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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It's one day. I don't think Hanie needs as many as possible. Cutler needs as many as possible, and if he goes down the team is screwed regardless. There's nothing wrong with a few days of Enderle eating into Hanie's reps.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    So you want Crane Kenney and Gillick working side by side in the front office? I mean I'm not completely against that but I'd assume that they don't want to pay 2 people for pretty much the same position, even if Gillick is a pure baseball guy and Kenney is a purse business guy. I think he was referring to the insistence on calling Kenney a cockroach. He's survived 3 team presidents and 2 owners so I'd say he has cockroach-like qualities. I mean yeah, there is definitely. But the Cubs have had one of the smallest front offices in baseball for awhile. Not sure if Ricketts has a desire to change that or not. Who knows. The guy has been atop the Cubs masthead shorter than Hendry. He was elavated to his current position after McDonough left.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Martz on Hanie: I don't have a problem with Enderle getting a few of Hanie's snaps in week 2 and Hanie being pressured to improve. It's not like Caleb is the future of this organization or likely to stay around very long anyway. But going into the season, he's got to be the primary backup.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    So you want Crane Kenney and Gillick working side by side in the front office? I mean I'm not completely against that but I'd assume that they don't want to pay 2 people for pretty much the same position, even if Gillick is a pure baseball guy and Kenney is a purse business guy. I think he was referring to the insistence on calling Kenney a cockroach. And there's plenty of room at the top of a sports team for a business executive and a baseball executive. But Ricketts has said he sees no reason to have a baseball person overlooking his baseball person.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Acknowledging that we could be putting way too much emphasis on "direction of the franchise" as a particular quote, how in the world is Wrigley renovation part of "direction of the franchise"? How is it not? The stadium is both a massive liability and a tremendous source of revenue. It was probably the one issue most discussed by Ricketts early on in terms of what his plans for the franchise were, but its status remains in limbo.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I think it's about finding the right scapegoat. Sometimes the goat presents itself, sometimes you have to go out hunting for one. This is easier.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Back to the scene of the crime for Cutler, hope he doesn't have any bad flashbacks or crap his pants. If free tickets fall into my lap I might consider attending, otherwise, probably not.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    My money has been on Hendry staying put, so I'm going to assume this is much ado about nothing. Either we'll hear he's not really going to make a big announcement, or the announcement will be reshuffling the deck chairs.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    No. It was stated that the team was awesome and then pointed out multiple times after fact that no, it was actually just the pitching that was awesome. As if you can't have an awesome team with an excellent rotation and above average offsense.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I'm going to DVR it on the off-chance he rips Kaplan's head off on live tv. And by rip his head off, I mean literally remove his head from his body. Killing him. Wouldn't you be shocked to see him actually on-set?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    And yet that still doesn't make a lick of sense when trying to pretend the Phillies are not a very good team. The fact that their offense is only above average doesn't change the fact that the team is excellent. Of course they are. They are a fantastic team who will probably win the World Series. Who said anything but that? did you not read the thread?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The writers are seemingly throwing out that excuse, which doesn't make a lot of sense. If they knew things were so bad that they had to spend big on such a player, how could they pretend things are fine when they didn't get that player? This isn't really a question of trying to get better, they had to get better on the offensive line. John Mullin is so deep in bed with somebody at Halas Hall. He spends the majority of every report he has defending inadequacies in the organization, and the other half critiquing critics.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    And yet that still doesn't make a lick of sense when trying to pretend the Phillies are not a very good team. The fact that their offense is only above average doesn't change the fact that the team is excellent.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    If/when Jackson takes over CF, we'll have our entire up-the-middle be pre-FA, homegrown players. Maybe. It's no sure thing he'll take over, let alone for good, next year. 2B remains a work in progress and by the time he settles in Soto will be approaching free agency and may have a somewhat tenuous grip on the position.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The thing about the line reshuffling is it's all the same ingredients. A couple guys are playing different positions, but the only people unfamiliar with the system are the now backup C and the 1st round rookie RT. All the other guys have been on this team and with each other for "reshuffling" to be a somewhat weak excuse in my opinion. The problem is quality of the players more than anything.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'd like to hear Hollandsworth respond to ARam's last sentence. Dude bitches about ARam not making the players around him better. Well how come he never took ARam under his wing and tried to make him a "better leader"? Hollandsworth sucked so it wasn't his job to make his teammates better, it's on the really good players like Ramirez to make the other players better, and when they fail to do that we can say they actually weren't good.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    All those issues are simply built in excuses for playing poorly based on how poorly they put the line together. No, you can't excuse it. The line playing poorly should not be acceptable even if it is inevitable. It's the first preseason game, they weren't giving additional help to the line...they were trying to see where their guys were at. I understand that frustration at the OL. There's a lot of at best questionable players on that line. But I just can't condemn them based on the first preseason game. I'm sure I'll join the chorus beating them up later on, but I'm not gonna [expletive] on them just yet. I'm condemning them based on several seasons in a row of poor play, a horrible 2010 when they nearly got Cutler killed, an offseason where they essentially ignored the problem, and yet another game where they played poorly. You are acting as though that showing was the first we've seen of the line and therefore cannot judge.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Last year I thought this way, this year seems a little more straight forward. Barring a whole bunch of injuries to the defense and/or Cutler, I can't see them bombing. But it's also going to take an out of nowhere improvement by the offensive line to push into the 12 win territory this year.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    All those issues are simply built in excuses for playing poorly based on how poorly they put the line together. No, you can't excuse it. The line playing poorly should not be acceptable even if it is inevitable.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    the only vegas number I've seen is 9.5 I'm thinking 9-7 and hoping for 10-6.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    From KSK:
  22. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5830902/watch-as-a-rockies-coach-gets-drilled-in-the-face-while-bobby-valentine-talks look over Valentine's left shoulder.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Weren't there 9 sacks?
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Why did Randy Wells take over Zambrano's locker? And has there been anything written from Chicago people about Soriano being the one that confronted Zambrano, instigating his blow up? I think I read on cbssports.com the story that Zambrano left the field/dugout relatively calmly, and that Soriano followed him into the clubhouse to rip him to shreds. And it wasn't until after that confrontation that Zambrano actually "quit".
  25. jersey cubs fan
    They have the best record in baseball, by a pretty decent margin. The Phillies are awesome.
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