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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Nah, he sucks too. He doesn't seem annoyingly pompous like the other guys yet, but he's just as meatbally. Maybe moreso.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Maybe whatever holdover OF they acquire this offseason, or whatever Jason Hammel type they acquire as well. If they go after a veteran catcher he might not be very useful in 2016.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    It's a gamble. I would have made the bet with odds (like you give $750 if the Cubs finish .500 or below, you get $1000 if they finish above). There are too many variables, too many young players who we don't know how long it will take them to adjust to bigs, injuries, the possibility of the Cubs starting off slow and Theo deciding to be sellers at the deadline one more time, etc. Nope. And that last part is definitely not happening. With Lester, I don't think he needs odds on that. I think he probably should give odds, if anything. Then again, teams never project for more than like 85 wins so what do I know. The fact that they will be relying on multiple players who "haven't done it yet" and that they have to be above .500 to win means no possible way should he be laying odds, with or without Lester. I still think they could easily be sellers if they have a rough start. These guys aren't going balls out to get to 82 wins. If Arrieta goes down and the team is scuffling, they won't hesitate to ditch a shot at .500 for a shot at a top ten pick. They will get the credibility they want with the Lester signing (reassuring season tickets holders and whoever they sign a tentative TV contract with) and will have much less to lose by losing in August and September.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    The fact that so many people came out saying the LAD are keeping Mattingly makes me assume Maddon and Friedman got sick of each other.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    I believe it is a mistake to move this to cubs discussions. this is either general baseball, or transactions, like all other "will the cubs sign him" situations.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    but red zone is only useful on sunday and doesn't have anything to do with primetime games. are you watching thur/sun/mon night?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    they could use the tax write-off
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs No-Hit Streak ‏@CubsNoHitStreak · 4m4 minutes ago Could all of this just be that Joe Maddon wants Foo Fighters tickets?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    and mike matheney wins 90 games every year
  10. jersey cubs fan
    that's not kool aid, that's cough syrup
  11. jersey cubs fan
    After a year off? What does eventually mean?
  12. jersey cubs fan
    That's what everyone was saying about Girardi last year. We don't need them to signal such things by wasting money on a manager. They are going to start spending money on good major league pieces this offseason. It doesn't even take reading tea leaves. They've gone out of their way to say it as plainly as possible. Yeah, I don't need a signal that they are willing to waste a couple extra million on a manager, I want them to spend $100 million on a pitcher. They can't flirt with Maddon. They either have to get a deal done or stay completely away. Making Sveum the fall guy for two horrible years where they didn't even try and then talking about a replacement for Renteria one year later is going to hurt their credibility if they don't actually seal the deal.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Was the price really absurd? Like SSR I may have imagined this, but my recollection is that Hamels' pricetag was taking on his entire contract and offering up at least one of the top prospects in the system(read: Baez), probably 2. I was under the impression it wasn't so much a price tag as it was an interest gauger. The Cubs put in the bid not with the expectation they would get him but just to open up the dialogue. They were telling the league (and season ticket holders) they were ready to spend on a pitcher and telling Philly they would be willing to talk about Hamels, but I didn't get the idea that Philly had a real price tag at the time.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Take away your disinterest in the Bears and I would say it's all about getting older, getting married and having kids. I stopped watching non-Bears primetime games a lonngggggggggg time ago. There's too much other stuff in life to be bothered by those things. I will on occasion throw them on, but that is about it. I do not think it is at all about over-the-top coverage of the NFL. That is very easy to avoid, if not completely ignore. I also gave up sports radio long ago but that is because it is stupid and pointless. It has nothing to do with being sick of football, it's just being sick of people who get paid to argue about sports. The fact that you also have lost interest in watching the Bears seems a bit different than my situation. I have definitely wandered away from the TV to do other stuff during the game, mostly pouring another drink or stirring/flipping whatever food I am making. But I still look forward to those games and have it front and center.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Was the price really absurd?
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Seems to me this type of oddity is very common every year in the NHL.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Not especially, it's only. The only people that should care are the hosts who lost their guest.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Rich Campbell ‏@Rich_Campbell · 1m1 minute ago Trestman on Bears CB Kyle Fuller (hand/hip): "Kyle practiced the whole day today and moved around well." Zach Zaidman ‏@ZachZaidman · 1m1 minute ago Trestman on Fuller: "He worked the entire day and go through it....Kyle practiced the whole day today and moved around well."
  19. jersey cubs fan
    i'm not mad at him for it. i just think he did a [expletive] job at making up an excuse. Okay then, in response to your idiotic stance. um something can't be right and idiotic at the same time didn't even read any of the rest of that crap. if you actually believe him, LOL. I believe it was a perfectly reasonable excuse to offer up to braindead people that think they deserved one and that you are a clueless robot that spouted off every HOT SPORTS TAKE about a player missing an "obligation" for stupid family stuff.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    i'm not mad at him for it. i just think he did a [expletive] job at making up an excuse. Okay then, in response to your idiotic stance. A) The radio show is a pointless waste of time and skipping it should not require an explanation. B) Not all doctors visits for young children are scheduled far in advance. C) Not all doctors visits for young children are scheduled around dad's pointless side gig. D) Not all fathers are heartless robots and some actually want to participate and will attend such an appointment. E) Jay's wife has a career as well. F) The radio show is a pointless waste of time and skipping it should not require an explanation and people who get at all worked up about him missing this pointless exercise are completely psychotic.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Not quite the hospital so not good enough, right? lol seriously a weak excuse, come on. omgz he couldnt have just done the show later in the day? we gotta run this bozo out of town already. he couldn't have scheduled this doctors appointment when he didn't have a radio show to do? he didn't know about this appointment until the morning of, which happened the be the day after a bunch of controversy related to his team happened? his wife, who half the time seems to be in attendance at the show, couldn't have taken the kid to a doctor's appointment? should have come up with a better excuse. Okay, stop with the tipping point character.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I see "I am going to play drums now but I don't have regular drumsticks."
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Hah. Looks like they are no longer a united front and realized they lost. Will be interesting to see what they do with the rooftops once they own them. Yeah, if it is a rooftop that has a blocked view, not sure what you can do, but maybe some sort of pre and post game lounge for the club ticket holders, like all the fancy bar/restaurants you see in the new stadiums.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Yes, when you sacrifice yourself and pull the lineman to let another rusher get through, that will get called. When it's a 1one1 ass whooping that will not get called.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    That throw was more or less a push, which you can get away with. You cannot grab and pulldown an offensive lineman.
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