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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Personally, alot worse than not firing Hendry can happen this offseason. Missing on signing a big ticket FA (or two or three) would be insanely worse for this franchise both in the long and short term. Keeping Hendry has been the worst thing to happen to this organization for several years now.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    That's a lot of very long games if they are all still in progress.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's a one year thing, so I really wouldn't have much of an issue picking it up. I'm not sure the potential for getting him a little cheaper is worth the headache.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5832234/the-2011-haters-guide-to-the-top-25
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Has anybody else reported on this supposed address?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I was excited when I first heard that, but that's about the same price I would spend if I went to the bar every sunday to watch the games. Yep, Sunday Tickets does nothing for me. Obviously it's different in that if I wanted to I could watch my home team for free in my own home, but even if I wasn't, I think I'd much prefer going out rather than feeling the obligation to watch games at home since I've already paid for it. And I certainly wouldn't want to have to host my [expletive] friends every Sunday just so I could watch the game with other people. I started getting it when it was pretty cheap, like $120, and I had some roommates. We've hosted most weeks ever since and it's a blast.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I don't really think that's entirely accurate. People thought he could start at RT from day one but might take time to become NFL caliber LT. It wasn't that nobody thought he could play it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Really damn impressive, UNAM has yet to lose in the Mexican league yet this season too, though its only 5 games in. I'm assuming the match was played at Azteca? No. It was some smaller stadium. Do the fans not have piss bags there?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I like the general tone of acknowledging the need to score and moving off the defense/special teams style. But I disagree about them bringing in a lot of people. As for the lack of players available now, that is why he had to do a better job addressing the line weeks ago.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    They may have been the best players, but I think Brian Bosworth was the biggest name to go through it.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    You've never heard of the supplemental draft or you haven't heard any talk about this year's supplemental draft? The NFL supplemental draft. I might have heard of it in passing, but this is the first time someone I've heard of has been eligable. You must be young. There's been a handful of pretty big name players that went through it. I think the 80's and 90's saw some shenanigans with guys trying to avoid going to losing franchises ending up there. But it's been pretty barren for a decade or two. The Bears drafted somebody there recently.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    You've never heard of the supplemental draft or you haven't heard any talk about this year's supplemental draft?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    That's some bad timing for Louis. Between him and Webb there's almost a sense that the young guys don't want to step into the roles for some reason.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    http://twitter.com/#!/vxmcclure23/status/103948661037334528 @vxmcclure23 vaughn mcclure Lance Louis was sick today, Lovie Smith said. Urlacher had general soreness.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The general flow of free agents is away from smaller teams and toward bigger teams, making the net effect bigger on smaller teams. Additionally, there aren't a lot of ways for a smaller market team to win. Bigger teams have all sorts of flexibility. Smaller teams, who actually try, would be more dependant on that flow back of comp picks.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Based purely on age...to be completely honest I just see him as an elite player trying to age gracefully and win. Nothing ages more gracefully than a late 30's veteran on the Cubs.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    If the costs of signing draft picks goes unchecked, it will become harder and harder for small market teams to compete in that department. And if free agent compensation goes down, it will be harder to keep replacing your own guys when they get too expensive.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    If it shows anything, it shows how team-dependent a stat like RBI is. A couple things must be working against him. A) The team OBP sucks B) One of the guys hitting in front of him is Pena, who tends to either make an out, draw a walk or hit a homerun. All of those situations make driving him in difficult. C) Along with those issues, he's got 4 PA with men on 2nd/3rd and just 6 with man on 3rd. He's batting .375 in those limited situations but has just 3 combined RBI. Only 99 total PA with men in RISP. When you consider an average of just 3 hits in 10 AB, you aren't getting a ton of opportunity (he's also done poorly with RISP) D) He's hit for little power himself (just 6 HR and a 129 IsoP compared to a 150-190 in his recent best years). E) I don't know how often he has been involved, but this team has struggled with getting thrown out at the plate. Last year he hit almost exactly the same with RISP and with nobody on, this year there's variation. It's just chance.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Sounds to me like both things are big market team friendly and player friendly, with smaller market teams being the losers.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Did that require a question to be asked?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    FYI, this did not happen.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Castro looked slow covering that ball.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I would do it in a heartbeat, but I'd be surprised if somebody traded a pick for him. Maybe a 7? Why bother sending anything of value to us when you can sign him (or someone like him) off the waiver wire in a couple of weeks? I don't know that anybody would do it, but if you felt he'd get a little more money on the open market and/or be signed by somebody else, or potentially not get cut, you would consider giving up a 7th rounder for him.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    It is a different time and place from when WGN helped them draw in a nationwide audience. Exposure in a starved market is how they capitalized on that issue. But that era is over. Keeping them on WGN isn't just a hit to the short-term bottom line, it's bad for long-term business. The nationwide presence is there. And it's not going anywhere, unless they just lose every season. Would anybody actually watch WGN if it weren't for the Cubs? Bulls. And for the godforsaken of the world, Blackhawks. Those aren't on the superstation though, right ? Just local WGN Channel 9?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Colvin's AB was ugly bad. Please don't rub off on Castro.
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