Sammy Sofa

Good point. I'll bet they won't be ignoring the local hacks if/when the Cubs actually become a good team. Oh brother. Yeah, they're really dodging the scathing investigative journalism of Mark Gonzalez.

You are not the only person who feels this way, but I don't feel bad for any of you because you've had lots of chances to jump on to the Blackhawks by now. That would only make me feel bad if I had actually missed out on a chance to literally jump on the Blackhawks. Preferably their heads.

Other than it pisses off the local hacks who subsequently rip them and rile up the meatballs to unignoreable levels...which, at the very least, is annoying. They're playing for the meatballs regardless of whether or not the FO is open with them.

Ignoring the local hacks is good. Very good.

Really? NONE of us understand how the 40 man roster works? There hasn't been ANY discussion about it on here recently?

You're going to see increases like that simply based on more players actually being diagnosed with concussions than ever before that previously would have been glossed over or "missed."

That article still seems to be pretty positive about him despite those numbers.

Perfection.

Man, there is no way Bell isn't majorly concussed. His head hitting the ground like that is just grotesque.

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Man, that tackle is so great. He just stops Wilson dead in his tracks and drives him into the ground. I kinda want to cry that the old Dugout comics are no longer online since the Farnsworth storylines were so fantastic.

Somewhere there's a guy staring vacantly in the general direction of a wall, in a dim room. Doing it for hours. That guy is Ted Lilly. One of my favorite Cubs ever. I'm kinda terrified that he's now roaming the streets without baseball as an outlet. I miss the Ted Lilly Fan Club.

I heard Tom found half a sandwich under the couch last night and it was only a little dirty. Because: POOR.

But that's ass ass-backwards; why not just tell Ruby to have his fat ass up and dressed and there at the scheduled time instead of delaying everything? And again, Ruby would have missed the whole thing if Oswald hasn't delayed it all to ask for a change of clothes. Was Oswald in on his own killing?

I feel sorry for Chicagoans that don't like Hockey because they are missing out on a dominant team. I still lived there during the Bulls run and that did nothing for me, except for an excuse for some fun parties. That's [expletive] crazy; the Bulls had the greatest player ever. There's no way this stuff even comes close.

Pajamas, the bear face sucks, stirrups suck.

I want one of the throwback ones they busted out last season. Did they ever sell those?

The new uniforms sound dope as [expletive], but the greys are radical to the max, dude. I love the way the "Chicago" looks.

I'm tired of Barney as a starter, but it's not Theriot-bad since he doesn't appear to be a raging asshat...or he just hides it really well.

Sounds great, but the current road grey is also fantastic, so eat [expletive].

Meaning...what?

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent? I don't really think so. You'll see a little bit of a dry spell for a while, then maybe one or two wild drafts from all the guys forced back, and then it would just even out. I think getting rid of the college rule altogether might be more helpful. Back before the rule, tanking and picking a high school player was so risky it wasn't even a good bet. Having that extra year of review against exponentially better opponents has made the scouting pool much less risky. Hmmm. Yeah, I was mulling it over in my head after my first post and the extra years really wasn't seeming like any kind of long term solution. It's just frustrating how the drafts end up having so few impact players or value picks. I do think that delay would end up producing a lot more quality players, as opposed to some of the guys that are drafted now. A lot of it, though, has to do with the way the NBA is structured. I think they should expand the draft and make the D League an actual farm system, where each franchise gets assigned a team. As it stands now, "raw" guys get drafted every year, and then they're basically discarded after a year because coaches are (rightfully) more focused on winning games and saving their jobs as opposed to helping some kid learn how to properly box out. That's a good point; unless a player breaks out right away they're basically done, and the only ones who really get a chance to break out are the ones they're expecting/hoping to break out in the first place. Unless a team gets hit by injuries you have a bunch of guys who just take up space, and nobody gives a damn about the D League. Sounds like some real areas of improvement.

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent? I don't really think so. You'll see a little bit of a dry spell for a while, then maybe one or two wild drafts from all the guys forced back, and then it would just even out. I think getting rid of the college rule altogether might be more helpful. Back before the rule, tanking and picking a high school player was so risky it wasn't even a good bet. Having that extra year of review against exponentially better opponents has made the scouting pool much less risky. Hmmm. Yeah, I was mulling it over in my head after my first post and the extra years really wasn't seeming like any kind of long term solution. It's just frustrating how the drafts end up having so few impact players or value picks.

I take it basketball isn't one of your primary sports... College can be a "one and done". I don't follow college sports at all.

Would further limiting the college issue help? If players can't be drafted until after 3 or 4 years instead of what it is now (2 years, right?) might that help make the draft deeper in terms of talent?