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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously. Especially because baseball spring training is about 7 weeks long, and football training camp is about the same. It's weird to see training camps wrapped up in 3-4 weeks. If they could figure out a way to make money off it I'm sure they'd make it go longer.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, we get the make believe scenarios, but an 8 team playoff easily solves any situation where some team could reasonably be called the best in the country.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I don't understand the motivation for getting a balance of power for conferences. There's no reason for it. As was pointed out before, there are other sports and the elite teams aren't the same in each. I think you take the top four teams and have the winners of their bowl games play each other. The other option is after the current BCS you just take the top 2 and have them play. Or, you could just go with a 8 team playoff using current bowl games as the first round, and add three more games in early January. I think 16 games is pointless. There's no reason why the 13th ranked team needs to be involved in the competition for postseason, and there's absolutely no way you can justify trying to pull some 64 team tournament off.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/don_banks/09/08/week.1.3/index.html Don Banks does not like the Bears.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    A: That's not true B: Why is the only thing that matters to you the national championship? The concept of a national title game is very new in college football. The fact that a Boise State hasn't played one yet doesn't mean they never can. Under the current system they have to play the toughtest schedule they can find and win them all to have a chance. In a slightly tweaked one they have to win a big bowl game at the end of the year and then a national championship game. In a slightly more tweaked one, they win a couple playoff games. But you don't blow up the entire system so that Boise State can have a better shot at a title.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Geovany Soto spent 3 years at Iowa before coming up at age 25. Chirinos is 26 and has put up ridiculous wOBAs the last 2 years including .428 this year. I'm not saying he is anywhere near the caliber of Geovany Soto but you can't tell me that no team would consider him a decent inclusion in a trade package. Obviously he isn't a centerpiece, but he has value. I think he could be a good candidate for backup catcher next year, but in no way do I think anybody would assign him any value in a trade, especially this offseason. Maybe if somebody got desperate for backup catcher help next July and he had a hot month, but nobody is trading for him this November.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Simmons hates the Bears and is laughing at this line. I agree with his thoughts on this line. 6.5 is pretty nuts. I do not get it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    All you want is for people to focus on the positive aspects of your proposal? That's absurd. It's a bad proposal and the fact that it has no chance of coming to fruition does not make it unnecessary to point out that it's a bad proposal. I think you just like to argue. I wanted feedback. That includes positive and negative feedback. If you think it is a bad proposal, fine, tell me why. Don't just say "this is lame." Because the business of college football is based on the tradition of college football and the tradition is heavily invested in conferences, especially the big three longterm ones, Big Ten, SEC and Pac 10. Those are where most of your big money teams are. You are breaking those up, and adding a bunch of worthless teams for no good reason at all. It's out of the box for the sake of being out of the box without making one lick of sense because there is apparently no rhyme or reason for your new setup. If you want Boise State to get a chance at a title there's no reason to mess up everything else that's great about college football just for the outside chance that this happens. And I didn't want to argue about this, I was just happy pointing out how dumb it was. But then you whined and asked me to argue with you, so now I kind of have to.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    All you want is for people to focus on the positive aspects of your proposal? That's absurd. It's a bad proposal and the fact that it has no chance of coming to fruition does not make it unnecessary to point out that it's a bad proposal.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Because you knew it was a bad idea? What makes it a bad idea? Because you said so? I think if it WOULD happen, (which it never will) that it's a GREAT idea. Because there's no good reason to break up all the conferences and the way you did it was silly, at best.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    There's not much you can do in baseball. But in HS sports you can and should absolutely let up when humiliating an opponent. 70-0 football games and 100-2 basketball games are stupid.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Because you knew it was a bad idea?
  13. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/tom_verducci/09/07/playoff.format/index.html?eref=sihp I think this is the first time I've seen a major national writer promote the idea I've been talking about for a while about having 1 extra WC in each league and making it a 1 game play-in game to face the #1 seed. I've stated the benefits before and Verducci essentially says the same thing. I really don't see a downside unless you are just allergic to any change at all. He quotes Joe Maddon talking about it being unfair for a 162 game series coming down to 1 game, but that's a really silly stand to make when a season can already come down to one game, and going to a 5 game series isn't all that much more fair.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    timely
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Since when does "likely better than most in the NFC" translate to "possibly in the top 50%" or "a pretty average QB right now"? When he says "likely better than most", he is absolutely saying that Hasselbeck is one of the best QB's in the NFC. Not sure how you can argue in his defense. Most = majority (or more than 50%). Therefore, "better than most" literally means "better than 50%". and still most likely wrong
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Does getting caught not matter?
  17. jersey cubs fan
    The lack of position player development is an approach that I don't agree with but at least I see the logic in focusing on high-ceiling pitching. I guess it just seems so incredibly standard for a team out of the race to give players like Chirinos (or Castillo) and Smith PAs, if only because a hot month might turn them into an auxiliary piece in a trade. Yet here are the Cubs, passing them over for the likes of Bobby Scales. Of course this isn't the most detrimental oversight the organization has made, it's just so basic in my mind. I don't see the point in getting so worked up about this specific situation. September callups generally don't play enough to get really impact their standings.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    And he's probably wrong on both accounts.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Because one is grovelling to an attention whore and the other is a standard holdout negotiation.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Michigan isn't in the top 25, so what's the problem? Even if they were, who cares? Being 23rd or whatever is hardly an accomplishment.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    But the fact is the Bears are right there with almost everybody else except for Washington and Dallas. The NFL has 2 giants, a few scrubs and everybody else. The idea that the Bears are a poorly run business is simply not a story. It's pointless nonsense meant to sell magazines and get pageviews.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    The Redskins are both the model franchise for running a team the right way and a joke on the football field. Why are the Bears supposed to be more like Washington? Dallas had more success in the early 90's, but that was a different era. The Giants aren't top of the heap even though they "should" be, why aren't they criticized? Oh because they got taxpayers to build a $1.6b monster of a cash cow stadium while the Bears tried to stick within the traditional venue of Soldier Field and kept their stadium much smaller. Those bastards. They aren't big enough whores for some people. That's not a story.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    It's pretty freaking idiotic to go from either praising their business genius or ridiculing their stupidity. This is a non-story. They aren't "poorly run", they are as somebody else said more conservative. Big deal. There's nothing wrong with that. It hasn't jeopardized the organizations ability to function as an ongoing concern.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    There is plenty of disputing that. They run a profitable and successful privately held business. They just don't maximize revenues and whore out the team as much as Jones and Snyder. And make no mistake, their egos is the reason why they run their teams the way they have, and it hasn't translated to very much football success in Snyder's era or in the free agency era for Jones. They are run this way for the same reason they don't have cheerleaders, because Virginia is in charge. So be it. It has nothing to do with their lack of success on the field just like the Tribune's running of the Cubs business had nothing to do with their lack of baseball success. They haven't hired great football people, that's where they should be criticized, not because they don't charge enough for popcorn and training camp.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game. Makes it all the more dumb.
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