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  1. soccer10k
    When both are on their games, neither can be beaten. In the Federer-Safin match you are referring to (2005 Australian Open I believe), Federer was off his game and Safin played the match of his life and he still barely won. Rafael Nadal can beat Federer routinely on clay but there have been clay court specialists for years in tennis (Gustavo Kuerton a few years ago). As far as somebody challenging Tiger, in the last 3 years (12 majors 04-06), Tiger has won 4 majors. Second to him? Phil Mickelson with 3. In tennis the last 3 years (13 majors 04-06 and this years Aussie Open), Federer has won 9. Second to him is Nadal with 2. Federer has made the final in his last 7 majors (tied for the most all time). He went 92-5 last year and only lost to 2 players (Nadal 4 times and Andy Murray once). He's the first player in the Open Era to win three of the four majors in a year twice. Don't get me wrong, Tiger is very good and very dominant, but the answer is Federer and it's not close.
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    With all due respect, you're wrong about tennis.
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    Right, the Bears are just happy to be there. That must be why they have a giant banner that says FINISH at their hotel. I'm really happy that we don't have some homer jagbag like Simmons embarrassing himself and the city on ESPN.com. As opposed to writers from the Chicago papers (Jay Mariotti comes to mind immediately) routinely doubting and dissing the Bears week after week and never giving them respect.
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    Even without the win this weekend, I think Chicago takes the title...this is thrown together real fast, so it's possible I'm off...also this is only NFL, NBA, and MLB. Chicago 8 New York 5 Boston 4 Dallas 3 St Louis 2 Houston 2 Toronto 2 Miami 2 St Louis 2 Denver 2 Minneapolis 1 Atlanta 1 Phoenix 1 Anaheim 1 Washington 1 San Francisco 1 Green Bay 1 Baltimore 1 Tampa Bay 1 Pittsburgh 1 So basically Jordan's Bulls have more Championships than any other city has combined Championships in all the 3 leagues. Obviously minor nitpicking but Los Angeles and San Antonio both have 3 and Miami and Detroit have 1 (all NBA). But your point remains.
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    yeah, if you call that one intentional, then every foul in that situation inside of 1:30 should be called intentional. The Stanford player was clearly past the UCLA player and he reached out for the jersey and made no attempt for the ball. That's an intentional foul. And either way, when you blow a 17 point lead, you don't really deserve to win the game. He just missed the ball by about the foot. He only made contact with the arm and then the jersey after going for the ball. It was a pretty bad call. There were certainly some head scratchers. Aside from the kick called against UCLA that only hit a Stanford player's butt, the biggest head scratcher was definitely the double foul against Mbah a Moute. You don't see that too often. I didn't see the double foul so I can't comment either way on that one.
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    yeah, if you call that one intentional, then every foul in that situation inside of 1:30 should be called intentional. The Stanford player was clearly past the UCLA player and he reached out for the jersey and made no attempt for the ball. That's an intentional foul. And either way, when you blow a 17 point lead, you don't really deserve to win the game.
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    I doubt this will make any difference whatsoever. Its not so much on when they choose their gameplan, but what they gameplan their plays to be. And we'll see their ability to execute on Sunday. I suppose. Wasn't there a player who never showed for the actual game last time the Super Bowl was in Miami? I'll always worry about that kind of stuff. Young guys, on top of the world---temptation can derail someone double quick. Barrett Robbins. He had a very serious mental illness. The Raiders-Bucs Super Bowl was played in San Diego.
  8. soccer10k
    So how long will it take for a mod to edit wolf's little outburst above. It's been up for almost a day now.
  9. soccer10k
    You should just give Rolen to him and move on.
  10. soccer10k
    North Carolina is very, very good. They're up 25 on Arizona right now.
  11. soccer10k
    Thank you. And it is worse if you want to say Hendry started in 2003. The key point which all of you are forgetting here is the correlation. For that data, the R^2 value is 0.0249 and the R value is -0.1578. Those low values show there is a very little linear relationship for the data provided. Don't spoil this for him. We are not talking about corelations. The data are for years and wins. That is the data set. The reason why their isn't a linear relationship is because the Cubs didn't win more games every year. As the years go up the wins must go up to have a linear relationship. Analyzing trends has nothing to do with corelations though. Correlations have to do with things like runs scored and wins or runs allowed and wins. Time is not an independent variable unless one is talking about human development over the life span. RichHillisaBeast you never have a clue. Not even a hint of one any time you post in a thread. You can have a linear relationship whether the Cubs win more or lose more games every year. It doesn't matter whether the trendline goes up or down, you can come up with a linear trendline and relationship. Thanks for the clarification (by you and Tim) about the time not being an independent variable, I forgot about that. But either way, the gist of my point remains and a linear trendline is an absolutely horrible predictor for this data and you can tell that just by looking at the data. You can make the argument that the team has gotten progressively worse over the five years but it would be an extremely weak argument to use the trendline to do so.
  12. soccer10k
    Thank you. And it is worse if you want to say Hendry started in 2003. The key point which all of you are forgetting here is the correlation. For that data, the R^2 value is 0.0249 and the R value is -0.1578. Those low values show there is a very little linear relationship for the data provided.
  13. soccer10k
    My sentiments exactly.
  14. soccer10k
    Once again I'll be sticking to my picks so I'm taking Indy (-7). I'm 8-2 picking straight up so far in the playoffs.
  15. soccer10k
    Rule #1: Cardinal fans automatically lose.
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    Of course, Peyton IS prominently on the cover of SI. :twisted: Plus, he posted these in the Saints thread and it didn't seem to hurt too much. Well there is another SI that will come out before the Super Bowl is played. The question I have is, if the Bears are featured on the cover for next week, will neither team win? Will anarchy ensue? Maybe the world will end. Who knows.
  17. soccer10k
    Communism.
  18. soccer10k
    All I know is that this ensuing argument about this question is far and away dumber than the question may or may not be. EDIT: Spelling.
  19. soccer10k
    Don't worry, he'll have a chance to return to the NL during the year when he gets DFA.
  20. soccer10k
    Izzy, as in "Izzy going to the DL again?" I thought it was "Izzy gonna make another out en route to another 0-4 game?" Izzy going to ground out 4-3 or 6-3?
  21. soccer10k
    That's the first time I've heard Aaron Brooks sitting being bad for his team. What? Wrong sport? Damn.
  22. soccer10k
    Well, that all but ensures a Bear will get arrested next week. My money's on Tank Johnson.
  23. soccer10k
    I'm going to go with Marquis but Izturis is a close second.
  24. soccer10k
    That will never get old. I hope he's getting better but this is wonderful if true.
  25. soccer10k
    Feb 7th is a fixture date, so getting the release of all 8 shouldn't be an issue. I'm going to assume you meant isn't a fixture date.
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