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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Jake Fox can't play C. I didn't mean Fox as the 2nd C, I meant only as an emergency catcher. If by emergency, you mean we don't plan on winning and want to watch a lot of dropped pitches. ok. That's pretty much what an emergency catcher does.
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    Perhaps the least reliable way to judge a professional athlete's worth.
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    I'd bet Lee gets first dibs on the 3 spot.
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    There is a pretty big difference between "I'd rather see Khabi out there than Huet" and "Oh god, we have to watch Huet flopping around out there tonight...great". Look through the thread. It's even been admitted by a poster that he irrationally hates Huet. Two, at least. I hate Huet and I accept that he's an above average goalie. He's also a bad fit for this team and has a huge mistake of a contract that we will regret very soon. Sounds like a great game tonight, though. Got in the car just in time to hear the radio highlights. How does a goalie become a bad fit for a team? Is this some sort of groundball pitcher on a team with bad defenders thing, or a slinging QB on a team that only runs? I don't get it. As for the contract, the time to regret it has passed. They made it work with Khabi and Huet on the same roster, and after this season, Khabi is gone. Prior to this season, Khabi was nothing special for the Hawks, and it would have been a huge risk to sign him to an extension regardless of Huet's status. The fact that they pretty much can't resign him could be a blessing in disguise. Huet will be the primary goalie starting next year. He's pretty good, and not at all expensive.
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    It would be convenient to have a backup 3B, however, it still leaves the Cubs with one backup for MI, something I doubt they would like. Ironically, the Cubs are pretty short of RH bench bats, and could probably use one. However, Marte has really sucked.
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    Can't you do that buying online? I'm pretty sure Ticket Master charges extra fees for tickets purchased online. So people wait in-line to save the couple bucks? I'd think the time wasted would be worth more to them.
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    Can't you do that buying online?
  8. jersey cubs fan
    I still don't get why people go through the effort of dealing with the wristbands and showing up in person.
  9. 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.
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    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?
  11. 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.
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    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?
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    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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
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    What the heck do you think we've been talking about since yesterday?
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
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    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.
  20. 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.
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    I'd agree that Gaudin is over the top. Z just had a mustache... that was a pornstache
  22. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  25. 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.
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