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  1. UMFan83
    Fixed it for you
  2. UMFan83
    Coyotes lose so amazingly the Hawks will have the 5 seed with 2 points tomorrow I'm pretty sure
  3. UMFan83
    2-0 Sharks now. Man we might be getting a fantastic opportunity to get the 5 seed. I would love to face Anaheim or whoever
  4. UMFan83
    Who would you guys rather face in the 1st round should we make it? There are a lot of teams out there that want to get revenge on the Hawks for knocking them out of the playoffs. I am assuming whoever is the 4th seed is the ideal matchup. 2nd for me would be the Wings. Reason being that the Wings seem to be struggling down the stretch (3-5-2 in last 10) and it would be a good opportunity to get the Wings monkey off our backs. Next would probably be San Jose, but only because Vancouver is just that dominant this year. I wouldnt hate playing Vancouver, because if we beat them it would probably be the greatest thing ever, and the city of Chicago should probably request that Vancouver the GM Place as proof of ownership. At the same time, Vancouver is even better than last year, and I don't want to give up that mental edge by losing this series. But the most important thing is getting in. Phoenix is losing 1-0. This is good for 2 things. A Sharks win (or SOL) would clinch the 2 seed over the Wings, giving Detroit nothing to play for tomorrow. And if Phoenix loses and the Hawks win, we will get the 5th seed (right?)
  5. UMFan83
    Yeah that was an awful defense. It's a nearly impossible thing to argue anyways. Rose has had a fantastic season, but I don't know who would rather him than LeBron when starting a team.
  6. UMFan83
    Nashville just lost, meaning that if the Hawks get 2 points tomorrow they will finish at least 6th. They'd get 5th if Phoenix gets 0 points tonight. The difference between playing Vancouver and playing Anaheim or LA or whoever
  7. UMFan83
    Yeah but still the Cubs were 4-3 before this game. I think that is too early for apathy to set in for the season but maybe I'm wrong. Personally I have been thinking the Bulls & Blackhawks respective drives towards the playoffs have had something to do with it too. I've been pretty apathetic since about April 2010. There is just a general sense of apathy from Cubs fans right now. Not all but many. Its why the crowds are dwindling, its why the game threads and Cubs posts in general have dropped significantly from 2 years ago.
  8. UMFan83
    Hope we don't have a day like the Hurricanes tomorrow. Needing any sort of win today, they are getting blown out 6-2.
  9. UMFan83
    Yeah...everyone wanted the overreactors out of game threads. This is what we're left with lol.
  10. UMFan83
    They are? They're 4-3 and should have won one other one. It's too early to definitively say whether they are good or not.
  11. UMFan83
    boo this game is boring
  12. UMFan83
    I can't believe Carlos Pena has a career .216/.313/.433/.746 against lefties. He's looked lost out there the last 2 nights.
  13. UMFan83
    Wait, what? You didn't like his first start? WTH? ok and now I must backtrack. I didn't watch the game, I was basing it on the box score. I eat my words.
  14. UMFan83
    5ks through 2, look out Kerry
  15. UMFan83
    Blah, its very early but I haven't seen much I've liked from Garza in the spring or the first start. I'm sure he'll get it together eventually tho.
  16. UMFan83
    I just have this feeling the Stars are not going to win in regulation tomorrow. Just a gut feeling. Minnesota is much better than Colorado, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind knocking the former Northstars out of the playoffs (if they are still alive come Sunday night). I think the Blackhawks should be able to get tomorrow game to OT worst case. If the Hawks can get a 1-0 lead, I could easily see them holding back and trying to keep the Wings to one goal or less. Also, is Detroit fightining for 2nd seed still or are they playing for nothing? If the former, I could see the Wings and Hawks both playing very conservatively to pick up a point. It would never happen but it would be funny if the Hawks were like, lets take this to OT 0-0 and we'll let you score a goal when OT starts.
  17. UMFan83
    Sam Fuld just made one of the sickest catches I've ever seen in the White Sox - Rays game. It might have rivaled Reed Johnson's catch in Washington a few years back.
  18. UMFan83
    If H2H were the first tiebreaker, the Hawks would still be in the exact same position. Lose tiebreaker to DAL/ANA, win tiebreaker against PHX/NSH/LA. I realize that. I'm not trying to tailor the tiebreakers to fit whats best for the Hawks. I'm just saying that I like H2H and goal differential better as tiebreakers than ROWs
  19. UMFan83
    It sucks that the awful drubbing the Stars gave us is keeping us from clinching the playoffs already. In terms of H2H and obviously the 4 point swing. I don't like victories being the 1st tiebreaker TBH. I think H2H should be the first tiebreaker, and goal differential being the 2nd. The Hawks have the 2nd best goal differential in the conference and could miss the playoffs which seems odd.
  20. UMFan83
    Is the 7th seed the highest we can attain?
  21. UMFan83
    Sergio Mitre beat Roy Halladay once. Marquis beat Halladay once. The lesson here is that the Cubs have surprising success against Halladay.
  22. UMFan83
    The first tiebreaker is still ROW for 3 team ties. Since there would be two spots up for grabs, if two of the teams have more ROWs then they advance and the other is eliminated. If one team has more and the other 2 are tied, the other two teams go to H2H to determine a winner. If all 3 teams are tied in ROWs, it goes to h2H against the other two teams, an it's determined by highest percentage of points taken from the other two. So if one team is 4-3-1 against the other two and another is 4-4-0, the first team advances. If teams are still tied after H2H it goes to goal differential over the season. Hawks are 2nd to Vancouver in the conference in that so we'd win of it ever got to that point.
  23. UMFan83
    Alright. The only way the Hawks don't make it is if they lose in regulation and the stars win in regulation both games. Sucks the Stars play after us on Sunday. Either way fantastic game. Just an awesome effort. Got the road one at home. If we can earn a point at home were in
  24. UMFan83
    based on the numbers he produced, definitely. considering that he's been caught using PEDs twice now, it's pretty reasonable to think that he's been using throughout most of his major league career. so would he have been a HoF player without them? hard to say. but for most of his career they weren't banned by the league and everyone was playing under the same lack of rules, so based on that i'd vote for him. Hasn't he actually gotten caught 3 times now? He got caught from that 2003 anonymous testing that ended up not being so anonymous, then in 09 he got caught with the masking agent, and now. He would have only gotten punished for 2 of them but 3 different times over an 8 year period he was caught using PED's. I'd say its pretty likely he was using them his entire career, putting all of his numebrs in jeopardy. He's gonna have a hard time making the HOF. If a proven steroid user makes the HOF, that will open the floodgates and then he'll get in. But until that happens he'll be standing on the sidelines like McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, Palmeiro and the rest.
  25. UMFan83
    He was a good pitcher, but not a $16 m per year pitcher. He has a career 3.93 ERA. It was just a really confusing signing. Theo is supposed to be a "moneyball prodigy" that finds things that are undervalued and takes advantage. I know Theo's team has always had deep pockets so he's always been a hybrid. But the Lackey signing didn't make sense from day one and leaned completely the other way. He's a decent pitcher, but nothing about his career numbers screams "will ever be worth 16 million a year". Especially confusing is because that offseason they basically admitted to their fans it was going to be a down year when they let Bay go. It almost seems like they signed him so the fans wouldnt completely freaked out, not because he was some pitcher they absolutely HAD to have for whatever reason.
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