Hairyducked Idiot
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They don't want to rush him. He's still incredibly raw. If they are getting other assets, they won't mind taking back a stopgap.
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TTIUWP http://www.fangraphs.com/tgraphs/20031014_Marlins_Cubs_0_score.png
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yeah i don't know what the hell happened, and the announcers didn't talk about it at all, but the french guy threw it and then turned away angrily, and it just went right into the wall. that was awful. I did that a lot. Me = French Olympian.
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Florida could probably bring in a versteeg level talent and a pick for Vokoun without taking on a bad contract. We'll see. I bet not.
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Well, that goes along with what I said: I don't think he ends up going because there aren't too many upgrades in goal on the trade block. I'm just saying that I don't think Huet is unmovable if there *were* a good goalie on the trade block. He'd have to be packaged with assets, but it could easily get done. His contract is bad, but it's not *that* bad, and he's a much better goalie that Hawks fans are giving him credit for.
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Curling already is a drinking game up here. It's like bowling.
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Sometimes, if you have the hammer and a chance to score 1, you will choose to clear the house and not score any points, so that you can keep the hammer and aim for a bigger score in the next end. Oh, so going last isn't a rotating thing, but rather a who didn't score last thing. Correct. Another reason you might do it is to make sure you have the hammer in the decisive end. If the other team is sitting the only rock in the house and you have the hammer in the 9th end of a tied match, you might choose to clear the house so you can be tied with the hammer going into the last end, which is a dominating advantage.
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Sometimes, if you have the hammer and a chance to score 1, you will choose to clear the house and not score any points, so that you can keep the hammer and aim for a bigger score in the next end.
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Sharp+Huet would be a package with positive trade value. You could throw Huet into a package of prospects if the other team is sending a goalie back with a contract for a couple of years as well. Aliu, Beach, Skille. Huet is still a legitimate No. 1 goaltender in the NHL, and he's only overpaid by a couple of million a year. If there's a team out there that needs a goalie, we can make it worth their while to eat the little bit he's overpaid if we sweeten the deal. That said, I'm not sold on Niemi+Crawford or whatever we'd end up with if we traded Huet, so unless we are getting a goalie back, I don't see it happening.
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Doesn't work for me. Maybe you have to have cable TV through the provider listed and not just internet.
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It's a complete blast to play. I was horribly out of shape when I started and I could still broom for 8 ends and not completely die, so the fitness level isn't *too* bad.
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Huet isn't *that* bad and he isn't *that* overpaid. He doesn't have trade value, per se, but he's not completely untradeable. Combine him with an asset and he's very movable.
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8-4-1 in their last 13, and that's a bad stretch for them. Shaky goaltending or not, they are still an elite team.
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Classic backup QB syndrome.
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Had a baby, got busy, had other places to play. Continued my quest to purge myself of all affection for the Cubs.
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I don't consider it a sacrifice when we're going to be losing them to the cap anyway. Especially since I don't think prospects have any value to the Hawks right now, so they might as well get something that goes for it this season. I hate statistics in hockey. Neither goalie is playing in the same system behind the same defense. I like the Blackhawks' team defense better than anyone in the league's. We have fantastic defensemen and a ton of defensively-responsible forwards. Plus they consistently have leads and don't have to take chances. Any goalie should look good in that system.
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I'm really not worried about prospects. The Hawks are stacked and ridiculously deep in both the big club and the minors. Prospects at this point would just be adding to the logjam and don't really have any marginal utility to us. A brief burst this season is worth much more to them than prospects at this point.
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I'm really not sold on Niemi as our goalie of the future just yet. And as an RFA, we may not be able to afford him either way.
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Versteeg, Barker, Niemi. Done. Upgrade to Sharp if they insist.
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Bradley Suspended for the Rest of the Season
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Wilson A2000's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/spider_man_2/j_k__simmons/Spiderman2.jpg When it's written, it's libel.
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Have you ever thought about switching teams?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Misfit's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
It's not as easy as just deciding to. I'm still working on it, but it's hard. I've picked out my new team, I spent the entire offseason following their news and trying to ignore the Cubs, I posted on their forums. But when Opening Day came around, I still barely cared about the new team and had a strong desire to watch the Cubs game. Closing in on an entire season of working on it, I care about the Cubs a little bit less and the new team a little bit more, but it's still 95/5 at best. It's going to take years to get this to stick, if ever. -
I'm not a huge fan of the "nobody could have foreseen" argument. Predicting which players do and do not do well is more or less the entirety of his job.
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The Bulls were always headed toward a low peak with that team. Sure, it was neat that they had some young, decent players, but without a superstar in the NBA, you are doomed. I don't think this Blackhawks team wins a Cup either, but they should be better than that.
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Bradley "never comfortable" playing at Wrigley
Hairyducked Idiot replied to UMFan83's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Some T-Shirts in St. Louis told me on good authority that Zambrano is running some kind of landscaping business on the side. Isn't that against his contract, too?