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Everything posted by WrigleyField 22
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I mean obviously the Bears want to keep pushing this 100 year thing too, so this was just a cheap way to try and drum up easy publicity for that.
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Good on you for keeping this up instead of just deleting the post in shame I have little shame.
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Every Bears player will have a triple digit number this year, in celebration of their 100th anniversary. This does not sound like a one game thing, all 16 games. This is gonna be weird. Edit-nevermind I'm an idiot, happy April Fools (in my defense I had seen something about a major uniform announcement coming up like a week ago, so these losers set up their April Folls joke by like a week.)
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I don't know what da horsefeathers it means, but it's certainly not a coincidence.
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As promised, the BBT gifs will be banished as soon as they give me a win streak. http://66.media.tumblr.com/fe2aaddece1ce2261971d08d62ae9a0c/tumblr_mu603rLH9h1qzukcpo2_r1_400.gif
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In summary, Chicago's best hitter swings at junk out of the zone. Edit--no mention of defense and baserunning either.
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I'm okay going all meatbally on this and say that a mid-season trade for a draft pick is a locker room killer. If you held onto him it was to keep him all season and maybe get the 2021 draft comp. Wish it would have been for more, but that probably wasn't realistic.
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Plus his body just stopped him so he wasn't unstopable.
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Dayton or Davidson most likely teams to take advantage Go Billikens! Its only every few years I have a real shot at a rooting interest at March Madness. Hell yea. What an awesome comeback. Started 0-10 I think from the field.
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Dayton or Davidson most likely teams to take advantage Go Billikens! Its only every few years I have a real shot at a rooting interest at March Madness.
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Have a bat flip contest at the end scored by impartial judges based on originality and aesthetics. Winner of the bat flip contest wins.
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Sounds like Ted Larson is back with the Bears. Should be a solid interior backup. Still bringing in a Witzman type as additional depth would be good too. Feels like they'll mostly use all the cap clearing to spread around depth holes. I'm counting basically 10 53 man spots they still need to cover. They have 5 draft picks to fill those needs, plus whatever veteran or rookie FAs they can bring in.
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Very much looking forward to this Good Place development.
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I don't know if that's true re: draft picks. It's based on some combining total net FA losses and their relative impact. If you sign several more than you lose the credits can outweigh the debits, even if the ones you lost were more impactful.
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Hmm after getting hyped by the names mentioned that seems underwhelming. Still 4.6 YPC last year and 34 receptions last year in a running back by committee I would say he could just as easily be a Cunningham of Mizell replacement, but he also signed pretty quickly so maybe this is a more serious commitment.
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I mean Bell would be a great fit but I am not versed enough with the Bears present and future cap room to say its a good or bad move. At the very least the guarantees in a deal should be gone by the time Mitch is extended. They definitely don't have much space. If they really felt it was worth it they could swing it though. But you're re probably going cheap on NB and S. They can also just keep getting creative with the cap by leveraging future cap years. I'd probably be okay with that as going all in on a 2-3 year window, doing a mini blow up in Mitchs first year of his next contract and then picking back up the pieces after that.
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Best pace of play change is to shorten the commercial breaks. If every team has to become the Chicago TD Ameritrades or whatever to make up the lost ad revenue, so be it.
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Hardly old is still old.
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This guy was a sub 70% college kicker. Woof.
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I know writers don’t get to pick their own headlines, but a writer should be immediately fired and blacklisted for something like this its a defensible position isnt it? Post-2017 he was two years removed from a 9-war MVP season (as a 22 year old!) and was fresh off a 1.000 OPS season where he was only held back by injury. Post 2019 he was fresh off a downish season where his defense slipped and he was in a market that didn't appear to have a great fit for him. You can argue that a player's worth is different than "what someone will pay for him," but in this context his "worth" is dictated by the market and it's not necessarily wrong that you could have probably held out and gotten him for less. Maybe. Plus that headline last offseason was probably pre-reality check of the tightening of the actual market.
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if by superstar you mean the type of player that causes you to win championships...the type there are only a couple of, literally 2 or 3, well yeah...but getting one of those guys is pie in the sky and nothing but luck. i don't think you should or can set out to get that in the vast majority of circumstances...you just hope it falls into your lap. if that's not what you mean, i think lauri has that level of ability. if you don't want to call it a superstar, then whatever a notch below that is... perennial all star or something. he's going to be really damn good. Let's say top 10 player. And we'll define Jimmy Butler as "merely" a top 15 player for a Bulls-centric reference point.
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Yea, end of inning would be better, and arguably save more time. Starting pitcher gets into trouble one out in, so you bring in a reliever to close out the inning. Why not let that switch happen the next half inning. (assuming he went two batters, two outs) . Otherwise they can face another batter the next inning and then get pulled, introducing another mid inning pitching switch, where today they'd probably pull the guy after those two outs today.
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Big missed opportunity just to go with some Philadelphia Flyers type mascot. "What's a Fighting Ilini?" "This thing " "What... is it?" "A Fighting Ilini"
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What's a normal amount of September call ups? That extra 26th man is worth like 5 September call ups from a straight service time perspective.
