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  1. Andy
    I have a 2:00 astronomy class that is not being attended. My teacher won't be at my 1:00 so I just have to take the quiz his grad assistant is administering and then dash to my dorm to, for the first time ever, watch a complete Cubs Opening Day game. :D
  2. Andy
    Me too. That team was the definitive reminder of why I love sports.
  3. Andy
    I'm in as ndistops obviously. Oddly enough, my nickname beforehand was sosa756. I created that account some time ago... Pick 1 will be Victor Martinez. Bow to your sensei everyone.
  4. Andy
    I will finish 3rd in both the NSBB Yahoo and Facebook pools regardless of Monday's result. Pretty darn good especially after my hideous flameouts the last two years.
  5. Andy
    I'm eternally optimistic until the first pitch is thrown. From then on I am waiting for the inevitable double plays with the bases loaded, strikeouts with a man on third with less than 2 outs, bullpen collapses, etc.
  6. Andy
    My perfectly worthless astronomy class takes a backseat to the Cubs on this day. :D
  7. Andy
    I haven't heard anything about him so I'm guessing he's good to go.
  8. Andy
    If the Cubs win that game, Kerry becomes a demigod in Chicago and no one cares that he's never been reliably healthy since. I'm certain of this.
  9. Andy
    My hopes are higher than last year, when I predicted the Cubs to finish 2nd more out of hope than belief. This year, we'll have both Woody and Prior back by the end of May, we add another good pitcher in Miller in May, and we have a better offense, headlined by a leadoff man who can actually get on base and a guy batting 2nd who actually belongs there. We have a good closer for the whole season, and a bullpen that will be better than last year's at worst, and blow it out of the water at best. We probably won't win the division or get to the playoffs - but this team has a ceiling that could enable it to this time around. The Cards are mortal, and there really isn't one giant in the whole league. If ever there was a year for the Cubs to sneak in the back door and make it all the way to the Series, 2006 would be it. I can't wait. Go Cubs! :D
  10. Andy
    BASEBALL :D I can't wait. Seems like I've been on NSBB forever already but oddly this will be the first Cubs game I get to enjoy with all of you. This will be great! Jon, are you sure about no blackouts for Wednesday? Every time the Cubs had a weekday game on ESPN last year it was blacked out in the Muncie area (never mind the fact that we don't even get Comcast Sportsnet...).
  11. Andy
    I think the Cubs decline the option unless he absolutely tears up the universe once he comes back. Whether he ends up actually coming back? Who knows. My gut feeling is that if he pitches well enough so that the Cubs will want to make him an offer, he'll have pitched well enough that some pitching-starved club will hideously overpay for him and we'll lose him.
  12. Andy
    Bulls playing very smart basketball to cut it to 2 in the closing minute of the 3rd quarter.
  13. Andy
    We don't have an injury thread, everyone is safe until then
  14. Andy
    To be fair about your sig, Aramis Fan, the Cubs had nothing to do with Florida's signing Borowski as an FA this offseason.
  15. Andy
    I don't buy that Baker ran our young arms into the ground. There are a fair few young pitchers in the game today that have been firing 200+ innings a year for a while now and suffer no ill effects (off the top of my head, Jon Garland, Mark Buehrle, Johan Santana and of course, Z himself come immediately to mind). Maybe throwing a lot of pitches had something to do with it, but Wood was having arm problems before Dusty arrived, and Prior has always been somewhat fragile so we can't put it all on "well, they threw a bunch of innings in 2003".
  16. Andy
    :lol:
  17. Andy

    Andy replied to DivineBovine's topic in Other Sports

    NBADraft.net says Morrison at No. 2 and Mardy Collins at No. 11. I think not. Good to see the Bulls steal one on a bad shooting night for Gordon. Now we need to beat the Celts and hope Philly loses their next one to the Knicks (they almost did last night).
  18. Andy
    I still think that even the Cardinals might not be able to squeeze good years out of ALL the average to bad players they picked up. Bigbie Miles Spivey Encarnacion Ponson The Cardinal magic is formidable, but not unstoppable. At least two of these guys are actually going to remain bad IMO.
  19. Andy
    AL East: Yankees AL Central: White Sox AL West: A's AL Wildcard: Angels NL East: Braves (picking them until they are no longer div. champions no matter what now) NL Central: Cardinals NL West: Dodgers NL Wildcard: Mets LCS's: A's over Angels Mets over Dodgers World Series: Mets over A's AL MVP: Guerrero NL MVP: Pujols AL Cy: Santana NL Cy: Zambrano AL ROY: D. Young NL ROY: Hermida AL MOY: Macha NL MOY: Little
  20. Andy
    Good work, you had me for a minute until I realized that only our best players get hurt
  21. Andy
    Brownell hired as coach by Wright State.Interesting, last I heard he was close to an extension with UNCW. He went from sure thing to BSU to sure thing to UNCW to done with Wright State in about four days. I'm leaning back in Tony Barbee's direction.
  22. Andy
    :D :D :D :D
  23. Andy
    In all seriousness, how would the Neifi signing have gone down if it was reported during the season? "Hey guys, Neifi just got signed to a two year extension worth 5 million." - Dusty "Hey, way to go, Neifi, awesome, dude, that's great" - General reaction in clubhouse "My BATTING AVERAGE is higher than his ON BASE PERCENTAGE and he's getting paid more than me" - Walker in his head If I was Walker I'd lose my mind.
  24. Andy
    I don't think I recall any player not getting at least some reduction on appeal...with the exception of a couple of Cubs of course. The only Cub (or player at all) I can remember not getting a reduction on appeal is Wood after he popped off at Eric Cooper. Which was total crap, because pitchers have done more and not been suspended 5 games (1 start). At some points in 2004 it sure seemed like the umps were gunning for the Cubs.
  25. Andy
    That's easy: Juan Cruz. He had good numbers as a starter, then Dusty put him in the bullpen where he sucked, and unfortunately the reliever label has stuck to him. Cruz' career could have taken a whole different trajectory if Dusty had displayed as much patience with him as a starter as was given to Shawn Estes. Ha! That's pretty funny. The two great organizations in ATL and OAK both gave up on Cruz because of the "reliever label Dusty stuck to him"? Maybe it is instead just because he was overated and not that good. Nah, blame it on Dusty. The whole question of damage done by a manager is really virtually impossible to prove. If a player is ruined by a manager and never recovers, people who defend the manager will say that "he just wasn't any good," when in fact it very well could have been that he was screwed up at a prime age and never recovered. Then again, he could have never been good in the first place. Either way, the actual damage done by a bad manager is impossible to really prove. Its possible that Cruz, Choi, Hill, etc. were just bad. Its also possible that Baker's bad managing ruined them forever. But simply because the players have not been good since leaving the Cubs does not absolve Baker from responsibility, nor does it prove that they weren't any good in the first place. Its solely an unprovable opinion...either way. The problem with Cruz and Choi is that is they played badly in their opportunities to earn jobs, and in 2003 we were in a playoff race, so we were in no position to let young guys take their lumps. Hill just plain bombed out.
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