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  1. Andy
    Moises wears his emotions on his sleeve, and I don't think his reaction should have been all that surprising to anyone. Plus, he apologized for his reaction before Game 7. Bottom line is that Gonzalez had the highest F% of all NL shortstops in 2003 and that was a routine grounder. Even distracted, any competent player should be expected to make that play.
  2. Andy
    I think I have to go with the "blow it up" crowd. Build around Prior, Z, Ramirez, Lee, Barrett and our young guys (Murton, Cedeno, Hill, Pie, et al), and go for young talent via trades, draft and FA. This group as presently assembled has little chance of going anywhere in the near future.
  3. Andy
    You do know that thing's rigged, right? They'll take you deep on the 3rd pitch every single time. My friend threw it at Barry's head and he still went yard. (Although knowing what he puts in his body, that's not entirely illogical...)
  4. Andy
    BSU head coach Tim Buckley was fired today. Inevitable after the new athletic director came in and Buckley had a 10-18 season in response. Despite the program's recent struggles, BSU still becomes one of, if not the top opening at a mid-major school this off-season. It will be interesting to see if AD Tom Collins makes a "safe" hire or tries to make a big splash for his first major task at Ball State.
  5. Andy
    Your printer is broken but the Cubs won't let you know for 3 weeks. LMFAO :lol: Try the "Towel Trick"... I think maybe we need the printer to have a few more simulated prints before we can make a decision on whether it will print properly or not. Good idea. But it's NOT an injury. It's just a program designed to built up toner strength. We still expect the printer to make its first scheduled printing in three weeks.
  6. Andy
    That was SouthSideRyan, but until now he was right. However, Prior has proven to be just another Kerry Wood. The only difference is that we never know the extent of his problems until just after we start to think we can survive without Kerry...
  7. Andy
    Yup. Pretty much. And when the Cubs did have a guy who was healthy and pitched well, they lowballed him and let him go to Atlanta for 11 productive years.
  8. Andy
    Game 6 was the last time I could ever be optimistic about the Cubs. Ever since then, it's been all bad, all the time. Although the fact that we've head roughly 8,563 DL trips in the last two years hasn't helped. I'll still never forget so much about that season. I cried when Karros caught that DP ball to clinch the division on the 2nd to last day of the season. Cried when we won the NLDS. Lost my head on the Sammy 9th inning homer and the Aramis granny in the LCS. Game 6 ruined everything. And I never, ever, ever blamed Bartman for anything. He's just part of the mythos. It was all Gonzalez. Got sucked back in a little bit in Game 7 after Wood hit the homer (if we'd won that game - instant legend status for life for Wood). Nothing ever felt right about 04. With the 03 Borowski that team probably wins it all, but the pen was just all kinds of awful. The Victor Diaz game was the last straw, and the 16K Prior no-decision leading to a loss at the end of the year was another straw. 05 sucked except for DLee. I hope 06 is better, but it looks more and more like 04 redux, except without the winning record.
  9. Andy
    NONONONONONONONO So, you don't like this idea, right? I'm not sure your point was clear. :wink:
  10. Andy
    If Japan beats Korea in a game lower-scoring than 8-7, we're out. If the U.S. loses to Mexico, we're out.
  11. Andy
    Would it be less controversial to call it something like the "ETA of Return Thread" or something? It would be kind of nice to have all the Prior/Wood/Miller/Lee information inside one thread.
  12. Andy
    Major props to whoever changed DaveW's tagline to Gracie's Girl's "would have Derrek Lee's baby". :D
  13. Andy
    This actually got me thinking...why is it that you never see marginal major league starters suffer major injuries?
  14. Andy
    Is there really any doubt? I mean, who here doesn't expect there to be a tear, or something that causes him to miss significant time. *sigh* I can remember when I used to be an optimistic Cubs fan. When was that? My Cubs optimism lasted about from Game 4 of the 2003 NLCS to the 8th inning of Game 6 and never came back. He started the trifecta back in 2005 when he suffered his eight millionth setback causing him to not have a full minor league season yet again.
  15. Andy
    Beware Syracuse, Flames my friend. They killed me last year when I picked them to win it all. First and hopefully last time that my champ gets knocked out on the first weekend...
  16. Andy
    I'm assuming sarcasm? Of course. Oh my, Mike Seidman has turned up on an NFL roster? Wow. He's been the Panthers' backup tight end for the past two seasons, I believe.
  17. Andy
    I didn't have anywhere else to put this but I need to ask Raisin if he has a contact in the Panthers' front office...Shaun Williams became the 4th UCLA alum to suit up for Carolina for the 2006 season, joining DeShaun Foster, Ricky Manning, and Mike Seidman.
  18. Andy
    Monmouth beat Hampton easily tonight in the play-in game. Not that it matters but I never seem to correctly guess the winner of those things.
  19. Andy
    Duke/WV Memphis/UCLA UConn/UNC Nova/OSU WV/UCLA UConn/Nova UConn over UCLA First round lower seeds winning: Bucknell over Arkansas, UNC Wilmington over GW, Wisconsin over Arizona, Alabama over Marquette, George Mason over MSU, Utah State over UW, and UW-Milwaukee over OU AND Florida
  20. Andy
    Dominicans win. Sorry, Z. :(
  21. Andy
    Bases loaded, 2 outs, DR 2, Venezuela 1, 9th inning. Gotta love this. Come on Venezuela!
  22. Andy
    Reyes on 3rd with Mo at the plate. Mo lines out to first, and they almost double off Reyes. Big insurance run off the board for DR.
  23. Andy
    It would be one heck of a road to hoe having to beat those three teams AFTER they lost in round one. :wink: In all seriousness, it would be tough. Lucky for them, I have that road being Iowa, Cal and Duke. A little less difficult.
  24. Andy
    So we need Korea to beat Japan, and beat Mexico by enough to secure the runs-given-up tiebreaker.
  25. Andy
    Pretty much describes life as a Cubs fan, doesn't it?
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