UMFan83
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The problem is the 'has to be conclusive to overturn' thing. So you are putting a heavy bias on what the umpire originally thinks he sees, and not letting the umpire use the replay to make the correct judgement. Even more annoying is that in the NFL, it seems to go back and forth between the refs actually following the 'conclusive to overturn' rule' or not. -
And its a "double" Can they at least kick those idiot fans out? That should be mandatory when a fan interferes with a ball.
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It looks like a HR to me but I'm not sure if the umps will think its conclusive
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Career line against the Cubs: .330 .378 .596 .974 6 HR, 22 RBI (that line doesn't include the HR just now, but the total number of HR and RBIs does)
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BOOO DUMPSTER!! purposely giving up home runs so he can keep selling dempster oreo cookie milkshakes at potbellys on southport
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I am absolutely stunned that gvillecub hasnt had anything to say about this whole scenario.
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07/22 CUBS (T Wood) @ St Louis (Lynn) 1:15 WGN TV
UMFan83 replied to Fred Hornkohl's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Rizzo has gotten a hit in 18 of his 21 games this year. Pretty sweet. Hasn't gotten an XBH since before the ASB though. Overall if this is the "pitchers adjusting" period, he's handling it pretty damn well. -
The only big loss given who we got to replace him is Asik. It immediately gets rid of our best advantage besides Rose which is 2 lockdown defensive bigs coming off our bench. I think that's a huge loss. I don't mind the Bellineli signing. I don't think he's gonna give us the spacing we got with Korver out there but he will be able to do a little more overall than Korver. Butler instead and Brewer is a downgrade next year i think but long term it's the right move. Hinrich for Watson is a near wash although they do similar things. Overall the bench will be worse and not as game changing as it was last year. But I don't think it's gonna lose us games either.
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It's OK to reach for the stars as long as you grab and asteroid or two on the way down when you miss. For the last time, we are not dumping Reed Johnson on a team that calls to inquire about Castro.
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Holy [expletive]. Hah, yeah, I'm still around. Sometimes. It's the rare slow day at work with not many of the boss-people here. I'm welcoming myself back to the interwebs. How much did that Reyes HR hurt you?
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Another reason for the Nats is that they will supposedly be losing one of the best starters in the league sometime in mid-August when they shut Strasbourg down for the rest of the year.
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Trading Paul Maholm
UMFan83 replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Its both good and sucks that the deadline is coming at a time when the Cubs are playing so well, heavily led by the starting pitching. Obviously its more good than bad, as it might increase what we can get for them, but for selfish reasons, I've really enjoyed watching the team as of late and it will suck to go back to what we saw in May. -
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Love em or hate em, you gotta respect how successful the Lakers have been. They've made the playoffs in 59 of their 64 seasons, they've finished over .500 in every season except 4 since 1967, they've been to the NBA Finals in almost exactly half of their seasons in the league (31 appearances in 64 years). You could make an argument that 6 of the top 10 players in NBA history played a significant part of their careers as a Laker (Magic, West, Kareem, Wilt, Kobe, Shaq). It's just incredible how much they have dominated the NBA throughout the history of the league.
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Ahhhhh, you're just bitching because you keep pretending like the 90's never happened. Or the 80's, for that matter. Or the 60's. Ahh for the glory days of the 1970's, when NBA Finals games were on tape delay.
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^ high draft picks perhaps?
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Bulls roster to start next year? Hinrich/Teague Hamilton/Bellineli? Butler/Radmonovich Boozer/Gibson Noah/Darko
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Funny that 2 NFC North teams are 2 and 3 on the list. Guess it makes sense if you consider the fact that the North drew the AFC South and NFC West this year and a 3rd place schedule in the Bears case. Impressive that their numbers show the Bears that good though.
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I forgot how much I enjoyed NFL media in general.
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This would suck if it happened. Not sure how legit Pro Hockey Talk is but it is affiliated with NBC Sports just like Pro Football Talk I believe. http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/15/report-blackhawks-dangled-bolland-in-offer-for-luongo/ I mean yeah Bolland is a 3rd line center and love him or hate him Bobby Lu is an All-Star goalie. But the Hawks are so thin at center as it is. Plus I'm pretty sure the entire Canucks team, front office and fans hate Bolland with a passion.
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7/17 Marlins (Sanchez) @ Cubs (Wood) 7:05 CSN
UMFan83 replied to Sosa21MVP's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
All everyone is talking about so far is Ozzie's return to Chicago -
He looks a bit skinny in that photo. After all the drama Briggs and Forte created about their contracts, they both end up locked up and remain Bears.
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Trading Soriano
UMFan83 replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
There are several possibilities -While it's been said that we're willing to eat a big chink of salary, perhaps not enough to get the return that would make it worth while. It would probably take us eating 95%, or at least 90% of his remaining salary in order to get a return that would make it worth paying as much as we'd end up paying him to play elsewhere or -The fact that it's been so heavily stated that we're agressively trying to move him, other teams may feel as though they have leverage , and while there may have been some decent offers,we'd rather wait until the deadline to hope that interest picks up unless someone gives a great offer. -they could be waiting for the right time to put him thriough waivers in hopes that someone's crazy enough to put in a claim, and if not, try to trade him one he clears. Dammit to whoever already used the 'in conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast' joke recently. -
That's completely my thought. His walk totals have improved during this stretch. I don't know if he's flat out overhauling his hitting approach but if there was a season to experiment and not care how productive he currently is, it's this one.
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I keep telling myself that even the worst teams will have mini stretches of success over a 162 game season but it's now been 15 games. Im certainly not saying the Cubs are a playoff team now but they are clearly playing improved baseball overall. There's luck involved and some inhuman starting pitching but quietly the pen has improved a great deal. I'm not sure if the offense is actually better now because it seems like we are winning a lot of 4-1 type games but it's getting the job done.
