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I think they changed the rule this year and the game would be suspended until tomorrow. At least that's what I'm hoping... Guzman 7R 3IP I'm gonna head down to Iowa and set Gooz straight.

Holy #@$%#$ crap, if they revert back and take Cub runs off the board I'm going to freak out. That's completely freaking BS crap!!!

after this half inning I'd rather it happen now, but if you say so don't they have to play the bottom half to make it official? I thought it was just 5 complete innings for an official game? Yes, but if losing, doesn't the home team need one last AB? Really? So what happens then, we go back to when the Pirates were winning? :shock:

after this half inning I'd rather it happen now, but if you say so don't they have to play the bottom half to make it official? I thought it was just 5 complete innings for an official game?

Seriously? Ech. My hopes of trading Z are fading fast... I don't understand that kid. WTF Angel, you can dominate if you just figure out how good you can be.

Oh,no. Can't have that. We'll play nine full innings in a hurricane now.

Can we have a do over? For the season? Decade? Century? Oh hell, can I do over my life?

Witness the unbelievable, amazing, inimitable..............$115 million turd.

79F in Pittsburgh right now. Cue up the next excuse: we need to get home? need to eat more wheaties? more roids? For me? I need more Jack Daniels.

It's warmer now, Lou. Just saying :whistle:

Lou forgot to mention Hancock doesn't play for the Cubs

Hey, whaddaya know, win a couple lose a couple. This wouldn't happen to be the Cubs, would it? :x

LOL, Sleezak is such a tool. She's like that mother-in-law you wish didn't exist, who's voice sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard and just won't quit.

Eh? If anything I expect Dez to be happy we finally drafted another TE. He's been relied on for everything for far too long. Clark has also hinted that he might not want to play for too much longer, and just watching him he seems like the kind of guy who genuinely wants to leave the Bears in good shape.

"Bear Down, Chicago Bears"

I still want to wait a bit to see if they'll fall back to earth. They look real good right now though. Seems like that first series when we beat them 2/3 was the most anyone's been able to get under their skin all month.

I agree with others who have already said that it's kind of pointless to think Hancock is somehow in more trouble because he might have been drinking. The guy is already dead, it can't get any worse now. The best we can do is make sure people know drinking and driving is still an issue, and if it true he was drinking, then maybe his example will help save some else's life.

Eh? That's un-American. Un-American and unfathomable. But true. Wendy's was a different deal. The guy who owned all of them around here stopped paying his taxes or something and they all shut down. The same guy owned the Wendy's up in Bloomington/Normal. And St. Louis might not have Dunkin Donuts, but they DO have Krispy Kreme Ahhhh. Seems like I'm the only guy left on the planet who still prefers Dunkin Donuts

that's the only pick i don't like, but i've learned to trust jerry. But do you know anything about him? Pretty hard to be critical of these small school guys. I've never seen him play. Edit: Jerry said that Payne has "John Lynch" type skills. Just from scouting reports I've read...has good hands, quick, good against the run, but needs to work on fundamentals, not a very good tackler, plays slow, isn't very instinctive, struggles in coverage... I think there were more athletic, more "football-smart" players available at that pick, but I'll hold judgment for now. He does sound like Chris Harris.

Well yeah. If you only go 85 through there, you definitely don't seem like you are moving all that fast. That's because everyone is passing you. :D :P

I'm definitely going down there for training camp again this year. I want to see for myself if Olsen is really shy to make contact, among other things of course. If you think Benson had it rough in camp, that's nothing compared to what will happen to Olsen if Urlacher & co. think he's afraid to take a hit.

Well, I guess he must see something others don't in Payne then. He's done it before. Payne doesn't seem real highly regarded from what I've read. I think it's safe to say Angelo knows a tad more than I do 8-)

He's admitted to a personal grudge against Angelo, and he's had problems with Bears people in the past. Something I thought was really funny a couple years ago, he went an entire season without picking a Bears game in the 8-10 picks he makes every week. Not that he never picked the Bears, but he never picked a game they played in. And there's no rhyme or reason to what he picks, he'll focus on headline games, but he picks stinkers as well. I think he just ignores them. Are he & Wojechowski the same cat? (not sure of the spelling, and frankly I don't care). Seems that way. They're both Bear-hater supremes.

Strange the different impressions people have of the draft. I don't recall the Bears ranking much higher than C in the past few years, but alas, in the final analysis, the Bears have wound up having some of the best drafts of any team out there. The Lions and Cardinals almost always rate high, then all those great players they draft fail and it turns out they 'drafted' poorly. I think alot of this is what happens from here on out: good teams turn their players into productive components. Bad teams like the Cardinals could turn a crop of all-pros into a cavalcade of bums. I think that's part of what it is. There are 2 other big factors that come into play as well: 1) The good teams often have scouting departments that look a little deeper than the "big name" guys. They often take people that seem like reaches or that people don't really know much about because they realize that this person is great for their particular system. Teams like the Lions and Cardinals draft high talent players, but often they don't fit well into the system that they employ. 2) Good teams draft not only for present needs, but for future needs. Draft grades that go into the draft don't reflect that-often you'll hear a comment puzzled on why this team drafted a person where they are already strong. However, a good team has the replacements for possible FA losses already on the roster before that person leaves, and that comes through in previous drafts-unfortunately draft graders don't think that far ahead, so it always lowers their grade. I agree, plus I think it's important to step back and realize the draft isn't the only place a team's needs can be fulfilled. It's the biggest, but there are other ways. I hear GM's say all the time that they don't draft only for need, and that it isn't even the best way to approach the draft. Yet the analysis of team's drafts almost always focuses on whether they filled their needs. So it sounds like there's a bit of a disconnect there.

Strange the different impressions people have of the draft. I don't recall the Bears ranking much higher than C in the past few years, but alas, in the final analysis, the Bears have wound up having some of the best drafts of any team out there. The Lions and Cardinals almost always rate high, then all those great players they draft fail and it turns out they 'drafted' poorly. I think alot of this is what happens from here on out: good teams turn their players into productive components. Bad teams like the Cardinals could turn a crop of all-pros into a cavalcade of bums.