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  1. rawaction
    Another 22 pitches for Sheets. 44 thru 2. The sooner the Cubs get into the Brewers pen, the better.
  2. rawaction
    Lix should have success w/ Sheets.
  3. rawaction
    Soto needs to put the ball in play for my sanity.
  4. rawaction
    He looked real good there. He looked a lot like a young Marcus Allen. Bigger, but similar speed and running style. Robert Smith comparison still fits, but he looks a lot tougher than the thespian ever was.
  5. rawaction
    Well, his OPS is .570. That is astonishingly bad. Yep, and the 100 or so ABs he's had this year tell far more than his 5 year career to date.
  6. rawaction
    This trade will be perfect, because the Cubs will be getting Coco Crisp soon to be the LH platoon in CF. Throw in Roberts at 2B and that's a World Series team, baby!
  7. rawaction
    Sounds like everybody wants the Bears to take a QB for the sake of taking a QB. That's not a good idea in the first 4 rounds of the draft. After that, you get a bunch of "projects" and again, the Bears don't have a track record for developing QBs. As for the franchise QB being most important....there are examples both ways. I think you can look at the Giants as a team that drafted their franchise QB and built a team around him. The Steelers did it the opposite way in their SB year a couple years back. To borrow a line from Goony, if the Bears were a QB away from being an elite team, then you most certainly trade up, overpay and/or overdraft just to get a QB. But the Bears weren't in that position. I would have liked the Bears to draft a QB, but Ryan wasn't an option. Flacco would have been an overdraft at 14. Henne has too many questions to pick in the 2nd. Booty probably had too little upside to draft before the 3rd. Every other QB was too much of a project to matter either way. The only question to me was Brohm worth the #44 pick. I don't fault the Bears for determining he wasn't worth it.
  8. rawaction
    Walrond was once the Cards top pitching prospect, wasn't he?
  9. rawaction
    Where have you gone Juan Mateo? Crap, he had a good arm.
  10. rawaction
    Kiper says that Hanie is the best UDFA QB, and that he is "similar to Brohm and Henne" and can start in the NFL in 2 years. He's similar to Henne is size 6'2", 230lbs. Has a strong arm and is pretty athletic. Hanie completed over 64% of his passes last year, but threw a crapload of INTs. His team went 2-9, against an also-ran schedule, so it's not like he had a lot of talent around him. The winner of Hanie and Hill will be the #3 QB, loser goes to the practice squad.
  11. rawaction
    I have a brick house....ok enough about my wife....but yeah, I had ivy growing out of my house. Had to pull it down, because wife didn't like it growing around the telephone wires. She didn't have interest in our house looking like Wrigley Field.
  12. rawaction
    The Vet was built by the devil.
  13. rawaction
    Ha. Yeah, Dwight Howard is a devout Christian. If he smoked weed, it would be huge news.
  14. rawaction
    A couple things. Rex is on a 1-year deal. If he reaches his potential, he could easily walk away. Granted, he's likely to give the Bears a discount for being the only people on Earth who believed in him, but it's not like he's locked up for years to come. Secondly, you rarely see an above average QB allowed to reach unrestricted free agency. Teams don't allow good QBs to leave unless they are well past their prime or coming off a major injury (Brees, Culpepper). And of course, I agree about the pipeline thing. I wanted a QB drafted. Josh Johnson was very intriguing to me, but he needs a lot of teaching/coaching. QB coaching is not a Bears strength. Brohm and Booty were guys I wanted simply because they are the only 2 I felt could legitimately compete in 08 because they do have the basics down to be NFL QBs.
  15. rawaction
    Leslie! He's a solid corner. Probably not going to make the roster, as he doesn't play ST well from what I saw at IU. He got picked on a lot because he was opposite Tracy Porter who was a great college CB. Has all the skills, just very undersized and a couple steps too slow. I really like Caleb Hanie also.
  16. rawaction
    Kosuke will get no fastballs closer than 3 inches off the outside corner. Sheets will force him to hit a curveball or walk him trying.
  17. rawaction
    Yeah, that's bs. He's not fed up with him, yet. I do wonder how much Felix will play the next 2 series. Should have all RHs going for Milwaukee and St. Louis, but I'm pretty sure Lou sees these as "big" games, as he's already pulled a meaningless rotation change in April. So, my guess is that Johnson gets at least 3, and probably 4 or 5 of the 6 starts because he wants what he thinks is his best lineup on the field in what he thinks are monumental games.
  18. rawaction
    Only have 7 starts total on my roster, so no way I could screw that up. Just gotta remember to put Lilly in for whenever the hell he pitches with the rotation change.
  19. rawaction
    And Tennessee loses 4-0. Cubs and their affiliates outscored 27-4 today. No hitters worth a crap did anything. Atkins was decent today. Fox with a scoreless inning. Eyre gave up 4 ERs and 4 hits in 2/3 of an inning.
  20. rawaction
    Tampa's had a real good draft, despite the reach on Dexter Jackson.
  21. rawaction
    Nats alternate uniforms are the truth.
  22. rawaction
    You've shown a few hits. Granted, this one caused internal bleeding......
  23. rawaction
    Straight from the NFL.com scouting report.
  24. rawaction
    i thought steltz was rather physical. He looks more physical than he is. At 6'1", 210lbs, I expect a thumper. He's far from that. Again, he' won't shy away from contact, but he's not an Adam Archuleta type hitter. Using players we know as Bears fans.....he's similar to Chris Harris in speed, coverage ability, and instincts. Probably a surer tackler than DManning, but similar lack of thump when making a hit.
  25. rawaction
    Did the Broncos pick? Draft tracker says no.
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