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  1. Andy
    Not even sure of what this means. I guess you are saying that Baseball is as important as religion. Or that by moving to India one should change religions, which isn't my point. My point is the exact opposite. You are a christian because you were born in America to a chritian family. you didn't choose to become christian, somebody else did that for you. Actually you are very wrong. Some people with feeble minds are born into religion and don't question it, but for most of the people I know, they came to their religious actualization on their own. They choose to be Hindu, or Bhuddist or Catholic, or Lutheran, or whatever. Nobody else did it for them. I was born into religion and I don't feel all that feeble-minded about it.
  2. Andy
    I converted from being a Braves fan in 1999, a couple years after I moved from South Carolina to Indiana, because I felt a closer bond with the Cubs. My parents didn't pass down to me any teams besides Notre Dame, so I had to make my own hay everywhere else.
  3. Andy
    If wins were as important as you claim, you should know that Carlos's career high is 16, not 14. Ah, he was probably thinking of the other Cubs young pitcher that's unfairly blasted for not having enough wins (Wood, whose career high wins is in fact 14).
  4. Andy
    MVC schools have the best shot IMO: Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Wichita State i'll agree with you there. SIU and WSU are in the Sweet 16 on most of my brackets and UNI is in the 2nd round on most of mine as well. Billy Packer dissents. :wink:
  5. Andy
    Considering the apparent value of Todd Walker, Barrett might not have as much value as we might think.
  6. Andy
    MVC schools have the best shot IMO: Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Wichita State The answer is the same as last year: Wisconsin-Milwaukee. How are they going to stop Gray and Bookout with only one guy over 6-7 averaging double digit minutes? I don't know, how'd they stop Dudley and Smith for BC last year? Doing deep analysis for things only ends up causing me to out-think myself.
  7. Andy
    See, I'm the other way around. I fill out one bracket, and use that bracket for every pool I'm in. Filling out multiple brackets may help you win, but if it's not for money, what's the point? It takes all the skill out of it by having five different brackets in my opinion. Had this discussion at work today (slow day in the stock market). One guy said he could take the time to fill out every single bracket combination possible, that way he'd be guaranteed to win. But would he really have won? Hell, I'm in pools for money and I'm using the same one every time. I wouldn't be as proud of my 2003 bracket that had Butler in the sweet 16 and Syracuse in the title game if it had been just one of many different combinations I used. And yeah I'll probably be ruined by Saturday. Oh well. 8)
  8. Andy
    MVC schools have the best shot IMO: Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Wichita State The answer is the same as last year: Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  9. Andy
    Haha, we got Aramis Ramirez for him
  10. Andy

    Duncan

    Andy replied to davew71's topic in General Baseball Talk

    It's hard to say that, right now. He's not quite 25 years old yet, and he's shown steady progress in his minor league career. If he was an average defensive outfielder right now (something he's never worked on), he'd probably be headed for a spot on the 25-man roster right now. If he impresses offensively at Memphis, and if he can learn to play an adequate outfield, then he's got a chance. It's not a GREAT chance, but it's a chance, nontheless. He's certainly not going to be worse than So Taguchi or John Rodriguez, offensively. Say something negative about the Cardinals. Once. If I were a Cards fan, I wouldn't bother doing this. Their management always seems to know what they're doing, unlike some. :?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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...)
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Andy
    NONONONONONONONO So, you don't like this idea, right? I'm not sure your point was clear. :wink:
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Andy
    Major props to whoever changed DaveW's tagline to Gracie's Girl's "would have Derrek Lee's baby". :D
  23. Andy
    This actually got me thinking...why is it that you never see marginal major league starters suffer major injuries?
  24. 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.
  25. 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...
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