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  1. jersey cubs fan
    The shotgun does not do that. The regular snap gives you the ball instantly with eyes forward. The shotgun forces the QB to focus on catching the ball first, which takes a little time to get there. You keep saying the shotgun doesn't help with pass rush. Many others besides me disagree: Did you seriously not read a word I wrote? You claimed you get the ball instantly with eyes down field. I refuted that theory. You get the ball later than you'd get it in a regular snap, and your eyes are not down field while you're tracking the ball into your hands. I don't care if they use the shotgun or not. It's not going to be the difference between this offense moving from middle of the road to elite. Grossman's overall improvement, Benson's development and improving the line will determine that.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    I've seen a lot more than one game where his reputation didn't really hold up.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    our......he could have not walked two people. call me crazy. I totally agree with not walking people. I also think it was obvious Eyre was running out of gas and under normal circumstances, had others been available, he would have been pulled earlier in the inning. Again, credit Cox for bringing in the RH pinch hitters because he knew the Cubs bullpen situation. The ball to Izturis should have ended the inning without a run scoring; He was too lackadaisical. Why are we crediting Cox for bringing in RH bats to face a LHP? It wasn't a difficult call.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Me too. The plan was to do only rounds 1-3. last week many people expressed interest in going further. But since we're only getting 1 pick a day now, that's going to be impossible.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    manuel needs to get fired asap. My favorite part is his justification. I suppose that's a true statement. Some might argue that 220 IP out of one of your best pitchers is better than 70 IP, but those people aren't stupid, so Manuel isn't persuaded. wow. how does this guy have a job in baseball at all, let alone a manager's job. that is terrifying. He's a good baseball man.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Are you referring to calls made by umpires?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    The time to trade Zambrano was this offseason, when you could have gotten max value. Now is not the time.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    as will the 14 devils fans around the tri-state area! They don't get much attendance, but there are lots of fans. People just don't like driving to the meadowlands, except for 8 Sundays a year. I can't believe their solution to this was building an arena in Newark. There are three NY teams that play multiple games a week and aren't located by any convenient form of mass transportation, and all three struggle drawing crowds.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    25 hours between picks, come on people, pick up the pace.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    Haugh wrote an article in the Trib basically about this part of it. But he refused to name "the drink" as some sort of high and mighty stance against commercialism. He did mention the NFL's official drink several times, however. He also said Urlacher invested in Vitamin Water. I'm wondering if his $100,000 fine was backed up by an equal ownership stake in the company.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    The shotgun does not do that. The regular snap gives you the ball instantly with eyes forward. The shotgun forces the QB to focus on catching the ball first, which takes a little time to get there.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    This is an absurd bit of reasoning. What does it matter if you don't know a few days in advance? Wind direction is a fact, it's not opinion. Furthermore, it's a fact of life in April baseball that the wind will often blow in.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    It's very unprofessional of Manual, but similar to other blow-ups, by guys like Piniella. Obviously Eskin was looking for trouble since Manuel told him to come to his office to fight, and he apparantly showed. I'm sure Eskin acted in as smug and condescending manner as possible to get the greatest rise out of him.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    $100,000!?! How could it be teh standard fine for such a violation, while at the same time being the first such fine ever levied? The NFL is insane with it's uniform policies.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That is, unless someone has shown Lou Jacque's splits. Are they facing a lefty?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I'm blaming luck (re: the wind blowing in) for the Cubs only scoring 3 runs yesterday. That is not luck. It's a well known fact of life about April baseball. Which way the wind is blowing is hardly a fact. Actually it is a fact. If the wind is blowing out of the east, that's a fact. But I was calling it a fact of life of April baseball.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    WIP makes WFAN seem relatively sane and decent.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    I'm blaming luck (re: the wind blowing in) for the Cubs only scoring 3 runs yesterday. That is not luck. It's a well known fact of life about April baseball.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    I thought about that, but I was kind of thinking that perhaps Lou might look at Jones' 1-6 game yesterday, plus the defensive lapse, and choose to give him a rest. That is, unless they're trying to show him off to some scouts. I think Lou would like to take a look at the lineup with 4 LH bats in there. Pie Theriot Lee Ramirez Floyd Barrett Jones Izturis
  20. jersey cubs fan
    He'd have to go along willingly. Given his past injury issues, and going off of more or less unsubstantiated stories about his somewhat confrontational nature, I don't see that happening.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    That'll happen this early in the season when you have a feast or famine offense. When you score as much as 6, 7, 9 and 12 in your wins, it'll offset a couple 0, 1, 2 and 3 run efforts in a loss. They are averaging 2.5 runs per loss and 7.6 per win.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see an issue with the comments.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    They could send Cedeno to AAA, or Theriot for that matter. They went from 12 to 11 pitchers when Guzman went down. If they wanted relief, they could get it, in theory. However, the question is who is worth bringing up. Cherry just pitched yesterday, and is no fresher than the other guys (and his spring numbers don't really mean anything). Guzman can't come up yet. As far as I know, Marshall, Novoa, Mateo, Prior and Wood are unavailable. Rapada is pretty worthless. And Samardzija is unrealistic. That leaves Marmol, who is off to a decent start, as a starter, and hasn't thrown since the 14th. So I'm guessing the only option they have is to demote Cedeno and call up Marmol.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Since I don't know the betting "lingo" I don't know what it's called if I think it won't be over OR under, but even... I think Zambrano will have exactly 4.5 walks. push
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Sorry, but I'm getting a little thrown off by these two stats....whats the difference here? If you lost 2 in a row, that's not one in a row, but you've still lost your previous game.
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