jersey cubs fan

Yeah him and Bryant I think both had cold/flu symptoms and sat out for a while but never tested positive. At least during the year. No idea about the offseason though. They shouldn't have even tested KB, he gets that once a month during the season. I can't even imagine how much more than boozehound drank in quarantine

smdh

Who is Jack?

I mean, George is right.

Tampa seems tough as well considering they are reigning champs and just hosted the Superbowl. Didn't have a full stadium last year and may be those fans last chances to see Tom Brady. And horsefeathers tons of Bears fans have houses in the Tampa/Ft Myers area. never in the history of the world has it been difficult to acquire a ticket to a sporting event in the tampa st. pete area. If you want to go, you can go without being gouged.

I’m not really familiar with how the undrafted free agent game works, but this guy seems likely to play for the Blackhawks this season.

Ian Happ gets taken down in a big barstool scandal

A lot can happen between now and training camp, let alone the first game. But the 17 game schedule is official now and the Bears will play in Vegas, so 9 road games are on the slate. They also go to LA to face the Rams again, Seattle, Cleveland, Tampa and Pittsburgh. They will host Arizona, San Fran, Baltimore, Cincy and the Giants. Once I'm all vaccinated count me in for the Tampa trip, and hell, I might just have to go to Vegas. Anyway, back to the offseason thread. Important Bears related dates

A majority, as in more than half, yes. They sell more than half their seats every year. They do see discernible drops as the team struggles. What that used to look like was a bad team would suddenly get good and then the following season they would set an attendance record. There is a lag, so people will still show up when the team is bad, but if that bad season is followed by another, attendance will drop below 3 million. The Cubs bottomed out at 2.6 million in 2013/14, the last time they had back to back seasons missing the playoffs. I really don't think Rizzo sells tickets is something that holds up. Winning sells tickets. They can afford to take a year or two off from the playoffs and keep attendance over 3 million in normal circumstances. But tickets aren't the only metric. Ratings are a different beast but I assume they work the same way, with winning teams driving ratings, but not individual players. If they replace Rizzo and win, people will still show up.

Bold!

5 years ago you could be certain another team would end up giving the guy what he wanted. Nowadays you can't be certain. Aging stars coming back on a series of one year deals could become the new norm.

you're not wrong

2021 In-season transactions: Bunch of meaningless spring training releases

My Stockholm syndrome has me thinking I’d be intrigued by Dalton, Darnold and a late round draft pick in the qb room. If Darnold ain’t costing much you can still use your 1st and 2nd on thing s that will help 2021. Go ahead and offer the Jets a conditional 2022 pick. If Darnold is on the bears in 2022, they get a 2nd. The only way he makes that team is if the they believes he’s any good and you’d make that trade. Three new options without selling out the future. Maybe one of the doesn’t even suck!

Blackhawks win?

Sounds like Eloy tore his tit

bulls taded otto porter and wendell carter for nikola vucevic

I'm sure I saw him throw at some point, but I honestly cannot recall a moment of Cubs baseball last year. Summer 2020 was for other stuff.

Things can be two things. Alzolay's age, injury history, and performance mean that he's not a guy you want to pencil into the rotation for 5 years, but he has the stuff and is young enough to be a short to medium term hope if things work out, which ranks pretty highly on the list of short to medium term hopes given the legion of mediocrity you mention. So is the consensus that yes, there is still some wishing and hoping on this guy, but not a whole heck of a lot? I genuinely have no idea what he's been up to, I just know I've heard his name as a guy on the cusp of certain lists for years now and was surprised he was already 26. I don't know of many pitchers with such a thin resume by that age who wound up being something. Although I'm sure it's happened.

I was at that game, and so was Brian Urlacher. Funny Side failed to win the triple crown later that day.

Oops Eloy did it again

Right, but it was a handful of games against lesser competition when he'd otherwise by training with NHLers. He wasn't going to improve his NHL career by participating.

No it wasn't. Getting additional experience and playing time in a year when they've missed a significant amount of development is an unequivocally bad idea? Are you arguing that purely because of the injury risk or is there something else? Because then I'm going to ask you if no team players should ever be allowed to play in any tournaments whatsoever. Positives: - Additional playing time in a year with less development time than normal - Having that development taking place in a pressurized tournament atmosphere - Getting your player some additional high level coaching he wouldn't otherwise get - Building a positive relationship with that player if he wants to play - Building positive relationships within the sport in general in supporting the tournaments - Building positive relationships with players in general in supporting their guys Negatives: - Injury risk You can make an argument that the injury risk outweighs everything else, but it really isn't 100% clear that is the case. I generally agree with your sentiment and add that even the injury risk is more of a short-term concern, and this team didn't have any real short-term concerns coming into the season. Because nobody thought there was any chance of 2021 success. Anything good was gravy. Short of a career ender, who cares if a guy misses time this year. This isn't a pitcher wasting his limited innings on dumb international tournaments. But I'd also note that the Blackhawks did get a lot of developing time, sneaking into the playoff bubble situation and winning a series. The 2020 season was cut short, but at a time when they were essentially out of the playoff race. They came back and wound up in more "meaninful" games than they would have if covid never happened. The playing time in juniors also basically just cut into practicing with the NHL team. He wasn't going to develop any more by participating in this tournament against kids, getting a handful of games in against lesser competition. I'd take away each of those top 3 "positives" as more theoretical and not particularly likely to be real. Two weeks with a coach who isn't the coach trying to get a team to buy into his system could be construed as a negative. I do think those other positives are real though, not the least of which is helping to promote the game/team/player, which is still a thing that matters for this league.