Andy
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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.
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Totally agree. It was the CFB site that got me on board but the Cubs stuff is a huge part of the reason I'm staying.
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I have Rizzo, Bryant, Russell (meh) and Contreras shirseys. Debated Contreras and Javy and decided on the former. Only actual jersey is Santo because I'm poor. If I were to get another it'd be Rizzo. Also voted Contreras because he's fun as hell.
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-01-10/sports/ct-greg-maddux-frank-thomas-haugh-spt-0110-20140110_1_larry-himes-cubs-fans-maddux-decision Sidenote: I actually ran into Frank Thomas at the Cosmo when I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago. I'm never that guy, but I kinda gave him a wave and a "big hurt!" and he acknowledged me politely. You should've tried to get some Cenegenics off him.
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also the 10th anniversary of the best cubs team any of us had ever seen until a couple of years ago. I adored everything about that team. The 15-16 group (plus some success for a couple of my other teams) have left them in the dust now, but for a long time it was my favorite sports team ever.
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The draft lottery is still fixed, isn't it? It seems like the league will try to have the Bulls win since the Bulls being good helps ratings a lot. I'd have more hope for that scenario if there was a surefire stud looming as a slam-dunk #1 pick. That seems to be when conspiracy fuel stuff happens - like Cleveland getting hometown boy LeBron or league-owned New Orleans being gifted Anthony Davis, or even Chicago getting hometown boy Rose with the 1.8% chance.
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Where did you see this? Interested to read the article. Wouldn’t be surprised if Jake waits in to Spring at this point and wait for an injury Heyman wrote about it. He's definitely the guy that supposedly said he'd be willing to wait into the season
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I don't specifically recall the Harper comparison, but I believe it happened. Folks here were (understandably) really high on Castro and made a lot of optimistic predictions that he did not fulfill. One I recall is that Castro was "guaranteed" to be the next Jeter. Something along those lines. There was at least one person saying there were only 3-5 players in baseball for whom they'd trade Starlin (or something along those lines). It got a little crazy. At one point there were 8 or 9 players projected by someone (BR maybe?) to have more WAR than Castro in the next 5 years or something and someone pointed it out. I remember agreeing with them. Oh well.
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Philly wasn't winning that game without Foles outplaying Brady and Pederson outcoaching Belichick. I'm in utter shock that both happened.
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I watch Jeopardy each day and it never ceases to amaze me how incredibly smart people can know absolutely nothing about a topic (sports) on which so many people have at least a passing knowledge. This category is an extreme example, but something like this happens probably about a third of the time they have a sports category. (For instance, someone once responded to a question like "Hack Wilson holds the single-season baseball record in this category with 191" with "home runs", and another time someone guessed "Magic Johnson" to a question about hockey assists.) Like, I'm a simpleton by the standard of any Jeopardy contestant and I'm still able to come up with answers to most of the easier questions on the topics like opera, plays, physics, or whatever, in which my knowledge base is, shall we say, limited.
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We were probably going to sell that second rounder anyway. Their pick being top 5 this year seems wildly unlikely, so we'll most likely be getting two picks in the top 15.
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The Bulls gave up 50 to CJ McCollum in 3 quarters last night. The tank is back on, baby.
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I don't really understand why they can't just junk them this season. It's not like the Indians don't already have plenty of uniform options that don't include Wahoo.
