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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on January 02, 2012, 10:46:44 AM

Quote from: PenPho on January 02, 2012, 10:41:23 AM

Quote from: SKO on December 29, 2011, 09:12:40 AM
The fact that Breesus and Brady and maybe even Rodgers will bury Dan Marino's only remaining record this year brings me nothing but a raging schadenboner. Seriously, fuck that guy. I saw "Dan Marino" trending on Yahoo! and for a brief second hoped to read news of a grabber before I remembered the record breaking.

He has no Super Bowls, and now his 27-year old record is gone.

He has nothing left - let the man have his dignity!

He does have a nice pair of Isotoner gloves.

He also fucked up Ray Finkle. He'll always have that.

I hate the fucking prevent defense. Fucking idiotic. This game shouldn't even be in fucking overtime.

No mention of the fact that Newt thinks child labor laws are stupid?

I'm convinced that none of the candidates on the GOP side (aside from Romney) want anything more than a fat deal from Fox News after the campaign.

"Wait, I'm leading now? What crazy shit can I say to fix that?"

This fucking blows.

Going into last night's game, the Bears had played the 4th hardest schedule in football and are now 5-3. Lovie Smith is a good NFL coach. That is all.

The fact that the Genius said that his bullpen coach made the same mistake twice is awesome.

The fact that the Genius said that the first mistake came when he asked for Jason Motte, but instead the bullpen coach warmed up Marc Rzepczynski is so much better.


...because "Motte" and "Rzepczynski" are amazingly similar sounding. I could see how that would happen.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on October 12, 2011, 04:23:04 PM

Quote from: Slaky on October 12, 2011, 04:05:01 PM

Quote from: CBStew on October 12, 2011, 03:41:30 PM
None of this matters.  We are talking about the Cubs.

You sound like a regular Joe Mantegna.

Or a Greg Couch.

Love this sentence:

QuoteNow, Tom Ricketts, and his family, own and run the team, and it's nice to have a beating heart, someone who grew up caring about the Cubs, in charge. But he has yet to show any direction or plan.

Other than doing EXACTLY what he said he was going to do when he bought the team, i.e. beef up the scouting staff, spend more in the draft, increase the Latin American presence, and build a new Spring Training home...no, Ricketts has no plan.

The Bears were terrible today and didn't deserve to win the game.

What's amazing, though, is that they were two calls (the holding penalty and the blown Pass Interference call on Woodson) from winning that game.

Schedule definitely gets easier from here on out.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on September 22, 2011, 05:22:48 PM
So I figure the only rational course of action is to sell everything I own, buy up as many goats and as much bubble wrap as I can get my hands on, and move to a cave somewhere before the motorcycle marauders and time-traveling robots get here to murder us all in our sleep.

Anyone who wants to join me can fuck off and find their own damn caves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZqrHw7YV3Q

Quote from: Internet Apex on September 12, 2011, 11:51:16 AM
Is this Bill Barnwell a real person or a blogger?

He portrays himself as an unbiased "stats guy," but (in a more obvious fashion than most) selectively uses statistics to support his own subjective beliefs, like when he felt the need to explain that the Bears aren't especially noteworthy in terms of "percentage of fumbles recovered," and therefore this game was an outlier (I'm not linking to his piece of shit article). He of course forgets to mention that the Bears have been one of the top teams in terms of takeaway damn near every year Lovie's been head coach. Yay for confirmation bias.

Quote from: Richard Chuggar on September 12, 2011, 05:04:37 AM

Quote from: SKO on September 11, 2011, 11:01:52 PM

Quote from: Fork on September 11, 2011, 10:50:51 PM

Quote from: SKO on September 11, 2011, 09:59:00 PM

Quote from: Fork on September 11, 2011, 09:39:33 PM
The only thing I have to say that's bad is that the defense still sucks when the other team is in a hurry-up offense and therefore, gave up over 400 total yards. I still think the defense was dominant.

I hope you were trying to channel Fro there, because anybody even remotely concerned about the yardage (especially since Matt Ryan had I think only 123 yards before the score was 30-6 and the defense went full on prevent) is beyond a total dipshit. The points, sacks, and turnovers are all Lovie cares about. Matt Ryan finished with just 6.8 YPA. As a team they only gained 5.9 yards per pass play. Yardage totals don't really mean shit for a Tampa Two defense. They stonewalled them in the red zone, and Charles Tillman dominated Roddy White.

If by "channel" you mean "copy and paste", then yeah.

Sigh. I went over there. God dammit, Fro. Oh well, at least he admits that he actually enjoyed the game. God, next Sunday is too fucking far away. Also, my preseason Melton boner was thoroughly justified today. Every time I see him play I think of John Randle, who was one of a very select few Minnesota Vikings I didn't despise.

That game would have been totally different if the Falcons D could catch two easy picks that Utler just threw into their hands.  Yet another one in the red zone too. 

If you ignore the fact that the red zone near-pick only happened because the DB decided to mount Devin Hester about a second before the ball got there, then sure.

Quote from: Internet Apex on August 19, 2011, 04:40:13 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on August 19, 2011, 03:13:23 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on August 19, 2011, 02:12:11 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on August 19, 2011, 11:04:54 AM

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 19, 2011, 11:01:55 AM
Also...

http://twitter.com/thekapman/status/104579924874108928

QuoteA search will commence immediately. Current structure with business on one side/baseball operations on the other expected to be in place.

I assume this means Crane lives to milque another toast.

i've never understood the Kenney hate--he's never done enough to make me think twice about him, let alone hate him. He's just...bleh.

The problem was that he was Hendry's boss and stood between the baseball operations and the dipshits who owned the team. He knew nothing of this baseball sport thing. And so he's still a problem because even with Hendry leaving, there's just Crane and the Ricketts hiring the replacement. So what will be different? Fuck Crane.

How did he stand between baseball operations and ownership? When he was with the Trib? From everything I have seen, the guy hasn't had anything to do with the baseball decisions and only shows his face when they're talking about stadium or Spring Training home issues. Or to bless a stupid fucking goat.

Everything I heard from Ricketts in terms of their ideal candidate seemed okay by me.

I don't think you really grasp this whole firebarn concept all that firmly.

I'm actually legitimately confused--I constantly hear writers, tv personalities, radio guys, et. al. rip this guy with Cutler-level intensity. I'm actually legitimately confused about it, because I haven't read a ton of specific things he's done that have been terrible; the only thing I ever hear are vague generalizations about him wanting "in on the baseball decisions."

Personally, I don't care about him either way. If you want to nuke the entire front office (aside from Ari Kaplan and Tim Wilken), I'm cool with it. I'm just wondering if this guy is a legitimate jerkoff or if he just doesn't play nice with the media. I honestly have no idea.

Quote from: Internet Apex on August 19, 2011, 02:12:11 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on August 19, 2011, 11:04:54 AM

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 19, 2011, 11:01:55 AM
Also...

http://twitter.com/thekapman/status/104579924874108928

QuoteA search will commence immediately. Current structure with business on one side/baseball operations on the other expected to be in place.

I assume this means Crane lives to milque another toast.

i've never understood the Kenney hate--he's never done enough to make me think twice about him, let alone hate him. He's just...bleh.

The problem was that he was Hendry's boss and stood between the baseball operations and the dipshits who owned the team. He knew nothing of this baseball sport thing. And so he's still a problem because even with Hendry leaving, there's just Crane and the Ricketts hiring the replacement. So what will be different? Fuck Crane.

How did he stand between baseball operations and ownership? When he was with the Trib? From everything I have seen, the guy hasn't had anything to do with the baseball decisions and only shows his face when they're talking about stadium or Spring Training home issues. Or to bless a stupid fucking goat.

Everything I heard from Ricketts in terms of their ideal candidate seemed okay by me.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 19, 2011, 11:01:55 AM
Also...

http://twitter.com/thekapman/status/104579924874108928

QuoteA search will commence immediately. Current structure with business on one side/baseball operations on the other expected to be in place.

I assume this means Crane lives to milque another toast.

i've never understood the Kenney hate--he's never done enough to make me think twice about him, let alone hate him. He's just...bleh.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 19, 2011, 10:53:07 AM
So, according to Yeti's transcript of the presser, Hendry was told he was being fired before the trade deadline?

Fuck this team.

My guess is that they wanted someone to negotiate the contracts on the draft picks, which apparently was what Hendry did personally over the last few days. In terms of the trade deadline, they didn't really have shit to trade anyway. They could still do waiver deals for Soriano, et. al.