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  1. Soul
    Certainly, the first throw to Hester shouldn't have been incomplete. Orton's accuracy remains an issue, and will probably always be a liability.
  2. Soul
    Collinsworth just grates on my nerves. He thinks everything he says is sacrosanct. If you listen, he says a lot of pretty questionable crap.
  3. Soul
    Just get the feeling we won't be able to stop 'em forever.
  4. Soul
    He's driving me nuts doing that crap. Every game he does it. In all seriousness, he's hurting the team with that awful decision-making. I could live with it when he had the explosion to break a few the last two years. Now it's inexcusable. His running backwards is inexcusable... BUT... How much of his lack of returns this year do you blame on HESTER? And how much of it is the other team has figured him out and he doesn't have the same blockers? I'm not defending Hester at all, just wondering about those factors. Then Manning should struggle on kickoffs too. But he doesn't struggle, he thrives. And when Hester was returning kickoffs it was bad. Put Manning in -- POOF -- instant solid returns.
  5. Soul
    At this point it's on Lovie. PUT SOMEONE ELSE BACK ON PUNTS.
  6. Soul
    I thought the hotline told them they needed to get back to them later, and then took a long time. But whatever. I still think it throws the NFL's policy into relative chaos. Now that there's been a outside court success, at the very least it opens the door for other players to head to court to see how far they can push that avenue to getting a ruling they like. On to the Bears.
  7. Soul
    The matter apparently won't be resolved until after the playoffs. On another note, doesn't this set a bad precedent? I mean - if the court keeps going with this, they are opening the NFL up to litigation every single time a player gets suspended, right? Yeah I guess you have a point, but this was obviously a unique case. I don't think most courts are going to hold up suspensions for an illegal steroid. The worst that will come out of this is that the NFL might have a more difficult time enforcing diuretic related suspensions. I don't think there's very much unique about this case. It's still a known banned substance, diuretic or not. If the courts can overturn this, it throws their entire drug policy into question. Now the burden of knowing what is in a supplement would seem to be the league's responsibility, not the players. And that makes no sense to me. Or -- if you can find a supplement that likes to slip in "special" ingredients without putting them on the label, now guess what? You can argue you didn't know, and the league can't suspend you. And who's to say you knew, if it wasn't on the label? After all, it wasn't on StarCaps' label, and the Williams bros got off. Bad precedent.
  8. Soul
    Nodoby knows what's going to happen. Probably not even Hendry and Towers. I'm excited about a big deal possibly in the works, but we've seen this movie before. It's not done until it's done.
  9. Soul
    Wow, his OPS+ was 68 last year. And that capped off a 3 year run of steadily dropping OPS+, from just below average to absolutely horrible.
  10. Soul
    Towers sure doesn't believe in playing things close to the vest does he.
  11. Soul
    Can anyone speak to why Hermida's numbers dropped off in '08? He was very solid in '07. Perhaps he just got sick of playing in front of an empty stadium every day?
  12. Soul
    If this does turn out to be true, then I'm sad to see DeRo go. He's been a very, very good player for us. If it makes us a better ballclub in the end, then so be it. I really like what DeRo does for us though. He plays nearly every position competently, hits well, handles being shuffled all over the field/lineup without being phased by it. He's a good player to have.
  13. Soul
    Mow down those White Sox, Kerry. You will be missed.
  14. Soul
    Well, Ibanez's splits vs. RHP are better: .288/.353/.470/.824 Of course, he's 36.
  15. Soul
    Yeah, but CC was dominating everyone else, and kept the pressure on the Cubs by beating just about everyone else he faced. I'm glad he's back in the AL.
  16. Soul
    :rotfl: It's 5 months to April Fool's day, come on.
  17. Soul
    If something pops up out of nowhere then we go to war with our current rotation, which is still pretty damn good. And we keep our prospects/players too. I'm not sure we can really lose in this situation, unless we throw way too much away to get Peavy.
  18. Soul
    So what type of deadline do you think were looking for for some kind of closure on this thing? Is the Thursday deadline still in play before Towers ends the talks? Too much is being made of this "deadline." Towers never used the word "deadline." He just said he wanted to see some progress made. You can define that to mean anything you want. If the two GMs actually sit down and talk today or tomorrow, they can always define that as progress. Realistically, Towers is in no position to be issuing deadlines anyway. If ownership tells him he's got to move the guy, then he's got to move him. I saw both GMs a little while ago. They were coming out of the GM meetings. I didn't detect any sense of urgency. If the Padres' ownership is demanding his salary off the books, and Peavy is limiting the options to only the Cubs..... Sounds like Hendry's holding the cards, no? If that's the case then I wouldn't be so quick to do anything either.
  19. Soul
    I'm not so sure about trading DeRosa. He's been steady for enough years that I think it will continue. And I'm not convinced Fontenot would continue his production as a starter, where pitchers have a chance to dissect him more and he'll be facing more of the league's top starters rather than relievers. I'm not saying I'd throw it out of the question. I would just be very careful with that. DeRosa as starter with Fonty coming in for spot duty is a good thing we have going.
  20. Soul
    It's quite a rollercoaster. Usually is.
  21. Soul
    Counting 2008 the Trib has owned the Cubs for 27 years and made it to the playoffs 6 times (1984, 1989, 1998, 2003, 2007, and 2008). If I'm doing the math correctly that's not even remotely close to "10% or less of the time." I was going to say that you have to win a game in the playoffs for the appearance to count, but they still squeak by even then. I still can't say I'll miss an owner who delivered 0 championships, and 0 championship appearances.
  22. Soul
    "Take another Cy Young pitcher. Please take him!" "Well, I dunno. *furls up chin*.......not so sure, let me think about it for awhile."
  23. Soul
    I believe it the moment I see Peavy in a Cubs hat at the press conference. Too many "done deals" have turned out to not be so done after all.
  24. Soul
    Am I the only one confused by this quote? Bradley will come cheaper than his talent level would suggest because of his injury and temper tantrum baggage. Bradley is going to be cheaper than Ibanez? Bradley played 20 games in the outfield last year. Sign him up, though. And get him a shrink if he needs it.
  25. Soul
    I boycott Cooperstown. And....Madagascar.
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