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You're right. I should totally think of Taylor when I hear LT. The reason I don't, I would imagine, is because Taylor has been retired for a significant amount of time now and just doesn't get talked about in my neck of the woods, meanwhile everyone within a 100 mile radius from me has at least 1 LaDanian Tomlinson jersey hanging in their closet. So it seams. I'm hoping that gets me a pass. Exactly. Not the Tomlinson jersey part, but he's constantly getting called LT. I never call him LT. I'm old enough to remember Lawrence Taylor as a player and I think he is the greatest defensive player that has ever played the game (Butkus close 2nd). Tomlinson should be called LDT. But I know so many people call him LT that I always assume he is the one being talked about because he is the one typically in the news in recent years. BBB gets an obvious pass, raw does not.

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If expansion occurs elsewhere, there is no way they can sit still minus 2 teams. They would be losing control by default, because that which they control would no longer be able to survive on its own.

He knows how to hit in PNC, or something.

The customer is always right.

Who cares about the grumpy old man story? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/don_banks/05/06/troubled-teams/index.html?eref=sihp Not a big fan of his reasoning. He insinuates that the Bears have to win the SB or Lovie and Angelo are out the door. I doubt that very much. My guess is a 10 win season would be plenty to guarantee they return. That sort of thing happens all the time. Cowher faced a couple situations where he needed to win to stem the tide of getting canned, and they won. A lot of people have said the 2008 season saved John Fox, while 2007 almost certainly saved Coughlin in NY. Fisher was starting to take heat after three disappointing years until they rebounded. Andy Reid's job continues to be threatened but he keeps making the playoffs when he most needs to succeed. Just this year Childress was almost certainly in a win or your out situation, and he won.

Well, yes they would, as teams in their conference would be leaving, thus indicating they aren't controlling the direction of the conference. Just because those teams would leave doesn't mean UT wouldn't control the directing of the conference that remained. Of course they would. It just wouldn't be much of a conference worth controlling. But if the conference no longer exists in it's current form it's not being controlled by Texas, unless Texas is pushing those schools to leave.

sounds like cops are saying the pimp beat her up in the process of bringing her to mr. taylor's room

Well, yes they would, as teams in their conference would be leaving, thus indicating they aren't controlling the direction of the conference.

They would make more money, but they'd also lose their stranglehold on the direction of their conference. Is that worth a 7% increase in revenues? May not be to a place like Texas. My personal feeling(maybe too hopeful on my part), is that Texas won't move unless they are forced to, which is a catch-22 for those B10 fans who want them as part of an expansion. If their conference starts getting picked apart, don't they lose a strangehold over the direction of that conference?

It was a sketchy play, but get over it. You lost by 3 goals, but 90% of the vancouver paper's article is about this one goal. Not to mention it was the last goal that came in the last 6 minutes of the game when Vancouver was already down 2 goals. It was meaningless. I wouldn't call it meaningless, it was the nail in the coffin on what was still a winnable game at the time.

actually you guys sound like idiots talking about Milton Bradley.

Oh yeah, the cool kids know this stuff is nothing but fun times. Did I say anywhere that I condoned the kid's actions? I'm only addressing the ridiculous overreactions in the thread. And whether or not you agree with the cop's decision, the use of a taser in this situation ended up being completely counter-productive. It got the kid the recognition he was looking for (actually a lot more than he could have reasonably expected) and it encouraged a copycat the next night. The use of the taser stopped him. I'm pretty sure that's all the guy was thinking about doing. I'm also pretty sure that most of these responses have been purposefully over the top. I doubt most people actually want snipers and beatings and all the rest.

although you're Milton Bradley riffs are fairly lame.

Probably if you start using some of the busts as tackling dummies.

pretty entertaining show

Oh yeah, the cool kids know this stuff is nothing but fun times.

Simple. A lot of those people are too young to have initially associated LT with Lawrence that much. I'm 27 and I definitely think Tomlinson first. I had sort of forgotten Taylor even existed until I saw his scene in The Waterboy. I get a teenager not thinking of Taylor at all. If you're 27 you were only about 10 by the time he retired, although you were a teenager when he was very much in the news. But the others who have mentioned it, plus many people I know, are much older than that.

I always think Lawrence Taylor, and then rethink if it's about Tomlinson. I'm not sure how people managed to transfer one of the most iconic initialed nicknames ever from one player who was huge in the 80's and 90's to a guy who arrived on the scene one decade later. I never think Tomlinson first.

But that HR would kill the rally.

If I say what so?

Fine, but like TT pointed out, this isn't supposed to be people's irrational emotional dumping ground. And no, it's not only you, but it does get ridiculous how some posters act like when things don't go the Cubs way it's either the end of the world or it was some kind of preordained disaster that of course was going to happen because "only the Cubs" or that they knew was going to happen. I know it's gone unnoticed, but I've really tried to keep myself emotionally "in check" this year in the game threads. Other than Opening Day, I don't think I've really been that bad. The whole "ballgame" comment I made yesterday was a statement of opinion that rubbed people the wrong way and started this whole mess. Note that I've made the "ballgame" comment in game threads this year before when the Cubs were winning and I felt they were going to hold the lead and win. It probably rubbed people the wrong time because it's a statement made by you and others nearly every single time they go behind in a game. Do you not understand that?

That doesn't sound like something a cokehead would do.

It's absolutely pointless to talk about what type of player you would ideally have at the leadoff spot. You want the 8 best hitters you can put at the respective positions on the field. The Yankees have no had an ideal leadoff man during their 15 year run of dominance, but they have great hitters every season. If you have enough good hitters, one of them is going to bat leadoff and by default will do a good job there, since he's a good hitter.

Of course they belong, the issue was somebody foolishly claiming they would be the favorite in any series. I think it's debatable if they are elite. I guess it depends on how loosely you define elite. Detroit was clearly among the better playoff teams, so I guess you can call them that, along with a team like Pittsburgh. Who is elite then? I know sneaky made a homerish remark about the Wings being "favorites" but Truffle also made a comment earlier downplaying how good the Wings are. Truth be told the Wings were probably not as great as they were portrayed to be a couple of years ago and they have not fallen that far from that point. It takes some "good bounces" to win the cup and the Wings got them a few years ago and they seem to have all the bounces go against them in this series and pretty much this entire season. Talent wise I still believe they are a top 5 team...which is pretty elite if you ask me It depends on the sport and the season, but typically I would think there's 2-3 elite teams every year in any league. This season it was pretty clearly Washington, Chicago and San Jose. There's a group below them with Vancouver, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Detroit that were among the best teams, but that's widening it to 7 teams, or top 25% of the league. I'm not sure you can definitively put Detroit ahead of any of those teams mentioned, save maybe Jersey. There's reason to think Phoenix was right there with Detroit, given their superior record, superior goal differential and taking them to 7 games. Just saying "talent wise" is a cop-out. A team is more than just a collection of talent. And I'm not just talking about something like chemstry. There are plenty of talented players who don't live up to their talent. But Detroit is pretty clearly an older lesser version of what it was the past few years. Not the same elite team. A threat, sure. Quite good, of course. But elite means something much more than just being in the picture.