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and just one of them clinches playing beyond Sunday. I wonder if the Cubs are going to celebrate if they clinch at least a WC berth? My guess is they won't, but then again this team loves to celebrate. I'm pretty sure the Cubs clinched a playoff spot a few days before they clinched the division in 2016 and didn't celebrate, but at that point the division was a formality and worth waiting for. We are getting close to formality this year but definitely less certain. the cubs should only celebrate winning the division and if they collapse and get a wild card they should treat it like the nit and decline to participate. good point, that would allow them to get started early on this winter's wrigley revitalization work. Get that visitor's clubhouse up to snuff.

Yo Rumsfield!

the mind, it was a boggled

This has been a bigger problem than playcalling. They are not handling the clock management situation very well. They are a little light on NFL experience on the offensive side of the coaching staff. Maybe they can improve over time, but they've completely mismanaged timeouts.

I just don't see how play calling is any any way the issue here. Trubisky cannot complete passes down the field, he wasn't just making it difficult for his receivers to catch, he was missing by wide margins. The play calling is letting him do the only things he can do, which is apparently shovel passes and WR screens. Mitch is throwing a pick a game and seemingly 2 more should be picks per game, but apparently his balls are just that uncatchable. I don't know how play calling changes that.

Reports are it's Fitz's job to lose, so he'll start up to the point he lays an egg.

Finally, the Bears play a game on Sunday, at noon. The firm regularly scheduled game of the season. I will not have to pace my drinking for a late game. I will be able to wake up and start cooking food that I will be eating at a proper lunch hour, instead of spacing it all out throughout the day. Chicago is currently a ~2.5 point home favorite against the high flying and free wheeling Bucs, but that might change depending on the outcome of this Monday Night matchup with the Steelers. There once was an old adage that you didn't want to face a good team that is in danger of falling to 0-3 (or 0-2-1 in PIT's case), because they will almost always give max effort in a desperate attempt to finally see the win column. Tampa is a comfortable 2-0 in a division with two other 2 win teams. Tampa's wins are against two more 2 win teams. They are not to be taken lightly. The Bears defense is going to have to come up big again, because the offense shows no signs of being able to participate in anything resembling a shootout. I don't think any team is going to fear the Bears trying to set up a 2-minute offense for the win. They will need to slog through some 7-minute drive to get 3 points and then hope the defense scores a touchdown or two. The good thing is, the Mack-led defense is actually good enough to do it. Tampa will have a short week, and will be coming off a game against a team that traditionally beats you up, win lose or draw. Chicago has two ugly wins under their belt, and if they can make it to 3-1, then the playoffs stop being a dream and start being a realistic possibility. If the offense can actually start scoring points, then thoughts of a division title are also much less unreasonable than anybody would have thought coming into the season. Because, if you haven't noticed, the Bears are officially in first place in their division.

Front 7, maybe DBs had 3 picks and held a hall of fame WR to almost nothing. Entire unit is elite. Larry has like 7 yards on the season.

So Mitch is a very bad quarterback

I think Theo has told Addison that he can't be with the team while this active investigation/process is happening. I'm not sure what effect being on administrative leave has on a player. He's still getting paid while he is away from the team I believe (not sure). If he somehow manages to get off administrative leave I don't think he's rejoining the team and Theo will just tell him to stay at home/away for now. He can't seriously expect to rejoin the team after the horrible post revealing what a horsefeathers person he is. EDIT: Yeah, a player is still being paid while on administrative leave. Not a suspension so you don't lose salary or service time. While it is a 100% certainty he is a bad person, the problem MLB has with this is that, unlike the other suspensions, there is no law enforcement trail here for what she has said. Again, I am not at all saying it didn’t happen. The union will stick up for him, in my opinion, unless she testifies. The Cubs have every right to get rid of him but don’t be too surprised if it doesn’t happen until the offseason. Additionally, without her testifying against him, I also wouldn’t be surprised if we get some sort of counseling, and zero tolerance BS coming from this from the Cubs. You guys are giving baseball way too much credit here and the Cubs have already been saying to let the process work it’s way through. The fact that they took Chapman and had no problem with Murphy, I am not too confident that they will get rid of him for nothing in return. I can’t believe Osuna has a job. When you say testify you mean cooperate with investigation, right? Or are you talking about testifying in open court?

well the good thing is we have 4 starters who are always guarantees to give up no less than 1 run

Disappointment isn't outrage Invoking SJW in a negative tone says a lot more about you than it does for anybody that didn't like Anthony's quote. And your self-perceived ability to judge anyone based on isolated posts on a message board combined with your fragile sensitivity says much more about you. anybody can judge a moron that uses terms like sjw and calls disappointment outrage.

I am outraged that all rizzo got was a single

Disappointment isn't outrage Invoking SJW in a negative tone says a lot more about you than it does for anybody that didn't like Anthony's quote.

I think you are quite dumb. And I think you're a moron. Good for you. sorry about the custody hearing. Get 'em next time tiger.

Russell and Chapman and Lackey? Who else? start at the top with the money behind the operations, papa rickets. Then you have that shitty nebraskan politician ricket. Then you got your Maddon. Then you have the pitching coach Bosio who has since left and then got fired for having said some racist horsefeathers. Russell and Chapman sucks. Lackey is a red assed dick bird. Arrieta cheered on trump's arrival as much as anybody. And then of course you have David Ross, who everybody hates.

I think you are quite dumb.

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sounds like these guys are trying to distance themselves from the idea of "knowing Russell as a person", which reads to me like guys who either are, or have been coached to appear, disgusted by him.

I don't even think people who are critical of his comments are coming down too hard on him. I'm just a little blown away (but shouldn't be) by the MRA types jumping to his defense and attacking anybody with a negative thought about his statements.

what do you have against social justice?

He answered it pretty damn poorly, not just less than exactly right. To me answering it poorly would be something along the lines of "How do we know she's not lying" or "I don't really care what she says now we are trying to win a championship." To me, those answers would go beyond answering poorly and enter into an entire new realm of "oh my god did his fiance leave him at the alter or something, what an horsefeathers."

He answered it pretty damn poorly, not just less than exactly right.