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  1. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5565332/extremelyin+depth-profiles-in-courage-larissa-riquelme-aka-paraguay-girlnsfw/gallery/ I find myself pulling for Paraguay.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I don't remember what they were from, but I do remember getting these stupid things when I was a kid, like at school fairs or carnivals or some nonsense. Did crappy trinket salesmen just order too many in the 80's and then hand them to south africans like we hand out the losing championship t-shirts? How exactly did they become part of their culture?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't mind them at all if they were part of the crowd noise. Problem is, that's all you hear when watching a game, outside of the announcers. This. One of the large squares in Leuven (called "Europes biggest bar" as it's completely surrounded by bars - 35 in total, I think) is devoted to the World Cup, with screens all over the square and flags hanging from every building. I was walking there a few days ago and someone was blowing his vuvuzela. Some random guy walked up to him, snagged the thing from his mouth, folded it in two and threw it to the ground. While he was walking away, I heard a few people clapping. Vuvuzela's suck. http://www.tigersweat.com/movies/animal/anim08.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JYq-mXprw
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Fans leaving? They showed a steady stream of fans departing. And unless there's something I'm missing, there are a whole bunch of empty bright blue seats.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Part of the problem is, you can't just "find out" by playing him this year. He could have a one off rookie of the year type season and still be no better than a 4th OF in the long run. I don't see the need to play him everyday. If Fukudome was already gone, fine. But letting an asset sit the bench because you want to see what Colvin may or may not be able to prove to you does not make sense. Unless there's already a deal in the works, I don't see how you can make a quality trade with him sitting everyday. You already have 2 other OF guys who are not 162 game players, why can't you just increase his playing time and see if he maintains his numbers?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    is this a dodgers game?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, so since I made you look like a moron you are changing your argument. I should have seen that one coming. To be fair, all you did was point out some rather pedestrian success.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I'm always surprised when preseason hockey starts up again. The offseason seems like nothing when you don't follow the sport much. It's also nothing when you go deep into the playoffs, but fairly long if you don't make them.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    did he actually kick the ball, or just trip the guy?
  10. jersey cubs fan
    As a non-soccer fan who's trying to be open to it, this is one of the biggest things for me. Entering this world cup, I had heard so much about the atmosphere and how crazy fans of countries got into it. And I'm also a bigger college football fan than NFL because of the frenzy and passion of the fans at the game being much higher (in general) than the NFL. However, with the vuvuzelas, I simply can't hear any fans at all. All I've seen is silent people dancing around. I think crowd noise and "interaction" could help me understand that it's important when two guys are kicking the ball back and forth to each other on the opposite side of the pitch. I remember reading about how cool those horns are going to be and how only stuffy unsophisticated non-soccer fans wouldn't get the cultural brilliance they define. I'm glad pretty much everybody hates them now.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    From Bears website. Billed as advertised? Isn't that just saying he's advertised as advartised?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    In a vacuum, no. But what really makes no sense is benching Fukudome indefinitely, or making your priority Colvin above all others. I don't care about the platoon for matchups sake as much as I don't think he should play everyday. i'm not sure what you're after here. What does a vacuum have to do with anything? And what does platooning Colving have to do with Fukudome? I'm not advocating playing Colvin as the everyday RF over Fukudome. But if the GM decides he wants to know whether Colvin can be an everyday RF, then he should play everyday (this requires a trade of Fukudome). There isn't enough evidence to establish that he needs a platoon. Alternatively, send Colvin back to AAA and let him play everyday in hopes he gets better. Play Fukudome in RF and use Nady or whomever as his platoon partner. I don't see the need of seeing him play everyday to determine if he can play everyday. All evidence suggests he can't be an everyday RF. So, play him regularly, and if by some miracle his numbers don't slip, as time goes on, play him more. But there's no need to castoff Fukudome for pennies on the dollar because you have to see how Colvin handles everyday duty. Fukudome is an asset.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I'm sure they have a separate budget for both, but at the end of the day, it's all Ricketts' money and he can rob Peter to pay Paul as much as he wants. True, but I doubt he'd lessen the payroll to hire front office guys or bring in more international signees. The more casual fans than us (the vast majority of fans) would not take kindly to that. No, but he could choose to allocate less of the increase to payroll than would otherwise happen.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    They already had a guy to just fill out spreadsheets and list nonsensical stats. I'm guessing they actually put some real thought into this hire, and probably had a number of job seakers.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    In a vacuum, no. But what really makes no sense is benching Fukudome indefinitely, or making your priority Colvin above all others. I don't care about the platoon for matchups sake as much as I don't think he should play everyday.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    When I read fall, I was thinking some weird in-season exhibition.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I consider the end to be June 1, November is the heart of the season, and the trade deadline is the beginning.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That's great and all, and if anybody was actually discussing that sort of thing, maybe it would drown out other conversations. But bitching about the direction of a thread when the direction is still very much about the topic at hand, is kind of ridiculous. And outside of gametime, there just hasn't been much discussion about the world cup, team tactics and stretegy, and so on.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    That has to be the funniest post I've read in a long time. Take a page of of Kenny Williams' book? The WS have one of the worst farm systems and he has traded all of his prospects for "young" players like Andruw Jones, Peavy, Pierre, Teahen, and Kotsay. :lol: Did you even read what he said? Williams isn't all that great at his job, but he is smart about what KCF was talking about. Carlos Quentin being the most obvious example, although injuries seem to have kept him from being useful since 2008. As long as he's taking that page, and that page only, that's fine. But I wouldn't want him even looking at the table of contents, let alone reading the whole thing.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    DC cabbies were notorious for over-charging. The city had this silly zone system where the cost of the ride was based on how many zones you crossed. Well, you can imagine how this was abused. Definitely. I call out cabbies all the time both here and when I lived in DC for taking bad routes. Maybe jersey's just got bad luck. Well that was a while ago. Most cab rides I take now are either flat rate (in hoboken) or pre-negotiated from manhattan to jersey, or to airport, so it's not really an issue.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Ariaga 2 is a householder name.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    There's no game on right now.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know, maybe. I have noticed the Chicago cabbies I've had have generally been less prone to angry outbursts. Never been in one in DC. NY cabbies are notorious for screwing you over with the routes they take, so when you call them out on it they freak out.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The definition of household name and casual sports fan are vague. But I don't think a bunch of saturday and sunday morning games (which I've really enjoyed zoning out to) have made those teams legit household names. There are NBA teams that aren't household names.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5564294/your-belated-2010-haters-guide-to-world-cup Deadspin tells you which teams to hate. hint, all of them.
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