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  1. David
    Is it just me, or is this the absolute EPITOME of trolling?
  2. David
    A - We really don't know that the Cubs haven't made a move yet. B - You seem pretty convinced that the Cubs are going to play .500 ball the rest of the way. I strongly believe otherwise. I'd ask you to wager, but I wouldn't ask you to root against them the rest of the way. That said, I see no way that the Cubs will hover around .500 the rest of the season. I dont understand how everybody can just forget the first 2 months of the season. They got on a hot streak, and Im glad but to totally dismiss the first 2 months of the season, when the team has gotten weaker at catcher, Marquis has remembered he sucks, and Hill is not pitching with the same dominance, CF is the same hole it was, and we are getting no power at all from RF, is absurd. Look at the schedule the rest of the way and get back to me. The team was getting incredibly unlucky at the beginning of the season.. We lost way too many one run games and were way behind our pythagorean win expectancy (even now, we're behind it). I don't consider it all that improbable that this team, as presently constructed, could win around 90 games. In fact, I consider it more likely that they'll win 90 than play .500 the rest of the way.
  3. David
    because we have been playing .500 baseball with our current roster for the last 2 months? It was a hot streak. It got them back into contention, but to think they will sustain +.650 baseball the rest of the year is really pushing it. They havent even been over 8 games above .500 The team has to many weaknesses to sustain playing at that level for a 2-3 month timeframe. Most good teams play .500 ball for long stretches of the season. It's hot streaks that get good teams into the playoffs. The Cubs have had 1.5 hot streaks this season. With their easy schedule, they are due for 1-2 more. It's not like we are over our heads. We are actually playing 4 games worse than our Pythagorean record suggests. Thank you...and that's coming from a guy (UMFan) who predicted the Cubs to win, what, 82 games at best?
  4. David
    because we have been playing .500 baseball with our current roster for the last 2 months? It was a hot streak. It got them back into contention, but to think they will sustain +.650 baseball the rest of the year is really pushing it. They havent even been over 8 games above .500 The team has to many weaknesses to sustain playing at that level for a 2-3 month timeframe. I really consider it more of a reach to think they will play .500 ball the rest of the way (barring significant injury, of course). Do you realize just how weak the schedule is the rest of the way?
  5. David
    Actually, trades can still be announced for the next few hours. They just had to be submitted to the league by a few minutes ago.
  6. David
    A - We really don't know that the Cubs haven't made a move yet. B - You seem pretty convinced that the Cubs are going to play .500 ball the rest of the way. I strongly believe otherwise. I'd ask you to wager, but I wouldn't ask you to root against them the rest of the way. That said, I see no way that the Cubs will hover around .500 the rest of the season.
  7. David
    until 3 more hours of announcing deals that have to be finalized At least there were reports by now that Nomar was almost a Cub. All we've heard about Dye is that we inquired. He won't be a Cub. Actually, it was about 3:05 when that happened. A lot of us were assuming nothing had happened when the deadline passed without word of anything happening. Some people were flipping out because we didn't even get Cabrera at that pt. Shortly thereafter, Gammons came on ESPNEWS and said that Nomar wasn't going anywhere, while a graphic on the lower right reported, "Nomar traded to the Cubs." ...or something like that. Not that anything like that is going to happen this year.
  8. David
    Luckily, championship caliber means very little when it comes to actually winning championships. Playoffs are a crapshoot. Sometimes the best teams win, sometimes they don't. Sure, the better teams have better odds going in, but there's too much room for variance to come into play for it to matter all that much.
  9. David
    I love how people assume things like a) if no deal gets done, Hendry must be/have been sitting on his hands and not trying to get anything done b) if no deal is announced yet, nothing is done or has gotten done You know what they say about assumptions... Can't you guys just wait and see what (if anything) is gonna happen?
  10. David
    Marmol better be untouchable. I'd rather trade Pie. Don't give Jimbo any ideas. I don't want Pie traded, I just don't want Marmol traded more. ?? He wants to keep both, but he wants to keep Marmol more.
  11. David
    I made the same mistake at first. It's confusing.
  12. David
    http://boards.chicagobears.com/forums/thread/536755.aspx Has Garret Wolfe practiced yet? I thought he was being held out because of a minor injury? He has been held out. Clayton was at the mini-camps, though.
  13. David
    Apparently, Clayton was on Mike and Mike this morning and said the following. http://boards.chicagobears.com/forums/thread/536755.aspx
  14. David
    Ginger Reyes, new bass player for the Smashing Pumpkins This is beginning to remind me of IPT's old avatar.
  15. David
    Exactly. Can I have the right to say "I told you so" if nothing happens? I'll give you the right to call me an idiot if a trade happens. Not really. I'm not the one stating that anything is (or isn't) going to happen. Obviously, the more likely outcome is that nothing happens.
  16. David
    Exactly.
  17. David
    Yes. You could have. And what occurred in this thread was completely out of line and against the rules of the board. Those who participated know better, and its the kind of behavior that was displayed that has lead to recent crack downs. To be fair, I really don't see how anything in this argument was out of line outside of what Soriano said and my subsequent LOL. Everything else was within the guidelines of attacking the argument and not the poster, IMO.
  18. David
    I'm very happy and relieved that that says "Clubs" and not something else.
  19. David
    Salad's got nuthin' on this Muton!
  20. David
    I'll admit it. I laughed at the line. It was predictable but pretty good. Probably uncalled for, though. We could've easily attacked his arguments without any personal insults.
  21. David
    Maybe, maybe not. But anyone who suggests something as ass-backwards as the idea that the Cubs were losers because of one of the greatest players of all time deserves such a treatment.
  22. David
    It's unbelievable to me that someone would even suggest that the reason those teams didn't win was because of Sammy. I can't even begin to understand what in the hell is going through someone's head that would produce that asinine conclusion. I mean, Sosa carried some otherwise sub-mediocre teams to the playoffs, and kept others in the hunt. LOOK AT WHAT HE HAD AROUND HIM FOR FREAK'S SAKE....
  23. David
    Nah. He doesn't root for losers.
  24. David
    Or you could come up with a counterargument based on facts instead of a bunch of overused cliches....
  25. David
    How many teams did he help in that period? How many times was LOSER Sammy in the playoffs? You answer my question first.
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