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Just barely into the Crawford boxes. You people can call me pathetic all you want, but the field is just a nightmare! If your players can't pull a couple of Pettitte pitches into those boxes over the course of 6 innings, you've got little room to talk.

Fat Elvis can just plain hit.

No, because every time I think something logical stuff turns out the opposite. Kudos to Ozzie. His use of his pitchers in this series was exemplary. nobody deserves to win more than the White Sox and their wonderful fans. /shoots self

the bottom line is that it's dumb to call the ump a f---head, which is what I read on Edmonds' lips when he got rung.

It's looking better, but Houston still has six more games to win before I'm going to start being confident. Here's hoping! If houston wins six more games, i will be very confident in their chances to take the World Series. very confident, indeed.

no way was the 2nd pitch a strike you're right. You have my sympathy. Thanks, but we suck right now. I'm depressed. I was kidding. You get no sympathy from me. I'm sure that receiving false sympathy from a random Cubs fan on an Internet message board has ruined your day, and for that I apologize. You have my sympathy.

no way was the 2nd pitch a strike you're right. You have my sympathy.

Looks like Edmonds doesn't enjoy strikes being called strikes.

yeah, they're always driving a heavy-duty work pickup around the field with the stadiumseats.com URL written on the outside. They used to have a retail location up the street, actually. it was the former Hispanic grocery up on Sheridan just short of the Sheridan red line stop, but it got knocked over earlier this year in order to put in some really, really expensive condos.

Yes he is quite large. Sorry bout PSU Truffle. From what I hear it was a hell of a game; not to mention controversial from what I've read on hear. There schedule is pretty easy from here out though, right? Pretty good chance at winning the Big 10? The last game at Michigan State is worrisome. The other games (at Illinois, vs. Purdue, vs. Wisconsin) should be won. Yep, it's a 3 way tie for the Big 10 right now, but PSU still plays Wisconsin at home. The only thing that could screw things up is if both Penn State and Iowa win out (or win the same # of conference games) as they don't play eachother this season. As for the replayed PSU pass, A) It WAS incomplete and B) They should have ran to the line and spiked the ball to make sure the replay couldn't happen. That's poor coaching. The spots were definitely bad. But I don't think I ever thought "that is really going to cost us". Penn State went up 4 with 50 or so seconds to go, and just had to keep them out of the end zone. Didn't happen. No one to blame at that point but themselves. You're talking about the reviewed play that was overturned - they got the call right and I have no problem with that. The play I have a really big problem with was Michigan's 17 yard pass to Avant when his heel was clearly out of bounds on the replay. They had at least as much time to review that upstairs as they did with the Golden catch, and yet there was no booth review. That gave Michigan one-third of way towards a TD, and it wasn't merited. If you're going to use replay, then get it right. Otherwise, just scrap the whole system. Illinois fans, if they have good memories, can attest to the home-field advantage in Michigan. In 2000, with Illinois leading and driving for the upset, Illinois' Rocky Harvey lost the ball upon hitting the ground, but the play was ruled a fumble. The replays also showed that Harvey appeared to get the ball back, but it was awarded to Michigan anyway. Then on the resulting drive, Michigan's Anthony Thomas clearly fumbled the ball while still upright, but he was ruled down. It honestly was about the worst referee work I have ever seen. For whatever reason, most teams in the Big 10 can tell horror stories about the refereeing they've run into at the Big House. My predictions are for Penn State to lose to Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan State, and beat Purdont. That will probably put them in the Sun Bowl or Motor City bowl or something like that, and then they'll lose the bowl game. Three horrible spots that gave Michigan first downs on third down plays, including two where they eventually went on to score. One horrible spot against Penn State that forced them to kick a field goal instead of continuing a drive. A failure to review 1) a questionable fumble in the 4th quarter and 2) a 17-yard sideline pass with 40 seconds left in the game, leaving both of them in Michigan's favor when they should have been overturned. Lloyd Carr whining and getting two extra decisive seconds when he didn't deserve them, and not using replay to do it. Missing an obvious block in the back on Breaston's big return with 50 seconds left (watch the replay, right after Connor misses him). Screwed, screwed, screwed. At the Big House. Again.

Yes he is quite large. Sorry bout PSU Truffle. From what I hear it was a hell of a game; not to mention controversial from what I've read on hear. There schedule is pretty easy from here out though, right? Pretty good chance at winning the Big 10? The last game at Michigan State is worrisome. The other games (at Illinois, vs. Purdue, vs. Wisconsin) should be won.

Welcome to playing Michigan in the Big House... it's 13 on 11, with the 12th man being the crowd and the 13th man being the referees. Joe should have known that getting replay wouldn't ensure fair officiating in the Big Ten. Somehow the replay managed to make it even more unfair, since only PSU's close plays got reviewed. it almost makes me want to hate Michigan more than Ohio State. I know at least two of the spots you're talking about - the one where they called Bradley for a sideline infraction, the guy was down a yard ahead of the first down. And on the play before Robinson got picked off, his pass should've been a first down by at least half a yard with forward momentum, but they spotted him a good yard and a half too far back. I'm pretty furious right now. Next year if our game is close with UM, the refs better bend over for us like they do for them in Ann Arbor. You forgot the one for Michigan in the second quarter where the receiver caught the ball while falling and then rolled three yards and was somehow marked at the end of his roll, getting a first down by about half a yard.

Welcome to playing Michigan in the Big House... it's 13 on 11, with the 12th man being the crowd and the 13th man being the referees. Joe should have known that getting replay wouldn't ensure fair officiating in the Big Ten. Somehow the replay managed to make it even more unfair, since only PSU's close plays got reviewed. it almost makes me want to hate Michigan more than Ohio State.

if by "slide him one under the wall", you mean they lifted the thousand pound concrete construction barriers and slid him one, sure, I believe it.

Wow did Penn State get screwed by the refs. bad spots on about 4 different occasions, not reviewing the Michigan fumble or the catch out of bounds in the 4th quarter, allowing Carr to whine 2 more seconds onto the clock. i'm very pissed off.

Unless I am mistaken, Washburn is an extreme flyball pitcher. That doesn't project well in Wrigley. Frank Stallone doesn't give up fly balls.

Isn't John Wayne/Santa Ana closer? Most teams fly in to Ontario and fly out of John Wayne. Don't ask me why. John Wayne is much closer. I also wouldn't fancy driving from Ontario to Anaheim - the 91 is evil and always jam packed with traffic. That is supremely stupid. So not only do they get caught in traffic driving in from Ontario, but then the plane has to fly empty from Ontario to John Wayne? Wow is that dumb.

I still want to see Frank Stallone. I'm sure many others on this board will agree.

Isn't John Wayne/Santa Ana closer?

It would have saved the umps a lot of grief. competence also could have saved the umps a lot of grief. True. He made a mistake and it came back to bite him big time. How so? Indecision. How is it biting him? He gets paid, regardless of how horrible the call was. It's biting the Angels. Well, he's never going to be invited to my house again for dinner, that's for certain.

You have to be kidding me. Hooray for bandwagons!!!

Yeah, he looked and sounded pretty clueless. And what's with the "I was watching josh paul" BS he keeps spewing? Why should that have any bearing on anything?

After hearing his rambling, incoherent explanation of this play on ESPNews, I can find no reason why harold Reynolds should not be tarred and feathered. Wait, Kruk just one-upped him. now they're laughing at each other. Someone shoot me.

They are cocky and arrogant because they celebrated winning a playoff game? AJ even said in his interview he didnt know if it hit and wasnt cocky about it at all he just gave Crede credit for getting the hit. I know you guys hate the White Sox and its understandable but there was nothing arrogant about what AJ did. There's something arrogant about everything Aj Pierzynski does.

Frank Stallone