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  1. UMFan83
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-spt-0520-bulls-chicago--20100519,0,3151299.story :-)) At least he can finally be on the up and up when he's paying players to play here.
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    Yeah I guess that is the one negative that can be had by doing this. You are starting to mentally believe the hype that you can't win at home if you do something like this.
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    Best team in the NL
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    I think the "what has he done for me this week" reactions that people have towards players who have carried teams for years and given their fans tons of happy memories is one of the biggest things I hate about sports. I don't know if this happened a lot in the past, but it seems like it's happening with more frequency these days.
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    See that's taking it a little overboard in my opinion. Do you really think mentally it will help to sleep in a hotel the night before? If it does, won't coming into the arena and hearing 22k fans scream for you change that mindset quickly? That said, I don't think it will change anything about the game positively or negatively, so if they want to stay in a hotel the night before, have fun.
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    Lou. Marmol
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    Is that the first strikeout of his career? I haven't been following enough, but I don't remember seeing any K's.
  8. UMFan83
    I'm sure that contract is a big regret for the Indians and their fans right about now, even if it only goes for (i think) one more season after this. I know the Indians had expected to contend, but for a smaller market team to give a closer $10M a year, especially one that has only had 1 year of actual closing experience and a long long list of injury issues throughout his career, it just boggles my mind.
  9. UMFan83
    Geo's been in a pretty bad slump lately anyways so maybe a day off isn't the worst thing. .107/.286/.107/.393 (3-28) in his last 10 games.
  10. UMFan83
    Yeah, the whole thing has been a major step back. They've been doing this for years, but I agree. I always watch the first couple of rounds of the playoffs, but by the time it gets to the conference finals, there are so many off days that I quickly lose interest.
  11. UMFan83
    Modified in that the Phillies were scheduled to sweep this series, but now they can't
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    What a slimeball to make everyone do all that work to verify that he did in fact use PEDs when he kept swearing that he was clear of any wrongdoing. And then one day randomly, he pops up and say 'yes i did use peds, but LANCE ARMSTRONG DID TOO!"
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    So what ever happened with this? I'm too lazy to look it up. Did he play the next day?
  14. UMFan83
    If he somehow gets 2, I knew 312 would pay off eventually!
  15. UMFan83
    OMG you are one of THOSE Cubs fans. Going to a baseball game is supposed to be an act of reverence and a time for calm reflection.
  16. UMFan83
    OMG OMG John Clayton said the Bears offense is the best thing he's seen in training camp so far! (2007) Jay Cutler is throwing bullets all over the field, he's making Devin Hester look like an all pro receiver (2009)
  17. UMFan83
    Kirkwoods is my favorite beer garden with pretty decent flatscreens. I've watched Bears games there in the early fall. Justins is another beergarden with TVs, but the TVs are not that great there. They are small and all situated at the actual bar and not really easy to see from most of the outdoor seats. There's also a ton in just the immediate Wrigleyville area. Murphy's for one has a huge semi-outdoor area, also that place right next to the Cubby Bear has a big outdoor section. With the weather the wya it is, many of those bars have huge windows that slide open and make it feel like your outside even though you're still inside. Four Shadows on Diversey and Ashland opens all their windows up like that, if you want to be in Lakeview but a little distance from Wrigley. On a side note, it's tough to in Boston with all the excitment about the Blackhawks running through my system, since everyone here flat out refuses to recognize hockey as a sport after last weekend... Welcome to the board! Screw Boston...one of their teams lose and they have another championship contender waiting for them. I've been waiting 13 years for another champion in Chicago (at least the teams that count).
  18. UMFan83
    Today's Conn Smythe watch from the Puck Daddy Blog:
  19. UMFan83
    I think you might be misremembering. There's no way you had championship hopes in 2000 or 2001. Nobody even thought 2003 was going to be special until June. I would bet the only seasons people went into with legit championship hopes were 2004, 2008 and 2009. That's why I said just about. I felt good going into 2003. I didn't think we'd make the playoffs, but I wouldnt have been shocked if we were competing come September. I felt like things were improving with Prior, Choi, Hill, Zambrano, Cruz, etc. You said just about every season in the decade, presumably that means 8 or 9 seasons. I don't see how it is possible that you had championship hopes in 8 or 9 seasons of the 2000s. I had playoff or championship hopes. 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. 8 seasons I went into the season thinking we had a shot at the playoffs.
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    Kirkwoods is my favorite beer garden with pretty decent flatscreens. I've watched Bears games there in the early fall. Justins is another beergarden with TVs, but the TVs are not that great there. They are small and all situated at the actual bar and not really easy to see from most of the outdoor seats. There's also a ton in just the immediate Wrigleyville area. Murphy's for one has a huge semi-outdoor area, also that place right next to the Cubby Bear has a big outdoor section. With the weather the wya it is, many of those bars have huge windows that slide open and make it feel like your outside even though you're still inside.
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    It's nice to be able to play against mediocre teams all playoffs long. Just like it will be nice for the Blackhawks (hopefully) to face a mediocre team in the Finals.
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    I feel like you are giving impressions on seasons looking back right now, and not how you felt during the seasons. 2001 was all kinds of awesome as it was happening. I doubted all spring, and when July came and they were still in first, I started to get excited and started ignoring some obvious signs that things would go south. I had a lot of fun...any time the Cubs are in first place in July, it's fun. 2004 was a lot of fun. Yes it was also annoying, and the actions of the team left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, but we were still competing for a playoff spot every day until the end. We were relevant, and everyone had the idea that if we could only slip into a playoff spot, our pitching will give us a shot. Misguided or not, that was the prevailing thought at the time. If we had won a couple more games during that last week of the season, people could have remembered that season a lot differently. 2005 and 2006 were two of the most miserable years I've ever experienced as a sports fan. 2005 was just a steady run of mediocrity. When Neifi Perez and Glendon Rusch are the 2 things I remember most about that team, that's not good. But what really put a dark cloud over those years were the White Sox and Cardinals winning the WS while we couldn't get out of our own way.
  23. UMFan83
    I think you might be misremembering. There's no way you had championship hopes in 2000 or 2001. Nobody even thought 2003 was going to be special until June. I would bet the only seasons people went into with legit championship hopes were 2004, 2008 and 2009. That's why I said just about. I felt good going into 2003. I didn't think we'd make the playoffs, but I wouldnt have been shocked if we were competing come September. I felt like things were improving with Prior, Choi, Hill, Zambrano, Cruz, etc.
  24. UMFan83
    lol wow... http://blogs.vocalo.org/aomar/2010/05/sorry-chicago-fans-you-don%E2%80%99t-deserve-the-cup/23237
  25. UMFan83
    Like I said before, the first period of game 3 is going to show a lot about how the rest of the series will go. You would assume that if the Sharks had it in them to play a ton better, they will show it on Friday because obviously their season is on the line essentially. They probably have to win both the games in Chicago, but if they only win one its still possible they come back. But after watching the Hawks execute their game plan in the last 2 periods pretty flawlessly, I can't see a way the Sharks win this series if the Hawks play the way they did.
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