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Re: Source: 96-team March Madness a 'done deal'
jersey cubs fan replied to Derwood's topic in Other Sports
Yeah, let's not be ridiculous and let in more than 65 teams to a tournament. It might dilute the field. -
BP's early season record projections
jersey cubs fan replied to JGalt73's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
What exactly is it that would cause you to believe anything other than that we will be a mediocre team? Because we're going to have the best pitching and probably the best offense in the division. What? I doubt this. The Cubs had the best offense once this decade, and usually there's been at least 2 better offenses in the division. The odds are they won't have the best of either this year, let alone the best pitching and hitting. -
Stronger than what? Millar shouldn't see Wrigley.
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clubhouse chemistry stories to follow
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It would, if it happens. But that's no sure thing. He's almost 32 and is coming off surgery. That's one year removed from a down season attributed to health problems. Maybe all that time off saved his back and legs, but he's no spring chicken, and considering how important speed is to his game, there's still a wait and see situation with Urlacher. I'm hoping and expecting him to have a solid year, but they can't really count on him to be that big of a difference maker in comparison to how weak the defense has been for three years.
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Not following the point you are trying to make? Those are both 4 hour drives (give or take 30 mins) depending on where you are in NYC. My point is just that they are very far from NYC, so potential games being played there for family to come watch isn't all that enticing. Guys choose colleges based on where they want to be, and what is the best way to take the next stop, not for the most road games that allow mom and dad to show up. You don't think that factors in....all else being equal? Not for recruits that matter. If it factors in, it's small. Home games probably matter, but I can't see a team losing recruits because they will be facing Big Ten competition rather than Big East.
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If that's what they want, sure, but if Martz is their guy, waiting at this point could be a mistake. When guys are interviewed, the decision generally follows shortly, especially with established guys. It's not like a typical job where they talk to multiple candidates and say they'll get back to you. They insulted him by taking this long (just last week he talked of apparently not being in the plans), waiting another week to interview a guy on Monday or Tuesday and then deciding would just be a further sign that they want anybody but Martz. So if they hire him then, it would seem even more like a settling for third choice situation.
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Not following the point you are trying to make? Those are both 4 hour drives (give or take 30 mins) depending on where you are in NYC. My point is just that they are very far from NYC, so potential games being played there for family to come watch isn't all that enticing. Guys choose colleges based on where they want to be, and what is the best way to take the next stop, not for the most road games that allow mom and dad to show up.
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Next offseason at the latest. By then his value will be much less. He'll have played his age 30 season, he'll be making millions and due for another raise regardless of performance. If you want to get any value out of Theriot, you trade him within the next 6 months. Castro may be ready before then, and there's enough depth to hold ground without him for a bit.
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Yeah, that one doesn't make sense. Martz has no ties to the Tampa system that sprouted Lovie's treehouse and no ties to the Indy branch of that system. They were on the same ASU staff 2 decades ago, but have done a lot of other stuff since. I'm thinking Lovie is desperate to save his job this coming year, whereas Angelos has more longterm plans in mind, and was preferring to get a younger guy that could potentially stick around with Cutler regardless of Lovie's return next year. If the Bears make the playoffs though, I'd bet on everybody returning in 2011 anyway.
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I'm guessing any reports of a rift with the Cubs is based on Theriot's people not being willing to split the difference in the way that pretty much every other arbitration case has done.
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Fergie Jenkins open letter about Big Mac
jersey cubs fan replied to OleMissCub's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yeah, nobody was using PED's before the 80's. I find it hard to believe that some people put steroids, that build you UP in the same catagory with coke and speed that tear you down. The only benifit of using uppers is to get a short term mental alertness, not long term power and speed. And I sure don't recall Fergie ever throwing a broken bat back at a hitter. In many ways steroids offer the very same short-term benefit and longterm tear down. That short term mental alertness can have a huge benefit to somebody whose career generall only lasts from about 24-32 years of age. -
He did it the last playoff game last year. He did. And that's the hope I'm holding on to. But when I look at Huet, I see a weakness on the team. Sorry, but unless I see something better from him I'm not changing that opinion. If he's great in the playoffs, then that's awesome. I'll love it. But right now, I don't think he's very strong. I don't think he's very strong right now either. But it's February, and plenty of cup winning teams have had questionable goalies as of February in the year they won. This is a salary cap sport, they cannot be like the Cubs and have a built in advantage over the competition due to financial differences. They have a ton of talent on this team. You can only spend so much.
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I'll also be interested in how they spin the hiring, if they do go with him. They knew he was interested weeks ago and just now got around to interviewing him? I don't see how they could stand up there with a straight face at the press conference and tell everyone that they got the right guy and are really excited to have him on board. They will, but most people should be able to see through the bs. I don't think it would be that hard to sell. Of all the candidates they knew Martz best. They waned to interview multiple guys, so it made sense talk to others first before going to Martz. It makes less sense to essentially do one interview a week for 3 weeks, but it should not be that hard to think they got the guy they wanted after doing their due diligence.
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No, they pick one number or the other. The agent and club can agree to a happy medium before the hearing, but the panel selects only one number.
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He has been anything but quiet. The guy talks all the time, and half the time he's talking he's wearing one of those god awful affliction t-shirts, so you know he is a horrible human being right of the bat. He whines about happy clubhouse issues and tried to sell the excuse that Milton's attitude made the team worse last year and that they should sign Ben Sheets because he makes jokes that will make everybody happy and play better. He's also on the wrong side of 30 and likely to get worse as time goes on, and hasn't been that good to begin with. A guy who isn't good and whose only value is not costing too much shouldn't be telling the GM what personel decisions to make. He can ask for whatever he wants, and I'd love it if the tighter budget makes them think about dealing him sooner than later. But the little SOB won nearly $6m in arbitration on my MLB2k9 season, so he's persona non grata in my clubhouse.
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He did it the last playoff game last year.
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Last year's Khabi played in half the games, this year's Huet has played in most of the games. Khabi had 29 games in the team's first 55, Huet has 40. It's not exactly an even comparison. Khabi was never the primary goalie last year, he split evenly with Huet.
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They first talked on Friday after leaving Martz hanging for a few weeks. I have to think they are either going to decide on him by today, or they are going with somebody else. I can't imagine a guy like Martz, who isn't desperate for a chance to prove himself in the NFL, to be happy waiting around much longer after all this has gone down.
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I really think it would be a bad move for Pitt to enter the Big Ten. In the Big East, they can recruit kids from NYC, DC, and other places out east. Kids from the East coast will have more opportunity to play in front of friends and family, either in person or on TV. A kid from NYC could play basketball in front of family when Pitt plays at home, at St Johns, Syracuse, UConn, or Georgetown, etc without much travel time. But not going to get a lot of family going from NYC to Wisconsin for a game. That could hurt their recruiting. Admittedly though, it hasn't really hurt Penn St's recruiting in football. What kid from NYC is going to play in front of family at Syracuse or Georgetown? You might as well be in Ohio. In theory that could hurt recruiting, but would it in reality? Iowa football has been getting multiple kids from NJ for decades now. Why? I have no idea. Supposedly some coach who worked under Fry had ties with NJ, but anyway, that was in the 80's and they were getting kids to go from NJ to freaking Iowa. Nobody was watching Hawkeyes games on TV back then. Granted it was the Big Ten and there really wasn't any meaningful east coast college football then. But I think most kids get recruited based on where they will be playing their home games, not based on potential road trips.
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? Nady's base salary is for $3.3 million, right? So if Dye turned that down, I would assume it was because he would only sign for more, unless Jermaine Dye is crazy and demanded that they pay him less than what was offered and the Cubs are even crazier and refused his crazy demands. Oh, okay, I thought you were saying 3.3m was more than Nady got.
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I think the potential for clashing has more to do with Martz publicly criticizing Jay earlier. The getting out of Denver story is meaningless to me.
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It's a form of dementia, and doesn more than make you forget things, including causing you to say things that seem quite stupid.
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BP's early season record projections
jersey cubs fan replied to JGalt73's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
As Tim mentioned the sheer netgain of losing Gregg and Heilman will be great. Marmol was bad last season too, and with the young arms in the minors the bullpen has a lot of potential. With that said the bullpen is the easiest area to improve in or decline from 1 season to the next. Neither one of those guys was particularly horrible, even if they were dumb acquisitions, and none of the young arms are guaranteed to be better.
