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  1. UMFan83
    Cubs sensed too much optimism. Had to shut that right down
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    Soler is pretty good at this baseball thing.
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    where the hell do you come up with these things i heard len talk about our record against the reds the last 2 years and then looked it up. plus my in-laws are all Reds fans so that's what i hear about when I'm in Cincinnati.
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    Did you know the Cubs are 1-12-2 in their last 15 series against the Reds dating back to 2011? I want to win this one just because of that.
  5. UMFan83
    What's the read here? Stable as in embarrassing 2014 85M payroll stable, or stable as in we held back money this year embarrassing 100M payroll stable? Good question. If its the former that's obviously very disappointing but at least we can count on spending from Soriano's contract coming off the books?
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    When asked about payroll level next year, he said something about "if you look back a couple of years ago with regards to payroll" and then mentioned he expected a big jump when new revenue streams are in place. Someone correct me if I got information wrong, I'm half listening while I'm working.
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    I see no way we spend that kind of money Really? Goony brings up a good point on the IFA's, but Kiley has kind of brought it up already, so I think it's a distinct possibility. Or using it as the posting fee for Maeda. But a signing of Lester or Scherzer and one of Markakis or Martin basically spends the vast majority of 40-45 mill as it is. You think our payroll for next year is going to be ~$170 million? (55m commit, 100 mil added, ~15 mil rollover savings from Tanaka)?
  8. UMFan83
    The article was interesting, breaking how how Devin Hester was worth roughly 1 point per game to the Bears, which for a non-QB is pretty significant, especially significant that he was a STer
  9. UMFan83
    Can someone explain?
  10. UMFan83
    Just because you are taking Jaxons spot in the rotation doesn't mean you have to be Jaxon
  11. UMFan83
    Castro, Baez and Soler all hit HRs in their MLB debuts.
  12. UMFan83
    I love baseball!!
  13. UMFan83
    Contact!
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    Super fun
  15. UMFan83
    He's wearing 68
  16. UMFan83
    Dammit why are you doing this to me? Any word on the prognosis on his back injury?
  17. UMFan83
    Baez's P/PA is 4.26. Brian Dozier is the qualified leader at 2B with 4.19. The only unqualified players with the same or higher are Brooks Conrad (4.26 in 13G), Andy Parrino (4.32 in 14G), Jemile Weeks (4.54 in 3G), and Tony Abreu (4.75 in 3G). 4.26 would rank 7th among all qualified position players Well it takes at least 3 pitches to strike out, and Javy is striking out in over 40% of his PAs. I'm not completely discrediting that statistic, its good and he is working the count more than you'd think but I think that explains some of it.
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    Wasn't that for Castro? yup, i thought so
  19. UMFan83
    he started worse than this in iowa A lot worse. .142/.229/.255/.484 through 28 games with 45 Ks in 118 PAs. Only had 3 HRs also. Damn that's freaking bad. I looked up Javy's stats if you take away his first 3 games as a Cub (which isn't fair and selective, I'm not trying to make any points or say Javy sucks or won't improve) and those numbers still look better than that start in Iowa. .181/.224/.375/.599 37K in 76 PA (51% K rate) in 18 games. Then got even more selective and looked at his stats in his last 12 games, and still only just about as bad as that Iowa start. .133/.204/.333/.537 27K in 49 PA (60% K rate) But then if you look at his last 5 games it gets ugly. 2-20, 14 K, 2 HR (!!), BABIP .000 (0-4 in balls in play) Can't wait for him to start kicking ass!!
  20. UMFan83
    Could be moving someone from another show to fill the midday slot announced at 3pm and Goff will fill in the open spot elsewhere, announced at a later time. So on the score right now they have... Mully and Hanley in the AM, formerly Mac and Spiegs Midday, Boers and Bernstein afternoons, Lawrence Holmes in the evening and creepy Les Grobstein overnight. Boers and Bernstein isn't changing, and Holmes has some 120 sports thing that is taking up his time. So maybe someone from Mully and Hanley moves to midday, and Goff to AMs, announced later?
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    http://deadspin.com/reports-nhl-plans-expansion-and-soon-1627363386 Jesus, the last thing the NHL needs is 4 freaking new teams. Look I like the NHL a lot....but its still a sport that doesn't have a lot of attraction and demand in much of the US. And now you want to give it 34 teams, 2 more than any other Big 4 sport? That's insane. All that said, if the 4 teams were Las Vegas, Seattle, Quebec and a 2nd Toronto team, I don't mind all 4 of those markets. Seattle has room for a 3rd sports team (sorry Sounders, 4 then), Quebec and Toronto are Canadian so I have to assume they will be supported at least decently, and Las Vegas I think would be a really interesting experiment. Yes there are 30 million things to do in Vegas, but you know that fans of the other 33 (jesus) teams are going to plan to come to Vegas en masse when their team comes to Vegas....the stadium gets filled, Vegas gets even more tourism, its a win win I think. That said, they really should just move 4 teams. Carolina, Phoenix and one or both of the Florida teams would be a good start.
  22. UMFan83
    it was like 2 weeks ago, brett jackson
  23. UMFan83
    Cubs now have the same record as the White Sox. Funny stuff.
  24. UMFan83
    Javy is only one behind Stanton for the league lead - in 4 K games (5-4)
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    *Watches this dude strike out the first 2 guys with ease, sees Baez on deck* Please get out Coughlan
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