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I don't. When he plays the Falcons win. When he doesn't they lose. OK, maybe some people speak to highly of him, but he is a great QB, IMO. Obviously you haven't watched many games with Schaub at the helm... Actually I haven't. Has he played in many? I remember one last year that did not turn out too well. He played against the Pats this year and played pretty well. Atlanta almost (and probably should have) won that game.

That's a character from The Office. Don't know the actor's name though, or his character's, even though I watched it last night. I do know that he convinced a coworker that it was Friday when it was really Thursday though. Ahhh, ok, I think I know who you're talking about. Haven't watched that show much but I'm pretty sure I know who it is. Think his name's Jim isn't it?

Go figure. The Padres trade him to the White Sox, he does nothing, he sits on the bench the entire World Series, he comes in for one at bat on a fluke hunch from one of Ozzie Guillen's inferiors, he hits basically the series-clinching homer, and then he goes back to the Padres, where he will likely suck the remainder of his career. Story of the White Sox's 2005 season.

Saginaw Valley State to be precise, I think they're a D-II team. It was an exhibition game after all. Are you guys seeing what Duke is doing to Seton Hall?? Geez...those guys could go unbeaten playing like that.

Why the quotations? Probably because that was the week where people were saying "this is the vick we've waited to see!" Interestingly, vick's season qb rating is identical to his career rating Ah, the week where stated he proved he could pass? Yeah, the first time he broke 200 yards this season. Of course, Josh McCown threw for 367 against Carolina, but no one gave him enough credit. Granted the Cards lost the game...

I love sleeping with the AC on. My roommate last year had to hate it when I still had the fan on in mid-November with the window open. Slugger, who's the dude in your avatar?

My Telecommunications prof answered this one for me today: Better to have weather you can bundle up for then have weather that's too hot no matter what you're wearing.

If that trainer even says the word "hitting" this off-season, shoot him.

Heilman is an ND alumnus. :) I still don't want him but I thought I'd bring that up. The ND guy I want on the Cubs is Grant Johnson, whom we already have.

Yes, NY, Hendry was helped along in those trades, but that doesn't change the fact that these guys helped us land our best offensive players.

Ball State forced 28 turnovers in their exhibition game against Saginaw Valley. If that performance is any indication of our defense for the regular season, I am hard-pressed to find a team that can take a possible MAC title from us, with the exception of the defending champs the Bobcats. We'll likely find out a lot about Ball State in two December games: vs Butler and vs Indiana. However since the Hoosiers refused to schedule us during the school year and I live 3 hours away from BSU, I won't be able to go to the IU game. I could voice my opinion about that but the results wouldn't be family friendly.

Choi and Cruz were especially disappointing. Cruz had a nice September in 2001 and Choi did the same in 2002 and then they proceeded to suck the following seasons when given opportunities. I never thought much of Bobby Hill.

Because I don't think anybody believes that Nomar can still play a passable shortstop. I know at least one person who does. http://www.msbaseball.com/photogallery/BOS/nomar_garciaparra/Lots%20of%20girls%20think%20Nomar%20Garciaparra%20is%20cute.jpg

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Pretty simple IMO. The ND team that lost to MSU wasn't very good. The ND team that has played ever since (nearly beating USC then routing BYU, UT and Navy) would have a shot at beating any team in America. I agreed with Mandel's column. Notre Dame has been dominant in their last three games with the exception of about a quarter and a half of the UT game. They've scored 49, 42 and 42 the last three weeks. And yes, the BYU and Navy D's aren't great, but the UT defense was holding a very good bunch of SEC teams under 20 points consistently, and Notre Dame piled up 28 offensive points on them (plus the 2 Zibby TDs). Bottom line, is that Notre Dame these days is looking a lot like a sixth-ranked team, whereas these other teams, such as Oregon, OSU, UCLA, etc. have not been looking very good these days. I think Mandel made this point well by talking about how VT, Oregon, Bama, etc. have played lately. Oregon, UCLA and Alabama in particular have not been very good lately, and if you look for a moment past the one-game record differential, Notre Dame is completely outperforming those teams. The schedule argument can't really apply either, because while ND has dominated UT and Navy the last couple of weeks, Bama has been failing to get in the endzone on a pitiful Mississippi State team, Oregon has been having to orchestrate crazy comebacks to beat Washington State, UCLA had to come back on Stanford and then got blitzed by a Zona team that then turned around and got smoked by the Washington Fighting Willinghams. Schedule or no schedule, the Irish have looked as good over the last month as any team in America besides the undefeateds and a couple of other high-ranked teams (LSU for instance).

That might be one of the funniest things I've ever read on here. Even funnier if you imagine Len Kasper saying it. :lol: :lol: :lol: Great post...

Cubs giving up way too quickly? It was either get rid of him or watch him leave. We're not giving up on anything. Does Rotoworld even know that Leicester was a Rule 5 guy?

He was seriously our best reliever for a long time in 2004. I don't know what happened to him, but I hope he figures it out in Texas. Wonder who the player will be. Alan Benes? :lol: :lol: :lol: That would make it, what, 3 times that he's been the PTBNL in a Cubs/Rangers trade?

He was seriously our best reliever for a long time in 2004. I don't know what happened to him, but I hope he figures it out in Texas. Wonder who the player will be.

Ramirez took a big step back defensively in 2005. He was much better in 2004. Really? Well, I didn't see him alot. Maybe I just saw him on his good days, but I was surprised at some of the plays that he made look easy. Ramirez was an above average fielding 3rd baseman in 2004 IMO, and then took a big step to below average this year. Mostly his arm going out of control and overshooting DLee a lot (which is very hard to do).

That really wouldn't be that much of a monster year for Aramis. He already had 36 and 103 with a .318/.373 in 2004, so that would be a small improvement on 2004. I really don't see why he can't put up numbers like that next year, or maybe even better.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That instantly becomes my favorite sportswriting piece of the year. I'm saving that puppy.

Remember when the Cubs/Cards game in June was on Fox and they mic'd up Dempster and he did that hilarious sportscaster bit in the bullpen? Then he joked around with a few Cardinal fans from the pen later in that game. And the Cubs won that one. :) Dempster's awesome. Seems like a guy you'd love to sit around and chat with.

Sweet, Vance just called everyone on the Cubs but Lee deadbeats! :D Well....Ramirez was pretty good. And he was injured for most of August/September, and DLee STILL managed to put up 1.000+ OPS's in those two months, and also hit 14 homers in those months. Of course thanks to the Corey/Hairston/Neifi/Macias gang of idiots, Lee had 24 RBIs to show for those 14 homers.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Priceless. Dumpster-Man is always good for some laughs. :)