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  1. Soul
    Advantage Cubs. Let's just keep it that way with a few wins. For sure. Brewerfan.net is in mentdown mode. 8-) "I admit that I am in full panic mode right now. I really think we are going to blow this playoff spot. With Peavy going on Saturday we will be lucky to split this series and if we somehow lose with CC pitching tomorrow night this team could really fall aprt in a hurry. I truly fear the road trip especially the games in Philly and Chicago. If we dont make the playoffs this year I dont think we ever will and that is sad". "I will only add that if this teams blows a playoff spot this year, I will not be renewing my season tickets for next year. 15 years of season tickets w/o the playoffs is my limit. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me 15 times...well, I don't even know how to respond to that one". It's easier to see what a fan over-reaction looks like when it is someone else's fans. I agree with C.C. -- both teams were due for a cool-off. I don't think it's anything more than that at the moment.
  2. Soul
    Advantage Cubs. Let's just keep it that way with a few wins.
  3. Soul
    It's happened more than once this year. Makes me wonder if there's some kind of effect when one team sees the other losing.
  4. Soul
    Bill Hall's stance looks really forced & contrived to me. Like someone who didn't have clue once told him it looked cool. He pulls out of it way before the ball arrives too. Doesn't really do anything productive at all. It's silly.
  5. Soul
    He implied it was smart to not waste money on a retread. But he has still decried their overall situation and the lack of attempts to fix it, primarily through the draft. It was stupid to not draft QBs in recent years. It was not stupid to avoid Pennington and others. But they must fix the development portion of the puzzle or drafting QBs will not likely yield the results they want. Unless the guy is simply good enough to succeed in spite of the coaching/teaching. I know you addressed this earlier, but I just wanted to re-point to it here. They must have the people ready to take that draft talent and hone it for the NFL, on the offensive side of the ball.
  6. Soul
    Yep. I blew it on the fact that we don't play tonight. LOL, I suck :oops:
  7. Soul
    I'm with you, but I'm also like..."DAMN Jerry, start turning this thing around enough already."
  8. Soul
    He's picked twice in the late first and once in the top five. And one of those late first picks was due to the team's record before he took over. His other times he's picked in the middle or traded out to the 2nd. right, but to judge his record on top 1st round picks when he's had one top 4 pick is jumping the gun abit. It was a horrible pick, one that much of Chicago anticipated he was going to make and was begging him to reconsider. He would screw it up again, I feel certain of it. The best pick he's had in the 1st round was Tommie Harris @ 14. That's what I'm basing it on. Harris essentially fell into his lap. I dont know, to argue which set of juggling pins to give to the jester is abit unnerving in itself. why cant we just get rid of the clown entirely? LOL, nicely said. I'm coming to that conclusion myself. I'm resisting it a bit.......he did somehow assemble a pretty good ballclub a couple years back. Was it just a mirage? It was 2 straight years of playoff football, that's got to count for something right? Or should it? Blah.
  9. Soul
    I think it's a very good idea to win tonight. Anyone disagree?
  10. Soul
    He's picked twice in the late first and once in the top five. And one of those late first picks was due to the team's record before he took over. His other times he's picked in the middle or traded out to the 2nd. right, but to judge his record on top 1st round picks when he's had one top 4 pick is jumping the gun abit. It was a horrible pick, one that much of Chicago anticipated he was going to make and was begging him to reconsider. He would screw it up again, I feel certain of it. The best pick he's had in the 1st round was Tommie Harris @ 14. That's what I'm basing it on.
  11. Soul
    6-28, what is this, tennis? :D) Maybe the Bears should go to a spread offense since they have had so many problems with finding a QB, I'd like to see how it would work in the pros. First order of business there would be to fire Turner, because he wouldn't run it. That would be a good start no matter what offense you would want to run. I can't say I'd be upset. I'm trying to keep expectations low on this one. If we lose but keep it close I will focus on the positives from the game, because I feel like there will be positives to talk about if we are competitive. You'd rather go 6-10 than 2-14? Given the cost/benefit of top picks, I'd say that's a defensible position. LOL, yeah Jerry seems to do better when he's mid first round than when he's top 5.
  12. Soul
    6-28, what is this, tennis? :D) Maybe the Bears should go to a spread offense since they have had so many problems with finding a QB, I'd like to see how it would work in the pros. First order of business there would be to fire Turner, because he wouldn't run it. That would be a good start no matter what offense you would want to run. I can't say I'd be upset. I'm trying to keep expectations low on this one. If we lose but keep it close I will focus on the positives from the game, because I feel like there will be positives to talk about if we are competitive.
  13. Soul
    6-28, what is this, tennis? :D) Maybe the Bears should go to a spread offense since they have had so many problems with finding a QB, I'd like to see how it would work in the pros. First order of business there would be to fire Turner, because he wouldn't run it.
  14. Soul
    I'll put the losing streak aside. I'm more anxious about the reality of both Z and Harden's arms.
  15. Soul
    Glad to have football season back. Not very optimistic about this game though.
  16. Soul
    They've been playing tomato cans for the past month. There are 3 series I recall where they played solid ballclubs: Cubs -- got swept Dodgers -- lost 2/3 Mets -- got swept These are teams they would likely face in the playoffs, not the Nats or the Pirates. How did they match up? Not all that well from where I'm sitting. Not all that well.
  17. Soul
    I want to see how the Z & Harden things play out before making any judgments because that will affect my expectations once we do get into the playoffs. It's not about winning the division or getting the Wild Card. It's about erasing that 100 year drought. I don't care how the hell we get in. I care about how much damage we can do once we're there.
  18. Soul
    Alright with the Cubs on a 4 game bender I'm starting to crave some football talk.
  19. Soul
    Bears pick up OL help: http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=5079 OG from UW -- he's been recovering from knee surgery for the past year, says he's finally healthy again. He did start for Tampa before he went down.
  20. Soul
    It will be great to finally get the season started, even if things don't look too good for my team.
  21. Soul
    The update on 1070AM this morning was that Sheets will make his next start.
  22. Soul
    What do you think Lou would do if it was Harden? That would be an interesting decision.
  23. Soul
    We happen to have run into some pretty solid pitching these past few days. That ends tomorrow with the horrid Backe: 5.42/78/1.575 Remember who you are facing, Cubs. Don't turn Backe into anything more than what he is.
  24. Soul
    I don't see how we can lose the wild card either. It's one thing to be overtaken by the very hot and good Brewers with a 4.5 game lead in the division. It's quite another to be overtaken by lesser teams with like a 10 game lead. And for the record, I'm ambivalent about facing the Mets/Phils as the WC team or facing the DBacks/Dodgers as the division winner. Either way I think we have a significant advantage.
  25. Soul
    I can't believe how bad Craft was, and how good he finished.
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