Two weeks ago I wrote "Martz seemingly has all the control when it comes to deciding whom should be on the roster when it concerns the offensive side of the ball". Some readers wanted to know why. Well, that's what I was wondering. Da Bears will never give us a straight answer. The truth is, I don't think THEY know why their putting all of their offensive eggs into the Mad Martz basket. My best guess is that they trust the fact that with the personnel he has been pining for, along with the growth of the wide-outs and the overall familiarity with his system, that the offense SHOULD be more successful this season. Now the question is, just how successful will it be?
Zach Zaidman, beat reporter for WSCR, believes that even with Martz getting the toys he wants to play with, he will still call a more balanced game to start the season as he did after the bye-week last season when it comes to run to pass play ratio. Good guess, but WRONG. They don't call him Mad Martz for nuttin'. His throbbing ego won't allow him to call a balanced game. He's got his Bible, er, playbook, and visions of X's executing the drawings that are in his Bible. Unless he's told to peel his convoluted system back and to run between the tackles more often, footballs will be filling the air. That is, if Cutler is allowed the time to reach the seventh step on his seven-step drop.
Last week I wrote that the White Sox' season is OVA! Then they went 6-1 on their recent road trip after sweeping the reeling Minnesota Twins (for the first time since 2004) at Target Field and took three of four against the worst team in the AL in the Baltimore Orioles. Key words in that sentence are reeling and worst. Let's say God comes down from heaven, touches Adam Dunn's bat and actually makes him productive to help the White Sox win the AL Central (let's face it, it would take that sort of miracle for them to do so). They obviously don't stand a chance in the postseason against the likes of the Bawstun Red Sawks or the Nu Yawk Yankees aka Los Jankees as evidenced by their last homestand.
Side note: Mark Buehrle has worked at least six innings in his last eight starts and now has at least ten wins in every single season of the eleven years he has been a starter. Praise be to Mark.
I did, in fact, make an emotional detachment from the White Sox. But I still have a minor investment, enough to where I'll tune into a game whenever possible; however, I refuse to go against my better judgement and latch on to false hopes that they'll win the World Series in 2011. Bold, I know.
The Cubs have won three series in a row and fans are back in the stands. Hopefully this doesn't make Ricketts stupid and contemplate bringing back Hendry and Quade. Okay, that's enough of the otherwise irrelevant Cubs.
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