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lol I was gonna say, if the Cubs are going to hire their farm director to fill the AAA manager as well, we might as well be in panic mode because the team is in deep financial trouble.

We'll make it but it's going to be a struggle. Remember when we laughed at the Red Wings last year for struggling to make the playoffs until they got hot down the stretch? I can't believe we won't make the playoffs. No. I won't believe it until I see it. I didn't say that. I'm just seeing a 6-7 seed is becoming that much more likely as the season plays on. I think he was more addressing dexter's original quote.

If he finishes the race, or dies trying to run it, you know there's gonna be a movie about it.

Nady? Nick Johnson does at least have some upside, so if you are going to spend big somewhere else there is at least a logic to it. No, I agree. I'd love Nick Johnson if I was promised he could play at least 120 games. I've always been a big fan of him. The problem of course is that he's played only 195 games over the last 3 seasons, so averaging 65 games per season. Also not sure what other position we're going to be spending big in if not 1B. Unless its like Lee or Crawford. Or maybe I'm thinking too big.

Sweet so who is going to start at first the other 135 games?

They're backup centers being compared to the likes of Omer Asik and Kurt Thomas's decayed corpse. asik has been really good so far Not to turn into a Bulls discussion, but he has. But he's also a foul machine, has no offensive moves, can get pushed around and can't make a FT to save his life (might be the worst in the entire NBA). I just wonder how much longer until teams adjust for him and box him out for boards, and foul him everytime he attempts to make an offensive move.

There's only so much you can blame on injuries. I don't see the level of play that I am accustomed to from our healthy guys either. I know its easy to say teams have tons of heart when they are winning and no heart when they are losing, but sometimes it looks like they are just going through the motions. No positive or negative emotion shown out there. Even Q doesn't seem to upset in his PCs

I may have worded that strangely but the tickets would be free. check your pms

look I completely agree with the Angelo hate in general and because of this statement, but in his defense, I don't think the Bears picked up Adams expecting him to be a big contributor that year. They hoped he could, which is why they made a trade in season for him instead of waiting until the offseason when he might have been cut, but I think they were more or less thinking long term with that trade with Ogunleye becoming a FA after the year. But then he randomly died so...

I really don't think this about a lack of talent either. Something is just missing with this team

Everything is a struggle with this team. Scoring preventing goals everything. No swagger anymore.

Sweet another regulation home loss. I guess were making up for only having 8 last year. Is that 5 or 6 now this year?

Oh. Good luck in your future baseball endevors Ryno.

Same here actually. I had to read it a second time.

First thing I did when I heard Moss to Titans was rush to google to find the Titans remaining schedule begging to God that the Titans had a game in New England or Minnesota in the last 9 weeks of the season. Unfortunately, they have neither. We can always hope for playoffs, assuming Moss is still a Titan at that point.

I was on that bandwagon, but then I heard on Comcast last night that the Hawks are only 1 GB last years pace at this point. Not saying we're as good as last years team, but it tells me that 14 games isnt a definite look at how good you'll be through 50 games or 80 games.

what

Where's the "don't worry about the stadium itself, just get some competent baseball players" option? It's on the survey given to the people who said that the Cubs new owners are a huge failure because they spent all their money on upgrading the bathrooms instead of getting better players, and they took a month long vacation during the baseball season.

That's awesome. I love how quickly he backed off his "Bears will go 3-13" prediction when the Bears started off 3-0, calling them frisky and whatnot. And then when the Bears lose a couple of games, Simmons moves into "look everyone. i told you the bears were one of the 4 worst teams in the nfl. i said it back in late august!"

Well I mean it is one of our own players that's heaping the praise. In fact I haven't really seen anyone outside of the Bears organization that's said that we have great receivers.

Odd, I found that the only appealing thing about being stuck watching KC/BUF. I also don't think his enthusiasm is forced; I think he's just always got a chubby when watching sports. He was screaming at random nothing plays, and he would just go from normal voice to scream to normal voice. It seemed really forced at times. It's jarring when it runs counter to what is actually happening. I know I'm in the minority but I just don't get the over the top love for his over the top emotion. He's better than most announcers out there, but he's still making the same stupid mistakes and missing obvious stuff, just not as bad as some of the hacks. I don't have a problem with him overall, I just don't get the love. Part of me agrees that it is very forced and kind of annoying. But the other part of me actually got more drawn into watching the end of that game when it came on CBS locally because every incomplete pass was the most amazing play in football history. "and fitzpatrick, BACK TO PASS, THROWS IT TOWARDS THE SIDELINES AND...BOWE IS UNABLE TO GET A HAND ON IT!!!. SO IT WILL BE 2ND and 10 from the Bills 38 yard line.

I love it....everyone called me insane when I suggested Michigan wouldnt make a bowl when they were 5-0. They told me this year was different than last year and UM was better. Now it comes down to beating Purdue, a team we lost to last year at home. I say its about 50-50 we beat Purdue, thus about 52% chance we make a bowl does purdue have anyone left on offense? or have all their injured starters returned and I just missed it? Does it matter? A walk on QB destroyed Michigan last week.

I love it....everyone called me insane when I suggested Michigan wouldnt make a bowl when they were 5-0. They told me this year was different than last year and UM was better. Now it comes down to beating Purdue, a team we lost to last year at home. I say its about 50-50 we beat Purdue, thus about 52% chance we make a bowl You call for the worst-case-scenario for every team you root for. You were bound to be right one of these times, I guess. I still think you're giving up on Michigan a little early. I think they can win this weekend against Illinois, and I really don't see them losing to Purdue who has been decimated by injuries. I havent called a worst case scenario for any of my teams since like 2007. You are thinking of the old me. Part of my negativity was seeing a ton of Michigan fans biting on early season wins against teams that were proving to be really mediocore, and people constantly telling me that DRob was going to keep having 200/200 games against a big part of the Big 10 schedule. I saw a paper thin defense that was getting shredded by teams. I'll admit DRob has done better than I expected in the Big 10, but he's been nowhere near the difference maker he was earlier. I will also admit I've been annoyingly negative in my "I told you so" negativity towards Michigan, but that's because deep down it pisses me off to still be in situation where 6-6 and a bowl game is an accomplishment.

I'm feeling strangely confident today. I think the Bears win 28-16

yeah I posted that in last weeks thread. Bill Simmons called Cutler Jeff George last week so its spreading like wildfire now.