Careless

ugh cleveland

Terrible call helps the bears yay

Nice 40 yard penalties, guys

I'm always amused when they talk about how many of maynard's punts are inside the 20. Where do the bears rank in total punts in the past 4 years? A team with a bad offense and good defense? Gotta be top 3

Catch that!

Well, that's a punter without a job.

wow, orton is making some nice passes today.

shhhh

:shock: :lol:

that made me feel like your avatar

And the poster is in the UK. I'm not surprised. At all.

Since you're so sober... wanna make a bet? :(

I wouldn't feel comfortable not upgrading the other outfield positions. Unless we can get a priest to drive the demons from patterson, and then it's just "position"

If the cubs ever win, I won't be coming here, I'll be waaaay too busy partying. I agree, I would come on here later that night after a long night celebrating, but I would be gone at first if it ever happened. Imagine all the great drunkeness+giddiness posts at 4 am! ... Even reading this thread is angering me.

Morgan's point, as someone pointed out earlier, was about the death of baseball in black american culture. Immigrants don't really factor in. Didn't seem to be the article's point, though. So morgan actually made the author look stupid. Not a good sign for his career.

Don't rip it from the wall, but still set it on fire. Wow, don't know if I ever noticed you're at Mizzou. You live on campus? Yeah, im in cramer. where you live? Wolpers here. Cubbies75 is also a Cramer resident. Crap im a [expletive]. Really now? I know several cub fans in cramer, i wonder if ive met him before. by the way, nice picture. hell of a game this past saturday, wasnt it? you heading to lawrence this weekend? I was just wondering how many people here know someone else from the site but don't realize it.

I still don't see your point. There is no lack of white baseball players. The only way somebody could lamenting about the decreasing numbers of whites in the game is if he was talking about a time when only whites played. Historically (from the 60s, I guess) there has been a significantly higher rate of american black players in the league than in the general population. would you like to have seen whites complaining about it then? These days it's hard to figure what sort of rate you'd expect because so many players are from other countries. Anyway, 9% (or so) of players are american born blacks. Since they make up about 13% of the population, you'd need about 30% of baseball players to be from outside of the US for 9% to be representative. 26% are "latin", which doesn't tell me if they're foreign born or not. If that's all foreign, add in a few percent for canadians, japanese, koreans, etc, and you're right on target for perfect racial integration by frequency in the population. Adding more black baseball players would, in fact, cause a lack of white players. Of course, I'm not actually complaining about this. Baseball should promote talent, not race. I think baseball should do as it's already doing and focus on promoting baseball in the inner cities where it's dying out. I just felt like pointing out the stupidity of racial quotas, especially ones with an arbitrary basis like this one edit: got my numbers from seattle times, if you're wondering

It certainly wouldn't have been a bad call to call him safe. he was out :(

Over/under on random shootings tonight?

... I really hope that was a blown call

give me a bleeping break

I probably would have really smacked AJ with that tag

I can't believe I'm wishing the cardinals had won so the sox wouldn't sweep

Things the idiot sox radio announcers said on my way home in the 6th: that ball konerko couldn't catch in the stands should have been fan interference. That ball that hit the guy in the pickle (they said everett) should have been interference (and everett should have been called out)

Just like I'm sure you'd see nothing wrong with some white guy bemoaning the fact that baseball isn't nearly as white as it was decades ago, I'm sure. There would be a difference between crying that it's not all white, and crying that there aren't any whites. And? And what? If some bigoted hick went on the air and complained that baseball isn't as white as it used to be, he'd basically be pining for the good ole' days of segregation, which would make him an ignorant bigoted hick. Joe Morgan is bummed that fewer and fewer black kids, particularly inner-city youth, are getting involved in baseball. He loves the sport, and I think wants it to continue to grow and grow. And it seems clear to me that he thinks one of the best things for the sport would be to have more and more inner city teams with black kids playing the game. I don't see the problem. This "ignorant bigoted hick" could simply be referring to the days of, say, 1985, and be upset at the decline of the popularity of baseball in the white population. Your expectations, though, were precisely my point.