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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure where to put this, but figured it could start a new thread. Yankees signed Jeter to a 1-year deal worth more than the player option he had. The reason is because the one year figure is less than the average value of the previous contract had he exercised his options. That average value would count against the taxable total, so they paid less in an effort to stop paying the penalty. http://deadspin.com/why-the-yankees-gave-derek-jeter-a-raise-1456848034
  2. jersey cubs fan
    that's a pretty brutal redraft Who redoes a draft 1/2 season later? "Redoing" a draft is a pointless endeavor, but if it's going to be done, there's nothing wrong with doing it after half a season. Every NFL GM would love the opportunity to get a full NFL training camp plus 8 games to get a further impression on the players they like.
  3. jersey cubs fan
    Okay, to me it feels inevitable that a lot of improvements will be made and they were win a playoff game. But, to each his own.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I seem to remember him hanging out at Wrigley with a few friends and playing after hours. Anything to avoid the wife
  5. jersey cubs fan
    The point I'm making here is that fans are more obsessive about this stuff than the players. Fans and the media are obsessed with baseball's past, but the guys who get paid to play the game do so because they are good at it, not because they are obsessed with baseball trivia. It shouldn't surprise anybody that any player is unaware of certain facts about baseball's past.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    Did you have that same opinion before all the other recent changes to Wrigley Field?
  7. jersey cubs fan
    I'd expect any student at NYU who also played baseball to know that. He's not an idiot, and it's not obscure history. He's a student there now. He knows that now. He's also studying creative writing.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    yes The outer wall. But isn't that still undecided?
  9. jersey cubs fan
    I almost rewound the part where Joe Buck said something about it on the final out but decided I didn't care. What a stupid forced storyline.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    celebrate the game? youthful joy on the field? There will be youthful joy when I celebrate your death.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    My high school team was 90% absolute baseball nerds. Some might be more of historian trivia nerds than others but all of them pretty much were huge MLB fans and lived the game. I went to a huge school though and most the team were only baseball players (highly specific athletes at the school compared to smaller schools). I guess I could see going to a small school where its the same kids on the baseball, basketball, and football team, and some of them dont necessarily live baseball though. My school was relatively small for the conference, but 1600 kids led to plenty of supply. This was the early 90's and baseball was well into its ebb away from being the sport that kids followed. This was also the suburbs of Chicago. Cardenas went to school in Florida and time has shown us that nobody in Florida cares about professional baseball.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    He's busy being drunk. so now's the perfect time to lowball him Mmmmmm, lowball. Nothing like the hair of the dog.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Why do you think a high school player lives nothing but baseball? We had one guy on our team who I would describe as "living the sport", the rest were normal high school kids who happened to play baseball. There are media members who have written dozens, if not hundreds, of articles and columns about "today's player not appreciating or knowing the history of the game." They lament what a shame it is that some guys don't know who Jackie Robinson is. Plus, half his minor league teammates probably were not native born Americans, what do they care about 1950s baseball? Then you add in the fact that he's from Florida and I don't see what is so surprising about his lack of knowledge.
  14. jersey cubs fan
    The question is what would lead to more eyeballs, a #1 ranking or something outside the top 5? Give it a 6 and some people will freak the F out.
  15. jersey cubs fan
    That was, indeed, an interesting read. But... How can you grow up with a love of the game, surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport, and not know this? I think it makes a lot of sense that somebody would love playing a sport but not know where one team played during the Eisenhower Administration. He wasn't "surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport", considering he said his parents knew nothing about baseball.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    Insert groin joke here Jay already did that, likely months ago.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    Nothing Kaplan does/says is troubling to me. Mostly because the man is completely inconsequential to me. His opinions do seem to affect, or at least reflect, the consensus sentiment about the Cubs and their doings, so it's annoying more than troubling to me.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Adults; everyone did their drinking the weekend before. Yeah, sure, I did my drinking. Halloween on Thursday sucks. Every party and/or night out does it the weekend before, but then there are kids costume things all week long, and there will be carryover into the weekend. Anyway, it's a perfectly reasonable night to schedule a potential game 7.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    More disappointed in Goldschmidt winning it over Rizzo tbh Gold Gloves don't affect who wins games, so I'm Jay Cutler on this.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    So he is currently a special assistant who has not interviewed for the gig? But people are leaking they are high on him? Sounds like a candidate for a bench coach.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2013/10/29/5042966/alex-morgan-sydney-leroux-halloween-miley-cyrus-robin-thicke
  22. jersey cubs fan
    1 Texas .816 2 Boston .805 3 CHCubs .797 4 Detroit .784 5 St. Louis .783
  23. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs pitchers out OPS the next best team by 88 points and were 47.7% better than the rest of the NL pitchers. The DH probably would not have helped the 2008 Cubs at all. what i mean is we might have actually might have had the best OPS in baseball instead of the second best despite being an NL team because awesome I take much greater pleasure in the team's record being good than statistical rankings, and given the Cubs huge advantage over NL teams in OPS from the pitcher's spot I do not think a DH would have helped them achieve a better record. So, not awesome.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    Cubs pitchers out OPS the next best team by 88 points and were 47.7% better than the rest of the NL pitchers. The DH probably would not have helped the 2008 Cubs at all.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    I think all of us grew up watching mostly NL baseball. I got next to no enjoyment from the "will they pinch hit for him or double switch" discussion that some people call strategy. Baseball isn't really a strategy game. It's a pitcher versus hitter game. I group up enjoying pitchers pitch to hitters.
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