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First round of the playoffs are in campus stadiums (higher seed gets homefield) TA-DA! we should send a dump truck full of cash to whoever came up with the early rounds at home, later rounds use the current bowls playoff system
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I bet it involves triangles in some way. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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abuck is just jealous because nobody told him the tricks to use to keep known child rapists out of prison
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/11/jerry_sandusky_out_on_bail_are_child_molesters_tormented_in_american_prisons_.html
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ehhh, i don't know about this. would this story be coming out if sveum were a white guy? i feel liken this just a "lol look at how the black man doesn't know what to do" sort of thing. very condescending.
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There's a whole lot more than that involved. Managing the workload of a pitching staff is completely different in the NL than in the AL. The way a roster is constructed is different. The decisions on how best to use a bench is harder. I can understand preferring the AL style of play to the NL (although I don't), but they are dramatically different. The NL is all about scarcity. You only have so many bullpen pitchers and so many bench players available, and you have to pick and choose where you maximize your advantage now or where you are going to take a risk in order to gain an advantage later on. The AL is all about maximizing your opportunity at every turn-putting your best players on the field and just fighting it out. The thing with me is that those strategies don't really matter that much. Do I let the .220 OBP pitcher or the .320 OBP bench bat hit? 9 times out of 10, it won't matter for that PA. And even if it does turn out to matter for that PA, it probably won't be decisive. that's true of every play in every game. ph lahair for pujols, it probably won't matter.
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Kinda like the hiring of Sveum. you're still here?
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god i wish the nba would come back. ryan's bulls schtick is way more interesting than the tebow one.
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To this day, I don't know why they didn't just try to get some prospects as opposed to a guy whose ceiling was, well, Cesar Izturis. cesar izturis' ceiling was that he would die and we wouldn't have to pay his salary -
Or three guys who weren't Juan Pierre for Juan Pierre. the 749 guys in the major leagues who aren't juan pierre are all tied for my favorite player
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the best thing about hiring this guy is the ability to instantly pick out people who aren't real cubs fans based on the way they say his name
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why should we sign this guy when we can just platoon six guys in cf who all put up wars up 0.5 last year and get a 3 win player?
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that really just means we should scrap the divisions, though. i'd be fine with that.
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Who will be the manager? no Ryno talk version
treebird replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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the state of missouri is disrepair BOOM
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If the Cubs start fielding 100 win teams I will feel great about their abilityt to maintain that success for multiple seasons. i will feel great for like 20 seconds and then my brain will explode or whatever happens when you put too much heroin inside it
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that is to say, likely overvalued at this time
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more like james loonie
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smart, we're just going to blow him away with the first offer
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three years from now when the cubs win 101 games and finish in second to the 102-win reds and then lose the play-in game to the 86-win cardinals and i really do the heroin in my forehead thing and die, you guys won't think this is such a great system
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Who will be the manager? no Ryno talk version
treebird replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
it's almost noon, i'll bet theo's into the minibar by now since swaim refused to meet him at a whiskey bar like he requested -
and when chris rock played for them
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if theo's first move is to trade for james loney, i'm photoshopping nooses onto all those guys in omc's sig
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zook doesn't have an ivory tower, the only true mansion in downstate illinois is in peoria and belongs to ryan harvey
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if we don't make a major trade, our payroll is going to be like 110 million next season, now that pujols, fielder, wilson, cespedes, and darvish are all too expensive and going elsewhere.
