UMFan83

I think they played Seattle recently. That doesn't make sense, unless the Mariners have spring training in Japan. Well Seattle isn't all that far from Japan :)

I think they played Seattle recently. The WBC starts in about 4 hours with Japan vs. China.

I can already tell Soriano is going to continue to piss me off a lot this year.

How Taguchi is he?

Betimit HR, 3-0 Sox. I know spring training results don't matter, but Shark doesn't look great. Leaving a lot of pitches up, and just in general not locating well.

1-0 ChiSox. 3 hits in the inning for the Southsiders.

I feel like Shark is leaving too many pitches up

Wow...Bulls are coasting to a victory and NJ and MIL both lost tonight....which means that at the end of the night there will be a 3 way tie for the 8th seed with those 2 teams. And the Bulls hold the tiebreaker over both of them due to H2H. So in a few minutes, the Bulls will hold a playoff spot. Amazing, all things considered.

It figures that Northwestern finally gets a team good enough to get into the tourney and they suffer from horrible luck that will likely keep them out. I wouldn't be shocked if they made a decent run in the Tourney and at least get themselves in the discussion.

http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00918/31/40/918480413_l.jpg

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-04-cubs-bits-chicagomar04,0,3304596.story Maybe if the A's eat some cash? He's an awful hitter.

Boo, the Bears saved you from the embarrassment of a Super Bowl loss. You should be thanking us.

After 3 perfect innings by Z and Marmol, Atkins gave up 5 ER in the 4th. 5-0 DBacks.

I like the idea of trying out Z at catcher.

I would be so happy for Jay Cutler to become our QB. So happy. And I love Sharper too even though he's quite up there in age.

23-3 run in the last 5:35 of the game. Wow

What an interesting clubhouse it would be with Lou and Curt the blowhard.

Go down to Rush/Division at 2am during one of the nights of the Big Ten tournament and tell me that Big Ten fans don't all congregate together at the same bars, and theres not a Big 10 atmosphere in the city. Go into Five Faces and while you are waiting for food, listen to each team's fans drunkenly trying to sing their school's fight songs. It's fun. Sure the atmosphere around the arena might not be great, but the atmosphere around the city is much better. Wouldn't you rather take the weekend trip to Chicago rather than Indianapolis?

Yeah...they aren't the ones leaking the info. They never intended to release any of these names.

Are you sure it wasn't in Atlanta last year? Didn't tornadoes cause some of the games to be postponed/moved? Or was that the SEC Tourney?

No offense to NW, but if the Tourney was in Chicago, I think many of the Big Ten Schools travel to that tourney would send more fans to the games than Northwesterns fans

Only if you're the 6 seed. Iowa's 101 in the RPI, that wouldn't hurt you to beat them. And Michigan probably has to win out to get the 6. Yeah..you are right other than Indiana, its hard to find a team that would kill Michigan to beat. And the only way to play Indiana is to win out and get help, which will help more than playing Indiana will hurt (before last night) Indiana 202 Iowa 101 Northwestern 80 Penn State 61 Michigan 55 Ohio State 41 Minnesota 36 Wisconsin 29 Those are the only teams likely to play on the first day

C'mon Michigan isn't bad. They are mediocre/above average. Purdue is clearly better, but you are playing on the road in the Big Ten against a team that has toppled Duke, UCLA and Illinois already this year. The announcers were making it seem like yesterday's win clinched Michigan in the NCAA tourney. I am wondering what they are smoking. They are 18-11 (technically 17-11 because one of their wins was against a DII team and the NCAA doesn't consider that), and only 8-8 in the conference. They still have 2 tough road games left (Wisconsin, Minnesota) and the Big Ten tourney. Since we're discussing at-large here, we have to assume Michigan loses in the Big Ten tourney, and for them to even consider a tourney run they have to win one of the last 2. I am wondering if it would help or hurt Michigan more to play on the first day of the tourney. It would help to get a hypothetically easy victory, but it would be against a bad team, hurting the SOS and RPI. I think for Michigan to have a reasonable shot at making it they would have to win one of their last 2 (very preferably Wisconsin) and win 2 Big Ten tourney games, leaving them at (21-13, 9-9) with wins over UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Purdue, @ Wisconsin/Minnesota, and high seeded Big Ten team). Most 21-13 teams have no shot, but with the resume Michigan has built (their only truly horrific loss is to Iowa this year) they would stand a chance. Most years it seems like the talking heads try to find reasons why Michigan shouldn't be in, but now it seems like they are trying to find reasons Michigan should be in.

You hate a guy for negotiating in what he believes are his best interests? Commie. i hate him for continuing to refuse very, very generous offers when no other teams are interested in him (at least publicly), and when people all across baseball are taking less money this offseason. but hey, that's just manny being manny. and he's as cool as the other side of the pillow. booyeah. He feels like he can play for 4 more years and he doesn't want to go through free agency again after this year. Is this really hard to comprehend? Maybe he shouldn't have painted himself as a clubhouse cancer who sulked and didn't play his hardest in order to force a trade from the team he signed his last long term deal with.

Lots and lots of poetry doesn't. Tis true, but I only enjoy poems that rhyme. Otherwise it just seems like random blocks of text