Andy

Seconded. The Pac-10 has merely five bowl-eligible teams, just as a side note.

If I hadn't already lost all faith in karma by being a Cubs fan, that would have done the job.

At this point, I'm not on the Jim Hendry BandWGN still, but I'm not ready to jump on the hate Hendry BandWGN. I'm just gonna keep hoping at this point. Mayube some praying too. Wait, I've been bamboozled. According to your avatar, Zito is now a Cub. Can we still make Hill comparisons? :D LOL. Don't listen to the troll in my avatar he says whatever he wants. I bet by tomorrow he will be proclaiming Dunn or Abreu a Cub. Now they're invading my sig note- none of these are specific references to anything. I nominate you for best av and sig ever, WF22. :D

Do it, Jim. It'd be a small step towards me disbanding my new BandWGN.

That part should tell you why he's not a Cub. It should tell you why a lot of things haven't happened yet.

The "I Hate Jim Hendry" BandWGN is always open to accepting more members, especially as he continues to do more indefensible things like proclaiming our 3rd or 4th-best pitching prospect "untouchable".

I had a couple of slow pageloads, but other than that, scot-free.

So did many other coaches. Why is that important exactly? Cause it seems most coaches place their teams higher than the average? Not if the average is 2. I still can't believe Bellotti and Willingham both ranked the Ducks 4th and ND 9th. In comparison, Weis had the Irish 4th, but ranked Oregon sixth. It seems almost as if Bellotti and Willingham were trying to push Oregon into a BCS bowl somehow. Is putting Oregon 4th really outrageous? They're schedule wasn't garbage, and their only loss was against USC. You're the one that's been saying that you could make a case for all the two loss teams to make a BCS bowl, why not the same here? Oregon's schedule was garbage. I really feel that since you feel so strongly that ND's schedule was garbage, you would probably feel the same about Oregons. I don't want to start another ND schedule debate, but I am just using it as a measure for what you view as a bad schedule. What about Oregons is impressive. Cal? Fresno State? Besides those two I see no argument for any team on it. Also they lost to USC by 32 at home. What I was going to post originally was that the ACC could lose their automatic berth per the BCS. It is in the media guide, an adobe file 2002 - 14 - Florida State 2003 - 7 - Florida State 2004 - 8 - Virginia Tech 2005 - 22 - Florida State 12.75 average. Edit: The lines for the rest of the Bowl games are up. Biggest suprise to me, Oregon favored by a field goal against Oklahoma. Why are you surprised? I'm not sure any of the general public knows anything about Oregon except that they're 10-1 and that ND "jobbed" them out of a BCS bowl.

I don't know how many people will agree, but I for one am glad that trade is false.

Would deleting old threads that haven't been active since before Opening Day 2004 be effective? I very much doubt people are going to miss those much. Maybe putting in an "auto delete" feature in threads that have been inactive for, say, 18 months? I'm sure it would give you enough room, at least for now. You could have an archive for the more popular or funny threads, like the famous Nomar thread. Also just thinking out loud. Wasn't around then. Could you let me know what thread that is? here you go Classic. :) It's too bad I wasn't here at the time, I would have been able to enjoy it even more thoroughly.

The "I Hate Jim Hendry" BandWGN is officially created...

Whoa, wait a minute..... Furcal is going to make more than Tejada? :shock: Looks like tejada is making 10/12/13/13 Furcal is the second highest paid SS behind Jeter. Third because I still count ARod as the Yankee SS. Just because Joe Torre lies to everybody and sticks him at third doesn't make him a 3B. :wink:

No way in hell they go 7/84 with Damon.

Am I crazy or does that trade not seem all that wildly off if we offered more prospects? You are crazy. I already knew that. I'm following this team, aren't I?

It's pretty obvious from whoever it was (Vance?) who posted that ramblings row of exclamation points right above his MS Paint illustration of Zito as a Cub. Actually its a direct quote. Wait is it the parenthetical statement from M4D's Zito rumor mongering last night?

Big offseason for Blue Jays fans.

Am I crazy or does that trade not seem all that wildly off if we offered more prospects?

It's pretty obvious from whoever it was (Vance?) who posted that ramblings row of exclamation points right above his MS Paint illustration of Zito as a Cub.

:shock: :shock: :shock: The Mariners are beyond stupid.

Maybe he's afraid to take on a reclamation project. Say what you will about Pierre but he plays most everyday and if Hendry has his way, he's our new CF. On the other hand, Bradley played in 75 games last year. In fact, I was shocked to see that he's never played 150 games in a season (not more that 140 actually with his second highest being 101games). Wilkerson would be nice but I think it's a pipe dream. So you would give up Pie for Pierre as rumored? The Marlins aren't getting Pie. Hendry may be a moran but he likes Pie and he's not giving up our top prospect for a light-hitting CF from a team that's in firesale mode.

Pujols and Gary will make up and Bennett will hit 15 homers in 100 AB.

Neify wants to be a Cub. Hawkins also wanted to be a Cub. Turns out he didn't wanna be a Cubs closer though... Maybe we could say that players with actual talent who want to play for the Cubs, but only in the position they want... do well. Todd Hundley had enough talent to hit 40 homers in a season, wanted to play for the Cubs, played catcher and was probably the worst regular position player in the history of the franchise.

At least the Bulls didn't give Darius Songaila the ball at all the key situations. Oh wait... Tyson Chandler gets paid 60 million effing dollars not to give up 15 offensive boards to the other team (especially ADRIAN GRIFFIN), and he doesn't do it. Is it too late to waive him?

I understand where you are coming from. The only thing that gives me hope is Duncan (our pitching coach) is great with vertern pitching. Thats a big dent in the budget to have to rely on hope. Then again it is the Cards so you have reason to be positive about hope and luck, whereas us Cubs fans.....not so much :wink: If I was a Cardinals fan I wouldn't even flinch at throwing money at Burnett, since we all know if he goes to STL he'll become Walter Johnson. I wonder why more players don't consider that when choosing where to sign...

So did many other coaches. Why is that important exactly? Cause it seems most coaches place their teams higher than the average? Not if the average is 2. I still can't believe Bellotti and Willingham both ranked the Ducks 4th and ND 9th. In comparison, Weis had the Irish 4th, but ranked Oregon sixth. It seems almost as if Bellotti and Willingham were trying to push Oregon into a BCS bowl somehow.