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Fontenot has a WS ring.. Blah
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Bears Game 8: Sunday Nov 7 at Buffalo (Toronto) on Fox
UMFan83 replied to Banedon's topic in Other Sports
I'm all for improving at WR, but not with Moss. All these reports coming out how they felt like they were playing 11-on-10 with Moss out there, about how he gave up on most plays that weren't designed to go for him, refusing to return home with the team and participate in watching video, etc. I don't mind taking risks, but this isn't even a risk. It's asking for trouble. I don't know how well this analogy works, but if you could take a pill that gives you a 15% chance of being significantly smarter, but the other 85% of the time it gives you cancer, would you take it? -
I do actually think that someone at some point did because I'm not clever enough to think something like that up. I know that Ward, Taylor and Baston came in one year (while Jimmy King and Ray Jackson were still on the team) while Bullock and Traylor were the next year, so it can't be considered an incoming class of 5 players. ward, taylor, baston, willie mitchell, and travis conlan. but according to rankings, it was every bit the class the fab 5 was. ward was the #1 player in that class. Thanks for clearing that up. I knew that new major recruiting class after the fab 5 was highly regarded. Pretty disapointing that that class never made it out of the first weekend of the tourney. Not that any of that would have counted in the long run anyways.
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That's great, it should be everyone's answer when someone talks about career highs. "I don't know if you remember this, but I actually had a career high in my first ever NBA game! Career highs in several stats actually. I was ON that night."
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Yeah seriously. 2 of the games so far have been because the Cowboys have played the NFC North. And of course being a member of the NFC East means that they are going to be on TV often to fill the NFL's allotment for one NFC East intradivision matchup every 2 weeks on primetime. But I have no idea why I was forced to watch Dallas-Tennessee or worse Dallas-Jacksonville last week. And the craziest thing is, I am still scheduled to have 3 more Dallas games on my TV during the rest of the season because of Thanksgiving, a SNF game, and a Saturday game. Hopefully the SNF game will be flexed, but with my luck the Cowboys will make some sort of mini-comeback and be 4-6 going into the game against Philly.
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Bears Game 8: Sunday Nov 7 at Buffalo (Toronto) on Fox
UMFan83 replied to Banedon's topic in Other Sports
Just for fun I tried to look up just how many times we've failed from the opponents 1 this year. It is 10. DET 3rd and 1 at DET 1 - Forte to right tackle -1 yards 1st and 1 at DET 1 - Forte to right guard 0 yards 2nd and 1 at DET 1 - Cutler INC Pass Greg Olsen 3rd and 1 at DET 1 - Forte to left guard for 0 yards 4th and 1 at DET 1 - Forte to right tackle for 0 yards GB 4th and 1 at GB 1 - Cutler INC Pass Desmond Clark 3rd and 1 at GB 1 - Forte to right guard 0 yards CAR 2nd and 1 at CAR 1 - Taylor to right tackle for 0 yards 3rd and 1 at CAR 1 - Collins INT intended for Devin Hester WAS 1st and 1 at WAS 1 - Cutler to right guard for 0 yards, loses fumble Of course with the case of the Washington game, he did actually score, but the fact that it went unchallenged just adds to it. So 10 times we've run a play inside the opponents 1, 0 points scored, 2 turnovers, 7 runs stuffed for a loss or no gain. Cutler 0-2 Collins 0-1, INT Forte 5 carries, -1 yards Taylor 1 carry, 0 yards Cutler 1 carry, 0 yards, fumble lost Impressive boys. -
He was all right, but the Rangers just had better scoring chances compared to the Hawks. Defensive breakdowns led to all three of the Rangers goals. That's getting extremely old. Meanwhile, guys like Kopecky and Toews were shooting the puck right into Lundqvist's chest and pads whenever they had chances. There was that open netter off a rebound right near the end of the game that Sharp blasted about 16 feet over the goal as well Yeah I saw that....wasnt sure if it deflected off a stick though. Can't see how someone would miss an open net from 2 feet away that badly.
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Exactly. Just another case of a mediocre team with great starting pitching sneaking into the playoffs catching fire and winning the whole thing. It really is all about how well you are swinging the bats come October.
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I'm so glad that Dallas somehow finds its way onto my TV screen every week without fail. They will have played 8 games after this week, and being a resident of Chicago I will have been able to watch 7 of their games with basic cable. It's not all bad though...the one game that wasn't on the Chicago airwaves was their 1 win this year. Still 5 straight weeks and 7 of 9 with a Dallas game on (inc. bye week) is rather nauseating.
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That's not true. AL won in '04 and '05. Shut up Edit: wow I think I actually managed to block the white sox world series out of my head!
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Crazy. Since 2000, the AL and NL have alternated championships each year. The AL is up next year.
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Sure... Just need to get our Lincecum and Cain
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Longest World Series droughts: Chicago Cubs - 1908 Cleveland Indians - 1948 Pittsburgh Pirates - 1979 Baltimore Orioles - 1983 Detroit Tigers - 1984 Kansas City Royals - 1985 New York Mets - 1987 Los Angeles Dodgers - 1988 Oakland A's - 1989 Cincinnati Reds - 1990 Minnesota Twins - 1991 Toronto Blue Jays - 1993 Atlanta Braves - 1995 Arizona Diamondbacks - 2001 Los Angeles Angels - 2002 Florida Marlins - 2003 Chicago Meth Heads- 2005 St. Louis Douchebags - 2006 Boston Red Sox - 2007 Philadelphia Phillies - 2008 New York Yankees - 2009 San Francisco Giants - 2010 Houston Astros - Never Milwaukee Brewers - Never San Diego Padres - Never Washington Nationals - Never Seattle Mariners - Never Texas Rangers - Never Tampa Bay Rays - Never Colorado Rockies - Never
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No... He's not and that's my entire point. The entire reason to look at points per shot is to measure how efficient he's been in the game by including FTM and 3 pointers. If rose was getting to the line he'd be scoring more like 45 points on 30 shots instead of the 28 he had in the opener. Anyways point is moot as Rose scores only 16 points on 11 shots tonight. Oh and he also dished out 13 dimes in an attempt to shut up people who don't think he can be a pure pg. He really made things happen tonight as did deng obviously. Very nice win.
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Mark DeRosa - world series champion.
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Man and Dusty isn't even here to screw this up. Congrats to the Giants. You've probably had 10 better teams since you moved to SF but you finally got your World Series championship
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Ouch. He's not THAT bad. He's no Todd Collins. Probably one of the top 10 backups in the league. The later part of that though.
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Or not
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I honestly had no idea Rowand was on the postseason roster for the Giants. I assumed he was out with injury or something.
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Me too. I know how good their staff is but it's gotta be one of the bigger upsets of my baseball life. The whole playoffs that is.
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Wow tht might have done it. Renteria might have just had his 2 World Series winning hit. 13 years apart.
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Is Texas gonna get shut out for 2 straight home games to lose the World Series?
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Bears Game 8: Sunday Nov 7 at Buffalo (Toronto) on Fox
UMFan83 replied to Banedon's topic in Other Sports
It might have some merit. A bye week gives you an extra week to implement a game plan. Plus your players are generally well rested and a lot of nagging injuries are rested. So teams coming off the bye should have an advantage. But 3-3 doesn't really tell us anything. 6-0 or 0-6 might. -
Neither I believe. Wciu
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Deng is such an inconsistent player. He goes from a horrible couple of games to 20 points in first half tonight. I imagine he'll probably disappear this half too.
