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  1. jersey cubs fan
    That's a long time from now, though. In a way, it's unfortunate that the tickets go on sale so close to the disappointment and so far from the event. No I know. I've accepted that come April 6th, I'll be pumped up for the Cubs season...but the Cubs Convention...an event where your supposed to celebrate and generate hope for the upcoming season. If I go and Ron Santo speaks and says "This is the YEAR", I'll probably have to leave the hotel. I've never really understood the point of ever going to this event.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    They definitely need to monitor this issue. The history of RBs taking huge numbers of carries is probably scarier than young pitchers racking up large innings pitched.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    I'm pulling for Philly. I could not believe how many NL champs hats were floating around south jersey this past weekend. Everybody had them. People still hate Ryan Howard. Makes me wonder if they'll drive him out of town like they drove Abreu out.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I'd rather part with Dempster than Wood. It's easier to replace a bullpen arm than a starter. Also, I don't understand all of the posters who think Dempster's year was a fluke. It's not a guarantee that he will be as effective in 2009 as he was in 2008, but he was our most consistent starter last year. Dempster was a highly regarded prospect as a starter before becoming a reliever. He wasn't a prospect, he was a starting major league pitcher that wasn't good. Semantics. And it's not that he wasn't highly regarded or didn't have good stuff; he always has. He just figured out how to locate his pitches better and more often found the strike zone. Fixing that one thing took him from a 4.5 ish ERA guy who walked a bunch of hitters to what he did last year. Did he still over achieve a bit last year? Yeah, more than likely, but I still think you'll see a guy with a 3.5-3.6 ERA next year rather than the 4.5 he's had in the past. That is not semantics. There is a tremendous difference between being a highly regarded prospect and being an established major league pitcher who had over 150 starts and 1000 innings pitched and wasn't good. Jason Marquis was a highly regarded prospect with good stuff as well.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I must have missed those parts of town The beer part?
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Philly is a fine city. A passionate city, but a fine one. It's a good beer town. Philly is a pit, but Tampa is the much douchier city.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah I read that and the first thought I had was, "Yes, Phil the Cubs would trade Derrek Lee just to get Micah Hoffpauir into the lineup. NM Tex is available, no, no, Micah would be the 1st baseman if the Cubs dealt Lee." Rogers is a tool, and I get dumber reading his articles. Phil and Paul are different people And your point is..................... As mention in the post above, both are idiots. regardless, you claim to have been reading an article by Paul Sullivan and thought to yourself "yes, PHIL" and called Rogers a tool. the world's filled with idiots Excuse me, my bad I confused one idiot with another. Oh no, what should I do. And I did read the article, I just didn' tpay attention to who wrote it. Stop nitpicking. Move on, Bob. That's not nitpicking, it was the entire point of your post.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    So premier, but not top 25% of the pre-90's expansion premier?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, it would be very reasonable to refuse to offer that much. I'd think about a 2 year with a vesting option based on appearances in 2010 though.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Once the precedent is set, there is no stopping other teams and players from making similar arrangements. The player's union will not stand for this. Opt out clauses can be found in newer contracts that protect a team or player from uncomfortable situations. Contracts are meant to be honored, and the player's union will fight for the player anytime the contract is not honored, whether it's mutual or not. Didn't they step in on the ARod situation when he was almost traded to Boston? He was allowing them to rip up the contract or something and the union wouldn't allow it.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    why? It seemed like important news and was starting to get buried on this page. It'll be de-sticky'd after this news has run its course. If it was important it wouldn't have been buried. There really isn't anything to say on the matter. I think you let it die a natural death.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I'd rather part with Dempster than Wood. It's easier to replace a bullpen arm than a starter. Also, I don't understand all of the posters who think Dempster's year was a fluke. It's not a guarantee that he will be as effective in 2009 as he was in 2008, but he was our most consistent starter last year. Dempster was a highly regarded prospect as a starter before becoming a reliever. He wasn't a prospect, he was a starting major league pitcher that wasn't good.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    why?
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Good God... Many Jets fans started walking upright only a few short years ago. If gonny sees the dude in the fireman's hat I hope he clocks him one. No chance, I'll be in the cheap seats, fireman Ed is down low.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    The week 8 bye will hopefully give the defense enough time to heal up for what should be an easy win. I'd bet the Bears will be favored by double digit points, after destroying Detroit by 27 points in Ford Field. The longterm forecast is calling for highs around 40 and partly sunny skies. I'm spending my bye Sunday at The Meadowlands for Jets/Chiefs.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Baseball player wins something: he can do no wrong. Unless he's highly paid and that something is anything other than a world series title within the past year.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    There is no possible way for this to happen and have people save face. Huge F up by Gary Hughes and Jim Hendry, huge bed crapping by Fukudome, huge waste of money by Cubs ownership. There just isn't a way for this to work out with everybody saving face.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    after 100 years, yeah, its WS or bust for me. However, I would have settled for going down valiantly in the playoffs not yay, we won another division flag, vacation time. wow, you're 108 years old or whatever? that's crazy. i mean, i'm only 23, and didn't really follow the team until i was like 10, so i've got 13 years to claim. i mean, it wouldn't make sense for me to whine about the team's performance in the years before i existed, so i assume you're not doing it either. Why can't I? If the Cubs had won in 1982, the year before I was born, I would never have to grow up hearing about the team's inept past, curses, black cats, etc. If I, as a Cubs fan, have to carry the baggage of the teams past failures, I sure as hell can complain about it. Pre-2006, do you think Cardinals fans born after 1982 spent any less time ripping on Cubs fans for their historic drought because they hadn't experienced a title in their lifetime? Seriously, pretending the 100 year story is meaningless to any Cubs fan who isn't 100 years old is rather ridiculous.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    If all you want is a guy who snaps the ball to the QB, sure. But pro bowl caliber centers are not easy to replace. The Bears have gotten by with less than great lineman in part because they have had a really good center. As Kreutz ages and declines, they will have to rely on the guards that much more going forward. The point is offensive line is still a huge work in progress. It's essentially a 5 man position that needs a constant influx of young able bodied players to fill it. The Bears are still playing with fire by going with status quo on the line.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Tait is going to need to be replaced. He's old and pretty much nothing more than a servicable RT at this point. 10 years into his career at 33, I wouldn't hesitate to draft a tackle in the first next year to be ready to replace him by 2010, if not sooner. Next season, Tait will be as old, with as much mileage as Fred Miller was when he fell apart. Ideally they are picking in the late 20's, which would mean you are less likely to finding a guy ready to start right away, and can afford to take a guy who is a little more of a project (as opposed to the safe/ready pick of Williams this year). You also have an aging Kreutz to think about replacing soon. Beekman could conceivably replace Kreutz. Conceivably, but that just opens another G hole.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Tait is going to need to be replaced. He's old and pretty much nothing more than a servicable RT at this point. 10 years into his career at 33, I wouldn't hesitate to draft a tackle in the first next year to be ready to replace him by 2010, if not sooner. Next season, Tait will be as old, with as much mileage as Fred Miller was when he fell apart. Ideally they are picking in the late 20's, which would mean you are less likely to finding a guy ready to start right away, and can afford to take a guy who is a little more of a project (as opposed to the safe/ready pick of Williams this year). You also have an aging Kreutz to think about replacing soon.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    They certainly count, but I think you have to take into account the new management crew in place and the time it took them to figure out the team they had. They finished 85-77 and were 7 (?) games under .500 in early June. That means they played 15 games over the last 4 months of the season. Or about a .570 winning %, which is solid for MLB. No you don't. It was a baseball team and anybody with a pulse knew all they needed to know about the players. They didn't need time to learn how to play together or understand the playbook or gel, they struggled a little early and got better later, and when all was said and done won 52.4% of their games.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Nonsense. They cannot "easily" lose to Detroit. Parity gets thrown around way too much. You've got 4 god awful teams out there, the Lions, Raiders, Chiefs and Bengals are putrid. Seattle is probably right there with them. You've got the Giants, Buffalo and Tennessse that are all practically coasting. A great team losing one game to a mediocre or worse team isn't a sign of parity, it's just one game of a short schedule. Unlike baseball, where almost everybody ends the season with a w% between .350-.650, you are going to have a much wider spread in the NFL, with multiple teams winning 75% of their games and potentially more than one team losing 85% of their games. There is a significant number of good but flawed teams, and the Bears three losses came to teams that fit that exact description. But that doesn't mean there's parity. There is a very real clear distinction between the bad, mediocre, good and great NFL teams.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Can we please stop saying that our 2007 regular season was good? Considering how bad the first 6-8 weeks of 2007 were, I think the 2007 was pretty good. Do those weeks not count? I'm not sure the original poster said the 2007 regular season was good, but I don't see why you can't call it that. If somebody said really good or great, that would be pushing it, but how isn't 85-77, with a pythag record of 87-75, and an NL ranking of 8 in runs scored and 2 in ERA not good? It was the 6th best record in the NL, which generally qualifies you for the playoffs in any US sport aside from baseball, and they did win their division. Clearly they were nothing special but it was a pretty good team.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    OL defensive player (preferably a DE) WR In my mind are the top 3 needs. There is a lot of talent of high end OL talent that will be gone before the Bears pick and I'm afraid that Angelo won't go OL two straight years in the first round even though it's a deep position in the 2009 draft and the biggest need for the Bears. I'll be happy as long as they get an OL in one of the first two rounds. WR isn't that big of a deal to me. Hester should get better. Davis and Lloyd have shown flashes. Bennett should be better. Booker should be there to provide a veteran if needed. You can go out and get someone via FA, who has talent but has underachieved ala Lloyd. I agree with you. I'd like to see them keep adding guys, but I'm not concerned with getting one early.
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