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im not even really upset. detroit is just too good. i was hoping theyd get to end the season at home so the fans could cheer them off, but oh well. realistically, what were the expectations before the season? make the playoffs and make some noise in the first round? they exceeded those expectations by quite a bit

anybody but chelios

go go man from france

the wedding ring thing was only about one specific player.... but he wouldn't name him. i think he gave hints or something. i remember simmons said he never wanted to hang out with athletes of a team he liked because of all the stuff he'd see.

8? jesus. i'm in 4 and my 2 non-money teams get neglected a lot....i cant even imagine 8

Then he went 4-4 with 4 RBI tonight

lebron turning it over non-stop

lol @ lebron yelling at varejao to foul howard when it would have been his 6th

lebron trips on his own and gets the foul call howard gets pushed like 5 feet away from the basket and no call

Derrek Lee in May - .333/.404/.608

Keeping Cotts just boggles my mind. yeah but you're gonna feel stupid if we get rid of cotts and then we have to use marmol against a lefty

The playoffs are a crapshoot, you have admitted this. You cannot build a team to specifically win a crapshoot. You build the best team you can (97 wins), you prepare as best you can and then you take your chances. That's true, but it's a copout for this team. Don't act like they were just unlucky the last 2 seasons. They choked. They crapped their pants the second the postseason started. That's not Hendry's fault though. Hendry is the last person I'd blame for the playoffs. I blame the players and Lou. I was going to address this after your previous post, but how would you build a team of "non-chokers"? What players out there are certain not to choke in the playoffs? How can you or anyone tell? Will those players be good enough to win in the regular season? It's not as simple as just saying we'll build a team filled with clutch players who can handle pressure. Those players, as a whole, must be good enough to win in the regular season to make the postseason in the first place. Maybe they did choke the past two postseasons. If so, what would be your solution? Fire sale and start over? It was pretty much a team-wide slump, so it'd be inconsistent to get rid of some "chokers" and not others. What's the solution if that's your stance? Like I said, I don't blame Hendry for the playoffs the past 2 years. I was just pointing out that the "bad luck" or "small sample size" argument is a pretty weak one. They choked, flat out. They couldn't handle the moment. So yeah, my point wasn't to argue how to address that, because I don't know. I honestly thought bringing in Bradley was made more for that reason that anything, apart from being a lefty. I think Hendry saw what happened in the last 2 postseasons and he felt like he had to shakeup the chemistry. Not a bad idea really, but he went about it all wrong. So yeah, I don't have a solution and I'm not criticizing Hendry for the playoffs. Jus tsaying that it kind of sucks because as soon as we choked again last year, I became pretty confident that this core/mix/whatever won't win a title. I just don't see it. Of course I could be wrong and it's just my opinion. I'm just saying I don't see it.

The playoffs are a crapshoot, you have admitted this. You cannot build a team to specifically win a crapshoot. You build the best team you can (97 wins), you prepare as best you can and then you take your chances. That's true, but it's a copout for this team. Don't act like they were just unlucky the last 2 seasons. They choked. They crapped their pants the second the postseason started. That's not Hendry's fault though. Hendry is the last person I'd blame for the playoffs. I blame the players and Lou.

I love these pictures, but to be fair, when Jordan was at LeBron's career juncture, he was still flipping out after big shots. (The Shot in 89 comes to mind.) It wasn't until he reached the "I'm Michael Effing Jordan and I Know I'm Making This" in the early 1990s that he stopped celebrating and started just being a badass. Jordan's the shot also won the series. It was also his first playoff series win. Lebron has been to the finals before. So MJ went crazy over a 1st round series win? Bush. But MJ's celebration(s) were like fist pumps and just him being pumped up. LeBron's was all wild and "oh my god.. I made that shot?!?!? Holy [expletive]....It went in?" Jordan was never surprised at how awesome he was.

i love the guy jumping around way in the background at :49

He barely even argued the blown call at 3rd either. Actually, he was smiling and joking around with Sanchez. WTF is that?

Dempster- 4/52 Bradley- 3/30 Gregg- 1/4.2 Miles- 2/5 Dunn- 2/20 Unreal

Give it the season and then evaluate at that point. I've given this group 2 full seasons and 6 postseason games And they've won 182 games in that time. To this point they've done little to prove they're not a talented group. For all we know, they could turn it on, win 85-90 games and win the World Series. Or they could flop and barely reach 70 wins. We don't know how this season will turn out right now. But after 182 wins in two years Hendry deserves more time than 43 games this year. I know, I'm just saying that I don't see this mix winning a championship, and now I'm wondering if they'll even be able to overcome this season to make the playoffs. I thought before the season even started though that we weren't winning a title with this core. It's going to have to be a bunch of guys like when the Red Sox won in 2004. Yeah of course they were stacked as hell and had a monster team, but to be able to handle the pressure of what the Cubs face every season and what the Red Sox faced at the time, you needed a special type of team. I don't see it from this team. I think these guys are chokers. You can say "oh it's a small sample size blah blah they won 97 games", and that's true, but you can't tell me that they didn't choke in the playoffs the last 2 years. From the first pitch in each series they looked scared. They couldn't handle the moment. I hope that maybe if they win one playoff game and break the ice they could turn it around, but I don't know. Most of the core guys seem like chokers to me.

Give it the season and then evaluate at that point. I've given this group 2 full seasons and 6 postseason games

Kind of sad to watch a man's mind slipping rapidly

Now Ozzie Guillen, that's a guy that cares!! We know because he blows his top and acts like an idiot. Let's argue and get thrown out of a game. Maybe throw at the other team just for the heck of it. That will turn this losing streak around! I thought the argument was that Lou is no good for this team because he is too uptight and makes panic decisions? Now the argument is that he not uptight enough and doesn't care? I'm saying right now he doesn't care. And when I say "he doesn't care" it's obviously hyperbole. Of course he cares, but it really seems like the fire is gone. Freel clearly got the out at 3rd and Lou barely even argues. WTF is that? Oh and I love how we are PHing with Zambrano because we just HAVE to keep Patton as the extra pitcher on the roster.... even though he hasn't pitched in 2 weeks.

I can agree with the people that say it's not a good idea to make a change just to make a change, but I don't see how this current team/mix is winning anything, let alone a world series.

Now after a blown call Lou blows up! Oh wait, no he doesn't. He slowly walks out, makes a half hearted attempt to argue, cracks jokes with the other team, and slowly walks back to the dugout. He just doesn't care.

Yup... after tonight's masterful performance by Lou I'm convinced he's done. I mean he's still there managain, but not really. I can't wait until he's gone. He has no clue what he's doing. Let Ascanio hit for himself? Sure! Bring in the worst reliever on the team when we're trying to win for the first time in over a week? Sure!

I seriously feel like Lou is one bad loss away from saying "eff it, I'm done. I quit". Even earlier in the season when we had that one rough spell he was getting pissed... really pissed. Right now he just continues to sit on his ass in the dugout with the same blank stae as things fall apart on the field. Dempster walks in 2 runs and he just sits there. No emotion whatsoever. Earlier in the season he'd have either pulled him right then, or at least gotten pissed off and showed some emotion. Now he's just like "oh well, an 8 game losing streak isn't much worse than a 7 game losing streak." Either way, I bet we're witnessing the end of the Lou era here. I don't see him coming back next season if we miss the playoffs this year.