SouthSideRyan
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I always assumed LeBron wanted to make his own path. Having a statue next to Jordan? Who cares about that. LeBron would be the man now and forever in Cleveland, New York, or New Jersey. Being 1B at best in Chicago? What kind of legacy is that? Hope you can win at least 6 titles LeBron, or you'll never be "as good as MJ"
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That's not really that bad a roster back then.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-5-10
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
obviously you want rickey henderson in the leadoff spot, but unless your leadoff hitter is remarkably gifted, he's not going to hit for a high average, take walks and hit for very little power. Including Rickey Henderson. Re: Corey Patterson, grooming him to "become a leadoff hitter" was the worst thing that could've happened to him on the major league level. Same with Pie. They were obsessed with making them into slap hitting Juan Pierres, rather than letting them actually drive the ball. I mean after all they were fast black CFs, who needs power out of them. [expletive] Willie Mays, I want Willie Wilson -
John Hollinger apparently has the same mental illness that I do. His personal point guard rankings 1. Williams 2. Nash 3. (Keeping it warm for Paul) 4. Rondo 5. Billups Honorable mention: Rose, Westbrook, Parker, Nelson.
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The Big 12's TV contract is just awful. Their TV deal is up within a year or 2 I believe, but as was outlined on http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/, a blog that's been incredible on the expansion issue(I swear I said Texas and ND on here before I read it on there) there really aren't a lot of place where the Big 12 can get their money from. ABC/ESPN is locked into spots with the Big Ten and SEC. CBS has the SEC. NBC has Notre Dame, FOX has baseball, and just gave up the BCS. There's just not a big buyer out there. (Link below, # http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/template-for-shooting-down-any-argument-against-texas-going-to-the-big-ten/
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Calipari as coach without getting Lebron to come with might get me banned.
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I don't really see Texas's incentive to stay. The Big 12 doesn't have a revenue sharing program most conferences have. And Texas is sort of a cash cow in their athletic department. If Texas is looking to make a move I think academics is going to play a very large part of it. As I said earlier, the worst team in the Big Ten makes more than Texas.
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I hope we get to face more shitty pitchers like Dan Haren. The after-game thread posts are even worse than the knee-jerk during game posts. It's hilarious
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Well, even a good team is going to look piss poor over the course of a 162 game season, and lose to bad teams. Not that this is necessarily a good Cubs team. the problem is that by far the cubs easiest part of the schedule is right now and almost over. We are going to be having way too many "impossible" stretches in the coming months. If we can't beat the pirates nats and astros how are we going to fare against the cards and phils? A somewhat .500 team after playing this schedule makes me feel like we are dealing with an 85-90 loss team when all is said and done How many impossible stretches can there really be in this schedule? The NL sucks this year. What teams do you consider good? The Phillies, Cardinals, Giants, and Dodgers would probably be my top 4. I'm not sure any other team in the NL is even better than us. We're going to play like 40 games against really good teams.
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I don't really see Texas's incentive to stay. because they can beat just about everyone in the conference with comparative ease. I don't know how often they'd be a BCS team if they played in a tougher conference top to bottom. I'm relatively sure Texas would've been in a BCS game just as often over the past 5 years. The Big Ten sends 2 teams to the BCS virtually every season. And as far as getting the BCS payout, whether Texas makes it or not is irrelevant because the Big Ten splits their revenue.
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Have you ever considered that 2008 was a massive fluke year? hahahaha
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It's not that bad of a move. Marmol hasn't pitched in a while, and you want to keep it within 2. If the Cubs score 3 in the top half, you worry about the bottom half then. No reason to keep your best bullets in the chamber
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I'd imagine Wakamatsu/Jack Z called the meeting. Our management was too busy calling him a piece of [expletive].
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I don't really see Texas's incentive to stay.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 5-5-10
SouthSideRyan replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Well, melding the remains of the B12 with the best of the MWC would make a pretty decent conference. KU KSU OU OSU ISU Baylor Tech BYU Utah TCU New Mexico UNLV That conference sucks. Where is Texas in this scenario? The Big 10 with A&M and ND. Missouri defected to the MAC.
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We tried, the Mets were just that chokish
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Bobby Crosby, leading off
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I dunno. I'm worried about where we'll end up. Not a lot of people clamoring for the Kansas market. Kansas seems like it would draw a bigger market for the Big Ten than Mizzou would. Missouri brings you St. Louis and KC, and Illinois already brings in the St. Louis Market. Kansas brings you Kansas City, and better national exposure in basketball. What do you mean by bringing the market? Obviously there's coverage of the Big 10 in St. Louis with Illinois in proximity, but in terms of what is televised, the Big 12 gets all the regional coverage. I'm thinking BTN wise
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That's a really weird stance. Nobody's making you pay any attention to Bradley.
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That response is the polar opposite of what Chicago sportswriters would have written. I remember another player in this city who walked out during a game and he became a pariah. It helped that the team owner was releasing video to demonize him along the way. That whole situation still pisses me off even though we did get Dave Crouthers out of it.
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Oh yeah, there's not a chance in hell the Big Ten would take KSU
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Wow, the Mariners are in bad, bad shape if this part of the article is actually true: Bradley's last 7 days: .235 .278 .294 .572 The last 14 days: .286 .355 .393 .748 I checked out their BR page earlier. Something like a team 77 OPS+
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I dunno. I'm worried about where we'll end up. Not a lot of people clamoring for the Kansas market. Kansas seems like it would draw a bigger market for the Big Ten than Mizzou would. Missouri brings you St. Louis and KC, and Illinois already brings in the St. Louis Market. Kansas brings you Kansas City, and better national exposure in basketball.
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He did fine with San Diego when he was traded for their stretch run. These are probably the lowest expectations he's had besides Texas and his early years in the league. Maybe he's just gotten old quickly. Maybe his issues have finally spilled over into his actual production. Maybe he's just slumping.
