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  1. UMFan83
    I am looking at Stephen Drew's career playoff numbers...he's played 3 postseason series, and in 2 of them his OPS was .627 and .580. Of course the other series was against the Cubs where he had a .500/.500/1.143/1.643 OPS with a 2B, 3B and 2 HRs in 14 AB.
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    Looks like the 3rd base coach was waving him to 3rd which is terrible, but Drew could see the throw before he ran too far off 2nd, he should have recognized it and went back.
  3. UMFan83
    That is a horrible gaffe. Why risk getting thrown out at 3rd? You would have been on 2nd base with no outs and put a lot of pressure on the Tigers to get out of it. Instead its bases empty and the Tigers get a huge out.
  4. UMFan83
    I don't get it Better stated: "Since 1900, the 2012 Orioles are the only team to go a full season without a walk-off loss." well, until now Ahhh ok that makes a lot more sense. I guess that's what happens when a team wins almost every 1 run game they play in.
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    So far every series is going against my rooting interests except the Reds and Giants, which was looking bad a couple of days ago. Yankees-Tigers and Reds-Cardinals was the worst LCS I could imagine. Baseball is the only sport that actively taunts me as a Cubs fan almost every single year.
  6. UMFan83
    Just think, the Orioles could have swept this series if they didn't have Jim Johnson. Raul Ibanez has entered Yankee lore tonight.
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    You realize they built a new Busch Stadium recently right?
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    I don't get it
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    All I know is that he was one of a couple of prospects the Padres sent to STL for the corpse of Jim Edmonds
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    Jim Joyce just shouldnt be a 1st base ump.
  11. UMFan83
    SERIOUSLY WHO THE [expletive] IS PETE KOZMA
  12. UMFan83
    When you think about how many prospects they missed out on by not trading their good players, not to mention the opportunities to test out scrapheap players with minute upside, you almost feel sorry for them. You are so close to being on my ignore list. and I normally like you
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    Pete Kozma
  14. UMFan83
    Passssss Is that even a rumor, or did someone just ask Plax if he wanted to play in Chicago?
  15. UMFan83
    Was looking at the DVOA and was surprised to see the Bears offense at 17th in the league. Despite the struggles at times, I thought it'd be better than that because I don't remember seeing an offense quite this good in years. Then I looked at their rankings each year into the 90s and l learned that the Bears haven't ranked higher than 17th in the league in offensive efficiency since 1995. Here is their annual ranking the last 17 seasons: 12: 17 11: 30 10: 28 09: 28 08: 22 07: 30 06: 20 05: 28 04: 32 03: 30 02: 28 01: 18 00: 23 99: 18 98: 17 97: 25 96: 18 95: 3
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    I don't get where the Eagles apologist comes up with that. Philly is lucky to be 3-2 and he says "they don't deserve better than 3-2." The Bears are a bit unsteady right now, but I have absolutely no doubt they are better than the Eagles, not to mention the rest of the always overrated NFC East. http://espn.go.com/nfl/powerrankings/_/year/2012/week/6 That Yahoo dude knows that even if the defense didn't score the Bears would have won 27-3 right?
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    NFL Week 5

    UMFan83 replied to rawaction's topic in Other Sports

    lol, he set himself up for failure when he called this team the best Jets team he's had in the preseason. If its the best team and they are playing like crap, whose fault is it?
  18. UMFan83
    We don't necessarily need that for him to succeed in the #2 role. Marshall gives you both of those. With a lot of the defense's focus on Cutler, someone who can run good routes and catch what is thrown to him can gave Cutler a solid 2nd option. Plus Cutler is still fairly comfortable with Bennett, as they have been the last few seasons.
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    NFL Week 5

    UMFan83 replied to rawaction's topic in Other Sports

    No its not that crazy. I'm not sure they actually do that, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least considering the somewhat strong play, and the weak schedule. Plus you factor in Luck probably improving as the season progresses. Looking at the AFC, the teams that I think have no chance at the playoffs are Cleveland, Kansas City, Tennessee and Jacksonville. That leaves 9 teams to fight for 3 spots (assuming NE, BAL, HOU are locks). Those 9 teams are SD (3-2), CIN (3-2), PIT (2-2), IND (2-2), NYJ (2-3), BUF (2-3), MIA (2-3), DEN (2-3) and OAK (1-3). What a pack of mediocre to bad teams. I guess with a gun to my head I'd go SD (west), DEN and PIT. And the thing is, I don't like any of those 3 teams that much...they just aren't that good.
  20. UMFan83
    Exactly. And its not like Jeffery is going to miss the season. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Bennett as the number 2 receiver against the Lions, Panthers and Titans. And that's if Jeffery misses an entire month. Bennett has the ability to be a decent #2 receiver and was paid like one by the Bears just last year. If you are counting the RBs, the #2 receiver is maybe the 4th most important target for Cutler (behind Marshall, Forte and Bush).
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    Gotta be better options out there than digging up those corpses. I don't see the need to pick up a high level WR unless Bennetts injury is worse than we know about. Otherwise, you just move everyone up one spot and pick up a guy to be the 5th or 6th WR. Didn't we like one of the WRs in the preseason that didn't make the cut? I cant remember. Anyways... Marshall - Bennett - Hester - Sanzenbacher - Weems - Scrub pickup
  22. UMFan83
    LMAO am I seeing this correctly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bTsE338K5Q&feature=player_embedded After Briggs scores his pick 6, multiple Bears meet him in the end zone to celebrate, and Briggs goes over and taps #80 on the Jags, Mike Thomas - the guy chasing Briggs down, on the helmet and then brings him into the circle of celebrating Bears. The funny thing is that Thomas doesn't seem to resist or get upset about it. I'm trying to see if any of those Bears have a connection to him, and the only thing I can think of is that Thomas went to Arizona, the alma mater of Briggs, but this is his 4th year, so while he might have made a connection with him as an alum of Arizona, I'm not sure that connection means much to this. Even if there was a legitimate connection, you would think it would be really unacceptable to join in on your opponents TD celebration. Anyways, hilarious either way. Edit: http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/69/haha1o.jpg http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/189/haha2uq.jpg
  23. UMFan83
    Thankfully there's 15 days until the next game. He'll probably miss that Lions game, and maybe the game after that, but the good news is that Earl Bennett should absolutely be back in the lineup after the bye.
  24. UMFan83
    Did anyone see this by Terry Bradshaw on Fox's pregame show? wtf? Grow up? What the heck is Cutler doing that's not mature? Sorry he's not a media suckup and doesn't really open himself up to the public, but taking shots at him like that is just odd. Oh poor Terry got an interview request turned down (presumably) and now wants to act like an interview with him is the biggest honor you can get in the NFL. Sorry but I can't stand the people who hate on Cutler because he refuses to reform into the stereotypical NFL personality.
  25. UMFan83
    It will almost certainly be his swan song with the Bears. I wouldn't put it past another team to pick him up thinking that after another offseason of healing his knee will be better, or worst case scenario can provide leadership to a younger defense or something. And as far as observing his slowness, this was the first game I noticed it throughout the game as opposed to catching it a couple of individual plays a game. It was hard to miss.
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