UMFan83

Woo hoo! I hate this time of year until spring training. At least we have the Cubs Convention coming up for a quick reprieve of propoganda. After that come the dog days until those first ST pics. Holy hell, the convention; what the [expletive] is even going to be the big event/unveiling? A jar of change that an intern brought in to donate to the payroll. I'm assuming the Convention is a telethon format this year?

I bet it has nothing to do with FA.

Do we normally do these or just go directly into the next season thread? Bye bye Borges.

Doesn't NSBB have some sort of Cubs press pass? Lets send a rep with a list of questions and rebuttals during the convention for Ricketts. Anyone here have journalism experience? (Other than Bruce Miles) FDB Edit: I guess imb would work too. I'd say Kyle, but he'd probably get our pass revoked

He wasn't nearly as good as McGuire. McGwire had a 5.2 WAR as a skinny rookie. HOF voters that vote for him probably subscribe to the "HOFer without steroids" theory. Sosa was a good, sometimes very good player who suddenly exploded into a superstar for 5-6 year period. Also I think those that vote for McGwire probably took the fact that he basically owned up to his steroid use, while Sosa still refuses to admit he did anything wrong. He lost all credibility to deny cheating when he 1) got caught with a corked bat, 2) explained in extremely broken english that he accidently grabbed a batting practice bat 3) used more extremely broken english to not incriminate himself while being questioned about steroid use in congress and 4) was named in a report as someone who tested positive for steroids. It's a stupid reason why, but I definitely think thats the general thought process. Also, the numbers show McGwire was clearly the superior player, although just looking at the numbers and nothing else they both have HOF worthy numbers.

Sorry, this might be bad to admit as a Cubs fan, but I love Frank Thomas. Glad he made it in.

Where did Jeffery finish? Dunno...it was thrown in the article about their all-pro selections. I don't have access to the full list. IIRC, he was somewhere in the top 15 within the last few weeks of the season. Earl Bennett I believe was higher than Jeffery too. As a whole the Bears got fantastic blocking from their WRs

If for some reason Briggs gets cut in the offseason, they will probably claim they broke the news.

More fun:

Deja Vu. Didn't realise you posted at RealGm too. Not as much as I used to, kind of got sick of the same rehashed arguments for page upon page. But for big events like this its required reading/commenting.

http://i.imgur.com/4vSMWLO.jpg?1 take a good look while you can

Let's hope so. They have finished outside the top 10 once (12th) since 2007 and still suck.

This is how I feel too. Wish the return was more meaningful. I think its extremely meaningful. There was almost no way for the Bulls to get under the luxury tax this year without making this move. Now this sort of resets the luxury tax clock a bit going forward. The Bulls will be able to go over the luxury tax in one of the next 2 seasons and not have to pay a steep penalty the rest of the way. My guess is that they stay under the threshold next year, bring Mirotic and anywhere from 1-3 draft picks and then build for a run in 2 years. If we don't get out of the luxury tax this year, we would have to stay under it the next 2 seasons because there is no way JR is paying the repeater penalty. Makes sense to go under in a year without Rose and the team going nowhere.

[expletive] tackle his stupid ass. If he breaks a tackle it's an immediate 20+ yard conversion. Every time.

Going to straight up best 6 records in each conference and not giving auto bids to division winners would be better, imo. In that scenario you'd have to eliminate divisions and remove the 2 games a year against the Packers, Lions and Vikings. That would kind of suck. I think out of the 4 sports, divisions are the best in football and they should keep that aspect. I'm in favor of division winners getting a playoff spot but seed based on record.

I know this is completely illogical but glad the Eagles lost. Serves them right for turning into a buzzsaw for 4 quarters in a meaningless game against the Bears. Blah blah seeding. Glad they got the better seed so they could give the Saints their first playoff road win in their history.

Yup. I feel for KC. Every third year they make the playoffs and are ceremoniously dumped in their first game. Their fans needed this one.

Wow Reid is really blowing this. Your last TO right after the 2 min warning.

Yes....quirk...

I'm guessing it's not likely we can pick up an impact FA defensive player at this point?

Iowa is currently No. 15 in Pomeroy, so they're not exactly some deep darkhorse. They're very deep and thus well-positioned to survive both the micro (individual games) and macro (entire conference schedule) attrition that is the Big Ten season. Their depth also allows them versatility. They finished 10-10 in Big Ten games last year, in an exceedingly strong league. That included a four-point loss to Indiana (No. 3), two three-point losses to Michigan State (No. 9), and a four-point, double overtime loss at Wisconsin (No. 13). I said last year that I thought they could be top-10 good this year; they've lost two tough games against very good teams so far (I figured with more experience they'd turn the tough losses into wins this year -- they haven't yet and some teams never move past the "losing close to top teams" phase). I don't think they'll win the league but I would not be surprised to see them finish second. I think they might be better than Ohio State as is. I really like them as a sweet sixteen type team, but I can't see them winning the conference. Still a very good team. I just think that Michigan State is winning the conference. I feel like every few years a team that might not be the best in the conference strongly competes or wins the regular season conference. Michigan 2 years ago is a good example. Just have to protect home court, win the winnable road games, and steal 1-2 tough road games and hope that there isn't a team that goes like 16-2 or something.

So WR Antonio Brown cant play in the pro bowl.....was replaced by Cordelle Patterson. Come on, I get that he's got a lot of return TDs, but Alshon Jeffery definitely deserves to go over him.

Especially with your best player missing the second half