Andy
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Kansas over Carolina in the title game, Purdue and UVA in the Final Four, Loyola in the Sweet 16, Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, South Dakota State and New Mexico State each to win once. I didn't watch much this year, so a lot of my picks are just based on what I don't want to have happen since that's what most of this season has been, and the rest is mostly chalk.
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Far better than this cockamamie solution.
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Correct, plus the Bills are systematically moving up in the draft to try to get one. I saw a couple of reporters say they like Josh Allen.
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Jake Arrieta Signs with the Phillies for 3/$75M
Andy replied to Bobson Dugnutt's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Heh, I had the complete opposite experience. Jake's kickass game against the White Sox in 15 stopped a lengthy losing streak for me at games. -
Save some of your anger for stupid Davidson too That's annoying for sure but I was on record even before all of this that I was fine with the NIT as long as horsefeathering Syracuse didn't get yet another horsefeathering gift bid.
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I'll spare everyone the long rant about Syracuse and just say that I am angry.
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Jake Arrieta Signs with the Phillies for 3/$75M
Andy replied to Bobson Dugnutt's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
You can only feel so bad for a guy being paid what will probably be in the 70M neighborhood, but I was hoping Jake would get more. -
Hopefully Kizer got away from Cleveland in time to avoid complete career destruction (I'm mostly kidding, there's a good chance he just sucks, but he sure as hell was never gonna succeed there)
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Stolen from GRB: The Cubs probably won't be involved in more than a couple of these, though, and it's not like you have to pay for them, so I guess it's fine.
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MLB Network would be producing the games, I saw, so I'm not convinced they'll be available locally. Losing a Len and JD game would suck.
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It was called "Addison Russell is awesome and deserves a thread" until the whole 'maybe possibly hit his wife' thing happened.
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It's really depressing that Bonzie Colson is gonna end his career in the NIT because as luck would have it the last chance ND had to get an at large bid ended up being "go beat the #1 team in the nation on their home court"
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A - Giancarlo Stanton B - Nolan Arenado, Anthony Rizzo C - Bryce Harper, Kris Bryant, Carlos Correa D - Alex Bregman, Christian Yelich, Yoenis Cespedes, Max Kepler, Kole Calhoun Wild Card - Will PM
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Objectivity. My wife, to use one example, would absolutely rate Rizzo #1 on this list because she thinks he's adorable regardless of actual butt impressiveness. Kelly is presumably free of such distractions.
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Yeah Delaney had offers to hold the tourney next week at Barclays and Prudential in Newark but he wanted the allure of playing at MSG. I have no problem having the tournament in DC or NY or wherever but having the tourney a week early caused logistical issues during conference play and like you said takes us out of the spotlight of being the lead in to the selection show. Though maybe that’s for the better with how horsefeathers most of the Big Ten has been this year. Delany most certainly did not have offers to hold the tournament at Barclays, because they're hosting the ACC tournament and are contracted to host the A-10 for at least the next 3 years. If he wanted NYC, this was his only play. Going to Prudential is probably the only thing that would've been dumber than what he did. Of course, Delany's entire NYC gambit is a complete joke, and the fact that the B1G tournament is ever anywhere other than Chicago and Indy is dumb.
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I don't think interest has waned. The Cubs now charge enough money that the difference between buying tickets today and getting them on StubHub a week out isn't very much, so naturally people are less desperate to get them when they first go on sale. That being said, I did get tickets to the two games that comprise my friends and my annual trip to Wrigley, because they're against Washington and I doubt they'll be any cheaper then than they were today.
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Jon Jay and his high-40s cheddar for Cy Young
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Notre Dame's involvement is that Demetrius Jackson had lunch with one of these agents once, possibly after he declared for the draft. I look forward to them receiving equal punishment to the most blatant offender in the case.
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Ainge was incredibly smart to refuse to ever give up any asset worth a damn for the last decade (that sounds like a backhanded compliment), waiting for other teams to stupid their way into giving him stuff. I can't stand him for it, but he's good.
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Yes but it was kinda tempered by the fact that we weren't good yet and really did have a great track record of getting top FAs. I remember thinking the whole thing made sense on like a thousand levels but then getting to end of that train of thought ad being like yeah ill believe it when i see it. I can't remember what the general consensus was, but I remember thinking as soon as the Red Sox traded him he was going to be a Cub. Yeah, when the season ended and the first trickles of reports of our interest started coming out, I figured that since we didn't have to give up a draft pick, Theo would make it happen. Still was a nerve-wracking couple weeks waiting for the decision, of course.
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I buy almost all my tickets on StubHub, so I don't usually keep track of the Cubs' prices. I did go with my wife a couple years ago and we sat in the bleachers because the tickets were cheaper there, so it is probably a little closer to an accurate reflection these days, but for the most part you can usually get better deals in the 400s.
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one of the best values and one of my favorite places to sit = front of upper deck (400) infield The best value ticket in sports. For some reason the market has never figured out how awesome those seats are. I have an annual trip with friends where we sit in the bleachers per tradition, but any other game I go to I try to sit in the 400s.
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You can usually get it for less than that; they pretty much always have some sort of sale going on.
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Waffling, sure but I'm just glad you don't need to read much in to it to see he's clearly on the side so many are on this board that these guns are ridiculous and nobody should really have them. Like you said it's an obvious thing and it would've been nice to see more conviction from him along the lines of Kerr but I get why he played it a bit down the middle while still making his stance on it pretty clear. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a stronger statement/stance from him about it once Rizzo is back. I'll also be interested to see how Rizzo responds as I'd imagine he will get similar questions once he's back in camp. Rizzo already implied his stance with 'something needs to change' in his symphathy Tweet yesterday, but you're right, I'm looking forward to what he has to say.
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Who are you reading/talking to that looks at Contreras in a negative light regarding baserunners? Every time Lester pitches a national game, the broadcasters always make sure to at least briefly interrupt their obsessive yammering about the throwing yips to point out that Contreras is a magnificent thrower and helps mitigate the issue.
