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  1. UMFan83
    He pitched one of the greatest games of all time, second all-time in K/9, 10th all-time in H/9, was a key part of some of the best Cubs teams in recent times and was a fan favorite(which I think matters for team honors). Just because he doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame doesn't mean he wasn't an all-time great Cub. If they retire Kerry Wood's number, we will be a further laughingstock. I would say the following people would have a better claim to get their number retired by the Cubs: Sammy Sosa Mark Grace Lee Smith And maybe: Carlos Zambrano Ryan Dempster Aramis Ramirez No one is going to laugh if we retire Wood's number. In a world where the Heat have retired MJ's number, the Rays have retired Boggs' number and the Indians have ensured that no player will ever wear the number 455 for them again, the retiring number thing is not that meaningful to fans of other teams.
  2. UMFan83
    Jayson Stark has an inside look at how the interleague schedule is supposed to play out. He says that apparently the plan is likely to be 4 "rivalry" games played during 1 week, 2 games at one stadium follow by 2 at the other one. Not bad, but I'd rather just have the 3 games. Other info: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings120518/mlb-2013-interleague-schedule-huge-step-right-direction
  3. UMFan83
    I hear ya. I have Konerko and am already dealing with Ellsbury, Street, Cespedes, and David Robertson on the DL plus I had to drop Brian Wilson when he went out for the year.
  4. UMFan83
    It is possible for someone who has only been around for half of NSBB's history to have posted in 75% of the board's threads?
  5. UMFan83
    Yup, I'm pulling up pairs and sets of 4 all over the park. The cheapest seats are $32 and I just pulled up 4 in a row.
  6. UMFan83
    That's silly....either you retire his number or you give it out to anyone that requests it. I can understand maybe waiting 5 years before distributing that number, but usually teams only do that for players that they plan on retiring at some point in the future.
  7. UMFan83
    The whole situation is really weird the more I think about it. Wood is going to pitch 1 more time in his career...it could come today, it could come next Tuesday, but apparently Sveum said he's not going to force Wood into the game.
  8. UMFan83
    Kinda funny that he wants to pitch one last time before ending his career. Reminds me slightly of 2005 when he had that injury he had to have surgery on, but couldnt do any more damage by pitching on it, so he came out and pitched one last time in relief and then ended his season with surgery.
  9. UMFan83
    This dude has his number retired: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reeseji01.shtml Plus there are numbers retired for Gene Autry, August Busch Jr, and Carl Barger (1st president of the Marlins). Not to mention the Indians retired the number 455 in honor of the fans. So in summary, not even close. Edit: Heres another one....played 88 total major league games and finished with 9 wins: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/umbriji01.shtml And this dude is almost even with Kerry Wood on B-R's ELOrater. He's 314 and Kerry is 316 http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilsodo01.shtml
  10. UMFan83
    Sorry it had to end like this Woody.
  11. UMFan83
    According to search results from the last year, WSRs flier team would look like this: Orlando Hudson Michael Bowden John Lannan James Loney Brandon Wood Scott Kazmir Scott Feldman Daisuke Matsuzaka
  12. UMFan83
    So to recap, you don't think people should criticize LeBron for sucking in the 4th quarter, and then go on to basically say LeBron sucks in the 4th quarter. People criticize him because rightly or wrongly he has been anointed as the best player in the NBA and on the path to being one of the all-time greats. So because of that the standards are sky high for him and failing in the 4th quarter is pretty much inexcusable for a player of his supposed caliber.
  13. UMFan83
    It would make me 2 depressed. 1 because I'm not a big fan of Indiana and 2 because it makes it clear that the Bulls had a good shot of winning the title if the entire team didn't get injured.
  14. UMFan83
    Didn't that stupid pass just speed up the recovery time for everyone having offseason surgeries, though? Pretending the Bulls could have gotten past the Celtics in round 2, and then maybe a 5 or 6 game series in the ECF, that's nearly another month of play. Probably true, in retrospect. I was pretty upset with him when it happened though. deng isn't having his surgery until the after the olympics and rose already has his, so it's completely irrelevant But didn't Rose's surgery take place once the season was over? Was he putting it off so that he wouldn't miss any games? If he was, then he potentially shaved an extra month of recovery time. Miss any games? You mean like watching them on the bench?
  15. UMFan83
    Which would almost certainly heal in time for next year
  16. UMFan83
    We should go dig up Chad Fox from the grave to join the pen. He hasnt made his annual appearance yet.
  17. UMFan83
    Didn't that stupid pass just speed up the recovery time for everyone having offseason surgeries, though? Pretending the Bulls could have gotten past the Celtics in round 2, and then maybe a 5 or 6 game series in the ECF, that's nearly another month of play. The only players that I would think have a chance to miss time next season due to injuries are Deng and Rose and both of those guys would miss time regardless of whether we ended when we did or played into late May.
  18. UMFan83
    Ugh....the Cubs play the White Sox as many times this year as 6 NL teams (Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Padres, Dodgers, Rockies)
  19. UMFan83
    I knew that he was pretty banged up. He had a horrible 2nd half and pathetically bad playoff series. I don't know how much that can be attributred to the plantar fasciitis or the shoulder injury, or whatever injuries he had, but I'm willing to excuse some of the poor play. His foot injury didn't make him pass the ball to Omer at the end of game 6. Hence why I said some. The pass to Omer was idiotic beyond belief and I'll never quite forgive him for that [expletive].
  20. UMFan83
    I knew that he was pretty banged up. He had a horrible 2nd half and pathetically bad playoff series. I don't know how much that can be attributred to the plantar fasciitis or the shoulder injury, or whatever injuries he had, but I'm willing to excuse some of the poor play.
  21. UMFan83
    Quite an odd way to celebrate Ron Santo. Was he a soccer fan?
  22. UMFan83
    Brendan Shanahan, is that you? Dang. Yea guys its me. Make it a little less obvious next time. Thanks for breaking Marian Hossa BTW
  23. UMFan83
    Just FYI, these are the Cubs pitchers that started the games that we've won facing Roy Halladay: Sergio Mitre Jason Marquis Tom Gorzelanny Rodrigo Lopez Paul Maholm The 1 time he beat us: Carlos Zambrano
  24. UMFan83
    He would have to walk on water and maybe beat the Green Bay Packers a few times to surpass MJ in love.
  25. UMFan83
    What a loser...he cant even win the 6th man or MIP awards
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