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  1. UMFan83
    As opposed to the type of fun that Kane likes to have right?
  2. UMFan83
    This would have been an enjoyable win if there wasn't that giant Toyota sign stealing everyone's fun in LF.
  3. UMFan83
    Good to see the back-up getting a start. Hill needed a day off. I'm sure he'll be back in after Soto is slated to come up in a key situation and Lou needs to go to his bench.
  4. UMFan83
    gah, my bad thanks.
  5. UMFan83
    I don't think it really matters geographically as it applies to Colorado. It's 900 miles from every original Pac 10 school (basically the closest Pac 10 school besides Utah is the distance from Chicago to New Orleans driving) Provo, UT - 502 MI Tempe, AZ - 882 MI Tucson, AZ - 922 MI Los Angeles, CA - 1,038 MI Pullman, WA - 1,142 MI Eugene, OR - 1,226 MI San Francisco, CA - 1,268 MI Seattle, WA - 1,300 MI Corvallis, OR - 1,305 MI Based on this, it makes slightly more sense to put them in a south division with the LA and Arizona schools. It would save around 400 miles of travel to play at ASU every other year vs. playing at Oregon State every other year. But either way it's far away.
  6. UMFan83
    So with Utah getting invited to the Pac 10, it looks like they will also be setting up 2 divisions. I am assuming the divisions will look something like this: North Division: California Oregon Oregon State Stanford Washington Washington State South Division: Arizona Arizona State Colorado Southern California UCLA Utah I'm guessing the Pac 10 wants to keep the Washingtons and Oregons together as well as UCLA/USC and the Stanford and Cal rivalry. I think ideally they'd rather not have both the new teams in the same division but it works too well like this.
  7. UMFan83
    Would this be the first time that the host team didn't advance past group play?
  8. UMFan83
    98 days until the next Chicago Blackhawks game. That doesn't seem very far away. That's about 1/2 of a baseball offseason for a team that doesn't make the playoffs.
  9. UMFan83
    Dusty Baker, Jim Hendry, a general orginzational indifference towards advanced statistics.
  10. UMFan83
    http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5292732
  11. UMFan83
    Hah, in Chicago most cab drivers ask me which route I recommend they take before we get going.
  12. UMFan83
    The meaning of household names is pretty vague but you don't think over 50% of casual sports fans have heard of Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan for starters? Especially with the fact that a majority of casual sports fans watch at least some ESPN and ESPN has been hyping (English) soccer like crazy since getting Premiere League broadcast rights.
  13. UMFan83
    Can't be worse than the Cubs lineup 1B - .688 OPS 2B - .633 OPS SS - .650 OPS 3B - .517 OPS C - .558 OPS ----------------- LF - .889 OPS CF - .909 OPS RF - .969 OPS I know you said AL lineup but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out how awful the Cubs IF is hitting vs. the Cubs outfield.
  14. UMFan83
    Yeah seriously. Some cabbies are dickheads, but never to the point where I've considered assaulting one.
  15. UMFan83
    I think it just goes to show you the expectations that some people still have with the USA. Getting out of the group is seen as an acomplishment for many. 94 and 02 not 98 and 06.
  16. UMFan83
    Wow...if he keeps pitching like that he'll probably get Luis Vizcaino'd (released despite good results because he's been getting really lucky)
  17. UMFan83
    I do hope they have.
  18. UMFan83
    What do you think they get when they trade away the Harens and Hollidays of the world?
  19. UMFan83
    This makes me feel good because it was blown open by something I actually expected to suck going into the year, the middle relief.
  20. UMFan83
    Whoever said the Cubs always give back runs after they score was right in this case. Score 4 give up 3 (so far)
  21. UMFan83
    LOL one strike from getting out of it.
  22. UMFan83
    Our offense is sooooooooooooooooo bad.
  23. UMFan83
    I guess so. But if they tie the standings are still England 4 (assuming they beat Algeria), Slovenia 4, USA 2. With the USA playing Algeria and Slovenia playing England. I guess their best chance is to tie the USA and hope Algeria can tie or better against the USA.
  24. UMFan83
    I'm curious of Slovenia's mentality in the US game. Knowing they have England waiting for them, are they going to be really pushing for a win? I hope so, that plays to the US's counter attack and I think that's a huge advantage. Yeah looking it from Slovenia's perspective, I think they will go all out to win this game against USA, who they obviously see as a better opportunity to take points from than England. If they get 0 points from USA and England predictably beats Algeria, we are left with USA 4, England 4, Slovenia 3 with USA playing the weakest team of the group and Slovenia playing the hardest team of the group. Slovenia would have to basically play for a tie with England and hope Algeria pulls off a huge upset of USA. Basically this game is ridiculously huge for deciding who gets out of this group. If the USA loses, they basically have to hope that England loses to Slovenia and USA beats Algeria enough to overtake goal differential. If the teams tie, the odds are a little better...the USA's best shot then would be to hope to win and hope Slovenia loses to England or ties them while winning goal differential. So basically, please win USA. And if you don't win at least tie, although I would be a little upset.
  25. UMFan83
    Maybe we should make each goal scored in a soccer game worth 6 points. In this example Brazil beat North Korea 12-6 today.
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