UMFan83

Did anyone else think when fox came back from commercial showing sf and gb that fox was making a mistake and showing the wrong game?

Is it like in wrestling where Nebraska is going to show up to Big Ten games with the Big XII trophy?

But they usually don't bid against themselves in this extreme manner. Generally, when they spend a ton of money, it's on someone other people want Yeah but in this case they paid for his status as a New York legend. They wanted him to be a career Yankee. They have more money than everyone else so they can afford to pay $17 million to a guy who might not even be replacement level by the end of the deal. And they can handle doing that because they can afford top line talent at every other position to "hide" Jeter so to speak.

As bad as that contract is we still have an arguably worse player signed at that amount for 4 more years instead of 3.

Sorry I thought you could but I just checked and it has to be a movie file. You can use windows movie maker and pretty easily create a generic video file with the audio and a picture. But that's a lot of work and I understand if it's too much effort. I would like to hear them though if you do find a way to upload them.

YouTube?

What did the Pats want for Mangold when he was holding out? I wish Jerry would have gone after him. It is no secret that I am not a huge Cutler fan. But if you give the guy even an average line, he is a top-10 QB. Give the guy a terrible line, and he completely folds. There are a few QBs who can put up average to good stats with a horrible line, but Jay is a guy who has to have decent line play because his footwork goes down the tubes and his decision making is not great under pressure. Getting a good line will be doubly effective. He has the worst line in the league this year and has a 90 QB rating. What the hell are you talking about? This isn't Rex Grossman we're talking about. The line wasn't horrible last year and Jay didn't play well. Jay wasn't playing well through the first half of this year because the line was bad. As the line improved and Martz changed his play calling to help them out Jay has played better. I'm not sure what you mean that he's been playing better. If you break the season in half, Jay had a 87.5 QB rating the first 5 games of the year and a 90.0 QB rating the last 5 games of the year. There are very few QBs that could do much better than that with the 32nd ranked pass blocking oline in the league. You put Brady on that line his numbers look similar or maybe worse. Jay has kept our offense from being completely worthless. He's not the weak link.

Why? Sell me on it...because based on the numbers he doesn't look like a particularly good player. Decent power but no patience, he's been a negative with the glove in all 3 seasons he's been on the Rangers, and negative offensive numers 2 of the 3 years. He spent most of the year in the minors this year and didn't make the postseason roster for them this year. And now he's gonna the starting 1B for the Cubs?

It's also misleading to say that when he's hit between 38-40 HRs every year between 2005-2010.

Maybe...the blog post says something about how this is more recent info than Levine's rumor last month. He also points out that with Hill being tendered, the Cubs have 4 catches on the 40 man roster, making a trade of one seem likely.

What did the Pats want for Mangold when he was holding out? I wish Jerry would have gone after him. It is no secret that I am not a huge Cutler fan. But if you give the guy even an average line, he is a top-10 QB. Give the guy a terrible line, and he completely folds. There are a few QBs who can put up average to good stats with a horrible line, but Jay is a guy who has to have decent line play because his footwork goes down the tubes and his decision making is not great under pressure. Getting a good line will be doubly effective. He has the worst line in the league this year and has a 90 QB rating. What the hell are you talking about? This isn't Rex Grossman we're talking about.

Yay? http://www.bleachernation.com/2010/12/03/lukewarm-stove-source-says-chris-davis-could-be-coming-to-cubs-soon/ That .300 career OBP (872 PA) and -1.7 career WAR will look awesome in Cubs blue. He had a really big postseason too. Oh wait nevermind he didn't make the postseason roster and spent a majority of the year in the minors.

I hate that we are operating like a middle market ball club even though we all expected it a couple years back. It saddens me to read that we were gonna have trouble affording an extension for him if we got him. Are you kidding? Were the Chicago Cubs. Why can't we?

What I'd rather know is how Boston can compete and win 90+ games in the hardest division in baseball every single year, have a good farm system and be able to afford a significant big name FA/trade target every single year. I know their payroll is like 50 million higher than ours but still.

I personally have never thought we matched up well with Boston at all. And especially now that they have the size that they have. They can really man handle us down low. I have been surprised the times we've played competitive or even beat them but I think overall they just have a different level that we can't touch. Defensively there's no one better. The reason we matched up well with Boston in that playoff series is because Garnett is the key to that defense. Without him their D is much less imposing. The times we played Boston before that playoff series and with Garnett I believe we were blown out every single time (6 or so games). I think we match up even worse with Orlando, but Boston is right there too.

I saw it. Llinois got [expletive] robbed. If you can't overturn that, why even have replay? I feel ya sulley.

In the offseason it's a lot easier to deal him contingent on an extension with the new team, raising the return by a ton. Wouldn't on the other hand, possibly increase the return value in June/July by the trade deadline though than in the off-season? Assuming one team is desperate enough, that is. I believe it's mentioned in the article on SI.com, that the Padres know that Arz, LA, and Colorado are all improving themselves ... and then you have the reigning champs in the Giants. The Pads might realize they don't have much of a shot in the division for 2011, and their best bet for a good haul is this winter. Yeah but how do you justify that with your already fickle fans?

I honestly had successfully blocked Jose Macias out of my head until I listened to those.

Yay. The question is why would SD trade him now given they almost made the playoffs last year? I would assume they would wait until July at the earliest

The funny thing is, when I learn of big things happening, I rarely can remember exactly the thought process I have as my mind comprehends the news. For this, I clearly remember my first thought when I read a friends text message in bed this morning. "He didn't make it" (referring to a WS title). I think we all hoped that Ron could see a WS champion, but especially in the last couple of years most of us thought he never would. Now it's official.

I want a first baseman. No fair.

And Suh with a hangnail or something.

I dunno, if it was critical for the Cubs to get a starter that was likely to pitch in the rotation at a decently high level next year I might not pick Webb. He's got a big risk attached to him. But the reward is one of the best pitchers in the league. Hard to say no to that. If he fails or is hurt again, oh well we have mediocre pitching and don't make the playoffs. Not like we were going to anyways.

nice

I actually hope he doesn't make it in 2012. No disrespect meant to Ron, but I don't want people to always say the only reason he got in was because he died. I also don't want people to start a trend where a long time HOF candidate is put in a category where a voter thinks he's the type of borderline candidate that he won't vote on until they are dead.