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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I have a hard time believing it will decline by 30%. Contrary to popular opinion, Wrigley doesn't sell-out every season win or lose, and tv ratings are directly correlated to success. It wasn't hard to sell hope in 99 and throughout much of the early 2000's, as a young emerging team with an expanding payroll, new acquisitions and newfound marginal success got hearts beating. They need to sell tickets this winter, and I'm guessing they will add enough payroll to add one fairly intriguing player.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    If you only followed them late, you might be disappointed by the early season play. The game never seems to be as crisp and fast early in the season as teams get their legs.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's 2009
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The thing about Pitt is they win ugly. Ben can look like crap for 3.5 quarters but put his team in FG position late to pull out a 2 point win. They need to win by 4 to cover, 3 is a push. If they are down by 3 late will they drive all the way for a TD, or take the FG to tie? Just like the GB game, I penciled this one is as a loss in my 10-win season prediction, and I kind of expect the Bears to lose, but late by a couple points. Which means they could just as easily win.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I found it hilarious that Holtz told him to fire his agent and just go to the 49ers and ask for the best offer. I'm sure that would work out swimmingly for him. It's even worse knowing this was old footage of Crabtree. I don't understand the problem. He has a horribly incompetent agent who is screwing up his career.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Because Pittsburgh didn't do a damn thing and the Bears dominated their game but lost on a few stupid plays.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Sullivan wasn't the only one to detail what went down and refer to it as a very strange situation.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Looks like CNBC is reporting live from a rooftop today talking about the business of baseball and those rooftop ticket sales.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, and my guess would be there's not much else to adjust to, unless there's a health issue.
  12. 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.
  13. 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).
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    He's talking about the ESPN roster of analysts.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    probably white
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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