David
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true. i just figured it was legit since theo and others, iirc, mentioned at the convention how he was leaning up to play more OF this year.
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thought this was worth pointing out (and i honestly don't know how big a number that is compared to the rest of the league - just that it's obviously no green bay situation) as i think sometimes some people get carried away too much with the whole build the team through the draft thing. we need to be good at getting good players in all the ways we can get them.
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schwarbs looks a little leaner (I'm assuming it's a recent pic since he's promoting the new ST cap)
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:good: lost track of what page i was on but yeah They were 5th. Baltimore dominated that year. i was replying to these
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06 Bears defense slid once they lost Mike Brown and then Tommie down the stretch.
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i don't see how it's the worst super bowl ever. i can think of a worse one two years ago.
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I'm guessing that what is available to them is something like the glimpses we get of Statcast but on steroids.
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You guys must have some weird kind of ptsd
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lol wtf hendry is so long gone from my awareness/consciousness about this team. i barely remember that he exists. it was so weird to see him pop up at our NLDS game. felt like i'd seen a ghost.
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And the random arguments about how the Cubs aren't that good because they don't have enough pitching to win a World Series.
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I made a quick attempt to try to find it and nearly had a heart attack reading FB comments about baseball. I don't know why reading people's stupid thoughts and/or opinions raises my blood pressure so much. The sheer amount of people commenting on these articles who seemingly have no clue as to what salary arbitration is is...interesting. That Arrieta is such a team player! Taking a one year deal for 1/3 what greedy guys like David Price make!
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I made a quick attempt to try to find it and nearly had a heart attack reading FB comments about baseball. I don't know why reading people's stupid thoughts and/or opinions raises my blood pressure so much.
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Where is this from?
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http://chicagocubsonline.com/archives/2016/02/theo-epstein-talks-cubs-baseball-with-csnnes-sean-mcadam.php These are a couple of the Q&A I found interesting. More at link.
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i know everyone (myself included) is going to be super against a long-term extension for arrieta. so . . . FUN GAME what is the maximum six year contract (2016-2021) the cubs could give arrieta that would make you say "oooh nice job cubs" and smile real big? There's nothing realistic that I'd be happy about. But if he is awesome again in 2016, I'll have more comfort that he can throw this many innings and that he's actually awesome and my willingness to throw a bunch of money at him will go up. Outside of the CY pitching thing, he's awesome too. I agree with your post overall, but he is absolutely actually awesome. He was just as good in 2014 and there was nothing all that flukish about the way he did it in either season. Just saying.
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Think you are thinking of the others.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/36295/cubs-gm-jed-hoyer-qa-everyone-is-getting-ready lots of other tidbits at the link
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mid 20's AAV which seems unrealistic as hell, but who knows. anymore than that, though, and i'm content to get this year for $10M and next year for a few more and call it a day. i do love that man though.
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http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/chicago-cubs-jake-arrieta-arbitration-settlement-contract-extension-comments-020516
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That's part of it, though as we've brought up multiple times, you've had key players regress or stagnate. Nobody was counting on Rose being anywhere near this bad if he could stay even remotely healthy, for McDermott to basically remain a non-entity and for Mirotic to not move forward at all from what he started to show last season. A healthy Rose and Mirotic seemed like good bets to keep this team chugging along with the other key parts they have, but now it's basically just Jimmy and a couple of decent older dudes and then a bunch of bodies most nights. Like I said, Hoiberg very well could be a bad hire, but right now he's coaching a Frankenstein's monster of a team that's not really consistently good at anything. And I don't think Thibs being here would make much of a difference in the overall picture. The defense would be better at times, but the offense would be even worse. Best sports related post I've seen from you.
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I don't think it's at all surprising that the Cubs are one of nine teams interested in a major ifa. Almost 1/3 of the league is. Doesn't mean they have one of the highest offers.
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http://bfy.tw/47Ly
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I think all of them are supposed to be there for the time being. I can't think of one I haven't been able to find, plus ESPN's own commercials are claiming you can watch them all on Netflix right now. I remember looking for the Bartman one several weeks ago and it wasn't up. It might be up now. I'm not sure they're ever all supposed to be up 100% of the time, but I could be wrong.
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Some 30 for 30's are on Netflix streaming. Some aren't. They swap some in all the time. Even really new ones get up pretty quick.
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could it have used a little 30 for 30 The U type treatment? Big time. Or "Pony Excess"-like, that really charts the downfall. Basically if the point of it was to argue they were the best team ever, it failed. If the point was to figure out why they didn't go on to further greatness, it failed. It was just this muddled bunch of kinda fan-service basically just designed for the participating players and Ditka to talk themselves up. And it was weird how they didn't touch on the problems the Fridge has gone through at all. Watching it, I felt like Ditka wasn't painted in a positive light at all. Like I felt like minimizing him and making him look like a dummy was a major, if not completely overt, theme...between all the players directly criticizing him, McMahon talking about how he always called the wrong play, Wilson (IIRC) basically calling him an idiot for playing Flutie, the comments from Mongo (I think) about how they told the other guys to lift Ditka up at the end of the SB just so that he wouldn't whine about them raising Buddy up. Maybe that was my bias going in, but I came away thinking Ditka looked more along for the ride and less responsible for any success than ever, and I already didn't have a high opinion of him.
