Jump to content
North Side Baseball

jersey cubs fan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    68,026

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    64

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by jersey cubs fan

  1. jersey cubs fan
    This argument in particular doesn't make any sense to me. As a fan, why wouldn't you want a manager who would bring in fan support and revenue streams that would allow your team's owner to field a huge payroll and aquire more premium talent? Oh, because of some deluded and largely self imagined sense of superiority over other fans? It's amazing to me how seemingly grown and rational adults still cling to "jocks vs. geeks vs. nerds vs. stoners" pre-teen junior high school tribalism. What sort of fan support do you really think Ryno is going to bring in?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Until you start talking prostitues.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    An idiotic writer writing it doesn't make it so.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I would be profoundly happy if this exact thing happened, and I see no reason why it shouldn't. I'm having trouble reconciling these two statements. I would hate to go through another season with that idiot on the bench. It's painful to watch the guy screw up so many things so often. Unless Theo really lays down the law with how he handles Castro and the starting pitchers (specifically not leave them in too long) I could not tolerate this.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Are you in Pittsburgh? You have to go to a game, especially with a great team around.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    4 years ago I would have worried about needing more offense, but the Blackhawks aren't exactly hurting for scoring punch. They were 2nd last year and are 4th this year. I think it's the right thing to do to have Keith get a little more responsible on the defensive end, considering that's where his noticeable struggles were last year.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Over the course of an 82 game season season I'm glad they limit the OT time. No reason to make these guys play that much harder for 5 more minutes a night. 5 seems too short and 10 would be too long. What about 7 minutes? That might involve play from an extra line and lead to a settlement. I dislike shootouts in any sport. I dislike like them, but the NHL at least does it right with shootouts just in regular season and unlimited OT in playoffs.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I really don't get it.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Reasons that I feel confident about beating the Eagles, that may or may not be accurate: 1) Vick hasn't exactly torn up the Bears historically. In his career, he's only beaten the Bears 1 out of 5 tries, is 72-123 for 870 yards, 3 TD's, 3 INT's. 2) The Eagles haven't had an extremely tough schedule. They've only beaten the Rams and Redskins...not exactly brag worthy. 3) Bears will be coming off 2 weeks of preparation, and should have everyone healthy. There's really no situation, other than maybe opening day, that will be better for the Bears to be ready for a game. Plus the Bears have fared well against an Eagles squad that has been consistently rated higher than them in recent years.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    you kind of listed everything worth listing. I'd like to see a Blackhawks game in Canada, preferably Montreal or Toronto. as for your baseball game in every stadium that is active upon completion comment, does completion = death?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The amount is extremely relevant because you are talking about getting nothing in return. If you only eat $2m to get rid of him, and get nothing in return, then there is cost savings. If you pay half his damn salary to not play for you and get nothing in return you are intentionally screwing yourself.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Oh right, the offensive value. Make it 10-12 and 6-8 then, it's not an exact number I have a lot of conviction about. The point is that finding a starter to put up roughly a 2 WAR is not a terribly difficult thing to do. You can do it at market value(Maholm starts to make sense as an example here), or you can go after a Gorzelanny type to fill that spot. There might be a little less certainty, but that money could be the difference between having Fielder/Wilson/Ramirez or just Fielder/Ramirez or something like that. The budget is tight, and there's just not enough ceiling or certainty in Zambrano's performance to not try to free up some payroll by dealing him. The same applies to Soriano really, although his is more difficult because we're talking a longer term contract. You aren't freeing up payroll if you are paying Zambrano to play elsewhere, getting nothing in return and going back out onto the market to pay for potential replacement production and/or trading other assets to acquire the replacement.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Regardless of the fact that you probably can't, it still doesn't make any sense to pay $8-10m for him to play somewhere else. How is the bolded part irrelevant? If you can replace him for the amount of money you're saving, then it's a cost-neutral move. If you can save a little more, it's a positive move. Because you can get value for the guy.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    what the hell does that mean?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Oh my god, the first call after that interview. If Theo was like sex to your ears, that "close up shop in the Dominican and focus on the good old USA" nonsense was the sex toy rape scene from Se7en.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Regardless of the fact that you probably can't, it still doesn't make any sense to pay $8-10m for him to play somewhere else.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    No, you probably can't.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    why? Why to what, exactly? Why would you pay $8-10m for him to go away with nothing in return?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    why?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Of course you can assume that. I don't know why you would, or why you would want to, but you can.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5853545/spotted-albert-pujols-yesterday-at-best-buy-in-a-sleeveless-shirt-buying-captain-america-on-dvd speaking of the morbidly obese and potential 2012* Chicago Cubs 1B http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2011/10/m8dss.jpg Albert went shopping *assuming the Cubs would acquire him and then he dies and they are on the hook for the remainder of his contract after 2012.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    we were talking about NSBB's front office and the possibility of adding conky in as executive vice president of fresh ideas
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I think they did prioritize it years ago, they just weren't good at it and didn't understand the competitive advantages they could have used.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    and back to welcoming conky's fresh blood?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Coward very true. i'll go on record saying he should stay
×
×
  • Create New...