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yes https://www.footballdb.com/games/boxscore.html?gid=2004091907 Holy crap, how did I not realize that the Bears somehow won at Lambeau 4 years in a row? (2004-2007) Since then they've won in 2013 and 2015 i remember the 2004 win, i remember the christmas win in 2005, and i remember the 06 win in week 1. now that you mention it (without looking it up) i'm thinking griese won in 07. i stopped watching when they benched rex for griese. horsefeathers that guy.
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Was it 04 when a Rex Grossman led Terry Shea offense won in Lambeau and Mike Brown ran back a TD? The rest of that season might be my worst ever as a Bears fan.
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You're thinking of 06, which was a much better year than 08. Correct, Rex Grossman had a good game. And the legend of Devin Hester was born. And a bunch of people got free furniture. It was a good Sunday.
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Didn't they beat them in '85 and opened '08 by shutting them out? You're thinking of 06, which was a much better year than 08.
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The way they are hitting their stride, injuries and all, makes those dumb losses (like OAK & LAC) exponentially more frustrating. Don't run into that punter and make the kick and you're 9-4 right now with a lot of possibilities.
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The 6-7 Cowboys have a 70% chance of making the playoffs The 7-6 Bears have a 3% chance of making the playoffs :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: 7.5% to be exact. We are out of miracle territory and into "non-zero" https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/playoffodds
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White hands, white laces. I'm just saying. lmaoooo
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Catchers with Grandal and Contreras' workload receive ~8000 pitches a year. Even if we throw out 90% of pitches as unimpacted by framing and say that the difference between the best and worst in that remainder is like 20%, that's still ~160 calls a year one is getting that the other isn't. Is it really so hard to think at the extreme ends of the spectrum(and when we talk about Grandal v. Contreras that's what we're talking about) that magnitude can add up to multiple wins? If you want to quibble with the exact degree that Contreras or any alternative is good/bad that's fine(that's what message boards are for!), but scoffing that the very idea that the Cubs could be better off without Contreras is closer to an uncritical rejection of framing as a potential source of value. Pretty much this. I'm as skeptical as anyone about what the actual impact of framing pans out to be, barring extremes. But these are the extremes and I definitely think there's a significant and tangible difference. That said, with the Grandal option off the table, I think I'm fine taking the trade off with Contreras and keeping him. Depends on the return, obviously, but if it isn't good, I'm not about shipping him off just for something decent in the name of getting a good framer in there.
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oh we're gonna do this?
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Nothing would be a miracle in 4 games. And that's without taking into account a very good defense seeing the return of Akiem Hicks next week. Good defenses muck things up and keep games close that maybe don't look like they should be. Do I think it's gonna happen? Probably not would be an understatement. But it'd be far from a miracle. On the other hand, that along with the other dominoes falling for them to get in is pretty close to necessitating the assistance of a higher being.
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Did you read my post? He doesn't read any posts This is either the absolute height of irony, or the ultimate case of takes one to know one
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Reminds me of the Billy Beane/Lenny Dykstra conversation reported in Moneyball.
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Damn, I totally missed this last night. Was traveling. Is this less or more crazy than that one TMac game a million years ago?
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His stats show he hits better and with more power at Petco. Home - .245/.313/.400/.713 Away - .251/.290/.388/.678 in 2019, margot had a wRC+ of 69 at home (nice) and 95 on the road, FWIW. wOBA of .270 at home vs .319 on road. his walk rate at home was almost double his road walk rate though, which is weird.
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They didn't. Kaepernick ditched the NFL workout for that reason and did his own at a high school field. That's why there was so little attendance.
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looks like the bears attended kaepernick's workout after all
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Not for football. Also which suburb has corn still? Yeah that kinda sounds ideal for football.
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
David replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
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[tweet] [/tweet] gonna post this here since it's on topic
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As most people do, I think it's an eyesore from the outside, but I think it looks great from the inside. I don't care that it has a small capacity nor do I care that that leaves Chicago out of the conversation for a Super Bowl. That said, I wouldn't hate it if we had a building with a retractable roof, and I might be slightly more likely to go to games if it were. Then again, I also kind of like the fact that dome/warm weather teams seem to horsefeathers themselves when they come visit in December/January. I absolutely hate getting to and from it, but football is better on TV anyway.
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Are you for serious? The Bears were awful in the 70s and everybody knew it. The Bears were awful again in the 90s and everybody knew it. The Bears moved back into respectability under Lovie Smith, enjoying some really quality seasons but always a step or more behind the best teams. Then they became a joke again after Lovie left, and everybody knew it. Nobody is unaware of the Bears less than stellar history. Everybody knows the stupid 85 team being the pathetic go to of every sad Bears fan. yeah, i mean, they're not quite viewed like the Jets and Browns but they're only, like, a half notch above that.
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this spelling was so bad that it actually made me forget how to spell it. speaking of, what is the realistic drop off from Danny to White Nick? WN passes the eye test, he shows up when he plays and seems like he makes more plays then Danny. Is it WN's pass coverage thats so terrifying? trevathan is a very good inside linebacker and yes i think kwiatkowski will be abused badly in the coverage.
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sometimes deck chairs need to be rearranged
David replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
nobody thinks jed hoyer is anything but a guy who sits in on introductory press conferences and talks to the media about lesser free agent signings so theo doesn't have to -
this spelling was so bad that it actually made me forget how to spell it.
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Remember that Cian Fahey article that raved about how otherwordly accurate he was too? Was that the one about how shocked his teammates were at practice whenever he threw an incompletion? I don't know if I'd rather have it be that Pace and co just whiffed terribly or that there is a literal curse at Halas Hall that destroys QBs. I can't remember if that anecdote was in there. It was the one in this post. But the article has been taken down, it looks like. It was an analysis of Watson and Trubisky before the draft. viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1203&p=164877&hilit=presnapreads&sid=92d3bdf714c07736b975b20fb4b900c8#p164877 and there was also this: viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1203&p=166013&hilit=accuracy#p166013
