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I actually watched almost an entire spring training game without falling asleep. Cubs fever.

Does anyone know how long? I don't have confidence that this fantastic streak we're on is going to end with the likes of Darling. The speculation is that it's one of 4 things: Back- which could be just a few days, hopefully Shoulder: maybe he FOOSHed it which could be a couple weeks Concussion: who knows? Something else that's less severe.

what if you could look like kris bryant but you had to have a 2-inch dick. I'd use my endorsement money for a wiener implant. You & Donald Trump both.

Corey Crawford out with UBI, Leighton recalled from Rock Vegas.

A few thoughts on expansion based on the idea that they realize that requiring teams to protect players with no movement clauses is unworkable because it takes too much talent out of the pool and would make it very difficult for the expansion team to reach the cap floor. If you expose Seabrook, he gets taken pretty early on and becomes the Captain of that team. Some might welcome the cap relief but the Hawks don't really have anyone that can replace him in the system. Hossa would only cost another team ~$1 million per season (not the $4 million cap hit that he costs the Hawks) for the rest of how long he decides to play. If the team wanted to have credibility their first season, they might very well take Hossa so he could mentor all the young guys they would presumably take. Hossa would also be a decent trade chip during that first season if they decided to go that route. The idea that Crawford isn't worth his contract should be put to rest after the season he's had. He's carried the Hawks all year. Darling would be a considerable step down in talent. I would imagine that the draft would be set up with some sort of protection for teams losing players being able to protect other players after they've lost somebody. That would help them keep Gustafson who might not get protected since Q seems to love TVR for reasons that no one understands.

First step is to make the DH universal so nobody cares about changing leagues. If you move the Reds out of the NL North and replace them with KC, everyone in that division plays in the same time zone. Can we give the divisions names. For example, the NL south could be the NASCAR division.

Mortgaging the future is a little bit of an overstatement considering what they gave up: Dano might very well become a good player but it's pretty telling that they tried virtually every other prospect at Rockford instead of recalling him. Danault is someone they will miss though they likely had already promised to re sign Kruger so he became a redundant part. Plus they have another poor man's Kruger in Rasmussen. With Toews, Anisimov, Tuevo and Kruger the Hawks are very good down the middle on all four lines for the next 3 years provided they aren't forced to trade Anisimov for cap reasons. The 1st round pick at or near the end of the first round is not a guarantee of anything, really. Pretty hard to get a real difference maker with that pick. The Hawks already have quite a few role playing pieces available. The Hawks can offset the loss of this pick by being a place that college FAs want to go and the Hawks have had decent success with finding value in unconventional places such as TVR (despite his struggles he has somehow earned Q's trust) and obviously Panarin.

There really weren't any defensemen that were available that could be had for what the Hawks would be able/ willing to pay. I feel like Bowman went and got the best available players even if they didn't exactly fit their biggest single need. I expect the Hawks to be better 5 on 5 moving forward. Part of the problem their was they had a revolving door of not quite ready young guys mixed in with castoffs. The blue line is a real concern not only now but moving forward.

Honest question. Serena Williams gets hardly any attention from the media relative to her dominance in her sport. Is that because nobody cares about tennis or because nobody cares about women's sports in general or something else?

Svedberg is big and slow and not particularly good at anything. March is like a light switch for the Hawks that gets turned off.

The bottom half of the bracket with Michigan State looks like it could be the one that destroys a lot of brackets. MSU won't get upset in the first round but it's not hard to imagine anyone else in that part of the bracket winning.

Cubs win 93 games. They beat the Pirates in the one game playoff then sweep the Cards- who won 135 games during the regular season- in the Divisional round. Entire population of St. Louis Emigrates to Canada but refuse to acknowledge their humiliating defeat instead blaming it on Trump not winning the Presidential election.

No, that's hockey. Inaccurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXacL0Uny0

Part of the appeal for football has to be that you have a pretty good idea that something is going to happen on every play. The action has a defined beginning and end. Baseball is all about the build up to the action. Every pitch could end up in something exciting happening or pretty much nothing happening. The other appeal that football has is that you're effectively watching a week's worth of games in 3 hours. That makes the games much more intense. Baseball has moments of intensity but these are limited to certain situations.

How many interleague games do you think there are? The Cubs only play 8 games in AL parks, 3 of them to start the year when we're pretty certain Hendricks won't be starting. The idea behind having Schwarber catch is to get his bat and someone else's in the lineup. Every game he DHs is one less game he'd have to catch to achieve that goal. So I subtracted those games as DH from the approximate number of games that Hendricks would conceivably start which should mean that Schwarber will catch him around 20 times.

Yeah and annoying to see the NBCSN guys arguing that he shouldn't have even been penalized. Based on the bizzaro logic that the NHL uses, he shouldn't have been kicked out of the game since Erhoff wasn't hurt. I believe the penalty he got was for charging. The 5 minutes was warranted and if you have any concern for player safety youhave to make that call. I'm no expert, but I can't remember ever seeing someone get a 5 minute charging penalty without also being ejected.

Pretty funny seeing Ryan Reeves kicked out of a game for trying and failing to make a dirty hit to the head. Go back to your dumpster, Reeves.

Presumably, Schwarber will DH every interleague game he can. So even if he was the personal catcher of Hendricks in NL parks, that's still only about 20 starts which seems to be the consensus of how many starts Schwarber should get at catcher.

Speaking of the Crawford deal, if the worst happens and the cap goes down a little, he'd have to be the next member of the core to get traded. That would be a sizeable blow to their ability to win the next cup but Crawford is a really valuable trade chip to a lot of teams. Obviously, no one wants to trade Crawford (the Hawks would be scrambling for a playoff spot without him) but that's the biggest chunk of salary that they could realistically trade and get value in return.

I don't see baseball supplanting the popularity of the NFL any time soon. Most people don't care about football players getting concussions. At least not enough to stop watching football.

Particularly one that doesn't score much. However, the Hawks don't really need Kruger to score so long as his line can match up against one of the top two lines in the playoffs. This creates a favorable match up for either the Toews line or the Anisimov line not to mention allowing Teuvo's line to bum slay to the extent that that happens in the playoffs. $3 mil per seems like a lot but it's less than they paid Bolland for essentially the same role. While Bolland was more of an offensive contributor Kruger has made himself better at the face off dot and is an integral part of the PK which is really important during the playoffs. I wouldn't go out and but any Andrew Shaw jerseys. If you already have one, keep it since he could be the type of rental piece the Hawks will bring back in 3-4 years.

Why does it have to be a fluff piece. If I were one of those two MLB reporters I would have asked Joe Maddon questions about topics that will actually effect the team in 2016. I guarantee you that would lead to a more interesting product for the viewer at home. A few questions off the top of my head: -Wilson Contreras has been dubbed by some as the Catcher of the future. After watching him in person and on tape does he remind you of any Catcher in particular? -You coached John Lackey with the Angels and saw him pitch extensively last season as well. Talk about how his repertoire has changed over the years and what allowed him to be so effective as a 37 year old. -Talk about the changes in Kris Bryant's swing and how you believe it could potentially effect his performance this season. My interview with just those three questions alone would have been better. Phuck off, you lame troll. ;) Your preferred questions are dumb. They would also result in cliché answers that wouldn't be any more interesting than the other fluff they did cover.

Thank goodness for DVRs. I'm usually up by 7 anyway so 6:45 EST is fine for me.

I'm interested to see Kopitar with Hossa on his wing for team rest of Europe. Who will the Russians put with Anisimov and Panarin? Ovie would be a lot of fun.

First and foremost congrats on another nice job of trolling. Anyways i don't consider a 100 at bat sample size to be small. And so if that track record of lhp failure continues I don't understand why you wouldn't consider giving some at bats to a capable alternative. If the alternative fails you simply go back to the original situation. Plus rizzo showed last season what can happen when you aren't given the occasional day off. A sizeable second half decline becomes a legit possibility. I'm not trolling And a 100 PA or at bat sample size is pretty small, whether you consider it to be or not, especially if you're trying to establish something as relatively unusual as a reverse split. To be fair, if you look at the OP, the sample would be more like 150-200 PAs which would be perhaps a little more telling though still not ideal. Also, he's talking about giving Baez 17 starts at SS. That number doesn't seem particularly outrageous. A strict reverse split platoon is still premature.