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  1. UMFan83
    Quit nibbling
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    Hendricks has the lowest xFIP of any Cubs starter so far.
  4. UMFan83
    NEW SIGN? NEW SIGN!
  5. UMFan83
    But yeah congrats on the Sox, only 0.5 games behind the Cubs. They've also now scored as many runs this year as runs the Cubs have outscored their opponents by.
  6. UMFan83
    I like it because if its anything like 2008, the Cubs still get 80% of the coverage and we get to hear Sox fans complain about being irrelevant still.
  7. UMFan83
    I thought that didn't effect deals signed before that rule was in place. they made it essentially impossible to enter into a contract like that going forward and used this rule to specifically punish the 6 or 7 contracts that were already signed with cap circumvention in mind. http://www.secondcityhockey.com/2016/3/9/11185632/marian-hossa-nhl-salary-cap-recapture-penalty-blackhawks-retirement-ltir This has a good look at the penalty the Hawks would get if he retired early. If he doesn't retire, he has a cap hit of 5.275m until 2020-2021. If he retires after next year or any of the remaining years of his contract, the Hawks will have a 4.275m cap hit each year for the remainder of the contract he signed. So basically as long as Hossa is worth $1m a year, it is worth having him. My opinion is that even though he is no longer a dynamic scoring forward, he would still contribute in others ways enough for at least the next 2-3 years.
  8. UMFan83
    If it was anyone but the Blues (or Wings), my reaction to the loss would be a shoulder shrug. Because its the Blues it stings a little bit, and I do feel like the short term window is closed even if the long term window is still open. But overall, it's impossible to get too upset. Let's see what the cap does for certain before getting to be too gloomy. What do we have in the pipeline? I highly doubt the cap with be at a point where we dont have to get rid of Ladd, Q's Doghouse guys from Montreal, and Shaw. Somehow we have to get some defensive depth and then replace those 4 guys, just to maybe improve slightly. Like I said last night I still think having 2 more months of rest is the biggest offseason move we can have.
  9. UMFan83
    Agree. Too easy to find RB's later on. Elliott isn't really a normal RB though. He could be a top 5 RB which is still worth a first rounder, and a top 10 pick. The one thing I would say is next year is supposed to be a great RB year. You could try and committee it and see if Langford proves his worth as the top dog this year. If not you have a good opportunity to fill the hole next draft. I definitely wouldnt trade up for him thoigh, and taking him at 11 depends on who else is there. I feel like after QB, RB has the biggest miss rate at the top of the draft. If they are a great RB, you get amazing production over a 5-6 year period if there are no injuries, but the risk of having the next Cedric Benson/Curtis Enis is there and the Bears cannot afford to miss badly on a 1st rounder right now (I guess no team can really afford to but with the pieces starting to come together for the Bears it would be great time to hit on your 1st)
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    Me too. I am not 100% sold on Langford at all (but not necessarily down on him either), but I think that drafting a RB in the first round is risky and is not close to our biggest area of need.
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    If it was anyone but the Blues (or Wings), my reaction to the loss would be a shoulder shrug. Because its the Blues it stings a little bit, and I do feel like the short term window is closed even if the long term window is still open. But overall, it's impossible to get too upset.
  12. UMFan83
    they are so far ahead of us in the rebuilding process that they are starting the next rebuild already
  13. UMFan83
    You don't live here anymore and they're being insufferable. There's no way I'm rooting for them. The only thing tempering it for me is knowing how I felt last October when the Cubs took out the Cards, so I'm mostly keeping my mouth shut. Right and the defensive response I've heard from Hawks fans today is "oh well we still have 6 cups to your none and we all know you will choke this away next round." Which as we know is pretty much the exact thing we heard from Cardinals fans last October.
  14. UMFan83
    Yes, the clear silver lining in all this is we get to root for the Stars now
  15. UMFan83
    If we were going to go 1-1 in playoff series against St Louis over the last several months the last several months, the right Chicago team won. Oh well.
  16. UMFan83
    Fitting that defensive depth might end the season. But fleischmann looks great chilling in the box
  17. UMFan83
    horsefeathers the wrong team is imploding
  18. UMFan83
    What the horsefeathers was Gustafson doing?
  19. UMFan83
    For some reason I'd rather it be 2-1 Blues than 1-0 Blues. Especially going up 2-0 and dominating the game. Now they are thinking "here we go again"
  20. UMFan83
    hawks were up 2-0 at home in game 7 against the Kings I'm grasping at straws
  21. UMFan83
    Not the kind of start you want in game 7 on the road. Let's see how they respond
  22. UMFan83
    cubs and white sox have home games first and last weekends of May, which I always thought they tried to avoid (having both teams play at home at the same time) I've noticed that they are both home at the same time a few times a year, maybe 3-4 overlapping series. When I worked downtown during those series I would go onto the Red Line platform and see Cubs fans jumping off the southbound trains and White Sox fans getting on.
  23. UMFan83
    I voted for Schwarber as a write-in OF even though it's essentially throwing my vote away.
  24. UMFan83
    This is brilliant. Although the Royals don't need our help and I am not sure how much help NSBB will really provide as our user base is relatively small, pissing off the Cardinals fans might be an appealing sell to them.
  25. UMFan83
    As a Cubs fan, its in my best interest to vote for the 9 worst American League players isnt it?
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