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espn's production quality is [expletive]

what a douche

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100421&content_id=9468214&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc "Cubs find unlikely heroes in Silva, Soriano"

"what?"

Seriously? This happens all the time. happens all the time?

this is exactly the sort of trade i don't want. Trading something valuable to add a bullpen arm to a crap team.

What an amazing twist that would be for Clausen if he's picked up by Pittsburgh and allowed to sit behind or share time with Leftwich for a year. Please be true.

And making his determination that Soto isn't hitting enough after 2 games is asinine The question is , Is Soto a Jerome Walton in the making? ROY then bust Do you realize he's hitting .286/.459/.429 right now? Lou doesn't seem to, so why should anyone else?

i've got plenty of hatred to go around. Hendry and Lou don't have to fight over it.

if only there was evidence of a connection between obp and runs, maybe we'd have some idea of how to improve the team

I wasn't using music to suggest it's wise to have a separate topic of 3 posts for each new album that's released. Even if those are contained within subforums, it would clutter those subforums. I just don't see the need here, especially when the search function would allow you to find the specific posts about a particular game fairly quickly.

so further down that line of thinking...do we have a thread for every individual album or band? no we have a music thread. those 5 tv shows (some more than others) are heavily discussed. maybe a separate thread for 1-2 video games makes sense, but i don't think the benefit warrants it at this point.

I think tfarks is right. this isn't intended to be a video game site. So having a thread for every different video game clogs social at the expense of many posters that don't care about video games for the convenience of a few. I can understand why this is burdensome for you, but unfortunately for you in this case, your convenience is outweighed by the convenience of many others.

yeah, that's just not true.

maybe you haven't seen the cubs hat thread

1. He drove without a motorcycle helmet which is against the law (not that big of a deal to me though). 2. He drove without a motorcycle license (bigger deal than #1) 3. After the accident he said he wouldn't wear a helmet still which was a very stupid thing to say and he retracted it a week later after the NFL and Steelers talked to him. Although all relatively minor all of those are misconduct by the NFL rules. As for the Holmes comment and the Steelers I somehow had missed that he had a positive drug test. That changes things. However, Roethlisberger should still without question get a 1-4 game suspension (I would go 2). so you're saying even if he did absolutely nothing wrong (with respect to this thing in the night club) and this was all actually a misunderstanding or false allegations (I don't really know what happened), he should still get suspended 2 games and it's racist if he doesn't get some sort of suspension? Read the NFL Conduct Policy. Whether fair or not they can and will suspend for reasons having a lot to do with morals. Getting drunk and hooking up with a drunk girl in the bathroom of a bar falls into that category. The NFL Conduct Policy states that NFL employees, of which players are included, are held to a higher standard than regular people and that they can be suspended even if no criminal activity occurred. One time for a player in this type of situation can be forgiven and the player can learn a lesson without a suspension. A second time, especially in a short amount of time, means the player didn't learn his lesson last time so a suspension is needed because the player doesn't seem to get it when he is let off hook without one. well, hooking up with a girl at a bar and being in a motorcycle accident not wearing a helmet (which wasn't against the lay) seem like the kinds of fun/stupid things that a lot of nfl players do but that aren't evidence of moral bankruptcy. I guess I'm just trying to understand the racist thing, but I think the answer is, it made no sense.

http://www.lids.com/pid/20002444 or http://www.lids.com/pid/20009094

I think he added "Jesus" at the end and not in the context of a prayer or similar.

In my two (brief) interctions with him, he was more than a capable, functioning adult. Not a big deal, just a sign of ignorance. I was pointing out an error, so he could learn and improve. He tried to defend it, I responded. Edit: Mineaswell move on, their are bigger issues Pot, meet Kettle. :-)) not that garwilly needs defending, but the first one is a typo missing 1 letter. much different than not knowing what literally means and defending your incorrect usage. the second was sarcasm. if you haven't seen "mineaswell" in a Cubbiebum post yet, you haven't been paying much attention.

1. He drove without a motorcycle helmet which is against the law (not that big of a deal to me though). 2. He drove without a motorcycle license (bigger deal than #1) 3. After the accident he said he wouldn't wear a helmet still which was a very stupid thing to say and he retracted it a week later after the NFL and Steelers talked to him. Although all relatively minor all of those are misconduct by the NFL rules. As for the Holmes comment and the Steelers I somehow had missed that he had a positive drug test. That changes things. However, Roethlisberger should still without question get a 1-4 game suspension (I would go 2). so you're saying even if he did absolutely nothing wrong (with respect to this thing in the night club) and this was all actually a misunderstanding or false allegations (I don't really know what happened), he should still get suspended 2 games and it's racist if he doesn't get some sort of suspension?

He's accusing the NFL, not the Steelers. May want to re read what he said, he accused both How'd I miss that? First line and all. Anyway, it's a huge stretch in both instances. possibly b/c it's so insane that your mind couldn't process it

apparently not. oh, and http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5077474.

Wow, Pitt was very quick to deal Holmes assuming its offical. Funny considering they would never to it to Roethlisberger. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=9611 true, but WRs are much easier to find that franchise QBs.

i'm bored. please stop. I think embedded videos would be a pretty bad idea. Is there a compelling reason why a link isn't good enough?

I just heard that ND's top prospect, Matt James, died in Florida today. Early report is he fell off a balcony. Ugh. ETA: http://www.local12.com/content/breaking_news/story/St-X-Football-Star-Dies-In-Fall/wFyMex2zJ0awB_XCAFvaSQ.cspx