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  1. XZero771679666304
    If I still cared, it'd be driving me crazy. And we had a glimmer of hope coming into tonight? News to me.
  2. XZero771679666304
    The folks at The Onion must be jealous cubs fans... Kids Of Milwaukee Forced To Look Up To Ryan Braun On Technicality
  3. XZero771679666304
    A douche is a douche no matter what uni he wears. Ryan Theriot was the same way when he was a Cub. A douche supporter is also a douche supporter no matter what team he follows. Ryan Dempster is dangerously close to some aspects of douchiness himself. Plus, Braun clearly tested positive for PED. Just realized something, there may be a pretty good chance SSR is a db as well. Braun and Theriot are definitely cut from the same douche-cloth.
  4. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, that's it. That's why Cards fans and fans of teams that have done better than the Brewers feel the same way. Hell, it's probably the only reason we (or most others) can't come to terms with his "innocence". He's a douchebag. He's a textbook [expletive] douchebag, straight out of the douchebag manual. There have been plenty of player on rival teams that we hate, but we haven't called them dbags. Prince Fielder isn't a douche. Albert isn't a douche. Ryan Braun is a total douchebag.
  5. XZero771679666304
    A program signed by Heathcliff Slocumb, Luis Salazar and Hector Villanueva.
  6. XZero771679666304
    Chris Volstad will have a better year than Zambrano.
  7. XZero771679666304
    TT used the one I would have right off the bat. Ian Stewart will be pretty good (.800-.850 OPS). Kyle will refuse to acknowledge his presence.
  8. XZero771679666304
    What if late in a lost year the team was auditioning a guy who was clearly lacking for a role on the following year's team? Or if a scrappy but terrible vet was getting too much playing time and blocking a better, younger player? I have to say I've rooted against Cubs players in such scenarios, but only because I thought their short term failure would serve the mid-long term interests of the team.
  9. XZero771679666304
    Hey, in a market where Yadier Molina can get 5/75, 6/100 for Zimmerman is a bargain.
  10. XZero771679666304
    5/75 for Molina? Yikes. He's good, but 15 per coming off an outlier season (which wasn't that great)? Even at 5/60 you're paying too much. But more power to Mozeliak if he wants to go that route, I won't argue.
  11. XZero771679666304
    If nothing else, Illinois plays pretty good defense. Also, the Illini played pretty ugly in the second half. If the rest of the team hadn't forgotten about Leonard for the first 10+ minutes of the second half, you guys probably lose by 20. It was man v. boys in the first half. But that's why we love Bruce so. Now that the natural order has been maintained for another year, we can lose out and end this fiasco of a season.
  12. XZero771679666304
    The refrigerator was a relic from East Germany and the steroidal residue seeped into Braun's sample container via osmosis.
  13. XZero771679666304
    Don't worry, I still care. Weber's fate is sealed and losing to Iowa at home would just be an insult. I don't suffer losses to the squawkeyes well under any circumstances. They are literally the last team in America I want the Illini to lose to. If you rolled up the Cardinals and White Sox, I'd still hate Iowa basketball more. Having said that, this one wouldn't hurt as much as it normally might.
  14. XZero771679666304
    The only people who "know" Braun is innocent are those who want to believe it and in the unlikely event he actually is, Braun himself. But the evidence still indicates otherwise. I can understand why you and other Brewers fans may talk yourselves into believing that this result is proof of Braun's innocence, but you'll have to accept that no one else does. Because it doesn't. Not in any kind of objective sense, anyway.
  15. XZero771679666304
    A lot would have to break the Cubs' way for the team to be relevant and you'd have to be a fool to bet on that happening. That said, it wouldn't shock me, either. If DeJesus has a good year, Soto has an "on" year and Stewart hits like he did a couple years ago, the offense could be decent (I'm assuming Castro continues to progress). I think the pitching staff has a good chance of being above average (slightly). I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the team improves on last year's record, at least. I just don't think it'll be an abysmally bad year.
  16. XZero771679666304
    Eh, who cares. Do the 50 games have any bearing on the Cubs this year? Braun his still going to wear his scarlet letter for years to come. No one outside of Milwaukee's fanbase thinks this means he is innocent. If nothing else, the fact that he got off on a technicality will make people resent him more. People hate that [expletive].
  17. XZero771679666304
    The only reason Braun isn't being suspended is because he got off on a procedural technicality, not because the result of the test was invalidated. Now you'll hear people calling him a cheat who got away with it, make no mistake about that. I'm not upset at all, because I don't really care if he used or not and the Cubs aren't going to be relevant this year anyway. But the rest of the world doesn't feel that way and you guys better grow a really thick skin. Anyone who thinks that this result is going to quiet the critics and everyone will just move on is seriously kidding themselves. Braun is going to wear this thing in the court of popular opinion for a long, long time. He'll hear it in every ballpark the Brewers travel to, and the suspicion will follow him as well. People are not going to get over it or move on.
  18. XZero771679666304
    Innocent? You mean Not Guilty by a technicality. He didn't challenge the testing result, but the process. If anything his reputation will be hurt more by this outcome. The result wasn't overturned. Now instead of getting caught and being punished, he got caught and avoided punishment because of a technicality. In no meaningful way does this absolve him. If Brewers fans think this is going to lift the stain from Braun, they're in for a reality check.
  19. XZero771679666304
    I think the team will summon whatever it has left for that game, so I tend to agree. But losing to the Hawkeyes at home would definitely be the cherry on the [expletive] sundae.
  20. XZero771679666304
    Ugh. I might not mind, but losing to Iowa is one indignity I do not suffer well.
  21. XZero771679666304
    I have a hard time understanding how anyone can harbor this kind of hate for NU. They've been too irrelevant to hate and to tell the truth, I'd kind of like to see them make it. But at worst I'm indifferent about the Wildcats. I definitely understand how Iowa fans dislike Northwestern. Anyone else, not so much. Well, Iowa deserves everything bad that comes to them. I guess I just assumed they realized that.
  22. XZero771679666304
    I have a hard time understanding how anyone can harbor this kind of hate for NU. They've been too irrelevant to hate and to tell the truth, I'd kind of like to see them make it. But at worst I'm indifferent about the Wildcats.
  23. XZero771679666304
    Where'd you hear this? I doubt that very much. If it were the case (or even likely the case), why wouldn't Lucchino simply have allowed it to happen?
  24. XZero771679666304
    Well that's just the saddest thing I've ever read. It's almost over. I've come to terms with it. As long as we beat Iowa.
  25. XZero771679666304
    I don't think anyone is giving Myers a free pass. The fact of the matter is that the Illini have been collectively playing way below their talent level for most of the year and blame for that can definitely be spread around. But Weber has been brutal and more often than not has served to exacerbate things rather than mitigate the issues. Many of these kids are pretty raw (especially Leonard) and Weber has done a pretty abysmal job of handling them (as evidenced by what we've seen and by his own admission). His use of "tough love" has seemingly been inconsistent and clumsy.
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