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  1. Banedon
    Maybe Hendry should be our biggest disappointment.
  2. Banedon
    Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. How in the world is Fontenot a bigger disappointment than Bradley? We grew to love Fontenot last year, where as we were skeptical of Bradley from day one? The Cubs spent huge money and presumeably traded Derosa in order to be able to obtain Bradley. He's a much bigger disappointment.
  3. Banedon
    Font is my biggest disappointment this year. I really thought he was capable of coming in on an everyday basis and putting up a .285 .360 line with 15 HR pop. How in the world is Fontenot a bigger disappointment than Bradley?
  4. Banedon
    Cubs need to go to the AL asap to keep Fox in the lineup when Aramis comes back.
  5. Banedon
    What'd Font do?
  6. Banedon
    You would think that major league baseball players would be capable of counting to 3, and our outfielders continue to have difficulty.
  7. Banedon
    Wow...maybe it's just the fact that I just usually ignore soccer, but I had no idea that the US men hadn't been to a FIFA final since 1916.
  8. Banedon
    Here ya go: http://www.chicagobears.com/news/ChalkTalkStory.asp?story_id=5899
  9. Banedon
    He did have some big catches for Grossman a couple years ago as the 3rd WR. Some think getting him back in that role will be good for him. He was forced to be on the field way too much last year due to Booker's suckiness and Lloyd being hurt. NFL Replay just showed the week 15 game against the Saints last year, and Davis had at least a couple flat out drops in that game. It seems to me that wasn't a rare occurrence. I'm not a Davis fan, but did the guy really give him too much credit? He called him solid and said he'd have 40 catches. He had 35 last year with Orton/Grossman and the presence of Lloyd and Booker on the field. I see him as a 3rd receiver type player who should be able to get about 40. I'd love for one fo the younger guys to push him off the roster, but I'm not sure any of them are ready to step up. Eh...I guess I'm just not sure how "solid" he is. In any case, I think we're all of pretty much the same opinion about him.
  10. Banedon
    He did have some big catches for Grossman a couple years ago as the 3rd WR. Some think getting him back in that role will be good for him. He was forced to be on the field way too much last year due to Booker's suckiness and Lloyd being hurt. NFL Replay just showed the week 15 game against the Saints last year, and Davis had at least a couple flat out drops in that game. It seems to me that wasn't a rare occurrence.
  11. Banedon
    That guy gives Rashied Davis too much credit though. I'm not high on him at all.
  12. Banedon
    Seems that way.
  13. Banedon
    another way to write -OBP2-SLG2 = -.9 is this: -1 * OBP2-SLG2 = -.9 Then when you add the two equations together, how you end up with the .8 is a bit more visible.
  14. Banedon
    Nah...dude was a delinquent. His pic is in this article on the right if anyone is interested. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090624/NEWS/90624008 He was in a car chase over the weekend after bashing windows with a baseball bat. That kid wasn't ever getting any scholarships. I'm guessing he was high or drunk and some old incident where he was mad at that coach just took over...
  15. Banedon
    Do we really have any idea how much more widespread greenies were/are than steroids/HGH? We have the steroid survey from 2003, I know, but to my knowledge we really only have subjective observation as far as the usage of greenies. To my knowledge, we don't. It has been speculated that the use of amphetamines in baseball has always been widespread. I think Tony Gwynn said once he guessed 50% of the players were using it to pep up for games. An 81 game road schedule is indeed tiring. It's cheating, no doubt. I just can't equate it with steroid use, the difference in effect is too great. Especially these regimen-supported programs some of these guys engaged in, where they have some kind of roid czar planning out hourly pill taking with different flavors of roids for different days, etc. The gulf between that and greenies? Grand Canyon. Yeah see that's where I question it. Seems like complete speculation.
  16. Banedon
    Good luck to him. I understand why the Bears didn't keep him, but it's still tough to let Mike Brown go. I didn't think he was coming back last year, so I don't view it as all that tough. But I still think it's a little weird that they just let him walk away when they had a need at the position. I still wonder what the full motivation is. Maybe it was just a roster management thing. It's gotta be hard when your starter keeps going down to injury every season. At least planning on Payne/Steltz being in there, you don't have the uncertainty. You buying that? :)
  17. Banedon
    Guys, I agree...save percentage is a poor measurement to compare closers. I only was using that because champaignchris used the the "only 3 blown saves" argument to say that he wasn't bad. I was simply countering that particular argument. Gregg isn't awful. But he's not good, and he doesn't give me the warm fuzzies (I don't have stats to back that last one up...you'll just have to trust me. :) )
  18. Banedon
    Good luck to him. I understand why the Bears didn't keep him, but it's still tough to let Mike Brown go.
  19. Banedon
    It doesn't make him good, but nobody's arguing that - I don't think. He's a pretty average closer, no more, no less. Well first, I'm not sure what I was looking at, but I was wrong...he's 12th (out of 16) in the NL in save percentage, not 10th. And would be 12th (out of 14) in the AL as well, not 11th. Now maybe he's average in some other stats, but those are definitely below average.
  20. Banedon
    He's on the roster, but I've heard zip about him this offseason.
  21. Banedon
    Do we really have any idea how much more widespread greenies were/are than steroids/HGH? We have the steroid survey from 2003, I know, but to my knowledge we really only have subjective observation as far as the usage of greenies. Well HGH wasn't tested for in '03(Might still not, can't remember), and I think it's pretty well accepted that there is stuff out there you can be on that won't be caught on a test. Taking the % of players who failed the test in '03 as the % of players on stuff seems foolish to me. That's fine...I was just challenging the notion that we really had any concept of how widespread the use of any of the mentioned substances is... I'll admit, this thread has at least made me question my position on this issue.
  22. Banedon
    Lets not pretend that 11/14 in save opportunities makes him a good closer. He's 10th in the NL and would be 11th in the AL in save percentage.
  23. Banedon
    Do we really have any idea how much more widespread greenies were/are than steroids/HGH? We have the steroid survey from 2003, I know, but to my knowledge we really only have subjective observation as far as the usage of greenies.
  24. Banedon
    Bears individual game tix on sale July 25th. http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=5896
  25. Banedon
    Raw I agree with what you are saying, but I don't think there is much, if any benefit of having your RB be a 2nd year guy instead of a rookie. If anything, it just means more wear and tear on the body. Rookie RBs can produce out of the gate because it is such a physical/instinctive position, and not really a tactical position, like QB and WR. Frankly, after all the touches he had in college and his rookie year, I'm concerned about Forte's future. He was a sub 4.0ypc guy last year and doesn't have the "liveliest" of legs. He could improve on those numbers this year simply because of Cutler's presence, but I don't think it's a matter of becoming "established" as a veteran or anything. Kevin Jones being healthy and effective would go a long way toward helping Forte be better, just by not having to be on the field as often.
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