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  1. jersey cubs fan
    It doesn't really take away from your point - but why jerseys? I didn't go to many games when I was a kid. But when I did, we brought in a bag of peanuts, maybe bought a coke, and that was it. There's no reason why you have to buy all that extra stuff, and there's really no reason why you have to buy a hat, or any merchandise for that matter. I don't get why they always talk about the price of 4 tickets, 4 dogs, 4 drinks plus merchandise. Buy your ticket, eat beforehand and enjoy the game if cost is an issue.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    If that's what they sell for on the secondary market, why shouldn't the team sell them at that price?
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    A stadium that hosted what, a half dozen college games per year? A new baseball stadium is a different animal, hosting 81 gamers per year, many during the night. It will change the neighborhood in some way shape or form. Not if nobody cares about the team. "Nobody" is relative. It takes time to build fan bases. Florida has a couple titles which I'm sure created some passion that can grow. The issue now is creating a team that contends on a regular basis. Win and dismantle might work for a team like the Cubs, whose fans are dying for just one, but it's safe to say it doesn't work with expansion teams. Nobody shows up to or cares about Pirates games, because they are god awful every year. Florida still hasn't won a division title, they've finished 4th or worse nine times. If you are consistently noncompetitive and play in a god awful baseball stadium, you just aren't going to draw fans. A stadium alone won't bring them out for long (although it's better than nothing), a stadium plus competition will make them as viable as several other baseball cities.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I will say this, they have appeared completely disinterested in just about every other potential offseason upgrade they could have had. However, they have been surprisingly non-dismissive about the Cutler situation. I still think Denver has no intentions of trading him. But I'm not convinced the Bears are out of the running if he is on the market.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    A stadium that hosted what, a half dozen college games per year? A new baseball stadium is a different animal, hosting 81 gamers per year, many during the night. It will change the neighborhood in some way shape or form.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    That's where I'm putting my money as well.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    It passed because the right palms were greased on the city commission. I cannot think of a worse place to put the ballpark. It will be like where the Yankees play only worse b/c they won't have near enough police. i agree...just awful. id much rather go the football stadium in a decent part of town to watch a game than get anywhere near little havana at night. Stadiums going up in bad neighborhoods is nothing new. Without Comiskey would anyone ever venture toward that neighborhood? What about Camden Yards, Yankee Stadium, Shea, Philly, Pittsburgh. One of the worst places in the country, Camden, New Jersey, has a fairly successful 25,000 person concert venue located there. Well known hell-hole Newark, New Jersey is now home to a minor league baseball stadium and a hockey arena. I don't think you can compare simply walking through the area today with what it will be like once there is an actual stadium with thousands of people showing up.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    My understanding is that most languages have the "proper" way to say things, but that generally is not the simplest way to say it. So, they find easier ways to say things even if they're not truly "proper" by the book. My brother lived in Argentina for 8 months after high school and they called Mexican spanish what would translate to sissy spanish because everything was slang. I guess Argentina and Spain speak Spanish by the book and Central America uses a lot of slang. It's like the difference between the U.S. and England is what my brother compared it to. Except the English don't really know how to speak their own language.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Throw EVERYTHING at a whiny baby who has compiled a .500 record and is interception prone? His record is meaningless. He's done his job. With a halfway decent defense that record would be better.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    The Jets are coming up soon, I had a couple names in mind but both were recently taken. In the interest of making things go faster, if anybody wants to PM me suggestions for the Jets selection, I'll take a look. I've gone QB/WR so far, and am looking for BPA.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    What's so hard is probably Denver has no intentions of actually dealing him, and that throwing EVERYTHING at them could be a mistake - depending what EVERYTHING means. With or without Cutler, the Bears need offensive line help, wide receivers and defensive upgrades. If they were to trade 2 firsts and a second, plus Orton, where would that leave them? A franchise QB would be a godsend, but without the ability to field a team around him, that QB isn't going to shine all that brightly. As to the comment that the Bears have never had a good-great QB at any point, McMahon was good, Harbaugh was good, Kramer was good for a bit, Miller was as well. They've had good QBs. The problem is they haven't had good QB's for any extended period of time, and when they did, briefly, the only time it coincided with the rest of the team being good enough to really contend, was with McMahon. Clearly they've never had a great QB.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    So it's going to break down if he repeats this motion consistently over time, but the number of consistent repetitions of this movement over time does not matter.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I think they think they did this. Apparantly they feel Bullocks problems were related to the largely man coverage he played in New Orleans and that he'll be fine in a cover-2 scheme. I actually forgot about Bullocks, but I don't think he's any better than Danieal. But he still allows Danieal to stay at nickel and provides depth.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Sign an OT in the next couple weeks and I love Duke in the 2nd. I'd still rather get a DE in the first (Ayres), rather than waiting for the 3rd. I think the 3rd round WR is closer to the 1st round talent than the 3rd round DE talent is to the 1st round talent. I'd take Iglesias, Louis Murphy, etc along w/ Ayres over DHB and a DE like Shaunessey (sp?). Considering they already have 3 defensive ends and a defensive line coach they expect to improve what's there, couldn't the argument be made to just find a pass rush specialist later? Sure, it would be nice to get a stud. But they got Brown in the 4th and Anderson in the 5th, and Ogunleye was an undrafted free agent. My bet is they'd stand a much better chance of turning a project or one dimensional low round end into a valuable player than they would a receiver.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Something tells me Davis didn't beat Parcells. If this guy is a former starter on a team like the Dolphins, which went through interior lineman on a weekly basis, he's probably just not good.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I think they think they did this. Apparantly they feel Bullocks problems were related to the largely man coverage he played in New Orleans and that he'll be fine in a cover-2 scheme.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    needn't?
  18. jersey cubs fan
    If they had a good line and brought in one good receiver, I think Orton would be fine. The problem isn't really settling on Orton, but not giving him much of anything to work with. Olsen and Hester are his only real weapons. And Forte. I agree he doesn't have the weapons, but I also feel he's not going to be a top level QB regardless. No, he'll never be Manning. But look at Pittsburgh, they win with regularity without a guy at QB who lights it up. Obviously I'd prefer to have a solid franchise QB. But Orton can get the job done if he has better receivers. I don't really consider Forte a weapon in the passing game. It's fine to dump off to the guy every once in a while, but when i'm talking weapon, I mean guys who can get you 10-20+ yards on a somewhat regular basis.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    If they had a good line and brought in one good receiver, I think Orton would be fine. The problem isn't really settling on Orton, but not giving him much of anything to work with. Olsen and Hester are his only real weapons.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Larry Mayer on chicagobears.com responded to a reader's question about the lack of free agent signings by saying, "well Indy and Pittsburgh" haven't signed any guys either. Obviously he's implying that good teams don't waste their money on free agents. The problem is those are good teams that don't need free agents. The Bears aren't a good team and do need a hunge influx of talent. They need to get them through free agency because they've thrown away so many draft selections in recent years. Just this year they released a late draft pick (who signed elsewhere) so they could bring back Fred Miller's corpse to bring absolutely nothing to the team.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    And just because he did that last year, that doesn't make him an above average hitter today. You can't define players simply by their previous season. Theriot doesn't give you a .380 OBP, he did it last year, but that doesn't guarantee he does it this year. In 2007 he was bottom of the barrel. That's true, although bottom of the barrel is really exaggerating it (a .672 OPS was still better than 9 other teams that season and 1 point off a 10th). Theriot was definitely below average though that year. Last year, Theriot's production at SS was better than 20 teams. Even accounting for the fact that a couple of teams had their backups probably pull down their numbers of their starters that might have been above Theriot, that still leaves him as above average. It especially is so when you consider that he's 40 to 50 points better in OBP than other SS's around that production level. Theriot would have to come close to repeating last year to be above average. A .290/.350/.355 line would put him at average though. Cubs shortstops were worst in the league, and once Theriot took over the SS job his numbers were nearly identical to total Cubs shortstop numbers in 2007.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    $9.5 million is not a lot of money for a free agent year option. It makes sense for the guy to sign a deal that allows him to be set for life. But he's leaving a lot of money on the table by agreeing with this.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, it sucked. LA does broadcast their games on a RSN, but I think maybe yesterday's game was on an over-the-air channel. I've seen their broadcasts before on Center Ice. EDIT: Actually, yesterday was just a no-TV game for the Kings. It's odd, but the Blues have had a few this year too. http://kings.nhl.com/team/app?service=page&page=TeamSchedule What kind of backwoods professional sports organization would keep their team's games off of TV?
  24. jersey cubs fan
    And just because he did that last year, that doesn't make him an above average hitter today. You can't define players simply by their previous season. Theriot doesn't give you a .380 OBP, he did it last year, but that doesn't guarantee he does it this year. In 2007 he was bottom of the barrel.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Hooray for victories. Although I really hate WGN broadcasts. The lack of an HD option on directv completely detracts from the event. Hockey is the best HD sport, or at least the biggest beneficiary. Does LA not broadcast their games? This is the second Kings/Hawks game I got stuck watching on a non-HD feed. Most games give you 4 options, HD and non-HD for each team's network, but yesterday I had only the non-HD WGN feed.
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