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  1. UMFan83
    Our new $155 million man was at Giordano's on Rush Street last night
  2. UMFan83
    How in the world is Valbuena valuable enough to be traded for Fister straight up? Wasn't Fister worth like 5 wins last year in ~25 starts? No, he was under 2 last year. Steamer projects them to be very similar next year, and Valbuena would fit perfectly with the Nats. WTF, I've never seen this much of a discrepancy between Fangraphs, who has Fister at 1.3 WAR last year and Baseball Reference who has him at 4.5
  3. UMFan83
    How in the world is Valbuena valuable enough to be traded for Fister straight up? Wasn't Fister worth like 5 wins last year in ~25 starts?
  4. UMFan83
    He probably wasn't even the source, he just wants off this [expletive] team.
  5. UMFan83
    Anyways, Barnwell speculates on a Cutler trade: Would you guys trade Cutler for Manziel and a midround draft pick?
  6. UMFan83
    This is kind of my view. He gets a D or F from me right now but I still see a glimmer of hope because individual things haven't been bad across the board. I wouldn't be heartbroken if he was canned too, but I fear the alternative for sure. I don't buy into the whole "tries to be smarter thing". Any GM is going to go against the consensus at some time. I wouldn't trust the job to crowd sourcing. Just because someone takes a risk doesn't mean they were out to prove something, just that their efforts led down a different road. So while you have to question how they reached their decision to me it just comes across as lazy fans moaning to assume it was reached because Emery or anyone goes against the grain just for the sake of going against the grain. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Trying to be smarter is picking a projected 3rd or 4th round undersized DE in the first round, or turning down the reigning coach of the year to hire a guy that spent the better part of a decade coaching in an inferior football league that was on absolutely no one's radar. Those aren't just little risks, those are career defining gambles.
  7. UMFan83
    Can David please change his username to "Davebot"? Pretty please?
  8. UMFan83
    Or MLB.tv if you know how to mask your IP Edit: I should read more posts besides the one I'm replying to.
  9. UMFan83
    And that he would consider waiving his no-trade clause. His agent says otherwise. http://nypost.com/2014/12/12/carmelo-anthony-will-consider-waiving-no-trade-clause-source/ Butler is cheaper and all around, a better player the next 5 years. Can the Bulls afford him? They can, you can go over the cap to keep your own players Yea but Reinsdorf said he doesn't really want to go over the cap much unless that player is a stud who really increases the chances of getting a ring. It's the luxury tax that he wants to avoid, and he went over it for Rip Hamilton, so I'm not concerned about whether he will pay for a 25 year old likely all-star.
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    I'm not ready to give up on Emery completely yet, but right now I don't have a particularly positive view of him. He has done some really nice things with this team and some spectacularly bad things. Almost every one of his gambles where he acts like he's smarter than everyone else has failed.
  11. UMFan83
    Just noticed PTR has his TV plugged into an extension cord that leads outside. Hilarious
  12. UMFan83
    or that Jackson thought that he could run the triangle through a player who hates passing the ball Uh....didn't he run the triangle with Kobe? And win several championships doing so? The Lakers had Gasol, who was great at passing out of the triangle, while the Knicks don't have the prerequisite "big man who can pass" And the Knicks will have cap space this offseason and reportedly are going after Marc Gasol, who I believe has a similar ability to pass as his brother. I think that was Phil's plan...Melo = Kobe, Marc Gasol = Pau
  13. UMFan83
    Noah was already ruled out I believe I heard. Not sure about McDermott but he's missed at least 2 weeks already.
  14. UMFan83
    So Kromer has to be gone. No way he can rebuild trust with this team. Tucker is almost certainly to be gone as per rumors. No buzz about DeCamilis but come on the guy doesn't deserve to keep his job. So I ask this: how many times has a head coach canned their coordinators of all 3 units and still kept their job?
  15. UMFan83
    As opposed to what option? Do you get regular WGN (not WGNA) in Bloomington?
  16. UMFan83
    Amazing that Kromer managed to make Jay Cutler a sympathetic figure nationally
  17. UMFan83
    I have to admit, usually when you try to recreate genius, for a 3rd time no less, it ends up disappointing. Absolutely not the case here. All hail to our new tree overlord
  18. UMFan83
    I agree with Bernstein. The McKaskeys are frugal and very slow to make changes, but they don't stand for their organization being embarrassed like this off the field. This is just one glaring case of a woefully overmatched coaching staff.
  19. UMFan83
    Sac fly to deep left center. Oh, then he must have had 5 PA, or the tweet I read was incorrect
  20. UMFan83
    8 in a row! 8-0-0 in last 8 11-1-0 in last 12 13-2-0 in last 15 Only 1 point given to opponents in last 8 games, 3 in last 12 games, 6 in last 15 55 GF, 31 GA in last 15, 46 GF, 23 GA in last 12, 28 GF, 13 GA in last 8
  21. UMFan83
    Javy must have grounded out in his last AB because he finished 0-4 with an RBI
  22. UMFan83
    So Toews might have a concussion? Is that what I'm reading?
  23. UMFan83
    Javy struck out in his 3rd AB too... 0-3 3K Is he shaking off rust, working on something or just broken?
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    Way to bring a room down. We needed that. Then I won't even mention what he did in his second AB... lol...all you can do is laugh and hope it gets better
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