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  1. USSoccer
    No problem. It's not like they'd have an advantage if they watched the NFC games live on TV, they don't strategize based off the video from the TV feeds. I think this is obvious to most knowledgable people, including the mediots. I think the problem, as seen by those who complain about it (not me), is that Lovie should have been preparing by watching game tape of his potential opponents and maybe preparing Rex, although that is what Wade Wilson is for. No rational person can expect these guys to be watching tape and preparing Rex 24/7. They have off days. Nobody has a problem with them taking off days. Nobody would be complaining if he sat at home and watched the game with his wife. This is just complaining for the sake of complaining without any reasonable basis for the complaint. It's irrational panic by a fanbase terrified of losing in the first round. If the Bears lose Sunday, it's not going to be because Lovie went to Indianapolis
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    Is he even on anymore? yes Oh. It was pretty inevitable that I'd leave someone off. Just pretend Cowherd is Rome. They're pretty much on the same level anyway.
  3. USSoccer
    Is he even on anymore?
  4. USSoccer
    This is out list of the people that are repsonsible for making sports on TV nearly unwatchable.
  5. USSoccer
    Oh, he's there.
  6. USSoccer
    In ordeer to properly determine who's terrible, I'm going to break this up by category. This is the poll for worst writer.
  7. USSoccer
    Should I make a new poll, eliminating those with less than 3 votes, and adding such luminaries as Theismann, Buck, Vitale, Salisbury, DeLuca, Walton, Bayless and Lupica?
  8. USSoccer
    I have no problem with him wanting to find out the 100 names because I want to know too. When is the steroid era? The steroid era is considered to be 1993-2004. The trouble with his logic is that baseball had no policy against PED's for that period. No policy means that you cannot hold a player accountable for what he might or might not have done. It's a stupid, moralizing witch hunt undertaken by people who grew up with the fairy tale notion of what baseball actually is. Those people are now sportswriters, and have taken it upon themselves to decide who and who is not a "cheater", using rumor, innuendo and their eyes to jump to conclusions that I'm sure are 90% incorrect. Gaylord Perry? Oh, man, he was crafty. HOF for him. Mark McGwire? No way, man, he used a legal, over the counter supplement. Plus, he babbled and waffled in front of a grandstanding Congressional panel. Ship him to some island of misfit ballplayers where he can sit and think about the damage he caused to our sacred game, where no one prior to 1993 ever cheated or took anything to give themselves an edge.
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    Clowny McJournalist was on Mike & Mike on ESPN this morning. I heard a very small part, but he was babbling on how he needs to see the 100 names of players who tested positive, and then hear what they know before he can vote for anyone in the "Steroid Era". Having defended the game of baseball ever so gallantly, he then mounted his shining, white steed, threw his head back gallantly and rode back to the Kingdom of Old-Tyme Baseball where he, HatGuy and Joe Morgan were to paint a mural depicting "Playing The Game The Right Way" on the ceiling of the castle.
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    I could see that with Florida and LSU, but I can't follow you there with Arkansas or Auburn. I think Arkansas and Auburn (especially Auburn) could beat USC or OSU. Rewind. Arkansas lost to Wisconsin. yeah, i suppose you're right. top 2 , then
  11. USSoccer
    I could see that with Florida and LSU, but I can't follow you there with Arkansas or Auburn. I think Arkansas and Auburn (especially Auburn) could beat USC or OSU.
  12. USSoccer
    Wow to Florida beating OSU to death. Then again, the SEC is pretty much hands down the best conference in football. I can think of at least three SEC teams better than any other team in the country.
  13. USSoccer
    I knew I was forgetting some people. I can't believe I missed Skip.
  14. USSoccer
    You really love kneejerk reactions, don't you? One game after a 51 day layoff shows he is a gutless chocking dog. Is Farnsworth there?
  15. USSoccer
    I think we'll have to do a deal where everyone who gets a vote, moves on to a Uber-Bad Journalist poll.
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    I wanted to break it up, but I'm at work and didn't have time to set them all up. Ideally, you'd pick the worst from each group, and then a final worst of the worst poll. FWIW, I went with Cowherd, because of all these people, I feel he brings the least to the table. And with this group, that's saying something. I've never once heard him make a good point. EDIT: Mike Lupica might be worse than HatGuy when it comes to glory days writing.
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    Please evaluate on their lack of knowledge and ability. Think of this as the Cy Young award for poor sports journalism/analysis. I'm including local people in this as well as national media types.
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    I'm not sure this counts as that. If he were against them because they beat their wives or stepped on puppies or something that would be one thing. Not voting because you aren't sure about them actually cheating on the field of play (regardles of how unlikely that is given the players) hardly counts as "moralizing and romanticising" baseball. Isn't his whole thing that he doesn't know who used and who didn't, so he's not voting for anyone because if they used they cheated, and that is a stain on the game? I can't imagine his logic doesn't lead him there, and that's stupid. As has been said tons of times before, the history of baseball is rife with cheating, and the HOF is full of guys who openly cheated. But they're romanticised, and guys who may (or may not) have used PED's are damned because sportswriters now grew up with a silly romantic notion of baseball, and hate the fact that suspected cheaters broke the hallowed, sacred records they grew up revering. Throw the know cheaters out, don't add new cheaters in. I don't see how discouraging cheating "romanticizes" the sport. The problem is that the old cheaters are thought of as colorful. That's hyporcitical.
  19. USSoccer
    I don't see how the Seahawks have a chance at pressuring Rex. Their front 4 hasn't been good all season. If they blitz, they're going to leave an already bad secondary exposed 1 on 1. The only thing that could help their defense is the weather. If the wind is as bad as forcast, it will hamper the passing games of both teams, and even then I like the Bears run offense vs Seattle. Seattle just doesn't match up well anywhere. They don't have that small, shifty slot reciever that gives the Bears trouble. Alexander doesn't have much of a burst right now. Hasselback gets rattled if you hit him a couple times. Jerramy Stevens is inconsistent, and won't have the Roy "I can't cover anyone" Williams defending the middle of the field. Barring an absolute disaster game from Rex, I don't see how we lose. And I don't think this is a team that can force a disaster game out of him. I haven't read anything that uplifting in a while. If we lose I'm holding you accountable US :wink: That's fine, hold me accountable. :D I honestly don't see this as much of a game, unless the weather and/or Rex is bad. I'm thinking something like 24-10.
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    I'm not sure this counts as that. If he were against them because they beat their wives or stepped on puppies or something that would be one thing. Not voting because you aren't sure about them actually cheating on the field of play (regardles of how unlikely that is given the players) hardly counts as "moralizing and romanticising" baseball. Isn't his whole thing that he doesn't know who used and who didn't, so he's not voting for anyone because if they used they cheated, and that is a stain on the game? I can't imagine his logic doesn't lead him there, and that's stupid. As has been said tons of times before, the history of baseball is rife with cheating, and the HOF is full of guys who openly cheated. But they're romanticised, and guys who may (or may not) have used PED's are damned because sportswriters now grew up with a silly romantic notion of baseball, and hate the fact that suspected cheaters broke the hallowed, sacred records they grew up revering.
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    I have to think that the first class of HOF'ers doesn't count in that unanimous voting thing. I mean, who WOULDN'T vote for Ruth, Cobb, Mathewson, Wagner, or Walter Johnson?? Wasn't there some idiot who refused to vote for anyone on the first ballot?
  22. USSoccer
    Nothing like appointing yourself the guardian of all things pure. This guy is a clown, as most HOF voters are. I'm sick of the incessant moralizing and romanticising of baseball.
  23. USSoccer
    I don't see how the Seahawks have a chance at pressuring Rex. Their front 4 hasn't been good all season. If they blitz, they're going to leave an already bad secondary exposed 1 on 1. The only thing that could help their defense is the weather. If the wind is as bad as forcast, it will hamper the passing games of both teams, and even then I like the Bears run offense vs Seattle. Seattle just doesn't match up well anywhere. They don't have that small, shifty slot reciever that gives the Bears trouble. Alexander doesn't have much of a burst right now. Hasselback gets rattled if you hit him a couple times. Jerramy Stevens is inconsistent, and won't have the Roy "I can't cover anyone" Williams defending the middle of the field. Barring an absolute disaster game from Rex, I don't see how we lose. And I don't think this is a team that can force a disaster game out of him. Bobby Inghram looks pretty slow out there against the Cowboys but isn't Branch considered a shiffty speedy receiver? I wouldn't lose sleep game planning for him. He's a good reciever, but he's no Santana Moss or Steve Smith. I don't think he can take over a game.
  24. USSoccer
    I don't see how the Seahawks have a chance at pressuring Rex. Their front 4 hasn't been good all season. If they blitz, they're going to leave an already bad secondary exposed 1 on 1. The only thing that could help their defense is the weather. If the wind is as bad as forcast, it will hamper the passing games of both teams, and even then I like the Bears run offense vs Seattle. Seattle just doesn't match up well anywhere. They don't have that small, shifty slot reciever that gives the Bears trouble. Alexander doesn't have much of a burst right now. Hasselback gets rattled if you hit him a couple times. Jerramy Stevens is inconsistent, and won't have the Roy "I can't cover anyone" Williams defending the middle of the field. Barring an absolute disaster game from Rex, I don't see how we lose. And I don't think this is a team that can force a disaster game out of him.
  25. USSoccer
    He has had a 201 yard (against GB) and a 140 yard game (against SD) since coming back. And he's been held to under 4 ypc in every other game. Alexander really didn't look like he had much of a burst in him for most of that game. We should be able to bottle him up, which means it comes down to our secondary vs Hasselback, and that's a matchup I like.
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