Jump to content
North Side Baseball

Andy

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    36,854

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by Andy

  1. Andy
    Pro sports actually has people that can play the game at a high level. And they freely admit they're trying to make money, instead of cloaking themselves in the illusion of trying to be educators. If hypocrisy is a deal breaker for you, you probably shouldn't follow sports at all. Colleges lie about being educators, pro owners cry poverty while locking out players and bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars for stadiums. Eh...I've become numb to the capitalism aspect of it all. I just don't like the NCAA pretending to be above it. But more than that, college sports are bad television. The players are slower and badder at sports. In general, that doesn't appeal to me. I'll watch college sports on occasion, but it's nowhere near as enjoyable as watching pros do things that few others on the planet are able to. Nothing wrong with that. Judging by TV ratings, you're more right than I am. Like Derwood said, I have no legitimate explainable reason for liking college more.
  2. Andy
    Pro sports actually has people that can play the game at a high level. And they freely admit they're trying to make money, instead of cloaking themselves in the illusion of trying to be educators. If hypocrisy is a deal breaker for you, you probably shouldn't follow sports at all. Colleges lie about being educators, pro owners cry poverty while locking out players and bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars for stadiums.
  3. Andy
    College sports has its warts, but I'll take it over the sanitized, 'distraction'-free, "Protect the Shield", monotonous world of pro sports 25 times out of 10. To each their own.
  4. Andy
    I can't believe we have a 20-page game thread. i seriously can't [expletive] wait til next april Yep. At worst, we should be relevant most of the summer, which by itself will make it the best season since 2009.
  5. Andy
    That settles it - anyone ripping Castro is wrong, because anyone who ever agrees with a Brennaman is wrong.
  6. Andy
    Me too. Whatever he did with Castro and Rizzo basically.
  7. Andy
    Holy [expletive], he didn't even look like he got all of that, either.
  8. Andy
    They said it was nothing serious last night, I believe. No reason to push it.
  9. Andy
    I've long felt the best pound-for-pound seats in the park are upper deck box. They're probably pretty cold in the April and September games (I've only ever sat there in the summer), but the sight lines are terrific. And for some reason they're usually pretty cheap on the resell sites. Where you want to sit has nothing to do with how quickly you move through the queue.
  10. Andy
    Wada, with Hendricks and Arrieta the centerpieces of a Stanton deal.
  11. Andy
    Well, this escalated quickly.
  12. Andy
    USC DB Josh Shaw allegedly saved his nephew from drowning at a family function Saturday and sprained his ankles doing so. I say 'allegedly' because Steve Sarkisian has apparently received a contradicting story regarding the injury and now Shaw (a USC captain) is unavailable to the media until the Trojans figure out what happened. Dan Wetzel had the best line on the subject:
  13. Andy
    He's signed through those six years already, though. The last year of his contract is 2020, which would also be his last pre-FA year if he is indeed beholden to the standard service-time requirement.
  14. Andy
    out of curiosity what is the long term difference between him coming up now, and him making the opening day roster? I know less than some others here but I believe the service-time impact is essentially nil between those two scenarios.
  15. Andy
    It's not even unlikely. It's 100% not happening. They don't explicitly say things too often but they pretty much have explicitly said that. And I still don't understand it. ETA: compared to Baez/Soler that is you don't understand why Soler would be called up before Bryant? I don't understand why they're seemingly playing service time games with Bryant but not Baez and Soler. Bryant's a Boras client and won't sign an early extension. Baez isn't a Boras client, and Soler's already on an MLB contract.
  16. Andy
    I went in '03. Paid $6 for nose bleed seat. the stadium was empty and I secured seats about 15 rows behind 3rd base by the 3rd inning. I went in 03 also. The Estes game...but I remember the stadium being pretty packed. I only live a couple hours away. I went for the division clincher in 07, but we actually clinched when the Brewers lost an hour after the game, so it wasn't all that exciting. I was also at that game (was at Ball State and bought the ticket on a whim). I think the Brewers were losing pretty big by the time the game ended, so most of the Cubs fans there (and that was probably close to half the fans in the park) knew what was up. I remember a pretty large group of them singing "Go Cubs Go" on the way out.
  17. Andy
    This is going to be excellent
  18. Andy
    There are like 5 sports owners that aren't a-holes and that might be optimistic. We'll survive.
  19. Andy
    I don't think the strikeouts are unexpected or alarming at this stage. It's just depressing to watch. the fact that he's been as good as he's been while being bad javy and swinging at everything isn't what i'd call depressing. This is about how I feel. It's a bummer that he's striking out so much but despite that he's been productive. Once he figures it out he should be even better.
  20. Andy
    I don't really see the issue. According to this article, to stream games online you'd still have to prove you had access to them. This just keeps teams from blacking out fans that have no way to watch them.
  21. Andy
    Javy takes a terrible swing at the 2nd pitch of the AB. Every single time.
  22. Andy
    View the fact that we probably wouldn't have gotten Bryant with Anibal pitching as a consolidation prize. the two things wouldn't have been related whatsoever In his defense, it seems like Jaxon has been here 3 years.
  23. Andy
    I am generally anti-booing in all forms, but I'd even struggle with it in Jackson's case.
  24. Andy
    Morning football might be in jeopardy because of that oh-so-common cause of sporting event delays, a mother [expletive] volcano: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11383726/penn-state-nittany-lions-ireland-opener-threatened-volcano
  25. Andy
    This could be the title of the book about Jaxon's Cubs career.
×
×
  • Create New...