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I'm not nor have I ever been willfully ignorant of the taint of steroids in baseball. I'm also outraged by the likes of McGwire etc. I'm not sure what your point is here. Are you trying to condone cheating or are you saying that this type of cheating isn't any worse than any other type of cheating? Isn't it obvious? I'm saying the media and public at lasrge focuses on a tiny segment of a problem to the exclusion of the rest, and sensationalizes and beats it to death. You have people like Goose Gossage coming out and saying "there's no place for cheating in the hall" (LMAO), and people demonizing a few for doing what so many did and what so many more would have. The same people who ignored the obvious when indulging in the spectacle of the steroid era, and the same people who are mum about PED use in the NFL, where it has even more of an impact. I'm not condoning cheating, I've just reconciled with it. Steroids were the cheat of the era. Before it was other things, and in the future it will be still different and new things. To focus on one aspect (baseball power hitters) of steroid use in one era where it ran (and still runs) rampant and rail on it like it is the only thing that matters is just willfully ignorant and ridiculous.

Yeah, this doesn't sound like the end at all. It sounds like the Cubs scoffing at his publicized asking price.

For all the talk around here about the MLB playoffs being a crap shoot why isn't the NCAA tourney viewed the same way? Teams get hot at the right time and make a nice run. Unfortunatel,y Purdue has not had success in that manner. However, they have been able to endure and triumph through a very tough conference season 21 times. That cannot be dismissed just because of the lack of their tournament success. In some respects it's a crapshoot, but the best programs get to the Final Four and Title Game much more frequently than your Boilermakers. At some point it has to count for something. As for your next point, how do you have any clue how "very tough" the conference seasons were in 1920? Of your 21 Big Ten titles, 13 were won between the years of 1911-1940. I mean for many of those years, the radio didn't even exist. Yes I know that's part of the "historically the best" argument that Bum made, but you cannot honestly compare a Big Ten title in 1921 to one any year after 1960, when there were advancements like the shot clock, national recruiting, and television that completely revolutionized the level of play in college basketball. You can't win 62% of your titles 70 years or more ago, then have a couple of good recruting classes in the mid-80s and mid-90s while having a tournament history that pales in comparison to half of the conference, and then claim that Purdue is historically the 2nd best team in the Big Ten with a straight face. Exactly (again). Those 13 titles were won in an era where is was almost a different sport. You don't want to fall into a "what have you done for me lately" mindset, but when you are using titles won prior to advents that changed that dramatically changed the sport forever, you're not being fickle. There's a reason most records are qualified by being in the shot clock or "modern" era. Let's not forget how this debate began, which was bum saying that it would be unfair to put Indiana and Purdue in the same conference division, which was ludicrous at best.

The whole issue has willful ignorance in every facet. Ignorance about why it is used, who uses, how long players have been using, and on and on. The level of reaction over something that should have been implicit (McGwire's use) is indicative of willful ignorance. Or ignorance over the fact players have been cheating in any way they could since they first set foot on a diamond/court/field. Ignorance over the fact that the Hall of Fame is littered with cheaters of various types. Willful ignorance when we were all thoroughly enjoying what was obviously an anomalous power spike in the game. Willful ignorance over the fact a league like the NFL is fueled by PED's, because we enjoy the speed and violence as much as we enjoyed all those homers. The history of sport is littered with competitive imbalances, and honestly, the imbalance that steroids caused is among the least stark. But you can never underestimate the willingness of the masses to focus with pinpoint vision on the hot button topic, to the exclusion of common freaking sense.

I like that Jeremy Schaap piece they just aired. It was literally dripping with false outrage and feigned indignation.

Hey, it works for the NFL. Let the players do what they think they have to, since they always have. I'm sick of this sanctimonious [expletive].

Having Greg on in an ancillary position with minimal responsibility will how his aptitude for talent evaluation to be assessed with little risk. It may be a PR move, but it's a no risk, potentially high reward situation, if he turns out to have great aptitude for GM-type work. Either way, you can't say anything bad about it.

I like it. Plus, it will enrage Cubs hating Brewers fans, which would be a bonus.

The last 10 years, and 40 years from the dawn of the 40's to the end of the 70's. So, what, about 15 years of moderate success out of the last 70? Congratulations, I guess.

and probably my favorite in light of what I had heard from a lot of the national media before the game... man, dallas fans really need to have a rib or two removed and be done with it. just seems like a lot of self-gratification for a team that's won a wildcard game in the last 13 years. If there's one thing Texas actually does better than everyone else, it's self gratification.

Don't be so sure, though it has little do do with any PED use. It's cause Cubs fans are stupid Pretty much.

Don't be so sure, though it has little do do with any PED use.

RIP, T&Ps with Angel and his family If I were a professional athlete from Columbia/Venezuela, the first thing I would do when I had the means is move my family out. That area is just out of control.

It has been said, but now that he is back in the public eye, the media was gonna dog him on this issue to no end. He needed to do this to prevent it from becoming a year long distraction. That said, this is definitely a "well, no sh*t" announcement. I love how ESPN is treating it like some sort of revelation.

That was a crazy game. Like everyone else, I chalked it up as a GB win when they won the toss. But you can't be too mad if your a Packers fan, because Rackers is a solid kicker, and if you give him that chippy another 20 times, he probably doesn't miss one of them. You can say Rodgers should have hit Jennings and won the game in OT, but there shouldn't have been an OT. It was just a crazy ass game and the Cards were the last team standing. And not to discredit Rodgers at all, but I have never seen receivers as open all game as the Packers' receivers were. That was some of the worst secondary play I have ever seen. The Pack couldn't defend the middle, but Arizona couldn't defend anything. I'm rooting for Arizona, mostly because they were such a joke for so long. I wouldn't mind seeing the Saints in the SB, either. As long as it isn't the Vikes. Unless something changes, we may see a new playoffs points scored record in the ARI/NO game.

Or Miles Austin, preferably.

Yeah, that was some unexpected stress.

Whew. Still, you can't feel too good about barely escaping Indiana with a win.

Yeah, that's how this game has made be feel, all right.

You'll win this. No, we can't lose to Indiana. I'll refuse to believe it. I thought the same about Mizzou. Mizzou is better than Indiana. This would be a catastrophe.

I was hoping to see some amusing posts from him. He's very conspicuous by his absence.

You'll win this. No, we can't lose to Indiana. I'll refuse to believe it.

A lot of bad calls tonight, on top of the Illini playing like festering [expletive].

Did Brandon Paul get hurt and I missed it?