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  1. Time to lock this bad boy and pretend this horrible preseason never happened.
  2. Are people that disinterested in the Bears that nobody has a game thread up yet? The Bears stand at 9.5 point underdogs, only one other week 1 game has a wider spread, with New England favored by 16. Indy is likely without Jeff Saturday, but the Bears might be missing Tommie Harris, or at least a healthy Tommie Harris, so it is questionable how much push they can get toward a somewhat hobbled Peyton Manning. That is really the team's only hope this weekend. They need to pressure Manning, make him move and hope he is just rusty enough to not rip the defense to shreds. And the Bears really need to run. As soon as they get into a clear passing situation, Indy is going to pin their ears back and manhandle the line. Early pick is Indy covering, with ease.
  3. Buddy? http://www.billandted.org/pics/ea/bteanapoleon.jpg
  4. that's what I'm trying to figure out here. if 20 hypothetical players are worse, I would expect around 20 hypothetical players to be better and the other 160 hypothetical players to be pretty damn close to where they always are If 20 are worse, why even assume 20 are better? That makes absolutely no sense. If a certain subset of players is performing worse, it is a mathematical certainty that someone is performing better. And yes, collectively, the 180 players would be performing better. If 20 players performance worse in clutch situations than they normally do in regular situations, how in the hell is there any certainty that 20 others perform better in the clutch than they do in normal situations?
  5. that's what I'm trying to figure out here. if 20 hypothetical players are worse, I would expect around 20 hypothetical players to be better and the other 160 hypothetical players to be pretty damn close to where they always are If 20 are worse, why even assume 20 are better? That makes absolutely no sense. I'm going with his hypothetical player scenario from before, trying to get back to that hypothetical average number. I could hypothetically stick my head up a cow's ass but I'd rather take the butcher's word.
  6. that's what I'm trying to figure out here. if 20 hypothetical players are worse, I would expect around 20 hypothetical players to be better and the other 160 hypothetical players to be pretty damn close to where they always are If 20 are worse, why even assume 20 are better? That makes absolutely no sense.
  7. I think for some reason Lou didn't want Marshall to face Burrell. He wasn't even up in the pen until after the Ruiz hit, and the Hamels/Rollins ABs were so quick, he wouldn't have been ready to go until the Utley AB. At that point, it would appear Lou decided he'd stick with Demp through Burrell, and then go to Marshall if the inning was still going after that. I was thinking you walk Burrell there if that was the issue. I really just didn't like seeing the already pushed beyond expected levels Dempster pushed in that game. I also don't like seeing Phillies batters at the plate against Cubs pitchers.
  8. Other roster moves for Boise: ETA: See Derek Ingram's post below for the report on Cashner in Daytona. Brett Wallace just jumped up out of his chair and said "Hey, wait just a darn minute, I thought I was the 13th overall pick!" He jumped up, but not out of his chair, his fat ass remained stuck.
  9. I've been pleasantly surprised by how he's taken to the job.
  10. It's about his daughter who had a heart transplant July 31 (according to trib article). I had read that there was some personal stuff going on, but never heard any specifics until this morning. I hope it's about her recovery process...
  11. I still like the idea of a "Other Chicago Sports" sub-forum here that could contain Bulls/Bears/Blackhawks discussion You may have awful taste in weather, but that's basically what I'd like to see, as well. I like having it here. I don't care about other NFL fans rubbing it in. The only people with legit claims over the Bears now are Patriots, Colts and Giants fans, and the only one of them represented is a Colts fan and he's a good guy.
  12. I didn't like the way Dempster was looking from the start, and didn't like that Lou seemed to stick with him well beyond what would have been acceptable. Every pitch he throws at this point is virgin territory, I really wish they'd be a little more careful with him, and was hoping they'd take him out as soon as the 6th got hairy. Let Marshall face those lefties there.
  13. this is, of course, ridiculous and really, really terrible logic. i believe in choking, as it's obvious someone can crumble under pressure. but the idea that someone can magically enhance their ability in certain situations is enough to make me not believe in "clutch." if ramirez had the ability to turn it on in certain spots or enhance his focus in certain situations, he would do it all the time and make millions and millions of more dollars. unless it's like video game power that can only be used for so long...like the wings in super mario 3. He knows the Cubs couldn't afford to keep him if he was putting up a 1000 OPS every year, so he dogs it a little when it doesn't matter so he can stay on his favorite team.
  14. great song to sing at a wedding, nothing more, nothing less
  15. It has nothing to do with "being good enough". They aren't good enough to make BCS game, they are Notre Dame enough.
  16. Who's a big market columnist that doesn't suck? I like Peter Gammons. 4 or 5 years ago that would've been akin to saying "I like Joe Morgan." The mass Peter Gammons hate has really died down in general over the past few years. Is it because he had a stroke or something? Nancies I never got the Gammons hate. It was based on the fact that he was Boston-centric and was wrong when predicting some trades. But he was one of the first big-time columnists to actually talk about prospects as something more than the old every prospect is a suspect manner. He also acknowledged some of the newer stats before most anybody else heard of them.
  17. Not a bad 3rd back, but he won't score much.
  18. Maybe. He definitely got the most love from the higher ups, and he had the one big game last week. But who knows if that was a fluke or not. I would not draft a Bears offensive player.
  19. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp08/news/story?id=3557269 Saturday is probably out for the opener and may miss much more time. With Manning's status a little unclear, the Bears might stand a small chance of actually making a game of it next Sunday. The Colts are currently a 9 point favorite, only NE and SD are bigger favorites in their games. If the Bears get blown out in that game, they are going to be double digit dogs on many occasions this year. If they somehow pull out a win, they will go into the next week as favorites.
  20. Herby might be my favorite television sports personality.
  21. So many people just assumed that what they needed was consistently playing the same 5 guys every game, as if that is the key to good line play, as opposed to actually having good lineman.
  22. It's only become normal relatively recently for the Cubs. It's good to see a healthy franchise, even if it actually hurts the Cubs chances. I still don't see how a Milwaukee fan can justify hating Cubs fans, their willingness to prop up the attendance up there the past ten years practically kept that franchise afloat. Hmm...15,000 extra fans for 6-8 games a year = around 100,000 in attendance. I know it was hyperbole, but I don't think the Cubs fans really made THAT much of a difference. In 2004 they averaged 23,107 for 71 non-Cubs games, and 42,176 for 10 Cubs games. That's an extra 190,000 fans in one year alone, nearly 10% of their entire season's attendence. That's a very large percentage of revenue coming from a group you hate.
  23. When I saw it I never got to the end so I wasn't sure if he ever actually provided reasoning. I know it's just a "stir the pot" column, but I can't help but check it out. That's part of the reason I didn't post it here.
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