball, so it's got that going for it. It's actually a lot of fun to play. It's not as weird as Irish Curling or whatever they call that insane sport where they kill each with sticks.
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Field hockey is a fine sport. This event should have clarified they were talking about the "ice" version. I tried watching some field hockey during the olympics...that was just weird. Field Hockey is tough to follow since the rules are often counterintuitive to other sports. For example, a player cannot put their body between the ball and an opposing player (like the way you box out in basketball). Every year, they either change or add 5 new rules. It makes it a nightmare to ref since most of the people watching don't have a really good grasp of the rules but still feel like they know enough to bitch about every call.
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The World Cup of hockey is just sort of weird. Team North America's logo looks like some kind of neo fascist emblem. The whole set up seems like a thinly veiled attempt to assure a Canadian victory- as if that was ever in doubt anyway. Why would anyone want to play for team Europe?
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Sky Masterson
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This is part of why it's important to keep score at young ages. Learning that losing is a thing that happens and doesn't mean the game isn't worth playing. 7 year olds don't learn that. Keeping score is for the sake of the parents. Unfortunately, in our small town it almost always plays out where there are 4 teams: one wins every game, the second beats the other 2 teams, the third team only beats the 4th team and the 4th team loses every game. I've coached a lot of youth sports teams and, over the years, I've had teams across the spectrum. I hate having a stacked team. It's no fun for anyone involved except a couple parents that are typically terrible people. Having the team that goes 0 for the season is no fun for the 1-2 kids that actually care who wins.
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The Golf and Beach thread (blackhawks offseason)
biittner77 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
The Hawks have a lot of young d men that they want to look at. Keith missing a few games at the start of the season isn't the end of the world. I'm not implying that any of them are anywhere near as good as Keith but at least one has a "can go back to Sweden if he doesn't make the team" clause. -
Cubs trade Vogelbach/Blackburn for Mike Montgomery/Jordan Pries
biittner77 replied to davell's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Fred having fought in the Spanish American War was one of the first NSBB memes. He always took it in stride. I can't recall anyone having a single bad thing to say about Fred. I'm not sure I can say that about anyone else here. I'm really sad to hear this news.
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who? They moved to Tampa and became the Rays. I think.
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i, personally, couldn't care less about home/road splits. arrieta, lester, hendricks, lackey is how i'd go. i could probably be talked into hendricks #2 but it wouldn't be because of home/road. Looking at his home/ road splits http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=hendrky01&year=&t=p these things jumped out at me. He's given up twice as many HRs (9) on the road as he has at home (4). Home ops. is .512 vs .664 on the road. His era is a full 2 runs higher. Not sure if these numbers are important enough of a difference to matter but from a Home/ road splits perspective Lester, Hendricks and Arrieta makes the most sense.
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Who is your game 2 starter? Hendricks has been better at home. Maybe Lester in game 3.
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Kyle Hendricks: Somehow Greg Maddux
biittner77 replied to Aaron_Kennelly's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
honestly putting a plank of wood out there instead of Matt Williams is pretty much reason enough to award that plank of wood Manager of the Year why not go with inanimate carbon rod? I was thinking the coatrack with a hat on it that the Cubs used to replace Cliff Floyd. -
hahahaha, so they suspend her for bad comments after her usefulness to the team ran out but not for all the other [expletive] she's done over the years? Exactly. She'll be 38 for the next World Cup, so now it's easy to be all discipline-y. Wasn't her name on the lawsuit to get paid the same as the men?
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La Stella will be fine but there's a good chance Coghlan will be "All right now". At least that's what the literal doctor said.