Soul

It's actually quite amazing. He's just sticking the knife in and turning it. "Here's the best offense in the league. Get some outs or suffer." And more runs!

I get the feeling Houston's manager isn't very happy with him.

What did he do? He flipped his arms like he was saying "I give up" It's up on the gameday site in the videos.

I know it's been said earlier, but it's worth repeating: Backe's reaction on the Sori homer is one of the greatest things ever.

I was just going to say this :)

Whew.

He's gonna give up runs.

What a slammy! My enthusiasm is tempered however, knowing Marquis will be going right back out there to give it back up.

LOL. Marquis is teh suq

Gonna give up the gaffer.

Sure there is. Marquis is pitching. And Howry's arm is still reasonably rested. It was all part of Bob's master plan people. Don't throw 10 pitches to Lee trying to get him out. Groove him one fastball and trust your team to come back. Then you're fresh for another appearance tomorrow. Just when your team needs you.

I can choose to flip the channel when the Bears go on offense, or lose my voice yelling at the TV. I'll be doing the latter :)

When will the verdict be in?

Thank you. There's still so much focus on the QB battle, and I'm wondering if it even matters given that line. Chris Williams needs to get his ass on the field. I'm starting to wonder if he's going to... Did the Bears screw up the scouting on this guy? I heard that several teams took him off their draft board because of a prior neck injury. While he played with it in college -- could that be what is extending his time out of the lineup? All that stuff is pretty much connected back there... Another issue that came up was a report that he was soft. Some teams supposedly didn't like his "nice guy" personality. Missing 2 weeks of practice due to a tight back at the beginning of your career seems like something that would piss off most football coaches and make a lot of personel people doubt your committment. It's also kind of frustrating to not really know what the *real* issue is. I wouldn't expect the team to openly discuss the internal workings of this situation. Who knows -- maybe the kid is soft and he's telling the trainers he can't go when they think he could. No way to really know that.

then you just get to be annoyed by arcane blackout rules (grrr) Yeah, that part of it sucks. But it only affects me on Saturdays so it's not a huge annoyance. It's mainly Fox's insane contract with MLB. If you're going to black out all other games, then you should have to cover all the games that will be in that time slot and deliver them to the appropriate markets. With Fox, they black out games they aren't even covering, then deliver some stupid game nobody wants to see to markets that don't care about those teams.

Thank you. There's still so much focus on the QB battle, and I'm wondering if it even matters given that line. Chris Williams needs to get his ass on the field. I'm starting to wonder if he's going to... Did the Bears screw up the scouting on this guy? I heard that several teams took him off their draft board because of a prior neck injury. While he played with it in college -- could that be what is extending his time out of the lineup? All that stuff is pretty much connected back there...

Thank you. There's still so much focus on the QB battle, and I'm wondering if it even matters given that line.

Does that include CSN+? There are 2 games on CSN+, 2 games on WICU, and 1 game that is currently scheduled to not be on TV at all in September. I'm not totally sure about that. DirecTV also just moved CSN to a different channel, which is mildly annoying (I was pretty used to searching for 640 in the guide).

I guess they've got quite a logjam at QB in Tampa. Brian Griese Josh Johnson Jeff Garcia Luke McCown Chris Simms If they sign Favre, someone's got to go. Then another couple will probably be cut.

Since I don't get WGNHD and I have the EI package, I'm selfishly *not* upset that fewer games are on WGN. Comcast HD works out much better for me.

Battle of the baddies! I expect Marquis to get lit up, I'm gonna predict our # of runs minimum needed to win this game at 6.

This could happen.... :-k Gruden would keep Garcia. he can never have enough QB's. Nope. Garcia will threathen to retired, then ESPN will jump on the "Garcia watch" and follow him around like a teenager after Erin Andrews. ESPN will then give Garcia his own segment on the "Bottomline" and we'll get second-by-second update as to what Garcia wants to do, blah, blah, blah. Kidding aside, if the Bucs do land Favre, Garcia will officially ask to be either released or dealt. And I hope the Bears are in line to get Garcia if he becomes available. If they are not, then that is a sign that they are not committing to improving the offense. The problem I would have with acquiring Favre is this: he's gone back n' forth on what he wants to do, pretty much on a daily basis. What if he plays 3 or 4 weeks, doesn't like what he sees, and decides to re-retire? In the case of the Bucs, you now don't have Favre, you probably lost Garcia to a trade because he only wants to start, and you've got Simms who by all accounts I've heard doesn't like it in Tampa. Not a real good situation to be in, and it seems like a real possibility given Favre likes to change his mind depending on the day of the week. Given the way Favre has behaved in this, I'm beginning to understand why Angelo has apparently showed no interest. The man doesn't appear to be in the right frame of mind to play football.

Ludwick homer wins it. LOL.

Not a promising start. Here's Albert.

The Pujols or Ludwick homer has got to be coming up. Put your slippers on to save pooch some pain.