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  1. jersey cubs fan
    What a terrible line from the Tribune.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    That list gets repeated everytime the Hendry discussion takes place, and it makes absolutely no sense.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Talking about the great trades Hendry had made doesn't have to mean that you're a fan of his. I don't see a problem with it. It's absurd. It's like talking about the great outings Shawn Estes had. Sure, he had a couple gems, but he sucked. So if a player, coach or executive isn't good overall you can't discuss the good points about him? That doesn't make much sense. Hendry hasn't been good overall, but I see no reason why we should be forbidden from discussing some of the good things he's done. I see no reason why I can't point out how stupid it is to focus on a couple individual deals when the big picture is so much more informative.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Talking about the great trades Hendry had made doesn't have to mean that you're a fan of his. I don't see a problem with it. It's absurd. It's like talking about the great outings Shawn Estes had. Sure, he had a couple gems, but he sucked.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    How awesome is a trade when you get a half a season of use out of a guy? The trade also got us Murton and, in turn, a piece for the Harden deal. A guy who pitched 200 innings for the Cubs over 1.5 seasons and left for nothing. Not that I didn't want the guy, but how awesome can these deals be if all it does is create a team that wins 83 games a year?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    How awesome is a trade when you get a half a season of use out of a guy? And again, it really doesn't matter if he has awesome trades on his resume. He has to be judged by the wins and losses of the team over the 8 years he's been in charge, and in comparison to reasonable expectations, he's fallen way short. There's no good reason why the Cardinals should have averaged 6.5 more wins per season than the Cubs during his tenure.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, the Oilers are a slightly younger expansion team, but I think they are more of a storied franchise. The Kings are meaningless outside of their home city. Your penalty shot idea is absolutely crazy, but very interesting.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Screw 'em. We don't even know the game and we're better than them at it. SHOOT THE PUCK! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? SHOOT IT!
  12. jersey cubs fan
    by beating the Wings they already have kind of ruined it, could have been all 4 teams. If we wanted to have the most traditional semi finals and finals we would have something like Blackhawks/Blues, Red Wings/Kings, Rangers/Bruins, Maple Leafs/Canadiens, then the Blackhawks/Red Wings, Bruins/Canadiens in the semis and whoever wins those ones in the finals. What a great postseason for hockey traditionalists. I would replace the Kings with the Oilers.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    No I agree, bring the bandwagon on. Put like you identified, my point was stop yelling things out like you know what your talking about. I still followed the Hawks during the bad years. I could name the top line and then some other players here and there on the team. I didn't go out of my way to watch very many of the games, but I generally knew how the team was doing on a week to week sometimes day to day basis, and I watched all sorts of hockey during that time (I went to UNH for a couple of years which is a huge hockey school who was really good at the time). But yeah, I can't confidently say "I stood by the team during the bad years" like I did with the Bulls, or the Bears in the early 00's, or the Cubs when they have a bad year. Does that make me less of a fan than those stodgy die hards? Maybe, probably. Does it make me enjoy it less knowing that? Not one bit. This stuff happens at every hockey arena in the USA. I've sat next to people in MSG who literally had the game explained to them the entire time. It's the nature of a major sport that is played by only a tiny fraction of the population. In Phoenix the only thing I heard the entire time was "HIT HIM!" when the Blackhawks had the puck, and "Shoot! Shoot it!" when the Coyotes had the puck. If I went to a futbol or cricket match, I'd probably spend the entire time asking people about situations.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I'm impossible to talk with because I refuted your half assed defense of Hendry. You said you were ambivalent toward him. That makes no sense. The most important person in the organization is the GM, Hendry is the one constant over the past 15+ years of this organization. He was involved in some good things as far as rebuilding the minors early on, but fell flat on his face as GM. It does not matter that there are some good deals he has made. Every failed GM has to have a good deal or two under his belt, especially if they are given 8 years at the helm, ever increasing payrolls and the ability to always take on more money in transactions. If he was the one that had to dump Lee and Ramirez due to payroll problems, I'm sure he wouldn't look as good.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Another thing is, a couple of those Hawks-Sharks games in the regular season were "spotlight" games that people were really looking at as measuring sticks for both teams. And when the pressure was on, SJ got dominated. I don't think we want to overplay the "choker" card with that team, but playing against the best competition they've seen all season over a long series, I think it will show. The Blackhawks crapped the bed on some spotlight games as well, like Washington on NBC, Game 1 vs Nashville and Game 1 vs Vancouver. The only thing that makes me feel good about this series is that the Blackhawks are good, all these side issues are meaningless to me.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    So accept mediocrity instead of risking failure while you try to actually be great. Hasn't that been the defining principle of the Cubs for decades? Take the proven veteran who you know won't get the job done. Yes, that's exactly what I said. How is it not? You are afraid the next guy will be worse and justifying your faith in Hendry because some things have actually worked out even though the big picture proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he's terrible at his job.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    How so? What talent has he found? He doesn't draft, he doesn't sign international free agents. The most involved he's been finding talent in recent history has to be Jeff Samardzija. He signs and trades for established big league players with easily discernible track records.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    So accept mediocrity instead of risking failure while you try to actually be great. Hasn't that been the defining principle of the Cubs for decades? Take the proven veteran who you know won't get the job done.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Kyle Farnsworth says..... :sleep: The "napping incident" happens in every clubhouse. The only reason it's an issue is because of who was caught napping. I think it's an issue when you lose a lot.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I can't see that either, but I don't know much about basketball.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I haven't chosen one, but I'm at least considering neither. In fact, the only one of the four I'm not considering is Hendry alone. I would agree that their performance to date should make both of them not feel very safe and their firing would be deserved. why? He's been given chance after chance and has failed.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    two days ago called.... :-) Who called it The Scores? It's just Scores.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I did not know that.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Rereading the 2008 draft thread, there were lots of unhappy people. In fact, it's a very amusing read now, considering that's turned out to be a pretty great draft so far. I was re-reading that thread, too. It's hilarious. Cubs fans don't have knee jerk negative reactions at all. No, never, never. Cubs fans never overhype prospects based on short-term minor league success either.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    It was a 50 year history in a dump that teams couldn't wait to leave, the only reason it was lamented was because it was in NY.
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