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  1. jersey cubs fan
    oh no does Toews have a little Ryan Braun in him? http://twitter.com/NHLPA/status/218057030219468800/photo/1/large
  2. jersey cubs fan
    It's not football if it's played on the west coast.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I doubt very much they will have trouble getting 2 teams in from the same conference.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I've seen people talk about Barney's lack of speed but don't recall noticing it much before that run scoring hit. Not only was he much less further along than I assumed when the camera cut back to him but he looked like he was dragging at the tail end of a 5K.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    castro missed 2 opportunities to get to 2nd and then gets picked off
  6. jersey cubs fan
    nice start shark
  7. jersey cubs fan
    futbol came out of the closet http://www.theonion.com/video/soccer-officially-announces-it-is-gay,17603/?utm_source=D&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2&utm_campaign=twitter
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Ignoring the douchy tone for a moment the fact that you've watched them doesn't really mean anything. I watch hours and hours of Cubs baseball every year but it doesn't mean any one of those teams were particularly interesting. The organization as a whole is interesting. But the product on the field has not been. There's only a couple guys here who are likely to be around for the long haul. There's a whole bunch of leftover garbage from recent garbage teams. And you know, they've lost a hell of a lot of games. They look like crap. Rizzo is fun. Castro is Castro. But the rest of the team is a hot mess of dull.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    What the hell? He's 29 freaking years old. This is not essentially his rookie year. He's been garbage for well over a month now. Relax, I'm not saying he's an all star. It's been interesting to watch to see if he can rebound into a decent player after a great April. You might not find that interesting but that's you. Seriously, you are just stretching to find excuses for using the word interesting. You're Peter King.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    What the hell? He's 29 freaking years old. This is not essentially his rookie year. He's been garbage for well over a month now.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The network(s) carrying the games charge so much to the cable provider to carry their channel in their packages. A large draw of many networks which broadcast baseball is the exclusive rights to those games. Right now, if you live in Chicago, the only way you get non-WGN/WCIU games is to subscribe to a cable package which includes Comcast Sportsnet. If you have the option of buying mlb.tv to get your Cubs fix, cable subscriptions go down, CSN cannot charge as much because they're not drawing in subscribers, and if CSN can't charge as much, they aren't making as much on the Cubs, thus they won't pay out the same for their TV contract. ETA: shut up TT I get that for in-market, but what about for areas that don't have access to cable providers who carry said networks? Wouldn't they stand to make MORE money if they didn't black out those weird blackout zones with no access to baseball? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people blacked out of MLB.tv and Extra Innings are capable of getting that team's channel from their cable provider. It might cost an arm and a leg, but it's available. I don't think that is true. My problem is the blackouts that occur when you already pay for the GD channel.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    There's hope for the organization but the team itself hasn't been the least bit interesting. Lahair has a ceiling he hasn't hit? Garza? I'll give you Castro, and now Rizzo, as well as Shark. But 2 of 3 of those guys were here last year and Rizzo just showed up. Recent teams weren't bad because Zambrano was throwing tantrums. This team is bad because they have a bunch of bad baseball players, not a bunch of guys who just aren't at their peak yet. The product on the field has not been interesting. There's hope for the future because of the people who are in charge and some of the talent they have brought to the system, but you are deluding yourself if you try and pretend this baseball team has been interesting. They just suck at baseball.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Well that's not true. Which part of it isn't true? That the deal officially killed baseball in Montreal.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5921685/stray-bullet-falls-through-tropicana-field-roof-hits-fan
  15. jersey cubs fan
    so interesting
  16. jersey cubs fan
    He's played exclusively 3 different positions?
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I will be very happy not to watch that one.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Sullivan getting snippy. I mean, he sucks, but his line against LHP this year is .275/.373/.412. And everybody else sucks anyway. Not sure why now is the time to ridicule Sveum for putting Mather in the leadoff spot.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Sveum talked before the game about hoping that Rizzo is in the lineup every day for a long time. I don't think he's going to be looking to get him many days off, unless he looks overmatched or somehow frazzled.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Speaking of the Mets announcers, they are some of the most colossal douches I've ever heard, and I listen to a lot of the announcers because of EI. The best is Keith Hernandez, he's basically just like he was portrayed in Seinfeld. Their announcers use a condescending tone about the Cubs every time they meet, which is funny because they work for the Mets, one of the most dysfunctional organizations in sports the past 10 years.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    what the hell has been interesting?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    By people like you.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Aside from the Seinfeld episode, a slogan totally unknown outside of people who lived in an area in NY and around NYC in the 90s and late 80s What an odd way of saying New York area.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    That article and the comments are a little depressing. The implication is that some scouts are worried he can't hit advanced velocity. It seems to me like that's exactly the kind of hole AAA, full of marginal MLB veteran arms, would suck at exploiting. That article doesn't imply that at all. There is an implication that people worried about his ability to turnaround on fastballs.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    The question isn't if they will still suck or not. But rather if they will fill the roster with nothing but homegrown players. That's why I said "mostly"; if he's arguing the Cubs will have twenty-five homegrown players, which I don't think he is, he's obviously wrong. But I think he's right that additions to the roster will mainly be recycled crap and/or unproven youngsters. I don't doubt someone the likes of Ian Stewart, or even David DeJesus is brought in, but I'm expecting another punt. Management punted this year because they believed the team was not ready to contend; I suspect the same logic will be used next year. Hopefully that death cycle isn't interminable. The discussion started with somebody posting a lineup littered with guys already in the system all getting shots to sink or swim at once, including Bryan LaHair starting in LF. It was awful. People started commenting on how horrible the roster was and what a terrible decision it would be to do such a thing, and then kyle came in and kyled it up. Nobody claimed they'd be going after big time free agents left and right. Kyle had nothing to be arguing about because he didn't even disagree with what most people were saying (that the original concept of fielding a team of prospects was a horrible idea), but he found a way to disagree anyway.
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