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  1. jersey cubs fan
    In the CBS sports pick'em league I'm in they list how the country is voting and that game is 88-12 in favor of Pittsburgh right now. Not exactly a trendy upset. Yeah sorry. It's the same in a couple of my pickems too. I meant it was a trendy media upset pick. And it's based on a sample size of three, so it's a very researched opinion....:P On his "guess the lines" podcast Simmons guessed Bears by 1 or 1.5 I think and when he heard it was Pitt by 3 he said he was definitely picking the Bears this week. Not sure if he carried through with that yet.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    In the CBS sports pick'em league I'm in they list how the country is voting and that game is 88-12 in favor of Pittsburgh right now. Not exactly a trendy upset.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Looks like CNBC is reporting live from a rooftop today talking about the business of baseball and those rooftop ticket sales.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, and my guess would be there's not much else to adjust to, unless there's a health issue.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I'm going to be so pissed if they don't offer him arbitration. Give him 5 days rest most of the time and he'll give you a great season. I still don't get why they threw out the "preserve and protect" gameplan they said they had when they acquired him.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't count on him improving at this point. He has had 4 separate "excellent" months of the 11.5 he's played in the majors, so if he got to the point where he could maintain that for a year we'd see it. But he's also shown an inability to avoid prolonged bad slumps. And the big thing in my mind is he'll be 33 at the beginning of next year. I know the comparison is far from perfect, but Hideki Matsui had his biggest jump in his 2nd year in the majors (he was also 30). I would think that 2nd year would be the most logical time for such an improvement, and 33 isn't a great time to expect a career year. Derrek Lee surprised me with a resurgence at 33, but he's still off the pace of his career year at 29. I don't know, maybe Fukudome is still not 100% recovered from the elbow and he can flirt with a 900 OPS next year. But I'd guess he's going to continue being a slightly above average producer, maybe in the low 800s with solid OBP and more than acceptable from his position (unless they move him back to right).
  7. jersey cubs fan
    If he shows he can't be an effective starting pitcher. On 4 days rest opponents have something like an 850 OPS against him. On 5 and 6+ days rest they are in the 600s and 500s respectively and he's got a dominant K/BB. The Cubs knew this when they got him. He should not be starting on 4 days rest. It's September, they have extra starters already and plenty of relievers, so give him an extra day and be happy with it.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    It absolutely does not make a mockery of a the 162, it emphasizes the importance of the 162 by rewarding you for winning your division. Right now, September is meaningless. It doesn't matter if you win the wild card or your division. The 1 game playoff is part of the playoffs. Baseball playoffs consists of series because teams have rotations and not just one starting pitcher. If you have to have the play-in, then I suggest a three-game series (MON-WED) in the park of the team with the best record. Start the DS on Thursday (#2 DW vs. #3 DW) and Friday (#1 DW and WC). Let the team with the best record play the wild-card winner, even if they are from the same division. The point of the one-game wildcard playoff is to throw off those teams' rotations and make it more difficult for a wildcard team to make the World Series. Their rotation would be in shambles coming off a two- or three-game set while the other team had four days off. But you'd be pushing the playoffs back which you said was bad, and I'm trying to avoid. If the Yankees or Red Sox fail to win their division, I'm not going to feel bad for them if they lose in a 1 game playoff against a lesser team in their home stadium. Lesser teams win series all the time.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    He's talking about the ESPN roster of analysts.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    It accomplishes that as well. 1) More teams/fans involved late in the season. 2) Rewards the team with best record by getting to face a team that has not been able to reset it's rotation. 3) Gives motivation to wild card teams to fight for division crowns.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    It absolutely does not make a mockery of a the 162, it emphasizes the importance of the 162 by rewarding you for winning your division. Right now, September is meaningless. It doesn't matter if you win the wild card or your division. The 1 game playoff is part of the playoffs. Baseball playoffs consists of series because teams have rotations and not just one starting pitcher. If you have to have the play-in, then I suggest a three-game series (MON-WED) in the park of the team with the best record. Start the DS on Thursday (#2 DW vs. #3 DW) and Friday (#1 DW and WC). Let the team with the best record play the wild-card winner, even if they are from the same division. Weren't you the one who was complaing about pushing back the schedule of the playoffs? The 1 game playoff rewards the #1 seed and "punishes" the teams that have to settle for the WC. It puts the emphasis on winning the regular season and not just cruising in on the WC which right now is essentially the same thing as winning your division.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    I can't think of a good population center in New England to put up a 2nd. But I think North Jersey, properly placed, would work really well. But I still think expansion is a decade a way. In the meantime restructuring is possible with the current 30. I'd put Florida in the AL East, move Toronto to AL Central, KC to AL West, Pittsburgh to NL East. Florida could benefit from games with Tampa as well as Boston/NYY moreso than they benefit from NYM, PHI and ATL.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    It absolutely does not make a mockery of a the 162, it emphasizes the importance of the 162 by rewarding you for winning your division. Right now, September is meaningless. It doesn't matter if you win the wild card or your division. The 1 game playoff is part of the playoffs.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    probably white
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think the economy could handle expansion within the next 10 years. And adding two more teams while keeping the same number of teams eligible for playoffs is just going to add unimportant games. The Mets are in a brand new stadium this year. You can't give away tickets for free. Nobody wants to go. Two months of worthless baseball is a really tough sell.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    we didn't have aaron miles in 2005 Lee doesn't have Miles batting 1 or 2 everyday. In 2005 they were 14th and 12th in the NL in terms of OBP from the 1 and 2 spots (.299 and .314). This year they are 12th and 4th, at .327 and .350. It not great, but it's much much better.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    There wouldn't be a likely possibility of moving the start of the playoffs. As it stands today, they don't start until Wednesday after the final Sunday, and one series starts on Thursday. Monday is currently for ties, you can schedule the 1 game play-in for Tuesday. I'm not sure how likely your scenario is, I doubt it's very high. But the point is rewarding the division win while at the same time maximizing interest from fan bases because more of them have a chance to be in it. If 1 out of 10 years some 100 win wild card team loses to a 85 win wild card team in a one game playoff (in the 100 win teams stadium) that's still 10 years where more teams had a chance to make the playoffs, more meaningful games are being played in September, more eyeballs are watching and more exciting games are being played. And I doubt it would happen every 10 years anyway.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That's actually pretty impressive. However, you used "a-hole" twice, which seems like cheating. Bukie isn't a one a-hole kind of guy.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Yes. I do. Please give me 26 unprofessional situations in the last six years. I want one to start with each letter of the alphabet too. Z is going to be easy, but I want to see X, that's always tough. And U is underappreciated in how difficult, wait......, Underappreciated how important it was to not be a bum.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    That's a negative for Minaya but a positive for the media so it's zero sum. But a positive for those chicks so that's a +1 in sum.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    That is so pointless.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Wright manned up and played meaningless games shortly after a concussion. He's fine. And the chicks love him.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    That's nothing more than a friend and former teammate trying to help him out by saying the right things. Plus Warren Sapp is insane.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, nobody would try ranking baseball teams based on computers after 2 game, why would you do that with college football? Well, since the college football season is only 12 games long, more than 15% of the season is already over. It's more akin to ranking baseball teams after April. Still of limited use, but at least it offers as objective an analysis as is possible at this point. It's still 2 games. The fact that football is so much shorter just makes those types of rankings less meaningless.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, nobody would try ranking baseball teams based on computers after 2 game, why would you do that with college football? Well, since the college football season is only 12 games long, more than 15% of the season is already over. It's more akin to ranking baseball teams after April. Still of limited use, but at least it offers as objective an analysis as is possible at this point. It's still 2 games. The fact that football is so much shorter just makes those types of rankings less meaningless.
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