Careless

take him

:shock: Gotta love halftime swings

I love prevent defenses Seriously, keep it up. Don't play the defense that's been winning you this game anymore

Seriously, I'm the only one here who knows that the ravens won today?

Why don't you wait and see if your 4-4 team can even make the playoffs. There are only two very good teams left on our schedule (Eagles and Giants) and the Falcons and Saints are in free-fall mode. I'm pretty sure we're getting in. So b/c the Saints lost on the road today to the defending SB champs they are in "free fall". They still have a better record than your underachieving bunch. Again, see us all again after tomorrow night's game, a trap if I ever saw one. They also got killed two weeks ago at home by a Baltimore team that just lost to the Titans. Umm... no, they didn't

that call was debacleicious

Bears having the ball is better than the bears not having the ball? Or are you just ready to surrender

Lot of things to review on this play...

That's why your GM needs to be able to sell the heck out of your team and force him to want to stay. You would need a gun (or some other credible threat of force) or a contract stupidly large to force me to want to stay without checking the FA market if I was in his position. There are simply no adequate words

eat me, fellow cubs fan :lol: But really, I was hoping for more drunken anti-revelry in this thread Maybe I'm weird, but I still think they have a good chance.

When you're really drunk and angry you type "b4"?

I think (this is what I imagine I'd do) there's a good chance if he doesn't sign tonight, he just wants to see what he gets offered. If some team blows him away, he's gone. If not, back to the Cubs. No big deal to him to wait an extra week or two if it could potentially make him millions. But maybe he's just lying about home team discount. and I'm probably about the 7th person to write that in this thread by now

Isn't it Eastern time?

Kenny williams has won 520 games and lost 449. He has NEVER HAD A BELOW .500 SEASON. He has always had a lower payroll than the cubs, I think. This is simply a bad comparison, Hendry is bad because his teams lose a lot of games, people thought williams was bad because they disagreed with his moves.

It makes no difference whether you call someone a stupid GM or a stupid man, you are still saying that because he does things differently than you would or because you don't understand why he has done what he has done, that he is stupid. That exhibits either a lack of ability or a lack of willingness to understand another person's point of view. His reasoning may in the end be faulty or outdated, but doesn't mean that his reasoning is illogical or idiotic? He may, MAY, value certain abilities more than we do, does that mean that his reasons for valuing those abilities over others are non-existent or not based on sound experience and logic? There are plenty of reasons to be displeased with the job he has done and many of the decisions he has made. There are no reasons to think that he is an idiot. Idiot: 1. an utterly foolish or senseless person. 2. Psychology. a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25. Come on, guys. Lets move on. I thought abuck was saying that because hendry is bad at what he does, not because he disagrees with him. Whether or not you agree with his philosophy/strategies, it's impossible to argue that he's good at his job. Compared to other GM's, hendry is foolish/senseless. "utterly" is up for debate or conceivably, he has insanely bad luck

I assumed he meant "position player"

Nobody was putting him in the HOF. OK, settle for multiple All-star appearences then? :wink: So taguchi has almost (sort of) made the all star team as a backup. Japanese players have gotten huge votes simply for being Japanese. Combine that with playing in NYC and I don't think he'd have to be all that good to have made AS games... (but that's a topic aside from actually evaluating how he would perform)

Bonafide, dude.......bonafide. :D it's the rare player who can lead the league in hits but bat under .300 All you have to do is refuse to walk...its just that easy! Helps when you play every inning and lead off.

I would probably immediately start worrying about whether the guy will truly live up to his billing. I would start a pool on how long it will be before he goes on the DL. I'm taking the over on how much of his contract he spends on the DL if he signs with us.

I would probably immediately start worrying about whether the guy will truly live up to his billing. I'd become convinced he won't

Why would they have to consider this? They could have done this weeks ago. "if it's above X we say yes" Thinking about it with the money actually on the table? I don't get it (and yes, i'm just whining because I'm impatient)

That's what I was thinking too. He probably shouldn't expect a lot of Cover-1 bump and run. Most of the comments are ok, it's just funny how these guys do this every week, and really only Boldin and Taylor have been able to back it up at all. Yeah, only Steve Smith should expect that from the bears :(

Looks like the voting for this poll is closed? Registered non-voter here. Both parties oppose my views and with the non-parliamentary system we have, there's little difference between voting for a third party candidate (none of those I've heard of that would represent me anyway) and not voting at all. Free time>the difference between a protest vote and a protest non-vote

In other words, "deadspin may not be wrong about pujols, they just don't know"

Glad to see they didn't smack smith as he was running out of bounds there. I can think of some times where they probably would have