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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Patrick Mooney ‏@CSNMooney · 1h1 hour ago #Cubs say 4 players cleared waivers, reducing 40-man roster to 37: Vitters, Kalish, Valaika assigned outright to Iowa. J. McDonald's a FA.
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    How is an 8 team playoff "too many games" for the FBS schools, but not the FCS schools? 8 team playoff would mean 3 postseason games in addition to the conference championship game which would be a 16 game season for 2 teams. Last year ND State played 15 en route to winning FCS and I think a lot of people would agree that is too many games for college players except for the fact that nobody knows about or cares about North Dakota or its inhabitants.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Every NFL coach will want to bring in his own coordinators. That makes complete sense.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    lady style?
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    No. Basing your interest on the Q rating of a manager is terribly misguided. You haven't had much interest because the team has sucked and that is because they haven't had enough good baseball players. They need a lot more good baseball players. A celebrity manager won't change that.
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    Literally every other major American sport has an overly inclusive playoff system. We can't just have one that isn't? They would never go past 8 because of the additional number of games and all that. If you don't think an 8 team College Football playoff wouldn't be fun as hell to watch, then you're a communist and hate puppies. In pretty much every sport out there I lose interest long before the championship game unless my team is involved, or maybe if an interesting game 7 type situations arises. I love this part of college football season, get rejuvenated right around the Jan 1 games but completely check out before the championship game. I find March Madness entertaining on the first weekend, tolerable on the 2nd and boring as hell at the end. I watch the beginning of MLB playoffs and that's it. A prolonged college playoff would be very boring to me.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    If that is the biggest move of the offseason this is going to be a hell of a depressing offseason. I disagree. Maddon is a move that will pay off in a big way long term. I'm willing to accept him as the biggest move. that's just a crazily silly idea
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    If that is the biggest move of the offseason this is going to be a hell of a depressing offseason.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    Unless you count the leadership of Trestman and Emery.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    or you could dial back the the crazy
  11. jersey cubs fan
    It sure as hell looked to me like he advocated small ball and questioned the take-and-rake "get the pitcher out early" method we've been building on. And I think he might be right. I don't really think these guys have built a take and rake get the pitcher out early method. Their very first draft pick was absolutely nothing like that. The closest thing they have to such a player is Bryant, and he was a no brainer best college bat pick they had to take, rather than some specific type they targeted. I also don't buy the simple "bullpens are now so amazing" storyline espoused earlier.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    The roster has enough talent. But I agree with the need for speed. How do you figure they have enough talent? The depth is awful at the LB/WR/TE/S positions and some of the players are old and done. A lack of young talent. That is compounding the horrible coaching issues. Angelos drafting combined with Emery's first draft and bad contracts handed out this offseason are heavily affecting this team. I do like Phil Emery, but his offseason moves (aside from Willie Young) and coaching hire look bad. I would argue that simply drafting Chandler Jones and having 1 of the 3rd/4th/5th round picks sticking in the first draft could of had an impact on this team. I don't know if I should be irritated about that [expletive] press conference yesterday or understanding about the fact that they're going to preach patience and positivity. I would of liked to have heard some stern words and some accountability for the players. I'm not sure what sort of verbage would have successfully expressed that message. It's the NFL, they can all be cut tomorrow. Accountability isn't a huge issue. Sucking is the problem.
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    Not to me. I read your take first and expected to see a different article than what I ended up reading.
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    I don't think that suggesting he would want one or two contacty players in the lineup would be akin to a fundamental philosophical disagreement. I also don't think the Cubs front office is married to the theoretical 8 dong hitting position players already in the system.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    He was drafted in 2012, three whole drafts ago. That slot doesn't mean much of anything anymore.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    I don't quite get your interpretation of Arguello assuming Maddon would view 8 dong hitters as a weakness.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Tax deduction for the interest. Duh. That's capped at a million I believe. Even so he's only getting his tax rate back on that deduction, it doesn't make sense to pay a dollar to get 45 cents back. Also he's so far away from any threshold it doesn't make sense in limiting his agi to get to another threshold. So this is not why. Perhaps for liquidity but seriously somebody who makes nick Saban money should not be financing his home. He probably carried this mortgage knowing that this group of Bama alums were gonna pay it off. If you have other more profitable things you want to do with your money, there's nothing wrong with financing even if you can afford to pay it off.
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    How? I'm not going to pay 20% of full market value so I can be a silent stockholder. Market Cap for any public company is based on the current trading price multiplied by shares (of the appropriate type) outstanding. Yes, there's nothing wrong with valuing a company in this way. Any attempt to take control would require a premium above the current valuation, but that's not really necessary to consider in this situation.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    How? I'm not going to pay 20% of full market value so I can be a silent stockholder. That kinda gets into the definition of 'market value', which you can take several ways. In the startup world at least, it's extremely common to extrapolate market value that way when you raise money. I don't think the Cubs are considered a start-up, although the lack of emphasis on wins does somewhat equate to the lack of necessity for profits.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, I mean, I'm all for the F it idea. I just think there's a perfectly good and reasonable reason not to call for Tucker's head right now. But I can do without good and reasonable with the Bears.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Anybody who compares an NFL contract with an MLB contract should be banned.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    I have no idea what makes you think Pasqualoni would even be replacement level. wishful thinking? hope in the unknown? Pasqualoni is about as known as an unaccomplished old coach can be. He's been around forever, despite extremely limited NFL experience (sound familiar?), and has done very little. He's not an answer, although I do think he's about the only viable option if you were to fire Tucker today.
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    the reason not to do it now is you lose credibility. Do you remember when Lovie found it impossible to hire an OC because he was constantly changing OC and has his own job on the line multiple times? Trestman doesn't have good NFL coaching friends. He did a horrible job putting together his first staff and did no better when making "improvements" a year later. This team falling apart right now means the perception across the league is his job is in jeopardy. I don't care about Tucker. He does need to be replaced, but I don't see Trestman/Emery finding a better guy for the job and convincing him to take it. I think what ultimately needs to happen is that everything needs to be blown up and start over, or barring that, then give Emery a second shot at finding the right head coach. Trestman has failed at his job so far. The offense isn't good enough to him to be placing blame on his underlings.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    I have no idea what makes you think Pasqualoni would even be replacement level.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I think the argument boils down to this: Nothing they have done to date suggests they will find a better more qualified coordinator. Firing the DC is a cop-out shifting blame away from the awful job that Trestman has done.
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