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  1. Marco4
    Count me in, and, while we're at it, Allez L'OM!
  2. Marco4
    That was just untidy. Let's hope he gets it back for the next inning.
  3. Marco4
    should I rename it the 2006 March of Progress? I think 'the unstoppable march to immortality' would do it.
  4. Marco4
    This poll is depressing in its truth.
  5. Marco4
    I'm in the market for a team that are quite good, that play games at times I can watch so that I don't have to be pained EVERY time I watch a ballgame - though I'll stick watching the Cubs games, I want some sort of joy over the summer. I'm thinking I could stick with Tim Wakefield and start rooting for the Red Sox, but its a little passé.
  6. Marco4
    There's plenty of International friendlies to whet your appetite, and there's fantasy games a-plenty out there to get into it, too.
  7. Marco4
    So, after a disappointing defeat Friday, the second game of the set at US Cellular Field promises much. Pain. Hill is 0-3 with a 7.63 ERA Garcia is 6-1 with a 4.56 ERA On those stats, we can probably expect some runs... the last few weeks have taught us not to expect runs, though. Who knows? Maybe it'll work out well. Apologies for starting this up so early, but its knocking on midnight here, and I don't want to fall asleep and miss the boat. If it does work out well, I won't be able to start the thread for Sunday's game. GO CUBS!
  8. Marco4
    This result has made me happy. I have a really annoying friend who is an Arsenal fan and has spent a month delighting in telling me how good his team are and how Europe is bowing before them. I point out that my team, Olympique Marseille, have lifted the European Cup... he tells me Arsenal will do. Not this year. :P (Realistically, the dismissal of Lehmann was fair, but ended the game as a spectacle. To see Arsenal go one up breathed a bit of life into it, but it was still a game that Barcelona had to win and, in the end, deserved to win. Just a shame it wasn't the feast of football we were promised).
  9. Marco4
    Something i've noticed about Europe...your plane flights are cheap as hell. I have a flight from London to Berlin, roundtrip, that is booked for like 40 pounds. Yeah, some of them are... especially in advance. Makes for spectacular short-breaks. I think I might have done that London - Berlin myself in the past. Its a lovely city.
  10. Marco4
    I'd rather someone was there to enjoy the games (or even just the atmosphere) than a lot of the people who follow the English national team. I'm a resolute international football neutral, so its always a big festival for me at World Cup time.
  11. Marco4
    :x - Someone offered me (indirectly) tickets to this game, which would have been quite the event, but then retracted the offer when they realised we were actually planning to go, and how we were doing it. I was not amused. I fancy Paris in the Springtime.
  12. Marco4
    World Cup Fever is building in the UK, too, with the domestic season all but over now.
  13. Marco4
    How about not being complete dross today? Just a thought.
  14. Marco4
    I predict that by game time, the gravitational pull of Bonds' huge head will have grown so as to act upon the ball to such an extent that it would have flown out of the park but it drops down towards Jacque Jones. And he drops it.
  15. Marco4
    I bought a Green Day album yesterday. The Cubs NEED a win because of that.
  16. Marco4
    Semi-related to this. If MLB aren't celebrating Bonds' catching Ruth, why have they got this page dedicated to the chase? What's going on there? Am I missing something?
  17. Marco4
    I'm gonna struggle to stay up to hear this one. I hope for good news in the morning. Waking up disappointed bites.
  18. Marco4
    I'm really glad to see Bobby Convey in there - he's had a cracking season, and a couple of the goals he's scored.... amazing. The World Cup is a far higher level than the Coca Cola Championship, but its good he's got a chance.
  19. Marco4
    Is there the interest there, though? The big European leagues have been established for about 100 years, and there's teams regularly pulling in 50,000 fans every week as well as being known the world over. For MLS to get that, it will be a slow, long and painful process. The easiest way I can see it happening is that the US national team starts performing better in major tournaments and global interest in them, and knowledge of the players increases. That would inspire a few more fans - in Europe - to look at the MLS clubs more seriously. There's also the disadvantage that Europe is, really, the hub of the game and the best players are on display in the European Champions League - MLS can't compete with that, period. The best it can do for the forseeable future is to be seen as a base for a lot of very good players, like the leagues of Argentina and Brazil.
  20. Marco4
    Why would he honestly say this? Doesn't he want to further the MLS and have it become a more world renowned league? I don't want all of our good players leaving to play in Europe. I want them to stay in the US and play. I know people have differing opinions on this matter but you would think that a former US National Team player and former MLS player wouldn't want all of the good American players to leave the US. Is the money on offer in Europe not far, far more than the money on offer in MLS? That's surely going to go through these players' minds.
  21. Marco4
    Let's get some runs! At least 1.
  22. Marco4
    "I hate walks," Zambrano said. This is the entire Zambrano pre-game quoting on MLB.com. Why do we love Z?
  23. Marco4
    Its important that Z leaves that much destruction in his wake, but only of the Marlins batting line up and, I hope, pitcher. Go Cubs!
  24. Marco4
    I'm a big fan of the chilli nut, that's a no shell, no skin job.
  25. Marco4
    Its put a smile on my face, for sure. And Maddux's ERA? What gives? \:D/ Actually, now I think, what about my fantasy points for Maddux? Wicked smart.
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