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  1. David
    There's a freeview? until the 8th, yep Is it just for this week, or when does it end? Am I missing some joke here?
  2. David
    MARK!!!!
  3. David
    Nice.
  4. David
    CPatt? I thought that was Tuffy Rhodes. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200303310NYN Sorry. I meant 324, although he might've been on pace for more than 486 at some point during that game.
  5. David
    Remember when CPatt was on pace to hit 486 home runs?
  6. David
    EDIT - n/m I'm a moron.
  7. David
    Northerly Island?? thats too close to the sox and traffic would be a pain in the arse like after bears games. imagine a cubs game and bears game going on at the same time :!: Yea, but that would happen what, maybe one or two times a year, maybe three if the Cubs are in the playoffs?
  8. David
    Northerly Island?? There were already buildings there. Hell, there was an airport there. I think the law means that no new land can be used for buildings. They can't take away part of a park or beach to build something new. They can probably tear down and rebuild where the buildings already existed though. Right. I was just suggesting it as a possible spot for my fantasy park. ;)
  9. David
    Northerly Island??
  10. David
    Yes. And I'd love it even more on the lakefront...but we've been down this road before.
  11. David
    There's a perception that Daley, a notorious Sox fan, gives the Cubs a hard time when it comes to getting things that need his approval and such done through the city.
  12. David
    Until you actually show me an example of it happening, I consider it a pretty big stretch to surmise that not getting along (even to an extreme) would cause players to hit or pitch less effectively than they normally would. You would think that in 100+ years of MLB history, you could come up with at least a few examples of the effect that you're suggesting (which, admittedly, a lot of other people also believe in).
  13. David
    I could've sworn that team went to a World Series. ;) Yes, but look at the fallout the next season with Kent gone. If you had an entire team full of altercations like that it wouldn't be something easily overcome. Or more of the Sammy Sosa boombox things going on. Egos can play a lot in all sports, baseball included. Did it really matter on the field? The next year they won 93 games and won their division. And the Cubs with Alou's crazy antics and Sosa's boombox were a much better team in 2004 than without them in 2005. But look at it on a large scale. We're talking about isolated examples. Image that kind of a fireworks display all year long with huge egos and pouty stars. I don't think there would be the ability to overcome it despite their talent. I understand what you're saying. I'm just not seeing real world evidence to prove your point. Show me a case of chemistry actually trumping talent like you're suggesting. Just one. I'm not even trying to be argumentative, I'd just like to see some evidence. EDIT - Also, you're citing extreme cases of players not getting along, like Bonds/Kent, where they were literally at each other's throats. In most cases, even when teammates don't like one another, they can tolerate each other.
  14. David
    I'll go ahead and pin this one on nurture over nature. We'll have to see some twin studies and adoption studies to get a look at the whole genetic thing.
  15. David
    I could've sworn that team went to a World Series. ;) Yes, but look at the fallout the next season with Kent gone. If you had an entire team full of altercations like that it wouldn't be something easily overcome. Or more of the Sammy Sosa boombox things going on. Egos can play a lot in all sports, baseball included. Did it really matter on the field? The next year they won 93 games and won their division. And the Cubs with Alou's crazy antics and Sosa's boombox were a much better team in 2004 than without them in 2005.
  16. David
    I could've sworn that team went to a World Series. ;)
  17. David
    I don't see that "fantasy baseball" mindset as nearly as much of a cause for concern in baseball as it would be in football or basketball. Baseball isn't really a team game in the way that other team sports are, where, a lot of times, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It's more of a bunch of individual outcomes adding up to an overall team result. One individual's success doesn't take away another's opportunity for success (unless you're worried about RBIs, but that's a whole separate argument), in fact, on offense, for instance, not making an out creates more opportunities for success. It's not like basketball where a selfish player could hurt the team, or football where each player on the field has a specialized role. I think I'm just stating the obvious here, but my point, more or less, is that I don't see the so-called fantasy baseball approach as one that would be all that bad in baseball. You could take a top five player at every position and take no regard to how these players would work together, and you'd likely have the best team in baseball, or close to it. /non-angry rant
  18. David
    I'm from Chicago (well, suburbs) and I wouldn't mind a new stadium, assuming it's done right, at all. It could go either way.
  19. David
    It did not originate with Dusty - I remember dubbing the blue jersey "Lieber blue" because Jon Lieber was pretty much the only Cubs pitcher who wore it at that time. Don Baylor was the manager then. Wasn't Leiber with us under Riggleman? Hmm...you are correct, sir. Only one year, though. Most of Lieber's time with us was during the Baylor era. I couldn't honestly tell you if he was picking his own jersey color during the 99 season with Riggs, though.
  20. David
    Others have said it before, and I'll say it again (and I'm sure some will be strongly opposed), but a Cubs home uni with no pinstripes would be the hotness. I like the pinstripes, though. Maybe as an alternate? Either way, the same exact jerseys in white w/no pinstripes would be freakin sweet. EDIT - Just saw that TT asked for a pic of something very similar which Wrigley provided... Still, I'm thinking something exactly like the current home whites without the pinstripes, and maybe some blue trim around the edges.
  21. David
    I'm 24 and I'm indifferent when it comes to the blue jersey. If we were talkin about the awesome dark (navy) blues that they wore in ST a couple years ago, I'd be all over those.
  22. David
    How many times have you brought up nonsense like that? That would be a horrible, horrible deal for the Cubs. + 1 x infinity
  23. David
    Yeah, that was 2003-I remember because Prior gave up something like 3 runs there, and it was a shock just because that was like his worst outing in 10 or something like that he was running so well. Also, there was Matt Clement's no hitter that he had to be pulled from after, I believe, he walked the bases loaded.
  24. David
    Didn't we lose that game in extra innings or something? EDIT - Nevermind, that was the second game of that series.
  25. David
    Cincy always had the first game until they said the other day the Cubs vs Mets in Japan (I didn't think that was the first time it didn't happen, but maybe it was). Since then, they've decided to put this Sunday night game in, and just leave Cincy's game as the traditional day game rather than move it up to be the first game as usual. I don't understand. What does it mean? I heard on TV the other day that the first year that the Cincy game was not the first game of the year was the year that the Cubs played the Mets in Japan. I didn't think that was true, but apparently it was. Sorry for the confusing line there-hope that cleared it up. Yeah thanks. I still don't understand, the cubs vs. the mets in Japan!? Wow how long ago was that? :) It was in 2000-that was just 7 years ago now :D I remember getting up at 4 AM to watch that before school started.
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