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  1. jersey cubs fan
    He would theoretically want to show other teams that he can play and he's protected against injury by his current contract.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Seems pretty clear to me. They haven't released him, but plan on doing so before Saturday. I don't think that's a huge mystery. I think the story here is they told him he will be released so others teams can prepare to sign him, but they are holding onto him until Saturday to make sure they get through the week without injuries to RBs. They are doing him a favor while covering their own backside.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    At the risk of being UMFan-level creepy, google her. You don't want pics. That's not creepy, that's just looking out for your fellow man.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It was a spending spree. They spent a hell of a lot of money. They just did it terribly inefficiently and wasted millions of dollars.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, executive assistants don't tend to get canned when their boss is gone, they get thrown back into the pool of assistants and/or move along with that person to their next gig.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The new GM doesn't get to hire his own assistant? What kind of nonsense is that? I dunno, thats what she told me. She worked her way up from an intern at the company serveral years ago so I don't think they'd just let her go because Hendry was canned. Her offical title (on the website) is Executive Assistant to Vice President/General Manager. I have no idea what the role of Executive Assisant is, but I assume their job isn't baseball related. Its all about being organized and being able to effectively communicate and such. So I don't think its absurd to say the GM wouldn't get to choose, at least to the extent that they would retain the previous person at first. Um, it's a secretary is it not? It's not the assistant GM, it's the assistant to the GM. The person who takes his calls, buys his wife's birthday present and helps him keep his office romances discreet. Most executives choose their own, and/or bring theirs with them from job to job. Heck, middle managers get to hire their own.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It's about time. What a gloriously ridiculous waste of money. I still chuckle when thinking about how people lumped those three guys together last year just because they spent so much. An All Pro pass rusher. A washed up blocking tight end and a washed up backup running back. What a haul. Maybe Jerry had buyer's remorse this offseason.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't make the decision based on who else is in the system. His greatest value to the team may end up being via trade, and if he can handle 2B that may be the right decision to make. A good hitting 2B has more cache than a similar hitting 3B. I wouldn't make the decision based on who else is in the system as well. My point was, and it might've not come out as I intended, if they feel he's better at 3rd, then move him that way and don't bother with working him at 2nd simply because. Get him settled into one spot, rather than shifting him around. And my point is there can be value in letting the guy show he can handle 2nd and 3rd. He's got a long way to go before he'll be ready, so there's no rush to lock him into a position. Even if they feel 3B will be his best postiion in the long run, it's not like they have a great track record of predicting what guys will be. I'd rather give him time at more premium positions and use 3B as a fallback down the road.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Yep, it makes sense for Briggs to try to pick this fight now though. He's not gonna get primo money if he waits till the deal is done. Then maybe he shouldn't have signed it in the first place. Hey Lance, have fun sitting out the next 3 years if you don't get a new contract. I'm pretty sure that Soldier Field will still be full whether or not you and your over-inflated tackle numbers are there or not. Stuff like this is what sucks about the NFL. I know the players take the risk with no guaranteed contracts and it sucks for them, but complaining and trying to negotiate with 3 years left on a market value contract when only like 2 teams had any interest when you were an unrestricted free agent 3 years ago? [expletive] off. The guy made it clear he's not sitting out this year and that his hope is to have an extension before next season. The NFL does not suck so your commentary really doesn't make any sense.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't make the decision based on who else is in the system. His greatest value to the team may end up being via trade, and if he can handle 2B that may be the right decision to make. A good hitting 2B has more cache than a similar hitting 3B.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I disagree. Everybody has too many of these kinds of fans, and if we didn't have enough of these kinds of fans the team would suffer financially.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The new GM doesn't get to hire his own assistant? What kind of nonsense is that?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Didn't he just get a new contract last year? Spring of 2008. That does not feel that long ago.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    You listed him as a guy who didn't deserve to be booed. And I said most of their success was in spite of him. The defense carried his butt to the Super Bowl and there is absolutely no possibly way to pretend otherwise.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Plus very low pressure/expectations by "historic sports franchise with faithful fanbase in a major metropolitan city" standards. You get a clean slate to build a franchise with a lot tools/resources to work with and a fanbase that isn't going to run you out of town if you're not contending for a World Series by Year 2. That is something that can't be stressed enough. The Cubs were a .500 team under Hendry. They lost an insane amount of games far too often. Other big market fan bases would flip out at that. By and large Cubs fan have thought Hendry was a god for giving them 3 playoff appearances.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I think it's hard to maintain success as a small market team and even harder to regain it once you've had it. Their rivals are all spending more than them as they all have money making situations Oakland can only dream of. They are in the AL, which essentially means the wild card isn't an option. It's a really tough position.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Andy MacPhail talked about emulating the Braves, which probably wasn't a good idea considering they relied so heavily on having 4 aces and finding 4 aces ain't easy. He talked of drafting and developing pitchers and then acquiring hitters later, which is fairly inefficient. He also talked of "contending within the division" as his primary goal. MacPhail had his sights on the commissioner position and was more about keeping steady. Ricketts has much more power in terms of the direction of this franchise, and much more of a reason to worry only about this franchise. They had very different roles, and I think they had different views on what needed to be done.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    The Cubs are in the position they are in largely because they have been run like a team that agrees with the nonsense Baker spouted. Maybe if he didn't take himself so seriously I'd find his schtick amusing.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Neither do I. A manager pointing out that the Yankees don't take walks while they were leading the league in walks doesn't amuse me when he's managing the Cubs.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    But my point is your list was kind of ridiculous. Grossman deserved boos. He sucked far too often. Calling him a great Bears QB is like referring to Hendry has good for a Cubs GM. So freaking what. He was bad. Grossman and Bradley deserved boos. Booing my own team is not my thing, but if you are going to do it, you do it to QBs who play as poorly as Grossman did as often as he did, and unproductive assholes like Bradley. Soriano has received more boos than he deserved, but he's also done enough bad, especially while looking clueless in the field, that every player is going to get boos in reaction. Cutler is hated everywhere. I never understood it while he was in Denver, and I only sort of understand it now, but that is just a general sports fan reaction to Cutler. It has nothing to do with Chicago's supposed horribly history of booing the wrong guy.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    They must have put the shoe print into COTUS.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    ok, so because a white player has been booed, that means the slurs shouted at black and latino players is the same thing? the booing of a white player is in no way shape or form proof that racism doesn't exist. And the fact that racists shout slurs at black and latino players doesn't mean all people yelling at them are motivated by racial reasons. The main reason anybody yells at an athlete is the irrational fanaticism they have about the team they support, and the responsibility they place on those athletes to deliver results.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Here's the thing about Miles, though...if he had been the Miles of '04-'08, tons of Cubs fans would have loved him, or at least tolerated him. You're right, people are going to hate a crappy player. regardless of skin color...but mediocrity goes a long way to inexplicably justifying a white player in too many fans' eyes. Mediocrity plus affordability. Most of the biggest hatred goes to mediocre or worse players that account for a significant portion of the payroll.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Completely justifiable booing.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    What the heck does that even mean? He's the starting WR in a pass happy offense, how in the hell is whatever he gives us a bonus? He has to produce. It's very early. It means I don't expect him to remain in that position. That still doesn't make his production a bonus. He's not an undrafted free agent. If Williams sucks balls there's absolutely no way you can call booing him "unjustified". He's a veteran free agent paid money to catch balls. It's not the fans' fault if he sucks.
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