seanimal

and as you alluded to, ending the season for a st. louis franchise is fun

i would like to point out that i started adam scott on my fantasy team this week if you guys want advice, i'm here

he's literally the only player on tour that is worth watching. Then stop watching. tiger is the best golfer of our lifetime, if not ever. when he's not playing well, golf is less interesting.

toews back out, looks pissed

meanwhile fred couples is killing it, which is pretty awesome i think tiger has to be pretty happy about where he's at. i'm going to be a little surprised if he's not in the lead this time tomorrow sergio had a bad day though, that makes me kind of sad. hopefully he can get it together tomorrow and get closer to the front

hahahaha suck it buddy

totally agreed

my thoughts go in two directions when it comes to him; 1) get back to me if he's playing like this in the games that REALLY matter 2) his "upper body" injuries to the head are taking their toll i'm willing to forgive less-than-notable performance so long as he continues to turn it on in the playoffs. however, there is a part of me that, in the interim, worries that there has been a lot of damage done to his thinking bone

i think with kruger this is only an issue in the sense that he sucks at the dot. the good thing about that particular trait, is that it can be improved drastically

none of those teams worry me at all, any would be lucky to win two games against the hawks in the playoffs

woe is wilmington

he hasn't had a top-10 finish all year and has missed the cut twice in five tries in the non-tiger category, i'd go with sergio as my hopeful and keegan bradley (despite the twerp-iness) as my dark horse. the case for sergio is very strong, he's quietly put together an outstanding year so far

/miserablewingsfan

yeah but how loud is it

i don't really understand this. the ability of the blackhawks to improve via trade is incredibly limited. our best opportunity is to improve at the margins rather than try to fill some large perceived need. yes, the organization can stand to improve at C, but the most efficient/least disruptive path to that is to develop organizationally and make any marginal upgrades when they present themselves (a la handzus) in the meantime. if not, oh well, we still have one of the top-3 teams (if not the best) in the league

lol, let that slide? and what exactly would your recourse be? you know, if you wouldn't "let that slide"? and if you're so concerned about how "incessantly off-topic" this was, maybe you should scroll up and notice that i was responding to something you said. about you. which brings us to a person... that is, a healthy person, does not lay constant vigil to every knowable, commentable stop along the digital highway in which the word "cubs" may appear and manually spam them with every conceivable variation of the same, useless thoughts. unless that person is looking for attention you see, kyle, none of these threads turn you because any of us want to talk about you. it becomes an unavoidable topic when you compose a third of the posts in a multi-page thread. that's not normal, and, as many, many different posters have tried to point out to you, is not at all desirable and let's be serious. this was never supposed to be a legitimate discussion about the ricketts' tenure as owner of the cubs. all this ever was supposed to be was kyle's little thing where he gets people to express an opinion other than his own and then pounce. "glad he bought the team" or "wish we had someone else"? lol, so, my options are "reality" or "the infinite permutations of not reality"? what a great discussion starter! but you don't want discussion kyle, you want attention, and you want to be right. in that order. and that's sad

i'm sorry, but you don't get to cast out the details of your personal life for consumption by complete strangers and then turn around and say "hey all that unsolicited information i shared with you... that's none of your business" furthermore, i have no idea what your value to the world as a human being is, if that's even a thing that could be measured. what i was saying was that SURELY the time you invest laying waste to the far reaches of chicago cubs internet fandom could be more productively spent elsewhere doing something, anything other sitting in your home with your pasty face awash in the glow of nsbb, bcb, et al. this is how bad you are at analysis; by your own count, internet bullying only constitutes 25% of my presence here

In the last two weeks here, here's your post count by subject: Sports, non-Cubs: 13 Making fun of people or generally attacking them: 7 Non-sports topics: 6 Chicago Cubs: 2 You are barely more than an internet bully. Not only is that role more than well-filled on this site, it is filled by quite a few people more clever than you. But this thread doesn't have to be about seanimal... lol, of course the guy who mashes out a post on some cubs-related site an average of once every five minutes, polluting every single tangible place for online cubs discussion, would equate post volume with quality of contribution but since you're so interested in my comings and goings, in the last two weeks i've also 1) travelled to nashville for pleasure 2) travelled to boston for business 3) completed 17 hours of online development trainings (ugh) 4) created and delivered 3 presentations related to our clients and their business and what we can do to help them make more money 5) set up onsite meetings to convince said clients to listen to me 6) looked at my computer screen with a furrowed brow as if concentrating and working on something really important 7) visited the doctor with my wife to make grainy, homemade b+w movies of my gestating monster child 8) brewed a beer 9) made a sourdough starter, made sourdough, ate sourdough, tried to figure out why my sourdough wasn't very sour 10) took over sole ownership of first place in my fantasy golf league (was fourth like three weeks ago) 11) researched and drafted for my team in my keeper league 12) paid attention to and watched games by chicago professional sports teams that are actually playing meaningful games 13) paid attention to and read articles related to baseball, the chicago cubs, and the upcoming season 14) read every single baseball-related post made on this site, even yours to name a few things. sorry if i can't get my dick up to respond to the endless stream of useless faux-analysis you pepper this site (and many others) with. it's not that i'm too busy, because i'm absolutely sure that there are others here who are far more busy and more important to this world. it's just that, whereas a worthwhile debater stimulates conversation, nothing you say is at all intellectually stimulating enough to muster a response to. on top of that, spring training is just a no-man's land for good baseball conversation anyway; the hand wringing on what's going to come is tedious and largely uninteresting i digress. i find it hilarious that you use the term bully. entertaining that thought for a moment, the proper response by the bullied is shock and awe; go in guns blazing. instead, you come in here shooting spitballs. and not even good ones, but those crappy, half-chewed, slightly-wet ones that don't serve the intended purpose. you can't do anything right so, a suggestion; maybe instead of dedicating yourself to this perverse dream of abusing as much available bandwidth as possible by "discussing" cubs baseball for a non-living, you could try to be a non-zero, close your netbook, and try adding value to the world i won't hold my breath

Because I bring more relevant baseball content to this site in a day than you do in a year. We can't all be comic relief. define "relevant baseball content"... because it seems to me that the relevant points you may make aren't as profound as you seem to think/hope, and the other stuff is troll campaigns masquerading as profundity

what is with tiger and the back nine so far at the arnold palmer invitational?

I keep hearing this, but this is only the second game his missed this season. At least, in its entirety. But he's one hit away from being out indefinitely. While you could say that about a lot of players, it's particularly worrisome with Hossa since the roster- as currently constructed- doesn't have the depth for him to miss significant time. The Hawks are going to have to make the tough decision to cut lose Mayers or Carcillo. At this point, Bollig has shown enough that they really don't need Mayers as the sandpaper guy. What they really need is a wing that can be an energy guy on the 4th line that has enough speed and upside to not look completely lost on the top 2 lines. In other words- and I know I'm beating that dead horse- they need either Smith or Morin up and Carcillo or Mayers out. I'd much rather try to trade Carcillo but it's easier financially to just release Mayers. there's not a roster on earth that has the depth to replace a hossa-caliber player. besides that, the hawks have more depth than most. losing him would suck, but it wouldn't all the sudden make us uncompetetive. we just played the supposed second-best team in the league with out two elite wingers and controlled the game for a significant stretch. we clearly have the ability to absorb his absence at least temporarily you're probably right on the point about the relative difficulty of shedding carcillo or mayers, but i would like to point out (as has been done elsewhere) that mayers wins draws. this is incredibly important for a puck-possession team

i think everybody with a calculator is on the "anaheim is playing way over their heads" bandwagon, so, no real need to beat that horse. they're just simply not that good, and that really is enough to satisfy me for now. i'm far more worried about the kings and the canucks, who are legitimately better teams how many times this season have the hawks given up a goal because they get yippy in their own zone? we just get sloppy back there sometimes and it's almost always met by the worse case scenario people are going to say this was a statement game, or spin it as something incredibly meaningful, but it really isn't. we were running out bollig and hayes instead of hossa and sharp (though, not in a minutes sense. but even then, the increased ice time for others matters). if those two are in it, this game doesn't go this way

Yes, let's pour some out for brethren from Kankakee tedious If Tim's going to keep citing the numbers for Chicago metro to show unfair it is to Naperville that the Chicago Cubs play in Chicago, I think it should be pointed out what exactly the Chicago metro area is. meh also; - the chicago metropolitan area is like 7.5 million people, unless we're counting a bunch of counties in indiana and one in wisconsin. and kankakee, of course. why would anyone do that? - rosemont as being "driver friendly" is laughable. it's a concrete hellscape that is nearly impossible to navigate during any sort of traffic surge, such as the ones that happen twice a day, every day. let's add the area's most popular sports attraction to the mix! dumb - while planes taking off and landing is pretty cool to watch, it's a horrible thing to have going on in the background of a professional sporting event, a la doral - that new hofbrauhaus replica opened in rosemont recently. point rosemont - that new hofbrauhaus is next door to the toby keith rohypnol emporium. negative eight points rosemont

Yes, let's pour some out for brethren from Kankakee tedious

You would have to imagine that Perry/Getzlaf are going to be the low bar the next time Kane and Toews reup. Parise getting 7.5 makes Perry and Getzlaf contracts kind of make sense. yeah, i am not looking forward to what is going to happen when those guys are up in a couple of years