SouthSideRyan

I'm a Notre Dame fan, but they were not on the bubble last year. RPI of 95, barely above 500. Not a single win over a tournament team(Though I think Hofstra deserved to go.) I understand that pretty much every loss came in ridiculous fashion, but there comes a point around loss #10 by 1 possession that you can't keep forgiving a team, and you have to start punishing them for not being able to close out a game.

The Royals are in a unique position, similar to the Tigers following their 119 loss season. Everyone decried them for wasting money on Pudge, Rondell White, Vina, and Urbina. What's the point, they're not gonna win anything, and won't win anything as long as those guys are under contract. They said the same thing the next year when Ordonez signed. (And yeah that Ordonez contract is still insane.) But when you're a historically terrible team, you have to overpay and bring in somebody otherwise your fans will flat out abandon you. Was Meche the best guy to blow 11M on? Not at all, but there's no guarantee that the guys who signed for similar money would take any sort of money to go to the hellhole that is their franchise. KC has to show their fans that they are trying to improve, and not just sitting back content with 100 loss seasons. KC has money to burn just like every other major league team, and there's only so much money you can pour into scouting in the US and abroad. I'm not saying the Royals are going to be the next Tigers, there is a miniscule chance of that, but if you think they'd be handcuffed by Meche 4 years down the road as they try to keep Teahen on the team, where do you think they'd be 4 years down the road if they remained a 100 loss team every year. There comes a point where every fan just has enough. It's not as if the Royals are a pitching rich organization. Their minor league pitching stinks. Meche won't be blocking anybody of importance, and has a nonzero chance of actually being productive. This isn't the Pirates trading for Sean Casey while Craig Wilson rots. Or signing Randall Simon while Craig Wilson rots, or Daryle Ward for Craig Wilson TWICE. Sorry Jake. People complain constantly about small market teams pocketing their money, and now that they spend it, their GM is stupid.

jamar smith when playing well is my favorite basketball player of all time. It's gonna take some special moments for somebody to pass Jack Ingram for me. But Jamar is definitely my favorite on this year's team, and probably last's too.

http://www.mlb-rumors.blogspot.com/ I don't like to speak in absolutes but there is absolutely no way that is true.

Um, haven't a couple of people already told you tonight that you can't kid? No that was can't reproduce. The kidding he's talking about means something different.

Jamar Smith back with a vengeance 5-5 from 3 pointers tonight.

Looking it up on cubs.com he had 3 errors on the game. Going through the gameday log, it looks like there were 2 he should've had additional errors on. The afformentiond DP chance, and there was one ruled as a single to 2B Freddy Bynum. Cubs made 6 errors in the game including Lee Bucknering a ball in the 9th. Dempster blew the lead without allowing a hit, hitting a batter, or walking a batter.

He's not even an adequate defensive CF anymore. He's not even an adequate defensive LF anymore.

Hey!!!! I was one of those 9. I had a bag on my head. Was that the one where he dropped the easiest fly ball? Ones that Little Leaguers have no problem catching? I really wonder what his fantasy rank will be. He dropped lots of things in that game, but yes I'm pretty sure a lazy fly ball was one of them. Jacque Jones was out in RF laughing at Bynum being heckled. Then Jones did something stupid and got taunted. He didn't think it was as funny. iirc, he really mixed it up to. bad throw, a boot and a bobble along with a drop. Now I'm really glad I missed all of the summer because I was on vacation from June 10 the August 9th.. when was this? Painful to watch, I'm sure. This was late, possibly in September. Was actually a fun game, Cubs were down big (8-0 maybe?) and came back to win it in extra innings. There were like 500 people left at the game when it ended. Oh and the best part is Bynum shoulda been charged with another error, but it was on a DP so they couldn't.

Hey!!!! I was one of those 9. I had a bag on my head. Was that the one where he dropped the easiest fly ball? Ones that Little Leaguers have no problem catching? I really wonder what his fantasy rank will be. He dropped lots of things in that game, but yes I'm pretty sure a lazy fly ball was one of them. Jacque Jones was out in RF laughing at Bynum being heckled. Then Jones did something stupid and got taunted. He didn't think it was as funny.

Hey!!!! I was one of those 9. I had a bag on my head.

And 5 people pissing on the corpse of an unfunny joke forum.

I hope this leads to a Wake is better than ND debate. Cause that'd just be fantastic.

How bout a voting body of Craig James, Mark May, and Lou Holtz?

Sorry to the Mizzou fans but I would looooove Oregon St. at -4. In a quick glance over the bowls in the paper today I have the Big East going 5-0. Cuse will be happy, but man they really did get screwed over on matchups.

The common denominator in Soriano's best seasons are him spending the majority of the time leading off. and we haven't had a terrorist attack since 911 because of George Bush. in other words, there is no reason to believe there is a cause and effect relationship. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.

My point was that a good defense isn't everything and doesn't make you a good team and doesn't mean you should automatically be ranked. well you glib refutation of the way things typically go without taking anything else into consideration (with the above three teams, coaching and discipline comes to mind) doesn't defeat my point in it's entirety. I look at the teams 19-25 and can say with confidence that if Penn State played all six, they would beat at least three of them. to me that means they should be ranked. yet unsurprisingly, the SEC has the top ranked 1 loss team, the top ranked 2 loss team, the top ranked 3 loss team, AND Tennessee, who shouldn't be in the top 25 at all. But Tommy Tuberville told me the SEC gets screwed over!

As is the put an inferior team in the title game argument.

How far would you be willing to go with that logic? If Arkansas beat Florida yesterday then what? Does Louisville go to the title game then? West Virginia? Boise? Arkansas?

The Kent Mercker thing?? Still?

LSU's the one SEC team I didn't want ND to play. This sucks. Florida's going to get embarrassed. Urban Meyer's a whiny little biotch.

That lettering looks exactly like the Nats's.

Those are independent league teams UK? Just currious. Thunderbolts definitely are. Pretty sure the riverhawks are as well.

I think Mid-December was what's expected from Randle.

Well, all 3 of them can't count cause Pods and Vizcaino made 2M on their own. I've seen this mentioned every time the Pods/Lee trade is brought up, but the point is what else could've been acquired. I have to believe there was no shortage of teams willing to take on Lee at that price. But, of course, it worked out.