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I want to point out that unless your cable company has real terrible HD signal, you should get infinitely better HD quality with Cable. Both Cable and Direct TV (and any satellite provider for that matter) compress the HD signal a bit but Direct TV does it far far worse and because of it (unless your cable provider is absolutely horrid or you are in an area where the cable isn't using updated technology such as fiber optics) the HD picture quality on cable is superior (that may change in a few months when direct tv puts up a new satellite that is supposed to up its HD capacity) but right now if you like HD picture quality than Cable is 100 times greater (with about a 2% exception).

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 11:11 AM) Isnt Iowa barely above .500? Ya, only a few games over. That said we still have a shot at 20 wins if we have a nice tourney.

New poll out...FSU to 5, CSUF up to 7 and Rex's Evansville squad re-enters the rankings at 25. And Palehose's Tarheels remain the #1 ranked team in the country.

Wow...according to Lunardi both Purdue and Illinois get in and Michigan would get in before Iowa would (that I don't agree with) and yes damn it I got to say something about Iowa.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 08:21 AM) Next year Cunningham will be on that list. Book it. He is a stud and it would not surprise me to see him put up a .300, 20 HR, 20 SB line this year with a fair amount of walks. He will be our next outfield stud. I tend to agree.

I agree 100% with what Kalapse said. The reality is this sucks for baseball fans, but this isn't something the government should be sticking its nose in either (even though if the package came back to cable I would be happy, I also know it wouldn't be for the right reasons). I guess I'll be getting the mlb.tv platinum this week. On the bright side I'll get to catch a few games while I'm at work but the thing that dissapoints me is I won't be able to tivo games becuase the only way to watch replay will be go to onto the site and somehow see the score (and I hate doing that).

QUOTE(Felix @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 05:30 PM) Anyone here follow college baseball a fair amount? I went to a Gopher game today (free admission, first row above Gopher dugout ), and it seems like a few friends and I are going to try going to these games regularly.. it's pretty fun to see free baseball (especially since I grabbed a bunch of free ticket vouchers for the rest of the year). Anyway, I'm looking for some sites that are pretty good for information on college baseball. Anyone have any? Baseballamerica.com They usually have quite a bit of free reading on college baseball and obviously some of it is pay. I follow it relatively closely than most but I'm not an expert by any means. I'll watch the games when I see them on ESPN and will go to the Fullerton games where we play other top schools (such as against Rice this weekend) where we took 2 out of 3 and should move up in the rankings as a result. We have a Sunday starter that is looking like a potential All Freshman Team Candidate in Sean Urena. Another good place is your schools website, they'll probably have good info on the Gopher players. I know in the past you guys have made it to the tourney and I think a couple years ago we knocked you out (back when you had Perkins).

Marky Boy...hope it was an awesome bday

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Mar 3, 2007 -> 01:03 PM) #2 UCLA falls at Washington. Took Washington enough time to wake up. They are one of the most talented teams in the country and I doubt they go dancing. THe Pac 10 is so good and yes, Washington >>>> every team in the Big Ten aside from OSU and Wisconsin (thats how good the pac 10 is this year). I want the Bulls to draft Horford.

I hope Iowa wins the tourney just to ensure that the Illini don't get in. Its a joke that the big ten may actually get 5 teams in. And no I don't think Iowa deserves a bid either, nor does Purdue or Illinois (albeit both deserve a bid more so than Iowa) and I have my doubts about MSU but they'll probably get one (thanks to having a big time win). Illinois, Iowa, and Purdue should be NIT bound. Funny thing is this year has been a second consecutive very very good coaching job by Alford because he got everything he could out of this quad.

Whooo...Cal State Fullerton takes 2 out of 3 against the #5 ranked Rice Owls.

Haeger has a really good knuckler and I liked what I saw of Danks and Gio. Garland was solid as well.

Ya, WGN at 12 my time so 2 central time.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 05:55 PM) The Rangers held a $4M team option for the '08 season, if they're about to give him $15M a year to keep him around for the next 6 years then I doubt they would have had much trouble paying him $4M to stick around for 2008. The soonest he would have hit free agency would have been after the '08 season. I've been served. I don't know why I was thinking he was an unrestricted FA. It must have been from all the trade proposals talking about teams picking him up that I assumed it was because he was due to be a FA. That said I fully agree that is a lot of money to give Young.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 09:21 AM) SI is reporting that the Rangers are close to a multi-year deal with Shortstop Michael Young, which could be worth around $90 million for 6 years. Dag nab it, I figured if we would sign anyone to a fat contract next year in FA it would be Michael Young.

Maddux is awesome.

Cause I just say....and I know its about 2 days late....damn you Penn State...Damn you Penn State.

If the rumor involves Kenny and a girl that rumor is flat 100% bull.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 02:17 PM) If information comes out concerning McCarthy's attitude, and our management's displeasure with it, it makes me wonder about future young talent on this ballclub. Will we be patient with a potential superstar if he doesn't get along with our manager, or other teammates? How would we have handled Delmon Yountg throwing a bat at an umpire? I'm not willing to believe Williams traded Brandon because of his attitude alone, but you have to imagine it factored in. I know with 100% certainty that Williams was and still is a huge fan of McCarthy.

Wow...awesome story.

Fantastic news. Both JA and Lovie are here for a while. JA here till 2013 while Lovie is signed till 2012 (it was a 4 year extension, but he also has this year left on his contract). I knew the media was blowing smoke like usual and the two sides agreed and voila!!!!

Based on what I've come to expect this was flat out a horrible episode. It was meh on a tv show basis but for lost this was just bad. The show is losing a lot of its luster and this is coming from someone who hasn't had that feeling until recently. They may have things spread too far out right now (so many key characters that its hard to develop them) but I'm just flat out not the biggest fan of them dedicating entire episodes to 1 or 2 characters at the most.

Haha, I really enjoyed the episode. They have done such an outstanding job developing the characters and it was just cool seeing the updates as to what is going on in the rest of the world. I'm also real interested in what goes on with Hawkins because right now I'm totally miffed on whether he was on the inside trying to prevent the bombing or if he is flat out a bad guy that somehow had a change of heart right at the end. Jericho >>> Lost Afterall, Lost hasn't been near as good since the break (i'd think they would have started the 2nd half of there series with some power episodes to get people resunk but it just hasn't happened).

I like Russel a lot. I actually think he has a chance to emerge into a middle of the rotation to semi front line starter this season. This is going to be a huge year for Adam.

I'm thinking this is the episode that fully re-sinks Lost fans back into the show.