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At the moment I'd say no. He has too many accuracy issues. He's turning into a heck of a spread college QB though. There's nothing wrong with that.

Hawks are really starting to turn some heads now. It took Havlat what? All of 30 seconds to score his first goal? Too bad I couldn't get the game. I caught some of the live look-ins on the NHL Network though. Keep up the good work plz.

You DO know what his previous position with the Cubs was right? Yeah, I must say, the first thing McDonough did when he took over was start winning more games than the Cubs had previously. I think he's shown he has enough good sense to apply what leadership needs to be applied at his level in the organization to put it on a better track. He might not know the intimate details of the game, but nobody's expecting him to strap up and start giving Havlat pointers. ...and there IS a whole bunch of PR work that needs to be done with this club and its fans. The damage done by Wirtz was deep, fans wrote this team off and backed it up by staying away. Yeah, McDonough had nothing to do with Cubs winning. He'll have nothing to do with the Hawks winning. The Cubs don't need a good marketing man, they haven't needed one since at least 2003, and probably 1998. The Hawks are in need of PR, hype, marketing, etc. They need more than 11,000 people seeing games. I guess what I'm saying is I don't think there's some kind of impediment because McDonough isn't a "sports man."

You DO know what his previous position with the Cubs was right? Yeah, I must say, the first thing McDonough did when he took over was start winning more games than the Cubs had previously. I think he's shown he has enough good sense to apply what leadership needs to be applied at his level in the organization to put it on a better track. He might not know the intimate details of the game, but nobody's expecting him to strap up and start giving Havlat pointers. ...and there IS a whole bunch of PR work that needs to be done with this club and its fans. The damage done by Wirtz was deep, fans wrote this team off and backed it up by staying away.

But that sounds like good news for the Packers =D> Clue me in then. Under Murphy, Northwestern's big sports (Football and Basketball) have languished. They still aren't competitive in the Big 10 really at all, and there doesn't seem to be much of chance that they will be. So what makes him a good choice to run the Packers? He's only been at Northwestern for about 4.5 years, but he may be one of the best we've had. Plenty of credit should go to our president for his commitment to sports, but Murphy made great strides in the non-revenue sports. The 3 straight championships of the women's lacrosse team nearly didn't happen. After the 2nd one, I believe, head coach Amonte Hiller was very close to moving back east to Maryland to coach at her alma mater. Instead, Murphy was able to get her to stay when it looked like all hope was lost and signed her to a nice contract. He followed that up by spearheading the reconstruction of the lakeside field for soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey (it's beautiful, by the way), which has coincided with the re-birth of the men's soccer program. He did a similar job with the women's softball team, making sure the coaching staff stayed put and invested money to renovate the softball field after their back-to-back WCWS appearances. In regards to football, he made a very tough but ultimately correct choice for the long term in naming Fitz as Walker's replacement. The two major criticisms of what has gone on over the past few years is the retention of two of the long-time assitant coaches, but that may change this winter, and the home football attendance. The attendance problem is much greater a challenge than one man can face. The basketball team isn't doing well, but recruiting efforts have certainly improved under his watch and he helped put in money into rebuilding the Welsh-Ryan Arena locker rooms, which was long overdue. I don't know exactly how those skills are going to translate into his potential role of CEO of the Packers since I can't really say what his day-to-day duties would be. However, he has a wide range of experiences as outlined in that article, including a significant background in law and negotiation with the NLFPA. He certainly isn't the most experienced candidate in the job search, which included Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, but he's a very smart guy. Thanks for the rundown. No offense to him, but I hope he sucks :wink:

I'm not sure where that point is. Because brokers still buy up the face value tix by the hundreds of thousands, and then make a nice profit selling them again for much, much more.

I don't like the idea of becoming some other team's rehab facility.

But that sounds like good news for the Packers =D> Clue me in then. Under Murphy, Northwestern's big sports (Football and Basketball) have languished. They still aren't competitive in the Big 10 really at all, and there doesn't seem to be much of chance that they will be. So what makes him a good choice to run the Packers?

I'm not sure where that opinion comes from. There's never been any evidence at all that Mark used steroids.

They've been showing his idiotic toss back to halfcourt on the fastbreak all evening on CSN. I mean come on Kirk, Noah's 25 feet behind you. You're gonna "dish" it back to halfcourt so he can run all the way down and get a dunk? He just doesn't think sometimes.

It's in his ESPN stats. Here are the numbers: 2004: 3.97 2005: 3.69 2006 (with Mets): 3.96 2006 (with Col): 4.04 2007: 4.02 Those numbers are surprising to me. That's well above average in P/PA, and yet he has an average to below average walk rate. What are his "fouled off pitches per plate appearance" numbers? I haven't watched a ton of Matsui ABs in my life, but maybe he swings at damn near everything, but just fouls most of it off. ....and finally grounds weakly to 2nd. I hope this isn't true.

What on God's green Earth is a Natsopo?

CSN picked up on the Olney claim, stated last night that Prior is available for trade.

The Bulls finally found the one NBA team that is more pathetic than they are. Quick, schedule about 15 more games with the Hawks, it's our only chance :roll:

Don't worry, the title will change if the Cubs sign him so you'll be able to commit suicide long before getting this far :lol:

So he's like Adam Archuleta but with a bit more flab. I'm not saying I wouldn't have a beer with the guy. Just keep him off my 25 man, that's all. Good luck to him.

I think we're still short on details with this thing, so I'm just going to wait to see how it shakes out. I'd like Prior back for reasonable money for many of the same reasons others have listed, but I'm likewise torn between not wanting to pay him tons of cash to sit on the DL and not wanting to watch him return to form with another club.

Well according to the report of the deals offered this time, ours was the best. So, no. Exactly. I'm really not understanding all of this "he gave us a discount stuff". From all the reports I've seen we offered the best deal. I'm glad he resigned with us but I'm failing to see the big hometown discount. He did come back without too much hand-wringing, so I'll give him full props for that.

I read into the 3rd paragraph, where it became apparent he was going to use the lame-ass "Bulls always start slow" argument. Yes, they always start slow. And guess what? It always costs them seeding at the end of the year, too. Last year it pretty much cost us a trip to the Conference Finals, possibly even the Finals. This is a non-argument that shouldn't be used at all. I did skim further, and to his credit he does say later on that the Bulls have a long way to go and he's not discounting that they might not come back at all. I really just want to know when someone is going to drop the axe on this thing and start making big changes. Because it needs to be done.

A little basic, but funny.

Good for Wood! There's a little sunshine in an otherwise bleak offseason.

I don't think the Brewers felt too good in '07, to say nothing of 3 years from now. Certainly it wasn't all Linebrink's fault, but his arrival really did nothing for them. They still blew lead after lead down the stretch.

He's a veteran lefty in a world that excuses all failures when you have those attributes. He'll find work. I think it likely he'll suck, but he'll find work.

Expecting North to utilize solid reasoning skills is a little like expecting a 2-year-old to grasp the finer details of Relativity.

I trust that at some point the Twins will review Rolen's medical status, which will instantly reveal he's a crippled player who won't be providing anywhere near the level of production he once did. Think Bagwell after the shoulder degenerated. That's basically Rolen now.