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  1. UMFan83
    At least trying to deny what was obvious to anyone that followed the Heat and their antics close enough this season.
  2. UMFan83
    Boston fans are not just the 35,000 who showed up to Fenway the day you were there. Their numbers have grown exponentially the past decade, and with the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and now potentially the Bruins, they have grown into the most insufferable bunch of crap talking douchebags. I was not only at Fenway for a couple of games, but I was all over the city for several days before the series started. Maybe I just got lucky with my experience in the city for a week. I don't care about their fans. The idea of the names "Burrows" and "Sedin" going on the cup next to Toews and Ben Eager just ain't right. Exactly. Yes it will suck that the only championship that I have on all my friend in Boston will be erased, but c'mon its the Canucks. Really how much more in your face and annoying can Boston fans be anyways? They will probably brag about winning every major sports championship in the last 6 years (with the Pats strangely enough with the longest Boston drought) but whatever.
  3. UMFan83
    I'd be willing to look past him being a bad scorer if he could accomplish that.
  4. UMFan83
    I'll take a wild guess and say it has something to do with playing amongst terrible baseball players. Also consider that he has hit leadoff most of the time so that means lots of Koyie Hill, pitcher, and a mix of montanez/colvin/campana/whatever not getting on base in front of him. Oh also baseball is a long season and that pace will certainly change and probably soon. Right. It's indicative of him actually hitting where he should have been all along...and being on a bad team. Kosuke has driven in 4 of the 46 baserunners he's seen (0.087), or slightly more than half of the teams' rate (0.161) which is still pretty bad. This isn't about Kosuke being on a bad team..... it's about him being the worst of the worst. Is it? Given where he's batting in the order how often has he come up in those situations where there was someone in scoring position? He's not hitting for as much power as he has the last two seasons so if most of those baserunners are on 1st he's less likely to drive them in since his OPS seems mostly fueled by singles and walks. Well if he isn't hitting for power, shouldn't at least part of the blame be on him?
  5. UMFan83
    It never really felt like Kerry was finally back with the Cubs until he got placed on the DL for the first time. Edit: Especially with a blister
  6. UMFan83
    looks like 12, but baseball reference wants me to pay to see who.
  7. UMFan83
    Classy finish to the game as always Vancouver
  8. UMFan83
    Saw this stat tonight.... Fukudome has 6 RBIs in 208 PA. He is on pace for 15 RBIs in 527 PA. How is that even possible?
  9. UMFan83
    yay There should be a rule that CSN shouldn't play "Go Cubs Go" on the air after Cubs home wins if the team is 10 games below .500 or more.
  10. UMFan83
    Somewhat funny yet not appropriate for tonight: http://i.imgur.com/NeNXE.gif
  11. UMFan83
    I believe Buff did as well. I believe he did too. I just read that 5 current Hawks live within a 1 mile radius from one another. The 5 are Keith, Bolland, Brouwer, Bickell and Seabrook.
  12. UMFan83
    That's cool that Bolland lives near The Pony. That was the bar that the Hawks went to immediately after landing in Chicago from Philly after game 6. I always thought they ended up there because Duncan Keith lives nearby (he lives ~2 blocks from the bar on the corner of Melrose and Paulina), but I guess Bolland does too.
  13. UMFan83
    I love the fact that it's obviously digging into LeBron that people are taking such enjoyment on the Heats, and more specifically his failures. Based on his comments last night he obviously has this "how dare they hate me? I am King James!" defiance to it. Makes sense that someone who has been revered and treated like royalty since he was 15 has developed this "holier than thou" attitude, intentionally or not. After everyone telling you how great you are for 10 years, you start to believe it. So its always fun to see someone have to resort to the "I'm a superstar athlete, I'm better than you" as a response to criticism. Really shows deep down how sensitive he is in general, and really gives haters the confirmation that he really is affected by all the hating. Expect the abuse, as well as his responses to the abuse, to only get worse from here on.
  14. UMFan83
    lol that one reminds me of Philly fans getting pissed that we had our parade plan mapped out after winning game 5. Screw Vancouver though. I feel like they think they are the Red Sox of the NHL.
  15. UMFan83
    LeBron's drop from 27 PPG in the regular season to 18 PPG in the Finals is the largest difference in NBA history.
  16. UMFan83
    David Stern?
  17. UMFan83
    i liked when he fell to the ground right before that. Gotta admit. I hated Bosh probably as much if not more than Bron and Wade all year. I laughed my ass off when he apparently cried after a regular season loss. But I gained a very slight amount of respect for his reaction to losing. LeBron looked disappointed but is excited to return to his life or something. Wade shrugged things off. Bosh looked like he took it hard. They probably all took it very hard, but looks can make an impression.
  18. UMFan83
    http://www.gifninja.com/animatedgifs/51895/bosh-cry.gif
  19. UMFan83
    2-8 on the trip is about what I expected. What i wasn't expecting is a surprising 4 almost wins. Good stuff boys!
  20. UMFan83
    It's the bottom of the 7th already? I feel like it just started.
  21. UMFan83
    Yup, they just said that on CSN. Said he was down in the batters box for "minutes". Figures
  22. UMFan83
    Vancouver has scored 6 goals in this series and has a 3-2 lead. Unreal. They've scored 1 or 0 goals in 4 of the 5 games and won 2 of those games.
  23. UMFan83
    Dammit, I am not sure I am ready to live in a world where Vancouver are the champs.
  24. UMFan83
    You stay classy Miami This coming from 2 guys who pride themselves in drawing fouls on imaginary contact. Are they trying to imply Dirk was faking it? Let's see what other excuses Maverick Carter aka Stephen A Smith or Chris Broussard come up with for LeBron's finals. So he's been dealing with horrible personal issues. What's next? He decided to adopt some orphan children and one of them needs a heart transplant. Or maybe JayZ can rap some excuses for LeBron. Or they were just kidding around and happened to have been caught on camera. A bit strange but I really don't think they were implying he faked it.
  25. UMFan83
    If the Canucks win the cup, its amazing that a few inches of difference could have had them choking in the first round.. The save comes around 6:02
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