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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    In a literal sense, sure. But if you start out 0-3, week 4 is a must win if you want any realistic chance to contend. And going to 1-3 is a huge hole, especially when your division leaders are undefeated. Lose here and you have to go 8-4 just to finish above .500 and have an outside shot at the playoffs.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Bears are 6.5 point favorites, which kind of surprises me. I think Carolina is 3-0 against the spread so far, while the Bears are 1-2. Carolina has been able to throw the ball in non-torrential rain storm situations. The Bears can't stop the pass, but after facing three straight top notch QBs they should be able to handle Cam Newton. They have a history of handling mobile QBs fairly well. And with 3 games of film on the guy they have to be able to exploit his inexperience. At the same time, Carolina can't stop the pass, or pressure the QB much. So the Bears have to win this game if they want any chance of staying in contention this season. A loss would be devestating. A win puts them into position to possibly go on a little run here. But that's a discussion for another day.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    there were like 5 people in the box on that run. GB was daring the Bears to run and that crap line still couldn't come close to blocking well enough to maintain the line of scrimmage, let alone gain yards.
  12. 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.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    The line sucks, the wide receivers offer nothing and Cutler isn't good enough to make up for those weaknesses. Nice work Angelo.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Rodgers is good but gb is terrible and they should lose 6-8 games easy. Refs hande them the game.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Bad game by bears but green bay only won by gift handed by refs. Horrible job by refs giving gb the game.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Really? I honestly didn't know that the winner of the conference tourney wasn't considered the champ. What's the point of the tourney then? Money. That and a last second opportunity for a bubble (or worse) team to make the big dance.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    You're doing it wrong.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    You are making a very weird assumption. The chances not looking good are about the fact that nobody in the organization can/will talk to him about his contract situation as things stand right now. It says absolutely nothing about what he wants to do. For the greater part of a decade he's made it very clear he likes playing here and wants to keep playing here. Right now things are in flux and he and his agent are positioning themselves to negotiate with his team.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5843329/orlando-zeus-brown-tackle-best-known-for-suing-the-nfl-after-taking-a-penalty-flag-in-his-eye-dead-at-40 The guy who got hit in the eye with a penalty flag is now dead.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    What did you want him to say sooner? That he no longer wanted to be here so we could have traded him. He's saying it now because they no longer have a GM and nobody has talked to him about picking up his contract. While they could trade him they still had a GM and he probably thought Jim would pick up his option. He's talking right now, putting pressure on the Cubs to do something.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    What did you want him to say sooner?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Why is this on the list?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    And I'm just saying that's nonsense. He's going to get blasted in the press eventually over anything that happens on any subject. The level of press criticism he receives will eventually depend on how often the team loses. And press criticism is an asinine thing to consider when debating a transaction. He's the new guy. He will have a honeymoon period regardless. If he brings in quality players and the team wins, nobody worth listening to is going to kill him for hanging onto Zambrano instead of paying somebody else to try and win with him.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    1) "Back when we had Castro at SS, we could afford to have less production at some other "offensive" positions." 2) Dew is driving at the point that we could invest $16M at 3B and accept mediocrity somewhere else, or we could invest somewhere else and accept mediocrity at 3B. You're investing the same and getting equivalent short term production. But he's saying there's less short term injury risk and much more long term value in the other options. 3) Dew is also saying is that it is "easy" to find league average production at 3B for the Cubs because they already have half a platoon that is a good bet to put up an .850 OPS versus lefties. That means the Cubs only have to find someone that can hit righties at around a .650 clip to achieve league average. Then who replaces Baker as the primary RH bat off the bench, plus OF/2B depth? There's a hell of a lot more righty pitchers out there and finding the guy who can hit them is much more important and much harder to do. It's completely unnecessary to make this move, but if you do you more or less write off 2012, which is a dumb idea.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    You don't have to fight to keep a guy under contract that is hard to trade. You tell your owner you gave it the old college try but did not feel comfortable with any offers and would feel more comfortable to try and make it work with him than dump him. The Cubs already suck and will have a tough time to be good next year. Letting Ramirez walk and paying Zambrano to go away is just going to make it harder to conted next season. As I've posted before, the Cubs have no leverage in this situation, but I can't believe some other team doesn't want to take a chance on him as a #3 or #4 starter with the Cubs footing most of the bill. I'm sure multiple teams would love to have him for nothing. That doesn't help the Cubs though.
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