littleburr24

hossa's having a great season, hopefully he stays healthy. I saw SJ play last week here against the Blues and Havlat was damn near invisible. I really hate getting into questioning a guy's will or desire, because what do I know about the guy. But he just seems like he doesn't give it 100% very often. He's probably hurt or trying to avoid getting hurt Havlat actually hyperextended his knee jumping the boards for a linechange two nights ago.

I'm not sure I follow this "It would look stupid" idea for a suit at a ballpark. From what I can recall, suits were worn to the park regularly in the past.

No Trade Clause, he can pick 10 teams to go to if he chooses to waive it. I doubt he'd even list a team who can afford him, which would essentially be a team struggling to reach the cap floor.

The 'Nuck fans are completely right to be ticked off about that. While that rule is not new, it was on a Hawks icing call and gave our tired line a chance to recover. Regardless, I'm stoked and I accepted the call from the 300 level to take that tv timeout.

You have to hand it the the guy, he took a lot of abuse from Detroit fans and the national media during the playoffs and never gave injury as an excuse for not performing well. Probably not that big of a deal if he is out until December but comes back healthy. Easy for you to say it's not a big deal. They reported on 670 today that the Hawks knew about the injury. I guess when you sign a guy for 12 [expletive] years, what's two months? (I am still in favor of the signing, but it does call into question the Hawks' FO decision-making once again) Shoulder injuries are pretty common... it's still a damn good deal.

He's using 81 and Kopecky is getting 82... at least that was the initial thought.

I like how we're considering a month of lackluster offensive performance a slump for Fukudome.

I'll be trying to catch as much of this game as I can, but a few of my friends are in a Battle of the Bands our school is holding. Hopefully the Hawks take a good lead so I can leave and not worry.

Actually.... he probably can.

I'm sorry but HFA seems useless in this. "Hey, you have HFA but you have to play 3 straight games away!" Everything should follow Stanley Cup Playoff formats... 2 home, 2 away, 1 home, 1 away, 1 home.

I thought that name was far too familiar!

would have...not would of. Link. And no, we would not have had a championship if he were still here. (subjunctive mood, please.) You missed definitely. Shame on you Mr. Teacher.

He definitely is IMO...but I'm thinking maybe they were trying to dump salary. I believe he was owed 2.4 million next year. Dumping salary for a 6th rounder is BS though. I'd like to hear an explanation on that move. take the $2.4M and use it for someone who is actually good at hockey. sounds like a solid plan to me. It does make sense don't get me wrong, but I just think they could have gotten more than a sixth round pick for him. Would 5th round be better for you. But why was LaPointe the first question? I believe the Ruutu deal was the bad deal of our deadline trades. Honestly.. Ruutu for Ladd... and to a team we'll be playing later?

Hmm... Glenallen Hill's true distance would've been?

Everything.

Has anyone been able to find this hat??? I've called Sports Authority the last two days with no luck. Now this afternoon, I called and they are already sold out. Wrigleyville Sports has the hat for $30 and CubsWorld is at $35---making me wonder if they had delivery issues, so why not screw us fans...It's driving me nuts! I must have my hat! I've seen 10 people on campus today with this hat. One of which doesn't count, she's a Sox fan, or a "Chicago" fan.

Well, except those will be save situations which he is good in. Which are those? It seems sort of silly to me that people think there's some sort of meaningful distinction between his relative success with 1, 2, and 3 run leads and his repeated failures in tie games. Do you think he pitches differently when the game is tied in the ninth inning than he does when it's a 1, 2, or 3 run lead in the ninth inning? The distinction is utterly absurd. Also, non-save situations aren't restricted to tie games as they include any lead over 3 runs. If you don't think a pitcher pitches differently with a big lead than he does with a 1 or 2 run lead you're crazy. If the actual facts were that Dempster had pitched poorly a number of times with an 8 run lead, your argument would make sense. That's not the case. Dempster's really poor games this season: April 22 v. StL: gave up 3 runs in a tie game in the 10th inning to lose May 17 @ NyM: gave up 5 runs after coming with 5-1 lead in the 9th Jun 10 @ Atl: gave up 3 runs to blow a 4-2 lead and lose 5-4 Aug 3 v. NYM: gave up 4 runs in the 9th after coming in to a 2-2 game Sept. 6 v. LAD: gave up 4 in the 9th to blow a 4-3 and lose 7-4 Sept. 14 v. StL: gave up 2 runs in the 9th with a 5-1 lead at StL Only 2 of those games were technically "save situations." But all but the Sept. 14 game were extremely high leverage spots. The Apr 22 and Aug 3 games were tie games in the 9th and 10th inning. The May 17 didn't start as a high-leverage game, but Dempster turned it into one quickly. It's merely coincidental that only two of his really bad games have come in "save" situations. If you think a pitcher pitches differently with a 1 or 2 run lead than he does in a tie game in the 9th or 10th inning, it's you who is crazy. You seem to have missed the part where soccer mentioned Dempster is supposed to come in with a 1-3 run lead. And in the regular season Dempster has blown 2 games so far. The games you posted backed up what soccer was saying.

Rieu, screw you! Keith Law, screw you more! Well, I mean hey -- they've got a point. Even though the Cards didn't deserve it last year and became champions. However, I would point out that none of these other NL contenders are really screaming "great team" to me either. The entire NL is pretty flawed when you think of it. Actually, when you really think of it -- there's no truly great powerhouse team in all of baseball, not even in the AL. Some of the great teams of yore would probably just rape every team in the league right now, even the Yanks and BoSox. We deserve to be in though. Remember the Padres a couple years ago when they made it in with a losing record?

I wonder if Wirtz's death will be the end of the line for Red Wing affiliated people owning the Blackhawks.

What happened in the double switch?

No. You already had jinxed it. Pretty sure something one person says over the internet is relayed to Zambrano via the bat signal making him give up a hit. :) Thank you. I always wondered why no one seemed to know that not talking about it only really applies to the people actually in the dugout. Then that's one insane coincidence that whenever some fan makes a comment, so do the players/coaches in the dugout.

The same reasdon I did 10 years ago (when I started understanding baseball). So uh... where's the cookie?

When one is underrated for so long.. they become highly overrated because the fans who followed him always considered him amazing compared to the underratings then once the nonbelievers see he's good and accept the fact, all of the sudden a player acheives Godliness.

This Cup will be enjoyable! I love it when I couldn't care less about who wins, then I just hope for a game 7 and enjoy the game displayed every other night on the ice.

Baltimore would love to get a pitcher like Z, but I don't think they'd be willing to trade Tejada, given that the closest thing they have to another shortstop would be Chris Gomez or Brandon Fahey, hitting .165 at Triple-A Norfolk. They can have Izzy or Cedeno. Why not both?