Careless

someone on detroit just threw a pass straight into the basket

Getting hit with a baseball is a freak injury. this was a result of something in his body being weaker than it should be/needs to be

I've decided, the "geaux tigers" thing is enough for me to root against them. Forever

:D

That was probably the 2006 Chick-Fil-A calendar commercial That would make sense, since I have no idea what chick-fil-a is

Should be added to the word filters :wink:

Ask raisin when he gets back uh oh, I take it the 8 safties didn't happen Actually, it was the missed extra point that did them in. I have no idea what I just saw a commercial for, but there were cows with swords...

Ask raisin when he gets back

great job on the onside kick

And booty just cost USC their chance to beat texas

He nailed that last throw and it got blown off by the wind, ouch. USC has a player named "John David Booty"?

Tomorrow at noon they would all be ground beef

So is USC trying to outscore texas?

Not the third quarter UCLA was hoping for.

Excellent. If he signs with us, I owe everyone that actually believed it beforehand here a Coke. I'm serious. I'll mail everyone here a Coke if he signs here. That's a lot of cokes. Can I get a Cherry Coke if it happens? :lol: Ewww, coke. How about a Pepsi? Fugedaboudit. I'm high maintenance. I want an IBC Root Beer. Does that come in 12 packs?

I don't know a single person on this site but I respect the views of everyone here. Maybe there are some who could do as well, maybe not. My question is. Why don't these people who could do better hold that position? Granted, keeping Macias and not protecting Sisco might not have been the best thing to do. I but also read many, many times that people on this site were saying that no way Sisco would stay at the major league level therefore we would be getting him back. Most here have more of an insight on baseball then I do. But second guessing the past is still second guessing. No job market is a perfect meritocracy. Baseball management isn't even a good meritocracy compared to other markets. Aside from that, there are 30 gms of major league teams out there. If you want to be one, you have to dedicate yourself to that, knowing that there are only a few dozen decent positions out there total (unless you'd be happy if you wound up never getting close to GMing a major league team). The fact that I became an astronaut (not really) doesn't mean that I couldn't have been the best GM in the history of the world. Of course, I'd be a terrible gm.

Plenty of money? Not when you throw 3M at Eyre, 4M at Howry, 3M at Rusch, and 3M at Neifi. Throw in Furcal at 10-13M and we're looking at Jockstrap Jones or Burnitz. Your numbers are off, according to Cot's Contracts. Your numbers account for 13 Million. Cot has the numbers at 2.5 for Howry, 2.7 for Eyre, 2.5 for Neifi, and 2.75 for Rusch. That is 10.45 million. 2.5 million is nothing to sneeze at. I have no idea about the non-neifi signing bonuses, but you can't forget his million

Amazing, texas managed not to score for the final 40% of the game

You don't often see a team score more points than its leading rusher has yards, especially when they've been rushing more than passing

My offer to start posting in Dutch and French is still valid if you want to boost those numbers, Tim. :jocolor: we coudl just typo more. (see, it's easy!)

Gotta love signing guys to extensions at the moment when you know their value is higher than it will ever be again.

this forum makes me want to create a dialectic of baseball... I'm sure it would include the destruction of the cardinals franchise and the incredible victory of the cubs Oh wait... the dialectic is science, not wishful thinking... 8-[

What, and the traditionalists can't rip every signing? He hits poorly with RISP He's not a leader. I don't feel his intangibles

When was the last time you where in Pittsburg? I was there last year for a few Cub games over the couse of a weekend. The city is alive and well. The downtown is thriving and they have new shopping and tourism attractions. IMO, the problem is that they haven't been good in a long time. If the Steelers can sell out Heinz field, the Pirates can sell out PNC. Why would I want to go to Pittsburgh? Yikes! So what, they threw a bunch of government money to bring alive downtown. So did Cincy. It still doesn't change the fact that they're both old economy cities. Both places should be one sport towns. Send the baseball franchises to the East or West Coast or to Chicago. Man, are you parochial, or what? The Reds and Pirates are original NL teams, they're just as proud as our Cubs. And they're not the "poor sisters" many make them out to be, it's lousy baseball teams that are the problem, not fan support or lack of underlying passion. There are nearly 7 million people in the effective Reds dominance area, including Louisville, Dayton, Columbus and Indianapolis. Pittsburgh is in a little tougher spot, but they are in better shape than KC, Milwaukee, Tampa and frankly, San Diego in terms of total fan base size. Honus Wagner. Ernie Lombardi. Ted Kluszewski. Ralph Kiner. Roberto Clemente. Pops Stargell. The Big Red Machine. Not sure where you're getting SD?? People near & in SD have lots of money and can afford the rising ticket prices, which is a big part of producing revenue. And I forgot about KC. As for Cincy, all I keep hearing is that the Cincy metro's going downhill fast. So, baseball should only be in markets full of affluent people? :roll: I hope you're never in a position to make important decisions. If you want a competitive league, you need to put them either in most of the affluent regions or change the financing. Why have 5-8 organizations that are essentially minor league systems?? Some of these organizations are a joke. The utopian in me prefers them going w/ tradition and keeping teams in the old cities. However, the realist in me figures there won't be a change & they need to move some organizations like Tampa & Florida, which are quite affluent btw, but for some reason don't support baseball. Poor green bay packers, with a metropolitan area 1/30th the size of the larger markets. Oh, wait, the NFL is set up so that yo don't have to suck if yiu're a small market team. What, you mean that's actually possible?

I agree. I always enjoy going to pit, though the last time I went to a ballgame there it was behind a structural support at 3 rivers