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Dammit Everton. You drew Leicester?
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Isn't Josh Morgan facing a potential suspension from his arrest in the spring? Could be a reason the Bears aren't giving him a shot. Could be way off though. Like the Holmes signing overall. Relatively low rick, high reward potential if he's healthy and out of trouble.
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Alcantara-O-Meter down to .212 Also apparently Alcantara officially lost his prospect status tonight -
Have we always been this strikeout prone or is this another thing we can blame Javy for?
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Javy sure loves him some striking out.
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lets go jaxon b
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Sucks for him. I believe he missed half the 2011 season and the entire 2012 season with injuries and then didnt make whatever team he was with out of camp in 2013.
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The thing that bothered me about the defense was seeing no pressure on 3rd downs. The same kind of [expletive] that killed us last year. That said, they did ok stopping the run, and were able to get several stops at or behind the LOS. that said, although I was bitchin a bit here last night (its what I do) i have a hard time taking anything from preseason when they are running vanilla plays and at 85% intensity. Except special teams. That worries me greatly. Rosenbloom had an article the other day about how DeCamilis' Dallas special teams went from 17th in his last year to 6th without him. The Bears went from top 10 under Toub to 23rd last year with DeCamis. Meanwhile Toub joined a Chiefs team that was 17th in 2012 and took them to 3rd in 2013.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-14-14
UMFan83 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
The fact that he randomly turned a switch when being demoted and turned from a .550 OPS player to a 1.040 OPS player says everything I need to know about Olt and his 2012 numbers. I haven't seen anything about his vision problem this year, no one is making that excuse anymore. The most likely answer is that he just sucks and is a 4A player. -
Geez. I know they wouldn't be taking a lot of these out of the end zone in the regular season but no even adequate returns for the Bears tonight.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-14-14
UMFan83 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Yes watching Olt smack the ball around with ease, watching Baez do his best Olt impression in Chicago and having Bryant, Soler and Russell not doing much sucks. Edit: before anyone jumps on me I'm not saying Baez is Olt -
Forte has 7 carries for -7 yards in the preseason lol
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Man Forte just can't get anything going so far this preseason.
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These special teams are freaking pathetic, preseason or not.
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He might play into the 3rd
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Great quarter
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Bears offense is going to run 3 plays in the first quarter
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The defense hates Jay
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So Weems runs into his own man and doesn't get to the 20 on his first return and then fumbles the ball away on his second. NEXT
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Special teams and defense. Glad we kept the coaching staff in tact
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3rd down, no pass rush, wide open WR for 20 yard gain. Am I watching tape from last year? Seriously absolutely no pass rush. It's preseason so whatever but come on it's the Jags!
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Oh, we're doing this already.
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Gaaah. It didn't seem that bad though. Probably precautionary.
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8/13 - Brewers (Lohse) @ Cubs (Wada) 7:05 CSN
UMFan83 replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I am enjoying this start -
He's been an injury prone pitcher with inconsistent results throughout his career. He's having his first extended stretch of success. We have a fair bit of control remaining. I'd let it ride unless "reasonable" was "too good to refuse" The issue is that Boras is his client. What Jake/Boras is saying is "reasonable" might not be reasonable to the Cubs. At the same time, if we let him ride out his control, we will probably never pay him beyond that if he pitches like he's pitching now. I'd give it one more year and if he's pitching at even 90% of the level he is now, then lock him up.
