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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I think that is the bare minimum of acceptable for a supposed power hitter. It's pretty much average overall and substandard for a first baseman. Ok, thanks. I couldn't remember, though I had always considered LaRoche a fairly patient player. He's no more patient than Ramirez, but doesn't have near the ability to make up for it.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I think that is the bare minimum of acceptable for a supposed power hitter. It's pretty much average overall and substandard for a first baseman.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    what's so secret about that?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It doesn't count in the standings but in rankings it absolutely should. Winning big is a sign of a good team, and they do it often. Losing by small margins on the few times you do lose is meaningful, just like getting blown out is bad.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    You mean if he can fit more than 1 of those criteria it's good enough? Oh, I didn't see that X. Now I get it.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He'll probably be better than Lee was last year, so that's something. No guarantee. Lee was a 2.0 WAR player last year, LaRoche has peaked at 2.6 in his career.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    He's nowhere near a lock for an 850 OPS, he's a high strikeout low walk guy with no upside. And this team needed an impact bat at 1B, not more of Derrek Lee's bad years.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure how delusional he was considering he still got paid. He knew, or at least his agent knew, that the Yankees were going to overpay. Why would he ask for less?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    At home, by 3. Basically a toss-up game, and Green Bay looked better than Atlanta last week. Yeah, it's not crazy at all to rank GB higher. They maybe should have won that game, and I think they are better on a neutral field.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I think they are crying poor. Cubs fans are crying pour when they belly up to the bar.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    No longer interested in Pittsburgh's good players they can't afford, now want the bad ones they don't need.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    But he pitched in those games and was pretty bad out of the bullpen last year. He walked 30 people in 54 innings. And he didn't match that up with some ungodly K/9 either.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    The weird thing about keeping Cashner in the pen is he wasn't even any good there last year. If a guy is great in relief it's tough to make the move even if you know it's better (let alone if you're obsessed with relievers and overvalue them in general).
  14. jersey cubs fan
    If it's done, the Cubs better end up with the best player involved in the trade by including others in a package with Gorzelanny. Some small market team should love to get Gorzelanny, Wells and Colvin to fill three starting spots and virtually no cost.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    In a roundabout way. Washington is where the money is at nowadays. Lots of cash flowing for things like luxury boxes to be picked up by lobbyists, law firms and contractors.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Essentially Jets get no negative points for needing back to back OT and desperation pass wins, or getting spanked.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/morning-jolt/12/07/chargers.kings.yankees/index.html?eref=sihp More talk of Chargers being the team that LA takes. Obviously that involves the least amount of upheaval, but it's also boring.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    They also lost to them, which technically means they lost to every good team they played this year. ;) They have that one good win, and a decent one against Miami. Chicago has 2 plus Miami. I just never got the idea that the Jets were the top team in the league, not with that QB and offense. Certainly a quality team that can win lots of games. But they aren't great. New England has beaten more good teams, and decent teams. Same with Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Green Bay and Atlanta.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    It's been too long since Marshall has pitched a significant amount of innings as a starter. He's never been able to get past the 150 inning hurdle and he hasn't thrown 100 since 2007. It's going to take at least a year of gradually increasing the workload. He's done well in the role he has and it's not entirely convincing he's better than 5 guys they can put in the rotation ahead of him. Why bother?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I certainly wasn't expecting last night's outcome, but the Jets offense being crap is not a surprise. This is a team that whose hype is based on lucking into the playoffs thanks to facing a team taking a self imposed bye, then advancing in the playoffs because opposing FG kickers couldn't kick. They've lost to every good team they faced this year. Needed OT and desperation passes to beat three straight mediocre opponents and has generally looked like garbage on numerous occasions. Their QB is barely a 50% passer and their best receiver can't catch the ball. That is a team the Bears should beat at home later this season. But I still think Chicago can beat the Patriots, and I'd rather not make that Jets game a must win. The passing game is going to give the Bears trouble. I just hope they limit the big plays and tackle, because the Jets sure as hell didn't even try. When they blitz, they have to be more effective, preferrably coming off the edge rather than bunching up in the middle and running right into the chest of blockers. Despite holding the Jets to 3 points, that defense can get soft.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    And then they will go out and sign a lesser guy to a bigger contract. They can't spend what they need to on a first baseman because they absolutely must have another freaking starting pitcher despite having nothing but starting pitching in the system.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    He had an ERA over 5 in AA and gave up a ton of hits. And he's never really had dominant strikeout numbers. Given that he was a first round pick of the Red Sox and was once a two way player, he's probably overrated. Also, since he's on the Padres the chances of him dominating the Cubs for a decade are not all that great. Maybe he'll face them once a year, possibly twice, and almost certainly never in the playoffs.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think this defense is anywhere close to as reliant on speed as the 2005/2006 defense. That defense was a bunch of 24 year olds flying around. That isn't the case anymore.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Considering the Pats destroyed the Titans 59-0 last year in the midst of a blizzard, I'm going to go with them. Oh and they also won the tuck rule game in heavy snow, but that was awhile ago. When's the last time the Bears played in a snowstorm? It was snowing toward the end of the NFCCG against New Orleans, but that was hardly a storm. since we aren't really a cold weather team, i hope not. i remember the steelers pushing us around like we were on sleds in 2005, though. That's not really all that meaningful for this year's team.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    The quick pass and draw play strategy was kind of crazy yesterday how often they relied on it. isn't the quick pass part all cutler rather than martz? i mean martz might have instructed him to hit the hot read, my understanding of the offense is that the qb doesn't audible but has a ton of options within the framework of the play itself. As much as it happened I have to think that was part of gameplan and very much related to Martz, much like the halftime adjustment against Dallas.
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