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  1. jersey cubs fan
    Right there with you.
  2. jersey cubs fan
    http://deadspin.com/why-dont-the-st-louis-cardinals-respect-the-game-1445679050
  3. jersey cubs fan
    That's different. That's a guy showing up from the minors in the middle of the season. Anyone who doesn't follow the minors(or noticed his cups of coffee with Houston) is going to assume he's a prospect. Maddon is one of the most visible managers out there, and he's continuously led a team of kids to the playoffs, so he knows how to win the right way (by not spending any money) I mean he is pretty visible, but being that I follow baseball generally pretty closely and there are still teams whose managers I couldn't name, I could totally see the casual fans who aren't lunatics like us not knowing who Maddon, even being one of the more visible managers, is. As SSR pointed out, the media would [expletive] over the idea of these guys paying up for a manager. They are going to knock just about any "cheap" option and talk about such a manager as a pawn of the front office. So a media friendly manager with a career winning record, 2 manager of the year awards, several 90 win seasons, 4 playoff appearances and a pennant is going to be portrayed as an aggressive "win now" move. Trading a prospect for him would be portrayed as the recent strategy finally paying off. The message sent to the masses will be Cubs finally move away from acquiring prospects to using their prospects in an effort to start winning at the major league level.
  4. jersey cubs fan
    I don't think they'll fool anyone as stars, but they seem more serviceable than that. I feel like both have looked much worse this year than last, which might be partially due to injuries and ineffectiveness elsewhere exposing them. Wright especially looks like he's regressed - far more frequently out of position and looking more like a confused rookie. The complete lack of any pass rush and no tackles exposes the safeties to more threats on the ground and through the air. I'm not sure you can judge them fairly by such a statistical measure through 6 games under these circumstances.
  5. jersey cubs fan
    The first line I saw was Bears -1, and now the same site has Washington -1. CBS Pick-em league is going with Washington -1.5. I believe the Bears are 1-5 against the spread now.
  6. jersey cubs fan
    No. He's big, young, and doesn't have much wear and tear on him given that he was a backup until midway through last year and missed a couple years with the knee injury. Plus its a lot better to overwork Wootton over 33 yo Peppers or 250lb McClellin. Depends if pulling back on Peppers results in better play when he's in there. If it does, then I agree. If not though, then I'd rather ride the guy who I know is gone after this year, than put extra miles on legs that I'm going to count on for more years. These aren't 23 year old pitchers, or even running backs. It's not really a matter of putting extra miles on their legs.
  7. jersey cubs fan
    Everything that has happened the past two years is cause for lashing out at ownership.
  8. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, that's not true at all.
  9. jersey cubs fan
    While I have done that if I have a conflict prior to the start of the game, I would never do that by choice. It sucks for watching football. Although it works great for baseball. You can watch any game on 2-3 times speed and just hit play whenever you think you see something interesting happen. It also works with hockey. Football is the only sport where I see it working. It's like the skip ahead 30 seconds button was created just for that. Can catch an entire game in a half hour that way. Only if you have an offense using the whole clock. You have to hit the button right after the play ends and hope they aren't hurrying up. Then you also have the red zone option which you can turn to from time to time during your game. I'd rather use the back button to toggle between the Bears and everybody else between plays than bother with fast forwarding. But the big point is football is played at only a select few times during the week so it's easy, and enjoyable to watch them all. Baseball is played everyday and it's easy to miss games. Put a baseball game on fast forward and just hit play whenever you see movement on the little diamond thingy, it rewinds to just prior to that play and you can see it. Hockey does the same thing. I've done that at night many times after watching something with the wife.
  10. jersey cubs fan
    If ownership/business people are pushing for a name manager to push the brand this winter, and even if it's among the most expensive managers in the game, the actual cost is still much less than a run-of-the-mill player. They could pay somebody $5m to manage and tell the world they are serious about winning, and take it out of the Scott Baker portion of the budget. The public at large and media is going to applaud such a move. What doesn't make sense is Theo trying to trade prospects for a manager. The Cubs have a long history of doing something to drive fan interest prior to the convention and/or the date of February ticket sales. The past two years they have bypassed that process and I would not be surprised at all if the business side was pushing hard for a renewed attempt to gain fan interest over the winter. The easiest way is to sign a big name free agent, but that is expensive. Signing a name manager to a big contract sends a similar message, but at a much less expensive price point.
  11. jersey cubs fan
    While I have done that if I have a conflict prior to the start of the game, I would never do that by choice. It sucks for watching football. Although it works great for baseball. You can watch any game on 2-3 times speed and just hit play whenever you think you see something interesting happen. It also works with hockey.
  12. jersey cubs fan
    Pretty bold stance to take, 5 games into the season. I've seen a lot of proclamations about exactly how good certain teams are this year and I don't really remember hearing that stuff this early before.
  13. jersey cubs fan
    Pretty much what I figured if there was any truth to the Rays listening. If this is ownership talking I hope Theo is just saying, "see, it would not be worth it."
  14. jersey cubs fan
    HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY NO TO THIS GUY HOLY [expletive] WHAT A MAN Looks Dothraki. Does he have bells in his hair?
  15. jersey cubs fan
    Yeah, forget the stupid Playoff Series That Shall Not Be Named. The real hurt is how amazingly horrifying the last decade has been when *everything* seemed to be pointing up. Some of it was bad management, but a lot of it has been flat-out bad luck. Most of it was bad management.
  16. jersey cubs fan
    The conversation isn't about winning game 5 in Atlanta.
  17. jersey cubs fan
    And here I thought all this reminiscing by CSN and other sites was a poorly planned gimmick but it turns out all you weirdos justify it by reading and watching this stuff.
  18. jersey cubs fan
    Not sure why you felt compelled to make that idiotic statement but you know nothing about Philly market. The phillies were nothing ten years ago. They were the white sox. Nobody cared. I went to cubs games every year and it was an easy cheap ticket. That era is gone. They won a generation of fans to the cause with the stadium/sustained success/championships. It's been a remarkable business success.
  19. jersey cubs fan
    Because a draft isn't run by one man a few weeks leading up to the draft. It's a collaborative effort in which the GM is like director and starts as early as August of the year prior. I know all of our draft prep starts around the time of the combine but not an NFL scouting department. I just don't think you can discount the relatively short time frame Emery or must GMs have from the time of being hired to the draft with all the other aspects of running a team. Plus add in the fact if a GM uses a different scouting/grading/language system. Which Emery did/does and implemented after the first draft. So properly managing a draft is as much about your management of your team of employees as it is about scouting ability (not to discount scouting because it's still really important, especially being the guy at top with the final word). And anyone who claims to run the show alone is a lying blowhard, sucks at drafting, Bill Bellicheck, or some combination of the three. None of that excuses a horrible pick. This isn't rocket scientist. That same mistake can be made in year 4 as easily as year 1.
  20. jersey cubs fan
    I don't get the "it was his first draft" point that is trying to be made. This was not his first rodeo. He knew what drafts were all about and had been involved in many, and he knew the class. It doesn't matter if it was his 1st or his 5th. Angelo made some of his worst picks later in his tenure.
  21. jersey cubs fan
    Is that Rich King?
  22. jersey cubs fan
    What rule? 5 year deals for guys over 30? More specifically, that 5 year, 9 figure deals for 32 year old pitchers are a bad idea. It would be nice to avoid committing to such things if you don't have to, but there are lot worse ideas out there in baseball.
  23. jersey cubs fan
    It wouldn't be a lie. Like I initially stated, I would love it if all along they've been working out some back-room deals with Rosemont (or any place that would be feasible, for that matter). Then go public when they're ready to knock Tunney and the rooftop owners on their collective behinds with the news the team is moving. Again, it's a pipe dream. But the idea of them abandoning Wrigley Field doesn't bother me in the least. Considering that it would mean several more years of costs going to things other than the product on the field, it would bother me.
  24. jersey cubs fan
    He had that one real nice play, and was the only guy who could bring down Jacobs on another run.
  25. jersey cubs fan
    Old Yankee stadium pretty much stunk, but it was the house that ruth built (then got completely redone in the ugly 1970s utilitarian style that isn't useful) so people loved it. New Yankee stadium is just a more bloated version of that place, that doesn't have as much grime. There is nothing interesting about it. It is not enjoyable to walk around. And that awful moat thing is really horrible looking. It's really bad for the average fan. There is no air circulatin and it feels like you are sitting far away from the game. All the advertising is an assault on the eyes. I honestly don't know what they were thinking Maximize revenues and cater to the 1%. It works I assume for those purposes, but it sucks.
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