Magnetic Curses
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i think yogi goes to washington.
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and haven't the zellers been pretty bad at college basketball thus far?
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yes, and we lost to them at home. i cannot believe that the redskins recovered 5 of their own fumbles. we won that game, but whatever.
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Ashton went to Iowa didn't he? I know there's something about not being able to have alums recruiting for you. He got kicked out before he graduated, iirc. i thought he just hung out at the union and that was it.
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mark sanchez is a great quarterback.
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weatherford almost got it, that illinois-boy can really run.
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i love it
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mizzou needs to play some football, man
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glad we didn't play iowa after that wisconsin loss, jeez.
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Bullpen catcher C. Miller caught with pot in truck
Magnetic Curses replied to Schwarber Fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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i thought that they could be a 6-7 win team this year, simply based on the offensive line matched with leshoure and ford. i never thought that the defense would play so well. the crappy thing is that our athletes on defense will be gone before we can replenish them. hopefully the potential nfl work stoppage will scare liuget and wilson into coming back. if they come back then we're in the running for a bcs bowl.
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I know it's just Purdue but they look real good today. 8-4 isn't out of the question with the remaining schedule. 9-3 isn't out of the question, i doubt it happens, but it isn't out of the question. they play amazing defense and that cuts down on the letdowns. i think 8-4 is completely realistic.
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the illini have lost to 3 teams with 1 loss between them. they look so far today, kind of excited.
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sandy alderson to the mets
Magnetic Curses replied to Magnetic Curses's topic in General Baseball Talk
i think your statements about his successes are a bit misleading, he wasn't working for any particular team for almost half that time. the rest of it was spent with teams without payrolls. but anyway, to address the question, the man has an organizational philosophy that i agree with. i have no doubt that as GM, he would be a kind of dictator of team policy, who will employ a number of baseball outsiders and actually pay attention to them. in short, i like his organization philosophy because he has one, because bringing him in would feel like we are actually headed in a direction and not all directions at once. everyone would be on the same page, and that's what i'm looking for. i can deal with non-playoff seasons if i feel that the team has a plan for the future, and tangible goals. what we have now is no plan. plus he's billy beane's mentor. -
no doubt. with these kids, there's no excuse for not being a top 10 team and a final 4 contender every year. it will only get better as we gain momentum. illinois hasn't ever had a run of recruiting like this. they may have gotten higher ranked talent, but the quantity and quality has never been so excellent and balanced over the past 3 recruiting years. these kids go back to chicago and see all of the younger recruits that look up to them and want to be just like them, they see the family atmosphere and they want to be part of it. we have finally progressed past the point we were at when pearl ruined everything. only took us 20 years to do so. i still think we win the big 10 and go deep into the tourney this year.
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add to that the fact that they are off-speed.
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it tears me up that ricketts insists on hendry when he probably could have had this guy before last season. huge bummer for the cubs, great hire for the mets.
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abrams henry shaw egwu is a class that i am most pleased with. if we would have gotten randle, it would have been a class that could have competed in the big ten by themselves. i always suspected shaw was bound for illinois, but irvin was trying to steer him away. now he can play with his friends and be around people he knows.
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although i wasn't so fine with randle picking stanford, [expletive] punk.
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Shaw to Illinois. http://www.gifsoup.com/view/270216/ac-slater-dance-o.gif
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you expected anything else? kansas has an army of gypsies and unearthly creatures from the 5th dimension at their beck and call.
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like i said, a total disgrace that needs to go to the league office.
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are they honestly trying to figure out how many fouls to call on the bulls right now? if okc is anywhere near the lead at home, they sure as hell are going to have every chance to win for some reason.
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the bulls couldn't hit dust right now.