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  1. NCCubFan
    The Bears will take sole possession of first place in the NFC North for good.
  2. NCCubFan
    Fixed. :D
  3. NCCubFan
    Looks like Vance forgot one minor detail about Survival Football this week, namely that you actually have to pick a team. :D
  4. NCCubFan
    My receivers didn't catch any touchdowns this week. Manning decided to share the wealth with the little guys this week. :(
  5. NCCubFan
    Here is the specific page for the poll. Rex is currently in second place behind Eli Manning.
  6. NCCubFan
    Cubs fall a game further behind both Tampa Bay and Kansas City. Three and a half games behind Tampa Bay, three behind Kansas City. Chances of a 100-loss season now appear to be slim and none. They'd have to go 1-11 the rest of the way to achieve that. Rich Hill alone should be good for two wins. It looks like the Cubs will have to settle for bad but not quite bad enough.
  7. NCCubFan
    This team is awesome. Everybody already knew it about the defense, but I don't think many people were expecting the offense to be this explosive. If Grossman can stay healthy this is 1985 all over again. And I think they're looking smart now for not taking a tight end with their first round draft pick. I'm in three fantasy leagues. Grossman was my starting QB this week in two of the leagues, and I picked him up for next week in the third league (Delhomme will be benched). In one league I got credit for six touchdowns from the Bears offense (four TD passes for Grossman, with double credit for the ones to Berrian and Davis, since they were in my lineup as well).
  8. NCCubFan
    Orton was inactive? Who was the 3rd QB? Orton was in uniform, so I'm thinking he was active. Isn't there a special rule about 3rd quarterbacks being active? They can be inactive and still enter the game as long as one of the other quarterbacks doesn't come back? That's right. A team is only allowed two active quarterbacks. The third is on the inactive list but can play in an emergency if the first two get hurt.
  9. NCCubFan
    I'm almost sure they do. Looking at the league settings, passing touchdowns and touchdowns are shown as two separate categories, each worth six points. I'm fairly sure touchdowns would include scoring touchdowns in any form (rushing, receiving, or kickoff/punt returns). And my team will be king of the league. I'm off to a 2-0 start, and with Rex Grossman as my quarterback I can't be beat (except perhaps for the Bears' bye week). :D
  10. NCCubFan
    Me too. In the minors you need to look beyond the numbers. He had a good season at AAA considering his age plus the fact that, due to his injury last year, he only had about a half season in AA. And he definitely showed the right trend, doing better in the second half of the season. I'd like to see him get about another half year in AAA, but I wouldn't mind seeing him called up for the second half of the year (as long as he's going to play, that is).
  11. NCCubFan
    That's your opinion, not fact. People are perfectly welcome to talk about it if they want. And I am not stating my opinion as fact, but more like, it's something that is LIKELY to happen. That's probably what you INTENDED to say, but not what you DID say. The wording you used did imply fact, not opinion, since you didn't use wording such as "probable" or "likely."
  12. NCCubFan
    No. Hendry wasn't smart enough to include a club option in the contract. They may have basically paid him to rehabilitate for a year only to see him walk away.
  13. NCCubFan
    At least that means the Cubs only lost a half game on first place despite winning. Time to get back on the losing track.
  14. NCCubFan
    Hill is still the AAAA pitcher many people were calling him earlier. His recent results are a result of a conspiracy among other teams. They've agreed to lay down and play dead when Hill pitches to fool Hendry into a false sense of security about what he has going into next season. Then next year, after Hendry doesn't acquire a top-line starter because he thinks he already has it, other teams will start hitting him again and he'll be exposed as the AAAA player he really is. No, I don't really believe that.
  15. NCCubFan
    I hope you don't think you posted a scoop here. :D Premium Non-premium
  16. NCCubFan
    I'm too excited about Hill's recent performances to get upset about losing ground today. They have plenty of pitchers capable of pitching a stinker and making up the ground lost today. I can't help but root for Hill, because every gem he pitches gives us more hope for the future. They'll just have to suck it up and come back tomorrow. Maybe a well-pitched game from Zambrano, but with an offensive slumber and a bullpen collapse, is what the doctor ordered. :D
  17. NCCubFan
    One only needs to look at my signature for updated standings. :D Some of us don't like looking at signatures so we have them turned off. :D Good point.
  18. NCCubFan
    My preference would be to have Soriano as an outfielder. However, if he insists on playing second as a condition of signing with the Cubs, I'd rather have that than not have him at all. Enough of the overemphasis on defense. As Harry would say, LET'S GET SOME RUNS!
  19. NCCubFan
    The Cubs disagree with us. Hill and Veal have been named the organization's Minor League Players of the Year. Obviously the organization didn't share our viewpoint that Hill pitched too much in the majors to be considered. I have a feeling our outome would have been different if we had considered Hill to be eligible. I don't have any problem with this, because between the official organizational award and ours more deserving players got recognition.
  20. NCCubFan
    One only needs to look at my signature for updated standings. :D
  21. NCCubFan
    And thats YOUR opinion. I disagree with that. Is that ok? Yes it is OK, but it's not just his opinion. It's the opinion of a lot of knowledgeable basefall fans. Wins are meaningless because they relate to a team's offense as much (if not more) than the pitcher. Pitcher A could stink up the joint yet win 9-8, while Pitcher B could pitch a masterpiece but lose 1-0 on an unearned run. Without question Pitcher B would have pitched the better game, yet he'd have a loss while Pitcher A would have a win.
  22. NCCubFan
    Smokey Burgess, Gene Baker, and Don Hoak. The last of which Ron Berler explained away by saying he "conquered his Cubness" hating the organization and ownership so much from his brief stay in Chicago. He went from a team that finished 98-55 the year before (Brooklyn) to the Cubs who were 60-94. Aside from that team, and the D-Backs, there have been no exceptions. And coincidently those are the only two teams that won the WS courtesy of a walk off hit in the bottom of the 9th in game 7. I was going to remind you of Joe Carter in 1993, but then noticed you specifically said in game 7 (that was in game 6). That would have been a perfect example of Cubness, since both the hero (Carter) and the goat (Mitch Williams) were former Cubs. I wonder if that's the only time where one ex-Cub got the Series-winning hit off another ex-Cub.
  23. NCCubFan
    That's your opinion, not fact. People are perfectly welcome to talk about it if they want. True, you can talk. But I agree with him. I do not think this trade is likely, at all. I agree it's not likely, but he was stating it as definite rather than unlikely.
  24. NCCubFan
    That's your opinion, not fact. People are perfectly welcome to talk about it if they want.
  25. NCCubFan
    I've got a feeling it will wind up a two-team race between Kansas City and Tampa Bay, with the Cubs coming in third. I'm not giving up, though; they could still pull it out with a long slide like they had earlier in the season.
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