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U. of Southern Indiana (D.II) Player Collapses In-Game, Dies
jersey cubs fan replied to Roast's topic in Other Sports
anyone else find it amusing that this is manbearcub's first post in about a month, and his last post was a joke in the chris henry thread? i think that has become his sole mission on this board, to post something dickish when someone dies. Dont forget homosexual comments . Hes always good for a few of those each time he posts too How could you tell that the comment was homosexual? Was it flamboyant, or did you see it having sex with other comments? -
That's pretty harsh of the Saints to bring him back for that. Gotta earn your money somehow in this recession.
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When he's on he's alright? He's not Martin Brodeur, but he's a good goalie. I really don't get all the constant concern about Huet. Because he's the weakest link on a championship caliber team, and a giant question mark as to how he's going to perform in the playoffs on a nightly basis. He goes into a funk and we're toast. But that's what I liked about last night's game. He didn't let the last game bother him and he bounced back. Maybe he's improving. He's a question mark only because people are obsessed with the notion of a goalie who has done it before, even though the Stanley Cup playoffs are always filled with surprise goalies who haven't done it before and proven goalies fall left and right. He's been good this year, calm the funk down.
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I only hate that it adds fuel to the "pampered Cutler" story.
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Really? Because last I heard everybody and their mother insists defense wins championships and the way to win in the playoffs is defense and a running game. Yet the 2nd ranked defense got destroyed last week, the 4th ranked defense got embarrassed by a week offensive team, which has the 1st ranked defense and you also pick to lose.
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You aren't even coming close to addressing the topic that is being discussed.
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You are a horrible person.
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When he's on he's alright? He's not Martin Brodeur, but he's a good goalie. I really don't get all the constant concern about Huet.
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I really think you are overstating their bargain shopper reputation. They just signed a $5m/year OT last offseason (plus 2 more guys to substantial money), and that is hardly a bargain. They traded 2 1s for a franchise QB and extended him in the same offseason. They traded for Ogunleye when he was a holdout for more money and signed him. They overpaid big for Tait, paid Miller a lot, gave Muhsin a big contract, etc. They aren't the Redskins, but they aren't bargain shoppers. New England and Philly are big bottom shoppers than the Bears. Chicago doesn't even let their guys go as often as most other teams.
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Cubs hire Greg Maddux as special assistant to the GM
jersey cubs fan replied to Tim M's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
How do results speak for themselves. The Cubs have been a good pitching team for 10 years. If what they are doing is wrong, that shouldn't be true. -
Ben Sheets (Was Sheets Signs with A's)
jersey cubs fan replied to Post Count Padder's topic in General Baseball Talk
Your faith is not very enduring. -
Why did you earlier say that field turf is a detraction? Aren't some of those cities named turf stadiums?
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And it's probably going to get worse as more people get to look at it. It's a gimmick system that kills quarterbacks, and modern football is a quarterback's sport. It's also incredibly dull.
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This is the answer. There wouldn't have been enough room for the FIFA reg'd field dimensions, signage and photogs. In 1994 FIFA let us cut corners on the stadia for the sake of market penetration. No reason to do it this time. Also, the fact that the Park District was considering putting field turf onto the surface, and I can see why we were left out. KC was added due to Lamar Hunt's lingering influence on the USSF. What about the Chicago Fire stadium in Bridgeview? I'm sure that's way below capacity.
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Yes, this is true, but it doesn't negate the point that the Cubs are in a worse situation because they have huge terrible contract and some really big not terrible but not good contracts and some small but bothersome contracts and they aren't that good to begin with and they have exactly zero impact young cheap players.
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Grace: Didn't take steroids / didn't want to ruin sex life
jersey cubs fan replied to Banedon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I think he is a relatively intelligent douchebag. -
I just hate the option. It's so dull and unimaginative.
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2010 Uniform Numbers (Updated; see last post)
jersey cubs fan replied to BCVM22's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
How and why? All sorts of really good players have had other players where their numbers after they are done playing for a team. -
But the point is the Cubs have it worse than most in regards to this issue.
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2010 Uniform Numbers (Updated; see last post)
jersey cubs fan replied to BCVM22's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why? Forget for a moment that the whole number retirement thing is stupid, but it never happens immediately. Usually it waits until after a guy is inducted in the Hall. Why does it have to happen right away? Why does a guy need his number retired at all? -
They don't have to individually be huge terrible contracts to put the team in a tight spot. You add Soriano, Zambrano and Dempster together and that is a really large amount of money to have guaranteed for three seasons from now to just three guys, none of them stars, and all of them questionable in their own way. People have brought up the Yankees, but that is a team that can literally fit any contract, and they have stars under longterm deals, and have constantly had a ton of cashing coming off the books to make acquisitions possible. There's really no point in comparing the two. The Cubs operate in a budget, a higher budget than most, but still a budget. They have to make choices on guys, and they have too much money tied into too few guys for too long. Somebody can make it work, but for a team that has a distinct financial advantage over the competition, this seriously erodes that advantage. If they spend $30m more than the next guy, and have $50m tied up in Soriano, Dempster and Zambrano for 2012, and get something short of really good performance out of them, that is going to hurt regardless of how creative the next guy is. This team has averaged just 88 wins the past three years with those guys in key roles. You are going to have to spend a lot of money in the next couple years just to maintain the level of skill, let alone get better, which should be the goal.
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Cubs hire Greg Maddux as special assistant to the GM
jersey cubs fan replied to Tim M's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Not personally, but he has ordered the hits. -
And Dempster and Zambrano, and Byrd. Still a fairly significant amount. The problem is they have guys signed longterm, but not their best players. Ramirez and Lee are going to be gone or have big deals of their own. It's not an inescapable hell, but it's a really big problem, that is going to take work to avoid.
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I said I didn't mind "losing" Fewell, and you said I'm suggesting this means they will luck into a better candidate and that it's possible the defense would get worse.
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I'm not suggesting that, what I was saying is that a Lovie disciple was not likely to fix this Lovie defense which has failed miserably for three years. 2010 depends on the OC and Jay Cutler. They cannot rely on the defense to make a difference. The defense could most definitely sink far enough that Jay and the OC can't overcome it. And the search for OC isn't going all that well either. I guess you just aren't going to read what I wrote.
