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WATCH: Ryan Hartman Defends Teammate In ‘No-Brainer’ Fight

By
Marc-Louis Paprzyca
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The Chicago Blackhawks’ Ryan Hartman has been a great replacement for Andrew Shaw in the scoring department and now he’s showing his tough side. Last night he registered his first NHL regular season fight.

Hartman took exception to Edmonton Oilers’ Eric Gryba hit on teammate Tanner Kero. Gryba has almost fifty pounds on him but that didn’t stop him from immediately reacting to the play.

Gryba threw Hartman around early but neither player got that many shots in, so I would score the fight even. These are the fights that the NHL needs to allow. They’re two willing combatants who fought in the heat of the moment. Hartman even said his decision to fight was a “no-brainer.”

Why The Bears Can Trust Ryan Pace To Get The QB Problem Fixed

By
Erik Lambert
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Drafting a quarterback is the single-most important decision an NFL general manager can make. That’s just a simple fact. Those that do it successfully get all the praise and the championship rings. Those that fail are disgraced and lost to anonymity after getting fired. It’s the one decision that can make or break the careers of many. Few teams understand that reality better than the Chicago Bears.

Their hunt for a new quarterback is about to recommence for the first time since 2009. What can anybody say of their Jay Cutler experiment? There were times it almost worked, but in the end something was always missing. Both from him and those in charge of helping him succeed. Has one stopped to ask why that might be?

Ryan Pace is now about to step up to the plate. He hasn’t taken his swing at the position yet, but almost everybody in the football world can see it coming. It’s only a matter of which direction he goes and whether he’s making the right call. That’s all Bears fans want to know. Is he any more trustworthy with this decision than his predecessors were?

Yes, and here’s why.

All Chicago Bears Playoff Failures Are Tied To This Same Problem

By
Erik Lambert
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The number 31 may seem so benign to most people. In science it represents the atomic number of gallium, a chemical used in our everyday electronics. It’s how many days lay within seven of the 12 months during a given year. Don’t forget it is also the number of flavors in Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Fun right? Not for Chicago Bears fans, who know that it has now been 31-straight years they’ve had to watch another team win the Super Bowl.

Tom Brady has five times the number of rings as any Bears player in existence since the game became a thing back in 1966. It just doesn’t seem fair, and has many wondering just what exactly this franchise has done wrong. Oh there are plenty of theories and opinions on that. Plenty of them are certain to include colorful language too.

In truth the best thing to do is these situation is stick to the facts. Otherwise the arguments will degenerate into competitions of philosophy, which often get ugly in addition to going nowhere. So Bears fans will be interested (and probably not surprised) to find out where the source of their unending pain in playoff failures comes from.

Red Sox Catcher Is Incapable Of Throwing The Ball Back To The Pitcher

By
Gus
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It looks like the Boston Red Sox have a real life version of Rube Baker.

For those of you who don’t know who Rube Baker is, let me explain.

Rube Baker is a fictional character from the hit movie, Major League II. Ok, ‘hit movie’ may be a bit of a stretch because it’ll never be as famous as the original Major League but the sequel was pretty damn good in and of itself.

Rube was a young catcher now under the watchful eye of new Indians assistant coach (and former catcher) Jake Taylor who was trying to help Rube become acclimated to the Major League game.

Part of becoming acclimated to the Major League was a simple task that Rube struggled mightily with throughout the movie — throwing the ball back to the pitcher.

Jake works with him and eventually figures out that Rube’s love of Playboy magazine and his ability to memorize the Playmates’ biographies was the key to help Rube “focus” and be able to throw the ball back to the pitcher.

And although Rube was a fictional character, it appears the Boston Red Sox have their own real life version of Rube Baker.

Most Intriguing Position Battles To Watch At White Sox Spring Training

By
Dan Fappiano
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The 2017 Chicago White Sox will likely finish fourth in the AL Central. While they have the talent to beat the Twins, the Royals, Tigers and Indians should all finish above them. If/when the team moves Jose Quintana, David Robertson, Todd Frazier and others, perhaps they could sink to the bottom of the division.

Even though the team may not be playing for much in 2017, it doesn’t mean that players won’t have to earn their roles in Spring Training. Many positions are up for grabs going into the Spring, how each player performs will determine who earns them.

Most battles will contain a veteran and a young player. With the team in the middle of rebuild, they likely want to see how their young stars perform. However if a veteran comes to camp and proves he still has some gas left in the tank, he could earn the starting role.

The 2017 White Sox season should be focused on acquiring and developing top prospects. Some of those prospects may get their chance to prove themselves right out of the gate. But to get that shot, they’re going to have to earn it in Spring Training.

Insider Drops Huge Hint About A Potential Chicago Bears Trade

By
Erik Lambert
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CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 20: Kyle Fuller #23 of the Chicago Bears enters the field during team introductions before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Soldier Field on September 20, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.The Arizona Cardinals won 48-23. (Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images)

Free agency and the draft are always the primary focus during the spring months in the NFL. The Chicago Bears are expected to be major players in both areas this season. They have the #3 overall pick in the draft and well over $50 million in salary cap space. Odds are the roster will undergo some significant upgrades before September arrives.

What many are wondering is the unpredictable third element of player acquisition: the trade market. Thus far GM Ryan Pace has made at least one or two deals during this period. He dealt Brandon Marshall to the Jets in 2015, then Jon Bostic and Martellus Bennett to the Patriots this past year. It’s quite possible he might have another move in mind.

Of course the talk has centered around New England backup Jimmy Garoppolo and the possibility of him becoming the next Bears quarterback. However, there might be another potential move to look out for. One that stays in the parameters of Pace unloading a player for more draft picks.

MLB Writer Believes All Cubs Fans Are Stupid

By
Gus
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If it was possible, I could read and write about baseball all day. I love reading the thoughts and ideas of some of baseball’s most prominent writers to try and learn from their expertise from being in the industry for decades on end. There are very few writers that I read that really puzzle me because the guys in the industry that I really respect: Jesse Rogers, Gordon Wittenmyer, and Mark Gonzalez usually write about things that I’d agree with 99% of the time.

On the other hand however, there’s Phil Rogers.

I’m sure Phil is an outstanding citizen of this country and to be honest, he has a lot more credibility from being involved with the MLB since 1984.

However, I’ve already ripped apart one of his earlier columns this month and just yesterday he wrote an article telling Cubs fans how we should “handle success” and to be honest with you, after I finished reading it, my head almost exploded.

I’m happy to report that my head did NOT explode but I was still perplexed this morning when I woke up so of course I felt obligated to respond to Phil yet again.

Three ‘Geniuses’ On Jeopardy Don’t Know MVP Kris Bryant

By
Matt Eastman
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All the book smarts in the world can’t help these clowns save face on this one!

“This young Cubs third baseman capped off a 2016 MVP season with 2 World Series home runs.”

“Zobrist”, um….no. Followed by crickets.

Hell Must Have Frozen Over Because Jon Lester Has Successfully Thrown To First Base

By
Gus
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I feel like I’m entering the 7th circle of hell because I just witnessed something I never thought I’d see:

Jon Lester throwing the ball to first base.

Lester’s struggles to throw the ball to first base have been well documented throughout his career and have been analyzed just about as much as one can analyze a grown man not being able to make a simple throw.

However, Lester appears to have taken a page out of Jason Heyward’s  “Let Me Fix This Shit” playbook and has been working on throwing to first base during the early days of Spring Training.

Chicago Bears Get More Exciting News In Their Quarterback Hunt

By
Erik Lambert
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One of the primary problems for the Chicago Bears in their long history of quarterback searching has been competition. In truth it’s the same for any position. Several other NFL teams are also on the lookout for the best possible talent at QB. More often than not it has felt like the Bears are always the team late to the party.

They’ve never been that first team to get a quarterback in the draft. The last time that happened was 1951. Since then their options were at the very most the second choice and more often than not the third, fourth or fifth. In other words they were playing against long odds that they’d get the absolute best signal caller available.

This is part of why they’ve chosen to rely on free agents and pricey trade acquisitions instead. They aren’t interested in playing the draft lottery that is quarterback hunting because it’s come up bust too many times. However, the reasons are lining up in 2016 to believe it might be different. Recent news strengthens that more than ever.

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