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They're probably thinking: "once you get past the hype, the bigx really is overrated."

Ouch

It's important to punch that Meineke car care bowl ticket early.

Well, this is true. Then what are all of these rumors about hiring 3 guys to replace him. Really?

Maybe if Robin Ventura had any sort of managerial experience at all. How do you think Ryno thinks that when he wanted to manage the Cubs asked him to go to A ball and work his way up through the minors managing, which he did without complaint, and then when the Cubs job opened he was passed over, and then he sees the White Sox hire a guy with no managerial experience at all? I was anti-Ryno, and still am, but I can imagine it angers him to see that. Why would it anger Ryno that a completely different franchise does something his franchise wasn't willing to do? BUT BILLY'S MOM LET HIM DO IT!

Riggs is unimpressed.

And finally gets the ND/tulane rivalry we've all been clamoring for off the ground Better. Next time focus on recruiting advantages of playing in Kansas and Ames.

No, try again.

After pulling a Shawon Dunston.

Orangebloods typically sucks, do you see who is saying that? Chip Brown. I'm not sure I believe it, just passing it along. Who knows about the accuracy of that, but Dodd did publicly say some time ago that he told Swarbrick that he'd campaign for ND to join the conference in any fashion or something close to that. If it helps stabilize the Big 12 and gets their members a couple of games with ND every season, I can see that.

Yep then it just faded into an impactless, controversy free sunset, forever forgotten. Suuuunshine lollipops rainbows smiley days or sumpin. Doesn't the fact that you guys are so offended for MoneyBall kind of tell you that this book had an impact on the way people perceive and think about and through the sport? Is it against some rule to mock the sheer number of numbers that came post-MoneyBall, which is the root of the joke? What's the big deal here? I'm not sure what this means. And frankly, the argument should have ended after TT's post. The book is about taking advantage of market inefficiencies; baseball was just an interesting vehicle. But it's been misconstrued by a bunch of folks for reasons I can't fully understand (though some reasons, like willful ignorance, are obvious). People that enjoyed moneyball and support the SABR movement (not necessarily the same populations) aren't offended. More often they feel, I don't know, annoyed at the pervasive misunderstanding. I think largely bc its not a difficult concept, but those that want to hate 'new' stats seem so intent on maintaining their ignorance.

It gives them 6 football schools, so the entire conference is in the hands of the ACC. They say "yes please" to UConn and Rutgers/West Virginia and the whole thing is shot. Given that Pitt and Cuse had fled, this probably helps or at least doesn't really hurt. I can't imagine what's left of the Big East being happy to travel non-fb sports to Texas. That conference is down the tubes either way.

The Green Wave is not amused. Are not amused? Big 10 education at work.

It's sad that the Big 12 turned down all those other better schools that were clamoring to get in.

Can't you all leave well enough alone?

It Might Be, but if you can't come up a little short in the face of a friend, then you don't really have a leg to stand on, do you?

Grayshirts I don't know what the second one is, but I'm really proud of Grayshirts. JuCos

No one knows as much about anything as TLR knows about everything.

Every so often you come up with a good one. =D> =D> I think he's only truly fallen flat the one time

Missouri. Now in the eastern part of the south east.

It's probably hard to believe because I never said the bold part. People that cared about him are upset and, in some cases, making irrational arguments. You say you find that funny and that they don't know how biographies "work." That's very different from my statement.

At this point I have to think you are playing dumb. They are talking about a person who they felt very strongly about who died. In depth biographies are generally written about much bigger personas than Walter Payton. And most of his friends are all alive, so they are going to defend him. Defending him is great. I never said anywhere they shouldn't. I was getting a kick out of them seemingly having no clue how biographies typically "work." And your idea of who biographies "should" be written about is incredibly narrowminded and subjective. Some of the best bios are written about people that most of us had no clue even existed until the book showed up. Jesus, what do you expect as a defense from Ditka? That testosterone-filled jock meathead personality isn't an act. These guys witnessed a close friend die fairly young and years later someone writes a book that adds nothing to the public's knowledge, except drug use and infidelity. They're hurt by this, I imagine. As jersey pointed out, he's not a massive public figure. He wasn't an attention seeker. I don't think many people expected that a biography would be written about him. All it's going to do is hurt those that loved him and make the author some money. It's hard for me to believe that you're really surprised that people that loved him are upset even if irrational in their defense. And those best bios about relative unknowns that you mention - are they so great bc they reveal drug use and infidelity or things that actually matter to more than just the people directly involved?

No, they should just wait for the person to die and then write a bunch of mean [expletive]. There's no middle ground.

Hope Tebow enjoyed the media ball-washing while he could.