Andy

Dusty names Jose Macias as his 2nd hitter, centerfielder, 1st guy off bench in every game he does not start That will be the 2nd part of that headline Then on August 1st it will be: Cubs deal Derrek, Ramirez due to low RBI totals

This game got gifted to the Sox. Two cross-country flights in less than 24 hours, a spent bullpen, and the Halos have to send Paul Byrd to the hill because everyone else went last series. If the Angels pull this one off I will be stunned and happy about it.

Some people were angry at PSU for canceling 4 official visits for this weekend, but it was the right move. Since it was a night game, all day Saturday was taken up by the Ohio State game. Really, they'd only have a couple of hours on Sunday to talk with the recruit and show them around campus before they'd have to leave and head back home. Still, over 30 recruits made unofficial visits and were on the sidelines during the game, and I don't think can underestimate what a game like that can do for recruiting. Close game, national TV, beating a national powerhouse, with 110,000 fans behind you (OK maybe like 105,000, there were some Buckeye fans there). I had chills, and I was up in the stands... I can't imagine how it felt to a 17 or 18 year old high school senior standing and looking up, hearing the roar of the crowd. Hopefully the effects of that game will translate not only into a great rest of this year, but also a great recruiting class that will keep PSU good for years to come. Logan-El is the third ranked guard right now. Not too shabby. However he already gave a soft verbal to Maryland, and still has to visit Florida and Tennessee. If he is moving PSU to the top of his list after already verbaling to Maryland, and he still has more visits I would not put a lot of stock into what he says. I see what you are saying about the cancellation of the visits but I thought that was pretty bad for them to do. Why cancel four visits on the biggest home weekend of the year, but still allow others to come unofficially? It seemed to me that if you are trying to sell your football program, why not bring them in for a huge game such as what they had this weekend. However I hope to see PSU get some recruits and build a good program up again. Just get rid of JoePa. :wink: JoePa is no longer the problem. The gripe was that he wasn't giving young kids a chance. But now the top three wide receivers on the team are all freshmen. Paterno or not, I think the Nittany Lions tally a championship by the end of the 2007 season.

How about this: Prior, Zambrano, Wood, Maddux and Williams through the infield; cut Lee, Ramirez and Walker; and no starting pitching at all. World Series here we come! Forget that. Eight pitchers, all playing in left field, and Ramirez pitching. We'll have Blanco close. We will NOT be stopped!!!

Against the White Sox? I disagree, he has sucked his last 4 or so starts anyways... http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20051010&content_id=1245392&vkey=news_ana&fext=.jsp&c_id=ana if Colon misses the whole series (which might be possible), the Sox have no excuse to not winning the ALCS. And yet watch them lose anyway. They probably wouldn't even be there if the BoSox didn't insist on pulling a Cubs with RISP or if Graffanino knew how to field a friggin groundball. Anyone notice former Chicago players did a lot for the Sox so far in the playoffs? First Clement, then Graffanino. I expect Colon to come back and give up a game winning homer somewhere to keep up the tradition.

uhm... NO. I think by "development" he means "all sorts of f---ing arm trouble". You'll have to excuse him, he used the wrong synonym.

Angels>Cards>Astros>Yanks>ChiSox So thank the lord the Halos are ahead in the eighth inning.

Yeah the new post thing isn't working for me and it is constantly referring me to that max IP screen...I don't have premium if that makes a difference.

It ain't just the Sox fans that make that stadium a crap heap. Regarding Jabroni...thanks for the warning...I have gotten a few IMs from him and didn't realize who he was...now I have done the sensible thing and blocked him.

So I guess I was the only Cub fan who liked Chip???? Funny if anything was going to get me ridiculed I thought it would be the second half of that sentence...

Amen, brother. He's got nothing on Chip Caray but Len Kasper is possibly the most underrated sportscaster in the business. I think he's awesome. I don't know why Brenly keeps getting these honors, he seemed to ramble endlessly during the season. If he were replacing McCarver, I'd be all for it, though.

If the Halos go down tonight, I may not watch another game this season. The only four teams I dislike would be the last ones standing. How evil are the Baseball Gods anyway?

The best option right now is an Angels-Cardinals World Series. I don't much like the Cardinals, but the fact is that with a healthy team, the Cubs would have been much better than Houston this season. The Cards are a good team that deserves to be in and their fans are, for the most part, classy. As for the Angels, I don't particularly care for them either, but they're not the White Sox or the Yankees. If we have a ChiSox-Stros Series I might just go 2003 and pretend that baseball ended early.

Wang may try to work Pujols inside, and if he does that then I truly believe that Wang will bust out and become just as good as the Big Unit at sticking it to the opposition.

I know that now, but the press was saying Pitt was overrated by halftime of ND's win over them. Of course Disney gainfully employs Mark May despite his disastrous prediction that the Irish would start 0-6. I think ND can beat USC...I have no clue whether they will but I will say that Weis has overwhelmed all the defenses except for UM so far...not that this means much, but I think he's got something special planned this week.

I was just judging on this weekend's events. Minnesota's win at the Big House makes PSU's blowout of the Gophers look even better, and makes ND's win over the Wolverines less impressive. PSU's win over Northwestern looks better after the Wildcats beat an undefeated Wisconsin team yesterday. The ND wins versus Pitt and Washington are wins over garbage teams, and the win over Purdont looks less impressive since the Boilermakers got thoroughly trashed by Iowa at home yesterday. And the obvious difference, ND has a loss and PSU doesn't. I guess we will get a better view of where they stand when PSU travels to Michigan this week. That will be a very, very tough game for PSU... so much emotional energy went into beating Ohio State, and Michigan will likely be very angry after losing to the Gophers. Fair analysis. I think the ND's schedule looks a little weaker every week. It doesn't help that the Big 10 keeps beating up on each other. USA Today Poll just came out Week 7 USA Today Poll 1. USC (57) 5-0 1,544 2. Texas (4) 5-0 1,488 3. Virginia Tech (1) 6-0 1,425 4. Georgia 5-0 1,348 5. Florida State 5-0 1,290 6. Miami 4-1 1,187 7. Alabama 5-0 1,156 8. LSU 3-1 1,049 9. Notre Dame 4-1 998 10. Penn State 6-0 942 11. Texas Tech 5-0 918 12. UCLA 5-0 862 13. Florida 5-1 840 14. Boston College 5-1 657 15. Ohio State 3-2 572 16. California 5-1 563 17. Michigan State 4-1 540 18. Tennessee 3-2 473 19. Louisville 4-1 460 20. Auburn 4-1 444 21. Oregon 5-1 311 22. Minnesota 5-1 303 23. Wisconsin 5-1 293 24. Colorado 4-1 184 25. West Virginia 5-1 91 VT closes the gap between them and Texas! ND # 9! People were calling Pitt and Michigan overrated teams as soon as ND beat them, and ever since they have made excuses for every ND win, so I'm not surprised. I'd be shocked if even one presser picks ND to beat the Trojans next week even though USC has looked mediocre in their last three first halves and ND has thoroughly dominated all their opponents except for the Spartans.

This game is setting offensive football back 50 years.

13 million in freed up Sosa money -- 8M for Giles 5M for Nomar

I think they do factor in because they factor in offensively. What does it matter if you're 117th or 116th though? There are 119 teams so you won't be last either way.

While I'm sure no one really cares, my BSU Cardinals just finished outlasting Western Michigan 60-57 in FIVE overtimes, ending the Broncos' three game win streak. No Bottom 10 this week, baby!!!!! In fact we have a puncher's chance of winning the MAC West division! :)

I would not have guessed that Texas had been worse than we were.

That's what USC can do to you. They'll let you think you can win and then they'll pick you off inside their own 10 and drive 90+ yards for a TD inside of a couple of minutes.

INT Trojans. There goes the upset bid.

And now Zona is driving right back down the field...Jeez. To the USC 31 now.

At least they scored again, 35-21 now with about 13 mins left.