UMFan83

lol, I just realized my 2 football teams (Michigan and the Bears) lost by a combined score of 80-20 this week.

At least you wouldn't have driven 5 hours and paid $150 bucks to go to the game with an entire family of Bengals fans who think it's fun to scream "WHO DEY" in the Bears fan's ear every 6 seconds while their team is beating mine by 35 points like I did last week.

I thought when we beat Seattle that was supposed to be our big road win because it's impossible to win in Seattle even though 60% of their team was hurt and we barely beat them.

Bears will win this easy. The Browns wouldn't be able to score points against Michigan's defense, so they should only be able to get like 10-13 against us.

I prefer H2H in football but absolutely hate it in every other sport, especially baseball.

Isn't Harvin banged up? I'd go with Ocho and Manningham. I need 3 RBs out of this group: Slaton (vs. SF) Benson (vs. Chi) Portis (vs. Phi) Mendenhall (vs. Min) Maroney (@ TB) I'm pretty locked into Slaton and Benson, so it's the 3rd spot I'm worried about. Portis has been mediocre and hasn't gotten into the end zone much and is very banged up but will play. Mendenhall has a really tough matchup against Pittsburgh. I'm actually leaning towards Maroney for 3 reasons: 1) (biggest) His RB partner Morris is out tomorrow 2) He had a good game last week (120+ yards TD) 3) Tampa Bay's run D is mediocre at best, and TB sucks so NE could be running a lot later. So I'm leaning Maroney but I want to run it by the board to see if I'm being a huge idiot not starting Portis or Mendenhall.

So when in the game do you expect the Bengals to start running the no huddle?

I bet Chad invited Jay out to dinner, but Olsen went because Olsen goes everywhere Jay goes. That said, I do not like teams fraternizing with other teams, especially a day or two before a game between the two.

Despite the 3 of the first round series being sweeps and the other 4 games, and the NLCS only being 5 games, these have been a pretty fun playoffs with a lot to talk about. A lot of close, back and forth games.

Just taking my weekly stroll through the "expert predictions". I figured that the "experts" would be slightly in favor of the Bears, but that doesn't seem to be the case. CBSsports.com's Prisco (23-14), and Harmon Forecast (20-19) pick the Bengals, as well as the Super Bowl predictor Peter King (24-23) who thinks the game is still at noon. ESPN's "experts" are mixed as to who wins, as 4 pick the Bengals, and 4 the Bears, with Accuscore taking the Bears and the fans picking the Bengals. As far as CBSsports.com's ATS picks, 4 pick the Bears (taking 1.5 points) and 2 take the Bengals and the points. Whatifsports.com's computers picks the Bengals over the Bears 20-18, with their 10,000 simulations favoring the Bengals 54.1% of the time. All 3 of Yahoo.com's "experts" pick the Bengals, but their fans actually pick the Bears (52-48). Finally we come to Foxsports.com's expert Peter Schrager. He is the only person to pick the Bears and put a score to it. He says the Bears will win 24-20. So if you put them all together, 14 "experts" pick the Bengals, while 11 pick the Bears. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing. But it's personally fun to look at them each week to gauge our respect around the web. My personal pick....I want to pick a somewhat easy Bears win, but the thought of Ced Benson being focused on revenge makes me thinking it will be a bit closer than it normally wood. Plus every Bengals game this year, save maybe last weeks, has been really close so I'll take the Bears 27, Bengals 21. At least I hope that's the case. I'm driving down to Cincinnati tomorrow and going to the game Sunday with my girlfriend (Bengals fan) and her entire family of Bengals fans. Could be a crappy drive back home if they lose.

The division's gotten worse since an 83 win team won it? Or maybe that was the exception to the rule not the 3 years following it.

No dude it was Eckstein and pixie dust Edit: or maybe the division's quality has gotten worse over the last 4 years.

The third straight year a team sweeps the NL Central champion out of the first round and then gets destroyed in the NLCS. Shows something about our NL Central maybe.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-22-bears-chicago-oct22,0,554457.story Booooooooooooooooo

Most if not all of the ones posted on here aren't "published" by Sporcle for widespread exposure. The published ones are considered their best of the best or appeal to the widest spread audience. This is why I think something called Cubs Opening Day Lineups 90-09 wouldn't be published. On the top right hand corner of the home page, you can search from published and unpublished quizzes to play, which is how I found all of these.

If he played for the Royals maybe.

Yeah, on an appeal. And of course he didn't leave early. This umping is pathetic....then again the inning continued because of a botched call so why not?

Peter King tweeted that the Bears could be active today in trade talks. The trade deadline is in 25 minutes.. I bet most likely nothing happens but its at least interesting to follow...

What would it do? You can already surf the board on Safari. It would be pretty cool to listen to podcasts through the site though.

I don't believe so. The White Sox went 11-1 in 2005, though. The 1976 Reds went undefeated back when only 7 wins were needed to win it all (7-0) The 1999 Yankees also went 11-1 in the playoffs

Wow Abreu. Leads off the 8th with at least a double, maybe a triple in a tie game. Stops dead in his tracks between 2nd and 3rd and gets thrown out trying to go back to 2nd. Wow

I swear I never wanted a non-Cub player to hit a HR as much as I wanted to see Vlad go yard there. He's been struggling all year, all postseason for the most part. They talked about moving him down in the lineup or out of it altogether. Angels down 3-1 with a runner on and 2 outs in the 6th, down 2-0 in the series. I sat there hoping through the entire at bat that Vlad would knock one out, and he did...awesome moment.

He's not smart. Seriously. He probably thought he needed to get out of bounds to save time. Even Forrest Gump could figure out "catch the ball and run to the end zone"

I thought so too, but one of their replays on the broadcast as from the Falcons endzone, allowing you to see all the way upfield. When they showed that angle, I specifically looked for players up field and only saw the ones in the above pictures.

I'm obviously obsessed with this play, but since I saw it again replayed, I decided to take a picture of it and post it online. I just can't believe any media organization has even question whether Hester could have scored on this play. I must be missing something obvious I guess. Also, I have seen other angles of this play. The 3 Falcons that are closest to Hester are the only Falcons near him or past him on the field. If the picture was in motion, the Falcon to his left was actually running faster then him (if you could zoom up a few frames, you will see he almost gets equal to Hester, albeit at a bad angle to tackle him). The player to his right is running slower than him (Hester catches up to him with relatively the same distance between them a few frames after this). The player behind him is running slightly slower than Hester and is not an issue. Finally the player on the far right....the only potential doubt I have. He might end up with the angle to catch him, but even if so, it would be 30-40 yards farther down the field than where they are at right now. That's the best case scenario for him...the worst case is Hester proves he's the fastest man on the field and races for a game tying TD. http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7729/photoowk.jpg Edit: Since I keep talking about what's happening a few frames after, I took a picture as Hester is making his ill-advised cut. I couldn't get one just before but the defenders haven't had time to adjust yet so it's a good look at the progress he's made since the first photo http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9585/photo2lx.jpg Also, I just saw a replay of the 4th down play at the end and Cutler had Forte open in the flats which would have likely have gotten him a first down. Unfortunately, he didn't make his move until about 1/2 second before Cutler tried to force that pass to Clark.