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  1. UMFan83
    If the Heat have a commanding lead tonight, I am turning off the game and not turning the NBA back on until the draft....which is strangely enough a week from today.
  2. UMFan83
    that's awesome...was it hard to get tickets to each of the events? I really want to go to an All Star game at some point in my life, although I hear it's rather boring.
  3. UMFan83
    Yeah there were actually 2 concerts in 2 days, Roger Waters on Friday, Brad Paisley on Saturday, and then the Cubs played at Wrigley on Tuesday. It was bound to be terrible but I was still surprised at how bad it was.
  4. UMFan83
    I would think you have to have a selection committee with a 4 team playoff, however fallible it will be. Otherwise how can you do it to ensure that a high majority of the time no blatently obvious playoff team is left off? I dunno, I could be completely offbase on this, but how would an automatic selection system address conference winners vs. non-conference winners, or non-BCS conference undefeated teams, or a 2 loss team in the SEC vs. a 1 loss team in the ACC, etc. What would be the other scenarios anyways? Maybe 3 BCS conference winners and a committee selected wild card? What if the 3 conference winners are 11-2 Wisconsin, 13-0 LSU, 12-1 Oklahoma and the 4th spot is between 11-1 Alabama and 12-0 (with lets say wins over Michigan State, TCU and Utah) Boise State? Wouldn't the same crap that happened before occurr, with Alabama getting the nod. I realize there's always going to be controversey around that 5th team, but I would hope this system would at least partially eliminate undefeated non-BCS schools with decent schedules not getting a chance to play for the national title. Of course there is probably an obvious way to do this that I'm just not thinking of, making the whole post moot.
  5. UMFan83
    Not bad for your 4th post in June
  6. UMFan83
    Because Rizzo is going to hit 1.000 with a guy on third with less than 2 outs? I meant to separate the statements. It'll be exciting just to see how he does in the lineup and we can probably have a little more hope in those types of situations with him in there. Regardless how bad the team is, it's going to be fun to watch him. I know you weren't trying to say this, but I get the feeling that meatball Cubs fans are going to expect Rizzo to come out and have a 1.000 OPS and lead the offense to a resurgence and if he does anything less he's going to take flack and be considered a disappointment. The expectations for this kid have to be sky high.
  7. UMFan83
    Only 30,000 or so at the game last night, lowest attended game in Cubs-Sox history. Looking online there are plenty of seats available for this one too. Sad that I'm too lazy to travel to the South Side
  8. UMFan83
    Win this one for the BP Cup! Oh wait nevermind the tiebreaker is whoever won last year. Pretty stupid, but its a pretty stupid "award" anyways.
  9. UMFan83
    3-2 on all 3 hitters, that's my marmol
  10. UMFan83
    lmao at Campanas reaction on the replay as he's running by Castro. "Wooooahh!!"
  11. UMFan83
    Is this the same lineup as yesterday? 6/19: DeJesus CF Castro SS LaHair RF Soriano DH Clevenger 1B Barney 2B Valbuena 3B Soto C Campana LF Wood P
  12. UMFan83
    Dusty Baker - You can't walk across the Gulf of Mexico
  13. UMFan83
    For casual fans, England vs. Italy and Spain vs. France are going to be desirable matchups.
  14. UMFan83
    Do you not remember the 3 months between when we "signed" Jorge Soler and when we signed Jorge Soler? That's exactly what he is saying. Why did he wait until now to defect when its unlikely he'll be a FA before the deadline. But as pointed out above, defecting isn't a matter of saying, 'I think I'll defect from Cuba today'
  15. UMFan83
    Meanwhile, Starlin Castro has drawn 5 BBs in his last 62 games.
  16. UMFan83
    What is it if you take out the first month's worth before the bat change? Based on an article on May 13th that said he had been using the bat for 2 weeks, his numbers since April including tonight are: .285/.349/.601/.950
  17. UMFan83
    Len said it was only the 6th time in mlb history it happened. One of them was Frank Thomas but I didn't hear if Len gave the other names. Cool thanks for sharing. Sure would be nice to have access to Len Len and Bob right now, but in all fairness to Hawk, he becomes infinitely more bearable when his team is getting obliterated. What list is that? HBP twice in the same inning.
  18. UMFan83
    Damn, just looked this up. Soriano has played 62 games this year....his first 15 were bad, but over the last 47 games this is his line: .292/.347/.584/.931 with 13 homers and 13 doubles. If Soriano hit homers at that pace all season, he'd hit 45 HR.
  19. UMFan83
    I chuckled
  20. UMFan83
    Jeez...I think we found our new 3B for the rest of the season.
  21. UMFan83
    Sori up to .270/.317/.494/.811.....he's still got something left. Are you watching contenders in need of a DH bat?
  22. UMFan83
    Castro back up to .304 and not in danger of dropping below a .300 OBP at the moment. 7 for his last 10 AB with a double, triple, home run and 4 RBI. Not bad. 0 walks though of course.
  23. UMFan83
    thank you. I'm sitting here reading the last few pages and am dumbfounded that so many people think that putting Dempster on the DL to prevent him from pitching would be beneficial to the Cubs. Even if Dempster was ok to pitch through it and the Cubs are just taking precaution, the loss of trade value, however minor, would cancel out or exceed any benefit of preserving Dempster and his statistics. And if the Cubs were really found to be abusing the DL system, who knows how they would be punished. Not worth it.
  24. UMFan83
    I'll cry if we blow this lead and lose.
  25. UMFan83
    I really hope Geo goes on a tear here and increases his trade value significantly.
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