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i was just jokin around, this board would be chaos without begoods weekly fantasy football poll.

that is over 2000 posts of useless junk that other members had to read

:finger smoking and btw BEGOOD what does Raley mean?

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well ozzies in town today for the cubs marlins series i wouldnt be surprised if he got interviewed yesterday or today or even tomarrow.

i dont like this at all everything is going the cubs way, i cant see them losing, damn i have a bad feeling about this year :finger :fthecubs

he did alright and wouldnt tejadas kids not understand that symbol and just think he was celbrating

Jordan could get the call to replace Kobe October 7, 2003 AFP - Oct 7, 2:25 pm EDT More Photos CHICAGO (AFP) - Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson admits he has thought about asking one of his former players, Michael Jordan, to come out of retirement if Kobe Bryant is unable to play in the upcoming season. "It has crossed my mind," Jackson said. "But I don't think I would ask Michael that question until it became absolutely necessary or it became a reality. It's just speculation." Jordan, 40, played under Jackson on six championship teams with the Chicago Bulls . Jordan retired for the third time last April after the Washington Wizards failed to make the National Basketball Association play-offs. Bryant faces charges of sexual assault and faces a Thursday hearing in Eagle, Colorado. He is probably going to sit out of two pre-season exhibition games against Golden State in Hawaii, where the Lakers are training. The Lakers added Karl Malone and Gary Payton to a lineup that already featured dominating center Shaquille O'Neal and backcourt playmaker Bryant, whose absence would dim the club's hopes of a fourth NBA crown in five years. But the Lakers, ousted in last year's playoffs by eventual champion San Antonio, would be in a solid position for a title run if Jordan replaced Bryant in the backcourt. Jordan's two-year stint with the Wizards showed that time has weakened some of the skills that made him one of the game's all-time greats. But together with what amounts to an all-star lineup, Jordan could fill a key void.

Your not supposed to tell people who you voted for.

smith...just to piss you off :begood

yes

i tried to use the calender at the top of the page to put all my fantasy draft dates in and it says i cant use it because i am not logged in...do i need to make a new account for that or was that just an error?

bosox

I have a pending transaction for lebron, no one else try to get him or ill be pissed. i am glad i got my fav player though, Jason Kidd, i ranked him #1 i think kidd and lebron will make an awsome pair of guards.

me too, i liked him when he was with oakland and when we got him i was so happy, i waited in line for his autograph for 2 hours at soxfest and he is still one of the favorite guys on the team.

from whitesox.com Koch hopes to rebound in 20004 CHICAGO -- Here is the lowdown on Billy Koch and his dismal 2003 season. The 28-year-old closer packed up his 98 mph fastball, 44 saves and American League Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award from 2002 and brought them to Chicago in exchange for White Sox closer Keith Foulke. Somewhere along the way, Koch apparently got his luggage mixed up with someone whose fastball topped out in the low to mid-90s and had trouble, at times, finding the strike zone or retiring an opposing hitter. Aside from a stellar Spring Training, there was very little sign of Koch's old high heat. Koch was never a closer in the mold of Los Angeles' Eric Gagne, where 1-2-3 innings on 10 or 11 pitchers were the rule rather than the exception. But allowing 59 hits and 28 walks over 53 innings, leading to a 5.77 ERA, was a bit on the extreme side even for the White Sox's version of "The Wild Thing." To Koch's credit, the competitive intensity never disappeared. It was commonplace for the reliever to arrive six or seven hours before game time and go over tape with pitching coach Don Cooper to figure out what was missing. Was it a change in his delivery? Was it too much focus on finding those missing miles on his fastball, something Koch gave up on after returning from an August trip to the disabled list for a sore elbow? So many hours of research, so few answers. Then, like a lightning bolt in a fall thunderstorm, Koch finally figured out the problem late in the season. It had nothing to do with arm angle or release points. The answer came from a set of pillars in his house, but no, they didn't fall on his right arm during the offseason. They were of the rare evil pillars variety. "We had a new interior designer come into our new house and he absolutely dropped dead, pretty much saying, "What are those things on your TV?'" said Koch, explaining the origin of the troubles. "My wife said that they were designer pillars she had purchased. Supposedly, they are cursed and bring bad fortune to your household. "The designer said he would bring in the book to show what they were all about and show us the curse," Koch added. One more fact should be known about Koch before going on with this story. He's a bit eccentric. This is the same player who went sliding along the tarp in full uniform, through a torrential downpour, during a July rain delay at U.S. Cellular Field. He's often known to shout out less than encouraging instructions to the media in the clubhouse and can be heard yelling over the top of television interviews conducted with teammates a couple of cubicles down. All for the sake of clubhouse entertainment, trying to keep a loose atmosphere even in the most troubling of times. Koch also delivered a plate full of shaving cream to Esteban Loaiza's face after the team's final home game Sept. 24, as he was doing a postgame interview following his 20th victory. So, hearing Koch blame his troubles this season on cursed pillars evokes thoughts of a practical joke on unsuspecting but erstwhile journalists played by one of the White Sox' more media-savvy players. But Koch continued on with the story, with stone-cold seriousness in his face and voice. OK, maybe there was a hint of mischievousness along the way. "My wife bought those pillars last September, and I had a terrible September," Koch said. "Then, I've had a terrible year (in 2003) pitching wise. Every time my wife planned to come visit this season, she got ridiculously sick before she came. She ended up missing five trips. "The one trip where she was healthy, she was in the subway and my youngest daughter got her arm caught in the elevator. "You know what, I believe it," Koch added with a smile. "It cursed my household, and I got those things out of there. I didn't give up a run after they were gone." The official record needs to indicate that Koch pitched one-third of an inning since getting rid of the pillars. He retired the Yankees' Aaron Boone on a pop-up late in the second to last home game. A search on the Internet for the words "cursed pillars" doesn't really turn up anything concrete. Adding in the words "Billy Koch's house" doesn't provide much help. But Koch is determined to regain the form with which he saved 144 games over the past four years leading up to 2003, posting a 3.48 ERA while striking out 265 in 305 1/3 innings. Getting rid of the pillars, if nothing else, could be a mind- and soul-cleansing event. "This season was disappointing, to say the least," Koch said. "This is not what (White Sox general manager) Kenny (Williams) traded for. This is not what (former manager) Jerry (Manuel) and the coaching staff expected to see. "I assure you that nobody is more disappointed than myself. It's not from lack of effort because I bust my tail every day, giving it everything I have. But the chips didn't fall my way, so I'm going back to the drawing board." Koch is signed through the 2004 season and is scheduled to make $6.375 million, meaning he will be back with the White Sox. Koch not only intends to return, but he has his sights set on regaining his closer's job, lost on the Fourth of July after giving up a walk-off, three-run home run to Carl Crawford in Tampa Bay. Intense offseason workouts will be the staple of Koch's regimen, which may include putting a mound in the backyard of his spirit-free house. The right-hander also works out at Toronto's training complex in Florida, leading him to one more plan of desperation. If the pillar removal doesn't solve his problems, cloning Cy Young candidate Roy Halladay is not out of the question. But there's hope for Koch. Foulke went from an also-ran in the White Sox bullpen during the 2002 season to one of the A's most valuable cogs and infinitely reliable closer during their current drive for the World Series. "I expect a great season next year," Koch said. "I expected one this season and it didn't happen. It's a matter of working hard, even though I worked hard all this year and it didn't work out. But I want to show Chicago fans why Kenny went out and got me."

Hurt you posted that at 9:30 werent you supposed to be in school

its the end of the world as we know it and i dont feel fine

i want the marlins to win it all but i just have a bad feeling about this all.

if the cubs win this game i have a bad feeling they can beat the marlins in the NLCS, i am pretty sure they wont beat the AL team in the world series but you never know. :fyou :finger :fthecubs :finger :fyou

you cant have two f***ing cheater

i clicked no and it didnt work...damn thing :fyou

this sucks

uh oh there are 11 teams and we need an even #, someone needs to join and fast