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We're getting completely dominated again.

Well we didn't get a shutout so I guess we're going to lose. [expletive] sharp how can you not handle that pass, that would have tied it back up

1-0 Preds....

I only come to this thread maybe once a week so apologies if this has been posted already, but ESPN as part of its on demand content (on Comcast), has the 1994 USA/Columbia game and the 2002 USA/Mexico (as well as 98 England/Argentina) game available to watch. I am watching USA Mexico right now, this was such a happy day.

Is it 2009 all over again? ^ :lol: really old, but they are always hilarious to watch so I'll let it slide.

It's a nice name but it reminds me too much of Major Applewhite, and he didn't do anything in the NFL

I love your stories Fred

If anyone is interested, I just pulled up 2 tickets in Section 302 ($75 face, 2nd cheapest seats you can get) for tomorrow. I was going to be an [expletive] and buy them and flip them for a profit, but it looks like the market has leveled out quite a bit and a lot of people on craigslist are offering for face value.

Haha, what does Prince Fielder have to do to homer against Dempster? Dempster was also the pitcher who gave up the "grand slam" hit by Prince that was brought back by Reed Johnson last April.

I just heard on the ESPN 1000 that Dempster asked to move back to the pen after seeing the lineup that is going to back him up tonight. (ok I made that up)

Was that some sort of weird Freudian slip? I'm racking my brain to think of what Mr. Freud would suggest he had in mind when he slipped the word fiancee in there while talking about Stalin Castro, but I just can't find an approporiate connection.

The NBA playoffs: FAN-tastic! The Hawks and Bulls started off their playoff series with the Hawks and Bulls playing game 1 a day apart. Now by the time the Bulls play game 4, it will be the day before the Hawks play game 6

Again, the LeBron hate is ridiculous. He's cut down on the dancing and all of those shenanigans, but it was equally as ridiculous to see him pulling those stunts out. I like LBJ though. I'm praying that we have a fighter's chance at stealing him away from the hole known as Cleveland. I can understand why someone would think the dances are dumb. But, to dislike LeBron for it is pretty dumb. It's just good fun. I don't get why you are so surprised about this? If Dwyane Wade starting dancing all over the court after destroying the Cavs, you wouldn't resent that just a little? I can see why YOU would think it's in good fun, and it probably is, but when your team just got beat down the last thing you want to see is the opponent dancing and acting all jovial. He's already the damn most talented player in the league and now he has to essentially rub it in. It's one of those things that on paper it doesn't sound like a big deal, but when you are on the losing side of a game and you are already feeling upset by it and then you see the best player in the league dancing around laughing it up, you quickly develop hate. This sounds like exactly the same argument people have against Carlos Zambrano with his antics after getting a big out except its Bulls fans on the other side of things this time. You hate it because he's on the other team but, like Cavs fans, you wouldn't care at all if LeBron was on your team. Yes!! That's exactly what I mean. Mike Aller said its dumb for anyone to hate LeBron because of it. It's not, it's aggrivating and annoying. I hate LeBron specifically because he does stuff like that. But if he came to Chicago, I would quit my job and spend all summer carefully studying all forms of dance, both present day and historical, in order to coreograph some sort of awesome dance and send him a tape of it every single day in the small hopes that he sees it and uses it in a game some day.

I can't believe you are trying to downplay the player who once played a conference finals game in the Benny the Bull costume just because he was bored. And he still scored 47 points and the Bulls won by 12 despite Pippen and Harper both missing the game with typhoid fever. ? I thought SSR was referring to people describing Jordan as a mythical figure often overexaggerating or misremembering the details of Jordan's career.

I gotta disagree a little here. If you were to watch a timeline of Jordan's buzzer beating shots through this career, you would see that early in his career he did celebrate like LeBron does now, and as he got further along in his career, it evolved into a simple fist pump with a stone cold look on his face. Let LeBron be 25. Besides, no one said that to be better than Jordan one had to act exactly like Jordan. The greats have dominated in personality throughout history. Bill Russell probably had the most similar personality to Jordan. The man was just all about winning, every single time he played. Wilt was more of a character, was obsessed with his statistics, didn't end up being remembered as a complete team player, Bird was a pretty cold blooded winner too in his own time, as was Magic but had a different personality to get to that point. If LeBron never "matures" and is always a big kid that likes to enjoy his winning shots, and loves to have a jovial commradare with with teammates, etc that doesn't mean he can't be as good as Jordan when all is said and done.

I can't believe you are trying to downplay the player who once played a conference finals game in the Benny the Bull costume just because he was bored. And he still scored 47 points and the Bulls won by 12 despite Pippen and Harper both missing the game with typhoid fever.

This series has set up just like the Vancouver series, with the obvious difference that the Hawks have home ice advantage. In the Vancouver series, it's safe to say we surprised many by taking a critical game 5 in Vancouver. In this series, we only need to take one in Chicago. I just hope the Hawks are fully engaged after being slapped in the face twice, and they don't start getting the impression that because they found a way to dominate Nashville and they are coming home to play this game that they have taken control of the series. I don't think they will, and I'm not sure 100% if I buy into the overconfidence, less than 100% effort thing, but mentally feeling confident might take a slight mental edge that they need. Since Pred fans had fun saying this after game 2, this is now a 3 game series with Chicago having home ice advantage again.

He is having a good time. He doesn't do it in the face of anyone else. With the exceptions of a few stares at the Chicago bench, you hardly ever see LeBron taunt any player or team. And, Taj and LeBron were laughing when they were talking late in tonight's game, so obviously it is all in good fun. I could understand dislike for a guy like KG, but why for LeBron? It honestly makes no sense to me. Especially when you have a guy like Noah on your team. Somehow because he acts goofy off of the court that makes it OK? I thought his comments about Cleveland were pretty hysterical (and, for the most part, true). Also, the whole title argument is a bit of a stretch for a 25-year old kid. I mean, really? And, in case you haven't noticed over the past few years (and game two in this series) LeBron doesn't need someone else to take late game shots. People stopped trying to use that against LeBron about 3 years ago, so you should probably catch up. Again, the LeBron hate is ridiculous. He's cut down on the dancing and all of those shenanigans, but it was equally as ridiculous to see him pulling those stunts out. I like LBJ though. I'm praying that we have a fighter's chance at stealing him away from the hole known as Cleveland. I can understand why someone would think the dances are dumb. But, to dislike LeBron for it is pretty dumb. It's just good fun. I don't get why you are so surprised about this? If Dwyane Wade starting dancing all over the court after destroying the Cavs, you wouldn't resent that just a little? I can see why YOU would think it's in good fun, and it probably is, but when your team just got beat down the last thing you want to see is the opponent dancing and acting all jovial. He's already the damn most talented player in the league and now he has to essentially rub it in. It's one of those things that on paper it doesn't sound like a big deal, but when you are on the losing side of a game and you are already feeling upset by it and then you see the best player in the league dancing around laughing it up, you quickly develop hate.

It's too bad the Brewers have already won a series this year because this will break the string of Cubs series where one of the teams wins its first series. So far all 5 series have had this: -@ Braves (Braves won first series of year) -@ Reds (Reds won first series of year) -vs. Brewers (Cubs won first series of year) -vs. Astros (Astros won first series of year) -@ Mets (Mets won first series of year)

Really? I thought you thought hockey was spelled Hawky. :)

All you have to do is ground down our starters. Sounds simple enough

I hate hate hate hate this crap. Why do conference winners get penalized when (admittedly sometimes better) at large teams with .500 records in the conference get to start in the first round? What is the point of having conferences and championship tournaments? I am sure the teams that have been eliminated in the playin game the last few years will tell you that they didn't feel like they were in the tournament. The teams that won don't feel like they won a tournament game (although I'm sure coaches stress it to recruits). And furthermore, the casual basketball fan could care less about these play in games. I don't think I've watched more than 30 seconds total of play in games. I've never heard anyone talk about these games after the fact. Most people don't even know when the game is played. Wouldn't there be like 500 times more interest if the play in games were betweeen the last 8 at large teams in the field? I would watch that with avid interest. The idea is, yes you are a border line NCAA team, so prove it by beating another bubble team. Of course they don't do this because having more BCS at larges in the tourney means more exposure for them, more money for the schools and more viewers for the real NCAA tournament. But logically, this makes no sense. What if baseball added a second Wild Card team, but instead of having the 2 WCs play in a play in tournament, they chose the 85 win NL Central Cubs and 83 win West champ LA Dodgers to play into the playoffs? There would be outrage. Not entirely the same thing since D1 teams don't all compete on the same level, with the same resources, etc, but its a similar analogy.

And that Cubs win was an extra innings victory over the Cardinals.

They said Z won't pitch out of the pen until Friday though.

Willie Mays Hayes style