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This game is nuts.

Haha, that's really quite pathetic. And considering all the talk radio hosts over the last 10 months falsely calling the Fiesta Bowl of last year a "beatdown" even though the game was in doubt until the very end, you'd think this guy would at least call in to one of THOSE shows, rather than worry about a game that was pretty much over in the 2nd quarter. What would you call last years OSU/ND game then if it wasn't a beat down? 617-348 total yards including a 275-62 rushing advantage. Troy Smith threw for over 300 yards and Pittman ran for over 100. Plus OSU turned the ball over twice and ND didn't at all. One of those turnovers was a Troy Smith fumble at the ND 9 yard line. The score of that game should have been much worse than it was. At the least it should be called a very convincing victory. Michigan outgained Ball State 507-297 on Nov. 4th and won the game by 8, and were 2 yards away from a possible tie game. Is that a beatdown? I could care less about any statistic other than the score when it comes to a football game. Could've would've should've means about as much in football as it does in any other sport - bupkus. So a game that ends with one team winning by three touchdowns but was back and forth the whole game - like no team led by more than 7 until late in the fourth quarter - would be considered a beatdown? You can't look at just the score when determining how dominant one team was in a game because one statistic does not tell you the whole story.

And it stands.

Wow. What a punt return for a TD by Pittsburgh. During the return a Pitt player took out 2 WVU players.

Haha, that's really quite pathetic. And considering all the talk radio hosts over the last 10 months falsely calling the Fiesta Bowl of last year a "beatdown" even though the game was in doubt until the very end, you'd think this guy would at least call in to one of THOSE shows, rather than worry about a game that was pretty much over in the 2nd quarter. What would you call last years OSU/ND game then if it wasn't a beat down? 617-348 total yards including a 275-62 rushing advantage. Troy Smith threw for over 300 yards and Pittman ran for over 100. Plus OSU turned the ball over twice and ND didn't at all. One of those turnovers was a Troy Smith fumble at the ND 9 yard line. The score of that game should have been much worse than it was. At the least it should be called a very convincing victory.

Sorry these are a little late this week but here goes. Week 10: vance: 6-10 Mark: - ndistops: 6-10 soccer: 6-10 Ryan: - Truffle: 6-10 UMfan: 6-10 rawaction: - ChiCubsFan: 5-11 Overall: vance: 59-66 Mark: 31-39 ndistops: 64-75 soccer: 65-74 Ryan: 27-27 Truffle: 45-37 UMfan: 35-72 rawaction: 28-35 ChiCubsFan: 30-37 Note: There have been 5 ties overall (2 in Week 3, 2 in Week 5, 1 in Week 7)

Yup. As long as he's not on the North Side next year I don't care where he goes.

Agreed. Me too. Count me in on this as well.

Good deal for both sides.

I agree. That being said, I would pick Westbrook but would be content with either if we don't have to give up too much.

Why couldn't he have just let a rookie back Barrett up? Blanco's contract according to Cot's: - $0.75M signing bonus - 07:$1.8M, 08:$2.8M, 09:$3M club option ($0.3M buyout) - 2009 option may become guaranteed based on 07-08 performance - escalators may increase 2009 option to $4.5M

And Moises.

That fee is insane. Like many others, I don't mind that the Cubs didn't win this bidding and am happy that the Cubs, reportedly, actually put in a serious bid. I doubt they expected Boston to bid as much as they did.

Oregon was #5 last year and didn't go. Cal was #5 in 2004 as well.

Theriot will certainly regress, but he's young enough to be learning still. Derosa will be 32 next February. He's not going to get any better. Bingo.

Personally, I would have voted Carpenter but I can't complain about Webb. Oswalt would have been a very close third. Z didn't deserve it this year.

2 and both are authentic. A pinstriped Sosa and the blue alternate with no name.

I'll pass on Zito for that amount of cash.

I like him as a back-up to Ramirez. You like paying him $4.3m to back him up? yes, but not just 3B. I like an .800+ OPS to get 450 AB's at various positions. You don't know if he's going to put up an .800+ OPS. He has only done it once, in 2006, in his career and his career OPS is .735.

Too much cash.

Even though he was with Texas his home/away splits are basically the same with the SLG a bit higher on the road. He is on the wrong side of 30 though. We'll see, it depends on how much the deal is for.

Still doesn't make sense why Boston spends $148 million and the Cubs $100. They're competing with the Yankees. We're spending as much if not more than our division rivals. Money isn't the issue. It's how it's spent. Jones + Izturis + Dempster + Rusch = $17MM Howry + Eyre (luxuries) = $8MM Prior (never healthy) = $4MM There's nearly $30MM in money for players that essentially do not make your 90+ loss team any better. Ouch. Howry and Eyre do make your team better but the money that they are being paid, namely Eyre, is the issue. Also, I don't think you can really count Jacque Jones in there as somebody who doesn't make the team any better. It's true that, if counted on as a major player in the lineup then it's not worth it. But Jacque should not be counted on as a Lee or Ramirez type player and isn't being paid to be such a player.

I heard he pitches too, which would solve another of our problems. I'm in.

I really like ARam now. Not that I didn't before but I'm not sure if I could have turned down an extra $27M to stay with a team that finished in last place the previous year.

Depends on your definition of crushed, but I don't see ND getting crushed by either Michigan or OSU. I think they'd even make a game of it against Michigan. Problem is, ND was already crushed by Michigan this year and was crushed by OSU at the end of last year. Notre Dame is a horribly flawed team. Their defense isn't that good and they can't run the ball effectively to save their lives. I'm not saying ND would get crushed if they faced OSU or UM again but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they did. OSU got like half their yards on four plays and spotty officiating on a fumble returned for a game-tying TD changed the whole game. Ohio State outplayed ND, but this "crushed" rhetoric needs to stop. I don't need to recite by how much OSU outgained ND and OSU also turned the ball over twice. If they didn't get "crushed", it was still a relatively easy and very decisive victory by OSU.