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Giordano's. I've never had Lou's but my cousin, who's lived in or near Chicago for a few years, swears by it. Anything but Giordano's. It's far and away the worst. 1) Giordano's is good 2) Lou Malnati's is good 3) Gino's is good 4) It's pizza, it's always good. Don't over think it Oh, if you would like to see bad pizza it's not hard to find -
Giordano's. I've never had Lou's but my cousin, who's lived in or near Chicago for a few years, swears by it. Anything but Giordano's. It's far and away the worst. It probably was good at one time, until they decided to try & jam the whole city through their place every night. I still like Lou's quite a bit but it's been awhile now. Had Gino's earlier this year. Still good - don't quite like their new location downtown as much as the one they closed down.
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Who was/is your all time favorite Cub player?
Soul replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Heh. After we won game #2 against SD in '84, my Dad bought a bottle of champagne. And we watched it sit there as the Cubs lost the next 3. That is when I knew. By the time the Maddux thing happened, it was more "of course" rather than shock. -
Who was/is your all time favorite Cub player?
Soul replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I think we are similar in age. I was too young to understand why Kingman was a bad player. Jerry Morales was waaaaaaay cool as a CFer. Made basket catches all the time, plus he had the hands above his head batting stance It's kind of fun to go back on baseball reference and look at who these guys actually were as players, versus who I perceived them to be as a kid. -
Who was/is your all time favorite Cub player?
Soul replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Mine is just as obvious - Mr. Cub. Ernie came along when I was the age to start getting into baseball and was basically the only reason to follow the Cubs for quite a few years. Wait, you're in your 60s? He's Backtobanks. As in, he goes all the way back to Banks. -
Who was/is your all time favorite Cub player?
Soul replied to Hawk4Hall's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Going to really date myself here. Not going to go with my all-time favorites. Going to list some of my kid favorites. Guys like Sandberg and Grace were actually teenager players for me, so I'm not even going to include '80s playoff Cubbies. I'm going to include guys who played on the bad Cub teams before that. As a young kid, as in grade-school, I liked these guys: Bruce Sutter -- I didn't even realize a baseball could be thrown like that. When he came in for a save, I dropped whatever kid stuff I was doing and watched to see the ridiculous flailing of opposing hitters (or at least, what I thought was ridiculous flailing at the time). Unloaded him to the Cards -- betrayer! Jerry Morales -- don't have a "why" for this one. I guess I just liked his name and his look. Great mustache before great mustaches were cool, man. Dave Kingman -- because you just watched him. It seemed like he either looked ridiculous, or he hit the ball a mile. There was nothing else. I'm not even sure he was a baseball player. Now that I look back, I can't believe how short a tenure he had with the Cubs, and that he was an all-star twice in 3 years with the Cubs. WTF? He played 15 years in the majors? Steve Swisher -- why? Because every time he made an appearance, my Dad would say something about how he was a bum. And I kept rooting for him to prove him wrong. -
I rather like the idea that the Yankees tried, and lost out to the A's.
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Ugh
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Can't believe he missed it. He'll have nightmares about it forever if the US loses.
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I can't even get a decent feed now because the entire company is streaming this thing.
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Come on, one-time that puppy!
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It's the Bucks.
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That sounds do-able. Get to bed by 10pm. Can watch the whole thing before work.
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At this point, what would he say to convince someone to come here? He hasn't been able to play in years.
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I don't see how we were ever going to be able to keep all this together anyway. At some point we were always going to need to start cycling up younger players, or face the slow slide down the standings.
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The other thing I see is that your Super Bowl winner was only marginally better than the Bears. The Broncos punting was much better, but because their coverage was much worse, they wound up only marginally better, as well. Still though: good riddance Podlesh.
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Perhaps because the conditions are expected to be poor, they think lack of speed won't be as much of a concern?
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Yeah, I got back from Denmark Sunday. It was much better being able to watch WC games after work. Now I'm going to miss this match because of a meeting. Sympathy please. :hello:
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I think the Bulls can be used as leverage -- because they are a plausible destination. That doesn't mean they will always be used as leverage.
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Portugal could get to 4 points with a win just like Ghana could, and so the goal differential tiebreaker has to be figured out with a Portugal win as well. It's just that most are focused on Ghana right now because Ghana's goal differential is only two behind the US while Portugal's is five behind. Ahh, gotcha. Thx.
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Wait. How does it go from USA advancing, to a coin toss if Ghana loses by more?
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The days afterwards - when we realized the Bulls were used - were not so fun.
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ok.....file that one in the "believe it when I see it" bin.
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No idea but it's pretty stupid. Yes, very stupid. Using goal-differential makes sense, but having goals scored over head-to-head is dumb. Personally, I don't even like that. Should be H2H, then GD, then GS. I don't have time right now to look at a bunch of leagues, but in the top leagues, the EPL doesn't use H2H at all (it's GD, GS then a playoff), the Bundesliga is the same as the World Cup, Serie A goes H2H, GD and La Liga goes H2H, H2H GD, H2H GS and then overall GD. So it seems like it's split there. Agree. I actually meant to say "makes some sense." It should be head-to-head first. I thought there might be some historical reason that I don't understand. Barring that, H2H should always be the first tie-breaker.
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The latest goal scored in World Cup history, according to ESPN's ticker. Unfortunately I was only able to monitor the game on my phone, since I was flying yesterday. I only saw a few minutes of it on the TV, in the middle of the game. I'm kind of glad I didn't have to see that happen live. Looked like the first Portugal goal was a US gaffe, as well. Ugh.
