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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'm sure you mean 5 guys per 9 innings. Walking 5 guys per inning would make even Marmol look like he has good control in comparison. Actually I was about to throw out a guy an inning in a joking manner and then just recalled it was like 4.99/9 so changed it, but not accurately obviously.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    No, he was not definitely good. He walked 5 guys per inning. He was lucky to have pitched so few innings to have it catch up to him. By the time he doubled that small number of innings, it did catch up to him as his overall numbers suck.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    poor spacing on the phrase "about it".
  4. jersey cubs fan
    His 2008 form was likely just major league hitters needing to learn his stuff. He simply needs to get better. His 2008 form was just him not throwing enough strikes to get beat around too badly.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, but much like letting Mark Hatley draft the month before he was set to leave the team, it doesn't make much sense to a let a GM decide the manager situation if he could be gone soon. Then you hire a new GM who inevitably spends a couple years trying to "get on the same page" as the manager before firing him and getting "his guy" in there.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    And by that logic, it makes his point disingenuous. The Yankees didn't win a playoffs series until 1976. It's not disingenuous at all. I'm not trying to pull something over on anybody. What an asinine thing to say.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Kind of big deal, but all it did was clinch a wild card. Had they not been in the playoffs in 84 and 89 that could be there, and maybe it's bigger than the Rick Monday thing, but all in all it's not nearly as big as most of that list plus the series win over Atlanta.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Maddux win does not matter. Game 5 win over Atlanta, first playoff series win in franchise history, should be in its place I know 1908 was a long time ago. But it did happen. They didn't have playoffs then, just the World Series.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Maddux win does not matter. Game 5 win over Atlanta, first playoff series win in franchise history, should be in its place
  10. jersey cubs fan
    You're a Bears fan, of course that hit stands out more than any Packers/Vikings hit. But that also just points out the time factor. That hit was 3 decades ago. A generation doesn't know much, in anything abou tit, and that hit was against the Bears, so Bears fans are going to care more. Packers fans don't care as much as you. Younger fans don't care as much as you. To you, Bears Packers is bigger. To a GB fan, Vikings matters more. To a younger Packers fan, Vikings is probably all that matters.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I remember exactly where I was.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The general public definitely thinks Packers/Bears is bigger, because that one has been pushed via the media for generations.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Right, but how can you possibly suggest there's never been a cheap shot in the Vikings/Packers rivalry?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I think it's fairly obvious. Since the 90's, the Vikings/Packers has been a much more consistent big rivalry between good teams. Anybody under, let's say 30, with limited memory of the 80's, who is a Packers fan probably thinks the Vikings are a bigger rival. I see nothing wrong with suggesting it. The Bears were not relavent to anybody for a decade. I'm going to guess there are plenty. Why would you even bring this up?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    True, but college sports kids missing school happens all the time. Some guy on the Score this morning was talking about Bowling Green hockey team having to go to Alaska to play 2 games. And one of the games they play is on a Sunday night, so they can't fly out until Monday. He said you have to figure about 3 days worth of travel in addition to 2 days of playing. So yeah...missing class for sports is nothing new at all for college sports...even less popular ones than mens basketball. But they already miss class, this would mean missing more class.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Did he really say that, because what I read was that he more or less danced around that topic saying something about "we'll evaluate".
  17. jersey cubs fan
    This. Honestly, I still think Samardzjia is gonna end up leaving baseball and pursuing a football career. too late for that. he's tied to baseball at this point. Once his contract is up he's free to leave. The problem with Samardzija is his supposed early success was a mirage. A sub 3 ERA and no HR in 27 innings was masked by an absurd amount of walks and baserunners allowed, and inevitably the more he pitcher the more his numbers showed how crappy he was. It's amazing how the two headed monster of Cubs stupidity have collided on this guy. They made a dumb decision to go after him and spend what they did, but once they did that, they had a "raw" (actually well over 200 major college innings) talented with mixed results they needed to get innings and teach. So what do they do? They move him all around from the bullpen to the rotation, and call him up to relieve then send him back to start and call him back up to relieve, and then just freaking hand him a job going into spring training because of his contract.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I really don't like this. I was hoping the Peppers signing would help the defense take a step forward, but if all he is is a replacement for Ogunleye, Brown and Gaines, I really don't think they are better. Well, he's a far better player than any of those guys, so that gives them the strong possibility of being better on the line. All depends on how they replace the depth. Replacing Ogunleye with Peppers gives them a strong possibility of being better on the line as a whole, replacing Ogunleye and Brown with Peppers gives them less of an improvement. And this was a bad line overall for three years. The best lines have multiple threats, the Bears have one. I guess I'm saying that's one more than they've had since Harris got his new deal. 1 > 0. Peppers is obviously the best of the group, but Alex Brown was a good football players. A Peppers, Harris, XXX, Brown line stood a chance of being quite good. Now? I have serious doubts. Just cutting Brown for budgetary reasons is a huge disappointment because Julius Peppers is grossly overpaid and this defense is still going to be bad.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I really don't like this. I was hoping the Peppers signing would help the defense take a step forward, but if all he is is a replacement for Ogunleye, Brown and Gaines, I really don't think they are better. Well, he's a far better player than any of those guys, so that gives them the strong possibility of being better on the line. All depends on how they replace the depth. Replacing Ogunleye with Peppers gives them a strong possibility of being better on the line as a whole, replacing Ogunleye and Brown with Peppers gives them less of an improvement. And this was a bad line overall for three years. The best lines have multiple threats, the Bears have one.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I really don't like this. I was hoping the Peppers signing would help the defense take a step forward, but if all he is is a replacement for Ogunleye, Brown and Gaines, I really don't think they are better.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Absolutely not, but it's more about the fact that I have no interest in any Cubs shirts that aren't just Cubs, or Chicago Cubs, or Chicago. They are almost universally ugly, just like this one.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    That's a cheap confidentiality agreement.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Just now you're convinced? How many shutouts does he have? Yes, he's shown plenty of times that he can do it. The problem has been all season that just as things start to look good for him taking the job, he falls apart. I'm saying that, when you watch what he did last night especially during the 2 man adv, it's clear that he has ability. Consistency? Might be another story. But that point has been clear all year, and the consistency issue has been the question.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I'm saying it's crazy if people are picking them because they actually got better as opposed to just picking up some wins due to improving young players or bounce-backs or the like. They need things to break their way just like the Cubs do (though, yes, many of the specific circumstances are different). I just don't think picking them is legit unless it's also banking on some key slumps/injuries/etc. hitting the Cardinals. You don't think picking them is legit?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not picking them to win, just don't see why it would be so crazy for somebody else to pick them. I was just pointing out that the Cubs don't have any stud pre-prime players to rely on, their hopes lie in older and/or more flawed players. Their best are old dudes who could easily decline.
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