Magnetic Curses

they are horse-whupping us now

jeez, how much to buy that kid a bus ticket?

keith gives it away again and brouwer has whiffed 3 times by my count on solid chances.

we need to kill their opportunities, though.

no rebound

turco

i don't think we're gonna miss buff that much guys.

stalberg is real fast

i would be open to stone returning if and only if it totally crushes the spirits of every sox fan and causes them to rip their hair out and walk off of buildings or into traffic.

that is a terribly depressing list.

best cubs color man in my lifetime, radio or tv. it will truly suck to see him go.

that would make the most sense. bruce weber's wife helped deliver him or something.

boner city. yeah, if true. i just get the feeling that miller is one of those soulless mercenaries, hand out to the highest bidder, that illinois doesn't get because they don't pay. EDIT: not true. q miller is taking his expensive talents to durham for MM.

there's a mystery out-of-state big time recruit coming to MM in champaign and everyone is speculating that it's quincy miller.

yeah, if a game is already nationally televised, it will be either blacked out or not carried.

this guy agrees with me. http://collegechalktalk.com/general/2010-11/releases/10.7.10house

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not realistically,. but stranger things have happened. they aren't entirely untalented.

welcome to.........the others!

i'm starting to lean towards the giants game being more cutler's fault for holding the football too long before he sustained the concussion and then his swollen brain in the second quarter, and then the completely inept backup situation. the line was what it was, bad, but not anything egregiously worse than they normally are.

it depends on how you define success. in my lifetime: mets- 1 series in my lifetime, 2 appearances, no. used to hate them, but now they are a bigger joke than the cubs braves- 1 title in my lifetime, more series appearances. i hated them in the 90's as well. marlins- of course i hate the hell out of these lucky assholes reds- nah. 1 series, 1 appearance in my life. cardinals- hate pirates- no, not at all. haven't had a winning season since i was in junior high. dodgers- kinda hate. 2 series titles, 3 apparances, fairly even. plus i hate the dodgers for what they did to us in the playoffs in 2008. giants- nah. whatever 2 appearances in my lifetime, no titles since before my dad was born. diamondbacks- not really. but i hate them for what they did to us in 2007. yankees- whatever, they get what they pay for. red sox- jealous, don't really hate though. 3 appearances, 2 titles. i'll call it even, although the phillies are more [expletive] annoying because they aren't going anywhere. blue jays- 2 series titles in 2 appearances but there's no way they're making the playoffs in the next 50 years so no. don't hate. orioles- lol. twins- i kind of like the twins because the sox fans hate them so much. 2 titles in 2 appearances, one appearance shy of the phillies. tigers- 1 title and 2 appearances and the worst single season record of all-time. white sox- no. 1 appearance and 1 title in anyone living's lifetime. a's- i liked them because they beat the giants in the 89 series. 3 appearances and 1 title. but i guess it's better than no appearances and no titles.

but seriously, they've won 2 world titles in my lifetime, soon to be 3 and they've made an additional series. that will be 4 world series appearances in my lifetime which is more series appearances for the cubs in my grandfather's lifetime. lately, they just don't lose and they don't look like they're going to slow down any time soon. they have 3 aces and guys that mash the hell out of the ball while maintaining a lower payroll than the cubs. so [expletive] them, i hate their [expletive] guts.

have you only followed baseball since 2008? the phillies are 1100 games below .500 in their existence and have won the world series only twice in 125 years. you could pick almost any other team in baseball and it would have a greater history of success than the phillies. i can think of one.

yeah but you hate everything. it's mostly jealousy at the seemingly endless supply of good things that happen to them while only terrible terrible things happen to the cubs. it was cool to witness, though. maybe we need to go out and get a [expletive] ace?

it's cool that this is happening, but i hate the [expletive] phillies so bad.