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  1. jersey cubs fan
    This is news to people?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    i have a feeling that people will see just how worthy we are of extra attention. It's going to be a completely overhauled offense, with a OL that features really only one familiar face, a new QB, and likely a new WR or two. how on earth can you view that as a bad thing? He wasn't. Or at least, it didn't look like he was. He was saying the offense is new and improved, but then pointed out the one thing that could be bad. I think this offense is poised to jump into the top half of the league, but I don't see top 10, yet. It will take some time.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I have some concerns about this schedule. I don't like playing Pittsburgh in the home opener, with them coming off a week and a half of rest (they start thursday night). I don't like following pittsburgh with a trip to Seattle. I absolutely hate the west coast Thursday night game following a Sunday game. There's absolutely no excuse for the NFL to schedule Thursday night games without the bye preceding. How do you expect to showcase a game with players going on 3 days rest? It's absurd. I can really see this team struggling to be .500 going into December. I'm guessing they are underdogs in the first two games, and depending on those outcomes, potentially an underdog on the road in Seattle. I don't like wasting a bye week in week 5 either.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Except that's not the point, he shouldn't get himself out as easily as he does. abuck is hung up on semantics. Of course it's not that easy, but it's easier than it should be.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    i don't see how Soriano is a borderline HOFer. He played on the Yankees and was on a WS champion, but that's not enough to ignore his lack of numbers.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I don't much care what they're doing as long as they make it home in one piece. Someone mentioned earlier about switching a college D-lineman to OL. Didn't the Bears do that with Big Cat Williams? I don't know if it was the Bears who did it, but he was a DLineman. In fact, I don't think it even happened right out of college, but rather a few years into his NFL career that he made the switch. Edit- I guess it was the Bears, thats the only team he played for. However, he did spend two years on the defensive line in Chicago. Yeah, he was an UFA tackle who was low on the depth chart until Ditka moved him to tackle.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I can't tell if this is saying I can't watch game 2, or if it's saying I can't watch the Versus games on CSN, but can watch game 2 on CSN. It appears to say that if you have Center Ice, you'll get to watch any Hawks games on CSN that ARE NOT on Versus or NBC. So Center Ice fills in the gaps, and they would likely do so with the CSN feed (or perhaps both). I knew that CI carried the first two rounds of the playoffs in this way -- they just make sure you have a chance to see all the games that aren't on national TV. Okay, but isn't center ice just taking the CSN-Chicago feed? That seemed like a confusing reply. At first I thought it was saying I could not see game 2, but then I started to see it the way you explained.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe you can, but it can't exactly be anywhere near easy at the major league level. Sliders are supposed to be difficult to read. They're nasty breaking pitches being thrown by major league pitchers. Maybe he just isn't as good as the truly elite hitters at doing it. Maybe he could improve. It's really not easy to say. I think it's very easy to say he's not good at it, he should have improved that aspect of his game earlier in his life, and it's perfectly acceptable to criticize that area of his game.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I think it makes zero sense to suggest plate discipline can't be taught and improved. It is far more likely a nurture issue, rather than nature, that determines how patient a guy is at the plate. The whole "you have to hit your way off the island" and hit your way through the minors and it's called hitting not walking thing has rubbed off on players. Soriano could have been better at that aspect of the game. If he physically couldn't then fine, I'll criticize his lack of physical ability to be a better baseball player, just like I criticize Theriot's lack of ability to hit for any power or any number of pitcher's lack of ability to throw better breaking balls and faster fastballs. But it still makes no sense to suggest you can't learn and improve plate discipline.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    But if your eyesight is good enough to make it possible for you to hit at the major league level, it's good enough to allow you to be able to layoff balls.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    What does this mean? I can't tell if this is saying I can't watch game 2, or if it's saying I can't watch the Versus games on CSN, but can watch game 2 on CSN.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    people make this argument all the time, and it's obvious that either a) it's not as easy as you think to throw certain pitches in certain spots all the time or b) he truly doesn't flail at every slider away. otherwise he'd be ryan harvey and not a borderline HOFer. Or C, professional baseball pitchers are cocky sons of bitches that think they can get anybody with their heat and don't need to [expletive] foot around with nothing but breaking balls.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    All toolsy prospects with the actual ability to advance in the game of baseball have the ability to improve their plate discipline with work. There's a lot of toolsy SOB's who are worthless. Soriano's toolsiness was special, and there was no question in my mind he could have developed a better approach.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Jacque and LaTroy don't fit that description. Jacque was booed on the first homestand cause he started like 0-14. LaTroy was booed after blowing like 1 save. Hmm, I thought it was longer for both of them. Ok, strike them from the example. Jacque was booed because he was absolutely the wrong fit for the team, fans knew it, he started horribly (offensively and defensively) and bitched about the fans. Latroy had a reputation for being a good reliever but choker in the closer's role before he became a Cub, and when that reputation appeared to be validated very early on, people didn't forgive. Regardless of your stance on booing, it doesn't make any sense to criticize people for not giving a veteran acquisition enough time. Veterans have enough of a track record to judge their ability to contribute. I don't need 100 PA to figure out my feelings about Neifi Perez.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I was exaggerating while making the point that I dont' really watch Vlad much, but I've seen Soriano on a regular basis throughout his career due to location. Vladdy makes it work much better than Soriano has. Vladdy walks 60ish times a year, and often strikes out less than he walks. Soriano is applauded when he reaches 40 walks. I don't know that he can do better, but I'm going to assume he could have because it's ridiculous to assume he could not. There's no reason why a player can't learn plate discipline. At this stage of the game, no, but over the first 10 years of his professional career, why not? He's got loads of talent, but gets himself out far too often and doesn't take what pitchers give him.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'm excited. Bears are said to have the easiest schedule next year based on opponents, but a lot of that is 2 vs. the 0-16 Lions. Getting Arizona or Minnesota in Chicago in December would make things that much more favorable for the Bears. Same goes for playing Pitt and Baltimore early in the year on the road. Another thing to consider is over the last few years teams have sucked after playing the Steelers. So, I'm hoping the Lions or the bye week (same thing right?) immediately follow that game. Pitt is in Chicago. Yeah, i knew that because I would be going if it was here. Okay, well that sentence confused me. I don't know what time of year is best for the Bears to face Pittsburgh, but for selfish reasons I'm hoping for early.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Soriano has been a Yankee and a Cub, so I've seen him a lot. I don't even know where Vladdy plays. But he's done better with his tools than Soriano has. He has a career .389 OBP and 147 OPS+, and has been very productive in pretty much every season he's played. Soriano is .329, 117 and has had a few disappointing seasons. They aren't the same player.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I'm excited. Bears are said to have the easiest schedule next year based on opponents, but a lot of that is 2 vs. the 0-16 Lions. Getting Arizona or Minnesota in Chicago in December would make things that much more favorable for the Bears. Same goes for playing Pitt and Baltimore early in the year on the road. Another thing to consider is over the last few years teams have sucked after playing the Steelers. So, I'm hoping the Lions or the bye week (same thing right?) immediately follow that game. Pitt is in Chicago.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I've always disliked Soriano's game. He's got all the talent in the world but does not take full advantage of it. His approach was fun to laugh at while he was a Yankee, but it drives me nuts while he's a Cub.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Now see, that reeks of the Dusty Baker mentality that said, "I don't care what his numbers were in previous years with other teams, I need to see him with my own eyes before I can judge." You should either be against booing Miles or not. Saying you can't boo him because he's had only 2 AB's is wrong. Maybe I worded it wrong. I'm against booing players on your own team anyway - so I won't do it no matter who the player is and how bad he is. But, if the fans insist on booing a player, don't do it on opening day. Especially when a player is coming off a career year. I don't think Miles will repeat that year, but if he does, he could have some level of value to the team - however minor. At this point there's a high probability we've got Miles from pre-2008, but it's not a guarantee. That makes a little more sense, until the bolded part. Why would you expect a fan to think, "hey that guy sucks, but last year was his least sucky year. He performed it with our biggest rival and is very unlikely to repeat it, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt for a yet-to-be determined grace period to prove me wrong." I'm against booing Cubs players. I might give out a two second growl of frustration after a bad play, but sustained boos are just obnoxious. But there's no need for the qualifiers.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    But he showed signs of wearing down long before he approached the 100 game mark, let alone the full season. Not that it's related or anything, but what was the injury Fukudome was recovering from prior to coming to the states last year? I have forgotten. Some sort of elbow surgery I think. Bone chips maybe.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    But he showed signs of wearing down long before he approached the 100 game mark, let alone the full season.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Is anybody else excited about the NFL's schedule release tonight? I have a couple of potential road trips depending on what happens.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Now see, that reeks of the Dusty Baker mentality that said, "I don't care what his numbers were in previous years with other teams, I need to see him with my own eyes before I can judge." You should either be against booing Miles or not. Saying you can't boo him because he's had only 2 AB's is wrong.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    The Directv guide has CSN showing the Sox Thursday night, so it would have be a CSN+ channel. DTV does carry an extra CSN sometimes, so it's a possibility. Not a big deal, but it would be great to listen to Pat and Eddie and get to see/hear the anthem. CSN's website says white sox pregame and game are on CSN+, and blackhawks pregame, game and postgame are on regular CSN.
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