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I'm not gonna laugh about this at all until I know for sure we won't bring him back.

nate silver did a BP article detailing the biggest collapses in baseball history. the phillies barely cracked the top 10, because they were playing a strong schedule. i think their collapse was so memorable because they went on a 10 game losing streak and just played terribly for the last two weeks. some notable teams that had bigger collapses: -1978 red sox (96.5% to make playoffs on august 12th with an 8 game lead on the yankees - red sox went 26-22 the rest of the way while the yanks were 35-13) -1942 brooklyn dodgers (96.9% to make the playoffs; 79-33, 9.5 games ahead of the Cardinals. went 25-17 the rest of the way while the cardinals were 38-6, the second-best 44 game stretch in baseball history) -1969 cubs (97.90% on august 19th; 77-45 and 8 games ahead of the mets, went 15-25 down the stretch) -2003 mariners (97.91% on june 18th, 7.5 games ahead of the A's in the AL west and 8.0 games ahead of the red sox in the wild card; finished 45-47) -1993 giants (98.25% on august 7th, 74-47 and 9.5 games ahead of the braves, finished 29-22 but braves went 39-11) -1951 brooklyn dodgers (99.74% on august 12th, 73-36 and 12.5 games ahead of the new york giants, finished 25-24 while giants went 37-8) -2007 mets (99.8% on september 12th, 83-62 and 7.0 games ahead of the phillies; went 5-12 the rest of the way while the phillies went 13-4. what was notable about the mets' collapse is that they lost to some awful teams - they went 1-5 against the nationals during that stretch and lost 2 out of 3 in their last series against the marlins) -1995 angels (99.988% on august 20th, 66-41 and 9.5 games ahead of the rangers and 12.5 games ahead of the mariners in the AL west, 12.0 games ahead of the yankees for the wild card. finished 12-26. the odds of them missing the playoffs were 8,332-to-1)[/quote] Only to the Cubs

KSU will have a good team, but they still aren't going to be better than KU. Especially if Lamb plays.

You didn't so so well last year with your bet and I'll get in on this one also. No way KU finishes below you.

Am I the only one who doesn't want to hear what a member of that great Bulls dynasty thinks of gming a team? Everyone of them who has had a shot has blown in that role.

I hope you're not talking about the North Central in Naperville. I don't want to go to jail. Come on Sulley, there has to a prison team where this guy can coach. Don't set Tim up like that.

I don't get the allure of the kid myself, I know he's a nice athlete, but he's never really been a good high school player.

man I really need to walk the 150 feet over to the high school to watch Bubba play.

mike irvin is a piece of [expletive] and tries to steer fire players away from illinois because weber won't pay for talent, which is why mycheal henry changed aau teams, and probably why jabari parker and tommy hamilton don't play for them anymore, either. if shaw is looking for payment, illinois is not the place for him. Agreed. I've wanted Mike Shaw since I first read about him and saw his highlights, but in no way do we need to start paying for talent. If he would rather go to DePaul than come to Illinois with the talent we will have around him at that point then so be it.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13958021/its-painful-to-say-but-tennessees-pearl-must-go Awesome

Is this the NCAA actually starting to go after WWW?

Poor Cal can't catch a break "And yet another connection to coach Cal go figure The 6-foot-10 center left Oregon and signed with a professional team in Israel earlier this month despite having two years of eligibility remaining. The Register-Guard is reporting the exit was precipitated by an investigation into allegations that Dunigan's eligibility had been compromised by extra benefits provided to him in violation of NCAA rules. Dunigan was a top 30 national prospect in the Class of 2008. He was recruited to Oregon from Chicago by Kenny Payne, who is now an assistant for John Calipari at Kentucky." http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2010-09-15/ncaa-investigating-oregon-basketball-team Why does this bad luck follow John wherever he goes?

Well luckily the Cubs don't have any of those type of bad contracts. And we never throw money at John Grabow, Jason Marquis, or Bob Howry types.

I don't get why people keep writing off 2011. All the Cubs need to do to compete next year are these things: 1. sign Adam Dunn 2. keep fukudome and Zambrano 3. get a typical year from Ramirez 4. find 1 more reliever either through FA, trade or the multitude of in house options. Items 1 and 3 take them to at least the top 1/3 offensively. The starting pitching is already pretty good. If they get a career year or unexpected production out of somebody they could be very good in a division that is still pretty weak. The young pitching on the Reds will pay for it next season after Dusty runs them into the ground. Houston and Milwaukee stink and don't look to be getting any better. Why can't Milwaukee get any better? If anything they would be the team that could improve more than us. Braun should bounce back, Escobar is going to get better, and if all we need to do is sign a couple guys they are right there as well with two decent pitching signs.

Well, his first year he wasn't all that great, but I thought in his second year he had an amazing second half which ended up with him having some pretty good numbers. Since then he's been hurt, so I understand why people would be all for adding him. Especially when you take into consideration that the Royals would probably move him for Darwin Bailey at this point. At least we'd get to keep Darwin Barney. Damn that who I meant. Lol.

Well, his first year he wasn't all that great, but I thought in his second year he had an amazing second half which ended up with him having some pretty good numbers. Since then he's been hurt, so I understand why people would be all for adding him. Especially when you take into consideration that the Royals would probably move him for Darwin Bailey at this point.

Seriously though, anyone who didn't know that Pearl was and always will be a horrible human being isn't really paying any attention.

lol - so we know our coach broke rules seriously enough to take a penalty of $1.5M...but we're going to hang onto him anyway. Great! I can't believe Bruce Pearl would bend the rules. Afterall he felt so strongly about them being upheld in the past he was willing to illegaly tape record a teenager's phone call at 2 a.m.

Because in basketball the kid isn't an amateur. Since the NCAA is amatuer athletics, professionals arn't allowed to play it. By that logic Michael Jordan is still a professional basketball player. No not at all, once you are paid you aren't an amateur.

Because in basketball the kid isn't an amateur. Since the NCAA is amatuer athletics, professionals arn't allowed to play it.

Lol, at this point you have to be joking. Hey when is that lawsuit from Kentucky or the Davis' family coming against the Sun Times?

Gordon is an outfielder. He said himself he doesn't want to play 3b anymore. I do think they will keep him, but would move him if they got a decent offer for him.

Yeah. It had to be a game I was at, too. I'm happy with where Soto's at right now. Lol, you are ok with him being the best offensive catcher in baseball? That's good to know. I hear that that Joe Mauer guy still plays. I might be mistaken. Yeah he does. He's still not been as good as Geo this year.

The whole damn thing makes me want to cry. So depressing. We might not ever have a team that good again top to bottom and it was good for third best in our division. Baseball sometimes just isn't fair. We had a better team top to bottom 4 years later. You think so? I'm not so sure. '04's team won 89 games in a division with a 105 and 91 win team in it.

The whole damn thing makes me want to cry. So depressing. We might not ever have a team that good again top to bottom and it was good for third best in our division. Baseball sometimes just isn't fair.