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  1. David
    I mean, I'm not listening, but I love Jeff garlin and do not understand this hate
  2. David
    After reading this I keep thinking you saw him singing before me but that's impossible because I'm at the game. Then I realized he was probably on air
  3. David
    Bryant was nearly stationary. When the insanely rangey cf calls you off, you get out of the way.
  4. David
    Uhh he's hitting really well and the collision was Bryant's fault. This is a really odd thread.
  5. David
    Geez, I hope you realize how poor their chances are they will win the World Series. Definitely less poor than almost any other year I've been a Cubs fan. It's not that I'm not enjoying this season, but after an NLCS appearance, it will be hard to not be disappointed by not at least making it to the fall classic this time around, no? In July? Sure. But the 2015 and 2003 teams both had a better chance than this one does right now. In other words, none of it means much of anything until you actually win a series or two
  6. David
    It amazes me how many people still don't properly comprehend this. Like you can't know that and still want the Cubs to overpay for like Miller and Chapman because "horsefeathers it"
  7. David
    Are people seriously blaming Almora for that collision? That's absolutely laughable.
  8. David
    I hate him but this is far from a bad move in terms of basketball
  9. David
    I hope so. Definitely good enough to do that but it's hard to expect a team to finish at least 54-27 when they've gone 26-24 in last 50 games (and yes I understand all good teams ply .500 a chunk of the season. Just hard to visualize it when you are in that period). That said I still believe the talent level of this team is 110+ games just can't quite figure out why it hasn't translated lately. Probably because I'm dumb you can't both say those things you said and then say that...like, i'm not worried by this recent stretch (mostly i'm just trying to ignore it), and i never believed their true talent level was 110+ games. that's, uh, really high. and i feel like that is an understatement.
  10. David
    I'm wondering the same thing. The Mets aren't THAT good, that they'd just destroy our pitching like this, are they? Are we tipping pitches? Getting squeezed with the zone? the mets are almost the opposite of being THAT good...especially right now offensively. this is as weird as that crazy reds game in cincinatti except twice in 4 games. stupid baseball (not as in cubs are playing stupid baseball, as in baseball is stupid)
  11. David
    this is just bizarre...what the hell is going on
  12. David
    what's the capital G about
  13. David
    haven't heard anything of the sort...if the story is what i think you're referring to, we've been trying to tap into his power and get him hitting it in the air more.
  14. David
    arrieta is done maybe
  15. David
    You're definitely one of my favorite guys here- but you want to run the Bulls in a Hendry way. Basketball isn't baseball and it's so far from being anything like baseball that that comparison is complete nonsense for a ton of reasons. That said, obviously Wade is old and isn't a great fit next to Jimmy basketball wise. I just said it'd be fun. Like fun to watch him play (until he finished breaking down at least).
  16. David
    Not gonna lie. Wade would be fun.
  17. David
    a fair and significant point. right now we have to just pray hoiberg isn't a completely incompetent buffoon as a HC.
  18. David
    FWIW, it gets closer if you account for playing time (and yeah, jimmy needs to figure out how to get into that 75-80 game range instead of 65-70) and i'm not sure with those metrics if they account for defense in any way (or effectively) or if they're mostly just measures of offensive efficiency combined with volume. i think the gap between the existing assets on the 2009-10 team and the ones on the current team is narrower than you make it out to be.
  19. David
    Meh. Our 2010 strikeout resulted in the best team we've seen since 1998. If you strike out in the lottery or with our pick, you are left with having a team you can't watch at all for more years than you already weren't. Yes it did because we had the MVP (deserved or not he was an elite superstar) and the role players we signed fit around that MVP. If we strike out in 2017 we have Jimmy Butler and marginal role players. what? butler isn't far off from what rose was (aside from age which obviously didn't wind up mattering since he had the knees of a 45 year old)...seems like a combination of rose being overrated and jimmy being underrated. especially once you factor in defense. i have no idea how your differentiating the 2010-11 role players from the theoretical ones signed next offseason.
  20. David
    Gotta say, knowing how unlikely this is to work and all the times we've seen it fail, it's still a wayyy more likely path to a superstar than "blow it up and draft one." http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/what-exactly-are-the-bulls-doing-waiting-for-2017-or-bust/ Maybe, but I think its more likely to get at the very least a useful player with an inexpensive contract and years of control picking at the top of the draft. If you throw all your eggs into the FA basket and you don't have a sexy market or a team that is ready to contend, especially in the wild wild west that is FA with the cap exploding, you are far more likely to be used as leverage similar to what is happening to Dallas today with Whiteside, Conely and someone else whose name is eluding me, than you are to steal a superstar. If you strike out when you throw all your eggs into the FA basket, you are left with overpaying a role player to save face/hit salary floor. Meh. Our 2010 strikeout resulted in the best team we've seen since 1998. If you strike out in the lottery or with our pick, you are left with having a team you can't watch at all for more years than you already weren't.
  21. David
    This is a few days old, but: Gotta say, knowing how unlikely this is to work and all the times we've seen it fail, it's still a wayyy more likely path to a superstar than "blow it up and draft one." http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/what-exactly-are-the-bulls-doing-waiting-for-2017-or-bust/
  22. David
    Heyward on deck. Whoops forgot about him That's because he's just high priced
  23. David
    We're going to win this in some spectacular way and then in a few months we're gonna see peralta in some random celebration pic and wonder who the hell he is, just like soriano in the kB walkoff
  24. David
    I doubt it. Our team is run by Theo Epstein.
  25. David
    what the hell did you google that google didn't help you? http://bfy.tw/6XFx
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