NCCubFan

It will likely decide the #1 playoff seed. Bye weeks are over by then, so we'll both be at full strength barring injuries.

It could be that Hendry was just making a general statement that Colvin is an everyday-caliber player as opposed to actually saying that he'd play every day for the 2011 Cubs.

A new bowl game, played on Jan. 1 in the Cotton Bowl Stadium.

Jackson is out for the rest of the season due to a bacterial infection in his right shin. He's hospitalized and expected to be released tomorrow. He is expected to return to Mesa in January to work out in preparation for the 2011 season.

If I were a braggart I'd point out that I've already clinched a playoff spot even though Yahoo doesn't show it yet, since the current 8th and 9th place teams still play each other and thus they can't both catch me. But I'm not a braggart, so I won't point it out. :D

It happens. If it would have been Sandberg or Sosa or someone who did the same thing that Favre did only to end up in St. Louis just to stick it to us, Cubs fans would have felt the same way. What did Favre do? GB wanted him to retire, right? False. When Favre initially started having second thoughts about coming back, McCarthy and Thompson immediately got on a plane to fly to Mississippi to meet with him. IIRC, this was a week before the draft in 2008. Favre told both of them that he was officially done when they were out there and that was that. We drafted Flynn and Brohm (lol) and the rest was history. We only wanted him to retire after it was evident that he wanted to come back in July of that year because we moved on and there was no chance of him coming back to us. I remember at the time, most Packers fans (including myself) were absolutely irate that they were choosing to go the other way and not back to Favre. The first year when he was with the Jets, I think he still had a somewhat high approval rating in Green Bay. It wasn't until the following offseason where the hate came in when it was evident that he wanted to go to Minnesota all along just to stick it to the entire organization. When he finally retires for good, I think most Packers fans will embrace him again and elect to forget about the final three years of his career, as long as he doesn't win anything with Minnesota this season. Not much danger of that happening.

He was cut by the team in August. I doubt he gets a ring... unless Brian Wilson punches him in the face with his. If Bengie Molina gets a ring (which it was reported earlier that he does) then so does Wellemeyer. I think anybody that was on the team at any time during the season gets a ring. A share of the prize money, that could be another story. My guess is they both get a partial share.

5-3 is good; 8-0 is better. :P

Yes, I heard that too. Geography clearly isn't his strong suit.

Actually, it's Todd, not Tom. The Ricketts episode airs this coming Sunday.

Fear the Beard.

Hot Stove League season begins.

USC and ND? I was an ND fan until I went to school at USC and I never turned the switch on Notre Dame. That's about the same reason I'm both an Indiana and Kentucky fan, and I've been made fun of on this board at times for it. I grew up an IU fan, and when I went to UK for grad school I had been an IU fan for too long to turn on them.

You're thinking of Alan Henderson. I believe it was a knee injury. I know who I'm thinking of. I'll never forget it. Tore his ACL in practice when IU was No. 1 and running away with the Big Ten, returned for the NCAA Tournament but was nowhere close to healthy. That team losing is probably my lowest sports moment ever. Almost a repeat of the 1975 season, when they went undefeated in the regular season and were ranked #1, but lost their best player (Scott May) due to a broken wrist late in the season. They lost to Kentucky by 2 points in the regional final but would have almost certainly won if May were at full strength. Knight has always said that was actually his best team, not the undefeated national champions of the following year (and I think he's right about that).

You're thinking of Alan Henderson. I believe it was a knee injury.

Happiness is having an opponent who thinks a second defense is more important than a quarterback to fill in during bye week. \:D/

If we're going beyond baseball players now I can claim "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Keith Richards, and Ossie Davis among others.

This guy.

Only the Cubs. :D

Vlad is not starting tonight. Supposedly that was the plan all along, not a reaction to his fielding adventures last night.

Braggart . . . Guilty as charged.

And I'm willing to trade Orton or Vick.

Evaluating a minor league manager based on win-loss record is about as valid as judging a pitcher by win-loss record. In other words, worthless.

What I'd advocate is a rule where a team can challenge as many times as necessary until they have two unsuccessful challenges. I don't think there should be ANY limit on successful challenges because doing so would punish a team because of the officials' errors.

Seven game winning streak and up to 7-0! :D