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  1. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJhqDm0L-A exciting times to be a Bears fan
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know how easily they could have succeeded in making that money grab. In this economy, a price freeze is practically a must for discretionary spending. Every game has been 100% sold out this year. They have a STH waiting list. They definitely could have raised prices. If they raised ticket prices $5 each, it would net them, conservatively, $4.5M. And those tickets were sold long before the collapse of Fall 2008. When they try and sell them again this summer, the environment will be much, much different. Unemployment will be much higher, people's 401K's will be worth half what they were the previous summer, credit will be much harder to get. Not to mention, they still have to make some noice in the playoffs to keep the momentum. A first round knockout is going to hit the enthusiasm.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know how easily they could have succeeded in making that money grab. In this economy, a price freeze is practically a must for discretionary spending.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    His patience is debatable, he saw about as many pitches per PA as Cedeno, and just barely more than Soriano. Part of the problem is his complete lack of power makes pitchers very confident to throw him strikes, but he did draw a fair amount of walks.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    If it's successful the tying run is in scoring position. and if it's not you're down to your last out and need a home run to tie it. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I don't think it's terrible. There was good reasoning behind the decision. Getting the tying run in scoring position if fine motivation, but the reasoning isn't all that great when you consider the consequences.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    i was going to bring this up too. it's probably nothing, but i think the longer it drags out the more likely its not going to happen. I'm guessing he doesn't want to leave all the money on the table, and he is trying to get the Bears to buy out a portion of his contract. But if it's a matter of just waiting to be sure he really wants to retire, I'm fearful that he'll return, out of shape, with no motivation, taking up cap space.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Balls. I don't really like that everybody insists resigning JSC should be, and is, a priority. He's not good. The priority should be replacing him with somebody better. JSC is just another body at the position. Screw the familiarity. All that familiarity has gotten them so far is a bad offensive line. Why would anybody want to maintain the continuity of a bad offensive line. Hopefully the delay in signing him is more about the Bears looking elsewhere than anything else. Also, why is Tait's official retirement taking so long?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Eh, competition never hurt anybody. If there was no competition, and Fontenot's and Miles's numbers were reversed, how would you feel then? I'd be really annoyed that this organization would probably be stupid enough to start Aaron Miles everyday. It's not like Mike Fontenot is a tried and true stud 2B. I don't mind that there is competition. It's going to end up as some sort of platoon eventually anyway. The problem was getting Miles, but Fontenot doesn't deserve a 162 game job anyway. At least Fontenot doesn't have a proven track record of sub-mediocrity against righties. Giving Aaron [expletive] Miles a chance to win a full time starting job would be awful. I don't know how much of a chance he was actually given to win a full-time starting job. I really don't think he had one. They have 3 guys for 2 positions, and none of them are 162 game players.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    He makes as much sense as anybody at the 2 hole.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Eh, competition never hurt anybody. If there was no competition, and Fontenot's and Miles's numbers were reversed, how would you feel then? I'd be really annoyed that this organization would probably be stupid enough to start Aaron Miles everyday. It's not like Mike Fontenot is a tried and true stud 2B. I don't mind that there is competition. It's going to end up as some sort of platoon eventually anyway. The problem was getting Miles, but Fontenot doesn't deserve a 162 game job anyway.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    Nonsense. Players play, and contribute, at less than 100% all the time. Maybe I shouldn't have used the term "not 100%," but I'm fine with a player taking himself out when he doesn't feel up to it. Moreso the case with pitchers, but it's a longass season, player decides he wants a break, give him a break. A couple times a year, sure, but I don't think that's the case with Bradley.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Nonsense. Players play, and contribute, at less than 100% all the time.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know on this one...I chalk this up to one of those things where you take the good with the bad. What if you could get Z to not start if he's feeling like he doesn't have his "A" game...effectively just removing his bad starts for whatever Heilman or whoever could give that day? Only Bradley knows his body, and how his body tends to affect his performance when it feels certain ways. If he's got something going on that normally ends up with him putting up an 0-for or a 1-5 at best, then I have no problem with him letting someone else take a whack if it helps get him back to where he can hit like we know he can hit when he's well. The problem is we don't know if there really is a predictive correllation between how he feels and how he performs. Only he does. We have to be prepared to put the replacement guy out there on pretty much any given day with Milton. No he doesn't. There's no way he knows when he's going to have an 0-5 and sits out that game only.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Rule 5 Lefty He's done real well so far this spring. 5.1 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 6/0 K/BB I googled patton baseball cube and came up with some lefty in the Houston system. But this dude is a righty who has had issues with the walk throughout his career.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    I don't know anything about this Patton dude. What's his story?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    lol If you're being unbiased I don't see how you can say there was nothing wrong with what he said. He basically admitted that he sat out on days he could have played because he didn't want his numbers to take a hit because it might cost him money the next season. How is that "telling it like it is"? Shut up Milton. We're tryng to like you. Just shut up. 95% of players do this, most of them just lie to cover it up. Might not win him any fans, but all of his teammates know what he's talking about. That is the definition of "telling it like it is". Could he have just as easily said "I played every chance I got and just couldn't stay healthy." Yeah, but that's apparently not how he rolls. Let's hope it doesn't come back to bite him in the rear end. Really? 95% of players sit out games so as to not endanger their numbers? I have a hard time believing this is true.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Really? I thought people were down on turning Pie and Cedeno into another inconsistent reliever making millions. Personally, as somebody who has been hearing Mets fans do nothing but bitch about the guy for years now, I'm not all that enthusiastic about his tenure.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    What does "in this economy" have to do with it? People don't get away with bad mouthing their employees, and especially not for calling them "retarted". People need to learn that facebook and the internet in general is not some private conversation. If you were for a sports team and are dumb enough to insult the powers that be online, you are putting your job at risk. And besides, this was just a gameday employee right? He works the 10 days a year, presumably that's not his day job.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I want Samardzija starting in AAA, although I'm still not the least bit convinced he's got a great future ahead of him as a starter. He really wasn't all that great last year, despite some flashes of brilliance, but he may never amount to anything better than a reliever. That being said, they probably have a couple guys who can do the same exact thing.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    This show was terrible. How many times did Harold Reynolds say another analyst "hit the nail on the head."? Vasgersian tried to say the Cubs pitching was good for the first time in a long time last year, when it has been their pitching that has legitimized the team for the past decade. It's the hitting that was fresh and new, freaking moron. Reynolds was all up Gathwright's jock because he can go in late and catch the ball and "the Cubs haven't had that before." Harold Reynolds is just another dumb jock analyst who gets all giddy about dandy little glovemen and praises grit over production. Everytime Vasgersian talked I wanted to hit the X button on the controller to skip the scene and get to the next pitch. The woman doing the interviews was a complete hack (and Lou missed a great chance to capitalize on her "I don't want to date you" line).
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Hopefully if he does struggle it won't be as god awful useless as he was in the second half. He needs to at least get on base early.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    They picked a great time. Any sooner and they would have gotten less of a deal, any later and they wouldn't have gotten a deal. I suppose from that perspective. From the seat selling perspective, not so good. Selling seats in this economy is going to be tough, regardless of whether or not they have a new stadium. At least since it's new there is added incentive for people to keep paying during the tight times. If this was just another year at the old dump they may have taken a harder hit.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    They picked a great time. Any sooner and they would have gotten less of a deal, any later and they wouldn't have gotten a deal.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    What in the world are you talking about? ? Soriano isn't getting $17m a year. It's 8 years and heavily back loaded. Soriano has earned the money he's made to date, imo. Whether he'll earn it at the end of the contract, well, I highly doubt. Is that what you were after? I think that's pretty clear from my earlier posts, but maybe I'm just totally missing something b/c you seem almost offended. His contract is a guaranteed contract that averages to $17m/year. He made $17m in the first year, $13m in the 2nd and will make $16m this year and $18 the rest. It's asinine to suggest he doesn't make $17m a year. The contract is guaranteed and the signing bonus was already paid, and it's not even close to heavily backloaded.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'd like to file this idea under the definition of "how to make a bad contract worse". Trading Dempster for Vizcaino already accomplished that goal. This would be more like reshuffling bad contracts. The Cubs have plenty of arms that can fill the mediocre reliever role Vizcaino would fill, they don't have any shortstop depth in the organization. :shock: I'm dumb.
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