soccer10k
-
Posts
26,447 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
4
Content Type
Profiles
North Side Baseball Article Archive, Part 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Trade & Free Agent Rumors
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospect Rankings
Chicago Cubs News, Rumors & Analysis
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
Chicago Cubs Fan Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
2026 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by soccer10k
-
Pretty ballsy from Saban to switch quarterbacks at half time. I mean, Jalen Hurts can't throw a good pass that isn't a short screen, but it is the national title game.
-
This is the thread where we talk about how awesome Kris Bryant is
soccer10k replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
If you look only at last year, the four are pretty much even by average of bWAR and fWAR: Arenado 6.4 WAR Ramirez 6.8 WAR Rendon 6.4 WAR Bryant 6.4 WAR Of course, that also ignores the fact that KB was the best 3B in both versions of WAR in 2016, 2 wins better than Arenado and 3.5 better than both of the other two. And it's not like Bryant is in his 30's where his best days might be behind him. -
Eh. I wouldn't say he "collapsed". He was walking off the field and went down probably to avoid his team having to call a timeout or get a delay of game penalty. He looked pretty under control to me. Also, "obviously concussed" is a severe overstatement. You don't have the ability to diagnose a concussion on TV, and you can be woozy without getting a concussion. He was likely seeing stars, but you can't determine if he had a concussion based on watching a play on TV. Yeah, and I feel certain that he was subject to concussion protocol under that tent. What a win. Saints and Falcons win next week and the NFC title games goes through the Dome. We've seen plenty of instances this year where a guy was concussed, went under their tent, "passed" concussion protocol and came back into the game. He shouldn't have gone back in the game.
-
I recorded the Bills-Jags game, watched it in just under an hour and I regret every second I spent watching it.
-
Yeah, that call was terrible. If that's forward progress being stopped then a majority of strip sacks are just sacks and not fumbles.
-
Can’t trade for Hue Jackson? Might as well keep Marvin Lewis then.
-
Loved JD saying the Krampus looks like John Lackey.
-
Sounds like Nashville is getting one of the expansion teams since MLS is holding an event there tomorrow. That leaves Sacramento, Cincy and Detroit for the second spot.
-
Also dumb: diving for the end zone with only one hand on the ball when you're down 3 and have already picked up the first down.
-
Fun fact: Steven Adams leads the Thunder in PER right now.
-
[tweet] [/tweet]
-
Was hoping Spurs would get lucky with the UCL draw and instead they drew Juve. At least it's not Bayern, I guess. At least Chelsea didn't get lucky and drew Barcelona. And PSG drew the short stick and got stuck with Real Madrid.
-
There's no Week 14 so I'll put this here. Why is a team forced to burn a timeout in the last two minutes when there's an injury when the clock is stopped? It makes total sense if the clock is running (you don't want a player to fake an injury to stop the clock). It didn't matter but Baltimore had to burn their final timeout today when a receiver went down after an incomplete pass.
-
Bring him home (with Yelich). Good God, why? Starlin isn't good. Because he'd presumably be part of a package deal with Yelich since the Marlins are trying to dump salary.
-
I like Gold Gloves and I cannot lie: the Jason Heyward thread
soccer10k replied to NOLA's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Looks ready to have a big year and opt out to clear room for Harper. -
Shohei Ohtani Signs with the Angels
soccer10k replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I also enjoyed this one: -
Not a southpaw, sorry. Can't speak for Duke, though. Reverse splits guy, maybe? And where the horsefeathers is Duke? He's disappeared. Hopefully trying to figure out how to write articles about Cubs players that don't curse them.
-
You're right, but signing all of those players probably wouldn't put as many fans in the seats as getting Stanton. I don’t think the Giants have any issues with attendance (3rd in MLB in 2017). I’d imagine a competitive team puts more people in the stands than Stanton on a bad team. The actual numbers look good but the bodies in seats went way down last year. You could get secondary market tickets for dirt cheap even in April and May. I imagine they won't sell nearly the same number of tickets before the season like they did last year and if they're a mediocre or bad team again, attendance will drop. They've had a great run in this park because they had Bonds through 2007, and then got good in 2009. The only bad year they had without Bonds was 2008 and attendance dropped by 350K. 2009 they had he same attendance and won 88 games, and I would guess they got a boost in attendance the second half of the year when they were chasing a playoff spot.
-
Yeah the best part is their best argument is exactly the opposite of what they were arguing last year. That said I think Ohio State has a better resume even w 2 losses. Oh well I’m certainly not complaining! The committee making a bad choice two years in a row isn't a positive. Alabama did nothing to deserve to get in, even if you think they are the best team. They managed to not lose by 31 to anyone this year.
-
Bama gets the No 4 spot.
-
I know it's great for fans to get a true champion, but at that point you're talking about kids playing a 16-game season (Ohio St has played 12 reg season, 1 conf championship game, this would potentially add a play-in game, semifinal, and championship game) for free. That's pretty ridiculous. 5 on 5 flag football for the tiebreaker.
-
[tweet] [/tweet] I wish this could actually happen.
-
I actually think the Auburn loss makes it a little more likely Bama gets in. If Auburn had won, there would be a 2-loss team in the playoff so it wouldn't be as big of a deal to put another one in. Will be interesting to see who they go with tomorrow. Either way we probably get a rematch from last year since I can't see them dropping Clemson after what they did today. So we'll get Georgia-OU and Bama/OSU-Clemson.
-
Don't like Wisconsin punting here since it was only 4th and 3.
-
Hard to say. Wins over PSU, Wisconsin and MSU in their favor, but 31 point loss to Iowa should count against them. On the other hand, Bama didn't beat anyone terribly great (MSST, LSU), and they should (but never are) be penalized for playing FCS schools All of those OSU wins were at home. Best team they even played on the road was Michigan. Bama's best road win was Miss St so it's not like that is a whole lot better. But it really comes down to better wins and a conference title vs worse (and one more) losses. I think Bama is a better team and I'd lean towards putting them in because I can't get over OSU getting demolished by Iowa. But they're pretty close and I won't really care either way who gets left out.