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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Well he had better prove he's healthy and can play like he did before the injury because $11 million is nothing to laugh at. I agree he will end up with some serious money and years, but there aren't many SS make $11 million per year. Hanley, Jeter, Furcal, Rollins could be getting there soon, ARod who is still the best SS on his team, Carlos Guillen signed his deal as a SS and has transitioned away. Michael Young did as well. It's not that hard to get $11m a year as a SS. Hanley will be getting there soon, while Jeter and Young (now playing 3B) are already there. Rollins and Furcal had bad years and may not ever get to $11 million. Guillen last played SS in 2007 and was making $5 million. Also, many of these contracts were signed when money was free-flowing and that's certainly not the case now. That being said, there's still less than 10% of the SS making $11 million, so it's not that easy to make $11 million as a SS. Less than 10% doesn't mean much, considering salaries are kept artificially low due to the 6-year control of players, and shortstopping is a young man's game. It's still a premier position, and if you can get to free agency before, say, 32, and are pretty good, you are going to get paid.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    really? I got through much earlier than I have since this got popular around 2004, and despite a couple can't complete high traffic situations, made the purchase and got through a couple more times to finish my shopping much earlier than expected.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    eight men out was a story.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    No. They'll trickle in over the rest of the day. You'll probably get them in the next few hours, though. just got one
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Well he had better prove he's healthy and can play like he did before the injury because $11 million is nothing to laugh at. I agree he will end up with some serious money and years, but there aren't many SS make $11 million per year. Hanley, Jeter, Furcal, Rollins could be getting there soon, ARod who is still the best SS on his team, Carlos Guillen signed his deal as a SS and has transitioned away. Michael Young did as well. It's not that hard to get $11m a year as a SS.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    easiest purchasing process I've had in years.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I might believe that he's not thinking about it. In the long run it's only a small portion of his potential career earnings. He's already going to have made more than double that amount in his career before a decision is made on the option. Unless he's blown what he's made so far, and is so in debt that this year's salary can only get him back above water, there's really no reason to think about the option much. If he just plays baseball he's going to make many times that one year's salary.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/5475245/siblings-get-romantic-in-vancouver
  9. jersey cubs fan
    This game is getting ugly.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I disagree. Hockey is clearly in third place for sports I enjoy watching, behind football (college or pro) and Cubs baseball. I've probably watched more hours of golf in the past 10 years than hockey. I was barely into it at all as a kid, and my interest was peaked from the early-to-mid-90's, but for over a decade I barely paid attention to it at all. I love the Blackhawks, but their prolonged suckiness really put my interest on the back burner, so I wouldn't say I love hockey. It's quite possible to be a half-assed fan of the sport, especially if you are in a city that doesn't have a team.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    an american snowboarder's mom's name is Mika Huntz.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    cocky sloppy shorty
  13. jersey cubs fan
    The easy thing is to go to a game, it's incredible. But if you can watch poker for longer than hockey, then maybe you are beyond help.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Kane line looking good, finally score
  15. jersey cubs fan
    What are they going to do? People are gonna heckle him. Yeah, they'll get ejected, but heckling is gonna happen. And it only takes one well-timed heckle to make it over the airwaves. Sure they won't allow people to chant "whore monger" like they chant "steroids" at a baseball game, but you can easily get away with being a little cruel. And people definitely will.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    So just because his knee hurts he goes out and headbutts a doctor.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Then maybe you need to expand your sports watching, because that's pathetic. They lost in the first round against an aging team that lost in the 2nd round. All in all a mediocre result, at best. There's nothing pathetic about it. I'll have more vivid images from that series 20 years from now than I will from anything the Bears did in the playoffs in 2006 save Hester's KO return. That's absolutely ridiculous. You aren't a Bears fan then if you will have more vivid images of a first round playoff loss to a fading team than of a top seeded Bears team going to the Super Bowl.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Then maybe you need to expand your sports watching, because that's pathetic. They lost in the first round against an aging team that lost in the 2nd round. All in all a mediocre result, at best.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Sure. Perhaps every .734-OPS high-errors singles hitter generates as much excitement as Castro. My subjective impression is that the expectations and projections seem a little beyond what is normally expected for a high-errors .734-OPS singles hitter, even a young one. So I think scouting evaluations are making a significant impact on his reputation beyond just the existing statistical record. So the 743 OPS in AA at age 19 with a near 1:1 K:BB ratio isn't behind the excitement, it's just scouting evaluations that say he might be good one day?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    They'll still be talking about getting in the hole.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Isn't that more like NBA purgatory rather than hell? NBA hell should be what the Bulls and Knicks have been for the past decade.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Need has nothing to do with it.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Salmons and Tyrus aren't garbage players, but if they're really good enough to carry Milwaukee and Charlotte over us then we weren't deserving of a playoff bid to begin with. Why would a Bulls fan care about the playoffs? This is not some organization that hasn't seen the postseason in 20 years and should be happy with making an appearance. Shouldn't the preference be to do whatever possible to move from a bottom seed type team at best to an actual contender that could win more than 3 playoff games? It's not like making the playoffs in the NBA is an accomplishment. And it's not like "anything can happen".
  24. jersey cubs fan
    He's probably lost some people forever, but if he returns to dominate he will be more or less where he was before in terms of awe of his ability and earning power.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously? I never read a word suggesting that to be the case. I can't imagine they can make his fingers temporarily useful, for a couple years, before taking them off post career.
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