soccer10k

So pathetic.

It will be the new "Edomonds is gay" Except less profane and less likely to get us warned by the mods for going too far.

HAHAHA!!! Go Mets!!

I'm putting the over/under of number of LaRussa being drunk jokes made on this board this year at 3,000,000. And that's probably being conservative.

Dunn wouldn't have. I don't think Dunn could have looked much worse though.

Ah, how nice it is to have no class and no work tomorrow (not that I would work in the morning/early afternoon anyway). I also have no roommate stealing the TV from me this year. GO CUBS!!!

Too bad they don't own the other 161 games instead.

Cubs: 3,748,092,561 Reds: -2

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I heard it wasn't being televised in HD.

It's not as bad if Cubs fans vote a bunch to rig the vote as it is for the newspaper itself to rig the vote. If you're the newspaper and you're going to rig the vote for one of the teams, why even have the vote in the first place.

Once All-Star ballots are out, we will formulate proper strategy. I'm thinking Lee, Ramirez, and Barrett should be our focus this year. :D I'm in as long as the Cubs are competitive. DLee's injury plus the Cubs sucking immediately after (losing 12 of 13 in early May) eliminated any desire I had to vote for any Cubs players.

^^^ gullible Did you know gullible was removed from the dictionary?

is HD really that big of a difference? I could understand not wathcing b/c it was the cards and indians....but not b/c it wasn't HD I find it difficult to watch anything that isn't HD now. I'll still watch my favorite teams in non-HD, but it's a real struggle. Once you go HD, it's all that matters. I'm with you all the way on that, Soul! Once you go HD, SD is just not the same! Think of it along the lines of having High Speed Internet and then having to revert back to dialup... that pretty much sums it up! That is a horrible comparison. I get to watch HD when I go home (my parents have it) but don't mind coming back and watching tv on SD. But I have to deal with slower internet at work (not dialup but not nearly as fast as the internet in my apartment) and it would be horrible to have to use dialup.

The board would crash so quickly if that happened. But I doubt that happens especially not midseason.

If I'm making a couple million dollars a year, you can boo me all you want. The racist comments go way too far though.

With Oden they wont have to double down as much as UCLA is and Florida probably wont get all those open look 3s. I didnt see the blowout earlier this year at Florida so im not speaking from much experience. The problem for OSU is Oden can't guard both Horford and Noah so Florida is going to have a mismatch right there. Plus if Oden gets in foul trouble, that's two mismatches. Where as if one of Noah/Horford gets in foul trouble, the other can still guard Oden. So OSU is going to have to either gamble with one-on-one coverage of either Noah or Horford or double and hope Florida isn't hitting from outside. Ohio St. does have other size. They have 3 other big men that get decent minutes. Oden can guard Horford who is less active, and Hunter/Harris can guard Noah, because they are more athletic. Ivan Harris gives up four inches to Noah and will get dominated inside by him. Harris, maybe but he still gives up 2 inches. And it's not like Noah isn't athletic. He's one of the most athletic and active big men in college and it will be a mismatch in Florida's favor. Ohio State is a guard-oriented team after Oden. Florida matches up extremely well with them. They didn't win by 26 earlier this year for no reason. Humphrey, Green, and Brewer shot a combined 21-34 for 54 points in that game so OSU has to figure out what to do there as well. I never said Noah wasn't athletic. I was saying Harris/Hunter are more athletic than Oden (As far as guarding a player like Noah). Nobody is going to matchup against Noah. But it's far from Oden having to guard him and Horford at the same time. Especially, considering OSU will play a lot of zone. And I think the main reasons Florida won by 26 points is because they were at home and they had 5 returning starters against a team with 3 of its top 4 players having less than 12 games experience. Oden had about 7 games of college experience, and that was all with 1 hand at the time. I just don't see all that much changing. I don't expect it to be an exact repeat of the first meeting though I am predicting a 15 point Florida victory. Of course OSU is better now then they were the first meeting because of experience. If Oden gets in foul trouble (which I would say is likely), OSU will be in trouble. Florida will dominate them on the offensive boards (and could even if Oden isn't in foul trouble) assuming they don't shoot 60% from the field again. I just think Florida does so many things well as a team and they have so many ways that they can beat you that OSU doesn't pose a huge threat to them.

With Oden they wont have to double down as much as UCLA is and Florida probably wont get all those open look 3s. I didnt see the blowout earlier this year at Florida so im not speaking from much experience. The problem for OSU is Oden can't guard both Horford and Noah so Florida is going to have a mismatch right there. Plus if Oden gets in foul trouble, that's two mismatches. Where as if one of Noah/Horford gets in foul trouble, the other can still guard Oden. So OSU is going to have to either gamble with one-on-one coverage of either Noah or Horford or double and hope Florida isn't hitting from outside. Ohio St. does have other size. They have 3 other big men that get decent minutes. Oden can guard Horford who is less active, and Hunter/Harris can guard Noah, because they are more athletic. Ivan Harris gives up four inches to Noah and will get dominated inside by him. Harris, maybe but he still gives up 2 inches. And it's not like Noah isn't athletic. He's one of the most athletic and active big men in college and it will be a mismatch in Florida's favor. Ohio State is a guard-oriented team after Oden. Florida matches up extremely well with them. They didn't win by 26 earlier this year for no reason. Humphrey, Green, and Brewer shot a combined 21-34 for 54 points in that game so OSU has to figure out what to do there as well.

With Oden they wont have to double down as much as UCLA is and Florida probably wont get all those open look 3s. I didnt see the blowout earlier this year at Florida so im not speaking from much experience. The problem for OSU is Oden can't guard both Horford and Noah so Florida is going to have a mismatch right there. Plus if Oden gets in foul trouble, that's two mismatches. Where as if one of Noah/Horford gets in foul trouble, the other can still guard Oden. So OSU is going to have to either gamble with one-on-one coverage of either Noah or Horford or double and hope Florida isn't hitting from outside.

Assuming Florida wins this game (a pretty good bet at this point) I don't see OSU giving Florida a much better game than they did earlier in the year. Sure, Oden's healthy now and OSU is playing better but I think Noah and Horford are going to eat Oden alive inside and OSU is going to have to pick its poisen whether its Noah/Horford or Brewer/Humphrey/Green.

UCLA does know Corey Brewer can shoot, right?

Wow, Horford only has 3 points and no field goals today.

Their combined ugliness so close to each other shocked the refs so much that they were unable to blow the whistle for a foul call.

UCLA in trouble down 11.

Well that sounds like an enjoyable night Truffle.