this is a very unusual post for you. i'm a casual, but i thought the bears were supposed to be past this "it happens" stuff. they lost a a game that they had won a million times. everyone should be blamed. Nobody has been past the It Happens since the 1972 Dolphins.
*shrug* I know we're all sad because Losses Must Be Blamed On Things. They got a few awful calls and a few bad bounces against a very good team on the road. It happens.
It's probably just the teams I've seen, but where are the good teams in the NHL? Regular-season only, I've seen SJ, LA, ANA, CHI, STL, OTW, TOR, NYR and CAR. They all looked like varying degrees of bad. San Jose was mostly just some atrocious goaltending, though.
I guess *maybe* if I squint really hard and Crawford comes back and has a great season I can kinda see this as an 8-seed. Mostly nah, though, this has lottery pick written all over it. Scraping by the Senators is not where you want to be. Having $28m in cap space tied to the declines of Kane, Toews and Seabrook for five more seasons is gonna be a pretty big headwind against trying to build another championship run. Oh well, flags fly forever. Especially when there are three of them.
It was actually: "OMG it was so obvious Heyward was going to suck I can't believe that our supposedly smart FO signed him trying to out-smart themselves" "Our FO has made a lot of good moves and also weren't unique in wanting to sign Heyward, who was the most coveted FA of the 2015 offseason" "Signing a guy who ended up being bad is proof that the FO was dumb" Something can be a good idea at the time and not work out. This isn't something that was hotly debated at the time a la Chatwood. It's circular. Our front office is great because they never make bad moves, and they never make bad moves because how bad can it be if a great front office thought it was a good idea?
I want Harper for the sheer swag of it all. Otherwise, just throw all your resources at the bullpen. Just give any five turds to be your starters and have an unbeatable bullpen.
Yeah, I’m joking when I say that Bryant is definitely permanently broken. But anyone who thinks that isn’t on the list of possibilities is fooling themselves. Wrists and shoulders can wreck hitting careers.
The proper response to scraping two useful months out of the rotting husk of Cole Hamels is to shake his hand and comp his tickets to the next Cubs Convention. Not picking up his $20 million option.