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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I really don't know how Aaron gets a pass. Admitted PED use, suspicious career length at a time when we know steroids were starting to creep in. But that's when men was men and women was women and the poetry flowed 60 feet 6 inches at a time.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I would have to agree. Marshall beats women. Plaxico shot himself and is late to meetings.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's still a ridiculous distinction. Baseball is baseball. MLB has always changed the balance of power between pitching and hitting in an effort to increase fan interest in the game, and that included allowing players to take greenies, and allowing them to take steroids. Because they absolutely did allow them to take steroids, just like the NFL and NBA. They can't tell the public they allow it, but I knew a hell of a lot about steroids when I was in freaking junior high in the late 80's, so you can't tell me the powers that be of a huge business like baseball didn't know what was out there. Walter Payton beat the rushing record during a steroid era in football, and then Emmitt Smith broke it during a more sophisticated steroid era. But football was still football. There's no such thing as legitimate and illegitimate baseball.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    yeah, that was a good one. i don't really agree with the whole "Lou doesn't care" angle. he doesn't look/act like he doesn't care to me. he looks/acts like a guy who is really just out of ideas. i have a lot of issues with him, but there's really only so much he can do. getting kicked out simply to get kicked out or "fire up your team" is stupid and pointless. it's not like Bradley, Soriano, etc. will start hitting because the manager has a melt down on the field one day. I agree that sort of thing is stupid, but it is also Lou's MO. He's been that way throughout his managerial career including early in his Cubs tenure. The fact that he's "mellowed" tells me his passion just isn't there. Whether that matters is another debate.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Are you kidding me? Everyone that is a legitimate baseball fan? This is more dumb than the "true Cubs fan" nonsense you hear about those who really deserve the honor of being called a fan. What the hell is a legitimate baseball fan?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    The difference is that people actually care(d) about Sammy Sosa and Donte Stallworth is a slightly above average NFL wide receiver. That's hardly the difference. The NFL has multiple DUI killers who virtually skated free of punishment. They also have players who test for steroids routinely, and they never get anywhere close to the scorn that baseball players do. I blame the fans and media who decided that baseball was more than a game and needed poetry and mysticism to sell it. If those saps never over romanticized the sport people would apply a little more levelheaded reasoning to the issues. Also, this country has a very weak stance on DUI. For as puritanical as we can be about sex, drugs and drink, for some reason we don't take DUI seriously.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    In an effort to keep it standing. And you can always build up, and incorporate the triangle area to the west.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Evidence? Like that pinko commie rag can be trusted.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I didnt realise that not being of any use to the team was considered a medical issue. If so, Aaron Miles better get to the doctor STAT I understand you are joking, but you realize you are making a joke about the guy having some kind of medical issue thats non baseball related? For all we know the guy could have cancer or something like that, the jokes really arent needed in my opinion. What if it's anal fissures? Then you'll be sorry you didn't make jokes. Or twisted nuts. But it's most likely one of those phantom injuries, since it just so happens to be the convenient thing needed to a get a guy with a useful bat back on a team with a severe lack of bats after an ill-advised demotion. Unless we were told the guy had cancer and then somebody made a joke about, there's no need to criticize people for harmless attempts at humor.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    No way of knowing, but it hasn't really been that long. No longer than Tom Brady. It's not a Vick situation where he's been in prison for a year. Presumably he's had to do some rehab work, but I don't know.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I have to believe they are talking about not playing games during that period of time. With many teams already taking 4 days off for the ASB, it would not be hard for them to take 6 days. But not televising games that are actually played seems like a horrible option. Great. We'll end up with a World Series ending the same week as Thanksgiving. I realize you're being sarcastic here, but we're only talking about 6 days here. Put 2 at the beginning of the season, 2 at the end, and eliminate an off day or two somewhere in the season. The ASB already accounts for 4 days for many teams. Then you are talking about adding one day.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    No, you wouldn't be able to eliminate all unobstructed views, but you should be able to significantly reduce the number of them. And while the footprint would be the same (other than how they incorporate the triangle building area), there's no reason why they shouldn't build up a little higher.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I wouldn't be at all hurt if they rebuilt Wrigley between the foul poles. But I'm talking about a same footprint, small park and keep the obstructed view seats and support girders. Do it cheap like St. Louis and Cincinnati. We don't need to spend a billion + dollars to have marble floors and gold plated faucets like the Yankee Stadium III. That's pretty much how it has to be done if it's done in the same spot. You can't fit nicer amenities/more seating into the Wrigley footprint. It's tiny. You can make some of the amenities nicer without making them larger. They definitely shouldn't make more seating, the trend in the majors is for smaller parks anyway, so I doubt they would try that. I think they can make it without the obstructed views though.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    You don't like people getting excited about baseball games in June?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Any chance he gets the call for the @DET/CHW series? He will eligible by then. Lou mentioned the possibility before he was sent down. But something tells me they are going to try and us Bradley as a DH as much as possible to get his legs off the field.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Oh, well that's good. Wait, I mean that's the whole freaking problem. I don't care if Aramis can come back and play third base. I care if he can come back and hit. Ramirez has always reminded me of a slightly more refined version of Soriano. He doesn't have a particularly patient approach at the plate, but he does draw more walks and strike out less frequently. His production, however, relies on his violent swing making contact. He's not going to be Theriot dumping it into right, and he's certainly not going to leg out many infield hits or turn singles in the gap into doubles. He has to hit the ball hard to be of value to this team. Can he? I don't know, but I don't think you can grit your way to power.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I have to believe they are talking about not playing games during that period of time. With many teams already taking 4 days off for the ASB, it would not be hard for them to take 6 days. But not televising games that are actually played seems like a horrible option.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    And neither is North. Wouldn't it make more sense to think he got lucky with perfect timing that one time than think he's some sort of shrewd businessmen and that it's shocking he would get involved with a fraudulant huckster's scam? I don't understand how somebody could think Mike North is shrewd, and be surprised that a venture he was involved in starting came to a crashing hault months into it's existence. I mean, it actually makes more sense to me that the only type of person that would actually hire a guy like Mike North as an "executive" at his company is somebody who declared bankrupty multiple times. Seriously, if he was shrewd, why would he even get involved with somebody like that?
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure why that would leave Boldin any happier than he is now... at least in AZ he can still put up the numbers to eventually get paid. Not gonna happen with Orton, which is something that Marshall clearly realizes. Well AZ sure doesn't care whether Boldin is happy with the trade. I don't think he has an NTC does he? Maybe Denver doesn't want a "troublemaker" in return for Marshall, but that'd be the only problem I'd see there. But Boldin would probably leave the Broncos in the same situation they'd be trying to get out of by dealing Marshall, with an unhappy player that probably wants out... :dunno: Boldin just wants to get paid, right? If Denver pays him, he'll probably be happy. Marshall's problems with Denver are probably contract and Cutler related. If he goes to Arizona, gets paid and plays with a pro bowl QB, he's probably happy.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    That's probably not true. Sports radio is a niche market. But what does any of this have to do with his level of shrewdness? He was the right guy in the right place at the right time. He wasn't shrewd, he is an idiot. Idiots can be popular and make lots of money in a short period of time, and once you have popularity and money, it's a lot easier to keep making money, but the guy is an idiot who hasn't had success since an ill-advised contract expired. Where is the evidence that he is shrewd? The 5 year $1.5 million contract is the evidence for me. The guy negotiated a ridiculous contract for what is, like you just said, a niche market. It's local sports radio...yes, it's Chicago, so "local" is a pretty decent size, but at the time, they weren't web broadcasting or anything, so it was a very limited audience. Maybe I have a misconception of local talk radio salaries, and maybe this wasn't that out of line from other personalities, but that's my "evidence". 7 figure radio contracts are not at all abnormal. People get them quite frequently, and the good ones keep getting them. You don't have to be particularly shrewd to get them, you just have to get a large audience.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but he was handed the midday slot from the very beginning of WSCR. It's possible that a lot of guys could have been pulling in ratings taking that slot for that station at that time. I don't have the ratings info to really be able to debate this with any facts backing me up, but the midday slot has been problematic since North left it though, so clearly it's not an "anybody can do it" situation. BTW...I hate you all for making me defend Mike North in any way. Nobody is making you defend the guy. You don't have to claim he's shrewd. There's no evidence to suggest he is shrewd. He enjoyed success in what was a quickly growing business. But it's not like he invented or perfected it. The guy who is shrewd is the guy who realized he could make money by putting an idiot like North on the air.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    That's probably not true. Sports radio is a niche market. But what does any of this have to do with his level of shrewdness? He was the right guy in the right place at the right time. He wasn't shrewd, he is an idiot. Idiots can be popular and make lots of money in a short period of time, and once you have popularity and money, it's a lot easier to keep making money, but the guy is an idiot who hasn't had success since an ill-advised contract expired. Where is the evidence that he is shrewd?
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Why not? He may of got a lucky break, but at some point you have to marketable, and he has been to warrant a contract that paid him 1.5 million a year. Is that pure luck? Being marketable does not make one shrewd. You think Manny is shrewd? Manny is a damn fine hitter of baseballs, but that is all. Mike North spoke about sports unintelligently to an audience that ate that stuff up. Doesn't make him shrewd.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    The Feds just charged the founder, who apparently declared bankruptcy about 5 times this decade. Which makes you wonder what North, who has shown himself to be pretty shrewd with his career, was thinking getting into business with this dude. Really? Shrewd? He was a hot dog vendor who was lucky to get a gig as a radio host then profited off the fact that so many fans are idiots that like to hear an idiot talk like them. He's still an idiot.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    you are a bad person. Super Bowl XX is all I got, and I was pre-pubescent.
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