Andy
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As Rodgers is very aware of (he even said so on a radio interview), this is the first time GB has drafted an offensive skill guy in the 1st round since they picked him. Thanks for all the help, fellas!
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Who's Your Top Favorite Cubs from Your Lifetime?
Andy replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If we're ignoring the Addison Russell category of personal scumbags, then there's only one guy that reigns supreme in the least-favorite category. I absolutely horsefeathering despised Aaron Miles. At that time my hatred for St. Louis was at an all-time high and I couldn't believe Hendry was dumb enough to sign a post-prime guy who wasn't even good when he was good just because he'd gotten a hold of the pixie dust for a year or two. Edwin Jackson would be #2 on that list and LaTroy Hawkins #3. -
Gronk apparently told the Pats he wanted to come out of retirement but only to play with Brady. Honestly I would've thought Belichick could get more out of Tampa in such a deal.
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I went on a Jordan kick a couple years ago and got both Playing for Keeps and The Life. Both great books. I haven't read Jordan Rules in forever but will probably get back to it at some point.
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I want footage of Scottie berating Krause on the team bus. And I know it's there because there was bus footage. Yeah, for pro athletes to be wincing at how brutal it was is something. I get the impression the documentary guys wanted me to feel bad for Krause, and I about 60% did. The guy was a really good GM when it came to the raw deal-making. Hell, if it weren't for the collateral damage of alienating MJ, pretty much every rumored trade he had on the table for Pippen would've been good moves. But he was just too big of a [expletive] personally, and I'd love to find out what it was about Phil specifically that pissed him off so much.
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Who's Your Top Favorite Cubs from Your Lifetime?
Andy replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No particular order from someone who's only been a fan during the 21st century: Javy Rizzo Lester Hendricks Aramis Sosa Bryant Soriano Fowler Zambrano Wood Prior Castellanos and Edmonds get into a Midseason Acquisitions wing. -
The parrot video is the only reason I ever remember him. He was also at the plate for the walk off wild pitch against Philly that year that put us in first. I was there, otherwise I might not remember that.
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Being as fair as possible to the Bulls on that one, Jimmy has kind of revealed himself to be a bit of a dick in recent years. Not a full-blown awful person, but just hard enough to deal with that I can maybe sort of understand why you'd be inclined to get rid of him if you don't think you're going far with him anyway. (And to be clear, I'd take him back on the Bulls immediately if the option was there.) But as you said, the knifing by Gar is unforgivable regardless of context.
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Jesus, what a horsefeathering clown. Thanks for a decade of that crap, Reinsdorf.
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I'm cool with a guy who built a #2 seed in the West without any superduperstars (yes, I know Jokic is awesome) running the Bulls.
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Most bronze busts are awful. That one isn't so bad, considering.
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To add on to the Doolittle love, here's his wife summing it up pretty well. If I squint and try to adopt a player's mindset on losing that kind of money...there's a sliver I can understand. This proposal goes far beyond that group of people though. aren't the players getting paid for 2020 (and getting service time)? i thought i saw that they had settled that a couple weeks back. The players are getting 4% of their salaries (and being credited a year of service time) if there is no season. If there is a season, I believe they pay back that 4%, because that was considered an advance at the time.
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As starved as I am for baseball or any sports, I'm with Goony. That's a stupid idea. I'm not sure how many players would sign up for 4.5-plus months away from their family, to say nothing of the more science-based reasons why that wouldn't work.
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Nice guy, performance trending down, will be 34 when he's next available. We have enough late inning redhead relievers who are way past their prime already.
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I usually go to the site (sometimes I use the app if I'm at home but I find the site has a better experience), and I end up with at least a few articles that interest me every weekday. Even these days, with the sports movie stuff they've been doing and the NFL/CFB stories being written.
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I don't think people want to admit it but I don't see any way any sports happen this calendar year unless the scientific community pulls off something dramatic. (Which isn't off the table, to be clear.) Even if we do have baseball or anything else, I can't imagine any universe in which fans are included.
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I just read The Cubs Way by Verducci again. Such a freaking great book. So many amazing nuggets just in the Game 7 chapters alone. I always forget that Montero one-liner to Montgomery when the latter entered the game and asked what he had in mind: "I'll figure it out by the time I get back there."
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Love that you brought this up. That sac fly score was amazing. He probably would have been out with a lower throw but that’s the point, he caught them so off guard that a throw was rushed and he scored. No one's ever asked him to my knowledge but I'd bet my life Jones only decided to send him when he could tell Davis wasn't planning a throw. -
80 or so games starting in July is probably a best-case scenario right now.
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Good fit for him. The NFC South should be interesting outside Atlanta. That team’s going to suuuuck. Carolina's not going to be any good either unless the defense gets a LOT better (given their best defensive player just retired and their 2nd-best is leaving in free agency, seems unlikely). Bridgewater is solid but he's not going to win games by himself.
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Cam Newton is being allowed to seek a trade. Please go get him, Chicago, I want to keep watching him play.
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The NFLPA narrowly approved the new CBA, so 17 games start in '21, and 14 playoff teams start this year. The owners are smart. They upped the minimum salary by a pittance to basically bribe the poorer players with this terrible-ass deal.
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Devonte Green and De'Ron Davis become the first IU senior class since 1972 to not play in a tournament game at all in their 4 years.....the day after they probably clinched getting to the tourney. I still wish they could at least release a bracket even if just for record keeping reasons. Dayton should be able to say that they were a 1 seed in 2020. Rutgers should say that the last year they made the tourney was 2020, not 1991. Juwan Howard should be able to say he guided his team to the tournament in his first season, etc etc But now it’s like there was no season at all and all the watching, reading about, discussing was pointless. I guess it’s not pointless for regular season conference champs or the smaller conference tourney champs, but for everyone else it’s like the season never happened A fellow Notre Dame fan said to me yesterday that we could've saved ourselves a lot of grief over the repeated close losses this year (they had 8 by 5 or less) if we'd known they meant literally nothing.
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I feel watched certain plays and certain Innings from time to time, but I've never actually sat and re-watched any full game. When I got the blu-ray World Series set I watched the radio overlay from the games I watched and the regular broadcast of the games I had to listen to on the radio like a nerd. I was also up late with an infant a few times in there, which helped.
