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  1. jersey cubs fan
    "Yes, yes. Please take this man who took a crap minor league to the playoffs away from us". Yes, yes, taking a minor league team to the playoffs is some sort of accomplishment that the Mike Quade's of the world could never dream of achieving.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Consider me sold.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    A lot more people would care about the NIT if the NCAA tournament was just the Final 4. Conference tournaments are a better comparison, and those are wildly popular. EDIT: Or better yet, Bowl games. Bowl games that people care about are 50-100 year old institutions.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    While I fear Sandberg may eventually come back here, I do like 2 things about this story. 1, it's from a source close to Sandberg, which tells me his agent is begging somebody to hire the guy. And 2, his current boss seems to be signaling to everybody else in baseball that he'd be happy if they hired him away from their team.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, seriously Albert, nobody in the history of baseball has received a 10-year contract. In fact, throughout all of professional sports there has never been anything even resembling a 10-year contract. All-Star, more like All-Delusions-Of-Grandeur. Pshaw.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have never and will never invest 200M on one player, nor should they. Pujols will breakdown midway through whatever ridiculous contract he gets. The Cubs have a fairly long history of giving out the biggest or among the biggest contracts in baseball. Going back to Sandberg they made him the highest paid player in the game. They were prepared to make Hampton the highest paid player before giving the huge money to Sosa. Since then they have gone huge on Soriano and Zambrano. The specific $200m number is a pointless fact, since there haven't been too many of those guys to pretend the Cubs have a fear of doing such things. Well, Pujols will command that and has already turned down the Cardinals. And people seem to forget that he will be 32 before next season even begins. I will take Prince at a smaller price. So what? Just because he will get that number and the Cubs have never given anybody else that number does not mean the Cubs will steer clear.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    That's a ridiculous idea. Having only 2 teams with a chance for a world series, which is all that fans care about, is horrible. Having the rest of the field play for some sort of NIT banner isn't going to excite people. Having this year's standings determine next year's playoffs is just flat out dumb, given the roster turnover. That will not force teams to keep rosters together. Why would it?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs have never and will never invest 200M on one player, nor should they. Pujols will breakdown midway through whatever ridiculous contract he gets. The Cubs have a fairly long history of giving out the biggest or among the biggest contracts in baseball. Going back to Sandberg they made him the highest paid player in the game. They were prepared to make Hampton the highest paid player before giving the huge money to Sosa. Since then they have gone huge on Soriano and Zambrano. The specific $200m number is a pointless fact, since there haven't been too many of those guys to pretend the Cubs have a fear of doing such things.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, I don't recall hearing that. I've interpreted the words I've heard to indicate he doesn't want THE BIG NAME but would prefer something more conservative. I do have to think that the eating of contracts for Bradley/Silva, potentially Zambrano and maybe eventually Soriano is starting to wear thin on the guy. He's also eating Hendry's and Quade's contracts this offseason while bringing in a new GM and likely an entirely new coaching staff.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Or both. However, no way Ricketts is shelling out over 200M for Pujols. We will be lucky to land Prince. Where do people keep getting this from? Ricketts has sent out signals that he's not very interested in spending big on any one player and would prefer to build from within while spreading the money around. Of course that could be a smoke screen. But if you add those signals into the fact that it will be really hard to get either guy even if you do want him, I think the odds are the Cubs don't do it. But hopefully he's just laying in the weeds for negotiating purposes.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    What does that even mean? You want the 4 best MLB teams to go play Asian and South American teams and have that schedule somehow woven into the next season?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Well, lets not forget who else has been rumored to join the Cubs from the Phillies organization. The dots seem to be getting connected here. And we all saw how true those rumors turned out to be. Gillick would be joining the Cubs after the season if it happens. Then why did he resign mid-season? Why did he say he would not take a GM job? And why did Ricketts say the new GM would be reporting directly to him? No, that rumor is dead. Are people talking about Gillick or Lamar?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Bobby Valentine is already lobbying for the job.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Because he wanted Hendry to go down in flames while keeping his own hands clean.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I think that mindset is completely outdated. You win through the air. There is no point in running when you can't and are down big. It would be nice to have a better running game, but the problem is not that they aren't calling for it enough. It's that they aren't good enough.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Wells had a string of about 6 starts, mostly in August, where he looked like he has in the past at his best but that didn't last through the end of the season. Even when he had his solid seasons he was prone to some really horrible outings where he got rocked. I feel like he probably outperformed in 2009/2010 and is going to struggle to do that again as he gets into his 30's. I do feel he should absolutely be penciled in as part of the rotation, barring a massive overhaul with more top notch talent (or a profitable trade). But I remain concerned about his low K rates and the fact that he still hasn't reached a 200 inning season and he got injured early in the year after his most significant workload.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    He's making $9m next year and 11.5 in 2013, and I'm pretty sure people were thinking the Cubs would offer cash to offset. It's hardly outlandish, especially if they want to have some names around to help sell the new stadium.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It seems like you just want to nitpick for no good reason. You aren't getting a bye. You are in the same boat as you would be before the expansion, playing the other division winner in a 5 game series. I really don't get the obsession with eliminating the non-best team from having a chance. If an 89 win team wins the World Series, so be it. This system works on both ends of the spectrum. It gives more teams chances (which means more fan bases have a reason to be interested in September), while it gives the best team a big reward. In the meantime you also create 2 guaranteed big event games right at the outset of the playoffs.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Not necessarily true. The 2nd wild card team could be the 3rd best team in a league. And it is still easily the most exclusive playoff opportunity in North American sports. You are punishing teams for not winning their divisions. Winning a title is not about guaranteeing the best team on paper gets it. But at the same time, the best regular season team in each league gets rewarded for that performance. Teams from the best divisions that get excluded from playoff opportunities now have a better chance of at least showing up and building up hometown support for their team.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    On what grounds are you basing this statement? The Bears have a terrible offensive line and extremely weak receiver corps (plus horrible tight ends). Those are personel issues, and they are easily the biggest problems as it pertains to the weakness of the offense. Martz may not be making the most of what he has, but he doesn't have much to work with.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I think that is a whole bunch of nonsense. Soriano is a bad baseball player in a mediocre lineup. He should expect to have to move around. In his case, the vast majority of his time has been in the 6th or 7th hole, which are virtually indistinguishable from a player's perspective. Being a 5/6/7 hitter isn't like he's going from 1/4/8. He just can't hit. No excuses about where in the order.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Why are you banging your head? I'm really not sure what you are trying to say here. Running with a cushion (15 yards to go) should actually allow you to gain more than short yardage in the opposition's side of the field. The Bears offense was pretty crappy overall and a big reason was that when they ran they didn't get anything out of it.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    All day? They tried 9 times (and 2 cutler scrambles) and abandoned it. Because they couldn't run worth a crap but the pass was kind of working.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    No, you might as well not go to 3, because that screws up everybody else who has to wait around for the series. Plus there would be all sorts of travel questions if you had the teams each get a chance to play in their home stadium. You open up the playoffs to more fan bases, which increases interest. There is automatically going to be 2 must-see games at the beginning of every playoffs. Everybody loves win or go home games and they don't happen enough. That increases interest. You add a huge incentive to winning your division, and subsequently a huge incentive to having the best record in your league. As things stand now there is virtually no difference between winning 105 games as a division winner or sneaking into the playoffs with an 85 win wild card season (or division winning season for that matter). The only "downside" is it punishes the best wild card winner, but that's too bad. Win your division next time. I would assume the WC team with the best record would have the home game, correct? It's common sense, but this is Selig we're talking about so you can't be too sure. Selig has been a lot better at his job than people give him credit for. He took over an old stodgy game that was losing ground fast in the fan department and it has thrived under his watch.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Will be hard to do if he doesn't even get double digit rush attempts. It's not the attempts that matter as much as the actual performance on those attempts.
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