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Nonsense. There's at least a couple games a year that vegas and the general public get completely wrong based on perception. You can't bet every game. But there are easy bets. I rarely make actual vegas bets but a co worker was in Vegas when the Bears were playing the Giants a few years ago and Chicago was getting something like 8 points despite being, in my opinion, the favorite to win the game outright. It was easy money.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary Thank God the real refs are ba... YOU CALL THAT HOLDING, HOCHULI? YOUR MOTHER IS A TRAMP. NFL Lines For Week 4 - NFL Football Line Week Four NFL Line 9/27 - 10/1, 2012 Date & Time Favorite Line Underdog Total 9/27 8:20 ET At Baltimore -12.5 Cleveland 43.5 9/30 1:00 ET New England -4 At Buffalo 52 9/30 1:00 ET At Detroit -4 Minnesota 46 9/30 1:00 ET At Atlanta -7 Carolina 48.5 9/30 1:00 ET San Francisco -4 At NY Jets 40.5 9/30 1:00 ET At Kansas City -1 San Diego 44.5 9/30 1:00 ET At Houston -12 Tennessee 44.5 9/30 1:00 ET Seattle -2.5 At St. Louis 38 9/30 4:05 ET At Arizona -6.5 Miami 39 9/30 4:05 ET At Denver -6.5 Oakland 47.5 9/30 4:05 ET Cincinnati -2.5 At Jacksonville 42.5 9/30 4:25 ET At Green Bay -7.5 New Orleans 54 9/30 4:25 ET At Tampa Bay -3 Washington 47.5 9/30 8:30 ET At Philadelphia -2 NY Giants 46.5 Monday Night Football Line 10/1 8:35 ET At Dallas -3.5 Chicago 41.5
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Game 4 - BEARS @ Dallas Cowboys - MNF 7:30 PM
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in Other Sports
I am really surprised this line is only 3.5. Mike Tice's offense has looked completely unimaginative, not to mention unproductive. Cutler looks like crap and the RB situation remains in flux. Dallas has been sloppy the last two games but they handled the Giants with relative ease and nobody plays well in Seattle. I have no faith betting on the Bears with only 3.5 points this week. -
It wasn't really lip service from MacPhail. The problem with him was his stated desire to draft and develop arms and trade/sign for bats. They actually did produce a fair amount of arms under MacPhail's watch. Prior to his arrival they did nothing. But you can't just focus on arms. You need a stream of bats, guys who outproduce their contracts, to go along with the arms to truly get the most out of your system.
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Most guys who participate in minor league baseball amount to zilch, but you have to separate the minor leaguers from the prospects. The Cubs did a piss poor job of developing talented minor leaguers for a very long time, especially positions players, which I can see souring somebody on the notion of following them. However, those prospects are still the lifeblood of every organization and you absolutely do need them. The number 1 reason the Cubs have never enjoyed any sustained success at the major league level is a lack of developing prospects. But that's not because those guys are crapshoots, it's because the management has had its head up its butt. And while the rest of the baseball world learned more and more about the value of prospects, the Cubs stayed stuck in the past.
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Probable? Probably not. Potential? Possibly.
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I'm not sure how a fan who spends time discussing his favorite baseball team on the internet doesn't follow the minor leagues. I've been following them since the mid-90's when I first discovered the ability to figure out who was who and what they did online. My interest waned as the Cubs system fell apart in the 2000s but the most interesting things about this franchise for more than half of the last 14 years have been associated with the minor leagues.
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The process is unbearable but it is beyond ridiculous to say you are a fan of the Cubs and don't give a damn about the drafts, prospects and farm teams.
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Re: Games in which the Cubs are not playing
jersey cubs fan replied to El Duderino's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
David Haugh @DavidHaugh Today's attendance at Cell: 13,797 -
Come on guys it is so unfair that people are criticizing Golden Tate now. That is the real travesty here.
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Game 4 - BEARS @ Dallas Cowboys - MNF 7:30 PM
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in Other Sports
Everything I read hinted he may be back by this week, up until yesterday. The hints have been dropped that Forte will not play this week, and going by the injury it would make sense if he did not play. -
I'm pretty sure they would all be alive if they reversed that call. I'm just glad they didn't.
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That's a dumb statement. Doesn't even make sense with what you are trying to say. Which again, is dumb.
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somebody said he didn't lead with the head?
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Rick Hahn promoted to GM of White Sox
jersey cubs fan replied to Pushfrog98's topic in General Baseball Talk
Cubs fans eventually rejoiced. But there were plenty of idiots who thought he was doing god's work when he managed back to back .500 seasons and spent plenty of time trying to convince themselves he actually deserved to stay on board. And he was hardly run out of town. He was kept on for years after the sale of the team and after his weaknesses were routinely exposed. He was admired by many in the media. The point is there is a difference and it's pretty clear that for all his suckiness, Williams was better at his job than Hendry. And call me crazy but this is a Cubs-centric message board so a post that references the Cubs shouldn't really be surprising to you and is completely appropriate. Williams did more with less and it wasn't by some benefit of an easier road to hoe either. He got promoted up the ladder which is what generally happens with executives who have had success when there is a desire to replace them. -
Rick Hahn promoted to GM of White Sox
jersey cubs fan replied to Pushfrog98's topic in General Baseball Talk
Williams doesn't have any easier of a division, as many resources or as good of a chance to sneak in via wild card. He also outperformed Hendry so I don't see what your point is. -
Rick Hahn promoted to GM of White Sox
jersey cubs fan replied to Pushfrog98's topic in General Baseball Talk
Their wins and losses under Williams aren't that impressive for a big-market team in a small-market division. Beat out Hendry's cubs pretty easily. -
Your point does not stand because his struggles have caused people who pay attention to significantly reduce their expectations for Jackson and he has fallen down many a list. Kyle isn't pointing out anything that everybody else doesn't already know.
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Suburbs are not under the jurisdiction of the city. You want to get out of Chicago and cook county. Although in reality you probably want out of Illinois.
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The coaching staff or the personnel staff? The line's biggest problem is a lack of ability. They are stocked with garbage talent. You can only coach up the line a limited amount. Now, Tice hasn't exactly done anything of note to make lemonade out of these lemons, but they are lemons. Soft, squishy, bitter and easily peeled lemons.
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Let's hope the doctor was thinking the same thing.
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No, I'm asking is it possible to stay extremely close, but escape the tax? As in, if there's a place right outside the limits that could work and us escape the tax, yet keep the same fan base and all still able to see the games. I don't realy see how that wasn't understandable the first time. So you are asking a geography question. The answer is yes.
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I wish. But there's just no way they'd be that gutsy and no one would take them seriously. Without knowing anything about the inner workings of the city, how close could they conceivably build a stadium and escape the tax? Huh? Are you asking a geography question?
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Not really. There was lots of hate before that happened. And while the specific way he went about it was new, there's nothing really unique about hating a supposedly me-first star player who can't win in big games and leaves his original team for better opportunity to win.
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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Ricketts has already made a sizable profit on the Cubs from the absolutely silly amounts being spent on sports franchises since his purchase. That is very much an unrealized profit.
