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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Then the Yankees wasted $4 and the Cubs wasted $2. Now the yankees have people paying them lots of money to watch them eat the burger. I just look at it as the overspending on the burger reducing the risk of not getting it, which I wouldn't categorize as wasting. Somone who doesn't break that tipping point (playoffs) loses out both ways, and is truly the wasteful one. I believe the Cubs wasted more because they got no payoff, but the Yankees clearly wasted on their way to "ensuring" the playoffs. Just because you ended up with what you wanted doesn't mean it is not wasteful to spend whatever it takes to get there.
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    I think it's kind of a toss-up either way, but going into the season felt it was a waste to bring in the veteran QB. Just let the younger guy show if he can improve. Collins can't.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    A silent auction for the burger would probably be a little more accurate. The Yankees may only have needed to bid $1 for the hamburger, but they made it more likely to get the burger by bidding $5. Conversely, the Cubs may have needed to bid $1 for a hamburger, bid $3 for it but then didn't pick up their winnings. But it's a silent auction for multiple burgers where you can still get one without spending more than everybody else and they have one every year. The Cubs wasted without any benefit, the Yankees wasted but at least got some benefit.
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    It's not a waste if it brought them some form of benefit, however. If spending the extra money raised their chances from 75% making it to 90% making it (just making up numbers), then it was worth it for them to spend the money. If their likelihood of making the playoffs would be 100% at $150 mil and 100% at $250 mil, however, then it was a waste of money. It's a waste regardless. They did get some benefit, but you can still waste on your way to acquiring a benefit.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I had been focusing on the Bears season starting for so long as a way to ignore the Cubs season that it's nice to have another worthwhile one starting just as the Bears appear on the precipice of blowing a golden opportunity to surprise to the upside. There's no way I stay awake for the whole game though.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    BUT I WAS DOING IT MYSELF!!!!!!!!!
  7. jersey cubs fan
    thanks for the catch, that was a bad one
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Well it just started over in Finland, Hurricanes are off to a 3-2 start against the Wild. Here's some things to think about this year from the guy who picked the Blackhawks to win last year (and told me about it in a bar before the story ran) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/michael_farber/09/30/season.storylines/1.html
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I can't believe Tampa's ownership is forcing the jewish pitcher out there in a must win game.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    could be a good week to pick up Chester Taylor. They are going to try and run the ball. Carolina doesn't allow much per attempt, but has given up a lot of total yards. Forte may get run into the ground this game.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Dumb. Although I still think we're better than Carolina with Collins at QB. Dumb that they didn't go with Hanie or dumb that they are sitting Cutler? When he went out on Sunday night I was convinced he would miss a couple games. I'm still shocked he got back in practice this week.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I remembered that one.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    He has to mean 1997, it doesn't make sense in this context to talk about a random game in 2007. Detroit won 6-5 over Colorado in OT and there were a ton of penalties.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    easily my least favorite sports team of all time...but they were good It's a shame the Red Wings/Avs rivalry didn't amount to much after the mid 90's. I remember toward the end of college screwing around with changes to MLB scheduling and deciding Detroit/Denver would make a good interleague rivalry based just on the bad blood between those hockey teams. I think that's when hockey peaked in terms of cultural relevance. The Sega hockey games were the best, the US mens team won the world cup, Chicago was just ending its successful run, Pittsburgh was big, Gretzky was around, the Rangers had won and Detroit and Colorado had some epic battles.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I'm seeing the Bears as 2.5 point favorites and the over/under as low as 33.5, by far the lowest of the week. When Simmons and Cousin Sal did their guess the lines podcast there was not an official line (but I had seen Bears -3 off the board), Simmons was saying he'd expect Carolina as 3.5 point favorites if Cutler is playing and 6 point without Cutler. Given how close he gets on most of his guesses, that kind of tells me he typically cheats. Occasionally he'll say a team should be favored by 3.5 when it's 7 and he'll freak about it being too high, but rarely is he that far off to pick the wrong favorite.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    That's a horrible reason to root for the Yankees. Everyone does not hate them. People everywhere love them. You can find Yankees crap everywhere. I agree with your assessment of Red Sox fans, and I could see rooting for the Yankees over Boston right now. I guess it wasn't obvious, but I meant everyone who's not a fan (I assumed that was implied because we are 99% Cubs fans here) hates them, there's no in between. Yeah, but they have a ridiculous number of pseudo and fairweather fans around the country and world.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5657512/did-a-jets-pr-person-act-as-liaison-between-brett-favre-and-jenn-sterger Be careful going on deadspin today, you might see Favre's junk.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That was a quote from Angelo. Lovie would never speak so in depth.
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    Volquez not looking good.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Byfuglien, in the playoffs only. Versteeg seemed to me to get worse, or at least more sloppy in his second year. Ladd was a true depth player, but hardly irreplacable. Madden wasn't much of anything. Sopel was kind of garbage. Maybe they miss Buff come playoff time and maybe they miss Ladd. But all in all I really don't think they are missing much. The young stars should be better, Bolland and Hossa should contribute more this year. I agree with what this guy said: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/allan_muir/10/06/central.division.preview/index.html?eref=sihp
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I just posted the Yahoo site...there are plenty of hockey journalists out there who believe the Hawks will defend the Cup. I think come playoff time when depth is not quite as important(unless there are a lot of injuries) and the Hawks young players have a season under their belts they will be a very tough team to beat. I havent seen a single hockey journalist that has predicted that the Hawks will repeat. I've seen maybe 1 out of 5 pick the Hawks to win the central. I don't even think I've seen any pick the Hawks to win the West. Granted I've only looked at maybe a grand total of 25 different predictions but still. I've seen picks anywhere from 2nd in the division to 1st in the west. I really don't think many people are understimating them, because there is no legit reason to understimate them. They lost none of their best players and acquired as many interesting depth players as they gave up.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    His voice is bad for one. He tells the same crappy stories every time I hear him speak. And he personifies both the worst era of cubs fandom, the 90's, along with a passionate disregard for Sosa's accomplishments that helped the team actually do something. I hated his whining about being offered a 1 year contract when he was more than happy to live off 1 year contracts before and then accepted less money elsewhere while still whining about being mistreated by the Cubs.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I didn't realize they went 1-3, 0-3, 0-3 in those late 90's series.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Ricketts has to just look at team performance. You don't need an authority figure between him and Hendry to point that out. He doesn't care. He's either keeping Jim because he's one of those idiot fans who say, "three playoffs series on the Cubs he must be the best" or because he's taking a prolonged approach to consolidating the finances post-purchase and is just going to wait it out. They have a million baseball men in this organization. One more isn't going to tip the scales against Hendry. Ricketts just needs to wake up and pull the trigger himself. Now that the playoffs have begun, any lingering hopes that it would happen this year are gone.
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