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Considering the Rangers won't be returning to Wrigley Field until around 2016, I have a feeling they'll get these next two in.

Atlanta getting blown out at home by Toronto tonight.

Same way they play games in climate controlled environments every night in the NHL?

Holland is somehow cruising through 5 and up to 85 pitches.

Soldier Field. Damn. Not a huge hockey fan but I thought the first one was pretty cool. Went to the college classic at Soldier Field, and that one was fairly cool, but the environment was more frat, less fan.

Soldier Field.

Today's shocking news: Shabazz Muhammad will turn pro.

They already have races.

The Cubs should just install an Omnimax dome, solve two problems at once.

I thought in the past we gave a grace period to the end of the current week to switch players off the DL.

I was mostly referring to last season. We'll see where it ends up this season. They got Anthony Rizzo for a relief pitching prospect with a history of arm injuries. That's pretty damn good for last year regardless of what their scrap heap free agents did (not that DeJesus was some massive failure for what he signed for). Plus Paul Maholm, who was then flipped for a top 50 pitching prospect.

You get cranky when I'm right. I wouldn't say that David is never cranky.

Hawks have now clinched no worse than the 2 seed.

The Cubs are really bad because of things Theo Epstein does, and few of the cool things he promised are actually happening. These things practically file themselves.

It's not all bad; maybe that gigantic file cabinet will fall on you. If the file cabinet is for all of Kyle's baseless dismissals, it's already the size of a room.

Reason #750,013 why pitcher wins are stupid: Villanueva's season thus far.

Caught looking a lot.

Because this issue has mainly been fabricated in the minds of Purdue/Illinois fans. Illinois, you know, the program that just had how many players transfer? It's not as if Illinois overcommitted on scholarships so that they had to find creative ways to get rid of kids. This case, it just sounds like the kids wanted to play more than they were at Illinois, and Groce was up front about things and told them they weren't going to play much there. This is just more rationalizing. Players leave Illinois because they want to play more . . . players leave IU because IU's coach is a meanie (and, of course, was not up front and did not tell players they weren't going to play much there because, well, what exactly? Because Illinois fans that hate IU will it so?). Players that have left IU for more playing time/to be closer to home have been used by this board, ad nauseam, to prove that "Creaning" exists. Meanwhile, only one such player left when there was a scholarship crunch (Capobianco). That player was "Creaned"; sure, there's little way around that. (The only other player that has left when IU was under a scholarship crunch was Ron Patterson. Patterson was admitted to the university on a contingency basis, failed to make his grades, and violated the honor code (the honor code, by the way, prohibits cheating). Moreover, he ended up at Syracuse. If this was just a Machiavellian "Creaning" why not "Crean," say, Maurice Creek or Peter Jurkin or Austin Etherington or Remy Abell? Would any of those players have ended up at a program of Syracuse's ilk? Or even at a BCS program?) You keep moving the goalposts here. We're not the ones rationalizing why our players transferred.

At least they've been on enough of a roll to legitimately belong in the playoffs now.

Because this issue has mainly been fabricated in the minds of Purdue/Illinois fans. Illinois, you know, the program that just had how many players transfer? It's not as if Illinois overcommitted on scholarships so that they had to find creative ways to get rid of kids. This case, it just sounds like the kids wanted to play more than they were at Illinois, and Groce was up front about things and told them they weren't going to play much there.

Could be the next Spencer Hawes.

Michael Brantley in for Josh Reddick, who apparently is going to miss the series with a shoulder injury.

Hawks have now clinched no worse than 6th. Win over Detroit Friday and they clinch the division.

Hawks have officially clinched a playoff berth, and no worse than 7th (ahead of Detroit).

No you cannot. Only injured players and starters. Who is switching RP's? Didn't lynx drop marmol and add another RP today? Change goes into effect tomorrow, for next week.