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its He was actually right that time.
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If only they'd kept up this August pace all year, they'd have already clinched the division. Marmol would be dead, but hey, playoffs! -
ESPN.com showed that Aroldis Chapman was going to pitch the 9th for the Cubs after pitching the 8th for the Reds. I thought, considering the managers involved, that may have actually been true.
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On the flip side, the Cub pitchers have issued the most walks in the majors, by a good amount.
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Like last August, when they went 10-19. Or 2009, when they went 12-17 and fell out of the division lead. Or 2008, when they went 20-8 and took over the division for good. Or 2007, when they went 12-16 and still held onto the division. Every year with this August crap. Yes clearly those three years we were in a position to get a top 5 pick at that point in the year and then blew it. Thanks. You are the one who made it sound like the Cubs have been in the position to get a top 5 draft pick every year. Or that they somehow always make a run in August to make things look not quite as bad.
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Like last August, when they went 10-19. Or 2009, when they went 12-17 and fell out of the division lead. Or 2008, when they went 20-8 and took over the division for good. Or 2007, when they went 12-16 and still held onto the division. Every year with this August crap.
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Philly's three corners, though, wow. Just get clear to their secondary and you may just break it all the way.
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Here is the 2014 CONCACAF WC Qualifying setup: Second Round (group winners advance): A - El Salvador, Suriname, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republica B - Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, Bermuda C - Panama, Dominica, Nicaragua, Bahamas D - Canada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia E - Haiti, Antigua and Barbuda, Curacao, US Virgin Islands F - Grenada, Guatemala, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize Third Round (Top two in each group advance): A - USA, Jamaica, Round 2 E/F winners (Haiti, Grenada) B - Mexico, Costa Rica, Round 2 A/B winners (El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago) C - Honduras, Cuba, Round 2 C/D winners (Panama, Canada)
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So far, then, the Bears have upgraded P and WR (whether or not Roy Williams is a top WR now, he's still better than Aromashodu/Davis), two of the weakest positions on the Bears last year, and traded a player that likely has a lot more perceived value than actual value. They also had the highest bid for the best available OL, their biggest need, but he took less money to return to the Steelers. And it's now day 1 of FA transactions. That about cover it?
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Look, it's easy to explain away almost anything as a team-related issue, except catch rate, which is pared down to only catchable balls thrown his way. If you are in the bottom 5 in the league in catch rate, and your only job is to catch passes, then you are not very productive.
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Here are my feelings on Olsen: - He was the least efficient offensive player on the team last year, and isn't irreplaceable, even if they just threw the Olsen passes to Kellen Davis. - There was always hope he'd be better, and he did make some great catches, but the many disappointing efforts just seem to get glossed over by the Bear fans. - He wasn't re-signing with the Bears next year unless he hugely improved anyway, so it was either gamble that he'd improve drastically this year or hope to trade him and hope another team valued him highly so you got something of value for him. They got a decent young LB for him with an injury history, which is meh, but at least the defense gets a little younger.
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Just because Martz is too stupid (stubborn?) to utilize him properly does not mean that he is not a very valuable football player. They threw plenty of passes to him. He just didn't catch near enough of them. How ever will the Bears replace Olsen's one good catch every 3 games now? Its tough to catch lots of passes when you have to stay in to block most of the time because your O-Line is on roller skates, or when the defense focuses on you all day because you are the only real threat on the team....let's just trade Cutler now. He has no one to throw to, and I don't give a crap if they get Roy Williams. He got the second most targets on the team and the fifth most catches, and was the 9th most efficient target on the team. He's not irreplaceable, and had a catch rate as bad as Knox, except everyone accepts Knox can't catch and apparently had no idea Olsen couldn't catch either.
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Apparently the entirety of Bears fandom shoved a pound of chuck into their brains the past couple days.
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Just because Martz is too stupid (stubborn?) to utilize him properly does not mean that he is not a very valuable football player. They threw plenty of passes to him. He just didn't catch near enough of them. How ever will the Bears replace Olsen's one good catch every 3 games now?
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Wow, people overvalue Greg Olsen by a lot.
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If Olsen is gone, the Bears found someone to take one of the least efficient TEs in the NFL last year. His catch rate is terrible.
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Eagles just traded Kolb to the Cardinals for Rodgers-Cromartie.
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According to FO, the Jags punting efficiency was top 25% in the league last year, while the Bears were below average. Theoretically, then, net boost to the weakest area of their special teams. Unless it was the coverage team that was the problem.
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What is the point of cheering for sports, dealing with watching your team lose year after year, having rivalries with opposing fan bases, etc when you can't enjoy a championship to its fullest when your team wins? Yes there's more to enjoying a title than rubbing it into your friends, but that is certainly part of the fun. In fact, you don't even have to be obnoxious while doing it, although some certainly choose to be that way and remind everyone every chance they get. Probably 30% of the reason I want the Cubs to win the world series is so that I don't have to take (as much) crap from Cardinals/White Sox fans about our futility. Obviously I did jack [expletive] to help them win the (hypothetical) title, but I invested a crapload of my time, spent money, etc. to feel like I'm at least a distant part of the team, and so when they win the title, I don't feel bad celebrating like I myself hit the game winning HR. There's plenty of difference between celebrating victory and trash talking as a result of it.
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He was a great directional punter his whole career, but in the last couple years he was good in every direction but forward.
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Quade really butchering the use of the pitching staff quite regularly these days.
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If he'd have given it a little more effort, he may have gotten a 2-run homer out of it.
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If you're a team with a big payroll, it's only worth making a trade if it makes the team better long-term. If you're trading away one of the 3-4 consistently good 3B over the past 5-10 years, you need to get an amazing return to make it worth it. Making the team worse for the sake of "a couple prospects" isn't worth it unless either those prospects turn out to be more valuable than Ramirez going forward, or the money "saved" by trading Ramirez can be used more efficiently. Consider me skeptical of either.
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2008, and to a lesser extent 2007 were the clear outliers of the past decade. People talk about the Cubs "waiting for the three run homer". That's nonsense, they don't wait for anything. What makes it even worse is that Pena and Fukudome are actually good at drawing walks, and they're both likely gone at the end of the year. Everyone else is abysmal.
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Remember the Cubs hitting approach just 3 short years ago? Second in the majors in walks. Now they're tied for last in the majors in walks. Put that together with also being (by far) worst in the majors in pitchers issuing walks, and that makes for a bad combination for winning.
