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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'd rather see them get some days off, the early schedule has been rough, and they have a huge amount of back to back nights this season, plus, they are about to start travelling a lot more and could use the rest with 2 big guns down.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I've seen it referenced a couple times in a joking manner, but is it really a big deal now?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    In retrospect it was obvious Sammy was done. But he was better in his final year with the Cubs than Milton was this year, and he had a more stable track record of success. Milton is younger than Sammy was then, but with a much worse history of injury and instability.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    what people? All the mediocre major league players he constantly lavished with praise?
  5. jersey cubs fan
    It makes sense for a lot of reasons. The Cubs benefitted from being the biggest fish in a small pond when in Arizona. But now that market is getting more and more crowded, and there is much less benefit to growing their brand. Other teams are getter sweetheart deals left and right to move, and the Cubs are playing in a dump. Florida is still the bigger league, but outside the Tampa area teams, it's really not that crowded. Mesa needs the Cubs more than the Cubs need Mesa, and if they can get Mesa and Naples competing for their business, they should. Initially I thought it would suck if they went to Florida, but I only saw them in Az once, and I'd probably go more frequently if they were in south florida.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Which Cub fans? The ones who want Ryno to manage and Stone back in the booth? Or The ones who want the Cubs to consider newer ways of thinking? Good question. I guess I'm hoping he comes in and is willing to spend some money, but does it in a way like the Red Sox seem to do. The trib spent money, they just wasted it by letting bad execs run the show. The willingness to spend money is much less of an issue than the willingness to not be idiots with that money.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    The Mets won't last long in NY if they can't spend big time. They'll last. There are plenty of fans who have lived through some really horrible teams, and the revenue remains.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    done
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Why choose? Game long decided by 10:30 or 11, show up fashionably late to the parties (which normally start around 10 here - I can't speak for other schools). Watch game at party? The only person I know that would ever have college football games on at Halloween parties is typing this post. I can't remember the last time I went to a party where there was zero access to watching a sporting event if one was on.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Why choose? Game long decided by 10:30 or 11, show up fashionably late to the parties (which normally start around 10 here - I can't speak for other schools). Watch game at party?
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I thought Bruce eventually started to travel with the team. I could be mistaken, but I thought I saw his name attached to road stories. Then again, I guess he didn't have to travel to write some things up for the Daily Herald. My understanding is that he went to a couple late season "local" road trips, to STL and MIL, but not the longer trips to NY/PIT or SF.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Was your head spinning because it is so poorly written? I'm not sure what the revelation is supposed to be. A bunch of guys in the 70's and 80's also did steroids? Yeah, who didn't know that? Steroids were a huge story throughout the 80's and they were all over sports.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    isn't he a current head coach? Yea in Houston. but in the final year of his contract, I believe? dunno, I've heard a few people talk about him I wanted him last time they had a coaching search. If he became available as an OC I'd jump at the chance. Not sure if that's likely or not. But head coaches going back to coordinator to rehabilitate their image seems to be a popular trend.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    isn't he a current head coach?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The Bengals are good, but they aren't as good as they looked yesterday. A game like that doesn't happen without the other team bending over. i know. but i really do think the bears are good. i'm just amazed that the bengals beat them so easily while a few weeks ago they should have lost to the browns. That's the NFL, the talent level is relatively even, and it's a matter of matchups in any given game.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I think today's loss was just a bump in the road. They will be a .500 team at the end of the year and they are right there now. Lovie and his staff have had one of the best records since he started as head coach. And they have had far worse talent than the other teams around them. Is Lovie a great coach? No. But he has had one of the best records with just barely above average talent. I would like to see what he can do with good talent. This is absolutely false. The Bears had amazing defensive talent taylor-made for his beloved cover-2 from 2005 to about 2007 and he turned that into a choke job against Steve Smith, a Super Bowl run and a 7-9 season. They were easily the most talented defensive team in those years. The fallacy of a lack of talent on the Bears confuses me. This team was loaded during that run. They have been without a pro bowl QB, but they have had loads of talent available to them, and they have a pro bowl caliber QB now. They've had multiple talented RBs who have either gone on to have better success post-Bears (Jones/Benson) or fallen apart in year 2. They've had talented receivers who left and did just as good or better elsewhere (Muhsin was more productive the year before and year after his Bears tenure). Aside from QB, the one place they've lacked a lot of talent is on the offensive line, but they have spent a lot of money there.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    As the 95,000th person to make that joke I think it's safe to say that no, it was not too soon.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    In retrospect, does having the Herald keep you off the road, and thus away from the train wreck, this year look like a positive? Any word if things will be different in 2010? In recent years the Cubs seem to put an effort into maximizing fan interest by the time tickets go on sale in February, whether it's acquisitions actually made before then (Soriano/Bradley), or potential acquisitions that are talked about relatively openly (Maddux/Peavy). How do you see this year's offseason playing out in terms of what they use to get fans excited to buy tickets? A rumored big name acquisition? A guy who fits a specific need, perceived or otherwise (the Hendry special), like a leadoff guy or RBI guy. Or are we looking at a year where getting rid of Bradley and paying big for a name hitting coach prove to be the biggest moves they make?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not coming to your side. I have not been a Lovie supporter. He's a bad gameday coach.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Tillman isn't an all pro, but he's perfectly fine. The problem with the Bears secondary is that the defensive line gets no rush and the constant barrage of ineffective blitzing linebackers leave guys on an island for far too long. He's the best they got and they will have him for the long haul.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    If it's not Shanahan, it has to be somebody who is a real offensive mind. They need that and they have to realize that they need that.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Since this isn't baseball and there are so few trades, it doesn't really matter who the untouchables are. If you can find a better player, you cut the guy you have. That being said, I think the core is obviously Cutler, some combination of Hester/ Bennett/Knox, Briggs, Tillman, Brown and maybe Afalava. The new d-lineman might fit in there, but I don't think any offensive lineman has shown to be anything close to a core player for the long haul. Forte was overused in college and his rookie year and probably does not have a long shelf life, plus, RBs are too unreliable, unless you have a true elite threat.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Allowing myself to live the fantasy that Lovie is gone after this year, I don't think Shanny will be coming in. Thats' just a job threat to Angelo that I don't think he wants...which is understandable. Personally, I'd like to see Cowher in here, but there's no shortage of talented coaches on the market this offseason. Angelo is 9 years into his stay here and signed for what, 4 more? I don't see the need to feel a threat, and I'm guessing he's going to be willing to move on in the next few years anyway. Angelo has abandoned the draft and abandoned the defense above all else philosophy. He's spent big on a big time QB and has not received much of an early return on that investment. He needs an influx of offensive minds, and I bet he recognizes that. Angelo's best trait so far has been finding mid-draft talent to fill in on defense. He's sucked with RBs, he's sucked with WR (his best one was drafted as a KR/DB), he can't find an offensive lineman to save his life. He can't like seeing players he drafted find much greater success on other teams. Angelo has to think the offense is in need of a kick in the pants, and without a top notch defense, Lovie serves no purpose.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The Bears are 13.5 point favorites right now and that's ridiculous. I would not trust this team to cover a 5 point spread, let alone a two touchdown line. I don't care that Cleveland is a joke and might be the only team in the league that can't pass on the Bears at will. Chicago will find a way to keep the opponent in the game, that is what they do. I hate this team. I hate Lovie, I hate Turner, I hate Kreutz and the rest of the offensive line, I hate Ogunleye, Tommie Harris and everything else on that side of the ball. This is going to be a crappy way to work off a Halloween party hangover.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Well hot damn, this team sucks. What a joke. Both lines are terrible, they continue to send linebackers on blitzes that accomplish nothing. If they don't fix this thing this year, I really hope this is the end of the Lovie era. This team's entire record of success was a hugle level of talent on the defensive side of the ball. Now that those guys are older, slower, and/or gone, they are nothing but a big pile of mediocrity. If they can't manage a playoff appearance this year, Lovie and Ron really have to go. Bring in Shanahan, let him run everything offense, and have Angelo decide who will run the defense. Lovie's claim to fame is defense and having guys ready to play. He sucks on gameday. If the defense continues to lack and the guys aren't even ready to play, Lovie serves no purpose. He better turn thing this around quickly, and if not, they better get rid of him.
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