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Ouch, not the best game for Castro. 0-4, K, 3 GIDPs -
yeah as in, if they're ranked then they're way too high. I don't think either of these teams gets into the top 25 starting 2-0. There are a lot of people that are skeptical of both. Plus, I'm not expecting a clean win for either next week. Probably a close, somewhat sloppy game. Disagree. Not sure about the coaches, but the media is always looking for a reason to rank ND and Michigan when they aren't ranked.
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Lolz. A towel joke. More or less a joke making fun of towel jokes which is the in thing in Prior threads on NSBB.
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Dallas area Linens and Things are thrilled with this development.
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Im surprised to see both go. Especially with how bad special teams was in the case of Shaw. Cutting Awfulava shows how bad our safeties were last year. -
Sure the record doesn't matter, but the performance was very disappointing regardless. The fact that previous teams went 0-4 and ended up really good also doesn't matter. Yes the performance was disapointing, but its hard to not look disapointed when going 0-4 in a 4 game span. I can't see a scenario where any football team would lose all 4 of their preseason games and their fans saying "im more optimistic about my teams chances after watching this preseason". My point was that it doesn't necessarily mean they are going to be horrible. I'm sure a lot of decent teams that went 0-4 in the preseason probably lost becuase of their reserves performances, while their starters played decent. And other 0-4 teams probably play bad all around and then went on to have a good regular season. And some 4-0 looked awesome in the preseason only to be horrible in the regular season. I was disapointed with a lot of what i saw in the preseason too, but im not necessarily ready to throw in the towel either. They looked pretty bad in the 06 preseason as well if I remember correctly.
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Bears game 1: Sunday Sep. 12 vs DET on Fox
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I'm not buyin the Lions love. I hear it every year, and every year its a new acquisition or two that is going to make the Lions turn the corner. I do like a lot of their additions they've made but I'm thinking 5-11 looks good for them. -
My point was that there is no link between preseason record and regular season record. I'm sure if there were stats for 2-2 and 1-3 they would be hovering in the 9-7 to 7-9 range as well.
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I don't think anyone here is actually worried about the Bears finishing the preseason winless, but just in case they are, I'll point out that the Colts were also winless this preseason and were outscored by 70 points in the 4 games (Bears were outscored by 38). Also, since 2006 the 9 teams that went 0-4 in the preseason had an average record of 7-9 in the regular season. The 7 teams that went 4-0 in the preseason had an average record of.....6-10. Heavily skewed by the 2008 0-16 Lions but without them it comes out to 7.5-8.5 (so 8-8).
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lol @ 0-4 preseason.
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You say goodbye, I say hello.
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Hahahahaha It was an awesome appearance too. Did you see how we almost beat Oklahoma!! Well we lost by 20 or so but we were only down a couple at half time. I waited a long time to enjoy those 2 games, and I will not be mocked for it.
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I guess so. I became a Michigan fan watching the Wolverines knock OSU out of the championship game in back to back years. The trill of ruining their championship aspirations is worth dealing with stretches like this when OSU is dominating UM. Now we can still beat them and derail their championship hopes, but they have another game to prove themselves and get back on track. It's possible that there is a year when OSU can win a national title and lose to Michigan in the same season. That's sacreligous
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If that were true, based on the last decade MSU is going to year in and year out be seeded higher than a team like OSU or Illinois just based on the fact that everyone in their division has had little or no basketball success over the last decade. Look at this: NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS: Minnesota - 3/10 Iowa - 3/10 Northwestern - 0/10 Nebraska - 0/10 Michigan - 1/10 Michigan State - 10/10 Michigan state has 2 more tourney appearances over the last 10 years than the rest of their division combined. And they get to play 10 conference games against these bozos. Michigan State is going to consistently steamroll over that division of powderpuffs.
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As for me, as a Michigan fan, I find myself mildly annoyed about the division set up. Maybe a little is OSU and Michigan splitting up because I don't just want to play OSU every year I want to compete with them. And that's not gonna happen anymore unless its in the Big Ten Championship game. TBH, I bet if you looked at the last 40 years and actually counted how many of them were for the Big Ten Title, it would probably be less than 6 times. I mostly had the divisions because as a Big ten fan, I identify with all the teams in the other division a lot more than I identify with teams like Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Northwestern. I've been to pretty much all the campuses in the other division besides PSU and I know fans of all of those 6 schools. In UMs division, I've been to Minneapolis once in my life, the state of Iowa twice maybe, Nebraska never, Northwestern a ton but its not a historically exciting team (sorry Jon). At least we have little brother tagging along with us to the frontier.
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Do these divisions have any bearing on basketball at all? If so, that's a mighty tough division that Illinois finds itself in, and an insanely easy division MSU finds itself in.
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HUh? Was the out a sacrifice? I didn't know he had another AB in the game yesterday (which was an out) until after I posted it.
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Didn't something similar happen to Gorzelanny last year shortly after coming here? BTW, Koyie Hill's last 4 ABs: 1) single, 2) 2 run HR, 3) doubled and scored, 4) Out 5) RBI double
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No one's at the game either: http://twitpic.com/2k2l5n Sullivan's hand-wringing over the crowds strikes me as silly. Look at Tampa, San Diego and Cincinnati for attendance stories. The contending Sox are a nice study as well. I think it's noteworthy, especially when you consider all the nonsense about Wrigley being full and fans being happy regardless of record and outcome. Jim Hendry's failures are costing the team money in the form of empty seats. I don't think it was every really a shock to anyone that has followed the team more than casually. It wasn't until 2003 when the stereotype that "The Cubs sell out every game no matter what" was born. In 04 and almost all of 05, Wrigley was near or at capacity. In 06, after labor day there were only 20-25k fans in the stands at games. My friend and I had a whole row of bleachers to ourselves in 06. 07 and 08 were nearly all sold out again. In 09 I was able to buy tickets to a September game that were 5-6 rows directly behind home plate for $25 a ticket, with a $110 face value. When the Cubs are bad and/or expectations are low the Cubs will draw 30-38k for weekday games before memorial day, come within 1-2k of a sellout in every game between May and August, then mid-August if the Cubs are bad, attendance drops sharply during the weekdays. Weekend games are almost always at or near capacity.
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If we lose today, I believe we will have lost every series played this year against a team that might lose 110 games. I think we "split" one series against them because of a rainout, but we lost the makeup game.
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it'll probably just be a bust oh wait, that would be the tyrus thomas statue that's pretty hilarious It would have been funnier if he didn't set himself up for the joke. Still pretty funny though.
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Zell? Is he related to our former owner?
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Manny claimed by the White Sox
UMFan83 replied to E.J.'s topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I didn't realize there were still people who didn't realize how stupid this is. Testifying before congress in a second language isn't the same as telling the channel 5 sports guy how great the fans are in a second language. For the all the things you can criticize Sosa for, this isn't not one of them. Yes but when he did speak, he spoke in extremely broken english. Also he did the same thing when explaining his corked bat. It's a valid point, but I do think there was some intention on Sosa's part to pretend to be the "besbol been berry berry good to me" guy. -
Koyie Hill (yes KOYIE HILL) is on absolute fire over the last few games .545/.545/.909/1.454 over his last 3 games (6-11, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 4 R). .695 OPS over his last 16 games as well, which for Koyie Hill is a tear.
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I love the site and the rate my team feature, but it seems like just about everyone is getting extremely raving feedback from the computer. Either we are all extreme fantasy gurus or its hard to build a bad team according to them.
