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Now come on guys, Lindsey was just getting herself set for the landing on that jump. She said so herself. :roll: Maybe she was distracted by her Visa Check Card getting stolen. Between Bode and Weir running their mouths and winning nothing, the hockey team tying LATVIA, Ohno falling down, Shani Davis refusing to compete in team pursuit, and now Jacobellis losing gold on a showboat move, it's hard to root for this US team.

Ponson, obviously. Lance Berkman and Conjoined Fetus Lady from the Astros. Craig Wilson and his mullet from Pittsburgh. Derrick "Big Nose" Turnbow from Milwaukee. And anyone on the Reds.

fixed :P Low blow, dude. :wink:

I didn't think any possible way Sammy would hit it. Went utterly insane when he did. What an amazing moment. He really did have a very good playoffs that year as I recall.

I really like the look of PNC and hope to make it there for a game someday. Wrigley and the Cell are unfortunately the only big league parks I've seen close up in person.

It will be a sad day when Cubs.com removes 2004 video highlights from their site. I miss Stoney, and his 3-times-a-game, always-prophetic "another slider in that same spot and this inning is over" comments.

Pet Peeve: Weekday games always on WGN, I have classes on weekdays, I don't get CSN here, I miss many Cubs games because of it. Oh well. Seems like a good TV schedule on the whole.

Zambrano Prior Garland Buehrle Wood In that order.

Fixed misspelling of your own player :wink:

Gordon's play in the 3rd where he was fouled, twisted his body, threw the ball over his shoulder, and it rolled all the way around the rim and in was one of the most beautiful plays I've seen made by a Bull in the last seven years. Naturally, Steve Kerr spends half the game talking about how the Bulls should trade him. Utterly ridiculous.

Quintessential Kerry Wood moment: pitches great for 6 innings, gets the crowd pumped up, and then the bullpen (Rusch in this game) takes exactly two pitches to blow the lead. My friends make fun of me about this game because if you watch the highlight of Overbay's home run, you can see me reaching futilely with my glove over my friend's head to try to catch the ball which was two or three rows behind us.

Roast, that was an awesome post with the pictures. The US flag thing is one of my most fond memories about Sammy. Peteman, I remember that 2001 Rockies game because I went to Six Flags Great America with my best friend that day and when we got back, we saw Sammy on Going, Going, Gone on BBTN having hit three homers (that was incidentally his 2nd of 3 three-homer games that year, yet another record) and instantly thought the Cubs had won easily, only to find out five minutes later that they'd lost something like 14-5. In my biased mind Sammy could've been the MVP in 2001 when he put up a .328-64-160 line, set his career high in walks and OBP, and took a Cubs team that had no business contending (more on that below) to within an inch of the playoffs. While Barry Bonds had a statistically better year, I felt his team was much more talented, with then-defending MVP Jeff Kent protecting him in the lineup. Of the Cubs' 2001 team: - Sammy was one of two Cubs to post a .300 average (Bill Mueller was the other, but only played 70 games) - Sammy was the only one with an OBP above .371 - Unbelievably, he was the only one with a SLG above .560! (McGriff only played 37 games with the Cubs, and 3rd on the list was Rondell White with .529, but he only played 95 games) - Sosa, Eric Young and Ricky Gutierrez were the only ones to get over 500 ABs (showing how injury-riddled and iffy this team was) - Sammy was the only one to score 100 runs (EY had 98 to take 2nd) - Sammy led the team in triples (5-4 over EY) - Sammy was the only one with more than 17 homers (Stairs and White had 17) - Sammy was the only one with more than 66 RBIs (Gutierrez) - Sammy was the only one with more than 52 BBs (Stairs) - Sammy was IBB'd 37 times. The rest of the team was IBB'd 35 times. - Sammy's OPS was 1.174 (.086 more than DLee in 2005) Pitching: - Kerry Wood was the only Cub starter under 3.80 ERA - Jon Lieber was the only Cub to post 200 IP - Wood was the only Cub pitcher to post 200 K's - Cub pitchers that made more than 15 relief appearances: Mike Fyhrie, Ron Mahay, Manny Aybar, Dave Weathers, Courtney Duncan, Juan Cruz, Felix Heredia, Todd Van Poppel, Kyle Farnsworth, Jeff Fassero and Tom Gordon. Of these, only three (Mahay, Farnsworth and Van Poppel) managed sub-3.00 ERAs, every Cub reliever that pitched 20 innings or more allowed at least 4 home runs - Only Lieber, Tavarez, Wood, Van Poppel, Cruz and Aybar managed to win more games than they lost I could probably do this for 1998 and come up with similarly pathetic teammate results, but the point is that in not one, but two seasons, Sammy Sosa took a team that should not have even had a winning season and made them postseason contenders. Not many guys can say that.

Al Harrington is a FA after this season and has indicated he'd play for the Bulls. Paul Pierce and KG are rumored to be on the block, and Ben Wallace is a FA after the season. I'd expect that Harrington would be the one most likely to come here, but I'm not holding my breath for any of them.

Bulls come out firing in the 3rd quarter and take control of the game once again, 68-50. Gordon has 16.

45-24 now. The Bulls look absolutely unstoppable. Gotta give Skiles credit - this is probably the biggest game of the season so far, because if the Bulls lose they'd be 4 out of the 8 spot, as opposed to 2 out if they win, and his team has shown up to play and then some.

He also had the good fortune of Bobby Jenks coming in and kicking tail out of the bullpen. Without Jenks, I'm not sure how well the White Sox would have done in the playoffs. Yeah but a lot of managers wouldn't have put Jenks in the closer role in the first place. He could have put Hermanson back in once he got healthy. When did Hermanson come back? I distinctly remember watching Hermanson blow a 9th inning against the Royals near the end of the season, right before I left the rec center. You were lucky then, because Hermanson didn't blow leads much last year. Probably the most absurd of the many White Sox career years considering he had been barely average much of his career coming in.

Ozzie Guillen doesn't know anything more about being a foreigner than A-Rod or Nomar does. The guy has a crapload of money and one of the easiest jobs one can have. He doesn't know what the hell being a foreigner is like anymore. I'd say more but I'd probably get banned. Summary: Ozzie's an ass.

It's Wood's return in late June at Wrigley. I was at that one. :) Cubs win it 3-2 on a Todd Hollandsworth single in the 9th.

What a load of crap. What would NBC know about sports anyway, considering they let MLB, NFL, and NBA walk over the last seven or so years in favor of the Gravity Games and Arena Football?

Unfortunately, I only went to three Cubs games in my life that Sammy played in. One, in May 2000, Sammy hit a solo home run (his 10th of that season) and the Cubs lost to Pittsburgh 4-2. One of the other two happened to be his disastrous 0-5, 4 K performance against San Diego on 8/12/04 which earned him a chorus of boos from the crowd, including my best friend who I was at the game with. I firmly remember refusing to open my mouth and boo. Even with all the stuff he has done or allegedly done, the man has done too much for the Cubs, and for me, for me to dislike him.

Reposting my farewell from the thread in Transactions. Questions may exist about his character or his possible usage of performance enhancers, but I don't think there are many people who would dispute that, for his accomplishments alone, Sammy deserved a happier ending than this. Sammy, I don't care about Game 162, or the cork incident (on which I wholeheartedly believe you) or the so-called "crappy" 2004 that so many players in baseball would have killed for, or the fact that you couldn't speak English at a court interrogation disguised as a Congressional hearing. The fact is that you were a huge part in me becoming a Cubs fan, and you carried me through many a crappy year in the late 90s - early 00s. And for that, I'll always be grateful. :)

That actually happens all the time in football, but I haven't heard of that in baseball.My favorite story of that is when Steve Beuerlein signed a one-day contract with Carolina to retire as a Panther. :D

Somehow Notre Dame and BSU won on the same night. Neither impressive - ND beat a USF team that is winless in the Big East 62-55, and Ball State beat the worst team in the conference by a 63-60 margin - but both go up in the W column.

I doubt there is more than one person who is honestly expecting 30 starts from Kerry, including Hendry himself.

I like Dempster more every time he talks. :lol: