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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Recent trend? This has been their strategy for many years. They can't afford the pricy free agents, so they sign the leftovers to 1 or 2 year deals and then hope that those veterans are enough of an improvement to put a few more butts in the seats and then hope they play well enough to get decent value for them at the deadline. This was essentially the Chicago Cubs on the 70's/80's/90's, as well as the reason Pittsburgh's downfall has lasted so long. Teams are wary of selling complete youth movements so they spend some on bums. Tampa did it a lot in their early years as well.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Really? I am in the middle. On one hand it puts a dome team where it's most comfortable - in a dome. On the other the Bears don't necessarily seem like a team that thrives in the elements, so a dome might not be the worst thing ever. The Bears are not a cold weather team like the name/city suggests. But I'd take the Bears chances in cold weather vs. any team that plays in a dome or South Florida/Southern CA. Bear weather obviously isn't real, but Lovie's Bears have had some huge performances in crappy cold conditions. Last year's Vikings game, the conference championship and late 2007 and 2008 games against the Saints. Another 2008 game against Jacksonville. And the 2007 blowout of Favre's Packers. They also had some big wins in late 2005. I do think it's mostly about getting dome/warm teams out of their elements, but also getting Favre outside in the cold.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know, why isn't this thread in the other 2011 roster thread?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    If it makes the $20 t-shirt I bought my wife meaningful again it's all worth it.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument. They will lose boring and pointless games that nobody but the fans of the favorite want to watch. Nah...people watch the March Madness games...people will watch these too. People watch march madness because there are 4 games on at once and at least one usually involves a potential upset, and it's the only thing going on at the time. You will see 40-10 blowouts one at a time in this situation that nobody will want to watch. Meanwhile, NFL races will be coming to a head with their playoffs about to begin.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    That's not really worse case scenario. Assuming the surgery goes as planned, the maximum anticipated recovery time is 10 weeks. I don't think Noah is 25% better than last year, personally, and I think Gibson is better than last year. Of course, further injuries would be worse, but this is a reasonable worst case scenario. The problem is your literal interpretation in the dropoff of WAR. That isn't how it works.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Well of course. Every sports has arguments about teams that just miss. NCAA basketball does. There's whining in the NFL about an NFC West team getting in. It's just the nature of sports. This way though, you remove a lot of the polling from the process. Not completely of course, but if the TCU's and Boise State's of the world really can't compete, they'll be out in the first round, and we'll be down to a real 8 team tourney after that, with real contenders. So then you just start at 4 and it's real contenders right from the outset. Or as I said, 8 at the most.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument. They will lose boring and pointless games that nobody but the fans of the favorite want to watch.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    This year there is 1 team with more than 2 losses in the Top 16 of the BCS, and it's Alabama. It won't just be top 16 BCS teams. And 2 losses is too many.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    How so? It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it. The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams. Still would have arguments. Does Wisconsin, TCU or Stanford get left out this year? Right now Wisconsin is 5 in the BCS, but ranked ahead of Stanford in every poll. If you don't have the BCS, Stanford loses out despite their 1 loss coming to one of the top 2 teams, while Wisconsin lost to a team that's not even in the conversation. Either way, but at least they are meaningful thoughts and not petty nonsense about the 17th team crying about being screwed over. In reality, however, there will be unranked teams getting in because of winning their conference championship. It will destroy the incredible excitement that occurs when a #1 team falls during the regular season or when an undefeated team struggles to hold on.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    That's not really worse case scenario.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    How so? I think 4 is more than enough, but if it takes 16 to get rid of the BCS I am fine with that. They do 16 in 1AA and it doesn't seem to be any issue. that's because nobody gives a crap about IAA in the first place.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    How so? It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it. The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    that is a terrible idea
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I've been to Atlanta a few teams and it was loaded with transplanted Chicagoans.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/metrodomecollapseksk.gif
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    If/when it happens I just hope to hell it's not something stupid like 16 teams or all conference champs are invited. 4 is plenty, but if you need 6 or 8 it's marginally acceptable.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5714047/ncaa-and-arizona-state-both-impose-penalties-on-asu-baseball-ncaas-are-harsher As one of the major players in college baseball and one of the few good reasons for top high school players to not sign, I wonder if this ASU crackdown will affect any potential 2011 draftees.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Waiting until late December to decide if Cashner will be a starter virtually guarantees he will give you nothing more than 20-something starts of 5 inning ball, which in turn almost necessitates acquiring more relief pitching.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I can't help but read into it a strongly racist vibe. He tries to hide it, but it's all about latinos being lazy stupid immature and in need of babysitters. If Aramis Ramirez was the exact same player but white he would be lauded as a guy who plays hurt with regularity as a quiet leader and consistent performer who is poised for a bounce back year after his post surgery season. It is disgusting how the old white guy population continuously jumps on this guy. Rozner, Stone, Rosenbloom, Kaplan, just a bunch of blatant bigots.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It is a brand new stadium built just for the college team (which used to share the metrodome) that apparently was built for Southern California climates.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    This is going to be something I have no problem with until it actually happens. Then regret will set in.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    It's hard to kill the momentum a championship brings. And even if the momentum does shift it will go right back to where it was in a year or two when we are likely back at the top of the conference. Missing the playoffs would hurt, but not come anywhere close to killing the momentum from the championship. It remains the only "all Chicago" team with a championship this century. They will live on that for a couple years, and unless they revert to missing the playoffs every year, they will not go back to the Dollar Bill days. This is why I would rather see them concentrate on 2011/12 and beyond than this year.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not so sure what you mean by the second sentence but yes, there is no justication for this decision not already being set in stone.
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