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Cubs sign Aaron Miles per Levine
Banedon replied to JWCUB's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Bye bye Derosa. :( -
I am. I never really thought it was "dead" to begin with. I think Hendry told Towers to shelve the talks for Peavy until later in the offseason when he could swing a decent trade for Marquis. If Towers found another trading partner for Peavy, then go for it. But I think from Peavys perspective, he was telling Towers "the Cubs or nothing." JMO I need someone more besides Bruce Levine's speculation before I'm a believer. The Bradley and Marquis things have other sources. The Peavy thing doesn't. What about Dan Hayes saying the teams were still talking last week? Or the Rosenthal report that talks would be revisited if/when they got some payroll things figured out with new ownership? Or just the fact that it would've been stupid for the Cubs to walk away completely when they held the majority of the cards in this. The opening of a spot in the rotation (granted, we have guys like Marshall and Guz) may (or may not) suggest that we intend to acquire another SP. Well, anything may (or may not) mean anything...lol I did not see the Hayes report, but I'm going to still remain skeptical. I'm not saying it won't happen this offseason, but I'm not taking rumors at face value at this point.
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I am. I never really thought it was "dead" to begin with. I think Hendry told Towers to shelve the talks for Peavy until later in the offseason when he could swing a decent trade for Marquis. If Towers found another trading partner for Peavy, then go for it. But I think from Peavys perspective, he was telling Towers "the Cubs or nothing." JMO I need someone more besides Bruce Levine's speculation before I'm a believer. The Bradley and Marquis things have other sources. The Peavy thing doesn't.
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Yeah, I'm not biting.
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Is Dunn playing second base or something? What a sight that would be.
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After correctly calling him Alfonzo earlier.
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It's a Levine quote.
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WINTER CLASSIC: Red Wings Win 6-4 || 1/1/09 12:00 NBC
Banedon replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
This isn't totally directed at you, it's more of a general rant, but why wouldn't you just google it? I am not a hockey fan at all, but I am excited to watch this game. Mind if I jump on the Hawks bandwagon? http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=don+cherry HA! I love that. -
You can't compare Shanahan to Lovie. Shanahan was also GM. He was bad at that job, but I still think he was a good coach. Unfortunately that's a tough separation to make. Like John Clayton says today, Shanahan was fired as GM, not as coach. Unfortunately one goes with the other.
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Angelo went out of his way to praise Urlacher yesterday. David Haugh theorizes that a cynic might think Angelo is building up Brian's trade value. Urlacher for McNabb or Carson Palmer? Linebacker would be a lot easier spot to draft for Angelo than anything offensively.
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A google search for "winter classic stretch" comes up with an article about the Blackhawks winning "stretch". The next result is this thread. Sounds like a figment of our imagination. But I wouldn't put it past anyone involved.
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Yeah, lets not make this thread THAT thread....
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Jake Peavy should sing it.
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Peter King is the worst writer that I enjoy reading. I have no earthly idea why I like reading his stuff because it's wrong so very often.... I don't read much KSK...I'll have to check that out. He gives it the fjm treatment. This week's was kind of weak, because I think he missed some opportunities. But the last 5-6 were really funny. There were some good bits...fjm was funnier when it was on, but still...fun reading. The 50-50 stuff had me laughing pretty good.
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Ike 'Beats' Tina to Death Classic, if not classy.
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Is that a reference to something?
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Might wanna wait till Babich is gone to start sending the love Marinelli's way there Jerry.
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Peter King is the worst writer that I enjoy reading. I have no earthly idea why I like reading his stuff because it's wrong so very often.... I don't read much KSK...I'll have to check that out.
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I don't know about very high-risk....there's risk, but there is in any personnel change. I only want Smith fired if the coaching staff is the same in 2009.
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Again for future reference, what is a successful season? There are varying degrees, but I can't call non-playoff seasons a success. For some teams it's improvement, but not success.
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So what's the explanation? Don't say Lebeau...cuz he's only been there since '04. they have a good roster, and they get to feast on the bengals and browns. The Bengals and Browns put together haven't lost as many games as the Lions in the last 5 years. And the Packers and Vikings are each only 1 game over .500 during that span. The NFC North isn't exactly a juggernaut.
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Following 6 straight playoff appearances...come on...you understand how that's different right? Of course I do. But I was asked yesterday "how much mediocrity must we endure before we stop living in the past?" The fans calling for Smith's head would very likely, imo, be calling for Cowher's after the first two non-playoff seasons. You are ignoring the very different scenarios of sustained success followed by a set-back and what Lovie's team did, which was very short-lived success. I don't call three winning seasons in four years "very short-lived," but that's semantics. I don't call this year success.
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Following 6 straight playoff appearances...come on...you understand how that's different right? Of course I do. But I was asked yesterday "how much mediocrity must we endure before we stop living in the past?" The fans calling for Smith's head would very likely, imo, be calling for Cowher's after the first two non-playoff seasons. If he followed the same pattern as his Steelers tenure, he wouldn't have had his second non-playoff season until his 8th year as head coach...so we'd have a while to go before we worried about it. But we wouldn't win a Super Bowl in that time, which (according to previous Smith-bashing in this thread) is all that matters. We wouldn't have a 13-win season either. I'm not gonna sit here and defend someone else's non-quoted arguments from somewhere else in this thread. I don't know how someone can look at what Lovie Smith has done, and what Bill Cowher has done, and not see that Bill Cowher has had a better career, and is more likely, a better football coach. I don't think Lovie is awful. But I don't think he's anything special. Since Wanny, we've had 2 low key, low emotion, low energy coaches in here. It's worked sometimes, and not others. Cowher is a proven coach, who is high energy, and defense oriented. I like that.
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Following 6 straight playoff appearances...come on...you understand how that's different right? Of course I do. But I was asked yesterday "how much mediocrity must we endure before we stop living in the past?" The fans calling for Smith's head would very likely, imo, be calling for Cowher's after the first two non-playoff seasons. If he followed the same pattern as his Steelers tenure, he wouldn't have had his second non-playoff season until his 8th year as head coach...so we'd have a while to go before we worried about it.
