UMFan83
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its almost like you want the cubs to lose just so you can say you were right about thinking they would suck. No I just am still bitter about the last 2 seasons, really hurt by watchin the White Sox and Cardinals win world series, and I basically refused to buy into Spring Training optimism like almost everyone else on the board did. I knew it would take more then one season to turn that sorry 2006 team around, but Hendry decided to throw tons of money at mediocre players, leaving the team in a horrible position financially for the next 4-5 years. Don't get me wrong, I want the Cubs to win every game...but they won't. They'll only win around 78 of them. yep we will only win 12 more games than last year with this team. Why is that so hard to believe? Our team OBP was completely not addressed in the offseason. I don't care what you saw in the spring, players don't just randomly get more patient, especially veteran hitters like most of this team is. Our starting pitching is a bunch of spare pieces who can only succeed if they all have career years. Bullpens, our only strength, are a crapshoot at best, which is way only the best relievers don't have up and down careers. At the VERY BEST our offense is slightly worse then the 2004 offense, an offense that finished 7th in the league in runs that year. Our starters are also much downgraded from that season. -
its almost like you want the cubs to lose just so you can say you were right about thinking they would suck. No I just am still bitter about the last 2 seasons, really hurt by watchin the White Sox and Cardinals win world series, and I basically refused to buy into Spring Training optimism like almost everyone else on the board did. I knew it would take more then one season to turn that sorry 2006 team around, but Hendry decided to throw tons of money at mediocre players, leaving the team in a horrible position financially for the next 4-5 years. Don't get me wrong, I want the Cubs to win every game...but they won't. They'll only win around 78 of them.
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7 runs in just about the first 3 games for this awesome offense that everyone was predicting... But of course its early
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This pen sucks so far this year.
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because for no real reason, lou pinch ran theriot for murton, leaving ronny as the only rh off the bench. the cubs' bench has too many guys who serve the same purpose -- cedeno and theriot, ward and floyd. for no real reason? theriot stole second. he served his purpose, even though he screwed up and made a dumb out. So I guess he didn't. Why burn out your bench that early in the game?
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Genius move Lou
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Umm...Ward?
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It's not that we lose, but how we lose. That never changes. Oh and it's never too early to freak... This is ridiculous. All teams lose like this. Even great teams lose ~60 games. And among those 60 there are plenty of games that were blown by boneheaded plays and bad luck. Are you kidding? Reminds me of one of my favorite baseball quotes: No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ~Tommy Lasorda Tell the 2003 Tigers that
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wow What? A ridiculous statement, typical game thread hyperbole. What did I say that was ridiculous? I predicted 78 wins before the season starts. And I remember the Cubs giving up games in crazy ways. Nothing I said there was hyperbole.
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When Devin Hester says it starts
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wow What?
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These are the Cubs I remember, bloop single, WP, WP, go ahead run scores 78 wins
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Truth. Yesterday I realized that for the first time in a long time we weren't totally screwed if we got to the bottom of the lineup. What about when Murton would bat 7th because he was unproven and Barrett would hit 8th because 'dude catchers bat 8th'?
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4/4 Cubs (Lilly) @ Reds (Arroyo) 6:10CT CSN+/XM185
UMFan83 replied to baseball7897's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I have a bad feeling about this game...prove me wrong -
College Discount for Bleacher Tickets in April and May
UMFan83 replied to Jon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Please post the code on there when someone gets it. -
Presale was today at 10am. I picked up 4 cheap seats to game B, 2 to game C, and 2 $45 tickets to game A
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Last 5 games (minutes) PJ: 23 8 20 21 16 Avg: 17.6 Tyrus: 26 39 27 22 15 Avg: 25.8
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Skiles: We'll see if he goes on his word, but I still see Tyrus losing minutes over PJ. I doubt it. PJ has been slowly losing more and more minutes to Tyrus over the past week or two
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Another Blown Save by the Astros Pen
UMFan83 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in General Baseball Talk
Much better then last years retchid start -
Don't make fun of Skip, he'd be the man if he wasn't a Cardinal. Since no one will know why I'm talking like that, I drunkenly met him in the bleachers at the home opener last year and he was entertaining as hell.
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Holy Crap....Bonds Just Stole a Base!
UMFan83 replied to vance_the_cubs_fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I just noticed that...you know he used to be a pretty swift guy :) Edit: And he did have 3 last year -
Cuban, Colangelo, Bill Murray..... I work at CDW and there is a rumor going around that the founder of our company Michael Krasny is looking to be the majority owner of a group to buy the Cubs. I don't know if there is any truth to this rumor. Anyony read anything about this? I heard that on the score. Aren't CDW's losing money. Most I know of are closing down... CDW doesn't have any retail stores. We have our corporate headquarter up in Vernon Hills Illinois. CDW is also the fastest growing IT company in the country, who would have guessed we are second to dell at 8 billion dollars in sales compared to dells 25 million. Wow they really got you guys loving the company over there! Glad you are able to post at work now :)
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And then almost bankrupt the team..
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I know this is just a hypothetical idea, but the other 29 owners would never approve that.
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Exactly. However, even though I didn't like the blues, I think they should be worn on the road occasionally just to mix things up
