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  1. UMFan83
    This is ridiculous and I think the Cubs (and a couple other teams to a lesser extent) are being targeted. Since Theo took over the MLB has: -Completely overhauled the way teams can approach the draft by putting spending limits with strict penalties for going over, directly contrasting with how Theo built the Red Sox -Completely overhauled the way teams can sign international FAs by also putting spending limits and strict penalties -Gave every team in the NL Central besides the Cubs a sandwhich pick every year in the draft -Limited contact between scouts and young international talent after the Cubs invested millions on a top of the line training academy in the DR The MLB is so concerned with parity and closing the revenue gap yet look at who is currently in a playoff spot...Kansas City, Baltimore, Oakland, Washington, Milwaukee
  2. UMFan83
    What they are going to do is pray that he can start the season with some level of competence and hope they can jettison him while eating 75% of the last 1.5 years on his contract. If not, then he becomes a long reliever that pitches once every 2 weeks. Then by June of 2016 he is DFAd
  3. UMFan83
    Jaxon ERA up to 6.09 for the season. Impressive.
  4. UMFan83
    http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lim4g1fp671qha84jo1_500.png
  5. UMFan83
    wrong thread? No? The Cubs community guy is also named Julian Green ok, now i'm confused Haha, there is a Julian Green who is on the USMNT and plays for Bayern Munich
  6. UMFan83
    wrong thread? No? The Cubs community guy is also named Julian Green
  7. UMFan83
    View the fact that we probably wouldn't have gotten Bryant with Anibal pitching as a consolidation prize. the two things wouldn't have been related whatsoever Try again. You probably can't even say we wouldn't have gotten Schwarber. Also what's a consolidation prize?
  8. UMFan83
    View the fact that we probably wouldn't have gotten Bryant with Anibal pitching as a consolidation prize. the two things wouldn't have been related whatsoever Try again. You probably can't even say we wouldn't have gotten Schwarber.
  9. UMFan83
    I'm going to have the 3rd pick of the draft in a keeper league. QBs are really valuable due to weird scoring in their favor, so QBs get snatched up in like 9 of the first 12 picks...its really weird. Anyways, I am debating between 4 keepers..I pick 2....yes my team sucked last year. Aaron Rodgers as a 1st round pick, AJ Green as a 2nd, Frank Gore in the 5th and Zac Stacy in the 8th. I'm thinking Green and Stacy because I'll probably be able to take Rodgers or someone comperable anyways as a 1st round pick. Stacy is pretty solid as the starter right?
  10. UMFan83
    ok now thats insane. on what grounds?
  11. UMFan83
    Now Rose is not playing tonight....apparently got treatment on the knee
  12. UMFan83
    the giants claimed that the cylinder thats used to roll out the tarp should be considered a mechanical device or something.
  13. UMFan83
    Hmm. Weird. Whatever
  14. UMFan83
    Apparently there's concern that Jordan Mills won't be able to play Week 1 http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago-bears/post/_/id/4693736/bears-hold-out-six-from-practice
  15. UMFan83
    Haha haters might point to this as another sign of the Cubs organizational incompetence.....I look at it as the turning point in our decades of bad luck. It all started on a random Tuesday afternoon in August....
  16. UMFan83
    Deadspin has video http://deadspin.com/cubs-ground-crew-struggles-to-get-tarp-on-field-gets-b-1624233619
  17. UMFan83
    Ditka's making da comments ta take da attention offa da Bears so dat da opponents don't know what hit em
  18. UMFan83
    Yea - its coming Game made official just in time
  19. UMFan83
    I liked him and defended him until he started showing up on TV. you are right he is insufferable on TV. He turned into the type of talking head personalities he based for years like Kornheiser and Rick Reilly. I almost feel like ESPN told him to play that role on air. Anyways I still enjoy his columns and occasionally his podcasts. Also grantland overall is pretty good so I guess he should get some credit for that.
  20. UMFan83
    http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2014/08/19/rose-misses-practice-with-knee-soreness-cousins-50-50-to-play-wednesday/ Sounds like Sheridan is negatively speculating
  21. UMFan83
    This makes me wonder...does anyone remember what it was like in the pre-advanced stats era? Would someone have looked at Choo's numbers (.241, 12 HR, 39 RBI), compared it to last year's numbers (.285, 21 HR, 54 RBI) and said 'eh he's not hitting as well as last year but still not too bad', when in reality he has completely [expletive] the bed?
  22. UMFan83
    By wide open you mean Michigan State is now the heavy favorite with a chance OSU can rebound and slight chance for Michigan.
  23. UMFan83
    Got tickets to the only 5pm Sunday start of the season (January 18 vs. the Stars). Sounded like a great idea for bringing very young kids that go to bed around 8, but just realized that could conflict with a possible 2pm NFC championship game for the Bears. Wonder if that actually happened if they would move the Hawks game back an hour or so? I hope this is something I have to worry about. That happened in 2011 when Bears played GB at 2pm. Hawks were supposed to play Philadelphia at 2pm, so they moved the game to 1130am. I remember listening to that game on my phone as I was walking around Soldier Field to get to my seat. The Hawks got killed and the Bears lost. SOB Ha! I was at that game too. Sat in front of an obnoxious female Packer fan who sounded like she smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years. I turned around and she was about 25 years old. Terrible day. I bought a single ticket during the week of the game when I happened to stumble on extra tickets released, so i went by myself. I am not kidding you that if you drew a Brady Bunch style box around me, except expanded it to a second level, every single person in that box was a Packers fan except me in the middle with my Bears jersey. They were annoying but not too bad overall. Did give me a hard time about Jay not playing though.
  24. UMFan83
    Got tickets to the only 5pm Sunday start of the season (January 18 vs. the Stars). Sounded like a great idea for bringing very young kids that go to bed around 8, but just realized that could conflict with a possible 2pm NFC championship game for the Bears. Wonder if that actually happened if they would move the Hawks game back an hour or so? I hope this is something I have to worry about. That happened in 2011 when Bears played GB at 2pm. Hawks were supposed to play Philadelphia at 2pm, so they moved the game to 1130am. I remember listening to that game on my phone as I was walking around Soldier Field to get to my seat. The Hawks got killed and the Bears lost. SOB
  25. UMFan83
    Alex Gordon topped FanGraphs’ WAR list for position players with 5.7 wins, 0.1 better than Mike Trout.
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