Andy

To me it still is to some extent. That has a lot to do with my being just 21 and fresh out of college at the time. This team is obviously the new standard. From day one they've been horsefeathering destroying everyone.

Well now we don't have to wonder if he would've had a no-hitter

He's listening to me To be fair to Lester, that Piscotty grounder wouldn't have been an easy play even if Lester could throw to first.

You can check which games are home and road on the MLB's full schedule page: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/#date=04/01/2017 That's a pain. Interesting thing I found is that the Cubs have a lack of home weekend series in the summer. Always go with friends for one weekend series, and there are only 3 in the mid-June to mid-August time frame I looked: Pirates, STL and Nationals.

I was driving back home tonight during the game (couldn't be a part of the Len tweet storm, but glad to see it went well!), and Coomer was going as close to full blown ripping into West as you'll ever hear him. Talking about how West was putting on a show for no real reason and called it "bad baseball". You know you're a piece of crap when Coomer, who loves everyone as far as I know, gives it to you.

Rizzo, Russell, Bryant, Javy, Hendricks. I would've picked Schwarber instead of Hendricks but since the poll specifically said 2016 Cubs I cheated a little bit as he hasn't been playing. Ross, Contreras, Arrieta and Lester are in the also considered category.

I think I would vote for Bryant, but it would be really hard to pass up Rizzo and Russell, not to mention a handful of others. I think I said it last year too, the best thing about this iteration of the team is that it's damn near impossible to pick a single favorite.

Could've also said "Will Leitch desperately tries to reverse jinx St. Louis' postseason fate while also desperately trying to tell you he's not doing that"

He's earned the title of best QB of all time by making so many Super Bowls, but after Belichick won 11 games with Matt freaking Cassel and now inevitably goes 4-0 with Garoppolo, those two things do deserve mention as well.

Greetings from beautiful Rothbury, MI !!!! Fun fact about Rothbury...it's home to the popular Electric Forest music festival each summer, which is attended by thousands from around the country even though the population of the town is only 432. Did I mention I really, really hate St. Louis ?? Go CUBS !!!

That's an awesome idea. Whenever we decide to do it I'll be happy to contribute a tweet.

With Saban complaining about how the team plays every single week along the way

I got to meet Fred at an NSBB meet up in 07. I don't recall any specific stories from the game, but Fred was a gentleman that day, I do remember that. And I had as much fun reading his posts as anyone's here. RIP buddy, enjoy getting plastered on all the drinks Ernie and Ron are going to buy you in October.

Here is your laugher, Derwood

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama at (19) Ole Miss (3:30 pm, CBS) (2) Florida State at (10) Louisville (12 pm, ABC) (3) Ohio State at (14) Oklahoma (7:30 pm, FOX) Colorado at (4) Michigan (3:30 pm, BTN) South Carolina State at (5) Clemson (12 pm, FSN/ESPN3) (6) Houston at Cincinnati (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) USC at (7) Stanford (8 pm, ABC) Portland State at (8) Washington (8 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional) Georgia State at (9) Wisconsin (12 pm, BTN - Regional) (11) Texas at California (10:30 pm, ESPN) (12) Michigan State at (18) Notre Dame (7:30 pm, NBC) North Dakota State at (13) Iowa (12 pm, ESPN2) Ohio at (15) Tennessee (12 pm, SEC Network) (16) Georgia at Missouri (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (17) Texas A&M at Auburn (7 pm, ESPN) Mississippi State at (20) LSU (7 pm, ESPN2) (21) Baylor at Rice (8 pm Friday, ESPN) (22) Oregon at Nebraska (3:30 pm, ABC) North Texas at (23) Florida (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Texas State at (24) Arkansas (7:30 pm, SEC Network - Alternate) (25) Miami at Appalachian State (12 pm, ESPN) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Akron (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Arkansas State at Utah State (9 pm Friday, CBSSN) Arizona State at UTSA (9:30 pm Friday, ESPN2) Iowa State at TCU (12 pm, FS1) Temple at Penn State (12 pm, BTN - Regional) Kansas at Memphis (12 pm, ESPNU) New Mexico at Rutgers (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Akron at Marshall (12 pm, CBSSN) Middle Tennessee at Bowling Green (12 pm, ESPN3) Vanderbilt at Georgia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Virginia at UConn (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Idaho at Washington State (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) North Carolina A&T at Tulsa (2 pm, ESPN3) Florida Atlantic at Kansas State (2:30 pm, FSN) Fresno State at Toledo (3 pm, ESPN3) Eastern Kentucky at Ball State (3 pm, ESPN3) UNLV at Central Michigan (3 pm, ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPN) Boston College at Virginia Tech (3:30 pm, ESPNU) San Diego State at Northern Illinois (3:30 pm, CBSSN) James Madison at North Carolina (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Florida International at UMass (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Western Kentucky at Miami (OH) (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Monmouth at Kent State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) South Florida at Syracuse (3:30 pm, ESPN3) East Carolina at South Carolina (4 pm, SEC Network) New Mexico State at Kentucky (4 pm, SEC Network - Alternate) Western Michigan at Illinois (4 pm, ESPNEWS) Idaho State at Oregon State (5 pm, Pac-12 Network) UL Monroe at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3) Old Dominion at NC State (6 pm, ESPN3) Delaware at Wake Forest (6:30 pm, ESPN3) Louisiana Tech at Texas Tech (7 pm, FSN) Maryland at UCF (7 pm, CBSSN) Navy at Tulane (7 pm, ESPN3) Liberty at SMU (7 pm, ESPN3) South Alabama at UL Lafayette (7 pm, ESPN3) Duke at Northwestern (8 pm, BTN) UCLA at BYU (10:15 pm, ESPN2) Utah at San Jose State (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Hawaii at Arizona (10:45 pm, Pac-12 Network - Regional)

Arizona was losing to Grambling 21-3 at halftime, which was hilarious. The Cats woke up and won by 10 though.

We'll never know for sure, but it was pretty strongly rumored the Cubs' board had Appel first too. Yeah, I think you've mentioned that before. Scary thought.

I don't know if I'll ever understand why Houston didn't pick Bryant.

I can understand deep dish being too much for some stomachs. I cannot understand outright thinking it is not good, because it's awesome.

I was way ahead of you on looking for a Nomar 8 photo and I found the same one you probably did.

Something about using designated textbook money to buy things that weren't textbooks, right? Same thing happened to Ball State in 2005, we had a whole bunch of guys suspended for games with Auburn, Iowa and BC and we lost them something like 162-3 combined. What a stupid rule.

You shouldn't be. No one in the South has a chance of challenging them for the division. They should get a first round playoff bye with 6 games against those guys + the 49ers and Rams. You can add the Chargers, Raiders, and Skins to that craptacular mix. I have a lot of trouble seeing how they lose more than 3 games. 2 to go. It was probably like 1983 or something the last time a QB took that many helmet-to-helmet shots without gaining a single penalty yard out of it. Thanks, NFL.

After just about everything went right for Carolina last year (until the game that mattered of course), I'm a bit nervous for this season.

Number of playoff wins since that idiotic decision gifted STL a series win: 0 I don't root against them or anything, but I'm not shedding tears for them either.

We never do it. I'm not sure I even remember one of our players being in position to do it. Maybe Soler once or twice.