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Get this on! I'm drinking all my juice before the game even starts!

KEMP. LAHAIR. WHO SHALL EMERGE VICTORIOUS?! Da Cubs. The only tickets I could get was right field pavilion, all you can eat etc etc. for the Stl series on the 18th. I'd love to meet any of y'all at Chavez Ravine.

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They don't have Theo anymore. I'd be surprised if anyone left in that front office knew what OBP was much less WAR. WAR? What is it good for? Evaluating baseball players. Absolutely nothing, say it again, HuH

thanks Tim. Much of everything to you and the site.

I have tried to log in from the beginning. I get an invalid token. (from favorites) Whatever that may be. If I jump into a forum and then log in, everything is solved. Quirks? or an issue? I have no idea. Just a hey hey.

You're doing it wrong.

LOL, love you here. You love the Cubs. Fred you need an award!.

excellent

I can stand for typhoons and earthquakes even, but tornadoes, scare the bejeesus outta me.

You know, Arizona Phil also noted that Mineo was in the MLB European Academy so I'm not sure if he's made it to Mesa or not. That said, Asian and European kids normally aren't sent to the DSL, even if they might not be ready. What's the point of sending them to a different foreign nation with a different foreign langauge when they'll have to get used to the USA soon enough? happened to me, doesn't mean I endorse it but you adapt and get on.

LOL do you remember your Mandarin or Taiwanese (which really is Fukinese, but still)

Same here ... Easterling does have some NFL potential, though, and I thought I had heard that football was his first love. That said, he's more a depth/slot return man option, and draft wise, more of a mid-late round type value, unless he really blows up his senior year and gets better football workout numbers than people are expecting right now. Just as a side note, I spent grades 2 - 12 in Taiwan. Graduated and came to the mainland.

Vodka for me.

Wait a sec and let me spike my Cubbie Koolaid....num num, We are taking the series.

Raisin, what section are you in? I imagine you are wearing a jersey but whose? I'll try to spot you.

Wait a sec and let me spike my Cubbie Koolaid....num num, We are taking the series.

Even if you were correct that soccer isn't popular in the US -- and you're not -- it seems incredibly thin, logically speaking, to blame the purported unpopularity on the league/cup system employed. I did nothing of the sort. Soccer is unpopular as a spectator sport here, because Americans find it boring to watch. It's a fringe, niche sport in the U.S. Sorry if that hurts your feelings or whatever, but the numbers are what they are, and the absence of any meaningful national TV deal proves the point. So to make the argument, as others have, that Americans would embrace a multiple-champion setup in baseball because it works in soccer is inherently flawed, because soccer itself hasn't worked in America (at least not as a spectator/fan sport). Tons of kids play soccer, and it's growing like crazy in terms of participation. I get that. But that's not pertinent to this issue. No. Again, you have a serious correlation-causation problem. Because soccer isn't popular here doesn't mean the league/cup system would be unpopular here (though I would not even remotely be in favor of importing it). There are many reasons soccer may not be popular here, and you have shown no nexus between soccer's unpopularity in the US and the league/cup system (I'd posit such nexus would be impossible to prove, as I don't believe most Americans are even aware of the simultaneous domestic cups and leagues). When you say "whatever that sport is doing, the American sporting public ain't buying" and use that for a reason the league/cup system would not work in the US, you are ostensibly saying that "soccer is played with 11 players a side, and soccer hasn't worked in America, so no sport with 11 players a side would work in America." Further, you can focus on MLS's TV deal, but that is really a red herring. The MLS is a middling league (minor league baseball has no major TV deal, does that mean baseball is unpopular?). The MLS's lack of a major TV deal simply proves that the MLS is unpopular on TV, not that soccer is unpopular on TV. The World Cup and Euros are featured on ESPN and ABC, and the EPL is now featured weekly on ESPN/2. The TV deal for the 2010 World Cup was worth $425 million in the United States. So much for the absence of a meaningful TV deal for soccer, huh?

dammit, after an off day I am so ready for this. Sporting Cub insignia in the Valley....for the next few days! Let's go Cubs!!!

ya BOY!!

lol well done ^

Thanks O_O!!

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Thanks WR, I keep up, but it is nice to see it all in one spot.

Well done.