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Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
jersey cubs fan replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
They get tired, but not at the same rate as the defensive lineman. The Oline is essentially operating at a light job pace all game while the defenders are constantly sprinting. Blocking takes less energy than trying to evade the block. And the continuity thing matters. -
If everybody else is covering it it's kind of strange for the world wide leader to not cover it.
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Rudy Jaramillo signs, Von Joshua back to Iowa
jersey cubs fan replied to big_shooter17's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I really do not like all the hype surrounding this guy. He's just a hitting coach. The hitting coach for a team that has had one of the best hitters' parks for the past decade. They had this story all over the place, paid him a ridiculous contract for a coach and held a press conference just like they do with their big target free agent players. It just seems to me to be something they are going to use as a sign to the fans, "see, we fixed things." The hitting coach wasn't the problem. A new one isn't the solution. The flawed roster is the problem and unless it gets fixed, with more than just dumping Bradley's sourpuss it is going to remain a problem. -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
jersey cubs fan replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
How could the Bears have blackballed him, when hes on a team? The veterans treated him like crap. The Urlacher/Brown/Kreutz triumvirate apparently thought he never should have been drafted and they did their best to not welcome him into the team. -
Pick the World Series matchup....
jersey cubs fan replied to erik316wttn's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Uh, no offense, but that's been proven already whether or not they beat the Yankees. I know, but now that they've done it, I am rooting for them to go to the World Series. But it's not like they haven't won a WS in a long time. -
Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
jersey cubs fan replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
It's 4:15 now, where has the day gone? -
Man, I so desperately hoped he'd fall to the Bears or they'd trade up for him. Hasn't Merriman been an embarrasment for a while now? Not that Clady wouldn't be a nice improvement.
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That was a good article. I think the author makes a mistake by correlating what's going on at Yankee Stadium with what is going on everywhere else. You can still get decent seats for reasonable prices in most every stadium. Even as defending world series champs in a relatively new stadium, I know lots of people who got face, and below face tickets for Phillies games this year (although I'm pretty sure I saw bottles of champage being delivered to those people directly behind home plate as well). There's no question the Yankees had horrible timing and over-the-top greed on this deal. The Jets and Giants (well, at least the Jets) are running into similar trouble with their season ticket base. I know people who are giving up their tickets, or at least giving up on the number they will keep in the new stadium.
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Don't they have access to a ridiculous buffet and top shelf bar in a temperature controlled room? I could see why people would leave their seats often this time of year.
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according to a google search of action sequence seat belt van, that's from Shoot 'em up
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Did Rivera throw a spitball? (Do you care?)
jersey cubs fan replied to MWV's topic in General Baseball Talk
If it was still baseball season then I'd probably care, but since they ended the season in early August this year I don't give a crap about what Mariano does to his balls in the offseason. -
If his numbers reflected a guy who played 162 games, against righties and lefties, I would agree. But he's a platoon player, and his numbers are propped up, to some extent, by very limited playing times against lefties. Thats' a lot of money for a platoon player who is going to be playing RF again.
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Not a fan of the current coaching free agent class? Holmgren, Cowher, Shanahan, Gruden...I feel like I'm missing someone. dungy (and the crew of UFL guys)
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I don't see any way that would work for the casual fan base. If they wanted a hitting coach to be a big name improvement it woulda been Sandberg Getting a new hitting coach and getting rid of Bradley might though. This story has been in every paper and on CSN for over a week now, and there's talk of making him the highest paid hitting coach in the league.
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I am really scared that the Cubs are going to use the Jaramillo acquisition as the big name improvement to the team this offseason. I can't believe all the talk and hype about a freaking hitting coach.
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Douche, douchebag, douchebagedness, douchebaggery and all other forms of this word are really tremendous, however, there's been some terrible misuse/overuse of these words in this thread and many others. They need to be utilized properly or else risk losing all meaning.
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I've complained about him from time to time but the pitching has held this team together for the past decade. They've been a mediocre (or worse) hitting teams in most years and the only thing that had them contending in 2003, 2004 and 2009 was solid pitching. Part of that is an organizational focus on ptiching, but he's done it with several different casts of characters and only one constant, Zambrano.
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fisher is a great coach but maybe he's just reached the point where he's not getting through to the guys on that team any more. it just seems odd because they were very good last year and have collapsed now. i'm not a fan of making a change for the sake of making a change - there have been a lot of times when eagles fans wanted andy reid fired, but really, how many better coaches than him are out there - but the titans have to at least think about going in a different direction. still, if they do can fisher, they have to get a big name (shanahan, cowher, gruden) to replace him. i just don't think you can fire a coach that good and replace him with some generic O or D coordinator. I think there's something to the notion that the message gets lost after a long time. They've had several years of mediocrity or worse under Fisher. With NFL rosters you can turn them over pretty quickly which means if you stick with a guy he can get a fresh set of ears listening to him, but that can be difficult. If you compare it with Cowher, I think the Steelers maintained much more success under him, avoided the really bad years, and they replaced him with a no-name.
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17-0 wasn't enough of a laugher for you?
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Oh geez, I had no idea. That's a shame.
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Are they really worth insulting? BC is a nonentity. Though their punk fan base would never accept that. I attended the BC game in 2004 that we lost by one and their fans were intolerable leaving the stadium. It's good that you clarify they lost that game by one since it's so hard to differentiate between all the losses without such details. I attended the game in 1993 when all the ND student section cried like a bunch of little girls and it was glorious. I believe that was a 2 point margin. Aren't you a midwest kid that lives in jersey now? And you're a BC fan? Or just an ND hater? I don't think I even know anybody that went to BC, except that sunovabich Matt Ryan. I just remember that I went to that game with a ginger kid who grew up on the Irish and pretty much ever since he's always hated them. I'd describe my ND hate as quite mild and due more to a dad who didn't like them than anything else. But it's still fun to mess with Irish fans. I know this complete drunk Pennsylvania kid with no parental/alumni ties to the place who goes absolutely nuts when they lose, and that's fun to watch.
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Are they really worth insulting? BC is a nonentity. Though their punk fan base would never accept that. I attended the BC game in 2004 that we lost by one and their fans were intolerable leaving the stadium. It's good that you clarify they lost that game by one since it's so hard to differentiate between all the losses without such details. I attended the game in 1993 when all the ND student section cried like a bunch of little girls and it was glorious. I believe that was a 2 point margin.
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Re: Week 7: Bears at Bengals (4:15 ET on Fox)
jersey cubs fan replied to Productive Outs's topic in Other Sports
They are 19th in yards allowed/game, 28th in pass yards allowed, 11th in rush yards and 14th in points/game. They aren't terrible, but they are a slight notch below the Bears defensively, I believe. -
Cincinnati isn't nearly as good as the hype they were getting last week, but they are a real threat. That's especially true since the Bears aren't all that good either. Two tight wins, and two mistake ridden losses exposed many weaknesses. This team can't run. We all knew they couldn't block, and that's not getting any better. They can't defense the pass all that well either, in part because they insist on blitzing ALL THE FREAKING TIME and those blitzers are very easily blocked. They need to go back to cover-2 coverage with a 4 man rush. Bengals are 2.5 point favorites right now. I hate the Bears.
