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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I would be insanely overjoyed if Detroit got so fed up with him that they traded him for Milton Bradley. If that's how Hendry gets out of this mess, all will be forgiven.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    In other words, I don't want to make an excuse, but here's an excuse for you, and it's not even valid since the payroll went up during the sale process. The only thing the sale did was slow the rate at which Hendry could increase his throwing of good money after bad. He's the one who tied up all that cash longterm. Don't go whining about the sale and things being more difficult this year. You had a crap ton of financial resources and you blew it. Coletti, Bavasi, and Minaya. No one could possibly want any of those clowns running the team, yet some defend Hendry, who doles out bad contracts just as freely. I haven't seen a single person here defend Hendry in months. On occasion myself or others may point out that firing him may actually make the situation worse if we don't followup correctly, but that's hardly a defense of him. No one has directly, but all this "we could do worse" business certainly implies it. A team with this many resources shouldn't have to settle for worse. The we could be worse nonsense and the "everybody will rip the next GM if he doesn't win a WS" as if Hendry has had the Cubs on the cusp of a title every year and came up just short. Seriously, this is almost as bad as the, "don't fire Dusty we had back to back .500 seasons for the first time in 30 years" BS.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    This from a Bruce Miles article (here) I'm sure he's saying that he doesn't want to talk publicly about what went wrong, but judging from his past behavior I don't think he will reflect at all. Instead, he'll go about trying to plug holes without regard to shaping an organizational philosophy. Damn, it pisses me off to no end. This is the part that pisses me off. In other words, I don't want to make an excuse, but here's an excuse for you, and it's not even valid since the payroll went up during the sale process. The only thing the sale did was slow the rate at which Hendry could increase his throwing of good money after bad. He's the one who tied up all that cash longterm. Don't go whining about the sale and things being more difficult this year. You had a crap ton of financial resources and you blew it.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    He's a 60-something year old coach who has had his chances in the majors and has a job waiting for him in AAA if he wants. He's hardly being kept from having a chance in the game.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I picked somebody else, but have no idea who that person will be.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    You lived through Donny Buntball and Dusty Baker, I think you can live through the failings of Ryno. Mike Scioscia is kind of like what I picture Sandberg would be like if he managed. We all have to hope that the Cubs keep the talent spigot flowing one way or the other, because it is the only thing that keeps Scioscia in a job. Well there's that, and the mess that is the rest of the AL West. That's a good point though. It is all about the talent. The biggest problem with Dusty is that team had no hitters and relied exclusively on young arms, which are the exact things Baker is most harmful toward. The Cubs have a huge payroll advantage and with competent GM should have a huge talent advantage. They need to "manager proof" their team. Pretty much all these guys like giving up outs. Lou's is a OBP fanatic in comparison to most, but he still hit and runs into outs and has incompetent base stealers getting picked off repeatedly. If the Cubs have the talent, they can succeed regardless of who the manager/hitting coach is. These guys don't matter nearly as much as the GM matters.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    That's not how it's been defined by much of the media though. People have been painting the picture that parity=mediocirity=everybody goes 7-9 or 9-7. The NFL is set-up so that any team can recover from being horrible and win big in a short amount of time. You can suck every year if you are run by incompetent morons, Detroit. And I think that's a very good thing for a sport.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    You lived through Donny Buntball and Dusty Baker, I think you can live through the failings of Ryno.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    My feeling on Orton remains the same when he was with the Bears. He was fine, if he had a quality defense, good receivers and line. But the bears line and receivers weren't good enough for Orton to succeed enough in Chicago. Cutler is good enough to succeed with what they have.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I think it has more to do with the fact that if the other team is expecting the run, the Bears aren't good enough to do it successfully. They can't just run, run, run and get a first down. Their passing game is better, and they should use it. People can get hurt running the ball as well.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Pretty unethical move by ESPN, but what else is new? They have to protect their guy. Does that omission really change much? In the grand scheme of things, not really. I just don't get why they took it out when they aired it on earlier editions of SC. That's why I think it's pretty unethical. If they're editing things from this interview, there's a good chance that this hasn't been the first time that's happened. ESPN should be getting ridiculed. I think it's safe to say they have edited stuff from every interview anybody has ever done on their network. I don't see any problem whatsoever.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    There's never really been parity in the NFL. Every year there's at least one team that wins 75% of their games and at least one team that loses 75% of their games. There's less parity in the NFL than any other sport. There are, however (assuming Minnesota wins), six 3-1 teams, two 2-1 teams, seven 2-2 teams, a 1-2 team, five 1-3 teams and an 0-3 team. So, really, 4 games into the season the distribution is pretty standard. Yeah, the parity talk was always overstated. Everybody decided to pretend the NFL was nothing but 7, 8 or 9 win teams for some reason, but every year there are multiple great teams and horrible teams. What the NFL does offer is a chance for a team to go from worst to first quickly.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Amen to that. Not only are they blitz happy, but they really suck at it. Lance Briggs has always been a bad blitzer. He runs right into blockers and gets nowhere. They do this all the time. I hate when this team blitzes.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    I'd much rather have the bye week later in the season, but with the current crop of LB and WR injuries, I guess it's as good a time as any. Atlanta heads to SF this week for what is sure to be a tough fight. They are currently 2.5 point dogs out there. Unless they get blown out, I think they will be favored about 1 or 2 against Chicago. I'm still very concerned about the pass defense. The line may have come up with some big plays, but for most of the game Stafford had plenty of time to complete downfield passes. I'm guessing Atlanta will be able to score a lot, so the Bears need Cutler to lead them to this win.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    It's only LOL if you're an Obama sycophant that can't admit when mistakes are made. It's the US president doing something unprecedented and getting egg on his face. It doesn't reflect poorly on him as a person, but it's a miscalculation by the White House and a waste of political capital.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Campbell looks silly and the score is tied.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    really? Versus is off DirecTV? Does that mean no Stanley Cup Finals this year for DirecTV subscribers? My bet is it's something they will figure out within a couple months.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Kane first to score on a breakaway, I think he was just coming off a penalty. 1-0
  19. jersey cubs fan
    So that blond girl who gave the guy the envelope is going to be in the first ever "youth olympics". What the hell are those? With 12 year old gymnasts and teenagers all over the place, what is the point of youth olympics?
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Announcement coming, and the winner is.......little blonde girls? Oh wait, it's Rio.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know who it was, but a Hawk nailed a Panther into the boards, legally, knocking off his helmet. The guy crumpled to the ground and stayed motionless for about 3 seconds before realizing they weren't going to call a penalty, then he got up and got back in the action. It was #85 I think.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Florida continues to dominate action. Buff skating with Toews and Kane doesn't look right to me.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    There is no way that violence hurt the bid when Rio is still involved.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Florida dominated the first couple minutes with multiple chances.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know what this means, but for the past 3 months we couldn't give our office Mets tickets away, but now the first two months of Rangers tickets are already taken with lots of disappointed people who didn't get them. Kind of weird.
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