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  1. jersey cubs fan
    There's also the matter of the original six being in the same cities where they were back then. MLB had the Giants/Dodgers move, they've had lots of incarnations of the Braves and Athletics, and multiple teams come and go from places like Philly and Washington. NFL had the Browns and Colts move, the Cardinals and Rams move all over.
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    Original Six stands out because of the six part. There were only six teams. The NFL had 12, 13 and 14 in the years before the NHL expanded. MLB was at 20. There's just a whole lot more "original" matchups in MLB and NFL, making any one of them less meaningful.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I had not heard a thing about this Africa trip before this thread. How is an owner's vacation schedule an issue?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    This is confusing....the teams who had the longest pennant droughts in 1990, have gone 8-0 in world series games once they got there? The Cubs (0-0), White Sox (4-0)...and who else? The only other team to make one WS appearance between 1990 and 2010, or sweep their first WS appearance post-1990 was the 1990 Reds, who went 4-0 after a 14 year drought (1976) inbetween pennants. Were the Reds really the 3rd longest pennant drought in the league in 1990? I figured he was talking about the Red Sox and White Sox, not sure why he is using a 20 year time frame, an 8-0 record and a 3 team grouping.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Original six teams are meaningful in that they are hockey's version of talking about olde tymey stuff. The Packers are more meaningful than the Jaguars. If the Reds got good again, people would talk about the days of old when the Reds ruled, whereas if the Nationals went on a run, there wouldn't be much to talk about. Baseball's expansion was more gradual and arguably more successful. Hockey's expansion is much more recent and drastic. It's also unique to think about a major north american sport with 6 teams in the mid 60's. And how the league basically tripled in size in a few years. Anything pre-1980 is talked about in reverential terms in american sports. For hockey that is Montreal and the Original Six.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    But again, it's not that he gave up future hall of famers. He gave up valuable trade pieces for a useless player. CCP made the point better than I did. I'm not advocating trading those players specifically for Juan Pierre, but I wonder how much better of a player they actually could have brought. I'd like to think much better, but I'm not sure Hendry's ever been fleeced in a trade and it seems odd that he'd give up way more than he should have there. You didn't have to trade those exact same three players for another guy. You could have used one or all of them in a package for somebody better. They were useful chips, and they were wasted on a useless player who fit a perceived need.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    and urinal cake budget
  8. jersey cubs fan
    But again, it's not that he gave up future hall of famers. He gave up valuable trade pieces for a useless player.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Campbell may be a Capital by then.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I would say there is definitely an additional difficulty, but I don't believe it can be all that significantly bigger than the one every playoff player deals with.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know either way, but I wonder what their trade value was at the time. I would think the three of them could have netted more, but Hendry has proven to be very good at not overpaying for players. It just makes me wonder. Hendry really really wanted a speedy leadoff hitter. His own personal valuation of the situation was clearly askew.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    At the time, or over the next couple years.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.nhl.com/league/ext/pdf/2010-11byteam_ET.pdf NHL schedule by team.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I think people are stuck on the one good year that Nolasco has had as a major leaguer in 2008, so yeah, Nolasco has essentially been crap as a ML pitcher. Hidsight suggest that the Cubs got a pretty bad OF, for a pretty bad starting pitcher. And wasted money plus opportunity cost in the meantime.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    It's always a lagging indicator. Last year was buffeted by 2008's success, last year's disappointment has contributed to this year's attendance problems.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    The same thing was said about the Red Sox. Yeah but they were able to Cowboy Up. What could we possibly do to match that? Not stop believin? A simple plastic bracelet with a clever saying should suffice.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    This happened in 2005/2006, so I'm not sure why some people are claiming that empty seats at Wrigley are unheard of. The quality of the team matters. There may be a baseline built in, where they aren't in much danger of hearing crickets, but people don't show up as frequently when the team stinks.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Niemi, or Huet? What would sending Niemi down accomplish?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    The analyst guy on Mexico Uruguay sounds so much like Robin Roberts to me.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Their website has Jackson starting.
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    2-0
  22. jersey cubs fan
    France is in the process of conceding.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    The same thing was said about the Red Sox.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    That sounds makes me pity my 2nd grade music teacher.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Who said it was the only consideration? The problem with the job Hendry has done is that this team has very mediocre results and a very high payroll. If they were a low payroll team with the same results, you'd probably give the GM some credit for making due. But this team has underperformed teams that have spent less than it throughout the Hendry era, and he has outlived much of his competition during that time.
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