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  1. UMFan83
    It's better than being named Borck. Every time I look for personalized trinkets with my name on them they are always sold out or on back order.
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    Every board has its running jokes, please explain this one to the new guy. The greatest poster (Da Bum) who ever graced these boards and was unjustly perma-banned by Tim and his supporters have never ended calls to "Free Da Bum" Other common support rallying calls used by his supporters include "Thick Onion Gravy" and "Mother Effin Windermere" I can understand people not being aware of the meaning of Free Da Bum...it happened so long ago that Nancy Pelosi was a Senator!
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    Interesting. Would have loved to have kept the board under the radar and how it is, but given the amount of time, effort and money you've put into this site over the last 20 years, you deserve to make that decision. And it looks like you've sold it to a solid group that will put some effort into the site. Congrats to you and thanks for everything you'd done leading the board! I'm not kidding when I say that I would feel adrift if something happened to the board as its become my goto "surf out of habit" website. New board overloards: Your first command is to Free Da Bum
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    Purdue reminds me of 2012-2013 Michigan. They brought back some returning players like Burke and Hardaway and had a great incoming freshman class. Ranked 5th going into the season, they started 20-1 and at one point were ranked number 1. Their defense then fell apart and they went 6-7 the rest of the season including getting knocked out early in the Big Ten tournament. They even lost to a Penn State team that went 2-16 in the conference. Over the last 2 weeks they dropped from a 1 seed to a 4 seed and their expectations were much lower (I remember everyone picking 5 seed VCU to upset them in the 2nd round), but they found another gear and went all the way to the championship game. Not saying its a perfect comparison by any means and admittedly just drawing parallels without much actual analysis (though I know Purdue's defense has really dropped off lately similar to Michigan's) but just saying don't completely dismiss the early season performance or take too much stock in the late season lag. Expected to be a top team heading into the season, they played like it initially and then slipped before putting it back together. Sounds like Purdue so far.
  5. UMFan83
    San Diego has a metro population that is 400k less than Minneapolis and roughly on par with Tampa Bay. This doesn't give small market teams complaining that they can't afford a competitive payroll much credibility. In other news the Padres will owe approximately $122m to 5 players in 2026: 39 year old Yu Darvish, 33 year old Manny Machado, 33 year old Xander Bogaerts, 33 year old Joe Musgrove and 27 year old Fernando Tatis Jr. They are paying Bogaerts until 2033 (age 40), Machado until 2034 (age 41), Tatis until 2034 (age 35) and Darvish until 2028 (age 41). Some fascinating stuff.
  6. UMFan83
    Commercial breaks after every out. MLB gets more money and fans get to watch 6 hours of baseball every day!
  7. UMFan83
    The first one I saw by the Giants, it seemed like the clock expired for 2-3 seconds and one of the other umpires had to yell loudly to alert the home plate ump. I didn't see the others because my attention span for spring training baseball is 2 innings max but that jumped out at me as awkward.
  8. UMFan83
    So this happened
  9. UMFan83
    Why does it feel like Bellinger is Jason Heyward with more swing and miss? I’m sure there are a number of reasons why that silly but when he’s up there and swinging I get a similar vibe
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    If Houston does this and then picks Stroud (who then flops) it would set the franchise back another five years And the Bears trade 2 to the Colts who pick Young and he turns out to be a HOF QB? Yeah people would finally stop talking about Trubisky/Mahomes as the gold standard of disastrous draft trades for a QB
  12. UMFan83
    Without even accounting for the 2024 1st, the difference in value between what the Bears would offer (1 ovr) and what the Texans would offer (2 ovr, 12 ovr, 33 ovr) is the equivalent of the Bears getting an extra 6th overall pick of surplus value. I can’t remember what the value of a next year 1st is but that would make it even crazier. I could believe it a little if there was a consensus no doubt generational QB in this draft but no one is even certain who the number 1 pick will be. Texans would have to be pretty certain they were getting a generational talent to be that desperate to trade up 1 spot I would think
  13. UMFan83
    that would be one of the most shocking trades I’ve ever seen, 2 additional 1st round picks and a 2nd to move up 1 spot in the draft when all they had to do was not convert 2 4th and super longs on the final drive of their last meaningless game and convert a 2 point conversion
  14. UMFan83
    I keep going back to this game with Fields. I know it didn't end great, but for the first 55 minutes of the game he looked as in control and locked into the offense as I've ever seen him. He did have more time to throw in this one than I've seen in other games, but he also was comfortable in the pocket and not looking to break free when he got some pressure. While it wasn't flawless, in general he found guys downfield and made great throws. I believe this was his highest graded PFF game as a passer in his career. When I imagine what Fields could look like if he reaches his potential as a passer and gets some help, this is probably what it looks like.
  15. UMFan83
    All those reports read like evaluating QBs is flawed and often very difficult
  16. UMFan83
    This wait for stuff to happen is unbearable. Never cared about combine/draft stuff that much but now I'm counting down the days til the combine next week so things finally get going.
  17. UMFan83
    So long as there’s cap space it’s more of a “sure, it’s your funeral anyway” thing on who, how, when, where, and what the money is spent. Heck because all the cool kids did it and there’s a network, some real estate, and probably more serious agendas to promote (2024’s an election year!)…they might even gift us a biscuit and go over for a couple years Hate to quote myself but here’s Tom Ricketts: :confetticannon: "I won't promise a top 5 payroll or anything" - says the owner of the 3rd most valuable team playing in the 3rd largest market with the 3rd most expensive ticket prices in baseball after a decade of adding revenue-generating things that were promised to go back to baseball operations. I hate luxury taxes sooooo much.
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    This seems fishy. I’m assuming an offer like that buys out the rest of his arb years right? He had 4 years of control after 2018 and he made $22.4m in those 4 seasons. While you can’t know for certain Willson would make $10m in 2022, you can probably project something like this coming off an All-star season. Either the cubs lowballed him to an embarrassing degree or this isn’t right (or I’m missing a detail)
  19. UMFan83
    You mean the 2 fan bases who have watched Fields play the closest have a favorable opinion of him? I mean the two with the biggest emotional attachment to him. And why do they have an emotional attachment to him? I can assure you Cade McNown didn’t have many Bears fans fighting for him. Is there some homerism involved? Sure. But I’d take the opinions of a Bears fan who’s seen all 28 or so Fields starts over a random fan of another team on Reddit who sees Fields highlights on ESPN and a box score and says “lol he’s a RB”.
  20. UMFan83
    You're really hanging onto where he got drafted when Aaron Rodgers fell to 24 and Tom Brady went 199th? And you ignored HS rankings and pre-draft rankings that I pointed out. Fields was always 1B until he wasn't 1B on draft day. He wasn't 2nd tier to Trey Lance and Zach horsefeathering Wilson. The coaching staff not throwing is definitely not on him. You watched the same horsefeathering games I did and saw him getting hit or pressured at the last step of his drop. The Bears receivers were also statically the worst in the league at getting open (I'll find the tweet if I can). Again, I'm not saying he was the perfect prospect or is a sure fire star QB in the league, and many have said this many times, but you're clearly being contrarian for contrarian sake. You're like a flat earther disagreeing just because it's an unpopular side to take, and that's your brand. My take is extremely popular outside of Chicago Bears and Ohio State fandoms You mean the 2 fan bases who have watched Fields play the closest have a favorable opinion of him?
  21. UMFan83
    3. It would be a ballsy but reasonable thing to do. It's fundamentally a scouting decision at the toughest position in sports to scout This is said so passively as if we don't have data about the actual players we're referencing. It's a 8+ at minimum on the crazy scale. If you are trading Fields you'd better be 100% certain that Fields is not the guy and that the guy you draft is the guy. You are basically staking your career to that decision. I like GMs that aren't afraid to take some risks but that is way too much of a gamble based on what we've seen from Fields so far.
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    Pacers last 19 games: L L L L L L L W - 24 point comeback against Bulls L L L L W L L L L L W - 24 point comeback against the Bulls
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    I think they'll eventually get some funding but I'm guessing its going to be a bit of a battle before anything happens.
  24. UMFan83
    https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4877961/fifa-targets-2030-world-cup-host-vote-in-2024 The US has officially qualified for the 2026 World Cup! Second World Cup clinched in the last 365 days, hope we can keep up the pace! (I know this was all but official a long time ago, but good to see it formally approved)
  25. UMFan83
    I was actually looking for that when this topic came up, I enjoyed the first several episodes when Southpaw19 did but dropped off after a while. I couldn't find them when I looked the other day
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