Jump to content
North Side Baseball

UMFan83

Old-Timey Member
  • Posts

    95,285
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    73

 Content Type 

Profiles

Joomla Posts 1

Chicago Cubs Videos

Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking

News

2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

Guides & Resources

2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks

The Chicago Cubs Players Project

2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker

2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses

Blogs

Events

Forums

Store

Gallery

Everything posted by UMFan83

  1. OK lets just go after Jeter or Hanley Ramirez then. Oh wait there is no way they will get traded. Greene keeps getting mentioned because of a rumor that he was available for Pie last May. Right now, not too many better SSs are rumored to be out there, hence why Greene is mentioned so often.
  2. More rampant speculation from the O's board. The same guy thats proclaiming the deal is close is now saying: They are probably all laughing at us Edit: Belkast is saying:
  3. Going with a Packers fan here for some reason.
  4. I see the speed debate is back again. Didn't the 2006 Cubs teach anyone anything?
  5. Website. Please. Here is a site with a bunch of good shirts including that one: http://www.cafepress.com/cubsbleacherbum/2619316
  6. I want this shirt: http://jitcrunch.cafepress.com/jitcrunch.aspx?bG9hZD1ibGFuayxibGFuazozOF9GX2M0LmpwZ3xsb2FkPUwwLGh0dHA6Ly9pbWFnZXMuY2FmZXByZXNzLmNvbS9pbWFnZS8yNDQzOTUyNl80MDB4NDAwLnBuZ3x8c2NhbGU9TDAsMTcwLDE3MCxXaGl0ZXxjb21wb3NlPWJsYW5rLEwwLEFkZCwxNjIsOTN8Y3A9cmVzdWx0LGJsYW5rfHNjYWxlPXJlc3VsdCwwLDQ4MCxXaGl0ZXxjb21wcmVzc2lvbj05NXw=
  7. FWIW, we are not the only ones that value our prospects highly. The people on the Orioles board are currently comparing Sam Fuld to Reggie Willits
  8. One of the comments there mentioned that the Cubs are due for injuries because they had none last season. Come again? Prior - Missed full season Soriano - Missed about 10 games in the spring and 3 weeks in the fall with injuries. Was on DL in August. Wood - Did not start season until Mid-August Lee - Mostly healthy but missed 6 straight games in mid-July Ramirez - Was on the DL in June Dempster - Spend 2-3 weeks on the DL Ward - Spent multiple trips on DL Pagan - Missed August and September with coilitus Blanco - Missed 3 months of the season with injury Guzman - Season ended in June. I'm not saying we were as injury plagued as years past, but we didn't have 0 injuries all season.
  9. Funny how the BCS works out. The voters hand select LSU to play OSU in the title game, jumping Missouri, West Virginia, Georgia and Kansas, all who have 2 losses or less and look what happens. Missouri destroys Alabama West Virginia destroys Oklahoma Georgia destroys Hawaii Kansas (1 loss) beats Virginia Tech Also for good measure, 2 loss USC who was 1 spot behind LSU in the second to last poll, Destroyed Illinois Now obviously you can make a good case that all 5 of those teams didn't deserve it over LSU (Missouri lost to OU twice, WV lost to Pitt in the last week, Georgia didn't even goto the SEC title game, Kansas didn't goto the Big 12 title game) but its still interesting.
  10. isnt gooz out for '08? probably at least the first half Maybe one day he can get his first major league win
  11. Kansas' uniforms look way too much like the Giants
  12. Man it would be really weird if a 1 loss team from a power conference doesn't win the National Title over several 2 loss teams
  13. OK, I didn't mind when they took McDonough, but now this is starting to irk me.
  14. C - Pierzinski 1B - Konerko 2B - Richar 3B - Crede SS - Cabrera RF - Dye CF - Swisher? LF - Fields DH - Thome Seems weird that they would make a trade for an OF that can't play center. Also, Quinten should not be a bench player at this stage of his development. Me thinks another trade is occuring. Most likely Crede will be shipped off so Fields can play 3B and Quinten or Swisher to Left, but maybe Thome is shipped off somewhere for pitching and Swisher becomes the DH
  15. Would anyone have rather had Swisher than Fukudome based on his numbers, salary, age, arb years and proven ML record?
  16. It's not a road upset. They dominated Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh 3 weeks ago. And the Jags are actually favored by 2. Steelers have way too many OL injuries, are missing their best run defender, and their DBs stink. Jacksonville could win by double digits. I realize that they killed Pitt 3 weeks ago. My opinion is based on nothing other than a gut feeling and the fact that everyone has jumped on the Jags bandwagon and have picked them as a road team to beat the Steelers.
  17. I used to agree with that until I played fantasy basketball this year. I think it works very similar.
  18. i don't understand the idea of hating on a system that rewards teams for not losing in a short season and then advocating a system that kicks a team out that loses one game in a shorter season. because the system in the season that sucks right now is trying to put just 2 teams in the championship. look at it right now. osu is probably the 6th or 7th best team in the nation. if you have an 8 team format, then you wont have any huge glaring omissions...like the best team, USC. I agree. And what is interesting to see is all 3 BCS games have featured a case for a two loss team to be in the national title race. I was hoping after the Rose Bowl that USC would have enough momentum with their slaughter of Illinois to have the AP vote them number 1 if LSU wins, but similar drubbings by Georgia and West Virginia have made that difficult. If LSU wins next week, there are going to be a lot of people up in arms over this BCS system.
  19. Pittsburgh/Jacksonville is one of those games where everyone is picking the road upset and the home team ends up coming out on top. I just feel it. So my picks are Seattle NYG Pittsburgh SD
×
×
  • Create New...