Derwood

the Army/Navy game could disappear forever and I wouldn't care at all

ouch

alex rodriguez

yeah, that's the dumbest reasoning ever to schedule someone. does PSU play Penn? no. Does Illinois play DePaul in basketball? No.

YOU'RE bitter...I'M bitter. UM/OSU would be essentially meaningless if you guys had just beaten Iowa, because you'd have clinched a Rose Bowl berth by now. This has been said multiple times, but how is it true? If Michigan beats OSU it leaves them and hypothetical Illinois tied, with Michigan winning head-to-head. The Big 10's tie-breaker scheme is similar to what one would do in a pee-wee football league. Throw out the head-to-heads, throw out point differentials, anything objective that might determine who is the actual best TEAM in the conference. Whoever hasn't won it for the longest is simply declared the champs. And that would be Illinois this year. except there is 0% chance that Illinois can be Big 10 Champs this year.

ronny cedeno?

In other news, Juan Pierre is the same player as Alfonso Soriano (w/ exception of power). Wow. Excellent comparison. Juan Pierre, who might fall into 1 HR a year and Alfonso Soriano who will typically hit 40+ HR to Cedeno who might hit 10-15 HR vs. Greene who will top out around 25 HR. Bravo. Way to go to an extreme to try to make somebody else look bad. U R awesome. cedeno might hit 10-15 HR per year? in what universe?

no one wants Marquis. you'd have to pay his entire salary and include other parts

Can be waived. sure, but i'm having bad flashbacks to the million threads about trading Kerry Wood. it always boiled down to NTC

people have been saying that hip hop is a "dying art form" or "just a fad" for over 20 years now. time to admit that it's here to stay

boy, the grass on ballfields back in the day looked horrendous. i like that on a couple of Ruth's swings, he literally took 3 steps towards the pitcher before swinging

how soon before MLB pulls all these clips?

I agree it can be unfair but all others have a type of playoff as well. I'd rather have to earn a spot in the playoffs than some voter having a say that has an agenda. agreed. i've always been pro-playoff

That doesn't happen anymore, guy. That's exactly my point. I wouldn't pay ANYONE playing today that kind of money. I bet you'd pay zombie Ty Cobb that kinda scratch. ....perhaps...Cobb's best year v. A-Rod's best year. .420/.467/.620, 196 OPS+, 127rbi, 83sb >> .314/.422/.645, 177 OPS+, 156 rbi, 24 sb oh, not this **** again

did johnny estrada die?

NTC

neat anyways, voters are idiots and don't look at anything you look at, so your point is null and void. voters look at "what have you done for me lately". voters put South Florida #2. we both know LSU played a harder schedule. and we both know it wouldn't matter at all if OSU happened to lose in Week 5 while LSU lost their last regular season game. South Florida got that ranking due to beating some good teams. Funny how Ohio State got the #1 ranking by playing a by far worse schedule but that was ok since they have a big time name. It looks to me that the Big 12 will have a rep in the BCS Champ game no matter how it falls. It's going to take WV to keep winning and a LSU loss for them to get a shot. yeah, OSU got some "we know who they are" votes for sure. I'm not arguing that Meph is wrong in his observations, only that his observations are not how the voting works right now. Saying LSU deserves to be #1 over OSU because the have a statistical x% chance of running the table with their schedule is analogous to saying Troy Tulowitzki deserved ROY over Ryan Braun because he had a higher WARP3. it's true, but it's not in any way what the idiot voters are basing their highly subjective opinions on If meph's way were always right we wouldn't watch the games like we do. Did he have Arizona beating Oregon? Is Oregon a better team? Yes. That to me is the best part of this game is that the teams that do the best, should be the ones on top. Granted, playing 4 patsies and then having a conference that is down gives a lesser team an advantage but I think some teams have been trying to rectify that but you get the surprise teams like Rutgers last year and Kansas this year that played a poor OOC schedule but they still had/have to win their conferences, Rutgers didn't and we'll see how Kansas does. I have no problem with Kansas going to the big game if they win over Iowa St, Mizzou, and Oklahoma (if they are the team that wins the south) sports isn't fair though. Is it fair that the Giants would be the wildcard at 6-3 while the Seahawks would be a division winner (and host a playoff game) at 5-4?

by (my) definition: - one team can't have more than one "rivalry" because you can't have more than one "biggest game of the year" - a rivalry has to the biggest game of the year for BOTH teams, not just one - the results of the game have to be of some consequence outside of the game This disqualifies USC/ND, Army/Navy, etc. I voted for Michigan/OSU (little eleven bias LOL!!1!ONE) The teams hate each other, it's the "big game" for both schools, and it seems to always have an effect on the Big Ten championship and/or the National Title picture.

i'm just glad it's not kermit anymore

Here we go again. People are free to discuss whatever trades they'd like to see. You do NOT tell people to stop discussing things. he just did ;)

Penn State battles the mighty Canisius squad tonight.

neat anyways, voters are idiots and don't look at anything you look at, so your point is null and void. voters look at "what have you done for me lately". voters put South Florida #2. we both know LSU played a harder schedule. and we both know it wouldn't matter at all if OSU happened to lose in Week 5 while LSU lost their last regular season game. South Florida got that ranking due to beating some good teams. Funny how Ohio State got the #1 ranking by playing a by far worse schedule but that was ok since they have a big time name. It looks to me that the Big 12 will have a rep in the BCS Champ game no matter how it falls. It's going to take WV to keep winning and a LSU loss for them to get a shot. yeah, OSU got some "we know who they are" votes for sure. I'm not arguing that Meph is wrong in his observations, only that his observations are not how the voting works right now. Saying LSU deserves to be #1 over OSU because the have a statistical x% chance of running the table with their schedule is analogous to saying Troy Tulowitzki deserved ROY over Ryan Braun because he had a higher WARP3. it's true, but it's not in any way what the idiot voters are basing their highly subjective opinions on

i wouldn't be surprised at all if Bonds served some time. he is so detached from reality that he probably thinks he can still lie to everyone without recourse. the man doesn't have a speck of contrition in his entire body

neat anyways, voters are idiots and don't look at anything you look at, so your point is null and void. voters look at "what have you done for me lately". voters put South Florida #2. we both know LSU played a harder schedule. and we both know it wouldn't matter at all if OSU happened to lose in Week 5 while LSU lost their last regular season game.

ha ha ha, right. if I were a GM and you wanted 8 of my players for 2 of yours, I would laugh at you, hang up, then call you back to laugh at you some more