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  1. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not a bulls fan. But I do know enough to realize the bulls "core" hasn't, and isn't going to take them anywhere. Basketball and baseball are completely different. Baseball teams can't survive with one or two stars and a bunch of filler. You need production from many positions. Basketball is all about the top dogs.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    It's spring training. The meaningless games haven't even started yet. What is wrong with a column like that? Do you really want the "Johnson really worked out extra hard this year in hopes of putting the disappointing 2008 season behind him" article, or the "Smith thinks he's ready to finally put it all together and translate his skills into success at the plate" column? It's better then "lets interview Cubs players about a free agent acquisition that will never happen?" What is tomorrows article, "Chad Gaudin talks about how circa 1927 Babe Ruth would fit on the 2009 Cubs"? Actually, that sounds like a cool article The point is, it's February, and there is plenty of time and column space available for all these completely meaningless (in the end) columns. I don't see the point in whining about this one. What's is wrong with setting aside two minutes of your life to fantasize about a ridiculously good Cubs lineup that could theoretically happen, if not realistically?
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I think it's funny that people think the Bulls have a good young core that needs to be built around and can't be broken up. The NBA is a stars league, it's not a core's league. Worrying about breaking up the core is only going to keep the team mired in mediocrity.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    It's spring training. The meaningless games haven't even started yet. What is wrong with a column like that? Do you really want the "Johnson really worked out extra hard this year in hopes of putting the disappointing 2008 season behind him" article, or the "Smith thinks he's ready to finally put it all together and translate his skills into success at the plate" column?
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I'm just giving you a hard time. But seriously, with Tait's ~$5m coming off the books, the Bears have a great opportunity to take advantage of an unexpected increase in cap space.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    What the heck do you think we've been talking about since yesterday? I hadn't heard this til just now. And it's not like people in this thread haven't been talking about interest in Albert before yesterday. the link is at the top of this page.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Seriously, the hand wringing over this is incredible. I thought about it today while reading the free paper that had the chris brown story on its cover. The media and all the talking heads are completely blowing over the fact that he beat the crap out of his girlfriend, saying things like "we can't judge" and "we weren't there". That's a much bigger story than ARod doing roids, yet the blowhards are out in force on this one. It's even more amazing when you consider pop stars are so much more popular than athletes. I'd also say steroids use has been rampant in sports since at least the 60's. Baseball may have been a little late to the game, but I guarantee they were popular in the 80's, if not earlier. I knew a guy who dealt them, and used to use them, who was a minor league pitcher in the late 80's.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    What the heck do you think we've been talking about since yesterday?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I think you are letting the Tommie Harris situation clowd your thinking. I fully expect him to start declining in his early 30's, but there's no reason he can't go through the next 3-4 seasons performing at a top notch level. The best of the best typically stay that way for a while. You will see d-ends come and go with fluke sack totals, but a great d-tackle should be able to remain great for a good deal of time. They aren't running backs.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    So you are worried that he got better after his first couple years in the league? He's been a pro bowler at 26/27. If you sign him, you can be pretty certain you're going to get great performance for the next 3 years, from 28-30, and even if he starts to decline in his early 30's, you can get your money's worth, and cut him down the road if need be.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    You can't ignore DE. Brown, Ogunleye, and Anderson are all unrestricted FAs after 2009. You gotta get another guy regardless. You can maybe wait until the 3rd round, but you can't ignore DE. Well, I didn't mean completely ignore. What I meant was you don't have to worry about drafting one early, and really, you wouldn't have to worry about having any top notch guys out there. Those two DT would make any mediocre end look good. I wouldn't even take one in the third this year. You can always resign one of those guys next year, then draft one in the 2010 offseason. Spending that much cap space on dtackles means you are counting on them for being the difference makers on the line.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3916393 With Tait's money off the books, I'd throw a boatload at Haynesworth. You can then ignore defensive end, because Brown and the rest of the gang will have plenty of opportunity to rush the passer. The draft can then be all about the offense, emphasizing line help. Adding him to the Bears defense could vault them back into the top of the league.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I'd agree that Gaudin is over the top. Z just had a mustache... that was a pornstache
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The problem is listening to sports talk radio. I follow the Chicago papers and CSN, and from what I've seen on both, the Blackhawks are getting a tremendous amount of coverage.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    It's got a freaking lake in the middle of it. There's a pool and a pond. The pond would be good for you.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    you think you'll get tickets below face value on the secondary market? or am i misreading your post? Yeah, its not impossible for that to happen at all. I mean White Sox/Cardinals game? Probably not, but a Wednesday night game against the Reds its very doable. If you're smart you can get good values anytime. Remember the Red Sox series in 2005? That series had so much hype, the secondary market was making a killing. I sold some tickets to the weekend games for almost triple face (I kept my friday tickets). My friend got to Wrigley 10 minutes before the Friday game, talked to the first scalper he saw, and talked him down to face value. He sat 3 rows in front of me. It was possible to get tickets at or close to face the past couple years, before the economy tanked. There's going to be a lot less demand out there to drive up prices this year. There will still probably be enough to sell-out, but this selling season is the first such sports ticket selling season since the fall's fall. There's much less of a need to take on the early risk and pay for tickets now that you won't use until the summer.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    I was hoping he'd be a fallback option in the offseason (as a FA) in case the second base situation sucks. Now, we've got a whole heck of a lot riding on Fontenot playing well. Of course, I wouldn't have been thrilled with paying Roberts $10 million a year over 4 years, either. Maybe that's a bad value in this market, but I don't think that's overpaid. He is a very very good player. In DeRosa's career year last year, Roberts outplayed him in several areas. The problem is his age and the fact that speed is such an important part of his game. It makes him a very questionable bet to give that long of a deal to. He'll start slowing down both on the basepaths and defensively, and he'll have to hit as well as he did last year in those final 2 years to make up for that. The Orioles caved on this one. Roberts has been demanding a 4th year for months. Because of Hudson, the trade value for Roberts has been zero, so I guess they weren't willing to gamble on losing him for draft picks at the end of the year. Agree. Roberts would have been nice going into 2008, but he's 31 now, and I have little interest in trying to coax multiple quality years out of a 30-something middle infielder.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That's fine and all, but given Lou's penchant for double switching, and the fact that none of the Cubs 3B, SS, and 2B are 162 game players, odds are they will see a need for a backup at more than one of those positions in the same game. Waiting to call a guy up when you need him is risky. And there's no guarantee you can even get the player from whatever minor league city he is in to whatever major league city the team is in in time for the next game.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    He probably means, you know, reality. Pretending they are a proven veteran away from contention would be stupid. If you are an Orioles fan that is unsettled by that statement, you are completely clueless about your team's sitiuation. You should hope they do whatever they can to harness whatever value they can out of the players they have, and think about the longterm health of the franchise.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Even what he did early in the minors I think would be acceptable from that quote. If he can manage to fight his way through 4-5 innings, they'll keep him in there for a while. This was from this MLB.com writer in his blog: http://spencerfordin.mlblogs.com/ If anybody could pitch his way out, Hill probably could. And considering that penciled in suggests temporary status, being all but penciled in makes it even more tenuous. Hopefully he makes it, but there's still still some significant hurdles to pass. Fighting through 4-5 innings might end up being a stretch for him.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    so who's the other middle infielder? It will probably be someone who gets cut from their team right before the season starts. Utility infielders are a dime a dozen. I assume they will pick up somebody from another team's scrap heap, or the remaining free agent list. I just don't see how they can justify Johnson, Gathwright, Hoffpauir, Miles and Bako/Hill. Gathwright is completely unnecessary, even though they have him a guaranteed contract.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Stay the heck out of the cess pool of Florida, that's an awful place for spring training. Arizona has been building big beautiful ballparks every other year trying to attract more teams, I highly doubt they'd let their top drawing team leave. It's just posturing by the Cubs to get a sweet stadium deal.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I still highly doubt this team goes into the season with both Hoff and Gathwright on the roster. Assuming Reed, Soriano, Fukudome and Bradley are all healthy enough to start the season, that would mean they'd have only one backup infielder. There's no way they willingly go into the season with no ability to replace both middle infielders, or one of them and Ramirez, in the same game. I can't see it happening. They don't have a single reliable everyday middle infielder on the team, and Ramirez is a sure thing to miss time. They will have to either eat Gathwright's contract or let Hoff go, because they will go with 2 backup infielders, someway, somehow.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think they'd station a couple of hooligans outside the door to turn him away. He'd be just fine, and probably have the same amount of friends in the game as he does now while in the union.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    . :-k It's mighty big of the players union to allow the CBA to be breached when it benefits their own, isn't it? I love the blurb about how the union would permit Cruz and others to waive their individual rights. I don't think the union has a say in that decision. Wasn't it the union not allowing ARod to waive his rights that prevented him from being traded to Boston and instead to NYC? I believe it was that he was willing to take a salary cut to fit in the Red Sox's payroll and the union objected. That would be correct. ARod was will to cut something like $30 million off his deal to make the trade happen, but the union wasn't having it. The union confuses me sometimes. Why won't the union allow something like that? Does the union get a portion of that money or something? If it's his money what do they care what he does with it? Precedent. And the fact that what A-Rod gets affects the everyone else. He's at the top of the food chain, what he does affects everyone below him. All unions are set up to benefit the collective that makes up the union. Sometimes that means that the needs of the guys at the top have to be subordinate to everyone else. In the end, it benefits everyone. in theory
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