how many people really stuck with that team? i remember game threads that were 2 or 3 pages long, mostly fred doing play by play for himself. they were a complete waste of time to follow (except on rich hill days). I'll say one thing, it was a lot less stressful to watch the team at the end of 2006. Losing was expected. If they won, it was gravy. But if they blew a 5 run lead, it wasn't really a big deal because you hated pretty much everyone on the roster. Here's the O'Malley game thread.. viewforum.php?f=26&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=640 I think it's funny that people were exited to see Theriot after how much people didn't like him to start the season. It was also interesting seeing another match up on there was Marmol vs Marquis. I remember Marmol starting and praying that he could learn to throw strikes because he was nasty.