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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I really dont see the problem in skipping your #5 starter so you can allow your #1 and 2 starters to pitch. Seems like common sense to me, plus Z has always pitched better on more than 5 days rest. Im hoping though they slot Wells in Friday to give Harden an extra days rest as well as Lilly. With the amount of games we are going to be playing coming up without an offday, they need to give extra rest to any of the starters when they can. I agree with the sentiment, but Dempster is neither a 1 or 2. Lilly is the best pitcher.
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    He's talked about it, but he hasn't done it prior to this year. He's gotten riled up before this year.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    So the receiver is the star and the QB who gets him the ball is a farce?
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    When was the last game that was won by passion ???? Passion doesn't win baseball games. Good hitting and good pitching wins baseball games. Take all that passion and store it at body temperature and out of direct sunlight. I don't think passion wins, but I am just saying that the fact that Lou is a screamer who isn't screaming could very easily indicate his passion is declining. I never said I liked his ranting and raving, but that is who he is, or maybe, who he was.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    It was a question, not a statement. Your answer is clearly "no". It certainly didn't look like a question. "I have to think that everyone" sounds like a strong declaration.
  6. 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? I just meant someone that follows the game more than casually. That can name a few of the major "hallowed" records. I wasn't trying to be all high and mighty about it. Just that there are people that might say they're a Cub fan, and might have a hat and/or t-shirt, and may have even been to Wrigley, that couldn't name more than 3 players that aren't on the Cubs, and have no idea who Roger Maris is. Take out the word "legitimate" if that's a sticking point. It's not important to what I was trying to say. That's still an absurd assumption to make. You already see people on this site who obviously can name more than 3 players that aren't Cubs that don't agree with you. Why the hell would anybody think you have to think 61 is the only one that counts?
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    Why can't you be there for watching the game and still enjoy amenities? You don't need ferris wheels and hot tubs. But the simple act of being able to walk around a stadium and take in the view from multiple angles can be enjoyable, not to mention a wider selection of food/drink. And everybody keeps saying the footprint has to be the same and therefore no changes can be made. But we're talking about a building constructed in a very different era, that doesn't even fill in the entire footprint. They found a way to fit 2500 extra seats in the bleachers, I'm sure they can find a way to make a new Wrigley better. And you can always build up.
  8. 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.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I would have to agree. Marshall beats women. Plaxico shot himself and is late to meetings.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
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    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?
  13. 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.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    In an effort to keep it standing. And you can always build up, and incorporate the triangle area to the west.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Evidence? Like that pinko commie rag can be trusted.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    You don't like people getting excited about baseball games in June?
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
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