SouthSideRyan

So is this basically a result of him trying to doctor their books for their own lawsuit against the Cubs? If so, that is some sweet, sweet justice. I imagine he was doctoring them so he would have to pay less money on whatever cut the Cubs took(16%?)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/2010.shtml

Step right up and mug the Mets! Let's hope PTR hasn't seen the cost cutting report. Who do you think is doing the mugging?

Their last 2 albums have gone #1, the most recent one coming out 2 months ago. ETA: And they had a song that was on some sort of sports coverage, played constantly last year, or maybe 2 years ago? And the Blackhawks use a recent song of their in their intro/pump up. i just remembered hearing when they broke up a while back and didn't know that ever changed. having a no.1 record is nice but it basically means you sold like 35 records. I'm just saying they're not Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Their last 2 albums have gone #1, the most recent one coming out 2 months ago. ETA: And they had a song that was on some sort of sports coverage, played constantly last year, or maybe 2 years ago? And the Blackhawks use a recent song of their in their intro/pump up.

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/224/0/f/tumblr_mhox8bgmdq1qfr6udo10_r1_400_by_iheartcatz1-d6hvwnj.gif

What is he apologizing for? Criticizing her work, or acknowledging Bernstein's comments? He mentioned them in passing in his response I guess?

New and inventive way to kill Cardinals? http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fe/Inside_the_Springfield_Mystery_Spot.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20111025035751

Could we fire him for speaking that first sentence?

I think they swapped Sandberg and Namath

Yeah, that Brian Wilson is so funny

Everyone growing beards is the worst thing since the ironic mustache.

Who is that in Wyoming?

Why is Jeff Capel in demand?

Objectively bad in the sense that they'd win about 1 out of 20 games against the Sixers, or objectively bad in the sense that they play bad basketball?

oh right, because there's nothing exploitative about it so long as it hasn't been empirically proven to shorten one's lifespan. that's an interesting high ground you're taking and besides, i didn't come in here guns ablaze and just skeet wet blanket-ness all over the place. i made a response comment in jest, to which there was a thoughtful response, so i followed up in kind but whatever, you might as well randomly use this vanilla disagreement to hit the release valve on that pent up aggressiveness towards the posters that like to talk about music and/or soccer Yep, I've long had a passionate hatred for people talking music and soccer. Nailed it. There were 1252 posts in the college basketball in-season thread. You think people were all interested during the season because of gambling, or because they've been fans of those programs for awhile? I can't recall a single person claiming NCAA basketball or football are superior competitions to their pro counterparts, so what is the point of making that argument? Who said anything about exploitation(which of course the majority of NCAAB scholarship athletes aren't being, but yep, let's go pay the top 100 players some more and take away college educations from kids who nobody gives a [expletive] about)? My point is don't make the point about NCAA being gambling driven when a sport that is literally killing people is only at its level of popularity because of sad old men who gamble, and sadder old men who don't.

Had Theater Seats tonight, which was pretty damn great. Loudest the crowd got was booing the Bulls for not getting them free Big Macs

I'm not sure why one would come into a thread about this subject and say this. I think I posted it in response to the discussion about all the fouls being called. Have you watched any of these games? They're horrific. I've watched a good amount, and I think it is not news that college basketball is worse than the NBA and that if you are a Basketball Purist you definitely want to watch the NBA and not college basketball. They need a 30-second shot clock, to go from 5 timeouts to 3, and to do something meaningful about flopping. The games don't seem much more 'horrific' than they are every year. You might be surprised to find that the people on this board generally know college athletics is objectively inferior to the pros in terms of level of play and are aware that that is just one of many issues with it, and just happen to like it anyway. And that the handful that don't realize the former are not the sort of well-meaning people that are going to be convinced by a drive-by "COLLEGE SPORTS Sox" post on a message board. Also, I'm amused by the fact that 'sucks' with an x substituted for the 'cks' autocorrects to Sox. it's not about the purity of the sport, it's about the quality of competition. it's awful and mostly unwatchable and whatever with the aww shucks some people just like it bit. at least 90% of the tournament's captive audience has money on it. remove that motivation and we're talking about a fringe sporting event at best At least the 90% of audience for the NCAA tournament aren't watching its participants shorten their lives like some more popular sports. You don't like it fine, don't watch it. I don't go into the soccer thread and whine about how boring it is to me, nor do I go into the Music thread to rant about pretentious you all are.

This is all so asinine.

Maybe they were unclear and taking contract into account?

Ack, misread that as 18 executives and 12 managers

Kentucky will get the calls Maryland didn't. It's gonna be on the level of Illinois-Arizona '01

Gottlieb is so [expletive] good. Probably too critical to ever get a Sweet 16 assignment

If Trimble is concussed, they're going to lose by 20

West Virginia fouls 3 times on every defensive position and more than that when they offensive rebound.