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  1. UMFan83
    Serious question: Will any Cub regular put up an OPS over .800 for the season?
  2. UMFan83
    Someone texted me to tell me the Cubs scored 6 runs in a baseball game, I had to check this out. Wow he was lying...they've scored 8!
  3. UMFan83
    Has it been confirmed that the Coyotes are still going to go through with the series after learning of this news?
  4. UMFan83
    Today's game is brought to you by Karsten Whitson! Originally the number 9 overall pick for the San Diego Padres in the 2010, Whitson declined an offer of $2.1 million and instead opted to enroll at the University of Florida, where the sophomore is now the ace of the Gators rotation. http://www.gatorzone.com/baseball/images/bioimg2012/91.jpg Karsten Whitson....coming to a Wrigley Field near you in 2017!
  5. UMFan83
    Man Bill Simmons is such a homer. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7801091/the-rebirth-celtics In this column, he calls Avery Bradley one of the 5 best perimeter defenders in the NBA (he's pretty damn good but come on) and pretty much thinks its a lock that Doc Rivers will win COY, and then at the end suggests that the Celtics are this year's 1999 Knicks. I mean come on, what the Celtics have done the last 2 weeks is surprising and impressive but how about you try losing the MVP of the league for 40% of the season and still have the best record in the NBA. Doc should maybe get coach of the month for March, but coach of the year when this team was toiling at .500 most of the year? lol I keep finding more funny as I read this. He just called last night's win over Miami one of the single most meaningful wins of the KG/Pierce/Allen era.
  6. UMFan83
    Can I just say that I love the NHL playoffs
  7. UMFan83
    Which is why it would be nice to get some benefit from paying him. If he wants to be a dickbag and not put out any effort make him ride the [expletive] bus around in the D-League (or he doesn't get paid). How does letting him pout and sit at home because he's not with the Kardashians do anything other than encourage other dickbags to do the same thing? Did you even read my post? It doesn't make sense to make him toil in the D-League. There is absolutely no benefit to Dallas. Making him toil there would likely kill whatever value he has left. Like it or not but NBA teams base decisions on what is best for the organization and not spite. Also, this is not even close to the first player that has been sent home to collect his paycheck. It has happened a number of times in the NBA.
  8. UMFan83
    Um, only some? What idiot would think you had to be really bad this year in order to facilitate longterm improvement? Sorry, I worded that wrong. I just mean that most people would take a 40 win season in stride as long as improvements were made in the organization such as a strong draft, international signings, the emergence of several prospects, etc., but some people would call out Theo for spouting BS about "every season is an opportunity to win, we're going to try to win every year although the future is going to be the most important thing" and just not be able to accept their team going through so much futility, even if they knew that the organization is improving elsewhere.
  9. UMFan83
    I highly doubt this would happen but you never know. Obviously the expectations for Theo's first year are extremely low. But after all the talk about "the future is more important, but we'll also be trying to win now", how would you feel if this year's Cubs were historically futile? Like 41-121? Would that change your feeling towards Theo, or would you just be satisfied as long as the Cubs are making steps towards improving for the future? I'm guessing most would say that latter, but there are probably some that think that its not necessary to become historically futile and an even bigger laughing stock around baseball along the way to long term improvement. Edit: Also if this were to happen, KyleJRM's nightmare scenario might come true and sooner than he thought, because I wouldnt expect more than 20K in the stands the last few months of the season.
  10. UMFan83
    Guess he can stop whining on twitter about demanding a trade now and put the focus squarely on drunkenly racing around Chicago's expressways at odd hours of the night.
  11. UMFan83
    Ian Stewart, David DeJesus, Steve Cleavenger, Joe Mather, Shawn Camp, Lendy Castillo, Ryan Dempster, Rafael Dolis, Matt Garza, Paul Maholm, James Russell, Chris Volstad and Rodrigo Lopez
  12. UMFan83
    Yeah that's been floating around for years. It's eerie how much it looks like that.
  13. UMFan83
    He's probably more valuable as a contract sitting on his ass. They can trade him in the offseason to clear up space to sign Deron and stuff. Not sure how making him play in the D-league helps his value at all. I think making him leave the team is the best way to salvage what little value Odom has left. Playing him certainly doesn't help it, and hurts the team in the process. Plus Mavs fans loathe Odom. When I was at their game last week, they pretty much boo'd him everytime he touched the ball.
  14. UMFan83
    I'm trying to think of a good comparison to Vancouver in another sport. Just off the top of my head, it would be the Vikings. Always seem to be pretty good, occasionally they have a scary good season and seem to be locks to win it all then falter hilariously in the playoffs. And to top it off they always seem to have a few douchebags in big roles for them. The Braves wouldnt be a good comparison because they've actually won, and they were annually at the top of the standings for over a decade whereas Vancouver was middle of the West good until the last 2 years. The Cubs wouldnt be good because we suck most years. The Mavericks would have been good until last year.
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    Cant say I know how you are Derrick, you've missed 40% of the season with injuries. Sorry that was just frustration talking. I know if this was an important game he'd be in there. So glad I bought a 6 game Bulls ticket package this year, and Rose has been injured for 4 of them now, with the Bulls record going into tonight 1-4. Garwilly will back me up that those are the games I got. Win: That ugly game against Atlanta the 1st week of the season when the Bulls scored 28 points in the 1st half, trailed by 20 in the 2nd half and somehow won something like 74-72. Losses: Indiana Portland Houston Denver
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    I'd much rather face the Bucks than the Knicks or 76ers. Bucks, Sixers, Knicks, in that order from the team I'd like to face the most to the team I'd like to face the least. At this point, the Sixers might not even make the playoffs. I know the 76ers have fizzled quite a bit of late but I think they're the team I want to face the least in the 1st round. Not sure how I feel about facing Philly. You know Doug Collins will have them revved up again so they would certainly be a tough out for the Bulls. At the same time the Bulls looked pretty good against them the last time without Rose and they have been playing downright awful since a hot start. Id like to play the Bucks but they are probably the hottest team of the 3. The Knicks probably have the most potential of the 3 and have the best player of them. I guess I'm just willing to let the chips fall where they may whether we end up in the 1 seed or 2
  17. UMFan83
    I hope he doesn't get booed. Just because meatballs like Kaplan irrationally hated him because he didn't "hustle" enough doesn't mean everyone hates him. The dude gave me several of my happiest Cub related moments in the last decade, it would be a slap in the face to boo him. Hell Game 4 of the 2003 NLCS should be worth a lifetime of cheers by itself.
  18. UMFan83
    didn't the blackhawks win Shh...he's on a roll. See now he can say: -Cubs win -Blackhawks beat the stupid Wings but don't have to play Nashville -Rose is healthy Great weekend!
  19. UMFan83
    didn't the blackhawks win Shh...he's on a roll.
  20. UMFan83
    Only 31,700 on Easter Sunday at Wrigley. Yowza
  21. UMFan83
    This game is going to end before the Bulls game despite this one starting 80 minutes later and baseball games generally lasting long than basketball games.
  22. UMFan83
    Entire schedule: GAME 1: Thursday April 12: CHI@PHX, 9 p.m. NBC Sports GAME 2: Saturday April14: CHI@PHX, 9 p.m. NBC Sports GAME 3: Tuesday April 17: PHX@CHI, 8 p.m. CSN-C GAME 4: Thursday April 19: PHX@CHI, 7 p.m. CSN-C GAME 5: Saturday April 21: CHI@PHX, 9 p.m. NBC Sports GAME 6: Monday April 23: PHX@CHI TBD GAME 7: Wednesday April 25: CHI@PHX TBD
  23. UMFan83
    8 minutes into the game Knicks: 71% FG% Bulls: 8% FG%
  24. UMFan83
    Game 1 of the series is Thursday at 9PM CST
  25. UMFan83
    Hah, the Coyotes were one of 4 teams that actually had a worst PP% than the Hawks. That said, the Hawks were 27th in the league in PK%, while Phoenix was 8th
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