SouthSideRyan

http://youtu.be/wh-IztpdQes?t=45m16s lol at those WRs David Terrell, D'Wayne Bates, Dez White

I want announcers to take some sort of football clock test before they start talking about Miami needing a miracle to get a FG with 1:40 left in the game.

I've loved pretty much everything Acta's ever said in the press. His results have been...less than stellar, which concerns me a bit, but he really does seem to get it.

I cannot imagine watching a minute of preseason anything at this time

No way he's forcing kids out with 2 open scholarships this year and 3 for 14' / 15'. Marcius moved on because he wants to start somewhere to try to prove himself for a playing career in Europe. Hale never added the weight and wasn't physical enough to be a B1G player. Lawson was a freak athlete but fouled everything that moved and had no polish on the offensive end. Anthony Johnson, I don't know what happened there, he was getting minutes but never developed accuracy on his outside shooting. He had mental lapses and would just drive to the hoop and throw up tear drop shots. He was probably tired of Painter screaming at him for not making adjustments. AJ claims he moved to be closer to his sick grandma. 2009 - 2011 were abysmal recruiting years with the exceptions of DJ Byrd who was a really good role player and Terone Johnson who is a senior captain this year. All that being said, Painter (depending on the recruiting service) brought in 4 4-star players in 2012 and 3 more this year. He's got more 4 star players on the roster this year than ever before. He's also got a solid class of guys that fit his system in 2014. He's obviously trying to land a 5 star player but if he can continue to land 4 stars regularly they'll be fine. Purdue has never been a 5 star player school. He just has to avoid terrible stretches like 2009-2011. I thought Hale was a reach to begin with for any BCS conference school. Saw him all the time in high school, not surprised to see him moving on. How dare anyone suggest these guys were forced out. That only happens in Bloomington, everybody knows that. I think he went a little overboard forcing out Goodluck before he even committed though.

The hate mail stuff sucks, but he has to know that has nothing to do with why he was fired. When he brings it up after firings, it seems like he's pointing to his being black as the reason for his firing. Well, I'm sure everyone sees right through what he's saying if he says he's being fired for his race. I'd rather he say it in the offseason that during the season. I just really doubt the hate mail started in 2013. I really doubt this comes up if he's not fired.

Maybe he hit big on a scratch-off lottery ticket.

STL still has 15 outs left. Do not speak until the beast is dead. yeah jesus, its like you've never followed the cardinals before. Yeah, remember all those games where they came back from a 5 run deficit? It's probably half their wins this season.

I didn't really get why Miller wasn't starting today. I REALLY don't get why he's coming in to relieve in the top of the 8th down 5 runs.

Seriously, I'm surprised anyone of minor celebrity would open their own mail. Dusty seems like a Dayton Moore kind of manager.

Yeah, unfortunately I have no reason to think the manager salary doesn't come out of the baseball budget

I'm only still watching this so I can hopefully see Matt Adams have a heart attack on the field.

"David Freese is a great person" Any chance Stockton has ever actually met Freese?? Morneau has to pick that.

Yes, Dick, the Cardinals are not content with a 7 run lead, because they have a 6 run lead. You remember you just called the home run to make it 7-1 last inning.

Has he committed any errras?

I was more shocked by the humility from Klaw

(Tree's sister reference)

Depends if the closest Coinstar to Wrigley is open year-round #PoorTomRicketts

I'd rather roll the dice with Martinez or Lovullo. YA DON'T SAY

It's not set up the exact same way, the Rangers game allowed full 40 man rosters, the playoff game did not.

Or that Cubs games would continue to sell out no matter how terrible you make them.

I'll see smaller comments-"until Ricketts quits acting like a mid market owner" but that's the extent. Mostly from Mooney. Wittenmyer has been all over the debt issues though and while not voicing his own opinion, does have quotes basically calling Ricketts a moron. Again, he's not a moron for being willing to accept terms on a deal that others didn't in order to close the deal for himself and substantially improve his chances at owning the team, for which he is almost unquestionably better off. It [expletive] SUCKS for us, but the people calling him stupid for it are [expletive] ridiculous. You can call him stupid for all the assumptions he made when taking on this shitty deal.

If spending 5 million dollars/year on Joe [expletive] Girardi takes away from our budget to acquire actual players of worth this offseason I'm cancelling my season tickets

It's really frustrating that there are no shortage of idiots to smack around the Cubs front office, yet nobody will touch the decrease in Tom Rickett's daily allowance the past few seasons. #Rickettsstartsmowinglawnsforspendingmoney

Pardon my ignorance, but I assumed the posting fee went in a lump sum to the team posting the player. I'm not real optimistic about Tanaka based on this, so I'd love for you to tell me otherwise.