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Pinned every damn time!! Argh

Gawd. We just love handing teams extra opportunities.

Being pinned every time really sucks.

I think that's a TD with a taller target. Really wasn't too bad a throw by Jay. Nice effort by Hester but just not quite long enough to pull it in and keep both feet down.

looks like it was Beek and CW finally getting some push on the 3rd down. Beek should have started from game 1. Not that he's great, but he was always better at guard than Omiyale.

Exhibit A http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html#7014119063071457519 Hahaha, that's awesome. The best part is ESPN and NBC running a story about it 24 hours after the e-mail was sent. Also, nice move by Bielema no commenting on it. Must be going for a raise. LOL, must be entertaining to get tracked down in Hawaii *after* reports are published. "Hey -- can you verify the legitimacy of these articles that have already been published based on nothing?"

I believe Hendry's "make or break" offseasons have passed. He's playing out the string now, unless a miracle occurs (as others have noted). Maybe not the World Series, but performance well beyond expectations, and a significant playoff appearance. I really feel Ricketts must move on from this, unless big time success stays his hand. He can't want to look like merely a Tribune successor, which is what I believe the danger is if he keeps Hendry around long term. Surely he wants to broadcast to the Cub faithful that he's moving this team in a new direction.

Ugh, I hope this is just a skid. I'm counting on the Hawks to make me forget all my other Chicago sports woes.

What in the world are you talking about? This has nothing to do with "my team" nor am I pissy about anything. You were ranting about how awful field turf is while I and other Bears fans were telling you Soldier Field has been awful for years. As if today's surfaces were somehow related to the garbage that was astroturf. It's not a big deal, I was just curious why you were so adamant this summer that the Bears should never switch to that junk but now it's okay. Whether it was awful from the first game or not, it's been consistently terrible from October on for years. They should make the switch if they can't maintain it. Fine. I am OK with a field deteriorating over the course of the year. It seems natural to me. That's how I played football, and it was fun. I feel like there's an element of fun to that for many players, and for fans. But to me, having a field that is destroyed by a rock band for game 1 of the damn year (or it may have been the 2nd game, or whatever, but it was in September), shows me that they just don't have the competence to do what they need to do in order to have a basic grass field that shows what I consider to be normal wear & tear over the course of the season. It's really not about whether I still think FieldTurf is worse than grass. My opinion on that hasn't changed. I never said that I think it is OK to switch to FieldTurf either. But I am coming to the conclusion that they can't even provide a basic level of decent field maintenance for the Bears. It's a completely different issue, at least to me.

*sigh* I really prefer grass, but given the inability of the Bears and Park District to make it work effectively, they may have no choice here. That field is becoming an embarrasing topic too often, and way too early in the season too. So why could you not see that when you were vehemently arguing against that this past summer? The basis of my argument was that turf sucks, because it does. But the inability of the Bears and Park District to have the field playable even in September is a whole other issue. I'm talking specifically about Soldier Field. Myself and others said that the FieldTurf in the dome was probably better than Soldier Field most of the year. You said there's no way any FieldTurf is better than grass. Nothing has changed between now and then. Soldier Field's surface is just as bad as it's been for years. It was worse at the beginning of this year. There's never been a season where it was unplayable on day 1 like this year. You really need to get off this whole "everyone was against my team so now I'm pissy about it" BS.

We might be swapping safeties in as linebackers if this keeps up.

*sigh* I really prefer grass, but given the inability of the Bears and Park District to make it work effectively, they may have no choice here. That field is becoming an embarrasing topic too often, and way too early in the season too. So why could you not see that when you were vehemently arguing against that this past summer? The basis of my argument was that turf sucks, because it does. But the inability of the Bears and Park District to have the field playable even in September is a whole other issue.

*sigh* I really prefer grass, but given the inability of the Bears and Park District to make it work effectively, they may have no choice here. That field is becoming an embarrasing topic too often, and way too early in the season too.

LOL, too funny.

It's pretty hard for an OC to install a system and have success in just one season. I'm not seeing a path for winning in '10, even with a new HC. But with a new HC, at least we could say we're building something. Without a new HC, I feel like '10 is going to be a lost year.

The Bears could sign a "top free agent" and 2 years later people would be doubting that he was a top free agent in the first place. Other teams sign someone who has accumlated doubts, and re-energize his career. Such as Moss and NE. Can the Bears do that with a player? Doubtful.

That would be pretty funny, then, if Chip's "next opportunity to call games at the Major League level" came with the Brewers.

Anything about Pace? LG, kinda like to see that. Shaffer at RT. I heard on the radio this morning that Pace out with an injury.

LOL Jimbo Fisher is one of the most aggressive recruiters/coaches out there, and he's not one to settle for mediocrity. Under his guidance, our offense has steadily risen (86-ish, 54-ish, 27-ish) and is only looking better. He expects the defense to improve as quickly as the offense did. I would expect a good year next year, and us to be a MNC contender in 2011 again. I've heard this story before. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. All I'm saying is it will be interesting to see.

He's a terrible cheater. Why on earth would you leave a voice mail? We found something Tiger isn't good at!

It will be interesting to see if Bobby leaves behind any kind of legacy in terms of continued recruiting and on-the-field success, or if Florida State will just fade back down to where it was before he arrived. He did have a sort of "cult-of-personality" feel during the great years. I could see the program not being able to get back up there.

That is what I meant by road beef shenanigans. Ha, missed that. On the radio this morning they had a voicemail that USWeekly was claiming from Tiger telling one of the girls that his wife went through his phone and found her number and asking her to delete some stuff. It was pretty funny. That's in the link cubweiser posted if you want to listen to it.

Why would that statistic surprise you? Sure, the Bears aren't a very good team, but they aren't anywhere near the league of Rams-bad.It doesn't surprise me that a majority picked the Bears (I did myself), but 96% seems astronomically high to me for a team as bad as the Bears have been lately. In a straight pick the winner contest? Umm, that shouldn't surprise anybody. St Louis is pathetic. Chicago has been competitive in 4 of 7 losses, and arguably should have one 3-4 of those. They've been beaten bad by three teams, but all three teams are clearly better than them. They've also beatent 4 teams, including beatdowns of a couple lesser squads. Chicago is at home facing a clearly inferior opponent. 99% of people should think they will win. Whether they can cover an 8.5 point spread is another debate, but Chicago is not in the same ocean, let alone boat, of the worst teams in the league. Not normally, no. I think there's a big demoralization factor happening here though that could bring the Bears more into St. Louis' neighborhood. I guess we'll see Sunday.

The moment the Blackhawks reached the apex, crushing the Sharks on the road, I finally gave into the Stanley Cup hope and expectations. I went to bed that night dreaming of the Hawks lifting the cup and finally seeing another Chicago championship. Since then they've looked very 'meh'. Figures. At least we just tied it. That's what you get for giving in to hope.

Geez I can't even type the first one before he gives up another!