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  1. CubmanPi
    Probably just because there has to be a line somewhere. The HOF recognizes people who play at a high level for an extended period of time, and that rule will ensure that even the brightest flashes in the pan don't get in. Say that rule isn't there, and Pujols has a career-ending injury this season. Then the argument inevitably arises about his career and whether he should make it. Then say a pitcher named Kerry Prior comes along, strikes out 20 in his first month in the bigs, puts up nothing but 18+win seasons and sub 2.50 ERAs for the first four years of his career and leads the majors in pretty much every possible pitching category, even finds a perfect game in there somewhere, but falls prey to a career-ending sore shoulder after only four or five seasons. How do you figure that into the debate? Players all over the league will have great career years. If someone has a few career years early on but isn't in the game long enough to prove that they can sustain playing at the elite level through their peak years, why should they be honored as the best of the best among such a rich history? /thread hijack
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    I believe it's a rule - I'm pretty sure I read something about it when I was trying to give myself an educated opinion on whether or not Santo would get in and stumbled across the basic guidelines. Now I'm gonna have to go check.
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    I believe you need to have ten years in the league to be considered for HOF. If Pujols has one more year typical of his production, he can probably play the next three at league average, retire, and still make it. My initial instinct was to not vote for him, but after looking at the list, there's no way he shouldn't be included. By the time his career is over, there's no way he isn't regarded in the upper half of the all-time elite names. After all that, I have to add that I still absolutely loathe the fact that he is a Cardinal. EDIT: My yes vote tipped the scales, 13-12 in favor as of now.
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    There should be a choice for between six months and never. If it happens, it won't be so soon. Iran is blowing smoke for attention. If Iran had ever gotten to the point where they were becoming close to achieving nuclear power, Israel would have taken care of it already. I don't have any links, but there have been some well-supported prognostications stating that Iran can't feasibly become a nuclear power before 2008 or 2010 at the earliest. I pick the non-existant option of 18-24 months.
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    Since the Bears have nothing left to play for except practice, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they didn't end up winning this game. The only implications it has is on next year's first overall pick, so the Lions may not be terrible interested in winning either, but it's not out of the question that the Lions take this one. (I'm giving the guys on Sportsline the benefit of the doubt and assuming they're using the same logic. If they just think the Lions will surprise the Bears hands down, then...)
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    I voted just now, and it showed Manning at 42% of the vote, Grossman at 34. His numbers are definitely better. Manning definitely had a good week too, just not as good as Rex. I'm okay with the Bears being underrated, as long as people shut up when they're the last ones standing in Miami.
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    The Pro-Bowl teams will be announced in full this afternoon at 4pm ET, but there's already an article that shows some of the leading vote-getters. I'm pretty sure those votes just account for fan voting, which only accounts for a third of the total weight that goes into pro-bowl voting, but Bears who received the m ost votes at their position were John Tait, T Olin Kreutz, C Robbie Gould, K Devin Hester, KR Tommie Harris, DT Lance Briggs, OLB Brian Urlacher, ILB (NFL's lead defensive vote-getter) Brendon Ayanbadejo, ST The '85 team sent 9 players, so if this stands, it's not quite a team record, but still not bad :D
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    The starters should definitely play at least the first half in both games, maybe even three quarters in Detroit. Exceptions can be made for blowouts, but otherwise, I don't want the starters to get too terribly much time off. Not only does the entire team know that they need to play MUCH better than they have of late in order to make any noise in the post-season, but they're also a proud group that wants to finish with as much distance as possible between them and number 2 in the NFC.
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    "Wait til next year" wasn't enough? People are now defending a "wait two more years" philosophy? I guess that would make the next hundred years fifty percent less painful, but winning teams require way too much luck for that idea to ever make sense. Every WS team will always have someone come out of the woodwork with a breakout/career year, or there will otherwise be some major and unforeseen way that things just seem to unfold in their favor all (post) season long. All they can do is take what's out there and hope for the best.
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    To further the hijacking of the thread, I don't think the Cubs should retire Maddux's number. He's going to the HOF as a Brave, the bulk of his career highlights came as a Brave, and his career as a Cub does not adequately place him in the company of Santo, Sandberg, and Banks. I'd retire Sammy's number before Maddux's. (edited for wording)
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    They're shopping for the new GM before Hendry is even gone. Hilarious.
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    This Guy Thinks MVP Throw his name among the top rookies, but he's not the ROY in my book and no way is he MVP worthy. Yea, I saw that article, and I think it's a little over the edge. Another return and I don't have a problem with him getting ROY, though I agree others are at least as deserving (I'd pick Vince Young right now), if not more. Going so far as to say MVP is just a sensationalist reaction to the rare/exciting nature of the kick return TD. EDIT: The two guys in that first article I linked to are also generally the most supportive of the Bears on nfl.com, so I'm not sure Hester has any real chance to do more in ROY voting than obtain a few votes and maybe come in second or third.
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    Random note: 2 of 7 nfl.com talking heads are currently putting Devin Hester in the lead for ROY. While I think it's just because it's the week after his biggest attention-grabber of the season, if he pulls of another one in the next three weeks, I think he could lock it up.
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    wise thinking by Lovie Smith. A guy like that can be very versatile because he's made a name for himself, and people will look out for him. You can put him in to run a couple of deep routes, run a couple of sweeps or end-arounds, or just a WR screen. At the very least, he'll serve as a good decoy if he's only in the game for 5 or 10 offensive plays a game. Either Lovie is angling for the element of surprise come playoff time, or he has simply changed his tune since then.
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    This one has some truth to it. Maybe he can claim being a Packers fan at the time of the draft to explain the accompanying emoticon.
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    Nothing says family holiday Christmas time bonding like whipping up a batch of hot chocolate, gathering the whole family close, and cozying in around the warm soft flickering glow of the TV during a Bears game.
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    Excellent article. There's no doubt that the other playoff-caliber teams in the league will destroy the Bears if he repeats his performance against one of them, but he's also the type who can get hot and compensate for a lagging defense should it be called for. I'm nowhere near as optimistic now of the Bears winning it all as I was after 5 or 7 weeks, but I still wouldn't be surprised to see it. The thing about this article that surprised me the most was the mention of Hester as a possible rookie of the year. Would a huge year of special teams be enough to snag it from some of the others? Hopefully he pads his season with another return or two, and then shows up on offense in the remaining three tune-up games. With Grossman's propensity to go deep, teams would have to respect the deep threat with Hester lining up, so if nothing else, checking down would be a gift first down, and once in a while take a shot for shots and giggles.
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    I will resort to quoting the Man Show (Kimmel-Corolla era): "If I can touch them, they're real." Artificial trees are cheaper, cleaner, less of a pain in the arse. Anything associated with the Christmas season that can be described as such is a great thing.
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    You mean it's not normal to allow conversions on 3rd and 13 or 3rd and 25?
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    Watching Hester return the ball will never get old. Was he mimicking Deion's celebration dance on his first TD?
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    ESPN is so [expletive]. Lets say Hester doesn't return those 2 TD's. Who's to say Grossman doesn't lead scoring drives both times? Exactly. Three of the four offensive scoring drives were for more than 75 yards, and the fourth was still 56. It's not like he put up those numbers playing a short field like he was able to do so much at the beginning of the season.
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    No surprise that ESPN is full of it yet again. Tehy've employed Joe Morgan for all these years. Enough said. To play devil's advocate, when looking at the numbers after the game, 13-23 for 200, 2/0 isn't bad by any means, but doesn't jump off the box score at you either. On another note, I just got back from the bowling alley, which is where I was when I realized just how much manlove I have for Hester. Holy crap.
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    With the bullpen we have, the role of closer doesn't even have to exist. Piniella could just throw out whoever he thinks should go that particular inning based on matchups, who needs rest, who needs work, etc, and I think this season's 9th inning leads will hold up just fine.
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    My biggest question about this is why did it take so long to hear about the hamstring? At first we just heard about the knee and everyone thought it was fine. Tommie said it felt fine later after the game. Then all of a sudden this hamstring shows up. Just weird. Maybe the Cubs' trainers are working for the Bears during the offseason?? :-k
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