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  1. jersey cubs fan
    the phone notifications (not to mention potential texts) is the toughest part. i used to do a lot of DVRing and avoiding game outcomes with the cubs in like 03-04. it was not easy either, because i worked at a busy appliance/electronic store, but i managed to do it somehow. today, tho, it's damn near impossible. also allow me to make the obligatory (from me), "you're going to a regular season hockey game when the cubs are playing a potential elimination playoff game?!" comment The idea that somebody would want to watch a playoff game after it happens is crazy to me. I've DVRd some games, especially when my kids were younger and putting them to bed interfered with the start. So I could catch up what was happening and not miss anything. But when the game is over, if I missed it, just tell me the score. This is so weird. I couldn't even begin to comprehend the change to routine I'd need to watch a game 24 hours after it happened with no spoilers. Just realized this is about the Bears game. are you stopping yourself from watching both?
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Pete Rose got canned after statutory rape allegations.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Here's a summary: the WC series is a best of 2. Wild Card 2 needs to win both games of a double header to advance. Wildcard 1 need only win 1 game. That would make for some pretty intense game action. It gives the 4th best team a big advantage over the 5th best team. At the same time, it still punishes the 4th best team for not winning the division. Downside: other than the fans of those 2 teams, who's going to watch the first 7 innings of game 1? So unless WC 2 wins game 1, ratings will probably go down. what in the world would be the point of this fiasco?
  4. jersey cubs fan
    there's never been a better triumvirate of products and spokesperson than gruden, hooters and corona. he's an enjoyable little scamp but his analysis of football wears thin. Now jaws, that was a haircut you could set your watch to.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    Who are these color commentators? Every single NFL broadcast is a national broadcast and every single one touches on the superficial surface stories of every player. Hockey announcers don't have time to break down much in the way of detailed analysis, considering the pace of play. I can't speak to basketball but I doubt national broadcasters get much beyond the bios of these guys when talking about them. Of course there is no silver bullet, which I acknowledged, but Gruden and now, Romo, come to mind as guys who actually break down plays. Hubie Brown often talks technique and strategy. Van Gundy is incredibly opinionated and ranty but spends more time talking about the game than mindless drivel. I admittedly don't watch hockey. Romo spent 15 minutes last game insisting a player touched a ball when the replays continually showed the player didn't touch the ball. He's not really breaking down plays in my opinion. He's saying things like, they're going to run to the left here, but that's not really analysis. Gruden just yells and emotes and somehow praises every single QB all the time. THIS GUY GETS IT.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    ok, i'm just gonna say it. i didn't get this. i didn't wanna look dumb at first by asking for the explanation but i can't help myself. It was, admittedly, a reach at how "vasgersian" kind reads like a vaguely dirty word, so I was saying that that sounded like Dublinsky's kissing [expletive] tweet.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, same here. "Pitching and defense wins" in the middle of an offensive onslaught making the difference. "You can't get away with that in the playoffs" while getting away with that in the playoffs. All these sort of things bug me. But I'm not watching a playoff game for a detailed analysis of each pitch.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Who are these color commentators? Every single NFL broadcast is a national broadcast and every single one touches on the superficial surface stories of every player. Hockey announcers don't have time to break down much in the way of detailed analysis, considering the pace of play. I can't speak to basketball but I doubt national broadcasters get much beyond the bios of these guys when talking about them.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Man, get a load of our own Turzinsky over here. ok, i'm just gonna say it. i didn't get this. i didn't wanna look dumb at first by asking for the explanation but i can't help myself. At first I thought he assumed there was a turbinskyesque misspelling. But then I thought maybe he was playing with the V sound in vasgersian and comparing your tweet to trubisky's tweets about tatas.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    I played fantasy for a few years, and obsessed over prospects across the league for a couple decades, hoping in vain that some of them would wind up as Cubs. That helped me transition from a kid that literally knew every player in the game to an adult that knew most worth knowing. But the Cubs are loaded with good young talent and they are great now and I no longer play fantasy baseball, so I don't give a damn about the rest of the league.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    I know maybe 6 guys on arizona and colorado combined, and maybe 1 Twin. I'm also blissfully unaware of a good half of the Yankees squad despite being surrounded by Yankees fans. The majority of viewers don't know who the hell these players are.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    gammo gonna gammo [tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet]
  13. jersey cubs fan
    It doesn't though. The lifeblood of baseball is the regular season. Teams make their money on their local revenue, both television and attendance, over the course of 162 games. And most teams don't make the playoffs. 3 5-team divisions allows for a greater amount of local rivalries, while 2 divisions of 7/8 just spreads that around more. Your plan only focuses on the playoff end of things. But in the current system divisional rivalries already meet in the playoffs with regularity. The Cubs have had big matchups with the pirates and cardinals in recent years, the AL West is going through it this year. And the hockey thing only happens because everybody already makes the playoffs. You can "encourage" all you want but forcing 15 teams into two divisions and then forcing teams to face a specific team in the playoffs is just making a mess of a system that already works. Again, the bottom line is this system works. It balances the idea of making the regular season matter, having a benefit to having the best record in your league, giving a 2nd chance to a great team that sits behind an elite team, but "punishes" them for not winning the division in the first place.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    And that is a problem. Baseball is a local/provincial sport, and an everyday sport. Divisional rivalries matter, and are the lifeblood of the regular season. There is nothing to be gained by going to 2 divisions. The Brewers don't need to be playing the Marlins more every year and the Cubs less. Baseball isn't going to improve with fewer Dodgers/Giants games, which would be required under a 2 division format. There are 30 major league baseball teams and no good reason to expand. The best way to handle that is to have 3, 5-team divisions. Going 7/8 is an unnecessary mess. I also hate the idea of setting up a situation where a 101 win division leader plays first round against a 100 win WC that played a 95 win WC while the other side of the bracket has a potential for a 93 win team playing a first round series against a 85 win team that knocked out an 84 win team. The best record in the league should get some benefit to having the best record. They face a WC team now that could actually be the 2nd best team, but they are also forced to burn top pitchers and wear down a bullpen in the WC game. There's no built in benefit to having the best record in your system. At the end of the day, baseball should not be stealing ideas from hockey, which makes it difficult to miss the playoffs.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    congrats on the win AZ
  16. jersey cubs fan
    #NotFair
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Fairness has nothing to do with it. This is a sport. People pay to be entertained.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Some funny stuff, but the write up for Columbus was lame Lame recognize lame
  19. jersey cubs fan
    cheers to fat old dads
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Cam Newton, kind of a douchebag. [tweet] [/tweet] [tweet]https://twitter.com/JourdanRodrigue/status/915682599326162945[/tweet]
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I'm the opposite. I like the change of pace and the presentation of national broadcasts for the playoffs...at least, once it's on Fox. And I love Len and JD. That said, there are a few national guys I think are awful. Yeah, a lot of national guys suck, but complaining about them is a big part of the process, and accepting them is how you get playoff pageantry.
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  23. jersey cubs fan
    we see what we want to see
  24. jersey cubs fan
    a rain delay in cleveland, what could go wrong?
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