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  1. jersey cubs fan
    There's a finite number of quality options. If a team has the room in the budget I don't see the problem. Boston has consistently gone after top tier talent and made it work within their budget while succeeding at a very high level. Why do people have a problem with that?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    1995 13-year-old KyleJRM listening to the 49ers/Falcons game knowing there is no *way* Steve Young fails to get a measly field goal drive to win it and put the Bears in the playoffs. Oops. I was at the Bears/Eagles game. Christmas Eve. The stadium started to worry when the scoreboard stopped showing the other game's score. i was at that game too. ugh. So was I. It was maybe my 4th or 5th Bears game ever, went with my brother and dad when I was home from college.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Talk about a luxury. The Red Sox don't need Teixeira. Not unless they plan on moving Lowell (or benching him). Youkilis was a Top 3 first baseman last year in the AL. Unless Ortiz is projected to miss significant time on the DL, why would they even need Teixeira? What does need have to do with anything? They want to field the best team they can. Adding a guy like Teixeira would improve their chances. Lowell isn't all that good and he's older. He and Drew are good bets to miss plenty of time. They already lost Manny last year and Ortiz is probably in decline. This is something you do when you try and build a 95-win team every year. I'd like to see if Drew becomes available in trade.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    One last prime time matchup against what has been one of the league's most unheralded disappointments this year, the Green Bay Packers. The Bears are 4.5 point favorites against the team that kicked the crap out of them in Green Bay last month. It's quite possible the Bears will have been eliminated from playoff contention before they even step on the field, although other than Minny needing to lose, I'm not sure what other longshot wild card hopes they have. It should be a cold and potentially snowy night. Even if they miss the playoffs I hope they avoid the GB sweep.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    what makes that so obvious? oh, and i'd also be remiss if i didn't mention Fuku was roughly 5 runs better than Ibanez on the basepaths last year I'm guessing it's obvious to him because Fukudome didn't just hit some rough patches that held down his numbers, but rather he was a complete piece of crap at the plate for months. I don't get why people are thanking god that Ibanez won't be available. He wasn't ideal, but they are more likely than not getting somebody, and they could do a lot worse. $10m for a 40-year-old Ibanez would have probably been the worst payment per year of any of Hendry's signings, that is until Soriano's 40 (or whatever age he'll be in last year of his contract). When all is said and done, I'm not sure we'll be able to nail down the winner of that award. But for what it's worth, Ibanez turned 36 during this season. A 3 year deal won't pay him a dime when he's 40. Sorry, 39. How dare I round up 1 year. You're so sensitive. I said, for what it's worth. But seriously, who rounds ages? We're talking about a finite number of years these guys play, it's not hard to just use the actual age instead of next highest number that makes my argument look better than it is.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    You're calling for running the ball, possession football and lamenting too many passes and at the same time a conservative game plan. No, I'm calling for him to not be simultaneously conservative and stupid. It's fine to play conservative and run the ball when you are leading, have a good running game, and know you can take a large-ish amount of the remaining time off the clock. Throwing short sideline passes which run some risk of a DB jumping the route, have a chance at stopping the clock due to an incompletion, and are easy to stop for little gain in any event are stupid play calls. Running the ball -- which the Bears do well -- combined with a little play action would have been superior. At the five minute mark, passing the ball (as the Bears did twice) for an incompletion and an interception was really dumb. Well I don't think they designed it to be incomplete then intercepted. That would be dumb. But there is nothing wrong with passing in those situations. You can't just run/run/run. They mixed it up, and they won. The only reason it was close was because of Rashied Davis and Olin Kreutz. Everybody can talk about stupid playcalling after the fact. New Orleans running a sweep on 4th down was probably the dumbest play of the month.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I would doubt very much that Derosa would have any sort of positive clubhouse effect on Bradley.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    And it's also clear that it's just the opposite with the bat, the far more important part of their games. My point is people are making huge assumptions about the exact nature of the difference with their gloves.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    You'd think he'd get more, but this market is not all that cut and dried and you just never know who is going to get what. In terms of talent? Yes. But he won’t get more. His injury history is too vast and his mental baggage history too scary to command more than Ibanez just received. I just can't see it happening. Stranger things have certainly happened though. I should have clarified that what I meant is you'd think Ibanez would get more, because of Bradley's issues, but you never no.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I guess, but I'd cut him the second the team is eliminated from playoff contention then.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    and the numbers bear out that Fukudome was a superior player to Ibanez last year and will most likely continue to be for the next three seasons I don't see it. defense I understand the assumption, I just don't see it. People are going a bit overboard around here pretending they can accurately determine the defensive differences.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    You'd think he'd get more, but this market is not all that cut and dried and you just never know who is going to get what.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Not if he keeps OPSing in the 600s. you're kidding me you actually think he's had a sufficient MLB sample from which to judge him? he's progressed as a hitter in the minors the last several seasons, fwiw What in his post illicited this response? He said that his defense won't make up for his lack of hitting if he keeps OPSing in the 600s. Not if. That's what he said. He didn't say, Pie has had sufficient MLB sample size to judge that he will always have an OPS of 600. He said if he stays where he's at it's a problem. In other words, he has to get better.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    and the numbers bear out that Fukudome was a superior player to Ibanez last year and will most likely continue to be for the next three seasons I don't see it.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    You're calling for running the ball, possession football and lamenting too many passes and at the same time a conservative game plan. You are right that the offense is a big reason why the defense wears down. They need to have more sustained drives.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    what makes that so obvious? oh, and i'd also be remiss if i didn't mention Fuku was roughly 5 runs better than Ibanez on the basepaths last year I'm guessing it's obvious to him because Fukudome didn't just hit some rough patches that held down his numbers, but rather he was a complete piece of crap at the plate for months. I don't get why people are thanking god that Ibanez won't be available. He wasn't ideal, but they are more likely than not getting somebody, and they could do a lot worse. $10m for a 40-year-old Ibanez would have probably been the worst payment per year of any of Hendry's signings, that is until Soriano's 40 (or whatever age he'll be in last year of his contract). When all is said and done, I'm not sure we'll be able to nail down the winner of that award. But for what it's worth, Ibanez turned 36 during this season. A 3 year deal won't pay him a dime when he's 40.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    It doesn't make much sense to compare numbers? I don't care about "seeing flaws", I care about players that can produce.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    what makes that so obvious? oh, and i'd also be remiss if i didn't mention Fuku was roughly 5 runs better than Ibanez on the basepaths last year I'm guessing it's obvious to him because Fukudome didn't just hit some rough patches that held down his numbers, but rather he was a complete piece of crap at the plate for months. I don't get why people are thanking god that Ibanez won't be available. He wasn't ideal, but they are more likely than not getting somebody, and they could do a lot worse.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    At this point they probably have to get a guy like Peavy in order to move Marquis. However, like leadoff, #5 starter isn't a position. And you can't deflect the negative value of his salary vs his performance. He's an overpaid mediocre 5th starter and because of poor planning Hendry will have to pay somebody else to take him off their hands. or you can just keep him around and let him throw a bunch of league-average innings. considering that two of the starters are rich harden and carlos zambrano, i don't think it's a good idea to just sell off a guy like marquis because nobody likes him. Yeah, I think they might need to keep him around, given the current roster. But if they can bring in a better starter they can afford to get rid of him.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    So you'd rather see man-to-man with DBs who can't cover man-to-man so they give up huge plays? The fact is this is a bend but don't break defense. They give up shorter plays. It wasn't the coverage that was a problem, it was the complete lack of pass rush on too many plays. But the Bears played the best offense in football and the defense did a very good job, and won the game.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Rashied Davis needs to be cut, and Olin Kreutz needs to be replaced as soon as possible. He continues to be the focal point of fumbled snaps, and all he did was get in the way of the running back while trying to block. At the bare minimum they need to find a new captain next year. Seniority should not be the sole determinant of leadership, that's how organizations like the UAW continually shoot themselves in the foot. The fake punt was shocking, but that's probably why I don't think it was a bad idea. Nobody expected it and it should have been completed. It was very un-Bear-like and very much against what Lovie is known for, which is conservative field position football. Oh, and please take Hester off of punt returns. He's been fine as a receiver this year and will probably keep getting better. He's done as a return man.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    With respect to your later point, I think the issue is less about the type of coverage (man vs zone) and more about the amount of fruitless blitzing they do. But they were pulling the blitzers out and dropping them into coverage on those plays. And they still left gaping holes in the middle. More man coverage wouldn't help. The Bears defense handled that situation perfectly fine. They were willing to give the Saints short passes, but shut down any semblence of a deep attack. The Bears did send plenty of fruitless blitzes. On one big 3rd down play Wale almost got to Brees as he looped around inside while a blitzer, I think Briggs, took up 2 blockers up the middle. The blitzing just doesn't work. They'd be better off mixing up all out pass rushes and trying to get in passing lanes and knock down passes.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Or, just imagine that Peavy realizes he'd be happy in 3-4 other situations and lets Towers negotiate with more teams thus eliminating the only thing Hendry had in his favor.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I'm highly skeptical.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    8 bodies, not all of them are good enough to be called players.
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