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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Most of the crap Soriano's gotten has been either forward-looking (he'll be paid $18 mil at 38 type stuff) or critical of his awful year last year. None of the Dempster bashing has been warranted at all. He's been really good since taking over as a starter for the Cubs. I feel like Dempster bashing has plummeted since he became a starter again.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    A whole heck of a lot.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, but in any typical Cubs game this year, they will lose.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Of course it would be great. That's not the point.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    .636 OPS is the last 30 days? His OPS in June was .780 and so far in July it is .727. Granted it is not as good as the 1.034 OPS he put up in May or the .965 OPS he put up in April, but I think it would be unrealistic to think that he wasn't going to have a slump all year long. Slump, or hitting as expected?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Some Colvin numbers: Last 28 days: .217/.253/.398 June: .250/.280/.500 July: .250/.304/.423 His overall numbers are better, and he had a nice performance against Philly. However, he's still a corner outfielder with a career OPS in the high 700's and he makes a ton of outs. His ridiculously hot start to this season looked fluky then, and doesn't look any less fluky now. He's striking out at a ridiculously high rate and does not walk. The increased playing time has revealed some of the flaws that most thought were there when he was getting spotty playing time. And every sign points to the Cubs struggling if they count on this guy to be a starter from a corner position next year. He remains a solid 4th OF option, but not more than that until and/or unless they get substantial offense from a non-offensive position to offset what is almost certain to be substantard production from him.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Why would you not take it seriously.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    You're jumping to the conclusion that they are hooking up with dirty girls. Are we just throwing the pregnant possibility? I am making that assumption. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think they got knocked up.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.bustedcoverage.com/?p=31201 Daytona Cubs games, now featuring big league tasering.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I think it has to do with the combination of hockey players being able to play for a long time, the early age that guys can get to free agency, and how the cap system works. Plus, as a more unstable sport than NFL or MLB, there is some reason for people to take the risk out of their future. He's 27, Keith was 26 when he signed. In the NFL careers can end by 28, and in MLB, guys often come up around 23-24 and are under team control for 6 years, so they are rarely free agents by 26/27. Then again, ARod signed 2 10 year contracts, Jeter's is 10. There have been lots of guys in the 7-8 year range. And this 17 year one is still long for NHL standards. McNabb signed a 12 year deal at one point.
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  12. jersey cubs fan
    Most children don't make the decisions about what cable company to use. You still have hundreds of thousands of non-Chicago based adults who are fans of the Cubs, and many have children, meaning their kids could just as easily end up being Cubs fans as those people who grew up in the 70's and 80's with no other options.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know if he does TV for ESPN either, but he's the Sunday Night Baseball PBP guy on ESPN Radio along with Dave Campbell. He had a great line about Lou constantly getting Marshall warmed up. When Campbell (who is just so god awful and obsessed with the Yankees) was talking about the Cubs bullpen struggling and forcing Lou to go to another reliever, the PBP guy said, "but nothing says it has to be Marshall every time."
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Why? Byrd, I guess maybe. But Soriano is doing nothing he hasn't done before, and his best years were without Rudy. Soto is also doing what he's done before.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I just like how the whole premise is the Cubs don't want to fire a legend and Lou is too proud to quit, so the solution is to convince him to retire.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    So the Cubs newest first round pick is missing time due to mono? Isn't that what Vitters had? That's the thing you get from making out with dirty chicks and/or the excuse pregnant girls use for missing a semester of school. Why are our top draft picks hooking up with dirty girls? If they are worthy of first round selections, shouldn't they be able to land a better class of female?
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Hanging with Philly fans this weekend, I already got the cup enjoyment this year, but it would be nice to at least win a series.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I think it may only be the hicks from Cincy and STL that have problems. Them and the cheeseheads. Gee, and with comments like that you wonder why people in St. Louis have strong opinions about Cubs fans. Go to a Chicago Rush game sometime. Chicagoland has it's fair share of toothless wonders. It sounds like Votto was joking around, and Bruce Levine was trying to get some headlines (that's who the Chicago reporter was). "If" Votto was serious, and I don't think he was, it would fit with everything I've heard and seen from Dusty Baker teams. Marlon Byrd already refuted the story, saying he spoke with Votto quite a bit.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Thanks for the news flash.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I think that's funny because pretty much everywhere I go people are pretty cool to Cubs fans. I've never had a problem in another stadium. And usually you get in conversations with other fans and they talk about liking the Cubs or wanting them to win. I think it may only be the hicks from Cincy and STL that have problems. Them and the cheeseheads.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Keith Moreland talks to much.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Because Ryan Howard hits lefites like I do True, that still might be better than Ben Francisco does though. Very close, 717 to 701. You don't walk him there, but you don't give him a fastball down the plate.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    But I don't really see taking off half of his 2010 salary and half of his 2011 salary really matters. I doubt any team would think of his contract as a hindrance, so lessening it doesn't really matter.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Nothing like showcasing your lefty giving up a bomb to a LH bat who can't hit lefties.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    My concern is that it wouldn't take a cliff dive for his value to fall a lot. A $3m CF with a 118 OPS+ is great. He's got a career 101 OPS+, and was 106 last year. He could revert quite easily, still be okay, but have significantly lower trade value. Take 20 points off his OBP and 50 off his SLG and you are at his career average. Even if you aren't worried about him pulling a Ramirez next year (which you really shouldn't be), his trade value could still suffer quite a bit.
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