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I've been rooting for the Seahawks, but you're making me re-think that. You have a nice combo of homerism and persecution complex. And Pete Carroll is a POS, but he has been for a long, long time. The hate for him has literally nothing to do with the Seahawks.
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That's perfect, except Sherman is an actual lunatic instead of someone pretending to be criminally insane. I'm sure I'm an idiot, but who is the person (presumably photoshopped in) on the right? "Mean" Gene Okerlund, used to announce/do interviews with the WWF wrestlers.
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That's perfect, except Sherman is an actual lunatic instead of someone pretending to be criminally insane.
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The NFL is full of them. And he's also really good. I hate Pete Carroll, but I wanted Seattle to win. I like it when the usual suspects aren't in the SB. Okay, Sherman really is a piece of work. Wow.
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Uhhh...what?? Did you expect them to contend for the conference title or something? No, painting the Illini as being unlucky just helps him build up the "universe is out to get sulley" narrative. As if the universe give a [expletive] about him. I think there was a lot of bad luck in the NW game, but this losing streak is all about bad offense. Not unlucky, just bad. The problem is that all of the real talent (outside of Rice) are raw freshmen. After losing to Purdue and NW, which were games that were "put it in the win column" games before the B1G season started, it's gonna be tough sledding getting into the tournament. They have to be shooting a pretty close to historically low % from inside 5 feet at this point in conference games. That may be a combination of being bad and having bad luck, but it's really amazing to watch them miss as often as they do from close range. That's true, but some of it is just bad basketball. Like how Abrams is good for at least four or five completely out of control drives/shots a game. The only really egregious bad luck I saw was in the NW game, and some in the Wisconsin game (which we were going to lose anyway).
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things evened themselves out
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How many times did they show that play in slo-mo before the announcers realized that bowman's knee had been destroyed? I was yelling at my TV for them to stop showing it. Gross.
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Uhhh...what?? Did you expect them to contend for the conference title or something? No, painting the Illini as being unlucky just helps him build up the "universe is out to get sulley" narrative. As if the universe give a [expletive] about him. I think there was a lot of bad luck in the NW game, but this losing streak is all about bad offense. Not unlucky, just bad. The problem is that all of the real talent (outside of Rice) are raw freshmen. After losing to Purdue and NW, which were games that were "put it in the win column" games before the B1G season started, it's gonna be tough sledding getting into the tournament.
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You're usually top 10 in payroll which means you have the money to win. The Trib doesn't own the team anymore. The end of the Cubs on WGN has been pretty much inevitable for years. It's something that has been easy to see coming as the number of games on the network has dwindled. Now we're talking about sacrificing the very few remaining WGN games in order to gain a big edge in payroll. If what has been said about the Ricketteses finances is true, then it may be necessary if we are to see the team back in the top 5 in payroll in the near future, which is where the market dictates they should be. It's what the other major market teams are doing, and it's what the Cubs have to do. What they are going to do, if not sooner, then later. There's no decision to make here. And FTR, I do n't live anywhere near Chicago anymore, and have been paying extra to see games for many years. The Cubs on WGN isn't nearly the factor that it used to be. Letting those few games stand in the way of a TV mega deal would be idiotic.
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I know. To me this is about getting games on basic cable in another state & not needing to pay extra. But that number has been dwindling for years anyway. The other option that costs more gets you a LOT more games. Yeah, WGN stopped being sufficient for me years and years ago. When it carried most or all of the games, that was one thing, but it's been essentially a handful for a long time now. I've had EI for a long time, but I'm going MLB.tv this year. It's really a good deal, even on a budget.
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Cubs branding changes - Uniform/Logo changes, JumboTron
XZero771679666304 replied to David's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I like them all (except for the Cuba jersey), but this is my favorite (I'd love it more if it had buttons instead of a zipper): http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd358/Cloudstrife219/jersey_zpsc81e7eae.jpg -
Offseason Rumors
XZero771679666304 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Well Kyle is the "greatest" at what he does. I mean, quantity wise. is that a fat joke I didn't say Erik...Hey, Where is Erik?? Wherever the forklift left him -
Offseason Rumors
XZero771679666304 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Now that really destroys his credibility -
Offseason Rumors
XZero771679666304 replied to Clem Fandango's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
I've been to third base in a church. Did you get any hush money from the diocese? [expletive], I was going to make an almost identical joke like 10 minutes ago, but thought it would be too tasteless. Now I am filled with regret. -
It's not as if NW was lighting up the scoreboard. Of far greater concern to me was the Illini's complete inability to put the ball in the basket. Like the first half in Madison, but even worse. Rice can score, but we need shooters, and the only light at the end of that tunnel (as far as this season is concerned) is the potential development of Nunn and Hill.
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That was one of the worst things I've ever seen. It was like the proverbial car wreck you can't take your eyes off of, which makes me mad because there were so many ways I could have better spent two hours. It was a shameful, shameful performance by the Illini. Gonna need a big win (probably two) to balance out this catastrophe of a week.
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That play was comprehensively stupid.
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2014 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread
XZero771679666304 replied to sweetpeteman's topic in Other Sports
14 OLB KHALIL MACK 51 DT AARON DONALD 82 CB E.J. GAINES 113 S DION BAILEY 144 OT JOEL BITONIO 167 S ISAIAH LEWIS 175 WR KASEN WILLIAMS -
They've done everything they can to position themselves as a team who was interested and did the right thing to let some other team overpay for him. This used to be known as the MacPhail Maneuver, but Epstein is making it his own. I think the Cubs will make the high offer. I also think he'll probably sign somewhere else anyway.
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Hearing stuff like this makes me want to find Larry Himes and kick him in the balls. Larry Himes blamed the Tribune on MLB radio the other day, but wasn't it Himes who told Maddux to piss off and that he had already allocated his money elsewhere (Guzman and Myers, was it?) when Maddux came back to the Cubs one last time? Plesac and Candy [expletive] Maldonado, too.
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Hearing stuff like this makes me want to find Larry Himes and kick him in the balls.
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Woo hoo! I hate this time of year until spring training. Blackhawks. lol Just twiddling my thumbs would be more exciting.
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I think that the Cubs will in fact make Tanaka the best offer. He is exactly the kind of player the FO has said would be worth the investment. Now whether or not he accepts it is another issue, one they can't fully control at this point. If they only make him a token offer, that would be much more discouraging.
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They do because he's asking SSR if he THINKS it's all for show. If SSR doesn't think the interest is fake and does think they will make Tanaka a real offer, why does it need to be signed to be proof of them not being in payroll hell for 5 years? If he thinks they are willing and ready to spend a lot of money on Tanaka, that should be enough for him not to think they are going to be in payroll hell for years. Because interest in a player is meaningless unless they actually end up paying the guy. I'm sure they are interested, but it doesn't matter in the least bit with respect to what it means about the payroll unless they can back up the interest with enough money to turn interest into results. If they are prepared to pay him a ton of money, that absolutely has implications as far as potential future payroll goes. It would mean there is at least money there to be spent. If they offer Tanaka the biggest contract and he turns them down for non-monetary reasons (which I think is a distinct possibility), I will be disappointed, but it will alleviate at least some of my fear that there just isn't any money there.
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Don't worry, I'm sure Javy will be douche enough for the both of them.
