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  1. UMFan83
    How could it not be? I've never heard someone say a bad word about Ernie Banks. He is loved in Chicago but admired everywhere.
  2. UMFan83
    They've played well but 11-6 since the Rondo trade doesn't seem like "absolutely on fire". At least on the surface. Not trying to discredit the win though, it was definitely a good one for the Bulls
  3. UMFan83
    I thought I read he was not there. Dayn Perry suggested Ernie Banks Day every year on his ML debut for the Cubs to play 2. Agree wholeheartedly. I saw that. Unfortunately his MLB debut was on September 17. Not sure I want a contending Cubs team to be playing a DH on the second to last week of the season. How about 5/12 for his 512 career HRs?
  4. UMFan83
    The Cubs will thrive in 20-1-5 [expletive] this sucks. This seems pretty unexpected. Was he at Cubs Convention last week?
  5. UMFan83
    I think he's just trying to find a rotation so he's doing things erratically. Didn't Moore get a start as well? I know for certain he had a couple of games where he was ahead of Snell and maybe even Hinrich in the rotation. The only person that seemingly won't get a shot at the rotation is McDermott. Mostly because every time he plays, including last night he runs around like a chicken with his head cut off.
  6. UMFan83
    That would be the awesomest thing ever.
  7. UMFan83
    I bet he is becoming an assistant coach. Makes sense considering the talk about Fox wanting to connect with alumni, and the somewhat iffy chance of Tillman making another team next year.
  8. UMFan83
    Whoops
  9. UMFan83
    That's awesome for DePaul. It would be nice to see them become decent. Yeah, they basically had a lost 2 weeks where they lost 6 in a row and completely lost focus/confidence. Other than that, they are 11-3. WTF? They would have to keep this pace up all of conference season to even be considered for the NCAA, but they are in legit NIT range at this point, which is fun. If the Illini don't make the NCAA, I could see the NIT matching them up in a first round game to try and boost interest. Illinois would proceed to murder DePaul, but it would be cool for them to play for the first time in 60 years. It would certainly be a tough game, but to be considered for the NIT they probably have to finish at least 1 game over .500 for the season, so they'd have to go at least 5-6 in their remaining games plus win at least 1 BE Tournament game. That would put them at 17-16 (if they lost the second tourney game) and 10-8 in the Big East regular season with wins over Stanford, Xavier, St. Johns, Seton Hall, and at least 3 of Nova, Butler, Georgetown, St. Johns again, Seton Hall again, Xavier again, Providence (2 chances).
  10. UMFan83
    Lilly's reaction when he found out: http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/editorial_image/03/0365fafeabba20025d475a696515fed6/marcum_glove_flip_a_reminder_of_lillys_glove_slam_at_arizona.gif Yeah I know, too easy Edit: [expletive] Kyle already beat me to it.
  11. UMFan83
    I'm glad it looks like the team bottomed out against Cleveland. It's just one game but they look like a different team. A lot more energy.
  12. UMFan83
    And Depaul beats a ranked team (Seton Hall) on the freaking road. First win over a ranked team in 7 years and first road win over a ranked team in 10 years. Really wish they didn't lose to Loyola Marymount, Lehigh, Illinois State and Ohio Now 5-2 and tied for first in the Big East. Wtf
  13. UMFan83
    He knows the drug of choice down there is meth and not pot right?
  14. UMFan83
    Do you really need an answer to that question? I guess I do since I'm asking it. I know people hate on Cutler irrationally, but its the first I heard of people believing that he stopped trying.
  15. UMFan83
    But seriously though, is that a belief that people have outside the Bears/Bears fans, that Cutler gave up stopped caring and trying? That's idiotic...
  16. UMFan83
    Holy crap, I cant believe that a semi-respected sight has that idiotic of opinions. Also Trestman is a slimeball for trying to make Cutler the scapegoat on his way out the door. To the national medias credit, I feel like only Bears fans or people covering the Bears daily really had a true idea of how bad things got this season, and much of it you can blame on the coaching staff.
  17. UMFan83
    Nice W. Great to get 4 points the last 2 nights
  18. UMFan83
    I have no idea what Gase is going to do. Do you guys? Like in terms of what kind of offense? I am not sure but I did read that Fox and Gase would (respectfully) but heads because Fox is an old school "run to set up the pass" kind of guy and Gase is more of a innovative cutting edge offensive mind who likes to pass more frequently than Fox is comfortable with.
  19. UMFan83
    Seriously. When the season ended I expected to be disappointed at the GM and HC hires. Instead we got a highly praised and respected GM, a solid coach with a good track record and (IMO) great assistants. Very happy with how this played out. But we have a lot of work to do
  20. UMFan83
    Probably because he wasn't the top choice. I think they were trying to get Chud and couldn't. Also, Gase was still pursuing other gigs that he didn't get. I think both sides ended up here out of a lack of other options. Well right that's his point. Fox would know better than anyone how good Gase is, and he still persued multiple other options before falling back to Gase.
  21. UMFan83
    Not sure how it could get "sexier" Fangio seems to be one of the highest regarded DCs in the game, and the move was widely praised Gase was a candidate for a majority of the HC openings this offseason The DB coach coming with Fangio is also one of the highest regarded coaches at his position in football Not sure how the other coaches hired are regraded, but DC and OC are the ones you want to nail and it seems like the Bears did. Jeff Rodgers hire is pretty uninspiring at special teams but whatever. I was lukewarm on Fox, but after seeing his coordinators and considering how beneficial it is to have a high floor coach in there, I'm pretty excited.
  22. UMFan83
    Matt Maiocco was asked about Gase as a potential offensive coordinator, and he reiterated that he was under the impression things did not go down very well. Earlier in the day, friend of the site Melissa Jacobs, wrote at TheFootballGirl.com that she had heard rumblings he had let recent success go to his head, and come off as cocky and entitled. http://www.ninersnation.com/2015/1/20/7863665/what-went-down-with-adam-gase-in-his-49ers-interview Yeah there are definitely some red flags around Gase: -Age (not a big deal but its something I've heard come up repeatedly) -Peyton Manning effect (only experience in a big time coordinator role was with him at QB) -The fact that he went from big time HC candidate to still unemployed with only a couple coordinator positions still open -The fact that the Broncos showed little interest in keeping him on board after firing Fox -The rumors that the Broncos were actually pretty unhappy with the entire coaching staff under Fox I would still prefer him over the other names mentioned at this point.
  23. UMFan83
    Maybe he's tired after a long weekend in front of meatballs and then flying back from Chicago?
  24. UMFan83
    http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/espn-11-of-12-footballs-under-inflated-by-2-pounds-of-air.1115345/ Haha, Pats fans: -Officials are to blame for not inspecting properly -The balls could have been deflated from game conditions (but the Colts balls weren't apparently?) like Gronk spiking the ball -It was probably a mechanical error when inflating the balls I've only read the first 2 pages so maybe their perspectives changed on the other 11 pages of the thread, but funny to read anyways
  25. UMFan83
    Excellent
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