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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It's not a short experiment. He's going to start out as the 4th starter, and if Lilly returns, he'll just be the 5th starter. He's in the rotation, and given his paycheck and veteran status, he's going to be given more leeway than he should get. If he fails miserably maybe he'll be gone shortly, but if he only fails marginally, he'll be here forever.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    He didn't go out of his way to dispell the Wrigley/Fans myth. You have to go out of your way to try and prove that myth true. But just prior to that discussion he said this, "So far, there's not much evidence the new stewards can enhance, modernize and profitize the old ballpark without losing what makes it great, the way the Boston owners did. You turn fans against Wrigley, you've lost everything." That's just a bunch of stupid by somebody who doesn't know anything about anybody outside of STL and NYC, and he doesn't even know anything about NY teams even though he lives here. Leitch is a guy who subscribes to the nonsensical mythology of baseball being a form of poetry. He's an emo kid who made his mark riding the wave on modern sports journalism and he has completely jumped off that bandwagon and tried to turn himself into the next worthless Rick Reilly clone.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Dirty gets another weapon to play with in his second year, Demaryius Thomas WR Georgia Tech, despite the injury.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I see whoever made the Giants pick for me really gave them a nobody.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Okay, I'll need to get caught up here.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    If there is a good lb nyg will take him
  7. jersey cubs fan
    agreed Is there a difference between an electronic ad board and a jumbotron aside from a lack of gigantic face of Marlon Byrd? Huge difference. Especially if this rendering is any indication. http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/LF-Sign.jpg
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The ones people have heard of. They should probably invite more than normal, since they have 2 prime time nights to fill. I hate this format. I still don't see why they couldn't leave the entire thing on Saturdays like always. Because enough people show interest to think they can get better ratings, and more ad revenue, in primetime. What I don't get is how the three day event can work.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    The ones people have heard of. They should probably invite more than normal, since they have 2 prime time nights to fill. I hate this format.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Aside from possibly Pudge leaving the team while injured, none of that says "walking over the coach", it's just stuff that comes to light on bad baseball teams. The 86 Mets did worse stuff every week.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The original wildcat team obviously has to take Tebow here.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    That's a pretty badass attendee list for a minor league game.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    One could say the same thing about the Mets, but no one would call them a small market team. That's just it, they're not in similar situations. If both teams would start doing well, the Nats would make a hell of a lot more money. More ticket revenue. More revenue from things like t-shirt sales. More cable TV subscribers. More revenue from radio. And so on. They are in similar situations, what they don't share is similar prospects for the future. But right now they have crappy teams that nobody cares about and have to take fliers on similar players. And you're wrong about the Mets. They are the red headed stepchild of NY baseball, but they have a huge passionate fan base and plenty of people attend their games.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    NY, LA, Chicago, Philly, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and maybe Miami probably rank higher. That would still make it a pretty big market. Sure, as far as actual human beings are concerned. They probably have more potential than Pittsburgh, but as far as how both teams are run right now, they are both small market consistently crappy teams. Everybody in Pittsburgh is going to support the Pirates if they get good. That's not the case in DC.
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    http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/03/thumb160x_ron-washington1.jpg
  16. jersey cubs fan
    NY, LA, Chicago, Philly, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and maybe Miami probably rank higher.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Besides having played for both teams, I don't see what these guys have to do with each other? Two small market teams with new ballparks that haven't delivered on promises that have been exchanging youngish upside players to take new gambles on. I think his point was more about the teams being similar than the players themselves. DC is a small market? As it pertains to the baseball team, sure. Nobody gives a crap about them and they don't show up to the stadium. Granted the actual population of the metro area is probably twice that of Pittsburgh, but there's a huge amount of divided loyalties as nobody is actually from DC, and nobody actually moves to Pittsburgh. ;) The teams are in quite similar situations. If either actually built a winner, it's quite likely that they would succeed, given the rabid fan bases of the other teams in town, but as things stand right now, they are pretty darn similar.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Besides having played for both teams, I don't see what these guys have to do with each other? Two small market teams with new ballparks that haven't delivered on promises that have been exchanging youngish upside players to take new gambles on. I think his point was more about the teams being similar than the players themselves.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Jesse Rogers tweeting that Crawford may be starting tonight. Huet was the only one not at that ridiculous Leno taping, down with the flu.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5003245 Would Shawn Andrews be a worthwhile candidate to help with the offensive line?
  21. jersey cubs fan
    It is when the new hideous ad space provides money that can be spent on the team. I'd bet this has more to do with kickstarting negotiations with that rooftop owner than meaningful ad revenue helping the team. It sounds like a awful looking sign that would be positioned more for blocking purposes than anything else.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    It was the middle of last season. Wasn't Hamilton busted in the middle of last year?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Well there's the fact that Lovie is absolutely enamoured with him and has been since the day he was drafted. Lovie loved his physical abilities, but he's been jerked around so much, and pulled from duty so often, that I have to think the enamel has worn off a bit.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I beg to differ..it has everything to do with fundamentals. I agree that the timing is bizarre, but the Cubs player development philosophy over the last eight years or so has been to get every player fundamentally sound (that includes the art of bunting). You also have to understand that wins and losses mean very little in the minors, which is probably why he has/had his cleanup hitters laying down bunts every now and then. The other thing everyone needs to understand is the fact that Sandberg wouldn't be managing this way in the majors. His managerial style would be alot different..I can guarantee you that Lee or Ramirez wouldn't be laying down a bunt with guys on base. So then if you admit they wouldn't do it in the majors, why would they be working on it in the minors?
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Which is kind of meaningless, since he didn't have many real players anyway, it was his first gig, that was a long time ago, and how players feel about a manager doesn't change how good of a baseball player they are.
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