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A lot of mismatches this week, but still some games to keep your eye on. BIG GAMES ------------- (13) Boston College @ (3) Virginia Tech (Thursday) (4) Georgia @ (16) Florida (12) Ohio State @ Minnesota OTHER GOOD TOP 25 GAMES ---------------------------------- (25) Michigan @ (21) Northwestern ( 8 ) UCLA @ Stanford Maryland @ (10) Florida State North Carolina @ (6) Miami South Carolina @ (23) Tennessee TOP 25 MISMATCHES ------------------------ Washington St. @ (1) USC (2) Texas @ Oklahoma St. Utah St. @ (5) Alabama North Texas @ (7) LSU Purdue @ (11) Penn St. (15) Wisconsin @ Illinois (17) Texas Tech @ Baylor Mississippi @ (19) Auburn (20) TCU @ San Diego St. (22) Fresno St. @ Hawaii OTHER IMPORTANT CONFERENCE GAMES ------------------------------------------------ Clemson @ Georgia Tech Oklahoma @ Nebraska Colorado @ Kansas St. Iowa St. @ Texas A&M Nevada @ Boise St.
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A Cubs Fan's rant over the hypocricy of Chicago right now
Derwood replied to polosprt009's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can only imagine what it's like in Chicago. I remember in 2003 when suddenly every middle aged woman in every office downtown was a Cubs fan in October. "Hey, I hope that Kenny Woods throws some good balls." Right. Difference here is there were less Sox fans to start with, so the "bandwagon vaccuum" takes a lot more people to fill. My guess is at the end of the day (or season), the Sox will have the same number of fans as before, spend the same (or less) money in 2006, and still draw less than 2 million fans. -
Equally unfair for the AL teams, as KC has to get pounded by St. Louis for six while the White Sox mop up with us. Like KC doesn't have it bad enough already.
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I hate to break it to you, but it's possible to be both. Well, I don't consider anyone who would shame their favorite franchise a "fan". The same can be said for Penn State games where attendees boo the other teams' marching band or push their fans around. Being a fan of a team is a privelage, not a right. I am so happy everytime I hear that police use video tape to prosecute a-holes at football games and such who throw stuff on the field. Ban them from the stadium for life and take their family's name off the season ticket list. Inexcusable behavior. Yeah, someone who goes so nuts about something that they attack a supporter of an opponent could never be considered a fanatic. That's reasonable Is that how you define true fandom? Lame.
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I hate to break it to you, but it's possible to be both. Well, I don't consider anyone who would shame their favorite franchise a "fan". The same can be said for Penn State games where attendees boo the other teams' marching band or push their fans around. Being a fan of a team is a privelage, not a right. I am so happy everytime I hear that police use video tape to prosecute a-holes at football games and such who throw stuff on the field. Ban them from the stadium for life and take their family's name off the season ticket list. Inexcusable behavior.
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Sorry to exaggerate. Here:
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Houston should just leave it closed and say "woops, it's broken. Repairman can't get in till next Monday to fix it"
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I wouldn't call timing the roof opening as cheating. Now Minnesota turning their A/C on and off in the '91 WS (or was it '90? or '92?...the one vs. ATL), THAT was cheating.
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Why? I think they're great. If you deserve it, you'll get your money up front. If you don't perform, you're cut. They're the best thing that's happened to pro sports. MLB and especially the NBA are plagued with underperforming players taking up too much of the payroll. These aren't blue collar workers getting shoved around, even the worst make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. If you work your tail off you'll keep getting more and more. If somebody passes you by, you better find a new line of work. It's a great system, and one of the primary reasons why football blows away all other US sports. It's not the players who are underperforming who get cut. It's the big name players who the GM's were stupid enough to give big money to in the first place. It's like "okay, we'll placate your enormous ego with a meaningless 10 year, $200million deal, but next year we'll cut you when we have cap issues." I know that players demand up front "signing bonus" money, but overall, it's a broken system. I do like the national TV contract and revenue sharing, however.
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My guess would be a blimp of some sort with advertising that would not be seen with the roof closed. It's all about the $$$$$$$$$
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Sadly, you'd see the same at the last game at Wrigley.
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Trib Co. felt that more money could be made buying in to the WB. The trend away from national broadcasts continues, as even TBS is showing fewer and fewer Braves games
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Please stop calling thugs like this "fans". Fans don't do this. Criminals do
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I think the NFL system works because the teams act as 32 subsidiaries of one corporation, all following the same fiscal rules. The MLB acts like 30 franchises of one company, each creating their own rules with only basic fiscal guidelines governing them. The thing I hate about the NFL are the non-guaranteed contracts
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http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1714771
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I couldn't resist: http://sportsbybrooks.com/A.J.Pierzynski.html
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http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=1243475 HI-larious
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Good point....Good teams almost always take advantage of extra outs. I suppose you could turn that around and say they became a good team because they did well with all the extra outs. The Dye thing wasn't an extra out. Had it been called right, it would have still been 3-2 with 2 out. He might have walked on the next pitch. No way of knowing. Yes but the bad call led to circumstances which resulted in the grand slam. If the right call had been made, chances are the inning would of gone very differently. Why are the chances that it would have gone differently? If the next pitch was a ball, the bases are loaded, Garner still replaces Walker, and Konerko still swings away. We'll never know....
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Boo hoo! Those big bad bullies will make fun of me! It's a good thing you have met and been harassed by so many Sox fans out in State College, PA. It's a good thing I've lived here for 6 months after living in Chicago for 13 years. But you guys who live in Syracuse, California and Texas run into Sox fans by the truckloads every day. :roll:
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Boo hoo! Those big bad bullies will make fun of me! Funny, that seems to be alot of people's attitude on this board recently.
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So long as individual teams set their own TV deals (or worse, own their own networks), you'll never see an NFL style revenue sharing system
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I don't love the Sox. They don't really do much for me. But I don't despise them with every fiber of my being. And why don't they deserve a championship? Because you don't like them? Or maybe they cheated?
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Hateful and angry. The World Series is about to be forever tainted, and our fellow Cub fans are facing relentless persecution in their own city. What other reaction could one feel in the face of this travesty? Yup, we've been facing persecution for, ooooh, 90 years now? AND WE ARE THE LOVEABLE LOSERS remember..... How does this change that? Do the sox winning change how you feel about the cubs? Increases your self loathing perhaps? Doesn't change it for me. I will never change my allegiances from the cubs no matter what, not even by a %. What anyone else says, whomever else wins, whatever knuckleheaded people or moves the organizations undertakes, I'm a cubs fan. This "you aren't a cubs fan if you do not hate the sox" is lame. Is your love of the team that tenuous? What about all the other teams that have been kicking our tushes for all of my life? =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
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Hateful and angry. The World Series is about to be forever tainted, and our fellow Cub fans are facing relentless persecution in their own city. What other reaction could one feel in the face of this travesty? I think I've stated pretty clearly what other reactions one could feel, so I won't bore everyone by repeating myself.
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New Error Message With New Server
Derwood replied to Derwood's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
I am indeed on Firefox. I'll look into it. It's pretty annoying though. Requires many "reloads" to get past the error.
