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11/20 Chicago Bears vs. Carolina Panthers
TruffleShuffle replied to Butterscup1679666578's topic in Other Sports
That's true. Vikings 21 Packers 14 Two of the Vikings touchdowns are scored on special teams. Either way, my money is on the Packers losing. You should be rooting for the Packers. I know I'm rooting against them. I want that number one pick, REAL badly. Trade down for someone who is desperate enough for Matt Leinart and hopefully get Reggie Bush... Unless you're trading down like 1 or 2 spots, that won't work. Baltimore, Arizona, Cleveland and NO could pick Leinart, but a number of the other bad teams - GB, SF, Jets, Houston - will not be picking him. If you're GB and you want Bush, it would just be best to pick him right at #1, or else you're running a strong risk of losing him. Either way, there's a lot of competition for that #1 pick, so GB really has to tank it the rest of the way to get it. I think if they win another game they have no shot at that pick. -
Hottest Chick polls have been cancelled
TruffleShuffle replied to brinoch's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I'd have to say that this is a little bizarre... after all, when Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks strut down the runway in next to nothing, I think they're pretty effectively objectifying themselves. But, this is fine with me... Josie Maran is the hottest chick in the universe and things shall remain that way forever! -
Weather Poll (does not exclude less nerdy types)
TruffleShuffle replied to Jon's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I cannot vote in this poll because as a meteorologist, I love the changes in the seasons. I love the warmth in the summer, and I love snow in the winter. I will say that cold and windy without snow really sucks badly, although we have had some nights here where we've gotten down into the -10 range and taken a car ride out to this old mining area where temps tend to crash about 5-10 degrees below everywhere else around... something about lack of vegetation, I think. I also have become very anti-humidity in the summer. Probably because I live here and dewpoints don't get above 60 very much, whereas on the coastal plain to the east, they have considerably higher humidity. I was really suffering during the couple of months I was down at Miami... the Florida humidity is rough for this guy of Swedish ancestry. -
Could possibly be the first time since Carroll was hired that Plaschke wrote something bad about USC. With USC's depleted LB corpse, it was much harder for Carroll to take action against Maualuga. Is this a somewhat big story out there, or is it no big deal? No, Carroll handled it from within by having the boosters cut his pay through the end of the season.
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http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ml-braves&msg=61873.1&ctx=0 Actually, the CF versus 1B argument is not invalid, although the stupid reasoning behind it was. Problem is, VORP takes position into account, and Jones was 19th, while Pujols was 2nd and Lee was first. Pujols' VORP was 99.7 versus 106.0 of Lee Pujols' OPS+ was 167 versus 177 of Lee Those are close... considering that Pujols played on a more relevent team I have no problem with him winning the award. If Lee's numbers were, say, 130 VORP and 200 OPS+, then he is so far better than Pujols that it makes it harder to give it to Pujols.
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Could possibly be the first time since Carroll was hired that Plaschke wrote something bad about USC. With USC's depleted LB corpse, it was much harder for Carroll to take action against Maualuga. Yikes, if they are playing dead people at LB then they really do have some holes at that position.
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MLB and Players Union reaches new steriod agreement.
TruffleShuffle replied to erik316wttn's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Oh, I was hoping it was a rule that would not allow players to win the comeback player of the year when they were on roids, got off them, sucked big time, found a better masking agent, and then got good again. -
Haha, I didn't even think about that, but it's a really good point. I don't really think it's a sham. The Cubs, unfortunately, were irrelevent this year. Lee was the best hitter in baseball, but Pujols was a very good hitter and played for a team for which his productivity actually helped to get into the playoffs. Just like McGwire had a better year than Sosa in '98, Lee had a better year than Pujols... but all his offense did was help the Cubs win a few more games that turned out to be meaningless.
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Computer challenge High average hitters vs Power hitter
TruffleShuffle replied to CuseCubFan69's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Get one team with high OBPs and the other with high SLGs... that would be more interesting. Like a team of high OBP, low power guys, versus a team of Sorianos and Reggie Sanders. I am betting on the OBP team. -
I heard about that. Who was it that cancelled on them again? IIRC it was Alabama, they were worried about sucking too badly after the NCAA sanctions so they backed out of the home and home with PSU and put in a couple of cream puffs instead.
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Kind of like people crapping on Auburn last year for having a bad non-conference schedule when they had a good Bowling Green team on their schedule, but BG backed out to play Oklahoma. EDIT - Ga Tech was supposed to play a neutral site game with Auburn in 2004 as well, but backed out.
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For every close loss UcheaT has had, they've had a close win. They barely beat Memphis at home when Memphis was missing their best player, and they only beat UAB by a touchdown, which is less than the margin that they lost by in the Florida game. Face it, Tennessee is not anything close to being an 8-2 team. They're a mediocre team and deserve the 4-5 record that they have.
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I'd say the chance of Vasher running it back 108 yards was less than that even... I disagree... you've got a bunch of guys on offense who don't know how to tackle and most of whom don't know how to contain (i.e., like a kick return), plus a fast cornerback trying to outrun 11 guys, most of whom he is faster than. Did you see all the fatties from SF when he cut? They were dead in the water. The chance of running back a kickoff is less than 1%, but the chances of running back a field goal against a surprised, disorganized bunch of people who don't know how to tackle is much greater than that.
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I'd call this a big game, since the outcome determines the winner of the Big Ten... there's certainly more on the line than OU-TT, for example. I know, but I didn't want to be killed for showing PSU bias. Sadly, if PSU loses, there is no way they can win the conference. It's win at East Lansing or hello Holliday Bowl There's no way PSU goes to the Holiday Bowl... that game pits a Pac 10 team vs a Big 12 team. If PSU loses to Moo it likely goes to the Capital One Bowl - against the #2 team in the SEC (3 years ago it was Auburn). Very good bowl game, and the richest bowl of the non-BCS games, but obviously not what we're hoping for at this point. There's also the possibility that, if Michigan wins and goes to the BCS, that O$U could go to the C1 Bowl and send PSU to the Outback Bowl against the 3rd place team from the SEC East.
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My only comments on this game: 1. The Gould FG was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a pro football game 2. Mike Nolan was a complete moron going for the FG at the end of the second quarter. Seriously, with that wind, you stood a better chance of scoring by running the ball up the gut and hoping the Bears miss 20 tackles, or throwing a 5 yard pass and trying the hook and ladder. The chance of making a FG into that wind was about 1%, and that's being generous.
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I'd call this a big game, since the outcome determines the winner of the Big Ten... there's certainly more on the line than OU-TT, for example. Michigan State has been pretty awful the past couple of weeks. PSU is going to kill them. Michigan State is legendary for not showing up when they have something to play for, but playing out of their butts when the opponent has something big to play for. They've been doing it for over 30 years... there's a reason the line on the game is only a TD for PSU. I
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I'd call this a big game, since the outcome determines the winner of the Big Ten... there's certainly more on the line than OU-TT, for example.
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Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
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I don't think this is possible if they win out. The ACC winner (Miami) goes to the Orange Bowl and the SEC winner goes to the Sugar Bowl. The only way they play if they win out is to finish 1-2 in the BCS - i.e., USC, Texas and possibly PSU would have to lose. I'm not sure why you'd be so eager to see this matchup though... there would be about 5 points scored in the game.
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-Yankees don't really have any use for Walker, except as a utility player, and we all know he wouldn't like that. Pretty good deal for them though, but they really aren't interested in prospects. -Pierre for CPatt and Nolasco would probably get laughed at. -First one could happen, although it depends how high the Reds are on the three pitchers
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Pie will never get traded for Dunn..... Pie's plate discipline is questionable and Dunn's is very good, and we all know the Cubs won't stand for guys who walk a lot.
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But booing hurts thier little bitty feelings!! Their suckiness hurts my feelings.
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Haha, now replace those names with three guys who don't get on base and you'll have the real Cubs outfield in 2006.
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It's the Yankees, everyone on their team is overpaid, and they don't care.
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The 2006 Cubs should come with a laugh track... or perhaps the fans will just supply the boo track instead.