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  1. jersey cubs fan
    About 740 for an actual 162 game player. 680-700 for most everyday guys. 600 would be taking a fair amount of time off. Three full seasons is going to get you 2000 PA. 150 games @ 4 PAs/game = 600. I wouldn't consider missing 10-12 games to be a huge amount of time off. And for catchers, the bar should be lower. Just take a look at actual everyday guys and you will see they are all well above 600 PA, and to further the point, 3 seasons of 600 PA does not equal 1500 PAs. 2000 over three years if much closer to an actual everyday player.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5540928/columnist-who-likened-flyers-to-nazis-surprised-when-philly-fans-slash-his-tires Philly doing what Philly does best.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Except Samardzija, and Soriano.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I was at the NLDS game 5 win in Atlanta and I would still prefer that over the Sandberg game or any regular season game.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    About 740 for an actual 162 game player. 680-700 for most everyday guys. 600 would be taking a fair amount of time off. Three full seasons is going to get you 2000 PA.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    It's still just a guy who has started for a couple seasons. The general point is valid. You got Girardi and now can start thinking of Theriot. The lack of quality position players has been a significant issue, it's why they have to pay so damn much for other people's hitters.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Sure, 16 miles, but that's a 3 hour drive. ;) I would guess that vast majority of NY athletes live outside the city, many in NJ. Eli and a couple others live in my town of Hoboken, which is between Newark and Manhattan. It has nothing to do with where you have to live/commute, it's more about playing for a team that until now has been in competition with the Islanders for NY area popularity, and being in the middle of a huge transition that is still unsettled.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think the Cubs will have a "fire sale" because many of their veterans have next-to-unmovable contracts. Secondly, the NL Central is weak and the Cubs probably won't be too far out to give up on the season. They have sucked as bad as I can remember this year and they're still only 5 1/2 games out with over 3/4 of the season to go. This is with ARam hitting like Aaron Miles, DLee struggling, and the "Ace of the rotation" doing a mediocre job out of the bullpen. Plus the only expensive player without a no-trade clause is Ryan Dempster, which in hindsight seems odd since Hendry passes those things out like candy. Do 10-5 rights still exist, because if they do, Dempster has them.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I would guess it is, but not nearly as huge a deterrent as the meadowlands. It's a really nice building with a bunch of public transport access and it's very close to NYC. But it's still a transition location. He could sign there and the Brooklyn move could never happen.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    It's not so much about NJ rehiring Cal, as it is how much does Cal want to go back to the Nets organization? At this point, I would say there is little chance of him returning to the Nets organization. Again, why? Why don't you ask John Calipari. I'm only giving my opinion. But the organization is completely different, is it not? That was like 4 ownership groups ago, and they were playing in a dump. They are moving to a fairly new nice building for 2 years and then another new one in Brooklyn. If the guy was offered big money to coach this team with Lebron, I can't imagine him thinking that his few years there in the 90's with an entirely different cast of characters in another city would be the reason not to accept.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Not really. You got your really good teams and your really bad teams, most of the rest can go either way. 25th isn't surprising to me, but I think it's low. My guess is they will remain closer to the middle, like the 10-20 range.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Is there anybody who follows the organization that would be upset with the move? This could be an issue if it was the Knicks and they had a big falling out, but nobody knows the Nets exist. Their entire business plan revolves around bringing a huge star with them to Newark and then Brooklyn, and I doubt they would let the potentially sticky PR issue of rehiring a failed coach if it came along with signing Lebron James.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I hate the whole "we're young we'll be back" stuff. They might be back, they might not. *Right now* they are up 1-0 in the conference finals as one of the top 2 teams in the league and a very mediocre team will be coming out of the East. You don't get many opportunities like that. But hockey is a sport where you can be elite for a long time and get a lot of late-season shots. No reason to think this team can't be similar to Colorado or Detroit from last decade. Why do you hate it? It's not like people are conceding defeat or acting as though they won't care if the Blackhawks win. It's just silly to contend that it's now or never for the Blackhawks. They are in a great position and it would be a shame to miss out on it, but there's no reason to scoff at their hopes for continued future success.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The need to win now thing is grossly overstated. They will still be a very good team the next few years, at least.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    He rated them number 1 then went out and talked about how bad their defense is, and did the same thing with his number 2 selection.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    There are 2 on the current team. How dare you interrupt my hyperbole with facts!!! Eh, Geo's in a platoon.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    So when his slowness is completely relevant to a play they are showing they cannot discuss it because it's already known that he is slow? This is silly.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Exactly. Players expect ESPN to act as the PR agency they normally are for athletes. If this was some high school kid ESPN was picking on I would side with the player, but not a paid professional.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    wouldn't be difficult for me at all.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    No they weren't. They were mediocre. 4 sub .500 seasons, 3 95 loss seasons and only 1 90 win season. 3 playoff appearances in 10 years despite a substantial financial advantage over the competition. The Angels, Twins and Athletics had great 2000's, the Cubs just managed to not suck as much as they did the previous decade.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    What a terrible line from the Tribune.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I outlined them earlier in the thread but goofed up because I was counting guys like Kane and Toews at this year's cap numbers and not next year's. They are more or less at next year's cap right now with seven or eight guys to resign. Sopel and Huet are goners, and probably one of either Versteeg, Sharp or Byfuglien (I'd prefer to move Byfuglien, but we'll see what the offers are). I think they'd be wise to trade Sharp and Buff.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Given the contract that doesn't make any [expletive] sense. Yeah, given the contract, the only possible thing that would make sense would be pissing him off to the point where he accepts a trade, but that would involve Hendry screwing over another team in a trade, and I think he's staked his reputation on not ever doing that. Given the contract, they would have to shut him down immediately to try and salvage the last couple years.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    They are, for the most part, guaranteed. However, there is some sort of mechanism where teams can negotiate out of a longer term deal, maybe paying something like 50% of the remaining. I'm not sure of the details, but I think it's more like baseball but not as stringent.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    That list gets repeated everytime the Hendry discussion takes place, and it makes absolutely no sense.
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