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QUOTE(MinnesotaSoxFan @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 10:37 AM) He should go with the "Expect the worse, Hope for the best" plan. It's just like someone having sex for the first time. It would be more satisifying to have bad expectations and then get blow away by something or You go in there with great expectations and you will be dissapointed if something comes up a little short. But don't take my word on it. I can't help but

Awesome stuff as always Statman.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 01:33 AM) Once they started to find the soft spot in the zone they looked awesome offensively. Randle had a really nice game. He FINALLY started to drive to the basket again instead of chucking up outside shots. Basically every time he drove it resulted in a dunk, layup, assist, or foul. That's what he needs to do on a nightly basis. Also, McBride finally put the orange thing in the hoop on a consistent basis. We let Iowa back in the game again at the very end with stupid turnovers, but made enough free throws to hang on. Needed that win for sure, phew. Without Randle you guys would have been toast. Damn, it would have been nice to have that road win. QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 07:35 AM) Offensively, he is far more skilled than Oden IMO. Durant >>> Oden right now at basketball. Of course Oden plays a tougher position and has all the skill sets so he'll be the #1 pick, but a team will be getting an absolute superstar when they draft Durant.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 07:16 PM) I wouldn't care if they were a bad team. But for a while I thought they had the players and talent to hang with any team. I still believe that, but I'm starting to think they might be one impact player short. They just don't have the finishers on the club right now, and they still haven't figured out that you need to win on the road every so often. We took advantage of a soft schedule but have again had trouble closing out good teams. We should have a couple more wins and I am dissapointed we didn't get those wins because upper echelon teams do that and right now we are basically teetering between being a good team and an upper echelon team. We are in the East so obviously we have a chance, but I still don't consider us upper echelon until we consistently beat both good teams and light up on the bad ones.

I don't think this is a shock. He's no longer good enough to be the star of European soccer, but he's still enough of a star and good enough to be the entire face of MLS. I think the hope was that Freddy Adu could develop into that but he's vastly over-rated at this stage of his career (so is Beckham, but thats another debate) and Adu will be doing the right thing and heading to Europe in a couple years (he wants to go at 18, but I can't possibly seeing him be ready; at least Adu will get playing time now that he's in Salt Lake City). So is Beckham's entire contract >>>> entire payroll of MLS soccer?

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 08:59 AM) I am not ashamed to admit I like that show. I'd like to see them switch the genders though. Have hot guys and nerdy girls. Although, knowing guys, they would probably still get with the nerdy girls given no other options. So maybe it wouldn't work. . . Thats cause nerdy girls can be really hot. So you are probably right about the guys. Still I don't see why they wouldn't consider changing it up for a season just as a change of pace.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Jan 11, 2007 -> 09:01 AM) Little trivia (side note) did you know that Baywatch was the first show to have closed captions? I guess it makes sense cause I'm sure millions of people had that show on mute while they watched it.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 01:27 PM) I had the biggest crush on the pink ranger from the Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger series growing up. Of course, I think any kid who watched the show did. Good old Amy Jo Johnson.

Anna Nicole Smith and Pam Anderson. Never was a huge fan of either (I'm talking about there hay-days too). Anna was always a bit big for me while Pam was pretty good looking but I don't think she was near as pretty as a lot of other girls, she just happened to be running on the beach a lot (ah what a classic show).

I admit, I caught an episode of Beauty and the Geek last week and it was absolutely hillarious. First time I had ever seen it, but the concept leads to great TV.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 10:57 PM) I listen to mine at work for about 4 hours a day, and so does everybody else (shows how productive we are). I think my productivity increases with music.

Jack is awesome. I may wait a couple weeks though so I build up a collection in my DVR so I can run through them relatively quickly.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 10:57 PM) well, i don't really know what you were expecting then. and also,recently i gave domino the prize of being the worst directed major movie of all time. I don't think its story gives it worst of all time but it is also bad. I think at one point i counted 21 cuts in 25 seconds. IT is the most obnoxious thing i've ever seen. It gives me motion sickness. Ugh, i think i only continued watching because it was on HBO and because i wanted to see what else i could laugh at. Tony scott is f***ing awful. This is the same reason i hated man on fire. The man couldn't do an extended take if you threatened to cut his finger off. Wow, Man on Fire is such an awesome action movie. You are the first person I've ever heard knock it.

I started bringing my ipod into work again (stopped doing it a couple months back) and I forgot how nice it is to listen to music/podcasts while I work.

That secondary description fits what I've heard about Rasner. Basically a guy that is really projectable. Whether he'll develop the secondary stuff and add velocity (which many scouts think he can do) we'll have to see. But the guy has some ability.

Can you post the snippets from Rogers? I never saw that.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 02:36 PM) now, i would never need this for, well through college, but in my mind, if i was in the market for a blackberry, why would i not pay 50 extra bucks for this? Considering it would replace your ipod as well this would be pretty nifty. Plus I'm sure prices would come down a bit.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 10:09 AM) When I think "athlete", that does not necessarily mean "skilled". Michael Jordan was a phenomenal athlete who sucked, for the most part, at baseball. But he was SUCH a phenomenal athlete that even without the individual skills he needed, he sort of got by in AA baseball. My point is NOT that Jerry Owens is anything near MJ in any way, shape or form. Its that athleticism can sometimes help to overcome specific skill deficiences. Owens seems to be a guy who they are hoping for exactly that. He has a lot of raw talent that may nor may not translate to the skills he needs, but that talent is strong enough that it might work (and, looking at his minor league career thus far, it is in fact working to some extent). The thing is, Jordan was not a good athlete baseball wise. Baseball athletism is different than other sports. It factors in having a rocket arm (bball players don't need that), great speed, tremendous power (bball players don't need this and this doesn't necessarily coincide with being strong, just look at Soriano who I'm sure is strong, but not near as strong as other guys, but he has tremendous power due to the swing speed and flat out mechanics of his swing). Jerry Owens has a piss poor arm, absolutely zero power. Basically he has good speed. Thats not what I call being an athlete in baseball. He is getting by because he's a decent player in the minor leagues (and there are zillions of those guys at every level and very few will ever play in the majors). The guy is absolutely nothing special and the only way for him to be special is if he ends up developing an absolutely beautiful swing and hitting for a high average. Now, Vladdy Guerro in the minors is what I'd call an athlete. Or Felix Pie (even though he's a bit over-rated). You are talking about guys whose stats may not stand out as they are getting by on athletism, but they have every single tool in the books (and you just have to hope that they will develop the baseball skills to put those tools to full use). Jerry Owens has one tool and one tool players rarely have success at the major league level (sometimes if your that good defensively at a position where defense is a major need...SS/C/CF or if you can hit 50 HR's, you will find a way to start or get a significant role playing job but otherwise you are pretty much screwed). Most teams have little desire for a fast backup outfielder that can't play any defense or hit (especially when his base running abilities are average at best which negatively impact his one tool). I hate to be overly harsh NS, but I think you are completely off on Owens and he's probably the one player I target more than anyone because I see too many people think he has this amazing skill set when in reality it couldn't be further from the truth (it was like people thinking highly of a kid named Miller because BA said he threw easy heat...turns out BA was full of crap and the guy topped out at 88-90 and eventually faded away).

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 10:54 AM) As does Lee Smith, in the Eddie Murray consistancy genre. Is Smith eligible already? I imagine he should be, but maybe I'm wrong, because the guy definitely deserves to be in the HOF (2nd most saves in baseball history). He was the steadiest closer of his time and aside from Rivera and Hoffman I can't name two other closers that were steadier ever.

Considering the market its not too bad of a move if they are fairly confident he can get healthy. The guy was one of the better left handed pitchers in all of baseball when healthy and is still relatively young. The Cards have money and I think this is a good move, especially since I think in 08 (if healthy) at 8 mill bucks you have a bargain. Of course by taking that chance you also have the risk that he stinks (but heck I'd rather have him than Ted Lilly or Gil Meche and those guys are getting more and already stink, even when healthy).

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 01:00 PM) Win or you might as well board up the Hall for the rest of the season. If you can't beat Iowa at home (I bet we're favored by around 10) after a losing streak like this...enough said. If we shoot with our eyes closed tonight we'll probly have a better % than we did against OSU. I want to see if Iowa comes out flat on the road. We all know how tough it is to play on the road in the Big 10, especially at Assembly Hall. Even with you guys struggling a bit, you are still a more talented team than my Hawkeyes (at least with the Hawkeyes still waiting for a consistent 3rd scorer). However, if Iowa plays like it did against MSU well we may just have a game. Too bad this thing isn't televised nationally cause I'd love to catch it. GO Hawkeyes!!!!!

Wow, I'm left speachless. I need to send a message to my Giant buddy. Ridiculous.

Big game for the Hawkeyes tonight against the vast majority of this boards Fightin Illini.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 09:10 AM) Oh man, Rhett Bomar is in my Raquetball class.. I think I am gonna give him crap about his OU shenanigans

Phenomenal athlete is what he is not. If Owens was a phenomenal athlete he'd be one of those 5 tool players and he would have been playing in the major leagues already. He's a good athlete in certain area's (weak arm and is not near as fast as some of you guys make him out to be...Willie Harris was fast and was three times the ball player Owens was and we saw what he did at the major league level).