SouthSideRyan

You're in the middle of football season. Don't be greedy.

does that mean what i think it means Probably not so espn is a liar I think BR just uses the previous year's 1 year factor. True park factors are 3 year factors and wouldn't be available til the end of '09 (I think?)

sort of off of your point here but edward norton got to bang salma hayek AND kick the crap out of jared leto real american hero imo Swing and a miss. are you saying they never had sex when they were married because that would take a lot of restraint they dated, but they were never married were they? who knows all i know is i would've hit that like ray lewis THE POINT IS HE HAD SEX WITH HER AND RYAN IS WRONG AGAIN She's saving herself for marriage jerk.

sort of off of your point here but edward norton got to bang salma hayek AND kick the crap out of jared leto real american hero imo Swing and a miss.

Somebody who'll analyze the game or talk for 5 minutes without me wanting to punch him in the face.

Haha, no way. I really like that kid. I'd probably prefer him to Cheek, though Cheek is more highly rated. And the Mizzou fallout would be a delicious fringe benefit. After what Collins has done for us, we'd better not. Gotta keep the Chicago pipeline flowing. Better start recruting the junior highs then.

Marquez Smith is depressing the hell out of me.

(fire-breathing hatred) haha. Hey, Weber has really stepped up his recruiting. The Jerrance Howard/World Wide Wes connection is already paying dividends. Just stay out of Chicago, and we'll be real friendly-like. At least let us have Chicago.

This is such bullhowry. You been sitting there waiting til my name popped up in this thread or something?

Edit, I'm dumb. Stupid Ravens.

Good to see Casey keeping up his torrid pace from the regular season.

(fire-breathing hatred)

HOLD THE MICROPHONE WITH ONE HAND VERDUCCI Also, Chip called Boston one of the classiest organizations in baseball? Now I don't know of anything especially unclassy(besides the BS Arroyo trade and Youkilis never shutting the F up), but is there anything that sets them above anyone else

Wanna bet? I would for fun. I can't see how the Rays don't get better with all their minor league talent and likely the ability to spend a little more money to retain their own/improve on their club. I realize its the AL East, but the Rays have the talent without a doubt. I wouldn't bet against them making the playoffs more times than not, but to win the pennant 3 times in 6 years is really a really lofty goal to set.

Wanna bet?

Awesome.

AND HE SWUNG

That's a called strike you dope.

I like sticking with Price here.

Darling says the ump ruled it a swinging strike?? I don't think I buy that that was the call. If so, that's probably worse than calling it a called strike.

GIFT

Yep, awful news that the 1st Cubs GM to bring the team to consistent respectability would get an extension. Worst. News. Ever. Not saying I agree with everything he does or even his overall philosophy, but, hey, we could have Ed Wade or Ned Colletti. Hmmmm....consistent respectability. That's quite a standard of success. Hendry has basically been given an open checkbook since he started and the Cubs have one playoff series win to show for it. If "consistent respectability" is what Cub fans are looking for then I guess Hendry has done a great job. "Consistent respectability" is a lot better than watching the Cubs of the 50's and 60's go through 20 years of 4th and 5th (and lower) place finishes. To be honest, a GM can only put together a team that is strong "on paper", the performance is basically up to the players, coaches, and manager. According to the "experts", Hendry put together the best team "on paper" in the NL (and maybe in all of baseball). The players slumped at the wrong time (or choked) and the Cubs lost 3 in a row, but it doesn't diminish the fact that Hendry assembled a 97-win team. .....which means absolutely nothing. He may have "assembled a 97 win team" in the regular season, but somehow his handpicked "best team "on paper"" can't quite make that leap in the postseason. I don't want to be one of those Cub fans who 30 years from now is still waiting for a World Series win and I'm not going to give Hendry any props until it happens. He has had a financial advantage that no other Cub G.M. has ever had, so back-to-back division titles sure isn't much of a return on the humongous amount of money he has been allowed to spend. The playoffs are a crapshoot. You can't blame Hendry for what happened. He put together a great team, and that is all a GM can do. I just wonder if all the people who are lessening the Cubs loss in the playoffs by calling it a crapshoot would be doing the same thing had the Cubs gotten to the World Series. Would it be a crapshoot then? This has been argued before. Just because we view the postseason as influenced by luck doesn't mean we can't enjoy when the Cubs win those games, luck be damned. At that point you don't care why they won a game, because they won a damn game.

Horrible idea by Iwamura. He got lucky.

I can't see them going any better than 2-2. As of now they'd only be favored against Purdue. Minnesota is not a very good team. The dome is not a difficult place to play. Illinois is on the road but I think overall they're fairly equal teams. Zook is 0-3 against Ferentz despite having more talent in two of the three games. They should beat Purdue at home. Penn State is obviously damn good and they'll be an underdog at home. I'd say Minnesota right now has the better resume. Their only loss is better than any of Iowa's losses. I'd put the teams' best wins as even. (Illinois is probably a little better than Wisky and the game was in Champaign, but Iowa dominated Wisconsin, and Minnesota won a close one) Beyond that, every win is filler.

Swung on BELTED!