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Man, we didn't even charge to get into our games at my high school. Of course, that would've been impossible considering the way it was laid out, but still, I remember going to districts and knowing it was a big deal cause people had to pay to see us. My parents have had the same season tickets since I was in fifth grade. As people next to us have moved or changed seats, my mom and dad have bought up the extras. We now have eight seats on the same row about even with the 40 yard line. These will come in handy in about four years when my nephew starts playing. Oh, high school football. I think there's something like that at our school, but there's not so much demand that it's really necessary.

I would really like the pick if they were creative enough to get him some touches on offense. But I'm not sure how creative the Bears actually are, and if they can find a way to use him appropriately. I still think it was a reach selection, given that he doesn't have a real position. I would have liked one of those slash QBs around the 4th round. Instead of overpaying Randle El in free agency, they could have found a cheap one in the draft. Smith would have been a good pick for this. He's a better running QB than Vick, IMO. He's like the Gale Sayers of running QB's. Coming from someone who watched almost every game he played this year, Smith is not as good a running QB as Vick.

http://www.sportspool.com/football/super_bowl/Superbowl_XXXVII_ring.jpg Fear Chris Simms. Or something.

Apparently the Score is reporting that Hill got the callup. Yepez and Johnson today, hooray.

Man, we didn't even charge to get into our games at my high school. Of course, that would've been impossible considering the way it was laid out, but still, I remember going to districts and knowing it was a big deal cause people had to pay to see us.

Especially since that guy went running back to his home state in free agency too. IMO that has a lot more to do with Ned Colletti's love of former Red Sox players (Mueller, Lowe, Nomar, etc) than with Nomar's actual wishes. I was actually thinking of Maddux, but I guess he's not from CA, is he. I need to turn my brain on today.

Especially since that guy went running back to his home state in free agency too.

When did Prior strike out 20 hitters in a game?

That's a brilliant idea. I can just search our student directory for the name "John" and get a couple hundred email addresses. Search girls names, they're less likely to have voted.

FTR, that number is exaggerated, probably by at least a full season.

After the 2003 season, would anyone have given any thought to Prior leaving? We were coming off a wildly successful year for him and the team. Prior has almost 2 full years before he's eligible for free agency, too much can happen between now and then to be able to forsee what Prior's opinion of the franchise will be.

There's about 30 picks left, they're in the 7th round. Smith was taken by the Jets in the 4th round, he's the only Mizzou player drafted thus far. New York huh? Wow, that will be a culture change for him. I'm really happy to see that he got selected though. He's apparently a super nice guy and is very into his faith with God. Good to see nice guys like that finding success. I thought Jason Simpson might have been taken, but I guess that drug bust was hanging over his head. If that didn't happen, he probably would have been selected. Since the original post, the Rams took Tony Palmer with a compensatory pick at the end of the 7th round.

On that note, isn't every Cubs game on WGN radio? Can we stop listing it to confuse people who think it might be on WGN TV?

Is that a rhetorical question? No. I would really like to know. same way you put one in your post. I tried that and it didn't work. But I want to put an image from my computer in my sig. You need to host it on a website like http://www.photobucket.com or http://www.imageshack.us

If Lebron is going to make this many threes, you might as well just keep 2 players on him at all times. Man he's good.

we are terrible.

Agreed to all.

Phoenix just got hosed right out of the series.

Walton got away with one, clearly held him.

Great finish to this LAL-PHX game so far. Big shots abound. EDIT: Wow...

I don't recall many people saying that Maddux was melting down every game, or hadn't done anything to deserve praise last April. No, they said he was old and a waste of money (not to mention pitching batting practice). Again, Zambrano has had at least one inning in every game this year where he's been his own worst enemy. You may not like my "melt down" term but that's what I call it. Maddux was/is old, and questioning his contract is far from irrational. On the other hand, you are picking apart Zambrano, even when he's done well. By that definition every pitcher in the league is their own worst enemy consistently by failing to put failure behind them, even if they don't actually get hurt because of it. I disagree. The lapses have cost him because it prevents him from pitching later into games and perhaps, giving the offense time to score so he can qualify for a win. Going into this game, he pitched 29.2 innings over 5 games. That's not even averaging 6 inning a start. Today he didn't record an out in the 5th. And in his 3 good outings, the ones you have refused to acknowledge and claim he's still melting down in, he's averaged 6.33 innings per start, to go with his 1.80 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, and 9.47 K/9. And again, what you're talking about isn't exclusive to Z, every pitcher ever has it happen to them. I don't need to acknowledge them. His body of work speaks for itself. He has not been ace-like. I can turn the tables and say, why are you only looking at those 3 starts when overall he's been horrible? There's no doubt that he's been more bad than good this year. He's not my child; I don't need to say something positive to counterbalance the bad. In fact, those number are so good that it just magnifies how HORRIBLE he has been in his other starts. I'm not the one that has made definitive statements about him melting down in every start, or not doing anything deserving of praise.

I don't recall many people saying that Maddux was melting down every game, or hadn't done anything to deserve praise last April. No, they said he was old and a waste of money (not to mention pitching batting practice). Again, Zambrano has had at least one inning in every game this year where he's been his own worst enemy. You may not like my "melt down" term but that's what I call it. Maddux was/is old, and questioning his contract is far from irrational. On the other hand, you are picking apart Zambrano, even when he's done well. By that definition every pitcher in the league is their own worst enemy consistently by failing to put failure behind them, even if they don't actually get hurt because of it. I disagree. The lapses have cost him because it prevents him from pitching later into games and perhaps, giving the offense time to score so he can qualify for a win. Going into this game, he pitched 29.2 innings over 5 games. That's not even averaging 6 inning a start. Today he didn't record an out in the 5th. And in his 3 good outings, the ones you have refused to acknowledge and claim he's still melting down in, he's averaged 6.33 innings per start, to go with his 1.80 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, and 9.47 K/9. And again, what you're talking about isn't exclusive to Z, every pitcher ever has it happen to them.

I don't recall many people saying that Maddux was melting down every game, or hadn't done anything to deserve praise last April. No, they said he was old and a waste of money (not to mention pitching batting practice). Again, Zambrano has had at least one inning in every game this year where he's been his own worst enemy. You may not like my "melt down" term but that's what I call it. Maddux was/is old, and questioning his contract is far from irrational. On the other hand, you are picking apart Zambrano, even when he's done well. By that definition every pitcher in the league is their own worst enemy consistently by failing to put failure behind them, even if they don't actually get hurt because of it.

I don't recall many people saying that Maddux was melting down every game, or hadn't done anything to deserve praise last April.

I haven't seen a lot of the playoffs this year, but the UC crowd today was the best of any of the games I've seen. Kudos, Bulls fans.