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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Cleaning up after the summer setback.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Because he staked his reputation on being able to get the most out of the lesser talents. He was a coaching also ran before he came to Chicago and got the high profile gig. Everybody talked up his ability to "coach up" the talent that was already here. He expressed nothing but confidence in the people in place, until this week.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I'm surprised they didn't come to blows. It was entertaining for the couple innings they shared the booth last night. There was one point where Baliva was going on about how Bour was a "special" player because of his 100 RBIs and you could practically see KG trying to dance around flat out saying that was stupid. Wait, this already happened? Why does it say season finale?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Well I don't think it went down exactly like that. I think Cutler had some input though. And I think that while he'd love better O-line protection, that WR upgrades were more important to him. I think the Bears decided they were going to spend X resources on defense and X on offense. I don't think they could get the defensive player they wanted (whether or not you agree with the Mclellin pick) the receiver they wanted, and an impact O-lineman. I don't think Cutler specifically told them to completely ignore O-line. I don't understand why you think this is more Cutler than Tice. Cutler wanted help at any and all positions. That was clear. He's been unhappy with his receivers and line. Tice on the other hand has been specifically held up as the guy who could get the most out of second rate lineman and has specifically come out and supported these second rate lineman time and time again, until just this week. It's the coaching staff and management that has decided to ignore the line. Not Cutler.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    From the trib, spoilered because it is so awful.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I think Cutler thinks with the right receivers and right play calls, he can overcome the weaknesses of the O-line. Bootlegs, moving pocket, short drops, and big receivers. I think Cutler thinks that with those elements, that the O-line can be addressed during this next offseason. I think he said "get me some big receivers, and I'll make do with the o-line". So Marshall and Jeffrey are the result. I'm not happy with not drafting O-line either, it's just the way I imagine the conversations went. I don't understand why you would think Cutler would say, "hey go ahead and ignore the line". The coaching staff and management ignored the line. They've collectively ignored the line for a decade. Cutler was begging for help, but he wasn't dictating team policy of loading up on receiver and actively ignoring the line. They drafted DE in the first round, an injured DB in the third and FB in the 4th. This wasn't Cutler's doing. It was the staff.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    A 130 pitch complete game in horribly uncomfortable Florida for no other reason than "hey, let's act tough and get a complete game" when the guy's arm was already questionable. He threw 140 earlier that season. He threw 120+ on 13 freaking occasions that year, including 5 of the last 6 (with the low workload game being 114). Oh wait, and he struggled in his final outing that season when his innings total approached 240 for the season. But don't you dare blame Dusty. Ignorant morons.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Brenly is pretty low on the list of media racists; he's the least of the problems. His was the question I was trying to answer. However, I suppose the flipside is that he's the one, more than the others, who yields the most influence as the color guy. Kaplan and Rozner are the worst; Rogers is just an idiot, Sullivan is a lazy, cynical writer. Miles is by far the most objective of the bunch. I have no right to do this since it's an opinion-based conversation, but I'm going to eliminate Bob as a racist in the context that we are talking about today. I'm going to put him put him back on the list based on his obsession with Blazing Saddles, which is a movie that middle aged white men love just so they can hear the word [expletive] stated over and over and over and over.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    That sounds like me. And I'm still sort of sticking with it. It takes more than 2/3rds of a season for me to say a guy is going to be durable enough to be a starter. But I'm a lot more excited than I was. Plus your opinion changes with a light breeze Which is how it should be. Baseball is too complicated and too fluid to not have ever-changing opinions. That's football. Baseball is neither complicated nor fluid.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    LT is hardly the only questionable area. It's a 5 position group for at least 7 players and the Bears have maybe 2 guys who are solid where they are.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I don't buy it. He was pushing for WR but not at the expense of even addressing the line. A line, by the way, that has practically gotten him killed. Tice, Smith, et al have talked from day one about their ability to "coach up" the guys they have and Tice has been lauded for his offensive line coaching skills. The Bears reached on a tweener pass rusher in the first round when they could have had a lineman. They already had Marshall and could have had a lineman in the 2nd, but chose not to. They could have had one in the third, or fourth as well. I don't see why we'd theorize that Cutler had anything to do with ignoring the line problem. It has been a staple of Bears management for a decade. It is what they do.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    No question. I haven't watched a lot of games this year but it seems to me that something happened this offseason to cause Bob to change his tune a bit when it came to this stuff. It still comes out from time to time, but he's been much different when discussing the things that pissed him the hell off the last two years.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    No it isn't. The media chews stories up and spits them out on a regular basis. Somebody like Bruce Miles covers most things with a levelheaded "just the facts ma'am" approach that is underappreciated. The more obnoxious members of the media know there will always be another "fun thing to cover" so they don't have any problem ruining one storyline in the pursuit of exploiting it. Their purpose isn't necessarily to run the player out of town, although in some instances it's pretty clear that is part of the motive. Their purpose is to exploit a story and rile up the masses with hate, anger, accusations of laziness and other forms of tearing down the player. Somebody like Kaplan is a jock sniffer that will prop up his buddies while tearing down the guys he doesn't want to try and go on a double date with.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    It seems some people are so blindly ignorant about the painfully obvious that they say whatever they can to pretend it is not happening.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Grace run out of town? They offered him another contract and he took less to go to Arizona. Sandberg can't get a contract because he isn't fit for the job, but the idiots still think he should have it. Completely wrong about Grace. They did not offer him salary arbitration,basically told him to hit the road, and he took what he could get from the Diamondbacks. Why do you think Grace is still resentful towards the Cubs ? Edit: CUBZ99 beat me to it. They were on a series of one year contracts with him and Grace didn't want that anymore, he wanted to break the bank one last time and the Cubs didn't want to do that. So they didn't stand in his way when he chose to leave. They didn't offer arbitration because you have to offer a raise in arbitration and they didn't want to give him a raise.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Grace run out of town? They offered him another contract and he took less to go to Arizona. Sandberg can't get a contract because he isn't fit for the job, but the idiots still think he should have it.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Sometimes I feel like people don't follow the same Cubs team that I follow.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    would have been nice if he didn't convince management he could "coach these guys up" instead of going out and getting better linemen.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Am I missing something here? Bowden is going to start in Garza's place next time? He'll probably be back to start a game in the DH Saturday, since rosters can go to 26. "He" meaning Raley. Bowden is here for bullpen help the next week, Raley can supposedly come back up.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    the forecast indicates it will be mostly gone. Wind will be blowing straight in.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    My god that is so stupid. So the only way you can justify claiming there are racial overtones to how some are playing is by confirming that all minority players are criticized and no white players are? Seriously, that is just so dumb. That's not "the thing", that's just dumb.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    yeah, sammy was hated by many back in the 99/00/01 timeframe when "he only hit HR when it didn't matter" was the main complaint.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    He was on the team for 2 years, was really good in the 1st and got hit in the face and missed much of the 2nd. He signed a reasonable contract and lived up to it. There was very little for the bigoted idiots to get riled up about, and very little time for their simple minds to process his 2012 decline.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I think Chris Williams is the most talented lineman, he's just physically fragile and may be a little too soft mentally. Carimi is just a solid lineman who could be a standout RT, but I don't think he can handle it physically as well as Williams could if he ever put it together.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It is pretty ridiculous to say "there's no guarantee" shutting him down would help and then make a pointless statement about how if he got the last 5 outs you'd sacrifice his arms for that.
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