BigSlick

This is amusing and kinda depressing at the same time. I don't believe that Pete Rose is enjoying his life much anymore, is he? Does he really deserve it?

We're friggin losing to the Bobcats. God damn this team sometimes.

I wasn't comparing the deals, I was comparing the attitudes people have of Wood and Zambrano. Also, I'm not entirely opposed to giving Zambrano Zito money, the man deserves it. He's what, 26? Jesus guys. I'd give it to him too. The question is, does Hendry have it to give to Zambrano? After giving the big money out to all these other guys, I'm not so sure he has the money to offer Z. He had an opportunity to lock up Zambrano before he paid out money to Lilly, Floyd and Marquis. He didn't do it. Now he risks losing him to someone WHO WILL give Zambrano Zito money next year, maybe more. If that happens, should Hendry lose his job? Absolutely. My desire to trade Zambrano now is only to attempt to get more than a couple of draft picks when Zambrano leaves. I believe Zambrano won't be back if he isn't signed before this season starts. No way will the Cubs be able to outbid the Yankees. I agree with this. To sign Lilly and Marquis without knowing for a fact that you still had money for Zambrano is unforgivable in and of itself. This blunder alone would cost any MLB GM his job, and Hendry is a guy that should, IMHO, have been fired earlier. If this goes down the way I fear it will, with Z walking for draft choices and no Cub WS in 2007, Hendry will, and should, go down as one of the worst GMs in Cubs history. Being one of the worst GMs in Cubs history is akin to being one of the whitest players to play basketball at Duke. Every new crop wants to top the actions of their predecessor. I love you. Also, you guys are talking about there being a lack of money to sign Zambrano after all these moves...couldn't Hendry ask for a little bit more money (probably more than a little) than the payroll to keep a fan favorite and franchise player? I honestly don't know how it works, but I remember in Moneyball, Billy Beane called up his owner for some extra cash to sign someone.

Wii has made me a fantastic bowler. On wii.

I wasn't comparing the deals, I was comparing the attitudes people have of Wood and Zambrano. Also, I'm not entirely opposed to giving Zambrano Zito money, the man deserves it. He's what, 26? Jesus guys.

Teams don't throw at Vasher nearly as much as Tillman-I've heard that Tillman got thrown at twice as much as Vasher this year-in fact, Tillman was one of the league leaders at balls thrown his way. Because of this, it seems to reason that Tillman's stats would be a lot better than Vasher's, but he's not necessarily better. Edit: Here's the quote, from Football Outsider's Superbowl Preview: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2007/02/01/ramblings/game-previews/4913/ There's a simple reason for that. More often than not, Tillman gets the #1 WR on the opposing team. There was some very lopsided matchups this year against teams with very weak #2 WRs. Roy Williams in Detroit to Tillman (twice), Vasher faced Furrey, who had a good year, but is not near the talent of Williams. Anquan Boldin in Arizona, Vasher faced Bryant Johnson with Fitzgerald out. Plaxico Burress in New York, Vasher faced guys who should have been #4 WRs. Lee Evans in Buffalo, Vasher again faced Josh Reed. In the playoff game in NO, Tillman got Colston, while Vash got Terrance Copper. Those are all guys who those teams' passing games revolved around. Those are guys that are gonna get the ball thrown to them regardless of who is on them. Vasher is a very good CB though. I think Nate could handle those matchups also. He did a great job whenever he did get a tough matchup. But to me, Tillman is a better keeper because he's a better tackler and he's miles better against the run. The top tier of CBs is Champ Bailey. After that, I think Vash and Peanut are in that next tier. Last thing, somebody posted that Ike Taylor had the most passes thrown his way in 2005. Well, I thought he played better CB than anybody in the NFL last season. Don't know what happened to him this year, though. Wrong. Tillman wasn't healthy to play in Detroit, and that was one big reason why he caught all over us.

Way to take well thgouht out and nuanced opinions and reduce them to their lowest common denominator. its what i do. Seriously though it does seem strange how fast you guys are abandoning Zambrano. It doesn't seem like that to you? No it doesn't. It seems like people are looking at his situation and realizing that giving a pitcher $20m per over a long term when that pitcher has giant red injury flags everywhere might be a bad idea, so they are open to the idea that trading him could bring in a terrific haul of players. Replace "players" with "prospects" and you are right. How long can we delay being even, you know, decent?

Honestly I'm not even talking about specifics here, just the general mood and attitude towards Zambrano has changed just because of some comments he made. I honestly don't see him being this hardcore in negotiations.

Way to take well thgouht out and nuanced opinions and reduce them to their lowest common denominator. its what i do. Seriously though it does seem strange how fast you guys are abandoning Zambrano. It doesn't seem like that to you?

This is so bizarre. For 8 friggin' injury filled years, you guys have latched onto Kerry Wood's jock. After, like, basically one game. And now Zambrano wants some money, and *poof* you guys want him traded immediately. Unbelievable.

I especially enjoy the Fire Jerry Angelo site. Because its still up. :roll:

The Bus finally got a ring, that's the last Super Bowl I remember. All of that has been blocked from my memory. I don't see why you'd have to block anything from memory, that makes it all the sweeter. I agree to an extent, but that one really really hurt. I did my best to forget that game as soon as "he missed it". Yeah, that 2005 Colts team was the best Colts team I have ever seen-great offense, good defense, good special teams. They just had the tragedy and then too much rest for the key people, and they took 3 quarters off and it was 1 quarter too much. That was a tough one to swallow for sure-in the playoffs, the 2006 team finally started looking somewhat like the 2005 version again. It's interesting. This year's Colts: maybe not quite as high-octane as the 2005 group. But tougher, a little more experienced, maybe a little more battle tested. And that got 'em through. I still don't think that Steelers team was all that great. Should have lost against the Colts----didn't impress me in the Super Bowl, got a ton of calls from the refs, made a couple gadget plays and won it. :-\ Not so sure about that Soul. That Steelers team completely and utterly outplayed that Colts team, as many Colts fans will admit to. In fact, that Colts team was the benefit of perhaps the worst call I've seen in professional sports, and still was short. That call sickened me, and in a way the Steelers almost deserve the reverse karma in the Superbowl. But not really. BTW, the Colts got hit with that exact same call from the same referee in the first Jacksonville game this year-so you can rest easy that karma has been served:D Yeah, the Steelers outplayed the Colts, but I think what he meant is that the Steelers were the benefit of a Colts team that was completely shell shocked from the tragedy plus the rest. The Colts didn't come ready to play until the 4th quarter-the Steelers too advantage of that, but it was really the collapse of the Colts team that day, not the Steelers who just imposed their will (with the exception of the Colts offensive line to the Steelers defensive line-there, the Steelers definitely imposed their will). It was the most disappointing thing I've ever seen to see a team that good just look like they were somewhere else for 3 quarters and make mental mistakes they hadn't made all season. Whatever. In the end its all moot since you guys get to be all happy with your trophy. Never meant or implied that the Steelers were the better team, but they certainly were the best team on the field.

The Bus finally got a ring, that's the last Super Bowl I remember. All of that has been blocked from my memory. I don't see why you'd have to block anything from memory, that makes it all the sweeter. I agree to an extent, but that one really really hurt. I did my best to forget that game as soon as "he missed it". Yeah, that 2005 Colts team was the best Colts team I have ever seen-great offense, good defense, good special teams. They just had the tragedy and then too much rest for the key people, and they took 3 quarters off and it was 1 quarter too much. That was a tough one to swallow for sure-in the playoffs, the 2006 team finally started looking somewhat like the 2005 version again. It's interesting. This year's Colts: maybe not quite as high-octane as the 2005 group. But tougher, a little more experienced, maybe a little more battle tested. And that got 'em through. I still don't think that Steelers team was all that great. Should have lost against the Colts----didn't impress me in the Super Bowl, got a ton of calls from the refs, made a couple gadget plays and won it. :-\ Not so sure about that Soul. That Steelers team completely and utterly outplayed that Colts team, as many Colts fans will admit to. In fact, that Colts team was the benefit of perhaps the worst call I've seen in professional sports, and still was short. That call sickened me, and in a way the Steelers almost deserve the reverse karma in the Superbowl. But not really.

If A-Rod averages 42 home runs a year through his age 38 season, he'll have more than 800 home runs. Barring any significant injuries, I think he'll make it. Averaging 42 homers a year for that length of time is no small feat.

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You boys think that A-rod is going to break 800 homers in his career by the end of it?

Not quite sure if Rufus will be there in round 2 for us. I'll be pissed if we take a TE, we didn't lose the Superbowl because of poor TE play. Yeah, I doubt it too. Before the workouts, though, we're all throwing darts. Clark was one of the more productive TE's in the league last year. Doubt we'll pick a TE. Especially considering we didn't last year. Exactly. When Clark wasn't doing anything and there were multiple late-first round TEs possible, the Bears ignored the position. Don't see them addressing it now with Clark coming off a good season. Al lot of people have us taking Greg Olsen. As talented as that boy is, and boy is he talented, I don't see us picking him up. I wouldn't be surprised if we take a WR someone in the middle of the draft. Anthony Gonzalez? Not a burner, not huge, but has great hands, runs great routes and overall is just a nice player. Everyone heaped praise on Ginn, but he probably was their best receiver.

I would both agree and disagree with this statement. Most of the problem is his awful games, yes. If he could turn those into average games, he'd be a much better QB. At the same time, there are some games that aren't mentioned in his awful games or even close where Grossman had a low completion percentage. Minn (first game)-56% Seattle-54.8% Giants-60% Jets-50% STL-56.5% Det (second game)-55.5% Seattle-55.2% NOR-42.3% None of these games are mentioned under awful rex, but they are all poor completion percentage games (really with the exception of the Giants game, but I threw that one in there for comparison). Now, a QB can survive some poor completion percentage games-I'm not saying that he had bad games in all of these games, or even most of them (in fact, in a couple of them he was quite good). It's not just the awful games that are bringing his completion percentage way down though-his average games would have him around a 55-56 percent anyway, which needs to improve if he's not at all a threat to run either. Otherwise, defenses will do like the Colts did-rush only 4 each play, drop 7 back in coverage, take away the deep ball, and make Grossman dink and dunk for small gains and see if he can move the chains that way. :-\ I'm just gonna blame the playcalling for holding his completion percentage back. He's by no means one of the most accurate QB's ever, but Turner doesn't call a game that will lead to 65% completions. EDIT: Unless you count the Superbowl where he decided he didn't want firstdowns.

If there really is a God, he wont let this happen.

Embarrassing is right, that was just dreadful. I'm ashamed to be a Bulls fan after that performance. Jesus. The Tyrus Thomas injury screamed out to me. Maybe people need to stop showing off so much and just put the ball in the basket?

CubsColtsPacers, its a little too easy to say a blanket statement like "he's got to improve his completion percentage" I hate hate hate to use the "Good Rex" "Bad Rex" terminology, but his relatively low completion percentage stems completely from his inconsistent games. Like he said before, he has 12 games he's really proud of and 5-6 games he really would like back, and in those 12 games when he's on he has a fine completion percentage. I also am of the opinion that those 5 "bad" games aren't completely his fault. (Though he seems to lack the ability to "cut his losses" and turn a bad game into just a mediocre one) I also like the points brought up by others concerning the offense we run and the high Y/P/C that Grossman has.

The Illini are looking real good *woop* Rivals 16th in the nation, 3rd in the Big 10 behind the big two. I saw Juice Williams in the dining hall a couple weeks back. ...

Oh I see, we are starting players based on their Cy Young voting. Lets pick up David Eckstein while we're at it, he's got a World Series MVP so I can't see how he can fail.

remember when they said that last year and the NL won the WS. why do think Prior has the key over someone like Miller who was once a Cy Yong candidate? How does a World Series win negate what he said? The Cardinals were an average team last year, and got on a hot streak in the playoffs. 83 wins is impressive to you? If anything, the Cardinals winning the World Series just proves how much of a wide open NL it truly is.

The Illini are looking real good *woop*