Magnetic Curses

suzy kolber?

the field doesn't look all snowy or anything

Clearly but not as absurd as the initial comment. true

haha, favre playing tonight for nothing is like willis reed

well, i can't say that he only cares about the record anymore.

If you guys lose this game you should be banned from the playoffs. Favre officially starting and Peterson is out. if i were the vikings and had nothing to play for, i would rest my franchise player too.

i think it has to do with ms. regrets

They'll be able to resign him with no problem. There is a ton of money available for next season with the cap hit from the $4M Toews/Kane rookie bonuses gone and the likely $2M cap increase. Seabrook with probably be $4.5-$5M, which takes up $1.5M-$2M of a likely $6M. He's worth it. For what it's worth, I don't consider Bolland to be part of the untradeable core of the team. He's not turning into the second line center everyone thought he would. For my money, Dowell can do what he does as a third line center for much less money. i would have considered bolland untradeable after the postseason last year. but not now.

those were the players that no one talks to and are completely out of the loop.

just end him

Unless they make a major leap up in the standings they absolutely should keep building for the future by the time the trading deadline arrives. Two wins are much less meaningful than 40% of a disappointing season. They are only 2 points ahead of 2 teams with 4 games in hand each. The playoffs remain very much in doubt. Yes but based on the fact that we won the Stanley Cup last year with a majority of the "key" players returning, it's more likely we play much better the rest of the year than how we have. Last year from January 9th to March 30th, the Hawks posted a 15-12-4 record, and a goal differential of -7. And yet somehow they put it together and started their playoff run to the Stanley Cup 2 weeks after that stretch ended. This year the Hawks are 18-14-3 and have a goal differential of +8, which is 5th best in the conference (albeit in 3-4 more games). No doubt we've played [expletive], but its a long season. Do I think the Hawks are going to go 37-10-4 the rest of the year, which is what the Hawks did around that mediocre stretch last year? Probably not, but I think they will play better at some point this year and will position themselves to be somewhere in the 4-7 range when the season is over. As we know the playoffs are a semi-crapshoot, so just getting in and being considered dangerous is fine by me. As it stands, the only team that I'd be less than certain we could beat is Detroit. As I've made clear, if they straighten things out and play great between now and the deadline, keep it status quo. But there is no reason why trading some of the key pieces can't be on the table if they continue on this uninspiring path. You can't keep expanding the untradable core. With Toews, Kane, Hossa, Campbell, Keith, Hjarmalsson and Bolland locked up longterm and unlikely to be going anywhere, names like Seabrook and Sharp can and should be up for debate. To address the two bolded parts... 1. Yeah, 2 games is a pretty small sample size to pick out of the 35 games played so far. How about the last 11 games? Or, over 30% of the games on the season, and I'd say even more significant than that because they are the most recent games played. 7-3-1 in that stretch, with one of those games being lost largely because of a BS penalty call (the double minor in the second Colorado game). With at least half of those being played without 2 of our top 3 forwards, as well as Bolland and Stalberg each missing a couple. So look at the first 24 games of this year, or look at all the games from last year and the last 11 of this year. I repeat, we are not playing badly. 2. This whole trading thing you really haven't made clear. Do we trade people now, or do we wait till the deadline? We trade away Sharp, we're left with Toews, an injury prone Hossa, an always one hit away from being injured Kane, and a bunch of pretty much unproved forwards, outside of maybe Bolland and Brouwer. Try and put lines together without Sharp and accounting for an injured Hossa without crying. Trading Seabrook away gets rid of our only physical defenseman. Yeah we'd get players back, that could probably help a lot down the line, but if we're trying to shed salary, we're not going to get a lot of immediate help. We're up to 9th in points per game in our conference, and 5th in goal differential. Dallas is going to fall off eventually, and no matter how we've played this year I'd like to think we're better than Nashville. Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of playing in the easier conference, or even an easy division, but we're going to find a way into the top 8, even if Toews has to drag us there. When we get there, I want Sharp and Seabs there. i agree. sharp is the type of player that teams like us will be trying to acquire near the deadline.

ahhhh i can't stand how you keep mispelling "lose". Sorry. Period goes inside the quotations. i think that's a very gray rule

This, if anything I think what UCONN is doing is bad for the sport. women's basketball is so predictable, there are almost never any upsets ever.

and congrats, packers, on winning the division.

Get your popcorn ready. I predict sulleys post count is going up by 100 tonight. I'm praying to God for his kids' sake that the Bears win tonight. See I don't think it really affects him as much as he makes it seem. I think the pre-emptive ''woe-is-me" attitude has strangely worked as a terrific coping mechanism for him. i get worked up during the game but it really doesn't mean anything to me besides the opportunity to buy a bears super bowl champions shirt or sweatshirt. right now, with two small children and a wife that works full-time as well and no time to spare, this is one of my only hobbies.

"...I would have bitten his arm off." -Dick Butkus biting and sticking your fingers up people's asses in a dog pile is different.

Oooo, that's a good one. Longwell hits a game-winner as the clock runs out. No, check that. Gould misses a 26 yarder late because he slips as a result of the field. And then concusses himself, but the Bears are too cheap to replace him so they have noodle legged Maynard kick for the rest of the season. Bears trail GB 17-16 with 2 seconds left as Maynard attempts a 25 yard FG to make the playoffs and it falls short and the Bears go home crying. /sulley that's not right at all. the vikings will simply throttle us the entire game and win by 4 touchdowns and the packers will win the division. congrats on the division, by the way, packers.

Well some of us weren't around back then, so that doesn't count. Just like the Cubs prior to 1988. That never existed. every packer fan i know, and that's a lot, loves charles martin. if a bears player took a run at rodgers after the whistle and injured him for the season and fucked up the rest of his career, and the bears failed to kick the guilty player off the team, i probably wouldn't be a bears fan anymore.

i like the qualifier there at the end. considering charles martin is the all-time hero of your puke fan base, i think your fans would love to see either a viking or a bear horribly injured.

this really is a disaster waiting to happen. the vikings have nothing, absolutely and literally nothing to play for so they'll have their dicks outs the whole game and if they get penalized into dust, it just helps their draft position. the concrete field delivers a nice slab to injure and maim. i don't know how anyone can reason that the vikings are getting the short-end of the stick, here, they've already pissed away their season and are probably looking to kill some people with some dirty hits. thank God we aren't playing a historically dirty and cheap-shotting packers team with nothing to lose. that would be worse.

the bears lose by 4 touchdowns and the packers win the division.

Bravo sir. Skimming this thread, this one was my fav. it's a disaster. but it was supremely effective.

women's volleyball is like [expletive] mud wrestling to me, and i mean that in the best of all possible ways.

not entirely true

wow this guy is uncanny, how do you do it well, truffle, well.