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  1. jersey cubs fan
    The blackhawks aren't available nationally on wgn. The cubs aren't gaining national fans with wgn. That benefit stopped in the 90's specifically because it was no longer true that it was unique. Kids in 2013 aren't coming home from school with only 1 or 2 options to watch, and them being sucked into the cubs as a result.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    Doesn't this process of team building lead to higher variation from year to year and make it more difficult to build any sort of sustained success? The opposite, I think. If you have stars and scrubs and a star goes in the tank or gets hurt, then you're more or less screwed. With "no bad players" that risk is distributed across a larger pool. Of course, I think there's a little bit of a difference in perception too. No bad players doesn't mean no good/great players. The A's got an MVP season from Donaldson and had 4 players above 3.5 fWAR(Cubs had 0), plus they had an elite bullpen and platooned the bejeezus out of people. I think no bad players allows you to stay in the race every year and prevent horrible seasons. It also allows for flexibility in terms of which players from the outside they can target, whereas black hole positions force you to address specific players.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    apparently. Not sure how that can end in anyway but badness.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    Bingo. I would give restructure his contract this offseason and feel confident enough to add 3-4 more years for an extension. You can always just cut him that last year (assuming his cap hit isn't like Peppers) if he isn't performing. He got the skill set to last longer than most WRs, but the only questions will be injuries (like every other WR/player) and his size (staying in great shape). There's also the question of his mental state.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    If I'm being honest, Michigan and Ohio State are better examples. They are similar in geography, and obviously in our conference. The point wasn't the schools specifically, but rather their recruiting practices. People seem to forget that Nebraska is a blue blood program. It wasn't by accident that the following has occurred in our proud football history: 5 National Championships 43 Conference Championships 4th most all-time victories among FBS schools, behind Michigan, Texas and Notre Dame (who we are only 9 wins behind) 9th in winning percentage among FBS schools Winningest college football program during the last 50 years When I say I'm a homer, it isn't only because I'm from here. Nebraska is a blue blood program, and has the resources to compete every single year on a national level. I additionally don't expect that we will see a return to the Devaney and Osborne years - but I do expect to be nationally relevant and winning conference championships. This is Nebraska. Nebraska is not a blue blood program. Or, if it is, the blue blood is based on the family's great great grandfather's textiles company and the fortune has been dwindling. Nebraska is a step down in prominence from Michigan and Ohio State. Nebraska is Iowa and Wisconsin with a better track record. But that record is very old, and from a very different era of college football.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    I think you are a little misguided on this point. The fact is that anything NU can offer students can be matched by probably a dozen or more other schools. It's not about what it can offer that others cannot match, because that really doesn't exist. There are only a handful of programs that sell themselves in recruiting. Nebraska is not among them. I'm an unrepentant homer when it comes to the University of Nebraska. People from outside of the state will never understand, and I don't expect them to. I understand. You are in the same boat as any number of fans of any number of other schools. You think your school is special and therefore can practically sell itself to anybody. The fact is there is a very small base of people for whom that "specialness" resonates. But that's not what recruiting is about. You are preaching to the choir when going after the little glasscows of the world. If you want to be better, you have to either recruit to the crowd for which Nebraska really isn't anything special, or actually coach the X's and O's better than the next guy. Or at the very least, find a gimmick that other teams can't figure out for a couple years.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I think you are a little misguided on this point. The fact is that anything NU can offer students can be matched by probably a dozen or more other schools. It's not about what it can offer that others cannot match, because that really doesn't exist. There are only a handful of programs that sell themselves in recruiting. Nebraska is not among them.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    The point is the 2008 Cubs below 100 were at 93 and 89, while the 2013 Cubs had guys at 56 and 72, plus a 94 and 99 getting lots of time. The scale matters, not just whether they were above or below 100. And on top of that, the 2013 strongest regular was at 107. They combined black holes with no studs. The 2008 guys who weren't good, weren't black holes either. And they also had some really good guys, but not top 10 OPS+ hitters.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20131119/worst-positions/ Len Kasper tweeted a link to this Verducci column, noting that he really liked the Billy Beane quote: This sort of thing is why the 2008 Cubs were so good. They didn't have much in the way of superstars performing above and beyond, but they had no weak links. The problem with so many other Hendry era Cubs teams is they had several black hole positions that weighed heavily on the team. The current team is filled with even fewer high end performers but with just as many black hole types. OPS+ isn't the best way to go about judging the weakest links, but it gives you a pretty good indication where the weaknesses lie.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    You should probably consider growing thicker skin on the matter and not worry so much about what you perceive as everybody mocking your team.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    That report was exactly what started the discussion about his injury on the Jay Cutler Show yesterday. Cutler immediately dismissed it and started all that negative talk. But then again Jay was very non-committal about playing in the Lions game the week leading up to it, but yesterday on the show he pretty much implied that he knew he was going to be back for that game during the bye week. The only conclusion is the organization is pushing Jay to come back, knowing he isn't ready, so he will look bad and it will help justify not bringing him back. You really think they're trying to put themselves in a position to lose games so they don't have to bring back Cutler (who they don't have to bring back anyways)? No, but that wasn't at all implied in the joke either. The point was if he isn't healthy enough to return, and the Bears know he isn't healthy enough to return, the conspiracy theorist view would be they are leaking that "they expect him to return on 12/1", knowing full well he won't be able to return on 12/1, therefore painting him in a bad light.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    That report was exactly what started the discussion about his injury on the Jay Cutler Show yesterday. Cutler immediately dismissed it and started all that negative talk. But then again Jay was very non-committal about playing in the Lions game the week leading up to it, but yesterday on the show he pretty much implied that he knew he was going to be back for that game during the bye week. The only conclusion is the organization is pushing Jay to come back, knowing he isn't ready, so he will look bad and it will help justify not bringing him back.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think anybody was heaping praise on it.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure what is so impossible about fielding a squad that is older than it was the previous year.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    He's not if you don't have to trade cheap good cheap prospects for him.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    They typically would have announced already and other teams (most?) already have announced. Maybe it's an issue with the new stadium. The A's say they are at the Cubs in a SS game March 4, but it is their only road game at the Cubs this spring. The White Sox site also only has them going to Mesa once, on the 27th.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Anyone able to find video of this? Power was knocked out yesterday and I have yet to see this in any highlight reel from the game. http://www.chicagobears.com/multimedia/videos/Highlights-Ravens-Bears/8d905335-2d65-45bd-8371-7533b81676f6 The Bears website has a field level view about 1:50 into this highlight package.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    You said it was a Chicago specific thing. Chicago first and more specifically Bears. It just isn't true. Hell, there were Denver fans who hated Cutler when he was only 25.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Looks like I transposed a 7-5 season with a 5-7 season. They lost 8 games in Fry's last season, 10 in Ferentz first and 9 in his 2nd. They averaged 8 per season in whatever 4 year grouping you want to include around those seasons. And they lost a hell of a lot more pre-Fry. In an era where the balance of power has shifted dramatically away from all Big Ten teams this stretch should not be viewed as inappropriately bad. It is standard operating procedure for Iowa.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    This is not at all unique to Chicago. And as for Rose, you are talking about a guy who was medically cleared to play who decided he didn't want to play. That's a whole 'nother level that will rile up any fan base.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see what Chicago has to do with it. It is universal that large portions of a fan base will both be hung up on predetermined storylines about a player, and will blame the QB disproportionately for all struggles prior to winning a super bowl. The backup QB is the most popular player on a team is a saying that has held true for decades, by all fan bases. You and I have talked about this before, IIRC. Chicago fans eat their own; they gobble up any idiot narrative our idiot media wants to assemble and would never change their minds. If Cutler took them to a Superbowl they'd still bitch about him. If he just took them and did not win? Probably. Just like Grossman, or just like Philly did with McNabb, or just like just about any fan base would do with a 30 year old QB who has not yet won them a Super Bowl. There are Steelers fans who kind of hate Big Ben right now and lots of NY people wanting to dump Manning. Unless you are among the best of the best and can back it up with the stats, you are going to run afoul with fan bases across the league. It is not a Chicago thing.
  22. jersey cubs fan
    http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/196qlm0ydq6a8gif/ku-medium.gif Qatar's vagina stadium
  23. jersey cubs fan
    I don't see what Chicago has to do with it. It is universal that large portions of a fan base will both be hung up on predetermined storylines about a player, and will blame the QB disproportionately for all struggles prior to winning a super bowl. The backup QB is the most popular player on a team is a saying that has held true for decades, by all fan bases.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    That is a strangely worded nugget.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Look like he did on that seam pass to Bennett. That was a rocket I didn't think he was capable of. I didn't consider it a rocket. Pretty nice pass that was harder than his typical deliveries, but nothing huge. It looked really good coming out of his hand but toward the end it was just sort of hanging up there by the time it reached Bennett.
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