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  1. UMFan83
    I dont think anyone's forgetting that.
  2. UMFan83
    Wait do you think that "everyone is expendable except rose, Noah, Rip, Taj" is a particularly novel thought? Well maybe because I much rather keep Deng than Rip. Deng is quite valuable when the ligaments in his wrist are intact. But as far as the other 3, pretty much everyone understands as has accepted for awhile that a majority of the team is expendable and now here for the long term.
  3. UMFan83
    Good point, I stand corrected
  4. UMFan83
    This team is frisky. I think they are 7-5 in their last 12 games...for many teams that's mediocre, but for the Cubs thats pretty good. The offense still sucks, but the starting pitching is keeping us in most games...I will take that. This next series against the Braves will be a pretty good test to see if our pitching is as legit as we hope. This is exactly what I wanted from the Cubs for 3 years now (other than getting to the playoffs). The last 2 years were boring as hell with the same guys underperforming. This team has a lot of question marks, but that's a good thing. It gives you something to get excited about every day. I look forward to a Shark start, a Castro AB with RISP, a LaHair AB when we need a homer, etc. It's much better than watching Z pitching below expectations with a outburst or two along the way, or ARam doing his thing for a floundering team. With the Bulls season taking a nosedive, it's good to know I might have something to get me through the summer.
  5. UMFan83
    Who would have picked Kings vs Coyotes and Rangers/Capitals vs Devils as what's looking like the conference finals matchups at the moment. Assuming Phoenix and NJ get the 4th win, one of those 5 teams will lift the cup. I have no idea who to root for. Probably the Kings or Capitals.
  6. UMFan83
    Just for fun...a list of every single injury that caused a Bull to miss at least a game this year: Rose: Sprained Toe (5 games) Lower Back Strain (5 games) Strained Groin (12 games) Sprained Right Ankle (1 game) Foot Injury (3 games) Torn ACL (4+ games) Deng: Torn Ligament Left Wrist (9 games) Bruised Ribs (2 games) Watson: Separated Shoulder (9 games) Wrist Injury (1 game) Concussion (2 games) Left Ankle Sprain (5 games) Hamilton: Strained Left Groin (10 games) Right Thigh Injury (14 games) Right Shoulder Injury (15 games) Noah: Left Ankle Sprain (1 game) Illness (1 game) Left Ankle Sprain (2+ games) Gibson: Left Ankle Sprain (3 games) Lucas: Left Groin Strain (4 games) That's 108 games missed due to injuries this year. That's a total of 20 completely separate injuries befalling 7 of our players, including 4 of the 5 starters. Starters: 84 games / 355 possible games (24% of all available starts) All-Stars: 41 games / 142 possible games (29% of all available starts) Starters in the playoffs: 6 games / 25 possible games (24% of all available starts) All-Stars in the playoffs: 4 games / 10 possible games (40% of all available starts) OK that wasn't fun at all
  7. UMFan83
    I never understood that. Yes Rose was a key player for a title contender, but its not like the Bulls were heavy favorites to win the title. The Bulls wouldnt have even been favored going into the ECF.
  8. UMFan83
    False, it will be a funeral atmosphere from the moment the game starts until the very end. I think most fans attending that game will feel like they are going to a funeral.
  9. UMFan83
    6 XBH for the Slugless Cubs today...not bad!
  10. UMFan83
    Yeah why should he play for his home country while they host the Olympics after spending 3 years building up the British national team and helping them qualify for the first time in their history? I understand your side where the Bulls pay him so he should do whats best for them, but this is a once an a lifetime opportunity for him and he's spent years committed to this summer. I have 0 problem with it.
  11. UMFan83
    Yeah that 8:4 BB:K ratio in 15 innings is straight baller status Nice input :roll: Yeah, way to buttress your position with facts, jerk. Go play in traffic. Dolis has great stuff, and I'm excited to see him get more opportunties. That's all I said. Yeah he's disagreeing with you and you're ripping on him for presenting facts to state his opinion.
  12. UMFan83
    I've noticed that. And his shooting seems marginally better as well. It doesn't make sense though....from everything I read, the wrist won't get better without surgery. Is that just wrong? Or is he more tolerant to the pain or has he strengthened the surrounding muscles enough that he can shoot and driver with his left hand and deal with the pain? If it's gonna make him less than 100%, I'd rather him just miss the first couple of months by getting the surgery. Thibs has proven he can win in the regular season with a mediocre cast, so if he can tread water through November, December and part of January, and then get Rose (at less than 100%) and Deng back, we should still be able to get a top 4 seed with no problem IMO.
  13. UMFan83
    I just made up a statistic IP per win above replacement: Rivera - 21.1 Clemens - 34.4 Maddux - 48.3 (i dont really believe Rivera had a better career than those 2, just thought it was interesting)
  14. UMFan83
    Yup thats a shitty way for a future HOF pitcher to go. Torn ACLs are really en vogue this week blah.
  15. UMFan83
    We're 6-5 in our last 11 games...its not THAT bad.
  16. UMFan83
    It was a swell 8.5 innings. What would the Cubs record be this year if Carlos Marmol didn't exist?
  17. UMFan83
    I don't blame them necessarily for sticking with Marmol to this point. Marmol had 4 mostly dominating years as a shutdown reliever, so I feel like he earned a chance to dig out of it this year, at least in April. Plus the team is going nowhere and at worst you'd like to have him string a few good performances together to give him some trade value. At this point though the Cubs can no longer ignore the fact that the pitches he used to dominate previously are completely ineffective the last 2 years and there are no signs of him coming out of it. After today I would expect them to make a move. At this point, any time Marmol pitches, he's hurting his trade value.
  18. UMFan83
    Wow...I saw it was 3-0 Cubs going into the bottom of the 9th and came back 20 minutes later to see 3 more pages in the game thread. I immediately thought '[expletive] marmol'
  19. UMFan83
    Dempster's ERA after today: 0.95 in 28.1 IP
  20. UMFan83
    That pic reminds me of the story that I think was told on here, about the guy who went to Vandy bumping into Cutler in a bar bathroom and excitedly talking to him about Vandy, and Cutler just rolls his head back while pissing and says "DONT CARRRREEEE"
  21. UMFan83
    You know $12 million is a lot of money but at the same time its not that much. You spread that out over 60 years, thats 200k a year. Now that's still a lot but if most people made 200k a year, they'd think about how they can make 300K, etc. So its not like Prior is so damn rich that the money he can make even as a major league reliever isn't appealing to him
  22. UMFan83
    Yeah that's pretty silly. You have to bite the bullet and get him healthy so he's not shooting 40% next year and is able to actually drive to the basket.
  23. UMFan83
    They played pretty good without Amare and Lin too
  24. UMFan83
    what the hell? When he played, Chris Williams was the only O-lineman that was better that league average on the Bears. I wish I could go back to individual weeks on Football Outsiders to show the numbers up to the week he got hurt. He was actually one of the better players at his position last year. Simply put, he was having a breakout season before he got hurt.
  25. UMFan83
    Why wouldnt you have felt confident? The dude was getting his timing and rhythm back. Every game he played since coming back from that ankle injury he looked better and better. He showed flashes of explosiveness on Saturday that I didnt see in the prior two games. There is no doubt in my mind, barring injury (which obviously occured), he would be been at least 90-95% of last years Rose by the time we played Miami. Also, Rose makes a huge difference when he's on the court even if he's not doing much. It all comes down to how the opponents defend the Bulls. Rose is the only player on the Bulls that can create his own shot and is the only elite scorer on the team. Because of this, even if Rose is struggling, teams focus a lot of their defensive game plan on Rose and have to gamble a bit on other players like Korver, Rip, Deng etc. It opens up the whole offense to have him on the court.
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