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  1. Soul
    You can't be serious. That's absurd. The best teams don't always win championships, especially in a format like the NFL's one and done playoffs. Do you not agree that baseball playoffs are a crapshoot? And those involve 5 and 7 game series. The difference is the best football teams usually win a much greater percentage of their games than the best baseball teams, so one would expect the better team to prevail more often in any one game than say, in baseball. But it's still not a guarantee that the best team wins the SB. Any prognostication can only be expected what is most likely to happen, not what will definitely happen. Failing to predict that Tom Brady would get injured and his team would therefore lose 5 more games and not make the playoffs does not make something a poor predictor. So then what's the point of talking about who's great and who isn't? It doesn't really mean all that much in the end. Congrats, you were the "best team in football" but missed the playoffs. Pointless and stupid.
  2. Soul
    I don't think last year's team was stacked at all. They were balanced, and had most of their players either outperform expectations are reach the high end of their expectations. Most teams have guys underperform, and the 2008 Cubs got lucky that nobody really did that. I think the problem was Hendry assumed this was still a 97 win team, did nothing to actually improve them this offseason (despite the payroll going up while most others went down) and decided to tinker for quirky postseason matchups. As I recall, lots of people assumed this was a natural 97-win team, not just Hendry.
  3. Soul
    Well, not necessarily. The best team and the champion aren't the same thing, especially given the nature of the NFL playoff format. That said, the analysis is still a bunch of nonsense. I can't see any measure being worthwhile other than winning the Super Bowl. If that's not the measure, then it's just blowing wind. Therefore, if your system isn't predicting Super Bowl winners -- it's rather pointless. We can argue who's good and who's not until we're old & gray, and still accomplish nothing. I guess that's why you wind up with articles like this in the offseason: people want to argue pointlessly about stuff. For me, who wins the Super Bowl: they had the great season, they had the success. After all the pontificating about who might be good and who might not be, that pretty much ends it for me.
  4. Soul
    Maybe he just finds watching this club to be a painful experience.
  5. Soul
    Those bastards!! When you take the baseball team away, you lose the right to call yourself a city too! ;)
  6. Soul
    I'm shocked he couldn't qualify at a university. LOL that's fantastic. Also, you need to keep your head DOWN, Shelton. As in, looking down at a book.
  7. Soul
    Yeah I think he took him out after the botched Lee play, right? Then Marmol comes in and starts walking the world again. Nice job tonight on all fronts. Good job ruining a great starting performance, you [expletive] douchebags.
  8. Soul

    Randy Wells

    Soul replied to inari's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    It's too bad, I sense Wells will fall to Earth, so wasting his good starts like this is doubly frustrating. I can't see past the Cubs' current struggles. Wake me up when (or if) they decide to play good baseball again.
  9. Soul
    Ignoring the obvious ridiculousness of the analysis itself.... The confounding thing about that article in my view is the fact that some of his top teams didn't make the playoffs, and the 2 Super Bowl teams were ranked 7th and 14th. And he was shocked at how accurate his system is. Assuming that the bar for success in the NFL is still winning the Super Bowl, that would be like doing a study, and then publishing a paper that comes to the opposite conclusion as the actual study.
  10. Soul
    Ouch man.
  11. Soul
    See? You and 10,000,000 other people are thinking the same thing. He might not make it through the fenced area to the practice fields. I'll bet after a few days he'll be taking the cart around the back to avoid the insanity. Nah...he'll make a special trip over to my kid cuz he's so much cuter than every other kid!! haha Because of you I'll have to park a mile away and won't get in until practice is half over. Thanks!!
  12. Soul
    He did have a choice: don't PH for Blanco. After Scales hits a HR the inning is basically starting from scratch. Why not let Blanco hit for himself and keep Blanco in a 1 run game for his defense? The Best Fox can do essentially leading off that inning is hit a game tying HR. Even if Blanco makes an out Fox is still in position to tie the game with a HR. Why PH Fukudome and not Hoffpauir? Of the two, Hoffpauir seems more likely to hit that HR Piniella was looking for from Fox. By using Fukudome in that spot he can't PH for Reed against the RH reliever in the 9th for lack of a CF in case of extra innings. I bet Piniella really sucks at chess because he doesn't seem to be able to think ahead at all. If you're going to make the chess analogy, then the scenario you just described is like complaining over moving Pawn A to space B instead of Pawn B to space A. Either way, you're out of power pieces -- you're going to lose. This club is so far away from the vision of what it was going to be when we headed into spring training, I'm having a difficult time blaming Lou for individual game decisions. It's a horrible club right now. We're fielding a minor league baseball team, to a large degree.
  13. Soul
    I was going to take a trip to Principal Park this year, but why bother? Chicago is much closer.
  14. Soul
    I want to congratulate the Dodgers and especially their announcers for beating the Iowa Cubs.
  15. Soul
    See? You and 10,000,000 other people are thinking the same thing. He might not make it through the fenced area to the practice fields. I'll bet after a few days he'll be taking the cart around the back to avoid the insanity.
  16. Soul
    I wish he would, but I doubt it. The umps hold the trump card. You get too close, they can snare ya. Boom -- 5 games, doesn't matter what actually happened.
  17. Soul
    It's supposed to be getting more GOOD left handed bats in there, not any crappy lefty bat you can scrape up.
  18. Soul
    I'm currently musing over heading down to Bourbonnais for TC. I really want to go, but man I'll bet it's going to be a mob scene down there this year.
  19. Soul
    Yeah, but do you still think he's bad? I never said he's anything special, but all indications are he's as good as any goalie needs to be to allow a quality team to succeed in the playoffs. I still (surprise!) think he's bad, but I'm resigned to the fact that the Hawks have no choice but to roll with him. But a few posts ago someone said they need to let Havlat go and get another defenseman. I don't know. Let Barker and Hjalmarsson develop and you'll be fine on the back up. Matt Walker is shaky, but he's your 6th defenseman. It's like having a 5th starter with a 4.50 ERA. It is what it is. I don't see some of the offensive guys progressing like I think the young d-men will. So spend the money on offense. I would say this about Huet -- I hope we have a decent backup to play significant time. But if he gets hot in the playoffs like he was last night, then obviously he would be good, during that time. I mean, I think everyone has hot/cold streaks, but it looks to me like Huet's are longer, and deeper.
  20. Soul
    I'm usually not a grammar cop, but man that's horrible.
  21. Soul
    Kudos to Huet for the nice rebound from game 4. No Goony, I still don't think he's all that good :) I don't see why we should hang our heads. This was the most fun I've had as a Blackhawk fan since I was a young man. And that's saying something 8-) I can't decide whether I will "root" for the Pens or Wings. I really don't like either team all that much. I guess I'll go Pens -- the Wings are still our mortal enemy.
  22. Soul
    Is Miles really hurt? Sounds more like one of those very convenient, pseudo-injuries to me.
  23. Soul
    Also makes it impossible to have an effective running game apparently. Apparently in order for a QB to inspire great running and defense, he needs to have produced a winning football team on his own, in his former cities. :blink:
  24. Soul
    Guys...he won't win in Chicago, because he couldn't win in Vandy...can't you see that? :P Is it his contention that Cutler makes it impossible to be good on defense? 'Cuz that's what it sounds like to me.
  25. Soul
    huet will be fine over a full season. he'll just be a lot streakier than khabibulin. he's about the worst candidate for a backup goalie that I can think of and he's only an average starter. he's in an odd position as far as his role in the NHL goes. That's just a fancy way of saying he doesn't belong in the league. Anyone who can't play is in an odd position when he MUST start because of money.
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