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  1. jersey cubs fan
    those are easier to come by
  2. jersey cubs fan
    No different than Soriano.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have nothing even resembling a third baseman ready to contribute the next few years. Soriano's value comes in large part to defensive metrics, which aren't particularly reliable and don't reflect the fact that coaches working on position play a major role in that.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Pretty much goes with the scouting report at draft time.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Either that or the Bears' front office was incompetent in doing their research on him. He was a known injury risk with back issues and the Bears signed off on it anyway.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He was consensus, or close to consensus as the #3 LT, but not consensus to go that high in the draft. The only reason people thought he would was how desperate the Bears were for line help of any kind.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    In part it certainly was. If they could have taken best player available they could have taken a better player. It wasn't as though the league mandated they take a linemen. They were forced into taking a linemen by their own ineptitude.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    ARod for Soriano with each team paying off the contract of the guy already on their team. Yankees fans are up in arms about ARod. They hate him. More than I've ever seen.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Which pipe? The "Arod is persona non grata in NY now so he's on the chopping block" pipe.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Nope, what people are saying is that pre-emptively lowering the prices leads them to believe the front office is shooting to make it 290 in 3 years. It's not pre-emptively lowering prices. It's simply lowering prices.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    So Soriano for Arod is coming down the pipe.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know about highway robbery (in that, teams at the deadline often over-value guys, and often times, over-value versatile guys with some pop (although I really haven't gone through trades to see if that's true, just feels that way), and it's not like Carreno is an elite arm), but yes ... getting cash (I believe that was the other component of the deal) and a semi-intriguing SP prospect for Baker, a guy who really didn't fit into our near future, is a dang good move. I read that they were still owed another player, but maybe that's changed.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    My opinion is that Tice is a bit of a meathead who wants his linemen nasty, and he viewed Williams as not tough enough. If you are going to fail as a linemen for Tice, you better do it with ferocity. Play through pain, go down swinging and all that. Williams has a little bit of a "soft" label on him.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    You're allowed to draft other positions. But point taken. Due to a decade of neglect, that year they really had no choice. It was similar to Hendry leaving himself in a position where he had to sign Soriano that year because they had no outfielders. If you fail to address a position that requires multiple bodies to fill for a multi-year period of time, it will bite you in the ass.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Well the writing was on the wall but I still don't understand it.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Please, please, please, please let the bye week give the offense an opportunity to gel. I didn't have a lot of high hopes for the offense early in the season, combining the weak line with the new OC/system. But if this group can get to above average this team has a real shot at being special.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Okay, I understand that interpretation, but, didn't we already expect that to be the case? This isn't so much a sign of other things to come but another step in the process that was made clear long ago.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think so. I just think it's hard to justify raising prices for a team that finished with 100 losses. This is a very modest cut and I don't think this will effect Epstein & Co. rebuilding plans at all. It's not like their only options were to raise or lower them; I was expecting/hoping they'd leave them at their current level. I don't really see the "very, very bad sign". We knew they weren't trying to win in 2013. I guess if you thought they'd spend a ton this winter this could change your opinion. But they are selling a bad product and customers aren't as willing to spend to consume it, so they lowered the price incrementally. It's probably nothing more than a PR move, so they can't get criticized for raising prices and not trying.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Yep. He just yells at everybody the entire game. The old perception of Jay was that he was aloof and didn't care, then he argues with a coach, yells at a teammate and walks away from a potential argument and suddenly he's the crazy hothead. Rivers does nothing but yell at the refs, teammates, opposition, coaches all game long.
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  22. jersey cubs fan
    I would doubt it.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8511711/mike-holmgren-cleveland-browns-sale-official-sources-say Holmgren is out
  24. jersey cubs fan
    He's 21 with a body that has filled out but people still project his fast ball to accelerate? That seems odd to me. Is that like all the talk that Volstad would eventually throw harder? I've been under the impression that most guys top out velocity wise in their early 20's. Expecting more out of it, aside from a guy going from starter to reliever seems like a lot to ask.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I hate Rivers.
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