loukycub

that might've been how the play happened, but the wild were carrying the play in overtime and earned that win. oh, no doubt about that. the wild may have won in ot anyway (then again so could we) but i just think that considering the way the game had been played to that point, that was a cheap way to end a game. oh yeah, can someone remind me what blowouts in the playoffs the avs were involved in when the goons came out to play in the claude lemieux era? take your beating on the scoreboard, play out the last period, get on the plane and get ready for game 5. if the wild were going to rough it up, they should have done it in the first period when the game was still manageable not in the third when it was well out of hand.

it will always be F-DET after bertuzzi (and the way they handled the situation) its F-VAN and F-TB it's getting real close to F-MIN after last night. the third period was nothing other than bush league and if it continues in st. paul, it will be F-MIN. i didn't comment on game 3, but the way i saw the play was that the puck took a funny bounce, negated the icing call, one pass, bang, 2-1 series lead. granted, it never should have gotten to that point, but we better win game 5.

i'm black. people using the race card as a reason for booing for and against are stupid. if i go booing dusty does that make me racist against black people then? i would boo dusty because he allowed a flap between broadcasters and the players to boil over and distract the team down the stretch (and also broke up a pretty good tv broadcasting team, but i liked chip and his hokey/goofiness. gave me a better reason to watch braves games). i would boo dusty for mangling the arms of our pitchers. if dusty doesn't like the booing, then he should have never gotten our hopes up after year one and failing to do better than his previous year for four years. actually five years counting his last year in sanfran. if the same thing happens in cincinatti, they'll boo him too. he thinks that chicago is bad with racism? try cincinatti. they had race riots there recently.

nine positions, nine spots in the lineup. the pitcher bats. period. i don't see any reason to permanently pitch hit for the pitcher. what if he's a good hitting pitcher? you really want to take away options for your lineup? a good hitting pitcher makes your 8 hitter that much better. really i'm surprised that lou hasn't batted z or marquis 7th or 8th. personally i seeing the pitcher bat. because you normally will have three results all of them good (unless its against your team): 1. pitcher goes up and swings at pitches high and outside with cuts that make a t-baller cringe. makes for great comedy highlights on espnews. 2. pitcher gets a hit. 3. pitcher goes yard. and if its an especially weak hitting pitcher, its even more awesome (kevin tapani grand slam anyone?).

for those of you lucky :roll: enough to get the reds broadcasts, they are equating the booing to the vast amount of venom that arose from the bartman game. i don't know, maybe it was the legitimate shot at a world series bid, the first since 1945 (?) that rose expectations. dusty failed completely at following up the sucesses of year 1. never mind that the club had gotten progressively WORSE from the second season since he has gotten there. as well as damn near ruined two, maybe three young arms in the process. stop protecting the man. for all of the being a players manager he was, it sure didn't do anything on the field after it seems the entire team had career years that year.

And the WILD loss games they should not have also. It happens to every team. while i may agree with you if it were against any other team, before this season, the avs had only lost ONCE to the ceebeejays in team history. i don't think that the avs have dropped that much or the ceebeejays gained that much for the avs to lose in the way that they did. plus the wild won the division. so congrats to them. but those two losses if you saw the games weren't the close ones that you think they may have been. we gave up a 3-1 lead in the last 10 minutes of the game and lost 6-4. my post was not about the wild but about us and how not only was that an almost microcosm of our season, but how two games has literally altered our chances of doing any damage this postseason. in other words, unless we steal a game in st. paul our of the 4, we're done in round one.

i freaking hate the ceebeejays. they are a joke of an organization. atlanta has improved since they came back to the league. minnesota has made a deep playoff run and even won a division title. what have they done since they have been in the league (and why is this relevant to this thread)? the colorado avalanche had 95 points to end the season with 44 wins. my avs were beaten by the [expletive] ceebeejays TWICE. those two wins equalled 4 points. the wild won the division with 98 points and 44 wins. they picked up one point at the end of the season by getting into a shootout with the avs. that last game could literally have been made insignificant if we would have won both of those games. it is also significant in other ways. we have not been a particularly good road team this year, nor have we scored on the red wings this season. so i think that if the avalanche are going to make a deep playoff run, it will be one of the hardest roads taken should the avs beat the wild and chalk plays out the rest of the way. so not only do i hate the ceebeejays because they [expletive] suck, they probably cost my avs from getting to the conference finals at least, let alone the first round.

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depends on two things that we don't know until gametime. if edgar sosa plays within his game and doesn't let the crowd in his head and doesn't forget that he's edgar sosa, and if terrance williams takes smart shots, i think we may have a similar game to what we had last time. it's going to be a grind-it-out game and if we play smart basketball, we can win this thing. (if you haven't noticed, i have no confidence in edgar as a point guard. pitino needs to move him to the 2 position for all of our sakes.)

Not sure why you're counting the loss at Vandy against them. Losses at Houston, and against UAB are easily worse than that. Vandy's a tourney team. It's not just that they lost to Vandy, but in the fashion that they lost to them. exactly. losing to vanderbilt by 5 in nashville is one thing. getting smoked by vandy by 41 points at the end of the year is something completely significant. that's why i said that the gap betweeen kentucky and the next team needs to be very large. things like losing by 41 points is not going to help matters any if its close. we have a local sports host who works some espn college broadcasts. he is privy to some of the information that the selection committee uses to choose the other 34 teams. he said that the selection committee doesn't make cases FOR teams, they make cases AGAINST teams. it may not be fair, but losses to gardiner-webb, san diego and by 41 points at vandy are going to make a strong case against.

if it's close kentucky is not getting in. you had best hope that in a choice between uk and another team, the gap is so wide, los angeles looks like a suburb of new york. uk has three factors against them: 1. gardiner-webb at rupp 2. san diego at rupp 3. at vanderbilt all losing patterson did was just make gettting getting in harder. in my opinion, you weren't getting in anyway. and that's college basketball observer talking, not louisville fan.

i am not a kentucky fan. i don't care what anybody says. i want kentucky to go winless every season, even if it kills our strength of schedule. having said that, i feel insulted as a fan of basketball by the end of that game. wtf was kentucky doing WALKING the ball up court with around 90 seconds left to play and wtf were they thinking jacking up threes when the could have done better by getting a quick 2 and playing defense? that was not a very smart ending of the game and there was no sense of urgency in the team at all. well, up until there was 10 seconds on the shot clock. there goes your season (officially). i really can't see this team with that basketball iq level even making it in the field of 64 in 2 weeks.

I don't understand how they aren't in the top 10. Heck they might be top 5. They are going to be a very tough out in the tournament. Oh and Harrangody, I am sure I butchured that name, is awesome. 40 and 17 as a sophomore against David Padgett. answer: senior david padgett went down in the second game to a fractured kneecap. senior juan pelacios was out with a severly sprained ankle. sophomore derrick caracter was suspended BY THE TEAM for violating team rules for a game against purdue and has essentially been in the doghouse since that game (which we lost by the way in conseco for the wooden tradition). as a result of that we have losses to byu (in the las vegas invitiational), dayton and purdue out of conference. we lost to cincy and at uconn and seton hall in conference. what hurt our national perception was that byu loss. we had no real inside presence and also no senior leadership. we lost that game at the end. same thing with purdue. no senior leadership and no inside game. we had earl clark (5) playing the center position when he is more of a slasher. dayton was pretty much the same thing- no senior leadership. cincy was david's first or second game back and we lost the game late. seton hall was just one of those crazy games where one player was going out of his mind hitting shots. uconn is just uconn at home. i would say that of our 6 losses, 4 of them would not have happened had everyone been healthy and we would have been at least number 2 or 3 before the seton hall game. i'm not talking as wild and crazy unrealistic cardinal fan here, and i'm pretty realist-to-pessimsist on my team. i think we really are that good.

luke can have the points, i'll take the win thankyouveddymuch. that win just clinched a first round bye in the monstrous east tournament. we now have an extremely good chance of winning the conference outright in only our 3rd year of being in the big east.

as a louisville fan, i am much more concerned about georgetown than i am notre dame. not that i'm overlooking nd, but what i'm looking at is a combination of two things- nd's offense and our defense. other than seton hall, our defense has made good shooting teams look very bad. normally when our defense isn't there we don't win games (see seton hall) and we just beat pitt with our offense at pitt. other than bombing the hell out of the ball, i think louisville beats nd by 5. we are a very good home team when healthy and our two losses to dayton and cincy at home came when david padgett was out (vs. day) and on his second game back (vs. cin). gtown concerns me more because they are going to have a second crack at us in a highly charged environment, senior day on the road. and seeing our shooting-forced-to-be-point guard edgar sosa in that arena scares me, and not in a good way. i think that we win vs. nd and villanova and a toss-up on the road at georgetown, it depends on how early padgett has to sit because of foul trouble and how terrance williams is playing that day. if louisville wins out in the regular season, i say that we would have sewed up at least a 3 seed and if we make the big east semis we possibly get a 2. win it all, we definitely should get a 2 but i wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a 4- the ncaa has this strange obsession with underseeding us and sending us west.

i don't have a problem with the third/alternate jersey program. i pretty much like them all except for the reds. i know that they are only there just to make more money- baseball is one of those sports where the color of the jersey you are wearing doesn't mean anything and the home and road teams could both be in white, so it doesn't bother me. i could be convinced in buying another teams' alternate if it looked good, and the only team that i have a passion for is the chicago cubs. i have a deep seeded hatred of the southsiders and i would have no problem buying their black alternate. besides, if the teams are going to authorize the production of designer jerseys and fashion jerseys by other companies, not having a third jersey doesn't make any sense. both designs are "official" but one isn't worn during games. count me in as one of those who liked the blue jersey, not only because it was something different, but because it just plain looked good. some teams can pull if off without a hitch. some teams obviously can't (see orioles in all orange, phillies in all maroon, cleveland in all red and pittsburgh in all yellow). if the cubs went 162 games wearing the blue tops it wouldn't bother me one bit. seriously.

we're close enough to cincy that we have skyline sold in stores as well as having a few freestanding skyline restaurants around. i won't call it disgusting, but i'm not calling it the best chili ever. closer to the bottom of the list. i'd rather have a few large wendy's chili's if i had to go out and buy some.

we are the reds aaa affiliate. i expect to see a lot of reds pitchers on rehab assignments over the next few years at louisville slugger field. dusty baker was the absolute worst thing to happen to homer bailey's career.

it's their own fault that miller park is wrigley north. the team doesn't sell itself well in the community and everyone knows that when there is an opportunity, cub nation will take over and make you a visitor in your own ballpark (see turner field, atlanta 2003). if given the opportunity bush stadium could become wrigley south. quite often cincinnati becomes wrigley central. if they don't like being the cubs b!tch, be a better team and beat us then.

unfortunately not in chicago. or anywhere close to where i am. it's in st. petersburg. if i have to see my team i would prefer cincy because it's right down the road and it's not much of a hassle, but this is where vacation time lays so it is what it is. and depending on the current situation in open wheel racing (not gonna comment on it here. those who follow it know what i'm talking about) i may be forced to change my plans to go from cleveland to tampa. anyone know how much tickets would be for the series and what hotel rates are in the tampa bay area? (and if this is in the wrong section, someone please move it to where it should be)