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You know what injury threads bring? INJURIES Find last year's thread for more verification -
Lee heading to LA to have shoulder examined
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Mark Priors Calves's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Delete this thread ASAP
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Lee heading to LA to have shoulder examined
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Mark Priors Calves's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
What I want to know is the thought process that leads to "I'm going to register at a Cubs site and make fun of their misfortunes", especially when most of the people here are cynically making fun of it themselves. -
Zambrano/Guzman/Pawelek/Marshall/Hill, let's go for it on the centennial anniversary.
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Maybe it wasn't so bad after all that Hendry had an abomination of an offseason and lowered my expectations.
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Bold prediction: Duke doesn't make the second weekend.
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I disagree with this argument 100%. What did the Cubs draw pre-98? And what was their highest selling year? '04, when playoff expectations were at a peak. The Cubs haven't gone more than 2 years since '98 without fielding a winning or playoff team (98, 01, 03, 04). A few more years like last year - maybe just one or two more - and all of a sudden it mightn't be so hard to get Wrigley tix again. There's often a few years lag between the onset of losing and an associated drop in attendance (see Chicago Blackhawks - remember the roar?). I'm not saying the Cubs must have known Prior was hurt before tix went on sale. But it's certainly not implausible. But we aren't talking about the future ticket sales, we're talking about this year. Whether Prior was hurt or not, the Cubs were going to sell tickets, lots and lots of them. Will Carroll's source on Prior's shoulder problem also tipped him off about the Achilles, so it's hard to believe this was just a lucky guess on Carroll's part. You can argue about why the Cubs lie, but it's plain that they do in fact lie. I was only responding to the people who claimed the Cubs did this as some sort of scam to sell more tickets.
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If Korea beats Japan, all the US has to do is win their game -- no tie-break is needed to decide who advances. If Japan beats Korea.... we need that to be a high-scoring game. Yep, if Japan beats Korea we need either: Japan to give up 7 runs(6 ties them with the US) Korea to give up 8 runs(7 ties them with the US) If either team ties the US, it goes to earned runs. Japan is the only one to give up an unearned run so far, so if the Japan-Korea game has no unearned runs, Korea and US would go to the batting average tiebreaker.
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I disagree with this argument 100%. What did the Cubs draw pre-98? And what was their highest selling year? '04, when playoff expectations were at a peak. The Cubs haven't gone more than 2 years since '98 without fielding a winning or playoff team (98, 01, 03, 04). A few more years like last year - maybe just one or two more - and all of a sudden it mightn't be so hard to get Wrigley tix again. There's often a few years lag between the onset of losing and an associated drop in attendance (see Chicago Blackhawks - remember the roar?). I'm not saying the Cubs must have known Prior was hurt before tix went on sale. But it's certainly not implausible. But we aren't talking about the future ticket sales, we're talking about this year. Whether Prior was hurt or not, the Cubs were going to sell tickets, lots and lots of them.
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Lavin just made fun of Bill Walton during the play-in game. My respect for him has now multiplied by a magnitude of 50.
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I don't know what your definition of significant is, but I think they'd definitely sell less tickets in that scenario. Like Jon outlined above, it'd be a drop in the ocean. It's next to impossible to get tickets to see a particular starter pitch, so even if people did buy tickets for the exact purpose of seeing Prior pitch, they were in for a crapshoot anyways. Not that I think that knowing about this before would've significantly impacted ticket sales, but there's another way to look at this. The overall ability of this team to compete is definitely hurt by injuries, especially to one Mark Prior. Some people (maybe not a significant amount) would be soured on seeing the team, period, with this type of news, regardless of who would be pitching the day they'd be going to the game. That would hold more weight if the Cubs' ticket success was linked to them winning, but they sell the tickets regardless of the team's prospects for the year.
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I don't know what your definition of significant is, but I think they'd definitely sell less tickets in that scenario. Like Jon outlined above, it'd be a drop in the ocean. It's next to impossible to get tickets to see a particular starter pitch, so even if people did buy tickets for the exact purpose of seeing Prior pitch, they were in for a crapshoot anyways.
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Hm. They did it with Wood. At least in that case they had a doctor's assurance that he couldn't further damage it, as backwards as that sounds.
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Did anyone even see him throwing? I wouldn't put it past them to have lied about that too. Yes, I know The Score reporters in Mesa saw him because they talked about it. Hasn't Miles also seen him? There's pictures in the ST picture thread of him throwing.
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If the Cubs came out and said "Mark Prior is hurt. We don't know how long he'll be out, or when he'll be facing hitters, but he's not alright.", do you really think the Cubs would sell significantly less tickets? I mean, let's think for a second people.
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That's ridiculous.
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Don't brackets have to be in before the play-in game (that started 20 minutes ago)? Most I've seen make you do it before the Thursday games start. Yahoo and Facebook didn't make you pick the play-in game winner, and not too many folk have Nova losing to those folk.
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He's only got 3 from the Big East, BC is in the ACC. I think UConn takes the third round meeting myself, and I think Villanova's more prone to be upset with their lack of an inside scoring option. I still put them in the Final 4, but I'm stupid and half pick my bracket on contingencies like that.
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Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Mislabeled, that's not Wrigley. It's been posted a couple times.
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I think Montana takes Nevada.
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How come we couldn't ever get decent major leaguers who could consistantly hit .300 for minor league pitching when that was all we had to offer a few years ago? Too reluctant to trade the pitching. Now most of that pitching has been injured and/or didn't pan out. I blame the scouting dept who hasn't been able to help Hendry recognize when to make a trade or not. The Cubs haven't traded a minor leaguer at their peak value yet. Sanchez? Beltran?
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Gillette on Cubs chances this season
Transmogrified Tiger replied to MeatampPotatoesMan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I recall reading some good stuff from Gilette in the past. Obviously, we're better than the Reds, but if memory serves he's a better "expert" than most. -
To start off the madness for you betting folk, Gene Wojciechowski has a column about the odds of a 16 seed winning the whole tournament.
