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34 although some would claim he is no longer a cub.

no, but that's an intriguing thought... :-k i could even be convinced grey with blue pants would be better.

This, and they'll look better now that they'll be paired with the all-blue hat. one fan's opinion- the grey set with the all-blue hat will never look better because all grey sucks. and so did ditching the road hat. baseball is the only team sport where the color of the jersey of the team doesn't matter in any fashion of gameplay whatsoever. not in scoring, not in officiating, not offense, defense, nothing at all. and with the advent of color television, baseball has been aggravatingly slow in modernizing the uniforms to where they actually look good on television. and with hdtv technology, even moreso. you do not need grey road uniforms anymore. i like the astros for that practice last year for either not, or very rarely, wearing a grey top on the road. we have better manufacturing technology so that unis can be made of team colors now cheaper than they could a grey uniform. i would encourage baseball now to do what the other sports do and have a colored set to wear on the road. it looks better on television and that doesn't hurt.

first thing that popped in my head as soon as i heard the quote: well, at least he's honest...

sadly, no. for some strange and inunderstandable reason, tennessee is considered the reds market. who knew? oh, yeah, try living here in louisville. this is NOT a reds town, despite the bats being the AAA affiliate. i know of more cubs, sox (both), and (explitive deleted) cardinal fans here than reds fans and yet we are stuck with reds broadcasts over the cubs games. and yes that is important. do any one of you want to listen to 9 innings of jeff brantley and thom brennamen female doging about the cubs and/or cubs fans 3 game straight? its bad enough that if i ever wanted to catch the game on radio, bitter old marty brennamen comes out the speakers. thankfully when the games are on wgn, they aren't blacked out here (strangely enough). it's only when the games are on espn or tbs when i really don't have much of a choice.

always more room on the cardinal bandwagon!

how's michigan state's foul shooting? the only reason i ask is because the only way i think that the loouhvul cards lose that game is if loouhvul's free throw shooting comes back and bites us. i really don't think that michigan state can slow down the tempo enough to stop us and i also know that our 4 guard monster can take any team out of the game. i also want to see state's defense against a non-offensively challeged team (i didn't see any of this game. i really wanted to so i knew who we were up against, but couldn't get to a tv at all). i only have big 10 play to work from and, i'm sorry, but the big 10 looks like a defense first league. i guess when you have football matches break out during basketball games, (looking at you illinois and penn state), it's hard to shake that mantle. there may be 5 official ways to pronounce it, but we have and always will call it loouhvul.

i'm really not trying to jinx us tonight, but for the record, rick pitino has never lost a sweet 16 game. arizona fans have been coming on cardinal message boards and have told us that arizona has its three main players who play 35+ minutes a game and everyone else fills in. i think that's going to be a big factor. i believe that the defense needs to control both guards to completely disrupt the offense for arizona. this is something that has happened pretty much all season long. during the regular season when pitt came to freedom hall, our guards wore out levance fields. louisville won that game. the question is whether or not arizona's big three can overcome all of that ballpressure that our guards are going to be putting on theirs.

re: memphis state HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (breath) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :-)) this is what you get for going around on big east and louisville message boards saying that "we're elite too!!!11!!!" over and over and over again. the big east ain't conference usa ladies. we should know, we beat your rear ends on our way out to the big east. since louisville, cincinnati, marquette, and charlotte left conference usa 4 years ago, memphis has been dominant. WONDER WHY. and those hacks on teevee trying to convince the unwashed masses that memphis state was alledgedly that DAMN good, point to ponder- out of all the teams that memphis state beat, their only good wins were to a mediocre (yeah, i said it) gonzaga team and an even worse tennessee team. it's real easy to win that many in conference games and hold people to those low point totals when every other team is the equivalent of an average high school team. memphis state couldn't score all year and all it took was an aggressive offensive team to put them away. THEY PLAYED NOBODY AND GOT EXPOSED FOR THE POSEURS THAT THEY ARE. btw, even if we lose tomorrow, i'm still going to be lmao at the massive fail of memphis state tiger fan. as for duke: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (breath) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :-)) think the acc is the best conference in basketball cry-zewsky? our fourth place team in the big east simply dominated that basketball game against the acc champions from start to finish. it was in no doubt. i should have put money on that game. i was telling people who would listen that villanova would dominate because of nova's defense and because duke was not going to rebound against villanova. this year's ncaa tournament may just end up being the big east invitational. i certainly think that we have proved it with 3 of 8 teams in the elite 8 this year and could quite possibly make that 5 of 8 tomorrow. there is already a guaranteed big east member in the final 4. oh yeah, about rick. he's not going anywhere. he had a choice between michigan and louisville 8 years ago. he came here because he loves the state and it's a bigtime (and the most profitable or near the most) basketball program. he gets to stay on the east coast, he gets to stay in kentucky, and he gets to go to new york every year whether its when the cards play st. johns, seton hall, rutgers, or the big east tournament. he said he only considered providence because he has family ties there for 24 hours when that job became open. rick pitino will retire a louisville cardinal.

i would like to say as a victim of western kentucky this season that last night was NOT an upset. western was better regardless of seed.

i don't like playing possibly a road game your second game out after being given the number 1 number 1. :evil:

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Which is why I happened to like the red billed caps damn i favor the third jerseys in baseball. what houston did last year was not only novel (in these days) but i think welcome. baseball is the only team sport in this country where offensive players and the defense almost have no interacion with each other as to where there would be a confusion between who is who at a quick glance. the d-backs and astros could wear their red during the same game and nobody would have any problem figuring out who was on offense and who is on defense. there needs to be more color in the game. its almost unheard of to have black and white televisions these days. more color can't be a bad thing. i don't understand why the cubs dropped the road hat and before that the third jersey. just wearing all grey and all white (even if broken up with pinstripes) makes a very bland combination. btw, the twins have navy lettering and red numbers on their greys. i think we're the only two with different colored numbers and letters.

he DID get those roids from miguel tejada. because it was just reported on ap radio news that miggy got nabbed by the feds for steroids and lying to congress about it. amazing how the person who is coming out of this smelling like a rose is jose canseco. Mod Edit: ESPN Link

And then compare 93-98 to 03-08. That's it? That Tubby was worse than Pitino? What a revelation. You can't seriously expect any coach to duplicate that Pitino stretch (which, by the way, your stretch includes a National Title won by Tubby). It's completely unrealistic. Tubby wasn't as good as Pitino -- but UK kept with that theme in also replacing Tubby with an inferior coach. Still, from 2003-08, Kentucky went 131-40 overall, 61-19 in the SEC, won two SEC regular season titles, two SEC tournament titles, one 16-0 (19-0 actually) SEC season, two elite eights and no first-round NCAA tournament losses. Again, it had to be real rough on Kentucky during that stretch. Never said it was rough, it wasn't good enough though. UK won't be as good as they were when I was there and I'm not expecting that, but they should do better than what they have rbeen ecently. Whether or not that can happen under Gillespie remains to be seen. If anyone here can't see that that is message I'm trying to convey rather than judge every coach by the standard of Pitino is their own stupidity and not mine. dude, when uk was up next on the schedule i as a louisville fan was always worried, not because its a rivalry game and anything can happen, but because tubby smith is a damn good basketball coach, especially when it came to bench coaching. talent can get you so far. coaching has a lot to do with it. so what if billy clyde can recruit, it doesn't look like he can coach worth crap right now, that's for sure. i don't know much about kentucky basketball (other than most of their fans are completely over the top with out of this world expectations) but i do know that san diego and virginia millitary institute would never have happened under tubby.

louisville/marquette is going to be a good one this year. its too bad we are only playing once this year, i'm just glad it's at our place. i am very interested in seeing how your coach deals with the pitino defensive pressure, now especially that you don't have any 6-10 guys who can hit the 3.

what do florida and pittsburgh have in common? they weren't ranked number 1 when they left freedom hall the last time they visited. duke lost and uconn is number 2... :twisted: we still haven't played our A game yet and are now 7-0 in the beast that is the big east. don't think that the best basketball fans are on tobacco road. tonight 17,500 people, a few hundred short of an official sellout, went out in 5 inch snow and icy conditions to watch your seventh ranked university of louisville fighting cardinals pound south florida by 26, a team that has beaten us 2 or 3 times in 20 or so years. and keep in mind, this is kentucky. people freak out if snow flurries start falling with no accumulation. so to that poster a few pages back, yeah louisville. seriously. no team is playing better than we are right now. there have been two great days in recent history. one was the day that tom jurich announced the hiring of rick pitino. the second was the day that orlando tubby smith announced he was leaving yUK. put in perspective, if rick left tomorrow, tubby would be welcomed here with open arms. what tubby did in 10 years in lessington was an awesome job and we would have been happy with that. kentucky fan right now is kicking himself for running off tubby. billy clyde gillespe isn't long for that job. has he finally signed that contract yet?

no spin, i think that the university of louisville fighting cardinals are the best team in the nation right now, but aren't going to move up much in the polls. i think that we may get a few votes for number 1 in both polls, but might only be #5 tops. 4-0 on the road in the toughest conference in the country this year (yeah, two were against south florida and rutgers) is nothing to sneeze at. until i see dook play a top team on the road, my opinion is not going to change on that. your big east champion is either pitt, uconn or uofl, and the winner is going to have at least 3 conference losses. georgetown and syracuse played themselves out of contention. neither can afford another loss in-conference and both are probably going to get them from somewhere along the way.

it may be cruel. it may be ghoulish. but it has to be said. this is the best thing to happen to the twins in a long time.

:yahoo: (the game should not have been that close. the best thing that happened late in the game was earl fouling out so he couldn't singlehandedly give the game away.) of the 14-15 years since the football game renewal, only one team has won both. sUcK can win all the football games as far as i'm concerned. :grin:

see, this is what i get for commenting on a team i don't follow. my bad.

i know from experience with my team, the avs, it is a lot harder to win games 6-5 than it is 3-2. the hawks as improved as they are aren't going anywhere unless you get a (better) [just caught that, mistype, my bad] goalie. or rather the better goalie starts more than the goalie with the monster contract. huh? khabi has been really good this season i think i said as much...

i know from experience with my team, the avs, it is a lot harder to win games 6-5 than it is 3-2. the hawks as improved as they are aren't going anywhere unless you get a regular goalie. or rather the better goalie starts more than the goalie with the monster contract.

i have no dog in this fight because both teams are in front of mine, but i friggen hate detroit.

haven't followed this thread, but has anyone mentioned yet that the home team has never won an outdoor regular season game yet?