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2010 Chicago Cubs Preview: Breaking Down the Roster, Part One (The Bullpen)
Posted: 2nd April 2010 by Matt Poloni in MLB
I think most Cubs fans would agree that the Friendly Confines felt like an "ivy-covered burial ground" a few too many times last season.
Yes, a few players actually had pretty decent seasons and the Cubs finished second in baseball's largest division—but it just wasn't good enough.
Five games over .500 is not at all what Cubs fans, or the Cubs themselves, were expecting coming off of back-to-back division titles.
This season's team ...
New NFL Overtime Rules: A Different (And Maybe Better) Idea
Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Matt Poloni in NFL
For the longest time, I've thought that the NFL overtime rules were as good as they could possibly be.
Each team has plenty of time to win the game in regulation, so if one team doesn't get an offensive possession because the other team scored first, it's their own freaking fault for not playing better. After all, if you're team is truly worthy of the win, they'll play well enough ...
Major League Baseball’s think tank has come up with a new idea. That idea is the radical suggestion of floating realignment.
Basically, the idea is that a team can change what division it’s in based upon geography, payroll, and whether or not they’re “rebuilding.” Of course, in an effort to keep some sort of order with respect to geographic lines, no team could join a division more than two time zones ...