Magnetic Curses

of course

it's amazing how the texans refuse to use one of the best backs in the league.

i imagine schwartz talking to the refs like leonardo dicaprio's character in what's eating gilbert grape

lol

gerhardt totally moved before that play

he sold his mother's house and refused to apologize to her

a guy that will probably be a top 5 qb you're saying he's going to be a top 5 QB in the NFL, right?

in summation, i'd like to point out that people who deny the effect of mercury on false-positive blood tests may, in fact, be autistic.

This is what you do when you get caught red-handed and you have not one ounce of regret or class. 1) Deny everything. 2) Muddy the water as much as you can to try to create even the slightest, tiniest, fractional percent of doubt. Then leverage that doubt into something much bigger in the court of public opinion, where people are stupid and don't understand stuff. those tests have mercury in them and you know that mercury can't be trusted.

i love that espn had somebody on to tell us that testosterone is a natural hormone produced by the body and that there is a difference between natural and synthetic.

Something like that. More if a dont ask dont tell thing. They needed him to play through pain, and he was going to need something to get him through it or speed up the healing. He didn't ask what it was, they didn't tell him. I doubt that it wod mark the first time that's happened in pro sports. I believe that with steroids you only have to use it once and it can show up in your system for up to 6 months. what the [expletive] is wrong with you? i mean, you are a moon person.

oh these tears are so sweet

i remember Lon's time here fondly. he was one of the lou-lon-ron coaches, of which we had like 20.

UNLV is the next big test

And thus the book was closed on Nick Anderson and his ability to respond in the clutch. i don't know, he depantsed jordan in game 6 to pretty much break my heart.

Without even clicking that link, I'll ask: who won the Big Ten that year? and i remember bobby knight wetting his pants when we got the #1 seed.

luck is just a guy at the next level

this one is better

i want to see more unibrow in agony

how is indiana winning? i haven't been able to watch, are they just uglying kentucky to death or what?

i think lahair would be just as good as trumbo.

he's most certainly in his prime and will be in his prime for the next 4 years, most likely. and over that time frame he's likely to be worth between 90-100 million, i forgot to mention.

he's most certainly in his prime and will be in his prime for the next 4 years, most likely.

It is if you think Fielder is a poor risk on a longterm deal, which I do. i dont understand whose point of view you're speaking from here. are you talking about your logic or theirs?

This. Let's not sign Fielder, and we'll just stand pat and wait for the perfect situation which may never come. If Fielder's not worth a couple of possibly mediocre years at the end of a seven year deal, who is? He's 27 years old and entering his prime. We are likely to get at least 4-5 years of elite production out of him. I've seen a lot of bellyaching about how we shouldn't sign him because 1-2 mediocre years at the end of a contract are going to somehow cripple the Cubs in the future, but no alternate suggestions. If not Prince, who is going to pop up in the next few years as the long term solution at first base? I also find it interesting how the general attitude on this board toward getting Prince changed as soon as Theo took over. it changed because people thought theo was going to draft a million elite players and we wouldn't need to sign free agents. it goes back to the meatball idea of "building a team the right way", which is closely related to "playing the game the right way". sure, any team that's in contention year after year is going to have some home-grown starters, but if you are a big market team, you have the luxury of signing elite talent for elite money. Agreed. I cannot understand this new mindset that has developed of eschewing improving the team through free agency. Building the farm system and signing quality free agents are not mutual exclusive. And then re: signing Prince...how is it that 30 year old Carl Crawford is enough of an impact player to warrant 7/142 but Prince isn't worth the money that he's going to paid? Instead, let's just toil for the next couple years with LaHair at first and hopefully we can develop a long-term internal solution at first base that we don't have to pay any more than league minimum. Is that the goal? To pat ourselves on the back for not "overpaying" for top talent, and then get annihilated by our competition because we had to settle for the 4th or 5th best option at a given position? But hey, at least we didn't overpay, right? the sheer fact that lahair is sitting there as the incumbent tells me that they're making a serious run at fielder and i will be surprised if we don't get him.