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They absolutely were not. They were the 6th seed in the west. They did nothing in the playoffs.
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that's not his forehead, that's the top of his gut.
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Earl Bennett and Kyle Adams. what is a Kyle Adams?
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I have no idea who the other 2 non-Jay guys are, and I'm concerned about the confused looking white guy.
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Why wouldnt your parents let you play baseball? Commies? I know plenty of people who weren't allowed to play football, but I can't think of anybody who weren't allowed to play baseball.
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Huh, of the people I know that boo the most, the most sporty thing they did was a couple years of cross country. And two of them are lawyers, another just finished his MBA and a couple others are relatively upstanding citizens. Of the people who went so far as to play something in college or the minors, probably half of them aren't even active fans of any team anymore, and the rest are not the booing type. There is some crossover of booing and people who did multiple sports in high school. Being meatbally in general is a little less correlated. Some of the people who boo have more modern thoughts about the game while others who hold every conventional wisdom type belief aren't booers.
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Sportswriters would have you believe that today's world is a more crass and ill behaved one and that is why people act poorly in stadia/arenas. Also, Chicago based ones would theorize that nobody cared about the team winning back then and the booing increased as expectations for wins increased in the late 90's early 00's. Also, like a father who yells at his children, we boo because we care. When the booing stops, that is when you have to worry.
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Do you agree that the collective IQ of those people booing is at least 10 points lower than those not booing? No, not really. I have come to the conclusion that loads of otherwise intelligent human beings are in general really stupid about sports. Plenty of highly educated people boo and do a lot of other things one could describe as stupid. It has something to do with the whole fanatic thing. Ok, I actually agree with this. It drives me nuts because most of my good friends are really smart people but they are sports meatballs. That's not to say that they're stubborn about it or unwilling to learn, but I can only do so much. I will say this, in my small circle I have noticed the less the person participated in sports the more likely they are to boo.
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5/8 Braves (Delgado) @ Cubs (Dempster) WGN 7:05 PM
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
500 were available for yesterday's game or available yesterday for today's game? The weather is going to be nicer in Chicago today, the team has won a couple games and a popular pitcher is on the mound. I know there were boatloads of great seats available for the Sunday Phillies/Cubs game and then on Sunday morning the really good ones were gone. -
A great many vexing things happen with regularity. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be vexed by them or accept them as the status quo. Those things that can be fixed are worth vexing over. But booing sports fans have existed for as long as athletics has existed and will exist long after your last post bemoaning the existing of booing sports fans. Fans who boo are just not something worth getting worked up about in my opinion.
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Do you agree that the collective IQ of those people booing is at least 10 points lower than those not booing? No, not really. I have come to the conclusion that loads of otherwise intelligent human beings are in general really stupid about sports. Plenty of highly educated people boo and do a lot of other things one could describe as stupid. It has something to do with the whole fanatic thing.
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I am aware! I am aware!
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I don't get the people who have such itchy booing trigger fingers, but I really don't get why people get so riled up against those people. Sports fans boo their players when they do poorly. They do it everywhere. It's a fact of life. There's nothing to see here.
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Tracking flyballs/linedrives isn't all that athletic of an activity. It's largely instinctual after years of following balls coming off bats from that distance/angle. Well, then spend some money to make an app where players can "see" thousands of fly balls coming off a bat (based off real plays in games) one after the other and watch it on their IPad from different positions on the field... the player has to decide quickly which way to break. You could even use the accelerometer/GPS and camera to do an agumented reality thing. You could even have it support different wind conditions at the different parks, etc, so you could see how a ball reacts with the wind blowing in or out. It's not going to be as good as real practice reps, but I have to believe something like that would accelerate the learning process. All kidding aside, this is the sort of thing you do in the offseason, not the middle of a season. You'd have to give LaHair all of next winter/spring to try and learn the position. The all star break wouldn't be enough time, especially since he will be playing in that game.
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Lots of those guys moved off of positions like 3B or 2B, not 1B. 1B is where fielders go when they can't play anywhere else. Listing a bunch of names that played the position does not do anything to support the notion that Bryan LaHair can do it. Plus, going back to the athleticism and tracking flyball discussions, somebody like Soriano is pretty bad at tracking flyballs. But he's a great athlete with a tremendous arm, so he was able to make up for his weaknesses. LaHair is not a good athlete and he has no history of tracking flyballs as an OF. You can assume he will be bad at it, and he doesn't have the athleticism to make up for it. He will be bad. He will need to be really good on offense to make up for it.
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Tracking flyballs/linedrives isn't all that athletic of an activity. It's largely instinctual after years of following balls coming off bats from that distance/angle.
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5/8 Braves (Delgado) @ Cubs (Dempster) WGN 7:05 PM
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I'm going to have to print a fresh batch of fan club membership applications. I expect numbers to be growing very soon. Of course, it doesn't really mean that either of them have been good offensively (and oddly enough Ramirez seems to be rating better defensively early on). However, Stewart's peripheral stats are miles better and project for his improvement more than Ramirez's. As a special fan club entry promotional, we're taking predictions on the date Stewart's OPS catches up to the league average 3b (.730, as of yesterday). I'm going with July 4 to be patriotic. You say patriotic I say unnecessarily pessimistic. -
Re: Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-8-12
jersey cubs fan replied to El Duderino's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
He kinda has, despite the low ERA, he hasn't been pitching deep into games at all, his K numbers have only been ok and he's been walking a lot of guys. Is that kind of horrible or just okay? -
Are we to agree with him because we like what he said or is it the dementia talking again? I'm surprised that he didn't add that we should send him to the Red Sox as compensation for Carpenter. i know making fun of gammons is the cool thing to do now, but the guy had a aneurysm. He's not demented. You don't know that.
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Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer. This is exactly the kind of condescending, patronizing nonsense I'm talking about. GMAFB. The mere suggestion that the Cubs see whether LaHair can play the outfield at a level somewhere above Adam Dunn -- an idea that arguably the best front office in baseball is apparently entertaining -- does not make someone a Kaplan-ish meatball. At least TT is addressing the position head-on. You resort to mocking strawmen that I haven't (and obviously wouldn't) suggest. I don't know what has you so upset, but I wasn't being condescending. LaHair is LaLord. Of course you were. You obviously aren't seriously suggesting trading Rizzo for a closer. Don't pretend otherwise. I am suggesting that the goal should not be to try and move LaHair to let Rizzo fit in, but rather that LaHair should be the one around which others are moved.
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Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer. This is exactly the kind of condescending, patronizing nonsense I'm talking about. GMAFB. The mere suggestion that the Cubs see whether LaHair can play the outfield at a level somewhere above Adam Dunn -- an idea that arguably the best front office in baseball is apparently entertaining -- does not make someone a Kaplan-ish meatball. At least TT is addressing the position head-on. You resort to mocking strawmen that I haven't (and obviously wouldn't) suggest. I don't know what has you so upset, but I wasn't being condescending. LaHair is LaLord.
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Bryce Harper douchiness thread
jersey cubs fan replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
Ryan Braun hasn't learned yet and it's been almost 5 years. There's a difference between acting like an asshat and acting like a douchebag. Braun is a douchebag, but a lot of ballplayers are douchebags. That's what happens when you get 6 figure deals as an 18 year old and then essentially no longer have to continue growing up. Asshats are a specific breed of douchebag, like AJ and others. -
Why would you move your all star 1B to LF for some kid? Make Rizzo play another position, or better yet, trade him for a closer.
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Bryce Harper douchiness thread
jersey cubs fan replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
They didn't get hit because the pitchers weren't old school in the 90's/00's. That's why all the old school worshippers started to complain, and so it was up to the next generation to live up to that old school mentality. -
What small sample? The guy has been here a long time and acquired zero impact players. Everybody good was acquired before he took over. The rest is just a bunch of guys. I have not been the least bit impressed with Bowman and do not understand why so many people were high on him after the past two offseasons. Also, while Oduya may have played all right late in the regular season, the trade itself was by no means good. He gave up way too much for such a mediocre player with no future.
