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  1. Soul
    JINXER!
  2. Soul
    I assume he's observing him more than just during the game when he's in center field.
  3. Soul
    That's a must, unless we're talking about some kind of extremely extenuating circumstance. Maybe if the candidate is some hotshot from Europe, or something like that. At least give me someone with some indication that he's been in a court-side leadership role before, and shown some promise. This is the NBA, I don't think it's too much to expect someone with some kind of accomplishment in the area of coaching. Let Del Negro cut his teeth somewhere for a couple years -- heck, hire him as an assistant and find out if he's cut out for coaching. But head coach right away sight unseen? That's stark raving madness. Even if he succeeded it would *STILL* be stark raving madness. BTW, the ESPN article says Del Negro didn't even make the finalists for the Phoenix job: Porter did land that job.
  4. Soul
    Gee, the road trip started off so well. Wh'aaa happon'?
  5. Soul
    Last time out Lowe was driving me crazy. I suppose it's too much to ask, but DON'T SWING at this guy's diving, out-of-the-zone slider/sinker!!!
  6. Soul
    Awww, that would just be too bad. I never like to see someone injured, but you know -- it's about damn time the Cards starting having to deal with the consequences of just throwing random players into whatever role they feel like it regardless of whether the player is capable of handling that role or not.
  7. Soul
    The link posted didn't work for me, but if anyone wants to read about it, I found a new one: http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-080606-chicago-cubs-mark-cuban,1,850956.story
  8. Soul
    but but but they want a name that resonates with the fans! you'd think that after all of this time searching and interviewing, attempting to find a big name coach whose name "resonates" with the fans, that they would have hired batman or something. vinny del negro? chuck person? tyrone corbin? might as well have just stuck with doug collins if they wanted a big name guy. in truth, what the bulls want is someone cheap. Wait a minute. Del Negro's never coached!?! I just looked it up on wiki. The guy has NEVER COACHED!!!! Not even as an assistant!
  9. Soul
    Yep. So let me get this straight. A) You know there's a pending case against you already. B) You know your boss already has you on notice for said pending charges. C) You know you are quite possibly fighting for your job because your employer just drafted another running back relatively high. D) With this knowledge, you get drunk, blow a red light, and fail a field sobriety test. I'd say that's the definition of idiocy. Unless these charges are completely untrue, Benson should start packing his bags.
  10. Soul
    Hill's not doing well. He'll be back but I think at this point it's going to take some time. I'd guess Marshall. And I like that -- I always thought Sean has the capability to be a solid back-of-the rotation lefty. Provided he's ready I would like to see him back in Chicago.
  11. Soul
    I think we can at least give Geo some time to see if he can work through it before declaring that he's "fading." The injury is interesting. If you aren't comfortable up there, maybe that can affect your approach and suddenly you're swinging at stupid pitches. I don't like today's matchup for him though, because Lowe will pound that low&away slider on him plenty.
  12. Soul
    Hey now. I thought it was a quality movie, second best in the Indy series. I didn't know (remember) Indiana Jones was from Chicago and went to U of C though. a buh? It was awful, there was very little semblance of a plot and ALIENS Well they could have just done another Bible archaeology story but I think that's a bit played out. I heard that the aliens bit was borrowed from when the script was going to be about Atlantis -- so you were going to get aliens either way this time around. BTW, where's today's game thread? I wanted to express my stern warning that the Cubs better not let Lowe dominate them *AGAIN*.
  13. Soul
    To me, this is an interesting admission by Jerry: So they recognize it's not going well. I certainly hope they've got a plan to make it go well. And hopefully soon.
  14. Soul
    I don't mind that so much. What sucks in my view is the fact that we have so few home games in June (the first real Summer month when people want to get out to games) and in September (for obvious reasons -- people want to be at Wrigley if the Cubs are fighting for the playoffs). Instead we're sitting around our TVs now that the weather is warm, and we'll be sitting around our TVs hoping the Cubs can secure the division from thousands of miles away. That's just stupid scheduling.
  15. Soul
    surge protectors are your friend. That's why everything I own is plugged into one, including the two things that got toasted. You should probably use more than 1. :rotfl: nice. Now I'm thinking the DTV receiver isn't toasted, but the dish got blown out of alignment. Heading up to the roof to check it out. The cable modem though, I dunno......it's flashing all kinds of weird when I plug it in.
  16. Soul
    surge protectors are your friend. That's why everything I own is plugged into one, including the two things that got toasted.
  17. Soul
    I just found out my DTV receiver and my cable modem got toasted by last night's lightning storm. GREAT! I won't be able to watch this game anyway. You're all in luck -- Cubs always play better when I don't watch. It's scientifically proven.
  18. Soul
    I can only hope they've actually got their act together but are just waiting for the finals to make the announcement.
  19. Soul
    I was hoping this would be a day game because it's a Thursday. Does LA usually stick with night games even on "hooky" day? Staying up until midnight is getting tiresome for me.
  20. Soul
    Which is A-OK with me. I'm LOVING how patient he's been so far this season. I hope he keeps it up. There's nothing wrong with striking out (there IS something wrong with being a bad hitter, some of which do happen to strike out a lot). Except having to listen to baseball idiots complain about it on the radio/tv all the time. True. It's generally stupid to isolate one aspect of a hitter and judge it independently of the complete picture. Strikeouts is one area that people tend to do this on.
  21. Soul
    Not macho enough.
  22. Soul
    I'm not too upset about this one. Lilly looked pretty good. Yes, we lost. But we finally won a road series so that's progress. Mad Dog still has a few games like this in him; I thought his pitches had very good movement last night, better than I usually see though I admit I haven't really watched him this year. Just don't make a habit of losing, that's all. Let's get at least a split from the Dodgers and make it a winning road trip. LA just lost 2 in a row to the Rockies, they still aren't playing well. Perfect chance to quiet some of these "Cubs can't win on the road" naysayers. GIT R DONE.
  23. Soul
    I don't think they're going away. They're like the DBacks were last year. They'll just amaze everyone all year long until someone dethrones them head to head. I hope it's the Cubs, and I hope it's before the playoffs start. Because I don't want there to even be an opportunity for them to beat us in a playoff series.
  24. Soul
    This crappy ballpark seems to eat hard-hit flyballs for lunch. Let's hope Ted can work off that, as he is a fly ball pitcher mostly anyway.
  25. Soul
    Of course. Anyone who makes a mistake or goes into a slump must be a bad person underneath it all.
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