UMFan83

Yeah, that's the philosphy to go through life with! And it's gotten you so far. it has gotten him far. extremely far. he not only made it to the majors, but he is getting paid tens of millions of dollars to play a sport. Did you not read the rest of my post? His attitude and personality has gotten him nowhere. His luck of being uniquely skilled in skill set that is rewarded hansomly. I suppose hard work is a positive trait that helped him get to where he is today as anyone who has had to play baseball has had to work hard to get there. But all the hard work in the world wouldn't have mattered if he didn't have god given ability to play the game. Show me one instance where his attitude and personality helped him get even $1, because that's what were talking about. Bradley said he's not changing anything about his personality, specifically his behavior towards umpires in this instance because it's gotten him this far.

What do you mean by that?

Yeah, that's the philosphy to go through life with! And it's gotten you so far. If God hadn't given you moderate ability to be skilled at doing something that both pays a lot of money and is in an industry where you can sometimes be completely intolerable and still be a net benefit to your employers, you'd be a worthless bum. Well Milty, your talent will only get you a few more years in this game. You selfish and destructive behavior will have to carry you the rest of the way. Still feel the same way about never changing?

Personally I don't mind his writing. I don't expect anything insiteful, but it usually keeps my attention. That said, as I remarked before, I expected a Will Leitch article about the Chicago Cubs to be horrible, but the article was at least interesting enough to discuss, IMO.

Oh yeah, I'm not saying the Cubs are definite contenders, or that they are built for the long term. Those are some of the biggest concerns I share. The most ridiculous part in that article was the part talking about how this is the best decade the Cubs have had, and that we should expect several down years now. I mean there were many many happy moments for the Cubs in the 00's. There were moments of joy, moments of success, moments of swagger. But there were just as many agonizing moments for the Cubs this decade. We saw 5 seperate painful collpases from high expectations this year (twice in reg. season (01 and 04), twice in DS (07,08), and once in LCS (03). We watched our two biggest arch rivals win the World Series only 2-3 years after our biggest shot at winning ended in a historic collapse. We watched the 2 teams who were within 40 years of a similar World Series drought as us win it all and see decades of demons erased. We watched as the ownership finally started to turn into a big market team and spend the money to compete with other large market teams, only to see that money spent without an apparent plan and seeminly in a way that puts us in a significant financial bind to start this season. We saw a celebrated Cub of the late 80s/early 90's, a sort of "less talented Mr. Cub" of a new generation (I know I am reaaaaally stretching here) mutually part ways with the Cubs and win a WS with an expansion team. Speaking of which, the decade saw 7 teams who had either 1) Never been to the World Series before, 2) Hadn't been to a World Series for at least 40 years, or 3) Were an expansion team that had been around for less than 8 years at the start of the decade make the World Series while the Cubs still sat on the sidelines. I am starting to sound like a misery ridden Cubs fan so I'll stop, but it's been anything but a golden decade for the Cubs.

Interesting read http://deadspin.com/5498446/chicago-cubs-this-is-the-golden-age?skyline=true&s=i In my mind Leitch, huge Cards fan/Cubs hater, is trying to antagonize his rival's fanbase with this article. Basically his point is, the 2000's was the "golden age" for Cubs fans, and that everything went right for the Cubs this decade and they should have won a World Series during that time, but the cards didn't fall that way. Now they should expect a big decline based on the payroll being maxed out and our core being aging and ready for a slide. He suggests the Cubs only chance this year would be in the rest of the NL Central collapses and and they emulate the 2006 Cardinals team by luckily winning a WS past the peak of that incarnation of the team.

I think Colorado may fall completely out and Calgary/Detroit may be the 8th seed. I watched some of the Sharks/Oilers game and oh my, Sharks are completely lost right now. What exactly is failing for them right now? Just a bit of everything or one specific area?

According to the Trib, it's gonna happen... The article talks about how he made one little adjustment and it's been working well for him (suuure...). He credits the turnaround to Greg Maddux. Oh and also he's said he's had a couple of bad years since his mother wasn't around to be there with him, and the good news is his mother is flying from Venezuela very soon. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-0322-cubs-chicago--20100321,0,5010525.story Honestly, whatever. I personally wouldn't have made the move, but if he kills us for a couple of starts in April, most likely the Cubs will pull the plug when Lilly returns anyways.

So I see the Coyotes won again and are now tied with us for #1 seed, albeit with 2 extra games.

I agree, there's no way the Cardinals would have signed Holliday to that contract if they didn't expect to break the bank to resign Pujols. But who knows what to expect. What if Carp has another serious injury and has to miss most of the year, what if Holliday doesn't live up to the expectations and drops a few more liners off his nuts? What if a lot of stuff that could go wrong does for the Cards and Pujols assesses the situation and realizes that the Cards aren't going to be title contenders in the short term due to the amount of money they would have to pay him and the other players for what he believes to be a non-title core. Don't get me wrong Pujols has said all the right things about the Cardinals in his career and over the recent years. Nothing he has said would suggest that he would do anything but stay there. But you can't talk in absolutes when you were talking about megastars like Pujols, who worry about things like legacy at this stage of their careers. Yes he has a title, but if he doesn't think staying with the Cardinals is going to keep him in the spotlight in October for the rest of his career, who knows where his mind wanders to.

No doubt, but you can't dismiss the fact that for the first time in like 10 games, the Bulls played a sub-.500 team.

How many times have the Hawks blown a 2+ goal lead in the last 10 games?

Win in Chicago and take the home and home or die.

I am not mad with the point given up IF we can take the SO.

Remember me bragging about my bracket last night? Yeah 2 of my final 4 are gone including one of my championship game participants.

Wow talk about taking a horrible shot and getting bailed out.

The last time I've seen a team from Iowa team choke this badly, they were playing Northwestern.

DERRICK ROSE IS BACK!!!!! 12 points in his first 9 minutes back. Bulls lead Philly 21-14 early. Oh and he nailed two 3's so far. Watch out NBA DRose is back. Did you get the memo?

Not related to the injury but I thought this photo was interesting: http://a.espncdn.com/media/apphoto/3ccf2949-4585-46f6-ae03-d4105ce93a10.jpg

Dammit, when are the Cubs going to learn to stop relying on Prior and Woo- whoops, I forgot.

:shock: Yeah, I'm usually horrible at brackets, so I'm enjoying the ride while it lasts. I can't believe almost all the upsets I picked while quickly filling out my bracket turned out to be right. Even the ones I lost on (like Florida) they had ample chances to win it.

Tomorrow doesn't look that great in terms of matchups (by seed). The closest seeds that play tomorrow are 2 seed Kansas State and 7 seed BYU. Everyone else is strangely enough 8 seeds from each other. In contrast, Sunday's games include two different 4-5 matchups and a 3-6.

27 of 32 with all Sweet 16s and on left. I went 15-1 today (stupid Louisville)

You gotta admit, it's kinda funny to see the Cavs only really try to win the game for a grand total of 5 minutes out of the 48 and come away with the win fairly easily at the end. LeBron sat for the first 6 minutes of the 2nd quarter, and the first 7 minutes of the 4th quarter. He remained seated when the Bulls came back to tie, and only when the Bulls took the lead with 6 minutes to go, did he get up to come back in. And when he stood up, it's not like they immediately called a time out. They waited calmly for a stoppage of action and in came LeBron. Within 5 seconds of him coming in the game, he already scored on an alley oop. In those 5-6 minutes to end the game he managed to put up 13 points, and turn a 2 point Bulls lead into a Cavs lead as big as 10 points. LOL