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  1. UMFan83
    I wouldn't worry about it...swine flu has killed what 4 people in the US? I bet more people have died of bear attacks than swine flu in the US since the disease burst onto the scene. OK maybe not many, but the numbers are similar.
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    I would. It's been raining off and on so far today, and tonights forecast calls for severe thunderstorms with hail possible. But who knows.
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    Alex Brown is getting the worst tail of anyone though. http://assets.chicagobears.com/uploads/photo/thumbs/3977.jpg Alex Brown is going to be a rich man someday :)
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    I actually don't mind the players hating on the fans. My theory is that if the players turn on the fans, they will band together and want to win for themselves, not the other 10 million Cubs fans living and dying for a championship. It would be a lot easier to win in the playoffs without the weight of Cubs nation riding on you.
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    This is what the Trib said about the gesture:
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    Congrats man. This has been a good week for you :)
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    Interesting... I was at the game and didn't hear it. Doesn't mean it didn't happen though.
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    Come on Ducks! Give me some hope that we'll have home ice advantage for the conference finals! It would remind me of the Arizona Cardinals inexplicably having HFA for the NFC Championship game with a 9-7 record.
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    Weather doesn't look to positive tomorrow...hopefully you get to do it. Will they reschedule if the game gets rained out?
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    Just repeating what others have said about the Wings...I just can't see a possibility that the Hawks beat the Wings. They play a very similar style as the Hawks, but they do it better. That's why we've had so much trouble beating them this year. The games may have been semi-close, but the Wings have clearly outplayed the Hawks in all of those games. That home and home set around New Years was during a period where the Hawks hadn't lost a game in regulation in a month and were just dominating teams nightly. Then they played the Wings twice in a row and got beaten pretty good. The Winter Classic game is as close to a playoff game as you'll see in the regular season - meaning its a game where the desire to win is greater than any other single regular season game, and you can be sure the intensity was ramped up, and the Wings beat the Hawks pretty handily. The Hawks have definitely surprised in this playoffs, and are playing really good hockey right now, so anything is possible. But I'd be willing to bet a Hawks-Wings series would end in 5 games in favor of Detroit. But who knows, I'll still hold out hope...anything is possible with this team!
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    Jenks, its really not the Brewers we are ripping, its really just brewersbrewers that we are ripping on. I have no problem with the Brewers and actually rooted for them to make the playoffs last year. But when one of your fans comes on here hyping up Braun's defense because he made 0 errors last year and then calling us jealous because the Brewers are 1/2 games ahead of the Cubs in the standings in May after finishing 2nd to the Cubs the last 2 seasons, we can't help ourselves.
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    Wait...he really signed a contract that would give him an average of 6.5 million the first 2 years and then drops to 900k in the third year? Why the hell would a team offer him that contract, knowing that this would surely happen when the drop in salary came? You know Thomas Jones planned to do this the second he signed his contract unless he sucked or was injured.
  13. UMFan83
    The Reds win tonight drops the Cubs back to sole possession of 4th place.
  14. UMFan83
    Just so you know, not every hockey game features 12 total goals :)
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    I know its highly unlikely to go otherwise, but c'mon the other series isn't over yet. Go Anaheim in game 6!
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    OMG This is amazing!!! I took my friend with me that's never watched a full hockey game all the way through. I think he's gonna be disappointed at every other hockey game he ever sees. What a HUGE HAT TRICK by Kane in a critical game! Clutch!!
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    This crowd is absolutely amazing right now. The roof is about to collapse
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    Shootout!
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    This is pretty disheartening.
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    Yeah bring on a cold goalie in the middle of a critical game. It's not like our major issue with him is that he takes multiple starts in a row to get heated up
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    May I ask why you are so fortunate? Go Rookie of the Year on them and nail a 98 mile per hour bullet in the strike zone and wait for your contract offer. In the event that you don't have the ability to throw 98 MPH, do what everyone else is saying.
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    Sounds like double counting. I don't recall Soriano ever having "lazy baserunning" issues unless it was being slow out of the box thinking it's a HR. Yeah...I guess its one in the same...posing for HRs and then jogging out of the box thinking its a HR and only getting a single on an easy double. Whatever, I'm not ripping on the guy. I wish he didn't do those things but he does a lot of awesome things. But broadcasters rip him for doing all that stuff.
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    It was really the effort that was poor about that play. Soriano kind jogged to the ball, fully expecting Kendall to stop at second, and didn't even turn to see if he would try for 3rd until he picked up the ball. By the time he turned around Kendall was already rounding second on his way to third. At the time, Kendall was on third with 0 outs, so easily in a position to score another run, although he didn't. That's what he got ripped so hard for. Not for bad defense, for lazy defense, just like he gets ripped on for lazy baserunning and posing on HRs...not a sign of lack of talent but things that can be rectified with proper effort.
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    I can't imagine that anybody had them 32nd following the 05 season, but I suppose anything is possible. Maybe it was before 05. He definitely had them No. 32 preseason one year where they were good. I would've picked them pretty low, too. Maybe not 32nd with that defense, but the team was terrible in 04, so there wasn't much to go on there. And they were going into the season with a rookie Kyle Orton having beaten out Chad Hutchinson for the starting QB job. The 04 team was ravished with injuries especially defensively and it was the first year of implementing Lovie's cover 2 system. I expected the 05 team to he much improved with grossman healthy (at least we thought at the time) and an outside shot at competing for a wild card spot in a weaker NFC.
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