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  1. Derwood
    hide the women and Old Style
  2. Derwood
    sorry, wrong thread
  3. Derwood
    I have no idea. nor do I. Go drink beer and enjoy this one. That's a foregone conclusion. Beer is ready to go. Penn State has proved that for the first time in years they have depth, which should be enough to overcome Derrick Williams' injury. The game is at home, so It really ought to be a blow out. 8-1 wouldn't be too bad going into the "Big 10 championship game" vs. Wisconsin in 2 weeks.
  4. Derwood
    Three pages in and no one has posted this? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v727/furryandrusty/gay_spiderman.gif
  5. Derwood
    Penn State at home against a bad Purdue team for homecoming. Why am I so worried?
  6. Derwood
    Darwinism says that the "bad seed" Sox fans will thin their own numbers by shooting unregistered hand guns in the air, leaving the majority of the "good" Sox fans (who mostly live in the Western and Southwestern suburbs) alive and well
  7. Derwood
    Now that's splitting hairs isn't it. In the same pattern, when they win should we say the franchise didn't win anything but a group of players who happened to play well for a season won. No, I don't think so. There is a big difference between a set of players throwing a world series autonmously vs. a franchise throwing it (ie the order coming from the top down). That is like condemning the Reds organization for gambling rather than condemning Pete Rose alone.
  8. Derwood
    A few things. Let's not call every Sox fan a "Classless trailer trash wife-beating parole violator." I know many, many classy Sox fans. They just aren't the ones you ever hear from or about. Secondly, the franchise didn't throw the World Series. A group of players did to get back at a cheapskate owner. Know your history. I won't argue the merits of Guillen or Pierzynski. Both have shown enough to be questionable in many situations. And let's not pretend that there is some grand conspiracy where Selig has told the umpires to make all the calls for the Sox so they can win. That's just dumb.
  9. Derwood
    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.
  10. Derwood
    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.
  11. Derwood
    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.
  12. Derwood
    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.
  13. Derwood
    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.
  14. Derwood
    Sorry to exaggerate. Here:
  15. Derwood
    Houston should just leave it closed and say "woops, it's broken. Repairman can't get in till next Monday to fix it"
  16. Derwood
    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.
  17. Derwood
    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.
  18. Derwood
    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 $$$$$$$$$
  19. Derwood
    Sadly, you'd see the same at the last game at Wrigley.
  20. Derwood
    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
  21. Derwood
    Please stop calling thugs like this "fans". Fans don't do this. Criminals do
  22. Derwood
    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
  23. Derwood
    http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1714771
  24. Derwood
    I couldn't resist: http://sportsbybrooks.com/A.J.Pierzynski.html
  25. Derwood
    http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=1243475 HI-larious
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