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i wouldn't feel bad if we won this game because we outplayed the hawks in game 2 and lost, but man are we getting outplayed tonight. i'm not sure if it's the 45 minutes a game that our top d-men have been playing or what, but we're just slower to everything.
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maybe the brewers should stop signing middle-aged free agent pitchers (wolf, suppan, BLooper) zambrano needs to improve his command... granted it's never been that good, but this year it seems especially poor
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that call on hossa was atrocious. apparently leighton felt bad and let in a turd of a goal to make up for it.
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man richards destroyed kopecky on that (clean) hit why does coburn have to go and be a complete dick right after the goal?
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oh look another stupid penalty by scott hartnell, big surprise.
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i'm sure bull wrestling was available for free on like 30 different channels though
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good move seabrook, elbow a guy in the head after a whistle in an offsides call. whoever he hit did embellish it, but if they're going to call pronger then they have to call seabrook for that. stop firing the puck into shin pads 30 times every power play. and while there is sure to be plenty of griping in the other thread, you can't skate into forechecking player to give your teammate a clear breakout. that's about as obvious as interference gets.
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boy the hawks picked a good time to complain about pronger (after game four). one of the penalties called on him last game was a joke and that last one was ticky tack. of course both end up being power play goals.
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Yes, because curling and bowling are both widely considered more exciting than baseball. :roll: anyone who's watching [expletive] hockey instead of the cubs should stop being a cubs fan just because you hicks in the plains don't understand it doesn't mean it's bad. let's see koyie hill do that.
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Briere is the only guy I don't like on that team. He just strikes me as being a pansy. Okay, back to the other thread now. I'd say good luck, but I wouldn't mean it. he's definitely a pansy. he goes down really easily when someone hits him and looks for calls all the time. he also doesn't play defense.
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looked those years up just for fun. in 1966, brazil somehow lost to both portugal and hungary by 3-1 scores. 1974 was held in germany; italy missed out because they lost to poland and drew with argentina (poland actually went 3-0 in that group; argentina had a better goal differential). also, haiti was the representative from concacaf, australia made it, zaire was the african representative and no asian team participated. i forgot how much the world cup was a euro/south american event (granted those are the teams that always win, but there are a lot more nations involved now). east and west germany were in the same group.
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thanks... i admire the hawks quite a bit too, and don't see many unlikable characters on that team either. except for versteeg, who strikes me as a bitch. (but so does danny briere)
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Pass. blackhawk fans already have a thread
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i think the funniest part about this conference free-for-all is that one of the best schools in the country as far as academics/athletics combo (texas) is being saddled with other turds (baylor, texas tech) in their state.
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Ditto with Mexico, but I think both advance. i think mexico is pretty boned. france and uruguay are good teams and mexico has to play south africa in their opening game, which will be full of emotion.
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cubs really strung together some great drafts back then... check out how much major league WAR they produced in some of these duds: 1986 draft: 18.9 1987: 8.0 (doesn't include jeff cirillo, who didn't sign) 1988: -0.8 1989: -3.9 1990: -0.9 1991: actually a pretty good draft - trachsel, lieber and glanville. 51.7 1992: -3.1 1993: 3.8 1994: 1.2 way to go cubs.
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italy not making it out of the first round would be great.
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Obviously agree with the first two, not sure about the last one though. Seems to me that most of the time I read about older pitchers they had the ability to throw more pitch types than guys today. I've often come across stories about power pitchers (just for example) from the 50's or 60's also mixing in a knuckler in there. There's a great picture of Walter Johnson demonstrating his grips for six different pitches. I'd think pitchers today are more skilled at fewer pitch types. the hard slider and splitter are damaging to arms and those pitches have become much more common in the last 25 or so years. mixing in a knuckleball isn't going to mess up anyone's arm; phil niekro pitched until he was 100 and tim wakefield is on the way to doing that. people think that pitching injuries are so much more common, but they've happened a lot throughout baseball history - we just don't remember most of the guys who got hurt and didn't make it because the advanced treatments and surgeries didn't exist, so once their arm started acting up it generally meant their career was over.
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If there was ever a game to loosen the reigns on his pitch count it was this one. Could've given him a chance at an MLB record that likely would've stuck for a long time, while at the same time giving the people who showed up an even better pitching performance the the one they actually got. It's already going to be remembered as one of the most dominating pitching debuts in history, but it could've been THE most dominating in history if they just loosened up and let him go to 110 just this one time. It was a special game, they should've made a special circumstance i'm pretty sure he didn't go past 90 pitches or 6 innings in any of his minor league stars, so just let him go for 110 in his major league debut? this is a terrible idea.
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texas
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anyone want to make bold predictions for the outcomes? i'm not going to pick every game, but i'll throw out who i think will advance from the various groups and then how things will go from there. group a: 1. uruguay, 2. france (really think south africa might make it instead of one of those two; really don't think mexico has much of a shot here) group b: 1. argentina, 2. nigeria group c: 1. england, 2. slovenia (we lose to england, slovenia bores them into a scoreless draw) group d: 1. germany, 2. ghana group e: 1. netherlands, 2. cameroon group f: 1. paraguay, 2. italy group g: 1. brazil, 2. cote d'ivoire or ivory coast, whatever the hell they are group h: 1. spain, 2. chile second round: nigeria over uruguay, argentina over france, england over ghana, germany over slovenia, netherlands over italy, paraguay over cameroon, brazil over chile, spain over ivory coast quarters: nigeria over england, brazil over netherlands, germany over argentina, spain over paraguay semis: brazil over nigeria, spain over germany finals: brazil over spain
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a lot of americans don't know anything about soccer and are unabashed homers.
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is nebraska really in the same class as most of the conference academically? and i know they're big into football but their basketball team always sucks. plus the population of the state is less than 2 million. i don't see this move as being a big deal for the conference, frankly.
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yeah, that's benito santiago's son. all i can really find about him is that he also played basketball.
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why blame the manager when the players aren't playing well? by this logic nobody on the staff has any responsibility or does anything.