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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I hate Thursday night games more than Monday Night. Everybody should get to have their bye the week before a Thursday game.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Dungy, Gruden and Cowher are almost certainly not going to coach at the collegiate level – no matter the prestige of the school. Especially not since almost any NFL team would hire any of the three in a heartbeat. I'm not so sure that is true of Gruden.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't think of Seattle or Detroit as locks. Seattle at home is a lock if this team is any good and has a chance of competing in the NFC playoffs. Although no, it's not a lock in terms of just this game. Yes that sounds dumb but it makes sense in my mind.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Or it was the 200 HR and 4 starting pitchers with 200+ innings and sub 4 ERA. Well the Red Sox didn't actually win because Kevin Millar Cowboy upped. Perception is more important when discussing reactionary offseason plans No I understand I'm just pointing out how it's annoying that the perception has always been about Ozzie ball but what it was really about was a HR hitting team with great pitching.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Or it was the 200 HR and 4 starting pitchers with 200+ innings and sub 4 ERA. I believe Hendry has had multiple "need to get lefty" periods of time.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    He needs to hold Hossa's hand.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Preconceived notions about how terribly the team is run? Are you kidding me? There's no preconceived notion. It's just a simple fact. I was more than willing to give Ricketts all the benefit of the doubt for year one especially since I have a roundabout personal connection and have been offered free tickets. But one year in and he's all on board the Hendry train, hiring what appears to be the wrong type of stats guy and spouting off about nonsense for offseason goals. Why wouldn't I be annoyed? I think your take on this is very strange.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    And Hendry sure as hell tends to focus on both bad situational stats and overly specific team needs. Plus, Ricketts is keeping him.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    And your point is? An owner appeasing his fans is going to talk about making the team better, getting better players, investing in the team, etc. Writing nonsense about batting with RISP (something his untouchable GM has repeatedly tried to focus on) after hiring a strange stat dude who is all about needless situational statistics is a strong indication he is directing the organization to be focused on things they should not be focused on.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    What the hell was Ron Washington snorting when he decided to get Cliff Lee warmed up in game 3?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not sure where you are coming up with this nonsensical theory. Why would he still write that paragraph if he didn't believe that crap? Just because people want to hear it? No, that's not how it's written. It's written like a fan with a rudimentary understanding of the game of baseball whose faith in good 'ole baseball people is far too high. Very disappointing words.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I doubt fatty mcgoo is going to be much help in the OF anymore. He hasn't played much there since his early 30's and he is going to be 35 this year. Possibly get and and play somebody like Nady or Baker when there's a LH pitcher.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Hooray for another nooner! I can't recall an uglier dominating win. Carolina is a bad football team. Apparently the Bears were getting 3 points by kickoff, and they opened as 3 point favorites. Well now they are 6.5 point favorites against the incredibly mediocre Seahawks. Tradition is holding so far for Seattle, winning at home and losing on the road. The Bears really need to win this game as there is no excuse to lose. Hasselback is the 29th rated QB in the league. Chris Williams might be back, Jay Cutler might be back. If they are, I'd really like to see a 20 point win here and have the Bears solidify their division lead and standing among the NFC contenders.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Sweet? Come on. There's nothing wrong with the NFL fining him for that. It's a very easy rule to follow and he chose not to follow it knowing what the ramifications would be.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Or he was just supporting a teammate? Of course he was supporting a teammate and it was an absolutely irrational support. There is supporting a teammate and just saying something stupid. If Lovie Smith is able to tell the truth ("We got to the point where we felt like we couldn't let them back in the game"), then Devin could. This is a really pointless thing to say.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, he got pretty hot for a while in May. It looked like he may be back to 2008 form but then from June - September he had a sub-780 OPS every month.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I dunno about that. But he's fragile without a doubt. Back troubles suck and hammies are tough with big freaks of nature. I don't think he's faking it or anything but he's definitely fragile.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I insist on this response because I have actually seen Vitters in person and I have had the pleasure of speaking to people who know way more about baseball than I do about Vitters. Sorry Joe Morgan but that doesn't come close to justifying your asinine comment.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    So pretty much no O-line changes. They should be improved, then! That's all it takes!
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Why are you lumping an injured and healthy season together? Because I don't excuse the entirety of his crappy 2009 to injury. He was healthy enough to play. He showed over the 2nd half of 2010 he's quite capable of sucking big time for extended periods of time. He's in his mid 30's and health issues are part of what he is, to ignore play that occurs when injured is to ignore what he is.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I saw 1.4 WAR this year. And I'm not sure how many times I have to repeat this but overall in 2009/2010 he was barely over replacement level.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    You're right. He's an abject failure who will never amount to anything. My bad. Why do people insist on this nonsensical BS response when Vitters is brought up? I think it's a big stretch to say his ceiling is Aramis Ramirez because he doesn't do what Ramirez has done to make up for a bad approach. And your idiotic take on that theory is I think he's an abject failure. Seriously that is very dumb of you and speaks very poorly of your ability to reasonably discuss what a real upside is for the guy.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Ramirez's years in Pittsburgh tell a very different story, though. In the minors, it is true that he had good plate discipline and K/BB, but during his time with Pittsburgh, he racked up quite a few Ks while having trouble drawing walks. It wasn't until 2004 that he started getting a handle on his Ks in the majors. Vitters has yet to demonstrate the ability to keep Ks down while drawing a respectable number of walks over a consistent stretch, but the question was about pure upside, rather than what realistically can be expected of him. But what Ramirez did as a 21 year old in the majors really doesn't matter when comparing what Vitters has done to date and what Ramirez had done to date. Vitters hasn't shown anything that would remotely indicate he can pull off what Ramirez pulled off. They can both be described as free swinging hitter who relies on contact and power, but Ramirez walked more and struck out less, which is a pretty big dividing line when trying to pretend that Vitters has his upside. He doesn't.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Outside of the biggest move he could make there's probably only a couple other things he could have done, like invest in more international free agents and drafts targets.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    He's the starting center, core of the offensive line and the most talked about leader of the team. If he's uncomfortable doing it, you can be sure he's let people know and they are paying attention. He's not going to refuse to ever snap it from shotgun, but the story has always been he prefers not to, which would seem to indicate they would do it less often than they wanted.
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