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You said NCAA football and there is more to NCAA football than who wins the championship. Furthermore, pageants are completely subjective, while national championship is only partially subjective, but first and foremost based on objective win/loss situations. It's a stupid comparison.
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lol, notre dame is EVERYBODY'S dream job. you're telling me a coach in a hypothetical four team playoff would bail to take a job at a team coming off three seasons of combined under .500 football? he would walk away from a 1 in 4 (or whatever) chance to win a NATIONAL TITLE to go to a school that has won like one national title in the last 30 years? give me a break. don't give me that BS. Kelly made it pretty well known that he's wanted the ND job for years. And if it came down to being 1 of 8 teams (and likely no better than the 3rd or 4th best team in the country) entering the playoff or missing your chance to coach at the school you always wanted to coach, I don't think he'd be all that likely to stay. Besides, saying Cincy would have a 1 in 4 chance of winning a title in an 8-team playoff this year is a bit generous. Even if a guy would pass on what is clearly the bigger/better job, the rare case in which somebody would actually stay through the "playoff season" doesn't come close to justifying it's place as part of the reason why the BCS is better. It has nothing to do with it. December will always be coaching turnover season, regardless of BCS or playoffs.
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I guess Biggs is staying on the show even though he moved to the Tribune? Did they offer any reasons why the line was only 3? Lovie Smith's record against the Packers is the only thing that comes to mind. There's a couple things that could explain, in part. Lovie's record vs GB. Chicago already outplayed GB in GB. The "who needs it more" aspect has GB not in any serious trouble of missing a wild card spot with the eastern teams likely to knock each other down. Whereas this could be perceived as the last chance for players to keep Lovie as their coach and prevent a hard ass replacement. GB coming off a big Monday night win. Chicago actually "should have won" or kept it very close in 4 of 7 losses. That being said, Chicago has been destroyed three times and should lose big to GB, another passing team that actually has a top notch defense. Chicago's only quality win looks completely unimpressive now that Pittsburgh has been exposed as a bad team. I think the players quit on Lovie long ago and they've been horrible in too many games to keep it close against a quality opponent.
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Sandberg to coach Iowa Cubs in 2010
jersey cubs fan replied to mred's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
What is it you are asking? I doubt this team deals with a 5 year disaster situation. They can always use money to bail them out. Baltimore became a disaster when they stopped trying to match the Yankees payroll, then actually cut it and became small market, plus they compete with Yanks and Red Sox. Now I could see a Jim Hendry led organization go through another 2 year drought of crap like 2005/2006, but my bet is they make a change before they let him do that again. -
Sure, that works if you could have actually gotten Dempster to sign for 4/40. My guess is there was zero chance of that happening. And if you let him out on the open market, then it's likely we may have paid more for him at that point. I thought I remembered reading that the Yankees were set to go after Dempster hard, if we hadn't re-signed him. No, the Yankees had no interest in Dempster. There was speculation by some, but they were going big all along. They didn't want another Pavano.
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That's absurd. No it's not. Your move. You're implying that what happens on the field has nothing to do with who is crowned champion. That's completely false. It's far from a perfect system, but actual on-field results are still the overwhelming factor in who's crowned champ. I'm not implying that at all. What happens on the pageant stage affects how the judges vote just as much as it does in football. Just b/c two chicks aren't wrestling on stage doesn't change anything. It's nothing like that and it's actually quite stupid to suggest so.
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That's absurd. No it's not. Your move. You're implying that what happens on the field has nothing to do with who is crowned champion. That's completely false. It's far from a perfect system, but actual on-field results are still the overwhelming factor in who's crowned champ. He's implying that there is no objective determination of winners, which is absurd. There is some subjectivity, but it's nowhere near the level of a beauty pagent, or figure skating or anything else determined by judges. And the national championship is not the only thing that matters inintercollegiate sports. The game is what matters most and games are determined by the difference in actual scoring by actual players.
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Maybe. But they have had him playing a lot of LF and RF recently. That could certainly be due to the injuries he's had in recent years. Maybe not at the expense of taking the best player but Jackson certainly fits a need. It's not a maybe situation. Colvin playing corners can tell you more about how the Cubs view his future than who they drafted after him.
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Wasn't he very close to being traded last year too? I don't know if that was the case last year, as he was really the only big body option and they didn't have a cap issue then. But contrary to what some are saying, I thought Buff was great in the early going this year, maybe a dozen or more games, and then he disappeared more recently. Although I was at the Pitt game and he was all over the ice, so maybe it's a TV perception thing.
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CBS sportsline is going with 2.5, which is kind of nuts. I don't know if this means there's still a bunch of delusional Bears fans putting money on them, or if Vegas knows something about this matchup that I can't figure out. It looks to me like they are trying to get people to take the Packers, which shouldn't be a problem.
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Oh please. Everybody can harp back on some report they heard to defend anything. Yeah, reports were dozens of teams were interested in Bradley this year as well. Dempster was a 31 year old with 1 good year under his belt as a starter. Are of those guys were much better free agent targets and were always going to get much more money. There is no comparison.
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Dempster's deal wasn't way above market value though so I'm not sure what comparison you're trying to make there. If anything, it was maybe a little under market value. I remember it being the perception at the time, but I don't have a full list of the 2008 off season contracts to verify Here are the starting pitcher contracts of the big 4 pitchers from last year: Sabathia: 7 years, 161 million Burnett: 5 years, 82.5 million Lowe: 4 years, 60 million Dempster: 4 years, 52 million There were only 3 other starters to get multi-year deals last year (Oliver Perez 3 years 36 million, Kawakami 3 years 23 million, Uehara 2 years 10 million). The perception may have been that the market completely collapsed last year, but the top guys still all got paid. Dempster was among them and the reports were that he would have likely been signed by the Braves to a deal similar to the Lowe deal if the Cubs hadn't resigned him. Why does Dempster get to be compared to those players?
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It clearly isn't, which is insane. I have the same feeling I had before Hendry signed J. Jones. I mean, Pods just fits right into Hendry's MO. Left handed, CFer, "lead-off" hitter, "fast", etc... I'm hoping the seemingly recent fascination with RBI (re: Bradley) will steer him away from Podsednik. Shoulda put CF in quotes too. The media is foolishly portraying it as a "no choice" situation, and Hendry will be more than happy to fall back on that when he eventually does get screwed over. And you're right, Pods is hardly a LF, but he'll be portrayed as a "CF" if need be. But I do believe they will be looking for an RBI guy.
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I don't think that fact tells you much of anything. Baseball teams don't draft for positional need in the 1st round.
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Who should the Cubs protect for the Rule 5 Draft?
jersey cubs fan replied to Wrigley Rat's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
One year ago the Cubs had plenty of guys but they wasted a roster spot on a horrible pitcher because he was a rule 5 guy. Why should we assume the Cubs will do the right thing and not waste space on another non-deserving players because the scouts like him? And if this guy has a shot at the 5th spot, that is a very bad thing. -
I don't get it. Is this a rip on certain people? You don't need a captain in baseball.
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I'm fairly certain he'll spend more than a couple seasons in the majors, but I doubt he'll ever be a worthy starter.
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Nothing wrong with talking to their agents. Sure, assuming they were talking about somebody else and they just happaned to have the same agent as the unknown worthy players.
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How so? for one, the absolutely pointless 6 week or whatever gap between a team's last game and its bowl means the bowls are played in january, meaning a team that has fired its coach cannot wait until after bowl season to hire its coach, meaning teams playing in bowl games are likely to have their coach poached. secondly, it just goes to show how meaningless every bowl outside the championship is if a guy is willing to walk away from a chance at an undefeated season at the sugar bowl to take another job. he wouldn't walk away from cincy if his team was involved in a playoff with a shot to win a nat'l title. Yes, being able to get milllions of dollars somewhere else equates to meaningless. There's a handful of coaching changes where this becomes a factor every year, it's really not a big deal, and how would this change at all if there was a playoff? The last games of the year are going to be played in January regardless, and regular seasons are going to end in the beginning of December, regardless.
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How so?
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I've never gotten that vibe out of DLee, but Buff definitely has some invisibility issues, and I think he's a great candidate to be traded some day this season or offseason.
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On top of that, Burrell is a free agent after this year. Even if he rebounds I doubt they offer arbitration, his value is low and they have next to no chance of getting anything out of him beyond this year barring a deadline deal. At least with Bradley, if they get him cheap, they have a chance of trading him later, if not just keeping him for 2 years at a greatly reduced cost.
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It's a pretty stupid one. Does it always have be about race. Maybe it's just about Bradley being a petulant ass while in Chicago, just like he's been his entire career. This really just needs to be done with. Not because the team will be better or worse with or without him, but because he is too much of a mental midget to deal with the situation like an adult. It's only stupid if you don't know what is being said. I never said hating Milton Bradley makes you racist. I never said wanting him gone makes you racist. I never said anything of the sort. I've said repeatedly I think he's an ass. My point is that the mythological creature that is the Cubs fan who would abandon the team due to the presence of Milton Bradley is probably going to be a racist person. It's really not a controversial statement. It makes no accusation about anybody here because I'm fairly certain nobody here is going to abandon the Cubs (even if several people threaten to every season). I'm talking about somebody saying, "I love the Cubs. But Milton Bradley is still on the team so I'm done with the team." A) It's very unlikely to happen. B) That rare creature is probably motivated by racial tendencies. Are you saying that it's impossible for a black fan to abandon the Cubs in a similar fashion? I'm saying nobody is going to abandon the Cubs in this fashion.
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Red Sox picking up 9M of the 12M owed to him. This doesn't help Hendry in the slightest, either. A guy who can play a corner infield position, doesn't cause a media circus on a daily basis and only has 1 year on his contract still has 75% it picked up by his former employer without taking back an equally bad contract in return. Actually, a pretty highly respected prospect at one time, although I think he's fallen below the radar a little bit of late. But there's always the issue of cancer in the clubhouse. I'm sorry
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I agree, it was stupid to argue against my very simple point.
