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DIAZ!

Thanks for listening.

Big K. Leave that runner stranded at 2nd please.

Villanueva is struggling with his control right now. Come on Braves, get some insurance.

Yeah, let's just hope we clinch this thing soon and we don't have to worry about a one-game playoff.

Cubs win! Magic Number = 8

You obviously haven't seen Pete Carroll at work. Yeah, not sure how I missed that one. I'd also like to try to not compare the two because I actually like Charlie Weis while I can't stand Carroll at all. There, what was so hard about that? :wink:

So before I went to Math, I saw on Gameday that Soriano and Ramirez went yard. I was feeling pretty good when we were up 4-1. Then as I was following along on my phone during class, I grew extremely frustrated with what was going on. And then as soon as I left class, the Cubs tied it up and I've been following along ever since. The moral of the story is never go to class during an afternoon game. They always suck whenever I'm in class. And yes, I take full responsibility of what is transpiring here today.

I think ND is probably mad that 1) Jones completely deserted them. It's not that he transferred, he just left without a word and held up the team before a game. 2) NIU was probably guilty of tampering. The fact that he was not known to have been transferring on Friday afternoon (even to the team or the university), and then suddenly he enrolls at NIU Friday night? They almost certainly contacted him before he declared his inent to transfer, which is against the rules. At the same time, Jones is a young kid. ND is a university and should know better than to fire back at a kid. Just be the bigger party in this ND and let him go to NIU, don't make it more messy then he already made it. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they are going to do that. But Novak is 90% likely to retire after this year. So why on earth would he tamper with Jones when he's not even going to coach him? And yeah, I realize NIU is out of scholarships this year. But don't you think it's weird that ND doesn't even put NIU on that list? They know he's at NIU. Yeah, Jones probably didn't do this in the best way. But ND has to be guilty of handling this in just as bad of a way, if not worse. Why the eff are they guilty of anything? Jones is the one that randomly zipped out of school, presumably after hearing that Clausen had been No. 1 on the depth chart entering summer practice pre-elbow procedure (from the Mr. Obvious report - I suppose Jones is the only one that didn't know that the procedure is the only reason there was a competition in the first place). All Notre Dame did was watch him skip out. I fail to see what they did wrong other than recruit this dope in the 1st place. They handled it in a brutal way. Just let him go and get rid of scholarship. There, what's so hard about that? They said they weren't going to take his scholarship away and now they say they will, but they have to have a list of teams that they would accept? I've never heard of anything like this in transfer situations. I look at it this way. Jones was screwed in the QB situation seeing how the whole "Notre Dame QB Derby" was a complete farce as Claussen would've been the starter if he didn't have surgery. He was promised that he would have an equal shot at winning the job. Saying Claussen would've been the starter if it weren't for his shoulder surgery isn't an "equal shot at the job." ND didn't just "watch him skip out" as they're putting these restrictions (or attempting) on him. If he was promised a shot at winning the job, then that falls on Weis. I don't blame him for leaving if a coach can't back up his word.

I think ND is probably mad that 1) Jones completely deserted them. It's not that he transferred, he just left without a word and held up the team before a game. 2) NIU was probably guilty of tampering. The fact that he was not known to have been transferring on Friday afternoon (even to the team or the university), and then suddenly he enrolls at NIU Friday night? They almost certainly contacted him before he declared his inent to transfer, which is against the rules. At the same time, Jones is a young kid. ND is a university and should know better than to fire back at a kid. Just be the bigger party in this ND and let him go to NIU, don't make it more messy then he already made it. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they are going to do that. But Novak is 90% likely to retire after this year. So why on earth would he tamper with Jones when he's not even going to coach him? And yeah, I realize NIU is out of scholarships this year. But don't you think it's weird that ND doesn't even put NIU on that list? They know he's at NIU. Yeah, Jones probably didn't do this in the best way. But ND has to be guilty of handling this in just as bad of a way, if not worse.

So Notre Dame is letting Demetrius Jones get out of his scholarship, right? Looks like a good move. That is until they kept NIU off of the list of the schools where they would waive their scholarship if Jones transferred to one of those schools. Jones is at DeKalb and is attending classes, so he seems intent on just paying for school this year before earning a scholarship beginning in 2008. Still, this is a complete joke. I used to not have a problem with ND, but this is just completely ridiculous. They are handling this in a very unprofessional and idiotic way.

Magic Number = 9

2 outs.

One more inning.

Acosta gets out of it!

Please take Acosta out.

Bennett recovers nicely as he gets Dillon and Braun quickly.

Chipper! 3-0 Braves after 2. Renteria was thrown out at 3rd to end the inning.

1-2-3 2nd inning for Bennett.

Back to back singles by Dillon and Braun, but Bennett strikes out the side. No score after a half of an inning.

I'd rather have Wisconsin-Iowa than Wazzu-USC.

If the Astros don't score, I want to see Lidge pitch the rest of the game.

Damn it Weeks.

Double Switched out LAWL I may have to nominate that for stupid move of the year. Especially when you're bringing in Cousell for him. The sad thing is he's done this on multiple occasions. I remember Yost has done this same thing at least in 2 other games.