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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Dr. Z, of SI, has talked about a feud with people inside the Bears organization a while back, and has referred to a disagreement with Jerry Angelo when he was with the Giants. Peter King is a Patriots/Cowboys lover. Anything they do is gold. New England perhaps rightfully so. But he's a generalist. He talks about headlines and such and doesn't really investigate much. He's an entertaining writer, but not a good football writer. He'd fit right in with the PR types running ESPN. Rick Reilly simply doesn't no jack squat about sports. He knows things that happened in the 60's. And he knows about handicapped and otherwise challenged people who try and participate in sports. But he doesn't know anything about organized sports right now. Traditionally speaking the Bears are a poorly run team. They had a chance of fielding a dynasty in the mid 80's but blew it on stupidity. Then went in the toilet thanks to the Ditka/ownership feud and Wannstedt failures. It's the tried and true storyline. But for some reason none of them have realized that Ted Philips (a non-football guy), Jerry Angelo and Lovie Smith have completely blown away the old stereotype of Bears mismanagement.
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    what a silly discussion. Who cares? It's an arbitrary definition.
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    How are people so clueless to still hold this opinion? Has the NBA ref scandal not shown the problems with gambling on a sport you participate in? It doesn't have to be a direct throwing of a game. There's a difference in the NBA ref and what Rose did. Rose mostly bet on games he wasn't involved in and when he did bet on his own team, he bet on them to win....which is his job as their manager. Again, none of that matters to me because there's no evidence he did it as a player. A managerial career and a playing career are DIFFERENT thing. Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    How are people so clueless to still hold this opinion? Has the NBA ref scandal not shown the problems with gambling on a sport you participate in? It doesn't have to be a direct throwing of a game.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Jacque has definitely looked better. I kind of laughed at that soft blooper right to where the SS normally stands, and his subsequent finger pointing that he seems to do every time he reaches base right now. But if he can maintain this trend he might make his overall numbers look better than atrocious eventually.
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    I don't think it does. I said long before his legal issues that I was tremendously disappointed in his play. He didn't impress me in the least and I think he's quite easily replacable.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I'm seriously pumped for this season. The fact that everybody is selling this team short is probably a good sign, in my estimation, because the crowd is always such an awful judge of reality on topics such as sports teams poised for an upswing or downfall. Typically they predict either far too soon, or far too late the fate of a team. The Bears may have trouble maintaining greatness in 2008 and beyond. But for 2007, I think they are easily the class of the NFC again. I would not be the least bit surprised with a 14-2 season. Although I'm thinking more like 11 or 12 wins myself. This team plays well with a chip on its shoulder and a feeling of needing to prove something. If Grossman only improves slightly, this team could be on the verge of a truly legendary season. I don't see anyway that Benson fails to be better than Jones, barring injury. Nothing is a lock in a sport as physically demanding as football, but I like the Bears chances.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Come on, let's enjoy 2007 first. It's gonna be a great season.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Absolutely fan-freaking-tastic Bears related article written by Downey today. I'm so sick of the national media's obsession with the supposed downfall of the Bears. They are easily the best run organization in the NFC, and by far the best team. All the nonsense written about their demise was nothing but ill-informed BS. The over-the-top Grossman criticism*, the non-stop "what a terrible offseason" garbage, it's all meaningless. *My favorite is the continued insistence by many that the Bears stand no chance of winning, let alone getting to a Super Bowl with a QB like Grossman, even after they made the Super Bowl and held a lead for a good portion of it this year. If they can't win in the postseason with a guy like Grossman, what the hell did they do last year? Freaking morons.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    72/314 43 19 16 47 2 1 13 .289 .443 versus 51/179 25 6 4 31 0 0 3 .354 .385 HUH? i like dye. a lot. he has been a major contributor on winning teams in the past, and while i know that means little to most here, if it comes down to a player that has or has not won multiple world series', i go with experience. Dye has won multiple WS? Dye has an OPS+ of 88 this year, Floyd has a 93. Neither is doing any good.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    It'll be tough for this move to equal 1 more win.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Top prospects for relievers is asinine.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    My impression of Vasquez is he was really good, and did live up to his potential at a young age, but he suffered from a little burn out. He struggled for a couple years, but may be regaining his form that was lost after so many 220-240 inning seasons as a young guy.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    It sounded like they had a basic agreement once the deadline passed, so I'm not that surprised. It's certainly nice to have it done two days before camp begins, though. I was fully expecting him to symbolically sit out at least part of training camp, if not all the preseason. But I was certain he'd be around for all 16 games. I wonder how the "Bears are having a disastrous offseason" crowd will respond.
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    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-070725softballdeath,1,1311938.story
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    Catcher + past injuries catching up to him + normal wear and tear + age + insane amount of time logged behind the plate = prime decline time for Jason Kendall. He did do well with Pit. But that was a long time ago. The fact that he's a career .300 hitter with a great OBP does not mean he can defy the odds and sustain that productivity into his mid 30's when it is so rare for catchers to do that.
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    this time of year, i keep ESPNRadio on in the car just to catch breaking news. With that, one has to put up with Cowherd and Rome. ugh, I hope I'm never that desperate for news I turn on the radio every time I hit the throne at home, and it's always on ESPN radio, so if I'm crapping during the time Rome is on, I listen.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    That's what I'm thinking, and it's why I think Kendall resigning is a real possibility.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Oh good, the old, "if it was the right move the Cubs would have done it" theory. Nice to see that one back again. It was a general question...nice attitude. General question? You specifically questioned how he could be any good if the Cubs didn't call him up.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    They're currently ranked in the upper half of per game attendance in the major leagues. Just thought I'd note that. If you were aware of that before your post, we define the word "pathetic" differently. Attendance figures account for tickets sold, not butts in the seats. My guess is those numbers are quite skewed when a big market team goes in the tank because they're likely selling more tickets in advance. The highlights made it look packed last night.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Oh good, the old, "if it was the right move the Cubs would have done it" theory. Nice to see that one back again.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    Good. I hope it happens. This freaking Murton is a god, crap, again. Uggh, Hendry. Noone said he's God we just want him to play instead of that nagging injury dude. I'm just sick of everyone bowing down in front of the "Golden Calf" Matt Murton. Look, he's not the next Barry Bonds like all you guys think. Enough with the BS comparisons to great players. Nobody is calling him this. People look like idiots constantly criticizing people for doing something they aren't doing. I guess it hasn't occurred to you that IMB! said that with the express purpose of getting you to respond exactly like you did. It occured to me that he may, but I have no way of knowing, and this nonsense is happening all over the board. Say something good about Cedeno and you think he's Honus Wagner, say something good about Murton and your licking his backside and assuming he's next in line for the Hall. It's freaking annoying.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Good. I hope it happens. This freaking Murton is a god, crap, again. Uggh, Hendry. Noone said he's God we just want him to play instead of that nagging injury dude. I'm just sick of everyone bowing down in front of the "Golden Calf" Matt Murton. Look, he's not the next Barry Bonds like all you guys think. Enough with the BS comparisons to great players. Nobody is calling him this. People look like idiots constantly criticizing people for doing something they aren't doing.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I couldn't agree more. Kendall has a past, and the hope was to catch lighting in the bottle. Maybe coming back the central will wake up his bat. I don't see the big deal, its not like Bowen or Hill are any good anyway. I still hold out hope he'll adjust to NL pitching soon and help the club. Soto may be good. He was the only guy who actually stood a chance of doing something good this year.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I'm not going to sit here and say Mark DeRosa's injured hammy is the result of taking steroids. I'm not about to go on the air accusing Mark DeRosa of doing steroids just because he tweaked his hammy swinging. If you think I'm going to speculate that DeRo's sudden emergence late in his career as a good hitter raises some eyebrows, and that tweaking your hammy without even running is curious.................. you're wrong. Clones, you might be sitting there thinking, Hey Rome, this DeRosa guy wasn't any good, then all of a sudden he's good, and then he pulls a hamstring standing still, he's on the juice................. but I'm not going to get in on that one.
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