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remember earlier in the season when "so Hawks" meant something completely different?
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that didnt go off the skate, eff you
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was coming to post the same thing. they are completely unnoticable on the ice. it's sad.
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haha
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names turn gray if you've clicked them before either that or they're dead
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i'm interested in hearing ravech and boone explain why they think there are 4 teams in the nl central that are better on paper than the cubs
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No, you consistently imply that this 30-game stretch is the only thing that means anything, and I keep telling you that you are wrong. when a team has been the same for 30+ games, i tend to believe that they're highly likely to stay that way when their problems are as real as the hawks are. i don't see why there's any reason to believe that there's a good chance it will turn around when the playoffs start and we're facing even tougher competetion. the thing is, this team has very real problems. it's not like they're just slumping and people can't figure out why. our defense is ass without campbell and our goaltending is comical. crappy defense and horrible goaltending makes it close to impossible to win a stanley cup... unless you score like the caps. and we don't.
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I'm not saying it's for sure going to turn around. I'm saying it might. no, you constantly imply that this 30 game stretch doesn't mean much, when it absolutely does.
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at least the hawks had the courtesy to lower our expectations before the postseason started and are letting us know what to expect. the 2008 cubs waited until the postseason to blindside us
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Agreed. So why not consider both the hot start and the cold finish. Why only the cold finish? it's no worse than you just completely shrugging off the past 31 games and basically saying "well once the playoff start teams often play differently" as a crutch. this team has been league average for almost half the season. why should we believe thats going to turn around once the playoffs start? and also, we had campbell for that good first half.
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kane is invisible toews is inivisible keith is a mess versteeg isn't even trying anymore obviously there is more blame to go around, but those are some of the things that stand out to me most right now
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don't worry because once the playoff start, it makes no difference if we've been playing like ass for 3 months... or something like that
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keith is pure garbage right now
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its gonna be funny when detroit finishes as the 6th seed and we slide into 3rd and have to lose to them
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10 team H2H. BB, H, OPS and CG, SHO are the stats additional to the standard 5x5 C- McCann 1B- Prince 2B- Weeks 3B- Longoria SS- Theriot OF- BJ Upton OF- Granderson OF- Carlos Gonzalez Util- Berkman BN- JD Drew BN- Soriano (got him at the end, might as well) SP- Hamels SP- Nolasco RP- Soria RP- Qualls P- Frank Francisco P- Peavy P- Hughes P- Shields P- Ian Kennedy I feel pretty good about this team. I'll probably lose in hits most weeks since my offense is mostly high walk guys, but I feel like I have every other category pretty well covered. I'd feel better about my rotation if I hadn't missed on Beckett, but I like all those guys that I have quite a bit and I got them all later on so I was able to build a good offense first.
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my realistic hopes for this postseason: lose to somebody other than detroit
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the bullpen terrifies me
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how did you get kemp, howard, and hanley in the same 10 team league? those guys all average first round picks in yahoo leagues
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Do you have any evidence that how a team plays in the second half is more predictive of their playoff performance than how they play in the whole season? You continue to miss the point
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i just don't understand why you keep acting like this is just a streak and has no bearing on the playoffs, when really we've been this mediocre team as long as the dominant team.
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When the sample of crap overwhelms the overall sample. This team has been mediocre for a stretch that's almost as long as the stretch where they were great. You're choosing to believe we're still the first team even though we've been this new crappy team for almost just as long. If we don't turn it around in these last games of the regular season, we will have been a mediocre team for half a season.
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Yeah I just saw that link before I could edit my post. I still don't believe it. I distinctly remember when Bradley signed here reading more than one article talking about how the guys in Texas adored Bradley.
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Before last season, didn't pretty much everyone always say that Bradley was a good teammate and well liked in the clubhouse? Link to this? All I've heard was that Kinsler, Hamilton, Young, etc. would have led a mutiny if Bradley came back to Texas last year. Either you're making that up or you're misremembering. Those guys loved bradley.
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Hell yes I am. I'm just not hopeful that any of you will start to get it. You've seen it happen a ridiculous amount of times in your life: red-hot team goes cold in the playoffs and vice-versa. But the need to believe in streaks is too strong. You think playing like crap for 30 games can be considered a streak? At what point does it stop being a streak and begin being a flawed team?
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i don't think it's really a coincidence that the skaters started going downhill when our goaltending fell apart. i remember last year there was some talk of how this team played differently in front of khabibulin than they did in front of huet, and i think that's starting to show up again. it's hard to play that aggressive high-flying style of hockey when you know that you don't have a goalie back there who is capable of bailing you out when you make a mistake. huet and niemi have proven that they aren't able to to be relied on like that, and the skaters know that. they look like they're playing scared every night now... and i imagine it's hard not to feel like that when your goalies are so atrocious.