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  1. UMFan83
    Sounds like I missed a good fight...stupid girlfriend watching Shark Week on Animal Planet.
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    Derosa with a 2 run homer in the first. Cleveland up 2-0
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    THE AUDACTIY OF THE GUY. BOO THIS MAN BOO!!!! He should be signing autographs until he develops carpal tunnel. :roll: Was it only one fan there? If so, is it really that time consuming to sign a single autograph for a kid? I'm not ripping on him for not doing it, but I don't think "having a baby a few days ago" is a good enough excuse for not signing one autograph.
  4. UMFan83
    I feel like 95 times out of 100 where a team needs to go down court in less than a second, the they usually throw the hail mary and the ball is easily deflected away without the inbounding team even controlling the ball. Maybe they thought a guaranteed chance of taking a 3/4 court shot was better than the slim chance of throwing it across the court and taking some sort of off balanced shot.
  5. UMFan83
    I don't....the current Bulls with Gordon isn't enough to compete in the East, and it might hamper our 2010 chances. He'd go over it for Bosh though...
  6. UMFan83
    Yet ;) Gordon is an unrestricted FA this offseason and 50/50 to come back, but the rest are under the Bulls control after the year.
  7. UMFan83
    Really? I seem to enjoy the fundamentally sound white guy Duke era.
  8. UMFan83
    Fontenot can't hit lefties. I was hoping he would develop this skill eventually, but its not going to happen.
  9. UMFan83
    Uhh...Milton Bradley sorta flipped out there....
  10. UMFan83
    Not as cool as this. I always have to stop myself after looking at links like that because I start looking for other great 90's NBA moments and it just makes me realized how I spoiled I was basically growing up as an NBA fan at that time. My first real strong sports memory is the '93 finals and I just remember being so upset that it looked like the Bulls were going to lose game 6, that I stormed off missing Paxson's shot live :( . . . And then the Bulls won 3 more championships. unreal. Yeah, it's really not fair to have been a young Bulls fan for all that. There's nowhere to go but down with both the Bulls and the NBA itself. I started really paying attention to the Bulls in '89 when I was 10 thanks to my Dad and it was just off and running from there. I definitely took it for granted when I was growing up. I thought it was so easy to win a title. In fact, I remember thinking that the Bulls would make the playoffs in 99 when the team was gutted and studs like Kukoc, Randy Brown and Corey Carr were leading the team.
  11. UMFan83
    Jim Hendry definitely made the right move with Bradley as long as he can stay relatively healthy. He just crushed a line drive HR to RF. I have to admit the wind helped it along a bit though.
  12. UMFan83
    This wind here is insane. Like Bears/49ers 2005ish wind. Feels like the game is being played at Candlestick.
  13. UMFan83
    Soriano, LF Fontenot, 2B Lee, 1B Bradley, RF Ramirez, 3B Johnson, CF Soto, C Theriot, SS Marshall, P
  14. UMFan83
    I can never do that. I basically grew up hating the Pistons. I gotta agree with bcl. I hate the Pistons, but the Heat are our new rivals. We have playoff history with them, its not one sided, we have the #1-2 draft pick thing, we have countless cheapshots by the Heat everytime the Bulls blow them out, we have DWade from Chicago. It's a great rivalry that both sides are engaged in, and I hate losing to them.
  15. UMFan83
    Sweeeeeeeeet.
  16. UMFan83
    He's gotten 200+ hits in multiple seasons too In almost 700 ABs...
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    Pax might have done a lot of dumb things as GM here, but man he hit a bullseye when he acquired John Salmons. Good for him. And to think, he had to battle other teams to acquire his services, and won. Plus he has a really affordable contract and is under our control for at least another season, and possibly a few more if he doesn't opt out.
  18. UMFan83
    I thought I read yesterday that he wasn't going to play until Friday. Maybe they changed it back.
  19. UMFan83
    Except for the fact that they had been building for right now this entire decade. Braun, Fielder, Gallardo, Laporta, Gamel, Weeks, Hardy, etc. didn't just appear out of nowhere. Sucks for them that they've built for this the entire decade and are projected in 3rd place like 10 wins behind us. Well they aren't without their mistakes. Weeks was supposed to be a multiple time all star, Hardy was supposed to be better than he was. Gallardo has been hampered by injuries and if he pitched all of last year they would have a much better idea of what they were going to get out of him. The Gagne signing was stupid even before they knew what they were going to get out of him, those resources could have been used elsewhere. The CC trade helped them get into the playoffs, but it came at the expense of a really good prospect in LaPorta. Obviously they were trying to emulate an Indians like system. A lot of teams try to do that. Some, like the Indians, can build a consistent winner out of it. Some, like the Rockies, can catch lighting in a bottle and make a strong playoff run. Who knows.
  20. UMFan83
    Except for the fact that they had been building for right now this entire decade. Braun, Fielder, Gallardo, Laporta, Gamel, Weeks, Hardy, etc. didn't just appear out of nowhere.
  21. UMFan83
    More like 2 horrific seasons. 2005 wasn't horrific If it wasn't for Lee, it would have been. Huh? Lee didn't save us...Neifi did.
  22. UMFan83
    You are also correct. The Cubs moved from a winning core of Sosa/Alou/Prior/Wood to a winning core of Lee/Ramirez/Soriano/Zambrano with just 2 bad seasons in between. They have the advantage of being able to do that. Who knows with the ownership change and the economy. The thing is, Hendry often makes dumb moves or wastes assets. If there is less room for error than there is now, I could easily see the Cubs having some down years. For instance, Hendry was able to write the "wrong" of signing Fukudome as his LH OF bat and acquire Bradley the next offseason. Will he be able to do that with an ower that has a hypothetically much tighter budget?
  23. UMFan83
    I love hearing that... I hope its true about the World Series thing. i think they're being awfully generous, unless they have a different definition of "down the line" and "foreseeable future" than i do. i think this needs to be the year. I tend to agree...our hitting core is actually pretty old. Lee will turn 34 this year and already might be slipping. Aramis is turning 31 this year, Soriano is 33, Fukudome is 32, Bradley is about to turn 31. It's unfortunate that the steroid era was the real reason that players were still peaking at age 35+. 2-3 years ago, I'd look at a 31 year old ARam and think he has 5 more years left at his numbers...now I have to be safe and say maybe 3 more years.
  24. UMFan83
    I love hearing that... I hope its true about the World Series thing.
  25. UMFan83
    Bathroom reading. http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/2239/0/Laptop_%2B_Bathroom_%3D_workaholic.ashx That or an iPhone works well. That's how I made it through my bathroom breaks at my old job.
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