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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It's not a matter of should or should not. It's stupid to pay $20 for a month of content on the daily herald website. It costs money to produce ESPN.com's content but they don't charge to see the majority of it. It costs money to produce a hell of a lot of things that don't cost the consumer a nickel to view.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    A good decade after I first started talking about these ideas I'm getting a little excited that MLB is actually thinking of doing some of them.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Year-round interleague play is bad enough on its own. But year-round interleague would stress the rules disparity between the AL and NL, and eventually force the NL to adopt the DH (as the MLBPA would never give up the DH in the AL, with all the money it brings in). That's the part I find really upsetting. It would not. You wouldn't need anymore interleague games than you already have, so why would that force a change to the DH rule? If anything it would dilute the attention to the whole thing, spreading it out over 6 months intstead of cramming it into 3 weeks.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I can't now. They blocked most everything. And they are trying to charge $3 for 24 hours of access or $20 for a month. That is absurd.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure if I agree with that. Brady is the reigning MVP. Vick would have been MVP in most other years. Rivers is a perennial 4000 yard passer Brees is a perennial 4000 yard passer Rodgers is a 4000 yard passer and SB MVP Schaub, Cutler, Romo, and Eli have all had 4000 yard seasons in their careers and clearly capable of doing so again. Roethlisberger is a 3X superbowl QB Ryan, Bradford, and Freeman look to be true franchise QBs. Flacco and Cassel are legit NFL starters. That's 15 of the 32 QBs who are pretty good players. Not including Peyton Manning who's hurt. McNabb and Hasselbeck who are about 2-3 years removed from great seasons. Sanchez who has led his team to 3 straight AFC championships. Orton led the league in passing last year until he got benched for a team that was out of it. Stafford, a #1 pick who would be in the top group if healthy. Kolb who could join the top group with a strong year. Cam Newton, #1 draft pick making his debut this weekend. Names like Alex Smith, Rex Grossman, Jason Campbell, Chad Henne, and whoever the hell Jacksonville is starting are the exception. QB play is much stronger across the board than it was 5-6 years ago when guys like Joey Harrington, David Carr, Aaron Brooks, and Kyle Boller were starting QBS. Every year people like to whine about how horrible NFL QBs are as if there was an ere where there were so many more great ones.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    They are also the Cowboys and there is a lot of money to be made by overhyping them, which is what everybody has been doing for a decade.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    What kind of nonsensical jackass statement is this and in what way does it come close to responding to what I wrote?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure why you would say that. Guys resign from positions every year, and rarely do they spell out exactly why, especially the day after doing it. I guess, but it seemed like Amaro was being really weird about it in the press conference, and he did mention something about leaving to persue other baseball interests. He could be taking a lateral position but why leave a solid organization like the Phillies? And if he was going to leave baseball, he probably would have indicated as much. Again, I don't know why you think he "probably" would have given any indication. That's a false assumption. He's an older guy in a secondary role. Maybe he wanted more money, or more power or both. Maybe he got cocky and played all his cards only to see it blow up in his face. There's no reason for Amaro to go into details and there's really nothing all that extraordinary about these circumstances.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Tribune is reporting the Merriweather contrat is fairly substantial, with $1m guaranteed and 2.5m salary, which makes him the highest paid safety on the team and would seem to indicate he's a good bet to be starting early.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Not really that interesting at all. It's rare to go back to back and there's a few other teams that are worthy selections alongside them. Then explain to me why I've heard the word "dynasty" all week. I don't know, I haven't heard anything of the sort. There are 3-5 NFC teams that most everybody is predicting to be the leaders, and nobody is the standout. Vegas has their win total at 11, and they won 10 last year.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure why you would say that. Guys resign from positions every year, and rarely do they spell out exactly why, especially the day after doing it.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Not really that interesting at all. It's rare to go back to back and there's a few other teams that are worthy selections alongside them.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    It could very easily be an impediment to the hiring process. Well yes, if you take those actions as an indicator of an approach on Ricketts' part that runs counter to everything he's said and done so far, then yes, I suppose it could be an impediment. I'm not the one being interviewed. Subtle outside forces have caused guys to not accept jobs at this level before and will do so in the future. There was nothing to gain by keeping Fleita, and something to lose.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    That's a really weird way of thinking.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    why are they showing the bears/falcons game in tampa? try zooming in. They don't appear to be showing anything, which would mean they haven't sold out yet.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Except when he was a GM he was a laughing stock. Ricketts said he wanted to emulate Boston, hiring Lamar would be emulating the Rays of the Bob Lurie days. The first thing Sternburg did when he bought the team was fire his sorry ass. He has talked about Boston in the past, but I'm not sure their name has been raised of late. I would have to think he would be more than happy to emulate Philly as well.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    It could very easily be an impediment to the hiring process.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    She's no Shelley Smith.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    You find the fact that he's bummed he didn't get called up more disturbing than the fact that he was an ineffective pitcher?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Tribune headline said they signed him to their own practice squad, but the story indicated he as on the regular roster. Now the headline has been changed to clarify.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Again, what could he possibly be doing where going on an interview would distract from what the team has to do the rest of the year? Professional sports is a business where guys are allowed opportunities to move up in other organizations without much fuss unless there is some sort of big investment in that guy.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I think the defense will struggle to be top 5. Probably going to be closer to 10. The offense probably needs to be above average to make this team a contender this year.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/richard_deitsch/09/06/NFLbroadcasting.guide/1.html SI did their NFL media preview talking about all the broadcasting teams, additions, subtractions and all the rest. Although it's one of those stupid things fans get weird about, I thought it was kind of interesting that ESPN is using a Chicago based reporter this year, so the Bears finally have their own Ed Werder/Sal Paolantonio. No idea who Josina Anderson is though.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5837926/soccer-player-disgraces-self-team-descendants-forever-with-awful-penalty-kick
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I like most of the team, but the flaws are too glaring for me to expect another division crown.
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