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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Your stance on this issue makes no sense. I think it's your ability to comprehend that is at issue. Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl. Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. Different era? Fine. Alex Smith very well may win a Super Bowl. Rex Grossman came very close to winning a Super Bowl. Any quarterback on any team that gets into the playoffs and happens to win 3-4 games in a row will win a Super Bowl. The relatively quality of said quarterbacks could range extremely widely. Asking if x player "can win a Super Bowl" is the dumbest thing ever, even at QB. Of course Jay Cutler can win a Super Bowl. The Bears have about as good a chance as anyone this year to do that. That doesn't mean he's a great quarterback. I get that anybody can win a super bowl. What I don't get is how you seem to be trying to define a non-franchise QB. Jay Cutler is a franchise QB. He's the Bears franchise QB. He's been here for a while and if he doesn't die soon he'll be here for a long time. And Bears fans with any sense will be happy about that.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Thank goodness the Cubs franchise has never had that perception! It's not a matter of perception, but reality. The Cubs actively tried to lose last year. They not only accepted it but sought it out. There may have been a perception of the Cubs as lovable losers, but from at least the mid-80's through a couple years ago they were trying really hard to win. The payroll went from middle of the pack to top of the NL and among the highest in baseball. They just really sucked at what they were trying to do. When you actively take a dive as management and you stay on the ground for a prolonged period of time you risk institutionalizing an acceptance of failure. And it's not about the fans, but the organization itself.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Your stance on this issue makes no sense.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    that's a really stupid line of argument
  5. jersey cubs fan
    And Baez. Even if he sticks at SS in the minors, it's not like he'll be pushing Castro off if it comes to that. That said, Villanueva projects to have an Ok bat and a very good glove. If he reaches that, that's a valuable player nowadays at 3B. So, a Bill Mueller type of guy? Well, Mueller was a better hitter than I think you're giving him credit for there. Yeah, he was a pretty good hitter and was hurt by that bad knee injury that cut off his prime years.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    oh my god. hot charcoals under the car, happens all the time. I saw one last time I attended a Jets game. People slide their grills under the car with coals still hot or sometimes even stupidly put them inside car.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe the Seattle loss in 2010. How many years ago was that Atlanta loss where Matt Ryan became famous? 4 years ago.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2012/11/how-jay-cutler-was-allowed-to-play-with-a-concussion.html
  9. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs suck really really really bad. They have indicated a complete lack of interest in acquiring current major league free agents. They have told us over and over that the only way they will get better is by investing heavily on prospects, both foreign and domestic, and they've come up short in that regards. How do you not understand this?
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe the Seattle loss in 2010.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    You can't look at the upsides while ignoring the downsides. You waste the highly valuable pre-FA seasons of the young players you already have. You lose several of the very finite number of years you have to try to win the World Series. You take a revenue hit as fans begin to stop coming and watching. Your failure to fill in holes on the MLB roster can create problems for several years down the road. Not to mention you institutionalize a culture of accepting losing and not even trying to win.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Wow, I didn't figure you'd need it spelled out for you so obviously. The Dodgers are spending, spending on anything and everything. If they only get a few targets from one pool it doesn't really matter because they are in several pools. The Cubs are only swimming in one pool and should be dominating it, but they are not. If you aren't going to spend any effort/money to improve the major league team than you better damn well spend a hell of a lot more money/effort in your self-imposed kiddie pool. The point is that if a team that has no apprehensions about throwing money around is having a similar measure of success at signing International FA as you are, then money probably isn't the limiting factor here. Seriously man, you are so grossly missing the point that it actually surprises me that you are the one typing.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    winning is great, losing sucks, news at 11
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I ain't blaming obama for the lack of free agents.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Wow, I didn't figure you'd need it spelled out for you so obviously. The Dodgers are spending, spending on anything and everything. If they only get a few targets from one pool it doesn't really matter because they are in several pools. The Cubs are only swimming in one pool and should be dominating it, but they are not. If you aren't going to spend any effort/money to improve the major league team than you better damn well spend a hell of a lot more money/effort in your self-imposed kiddie pool. I know what you mean, but I really feel like this could've been worded significantly less condescendingly. His own commentary making fun of people WHO WANT TO SIGN EVERYBODY is condescending enough that I think he can handle it.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    if that were true they wouldn't have kept the guy who was in charge of stocking it.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Wow, I didn't figure you'd need it spelled out for you so obviously. The Dodgers are spending, spending on anything and everything. If they only get a few targets from one pool it doesn't really matter because they are in several pools. The Cubs are only swimming in one pool and should be dominating it, but they are not. If you aren't going to spend any effort/money to improve the major league team than you better damn well spend a hell of a lot more money/effort in your self-imposed kiddie pool.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    To what league is he referring?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I just hope that we can start spending like the Dodgers, who have nabbed....2 for 6. and everybody else in baseball. If the Cubs were spending money in other areas you'd have a point, but they aren't, so you don't.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    That's not good. Is it? He played way better than Campbell in spot duty last year. I doubt he's going to vault ahead of Campbell. They only have 2 QBs and one just suffered a concussion. It makes plenty of sense to have McCown come in and work as Campbell's backup until Cutler can return.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    You cough up the ball you don't get it back.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I do not understand fans who try to pretend they can't spend on the now and rebuild the system at the same time.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    ...how? This is pretty typical Simmons article, and more than he's written about the Bears and their fanbase all year. And if he can relate to anything, it's overconfident fanbases. How is it terrible? It's unreadable. Typical Simmons doesn't mean it's well written, or makes any sense. Simmons can't relate to anything. He's got one guy who works for him that is a Bears fan, living in LA mind you, so he bases his entire thought process on that.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know that it's bad, but it's probably the worst of the available options. That's probably not anywhere close to true. There's got to be dozens of available worse options.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have money and a desperate need for capable arms to fill out the rotation. I don't see how this would be a bad thing.
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