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If Notre Dame doesn't join the Big Ten would you accept Syr?
NCCubFan replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
No love for Ball State? :D -
Devil Rays to Undergo Name Change
NCCubFan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Tampa Bay of Pigs. -
I looked it up in the book Where's Harry? by Steve Stone, and it was 1987. My thinking was simply that a current President would have more important things to worry about, but then again it was just one day.
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I think it's a combination of a couple of the aforementioned factors. Ripken's streak helped preserve interest in baseball immediately following the streak. Then the Sosa-McGwire race helped baseball surge to its current popularity. I think fans would have eventually come back anyway, but those events helped speed it up.
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Devil Rays to Undergo Name Change
NCCubFan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Tampa Bay Devil Ray Rayners. -
I didn't know about that one. I knew about the one in Kansas because there's a college named Pittsburg State there.
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I remember it, although I think it was later than 1987. It was a different celebrity each game, and one game it was Ronald Reagan (that's why I think it was later, since Reagan was still President in 1987 and I think it was after his second term was over). I remember laughing at the way Murray would insult the players from the other team (much like the long-lost art of bench jockeying).
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This is the second case this year of the NFL telling a player he was on the Pro Bowl team, then telling him they made a mistake. Tarrick Glenn (Colts' tackle) was informed he made the team, then told it was a mistake and he was actually an alternate. In his case, he wound up on the team anyway as an injury replacement.
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Rhodes for Michaels Trade
NCCubFan replied to Blueheart05's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The deal was renegotiated so Cleveland would receive another player from Boston if Mota goes on the DL. Some additional players are included as compared to the originally reported trade (Shoppach going to Cleveland, Riske and Bard to Boston). -
You can order it through BA's web site. It isn't available in bookstores yet.
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Too much "before he got hurt" here. :(
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Devil Rays to Undergo Name Change
NCCubFan replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
The Bad Baseball Team Formerly Known As The Devil Rays Whose New Owner Wants To Rip Off All Fans Who've Purchased Merchandise By Changing The Name And Making That Merchandise Obsolete. :D -
The song lyrics tangent now has its own home in Social. Back to your regularly scheduled Todd Walker discussion.
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It probably was, since both were in 1997.
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The holdup is that, from Cleveland's perspective, this trade is tied to the trade with Boston (Coco Crisp for Marte and Mota). That trade is on hold because Mota failed his physical, and if it falls through I don't think Cleveland still wants to trade Rhodes.
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Pretty much. He was a regular for a couple of years early in his career with the Giants, but a utility player for most of his career. He played mainly SS and 3B but also played some at 1B, 2B, OF, and C. http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/paganjo01.shtml
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The Big I'm Hurt to Oakland for one year. $500,000 guaranteed, an additional $2.6 million in bonuses. Link
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http://www.northsidebaseball.com/PremiumForum/viewtopic.php?t=28641 http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=28641 EDIT: Looks like another mod was merging at the same time I was locking.
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I didn't realize Pittsburg had a team (there really is a Pittsburg, in Kansas). :D
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I saw two positives about that season. First, it made the brass realize Seifert wasn't the right coach and they got Fox. Second, it put them in a position to draft Peppers. I think they're record that season is probably more misleading than almost any team ever. As you mentioned, they were competitive in just about every game until the last couple; they just couldn't catch the one break needed to get over the hump. It didn't surprise me one bit that they improved by six games the next season.
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Len vs. Steve isn't really a good comparison, because they had different roles (Len is PBP; Steve was an analyst). Better comparisons would be Len vs. Chip and Bob vs. Steve. And I miss Harry too. And Jack Brickhouse.
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I like the move too. Nothing to lose, a lot to gain. I too would have preferred a club option for 2007, but my guess is that Miller didn't want to be tied down. Hendry normally seems to go for club options when signing rehabilitating players (Dempster, Williamson), so it seems likely to me that it was Miller that didn't want it.
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That's fine with me if all three of us currently tied see this and reply. For a tiebreaker, pick the score for both teams. I'll score it based on the difference between the actual and predicted number of points for each team (without regard to the direction of the difference). My pick: Seattle 24, Pittsburgh 17.
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I said Nomar, because I think that affects the Cubs beyond 2005. If he weren't injured last year I think the Cubs would have re-signed him, and we could have had Nomar at short and Cedeno at second. That also may have kept the Cubs from re-signing Neifi.
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Rocket Sauce, rawaction, Is_Pedro_There, Mark_R, Treebeard, circlechange, Fred Hornkohl, and myself correctly picked Seattle to win the NFC championship. Nobody picked Pittsburgh to win the AFC. Rocket Sauce is the only person who picked Seattle to win the Super Bowl and therefore the only one whose final record has not been determined. The standings (with a Super Bowl loss already added in for all but Rocket Sauce): 6-5: Mark_R, circlechange, NCCubbieFan 5-5: Rocket Sauce 5-6: rawaction, Mizzou, Treebeard, DJAXXFAN, Fred Hornkohl, sethuel1 4-7: sweetpeteman, Cubbies75 3-8: Transmogrified Tiger, Is_Pedro_There, Mark Prior's Calves 0-11: IMB! Mark_R, circlechange, and myself are assured of being tied for the best record; Rocket Sauce will also be in the tie at the top if Seattle wins the Super Bowl. If Seattle wins, Rocket Sauce will be declared the contest winner for having correctly picked the Super Bowl champion. If Pittsburgh wins, since I didn't think to include any tiebreakers, Mark_R, circlechange, and myself will be considered to be co-winners (we all had the same record for every round in the playoffs as well as for the entire playoffs, so it seems like a true tie to me).
