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If Aramis looks like he might be out for a few days, I'd imagine they'll bring Moore up from AAA, so I'm not too concerned with the lack of middle infielders. At any rate, I'm just happy we don't have 8 second basemen on the roster (yet) 8 starting pitchers maybe but at least that could actually help.

I have to think that the first class of HOF'ers doesn't count in that unanimous voting thing. I mean, who WOULDN'T vote for Ruth, Cobb, Mathewson, Wagner, or Walter Johnson?? Wasn't there some idiot who refused to vote for anyone on the first ballot? Clarence Thomas?

This is the one and only reason why I don't want a College Football playoff. The rankings don't matter as they mean nothing in College Basketball until the very last one.

I'm sure he feels one way but the market could feel another. Reading what you wrote about Marquis not even making the playoff roster and still getting a big paycheck really makes me feel uneasy. I hope Mr. Hendry and Rothschild are right about this.

That might be true, but I'm not sure that Ohio State will score 10 points more than anybody has scored on Florida all year. Their defense is pretty darn good. I agree and they might execute or disguise things better than the other teams OSU have faced this year.

I think the market is going to slow until next off season. He should have made the cash when he had the chance IMO. If he had the chance.

I just wish San Clemente Fan would post more often.

I think sometimes we don't really know who the saints are who who the sinners are. When you have one guy who looks like he never worked out in his entire life, and another who never had a major injury in his entire career, odds are they never used. Steroids, maybe not. Antphetamines or the like who really knows. Of course in Gwynns case it may have been twinkees.

I think sometimes we don't really know who the saints are who who the sinners are.

I, too agree with this statement, but you also have to take into account the finanical obligations of the wood .v. alum bats. HS are not going to look at the how much safer a wooden bat is, compare to an alum bat, they are going to see the $$$ they can save by going with alum bats. Alum bats hardly breaks, meaning a HS can go yrs without having to get new bats, but wooden bats can break at anytime of any game. So, as much as I like the idea of HSers using wooden bats, alot of HS/colleges just don't think it is finanically responsible. I would disagree---cause I've been hit in the face with a line drive off an alum bat---but that is what they think. I have yet to see a HS kid use the school bought alum bat in all my years of coaching. I use one as one of my fungo bats. I love wooden bats and my kids always practice with them because of many of the points mentioned. The biggest fault I can find using a wooden bat to practice with is that a lot of kids get one that is too heavy and have to drag it into the zone thus throwing off their mechanics.

The point I am trying to make, perhaps not so wel is this: If the Cubs actually find a time share partner for Murton I think it is a poor use of recources. People can call it what they like, I don't really care. To me the big question is, what are the Cubs going to do about CF if JJ is traded? I don't think Pie is ready. I think it would depend on who JJ was traded for.

There's always room for Macias. bite your tongue...and by the way is this you?http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f350/yetiman1210/dump.jpg[/img] Just more proof that Macias is quite the player!

Didn't Cal have a 0.00 era? I wonder how he compares to the other great SS's? Sorry the era in which he played. Better? I was just teasing about the usage of era! Who do you consider to be the best ever SS's?

I like Aramis Ramirez and Derrek Lee's production. They are a direct result of Bobby Hill and Hee Seop Choi so I wdon't find it depressing at all. The only bothersome part would be Don Baylor's choice to keep Jason Bere in the rotation over Juan Cruz. Wow, Jason Bere. Now there's a name you shouldn't bring up in mixed company. . . or at all for that matter. Ha, I actually thought I would get hammered more for bringing up Don Baylor. Luckily Dusty made most of us forget about the damage Don did. Just to prove....yes, it can always get worse.

Didn't Cal have a 0.00 era? I wonder how he compares to the other great SS's?

Yeah, I was thinking OSU 31 Florida 17 or 14 with Florida taking an early lead. But, if the OSU QB struggles and in any game things can happen, this could turn out the exact opposite. For some reason I get this feeling the Gators have something up their sleeve and OSU may not have an answer for it until it's too late. I would like to see a good game most of all.

15 minutes of fame...pretty good title!

Well the big game is tonight, who's going to win? I think Trussel does a wonderful job of preparing and that will be the difference IMO, that and execution of course. I'm curious to see what new wrinkles the coaches are going to throw in today.

Unforutnately, you and Mike Tranghese are the only people who feel this way. Fine with me. If they'd lost to Michigan, they'd have had no argument to be in ahead of Michigan, and if they'd lost to ND, then they'd have lost their only real non-conference game. No, won the conference out right is what I mean, like Louisville did.

Michigan State regularly goes to bowls?!?!? And Toledo usually goes to a bowl because they play in the MAC and finish 7-5 or 8-4 every year. I'm more impressed by the team that plays one really hard game than 3 pretend-hard games and 2 duds. So a good MAC, middle of the road Big 10 and usually upper level ACC team stink but one very good team and 3 AA teams are better? Let's also add that by including Arkansas you now have 2 bowl out of conference teams that the top 4 SEC teams played during the regular season and one lost 50-14. Yeah, that proves you're the best. If we expand it to Tennessee, then you've got a trouncing of a good Pac 10 team. And, you're being awfully selective about this year. In previous years, Auburn has played USC, LSU has played Arizona St, Florida has played Miami and does play (a usually very good) Florida State every year. If you look ahead to next year, Auburn plays Oregon St and USF, and then they play WVU in 2008. LSU plays Virginia Tech and Middle Tennessee State (hey look out they went to a bowl this year!), Alabama plays @F$U, so does Florida; Tennessee goes to Cal and also plays Southern Miss and Northern Illinois; Georgia plays GT and Oklahoma St; Arkansas (admittedly) plays four duds. Still, I'm guessing this is just as tough as what the Big East will do OOC in 2007. This year is the point. Who knows what next year will bring. Tennessee usually plays the toughest SEC non conference schedule out of the top SEC teams. My whole point which has shifted off center, is that Louisville played in a conference that was among the top if not thee top in 2006. With this, they got no consideration to play in the BCS Championship game. None once since they lost 1 game. Yet, Michigan and Florida are the only ones considered for the big game. The Big East earned respect by their play in 2006 and then proved it in the bowls but yet get dissmissed by the people in power and most writers/fans from the Big 10,SEC and Big 12 Conferences. Heck, Texas has to lose twice before they get knocked out and if Oklahoma had one loss they would have been a team that got considered. This automatic assumption that since the Big East is equal to all the other non BCS conferences and not to the level of the big 3 is what bothers me, this out of hand without looking at it dismissal. I had no problem with USC getting it, none, if they had 1 loss because they would have proved it in their conference and out of conference. How would you feel if Penn State won the Big 10 and went through the same thing Louisville went through? A "hey, you're in the top 5 or 7 in the land, you should be happy with it" or "you had a nice season but..."

Michigan State regularly goes to bowls?!?!? And Toledo usually goes to a bowl because they play in the MAC and finish 7-5 or 8-4 every year. I'm more impressed by the team that plays one really hard game than 3 pretend-hard games and 2 duds. So a good MAC, middle of the road Big 10 and usually upper level ACC team stink but one very good team and 3 AA teams are better? Let's also add that by including Arkansas you now have 2 bowl out of conference teams that the top 4 SEC teams played during the regular season and one lost 50-14. Yeah, that proves you're the best. Michigan State is not a middle of the road Big 10 team. They finished 10th this year, 9th last year, 6th in '04, 5th in '03, and 9th in '02. They've made one bowl game in five years. Minnesota is a middle of the road Big 10 team; Michigan State is in the bottom third. Virginia? 7th this year, 9th last year, 4th in '04, 4th (of 9) in '03, 3rd (of 9) in '02. That smells a lot more like a middle of the road ACC program to me, especially since that's what they've been since the arrival of Miami/F$U/BC. And Toledo might be a pretty good MAC team most years, but this year they sure weren't. So now tell me of what wonderful things Utah St, SE Mo St and Lou-Monroe have done? Also, when these contracts/shedules are signed it is years in advance.

I just saw on ESPN while watching M & M that Estes just signed a minor league deal with the Padres. No matter what you think of the guy he did step up and pitch a great game to help the Cubs get into the playoffs. All the other missle launching games didn't help I know but that one game was nice.

Michigan State regularly goes to bowls?!?!? And Toledo usually goes to a bowl because they play in the MAC and finish 7-5 or 8-4 every year. I'm more impressed by the team that plays one really hard game than 3 pretend-hard games and 2 duds. So a good MAC, middle of the road Big 10 and usually upper level ACC team stink but one very good team and 3 AA teams are better? Let's also add that by including Arkansas you now have 2 bowl out of conference teams that the top 4 SEC teams played during the regular season and one lost 50-14. Yeah, that proves you're the best.

So which non-conference schedule are you more impressed by? vs Virginia vs Michigan State vs Toledo vs Citadel @ UCF or vs USC vs Utah St vs SE Missouri St vs UL-Monroe :?: The top one as at least 3 of them regularly go to bowls. Let's look at Cincy's: E. Kentucky Ohio State Virginia Tech Miami (O) Akron

You have to read the content of what was written. You don't seem to be rational, listen...you mentioned top 25. OK, I'll write it again, Top 25. If Pitt....SFlorida.....Cincy play crappy AA teams they would undefeated and be in the Top 25 like Missouri was and the statement was that a SEC team played 6 bowl teams (ALL WITHIN IT'S OWN CONFERENCE). That was the rational. We are not talking about the bowl games at this point as I was talking about the regular season. Did you read the post? 2 of the 6 teams weren't even from the SEC. And like I just said, USF and Pitt both played terrible non-cons, losing to awful Kansas and awful Michigan State respectively. Cincinnati might've been able to crack the Top 25 had they not lost to Pitt at home, and yesterday they barely beat the 3rd best team in the MAC in their bowl game. They simply were not as good as Auburn or Tennessee. So Kansas and Michigan St are crappy AA teams now? Which of these powerhouses Utah St, SE Mo St, Lou-Monroe that Arkansas played made a bowl to make it 2?