Andy

Good, I wouldn't mind Harangody staying a tad under the radar again. Hasheem Thabeet is not good, BTW. Just a guy who throws himself around and blocks shots. There were many Huskies that worried me more than him.

I didn't get a rejection e-mail. Makes me worried that my entry got lost somehow.

I'm not even watching and I miss another 6-run inning. Figures... Did they show the 'Cubs have way more 5-run innings than anyone in the NL' graphic again?

I want Dempster to start at home because he can pitch twice in the series (once out of the pen) if he does. I would go Harden/Dempster/Zambrano/Lilly if I had my druthers.

Yeah, by the time I realized that my post was more rant-y than I intended it to be I was away from a computer. But still...Anderson sucks. 8-)

No, but I wouldn't have bet Cleveland was dumb either. Good move, guys. How's that 43.5 QB rating working out for your long-term signed starting signalcaller? bitter brady quinn fan face. Bitter wouldn't describe it well enough. I'm bitter at Miami for stupidly drafting a returner instead of him. I'm incensed at Cleveland for continuing to run this flash in the pan out there. They'll probably give him a chance to suck again against a horrible defense (hello Bengals), and then hopefully make the right move. Pardon me for being annoyed that the first player with legit star potential to come out of my favorite school since I was conscious enough to care is benched behind a scrub.

Geovany Soto - 3 run homer in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game against the Brewers Derrek Lee - Probably his homer to lead off the 7th against the Sox in the game Aramis ended up walking off in. Or his awesome play at Philly to save the game. Ryan Theriot - He had a 4-hit game right? Mark DeRosa - Colorado homer Aramis Ramirez - Gotta be the Phillies slam. If only because by then he had earned my absolute and total trust and I had a feeling something amazing was coming. Alfonso Soriano - The Cards game where he was awful, gave away runs, but then hit the game-tying homer in the 9th in a game we lost anyway Jim Edmonds - I was at the Baltimore series where he had I think 7 hits or something, including 2 big flies Kosuke Fukudome - Obviously Opening Day Reed Johnson - Giants' walk-off hit Mike Fontenot - Atlanta homer Ronny Cedeno - The AB he had in the first game against the Mets that ended up in a bases-loaded single Henry Blanco - walk off single against the Cards Daryle Ward - Go ahead 3-run HR off Marlins closer Kevin Gregg Carlos Zambrano - No-no Rich Harden - His first start. Ted Lilly - Yadi gets the business Jason Marquis - Probably the start at LA on ESPN where he was pretty good and it was part of a string of good starts Ryan Dempster - Complete game against Atlanta Kerry Wood - Probably the nasty pitch to get Prince in this last Brewers' series Carlos Marmol - The All Star Game that reminded me of what he was, but also the Giants meltdown. Also the game at Houston where he came in with men on 2nd and 3rd no one out and I knew he wouldn't let anyone score. And he didn't. Bob Howry - Getting the win in extras..I can't remember what game, I think the Blanco walk-off game, where he pitched a good inning. Jon Lieber - The "Bench/Morgan/Larkin homered" game ETA: I keep forgetting Jeff Samardzija. I'll remember his save against Florida above all else for him but obviously I've enjoyed his being a Cub this year.

I've got a dumb question. can that be formatted to get on your ipod? Just import it into your iTunes library and the evil Apple program does it for you.

No, but I wouldn't have bet Cleveland was dumb either. Good move, guys. How's that 43.5 QB rating working out for your long-term signed starting signalcaller?

Darren McFadden finished 2nd in the Heisman voting in 2006 when he barely played in the team's most important game, which by the way, they lost by 56. Splits showed that he was voted 1st at a wildly disproportionate rate in the Southeast. SEC sportswriters win.

I drafted Daunte Culpepper with I think a 3rd-round pick in 2004, and he almost single handedly led my team to a fantasy title - I won the regular season but ended up in 3rd place. I then drafted him in the 2nd round the following year. I have not quite forgiven him - even though it wasn't his fault he got hurt, he was awful up until then too.

The answer to your question is probably Derrek Lee, bukie. He's classy, quiet and isn't quite good enough to inspire a lot of derision.

Derek Anderson is 14/36. Not even four yards a pass attempt. This is one of the most predictable one-year-wonder flameouts in the history of sports. How bad will Crennel let it get is the question.

Insanely predictable. If you're the Jags, you have no damn excuse for running from the 5 yard line on 3rd and goal up 3 unless it's some sort of spread-draw type run, because you KNOW Peyton is going to kill you on the final drive.

Derek Anderson is 11/25 with a touchdown and 2 picks, one of which was returned for a score, and Cleveland is losing again. Meanwhile, Brady Quinn still on the bench.

My immediate response would be "we obviously traded him to the Cardinals".

So if the Mets lose we clinch HFA? Or do the Phils still have a chance to take it then?

I'll be down in Muncie for my first homecoming as a Ball State alum. A 5-0 start should be a given, but it should be interesting to see how BSU fares in their first game without #86, who suffered a career-ending, but luckily not otherwise damaging, cervical spinal fracture at IU last Saturday. Purdue/ND should not be very interesting at all. The Brady Quinn days seem like a decade ago when I watch the Irish play offense. Should manage more points against Purdue, though.

The HFA magic number would also fall to 2 if that held, I believe. Three more outs from our JV beating the Cardinals again.

If I had to pick one Cub in my ideal world to hit some sort of huge walk-off homer in the hypothetical NLCS or World Series, I'd probably pick Ramirez first (just because), but then probably Edmonds. An Edmonds walk-off, especially if it were a World Series game, would knock his Cardinals' NLCS homer down a few pegs, and I'd also like it for the sheer insanity of the circumstance. Good to see Gaudin back. Bad to see him walking people.

Carolina's offensive line continues to commit ludicrous amounts of penalties, resulting in a 3rd and 39 from our own 6. Classic Panthers to grit out two wins without Smith then crap the bed as soon as he comes back.

Sick, but expected. SEC sportswriters are delusional and Big 12 sportswriters tend not to be.

20-10 Vikes with 9 minutes to go. A loss in this game after the last two would be pretty typical for Carolina. But they could just be setting me up for another miraculous rally.

A Murton special by Casey McGehee.

It speaks volumes about how bad that Buffalo (and to a larger extent the MAC) is that I took it as a moral victory that it took until a little past halfway into the 3rd quarter for Mizzou to totally put Buffalo away.