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  1. jersey cubs fan
    If I could get Juan on the cheap, and be confident that Piniella would use him properly (almost exclusively vs LHP), and that he could do well with such limited duty, I would be interested. He hasn't done much vs LHP for his career, but he has been pretty good this year and the past couple years. The Cubs need some RH production and part-time help. This could allow them to include Murton (who probably has no future on this team) in a trade for something else of significant value. Juan has serious drawbacks, and the odds of getting him for what I would consider reasonable cost (let's say, Jake Fox) are probably low. But it could have value.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    This just goes along with Banks' entire storyline about the Bears having a terrible offseason. They trade an average, at best, running back who is already 7 years into a career with very few highlights, and in return they get the equivalent of a 3rd round draft pick, something everybody values quite highly from February to April. Jones will turn 29 during training camp, well past the prime age of NFL running backs, and he's yet to do anything special. He's bottom of the barrel in terms of yards per rush and nowhere near the leaderboard for total yards or TDs. And Yet he's got some serious mileage by now, and it's probably fair to say the Bears used up his best years. But of course, he was pilfered, ie. stolen, or taken without permission. TJones is a nice role player. But he's hardly a feature back. He was a free agent to be and in the way of a better younger running back. The Bears fascilitated a trade for him to get him his contract he so desired, and quite possibly greased the wheels of the agent who eventually got another disgruntled FA to be to show up to camp unexpectedly. But because Banks has to stick to his claim that the Bears are in disarray and coming off a terrible offseason, he was pilferred.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    no interest whatsoever.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The whole "losing super bowl team struggles" theory is very weak in my opinion. Seattle came back and made the playoffs. Philly had already been pressing it's luck with the whole 4-6 year window of opportunity thing that teams tend to follow. They'd been on the verge for so long that it was almost inevitable they'd suffer a setback. The Panthers were a bit of a surprise team making the Super Bowl, and they did miss the playoffs, but bounced right back the next year. Oakland was an old team on the verge of breaking down anyway, and they probably never should have made the playoffs. The Rams had been around for quite a while when they lost after the 2001 season. They were also an offensively minded team in the middle of an offensive turnover, going from Warner to Bulger. I really don't see the Bears being similar to any of those teams. An injury could change things, but they are a very good team probably right in the middle of their window of opportunity. They have steadily improved under the Angelo/Smith regime, and are probably poised to have their best year this season.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    He's a guy who has said you can't win in the postseason with Grossman, both before and after the Bears won in the postseason with Grossman. He hates Grossman, with a passion. And he's relied heavily on the "terrible offseason" myth.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I would be crying.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Best player, but not the best fit for the Cubs.
  8. 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.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    what a silly discussion. Who cares? It's an arbitrary definition.
  10. 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. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    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.
  14. 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.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Come on, let's enjoy 2007 first. It's gonna be a great season.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    It'll be tough for this move to equal 1 more win.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Top prospects for relievers is asinine.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-070725softballdeath,1,1311938.story
  23. jersey cubs fan
    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.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    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.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    That's what I'm thinking, and it's why I think Kendall resigning is a real possibility.
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