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Fox has to be fired. Immediatey Instead of down at the 1 for 1st and goal, Fox challenges it and it turns out Packers back. Unreal n

If this is a touchback...

You can choose holding and pass interference there. No call

Packers somehow look like a good offense against the Bears.

Barth up to 67% this year

5 penalties on 2 offensive drives thus far...

Maybe Shaheen is good after all

At least someone thinks we have a shot:

i was googling a new cubs hat earlier are you....are you watching me?

the one and only hope is theo magic...and i mean some under the table tampering horsefeathers like he did with maddon and soler. Well yeah, Theo is cutthroat. They'll have third, fourth, fifth parties, speaking to him, paying him in bitcoins, whatever it horsefeathering takes, to get his extension happening immediately. We're all going to feel awful when we find out Theo has been using Lurie Children's Hospital via Rizzo as a front for smuggling money to Otani.

Eh they have/had the advantage of riding the coasts but traditionally those three are the big three in American entertainment. Chicago may have hit a lull post-Jordan but that only plays into the narrative that this is a franchise and city moving up and fast. CHICAGO: A CITY ON THE GRRRRRRRRR-OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW, AIMIRITE??!? Dude, get a grip. Otani is a huge improv comedy fan, we've got this in the bag.

A distant 3rd though as much as I like to be a Chicago homer. It's not even close to LA and NY in terms of visibility globally so I really don't see the appeal of being "Chicago's Japanese star" being that much more than other slightly smaller metros.

What would the Cubs have to do to be in the best position to sign him? Right now they have to be behind teams like the Dodgers and Yankees who both play in larger markets with significantly higher Japanese populations. The Yankees can offer millions more than the Cubs, both have competitive teams both now and into the foreseeable future, both have deep pockets, both have Japanese players already on their team. The Cubs can offer many of those things but not all of them. Would signing Darvish make the difference? Other than that it would take a hell of a Theo recruiting job. I'm not trying to be negative, I'm just hoping someone can sell me on feeling ok about the Cubs chances.

Sweet I guess Reinsdorf changed his mind. I was too young to really remember the last Bulls (88), Cubs (90) or Blackhawks (91?) All Star games and I wasn't living in Chicago for the White Sox in 2003 so this is pretty cool

I had a similar thought just because I want Harper so badly. It might not be a terrible approach to load up on bullpen arms and gamble on starting pitching and see if you can piece together a pitching staff to make the playoffs. Try to find starters who are either cheap relative to their potential upside (like Cobb), or veterans willing to sign for 1-2 years (similar to Lackey 2 offseasons ago but less douchey). Obviously you can also pull the trigger on a trade for a starter that won't screw up finances that badly. The idea is to sneak into the playoffs and have a BP that you can trust 4-5 guys deep and at least 3 very good starters. Sounds good in theory but with teams like the Brewers and Cardinals looking to be very aggressive this offseason, it could also easily lead to missing the playoffs.

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Am I the only one who instinctively looks to see how many hearts some of these posts got, only to be disappointed by the lack of the "heart" feature? Also, think of how many more of these amazing threads we would have had over the years had the Mod-Nazis not taken away this national treasure of a human being i've caught myself doing that a few times That and I catch myself wanting to respond to a post to pile on and then realize I am looking through a 7 year old thread in a locked forum.

uh it's just nsbb? On my phone it looks like a Geocities page from 1998 Go to Board Preferences and change the board style to prosilver and it will work. I used to have the same problem.

I would have thought they'd give Vegas an outdoor game. Or did they already do that? They did.......26 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_outdoor_NHL_game_in_Las_Vegas

Wow I had never seen that exchange and now I'm mad I missed 9 years of remembering it fondly.

Hockey talk is really down here this year. Anyways, look the Hawks are selected for ANOTHER Winter Classic https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/blackhawks-bruinswinter-classic-notre-dame/

Oh man, looking through his Twitter page, he just got that plane like 3 weeks ago and pretty much all of his recent tweets are about how much he loves flying and loves the plane etc.

What in the hell? RIP :(

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Doesn't that probably happen every year though? It stands to reason that Cy Young candidates are pitching for playoff teams and are going to make multiple starts in any playoff series. Not really... Looking at ALCS and NLCS teams the last few years. If a Cy Young finalist played for the team in question, I went down 1 spot in the voting. 2017 Dodgers: 0 out of 15 games (although we don't know who is 4th in NL Cy Young voting, so not sure who to replace Kershaw with. If its Greinke, then 1 out of 15 games) 2017 Cubs: 5 out of 10 games (Strasburg x2, Scherzer, Kershaw x2) 2017 Astros: 5 out of 18 games (Sale, Severino x2, Kershaw x2) 2017 Yankees: 2 out of 12 games (Kluber x2 - Same as Dodgers, don't know who finished 4th) 2016 Dodgers: 6 out of 11 games (Scherzer x2, Lester x2, Hendricks x2) 2016 Cubs: 6 out of 17 games (Bumgarner, Kershaw x2, Kluber x3) 2016 Blue Jays: 2 out of 9 games (Kluber x2 - Kluber is the only pitcher in the Top 10 of voting that the Jays faced that year) 2016 Indians: 5 out of 15 games (Porcello, Lester x2, Hendricks x2) 2015 Mets: 5 out of 14 games (Kershaw x2, Greinke x2, Arrieta) 2015 Cubs: 1 out of 9 games (Cole) 2015 Royals: 3 out of 16 games (Kuechel, Price x2) 2015 Jays: 0 out of 11 games 2014 Giants: 2 out of 16 games (Wainwright x2) 2014 Cardinals: 4 out of 9 games (Kershaw x2, Bumgarner x2) 2014 Royals: 0 out of 15 games 2014 Orioles: 0 out of 7 games So on average, a team faced a starter who is a Cy Young finalist 46 times in 204 games (23% of the time). The highest percentages in a run were the 2016 Dodgers (55%), 2017 Cubs (50%), , 2014 Cardinals (44%), 2015 Mets (36%) and 2016 Cubs (35%). Of course its kind of limiting to draw the line at Top 3 Cy Young finishers as there are plenty of extremely good pitchers who didn't finish top 3 for whatever reason. BTW, in the games the Cubs didn't face Kershaw, Strasburg and Scherzer, they faced Alex Wood (2.72 ERA), Gio Gonzalez (2.96 ERA) x2, Rich Hill (3.32 ERA), Yu Darvish (3.44 ERA). Edit: Correction, for some reason I missed 1 Hendricks start against the 2016 Dodgers. Dodgers faced one 55% of the time, most of any team over the last 4 postseasons.