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  1. Soul
    Agreed. Murph is one of the few Score hosts I'll listen to. Yeah, he's wacky, but he's the only guy on the Score who talks Cubs first.
  2. Soul
    The hit I saw on video, which people said was when he was injured, was hardly huge. Well, I was at the practice when he got hurt, and there were a couple other very hard hits, enough to induce "woos" from the crowd. One was on Benson, and the other was a few scrimmage plays later when he paid someone back. They were hitting full speed last year. Whether that means they will this year, I have no idea. It's fine with me either way, I think we know what our players can do now for the most part.
  3. Soul
    Olsen is amazing. He's basically a huge, tall, fast WR out there. I didn't think a guy that big could move & catch like that. If we can only get his blocking to average, he's going to be a monster no question in my mind. Rex has looked very, very sharp in all the practices I've watched. Hester had a few drops in practice yesterday though. Wolfe sat out his second practice, he was in just a shirt & shorts yesterday. They practiced in full pads for the first time, but the hitting was still @ less than full speed. Lovie is easing them in, which IMO is smart with a veteran team like this. Our defensive depth this year is going to be just sick! 8-) How many teams can say they've got Super Bowl starters on the bench?? With Lovie at the helm you won't get full speed hitting hardly ever, if at all. Last year in TC there was. Benson was actually injured on a huge hit from MB & BU in an early practice.
  4. Soul
    oh hey look, diamondmind posting that he doesn't think murton is good, but not providing an alternate solution for the lack of production in rightfield! I fail to see the purpose in rehashing trading for Griffey, keeping Floyd ungimped, etc etc. What do you want from me? Well I think 99% of the board would prefer Griffey in RF, but it dependsd on the price that you're paying for him. Otherwise, you're stuck with in-house options. Keeping Floyd "ungimped"? What do you propose we do, equip him with a robot's body? He's brittle and old, there's nothing you can do about that. Bionics. Why didn't I think of that before?
  5. Soul
    They weren't reluctant in the Garland-Karchner trade. But yeah, I'd be shocked if we got Dye. I hope this doesn't wind up being another Palmiero situation, where the Cubs come back years later after Murton's a monster and say "we never thought he would develop power" Of course in retrospect, now that we know why Palmiero developed power (i.e. roids), it makes a little more sense, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that Murton would develop more power. I'm still a little confused why the Cubs are sour on Murton now -- a bad April and suddenly everything he did last year means nothing? Something's not quite right with this situation.
  6. Soul
    The Trib says that Hesters drops were because of stiffness... Ahh, OK. They did take him out after the passing drills, and I didn't see him out there for the 7-on-7 or 11-on-11s. Urlacher rested for the 11-on-11s too. Which really sucked, because that would have been my best chance to snap a good picture of him :(
  7. Soul
    =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
  8. Soul
    Trouble is, people use luck as a fallback when *they* can't explain something, not because an explanation doesn't exist.
  9. Soul
    Dump Kendall then???
  10. Soul
    Olsen is amazing. He's basically a huge, tall, fast WR out there. I didn't think a guy that big could move & catch like that. If we can only get his blocking to average, he's going to be a monster no question in my mind. Rex has looked very, very sharp in all the practices I've watched. Hester had a few drops in practice yesterday though. Wolfe sat out his second practice, he was in just a shirt & shorts yesterday. They practiced in full pads for the first time, but the hitting was still @ less than full speed. Lovie is easing them in, which IMO is smart with a veteran team like this. Our defensive depth this year is going to be just sick! 8-) How many teams can say they've got Super Bowl starters on the bench??
  11. Soul
    Actually it's only three. And that difference is because of the postponed April 29 Cards game that was cancelled when Hancock died. The St. Louis game is scheduled to be made up on September 15. The other difference is probably just due to the schedule. The Cubs will make up one game tomorrow. In August the Brewers have 4 off days while the Cubs have 2 and, barring any more postponements, the teams will be even on games played going into September. Both teams play the same number of games in October but the Cubs have an extra off day due to the aforementioned doubleheader against the Cardinals. With the Brewers playing in a cozy closed-roof stadium, and the Cubs playing at Wrigley, it's probably going to be the case most years that the Crew will have played a few more games than us. I'm a little confused on the whole "wins are harder to get" thing though. Yes, winning is difficult, but making up losses is impossible without help...
  12. Soul
    Logic and reason doesn't apply to the Cardinals. I'll never dismiss them, no matter what.
  13. Soul
    :cry: that's the cubs' fault, not ryan braun's. Quite.
  14. Soul
    Interesting. In 1984, though, we paid back the Mets by overtaking them in August (I believe - ?, or did we overtake them actually in late July), so I haven't thought much about the Cubs sort of re-living '69 in reverse this year. 1984 was incredible. I was at the double-header in August when we swept the Mets and pretty much sealed the deal. I believe there were two bench-clearing brawls, tons of big-time moments......just a legendary day at Wrigley.
  15. Soul
    Yea, its' getting ridiculous. Particularly when there's a ground ball and he's got to pick it up and try and throw the runner out. ...especially since he actually *can* throw runners out, provided he doesn't fumble around out there. Great game for him tonight at the plate. I hope it sparks another hot streak, we really need him to start producing again. His hot streaks are amazing to watch -- no denying that.
  16. Soul
    I really don't see how Dunn's skill set (hitting the ball hard and plate patience) can be projected to disappear in a couple of years. And either way, we'd be acquiring Dunn for this year. I don't think his skill-set is going to decline before October. You sure Cubdom is ready for a guy who strikes out at a rate that would make Sosa blush? Anyway I'm hearing nothing about this so I assume it's just board talk.
  17. Soul
    Ron who? Lord. Looks like the powers that be have definitely told Hendry "no big acquisitions." Bringing in a bunch of marginal junk like Mahay and Payton isn't going to put this club over the top. It's not even worth the disturbance of chemistry with the guys we already have. Just come clean, tell the truth that we can't make a big splash, and move on.
  18. Soul
    Starting to look an awful lot like the Cubs aren't going to be allowed to make a big splash before the deadline, isn't it. Payton? Way to "go for it," there, Cubbies.
  19. Soul
    Back to Iowa!! :evil:
  20. Soul
    Isn't Karma great? 8-)
  21. Soul
    In tonight's practice Hester had a couple more nice catches, though there was one drop in traffic. Rex is looking very sharp. They're really pushing the pass game with him -- many more deep throws than I remember in previous years (not bombs, just deeper routes). Greg Olsen had another excellent grab on a deep route tonight. Robbie Gould was at practice, but for some reason I only saw Novak during the ST drills tonight. I'm not sure if he was held out or if I just didn't see him kicking... Garrett Wolfe also did not practice. I learned later he tweaked his hammy slightly; then I remembered he was limping ever so slightly during the morning practice. They must have held him out as a precaution. The workout was shoulder pads only, so no real hitting and hence, no drama surrounding Ced getting hit too hard by the defense ;) Benson did catch the ball much better out of the backfield than he did on Friday.
  22. Soul
    Yeah but this guy hits for average as well. Crew will take Braun, happily. And they'll win with him too. He's a better player than any positional player we've churned out since Grace. And he's not even the best player the Crew recently developed, either. The Crew are making us look like idiots.
  23. Soul
    i seem to have different standards than most people on this board. Yeah, that seems to be a bit low of a bar to set for happiness to me as well. Merely playing meaningful games in August is, well, meaningless. To me, at least.
  24. Soul
    This is horrendous. We're now losing games like we were earlier, by letting normally crappy pitchers punk us and then giving the game away on stupid plays. Arroyo was having his worst year as a pro, until tonight. We should have done much, much better against him, but of course not! If this is how we're going to play? We're going to slide down the standings double-quick. Total freaking crap.
  25. Soul
    That was a good throw, right at me as I was sitting on the far side burm. Overall the QBs looked predictably pretty rusty, but each had some good throws too. It was a real light workout, no hitting at all, no pads, and everyone seemed to be in a good mood. Hester was catching everything I saw thrown his way :) And Olsen just seems to be real smooth catching the ball -- he makes it look really, really natural. One random, inconsequential thing: I never noticed how short Leak is, or how long (but quick) his throwing motion is. He's weird, he whips the ball from way back but brings it very quickly through. He looked like he might even be shorter than Grossman. I guess I'm not very observant of college guys. Wasn't all the big of a crowd, I guess the crush starts tomorrow.
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