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QUOTE(Felix @ Jan 21, 2007 -> 11:34 PM) I've been having trouble deciding who my next Bears jersey will be, and as much as I love the big names, I don't want to go with one of them. Maynard would actually be a pretty kickass jersey to get.. You need to be the first on your block sporting a #9 GOULD jersey, the guy is the best around he needs to be immortalized in fan-jersey form. Or if you want to be REAL cool you could get a #65 MANNELLY jersey and drive all the girls wild.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 21, 2007 -> 11:20 PM) Never. I'm still waiting to see someone with a Brad Maynard jersey, that guy will be my hero. Makes sense seeing as how that's the only jersey I own and I am heroic in many ways. #4 MAYNARD, I got it for my 19th birthday from my brother. Now that he's officially the sexiest man on the Bears I do expect the jersey to go up in value. I'll take a picture of it tonight.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jan 21, 2007 -> 11:16 PM) BTW, at the bar I was at today for the game, there was a guy with a Kyle Orton jersey. Did you kick him in the nuts? If not, you really should have. Speaking of the bearded wonder he looked incredibly puffy on the sideline today, I fully expected to see a bottle of Jack strapped to his hand but the camera never showed that angle.

I'm going to put the Bears at 8 point underdogs right off the bat.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 21, 2007 -> 06:38 AM) Very interesting piece from Peter Vecsey on the Bulls and Pau Gasol; Would you pull the trigger on that deal? Deng, Gordon and Brown for Gasol and Warrick. Don't forget also that Hakim Warrick was playing some pretty nice ball earlier on in the season too. Not a chance in hell, the second Gasol goes down with another injury the Bulls would be completely f***ed.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 20, 2007 -> 03:29 PM) Tyrus is actaully growing on me, never would have expected that. Gotta agree with you on that one. Of course Roy is playing well in Portland and Morrison is just as big of a b**** as we knew he would be so a few things are going right thus far. I didn't think I'd enjoy watching a 6-9 PF with no offensive game or basketball IQ but I have. The time he's on the floor is just fun to watch..

So what is the percentage of people picking against the Bears? 80-85%? Even at work today every damn person who decided to talk to me about th Bears (25-30 people) expressed doubt in a Bears victory most were outright picking the Saints to win. I never thought a team that went 13-3 during the regular season with a top 5 defense and a solid middle of the pack offense could be such large underdogs at home. It's insane.

It's distributed by Fox Atomic and it was that bad. You go into it expecting a 'slice 'em up' movie similar to 'Hostel' and you get a grand total of 1 gore scene which lasted a whole 5 minutes the other 85 minutes were filled with ridiculously long chase scenes through the Brazilian jungle and partying on the beach.

Turistas has got to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen, luckily I was expecting it to be terrible so I was able to enjoy a few cheap laughs at that piece of s***'s expense.

QUOTE(southsideirish @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 03:07 PM) I totally agree. He is 6'5" and has great hands. He will be drafted by an NFL team this year in the late rounds. He will get tryouts. He will be trying out for an NFL team next year or the following with 8 million bucks from teh Cubs in his pocket. Are you really naive enough to think the Cubs didn't cover their ass in the contract they gave him? The Cubs may be a poorly run franchise but they're not nearly dumb enough to guarantee $8M+ without a clause that would require him to return the money if he were to pursue a career in the NFL in the next 5 years. If Jeff does tank sometime in the next few years and heads off to football he'll be giving a good portion of that guaranteed money back to the Cubs.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 11:34 PM) Of course the original...no question! BTW, speaking of "originals"...check the original "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer! Intense, horrifying and Scary. It should have been on my list. I refuse to see the remake out of respect for the original, 'The Hitcher' is one of the first movies of its kind that I ever saw. The seen at the end with the semis was just insane, I probably shouldn't have seen it as an 8 year old.

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 07:36 PM) So, no one wants to laugh at that "dick" Sean Salisbury? I saw that like 2 weeks ago on Deadspin, it makes you wonder why Harold Reynolds was really fired.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 07:20 PM) I was just going by their rankings for the most part I understand that, tis why I edumacated your ass. You're welcome.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 06:34 PM) I wouldn't say they are clearly a MUCH better defense.. its the 11th ranked defense vs the 5th ranked defense.. Both of them pretty much give up the same amount of yards per game (294 to 307) and the ppg is only about a 4 point difference, its not like its lopsided in one direction here. If you want to talk about stuff being clearly much better, I would say the Saints offense is clearly much better than the Bears offense. With the Bears weak point being pass defense (Its still good, but they are better against the run) and the Saints being the #1 passing team in the league I wouldn't be shocked to see New Orleans win this game. Actually the Bears' pass defense is better than their run defense. The Bears have pretty brutal against the run on more than one occasion this year (Gore, Brown, Alexander, Barber, C. Taylor have all run rough shot over this D) with the loss of Mike Brown who is an outstanding run stopping SS and Tommie Harris who is a better pass rusher than run stopper but still does an excellent job getting to the running back, the Bears have had some serious trouble bringing down the runner. Just watching the Seahawks game they were having some serious problems stopping Alexander late in the game, it was getting pretty pathetic there. I don't know what the stats say and frankly I don't really care the Bears have been pretty good against the pass this season they may give up some yards but that has more to do with the bend don't break nature of the Cover 2 than anything else. They'll allow for the opponent to pick up 3-4 yards on a pass but they're going to immediately drop him, you'll rarely see the Bears give up big plays through the air that is saved for the running backs. At the end of the season with Tillman, Vasher and Todd Johnson went down they actually had Cameron Worrell and *gag* Devin Hester playing in the secondary at the same time this is a recipe for disaster seeing as how they're both terrible defensive players (studs on ST however) and will never see the field under normal circumstances. Now that Todd Johnson, Tillman and Vasher are all healthy and the D-Line being mostly in-tact with the exception of Harris (huge loss) I fully expect the Bears to give Brees and the Saints passing game lots of trouble on Sunday. McCallister on the other hand could be a problem given this Defense's history of giving up huge plays to big backs (they tend to get lackadaisical and stop wrapping up, instead they go for the big hit and end up bouncing off the back.)

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Jan 19, 2007 -> 06:19 PM) I don't know why I should be surprised by the overwhelming opinion of "experts" picking the Saints, but I am surprised by their reasoning, especially the constant knock on the Bears D. Yes, it's not as good as it was. But what about the Saints D? Seems to be overlooked in all the discussion. It used to be that you always picked the better defense in playoff time, and the Bears are clearly still a MUCH better defense than the Saints. Whatever, it will make the Bears 37-17 NFC victory all the sweeter. What's odd is how 'experts' are using the Saints 27-24 victory as a positive giving that as a reason why they'll beat the Bears but at the same time they use the Bears' 27-24 victory over the Seahawks as a negative and one of the reasons why they'll lose on Sunday. I really don't get it, the Bears' D gives up 24 points and suddenly they're bad but he Saints' D gives up 24 and they're on a roll, playing with intensity and have momentum going into Sunday's game. Talk about hypocrisy.

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 18, 2007 -> 09:40 AM) Boers and Bersie have had the BEST stance on this topic and the most well thought out. Yes it might bring "civic pride" to N.O. if they win, but it will not rebuild the city. It will not bring back the "chocolate city" the mayor wants. They can say it far more equivalently than I can, but that is the jist of their comments. Here's the segment you're talking about from a few days ago.

Wouldn't it seem about right for the to kill a cast member off tonight? It just seems like every time they do a gimmicky type episode it ends in a lot of drama like killing off the Cheers writer in the Sitcom episode.

QUOTE(Leonard Zelig @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 11:36 PM) Regarding the arbitration process: Does either side know what the other's offer is when they make their bid? Yes, mainly because there are negotiations on going following the end of the season on a one year contract if the 2 sides are unable to agree upon a number they submit what they think the player is worth to the arbitrator and even then after the numbers are submitted the 2 sides can still make an attempt to come to an agreement on a number somewhere in between the 2.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 09:54 PM) These shortened games are awesome. I already burned the Bears/SHawks game on a DVD but I'm doing the NFL Replay as well, the extra content is just outstanding, I love the NFL Films sideline audio.

QUOTE(MSHAWKS @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 08:10 PM) That is a one year exmple of WHIP and k/BB. Over the course of their careers, Zambrano's OPS against is 30 points lower than Oswalt's. And, as for sucking against the AL, those stats are for 9 games in the last three years. Zambrano is one of the five-ten best starters in baseball, certaintly better than Zito. And he's only 26 years old.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 07:21 PM) I seem to recall about 95% of writers predicting the Sox to win the Central. Indians: Jason Stark Perter Gammons Jerry Crasnick Eric Karabell Eric Neel Gary Gillette Mark Simon White Sox: Buster Olney Tim Kurkjian, Steve Phillips Jim Caple Pedro Gomez Phil Rogers Bob Klapisch, Alan Schwarz John Shea Sean McAdam Jim Callis Twins: Rob Neyer

This is just f***ing retarded, I have Comcast Sports Net on right now waiting for the Bulls game to start and Pat Boyle is going through the day's news. He gets to the Zambrano arbitration situation and mentions that Zambrano will be looking for a 6 year $100M contract, he didn't say 'in the neighborhood of' or anything like that he said it definitively. That makes no f***ing sense at all why the f*** would Zambrano settle for $16.67M per over 6 years when Zito just got $18M over 7 years ($126M)? 1 year and $26M less than what the inferior and 2 years older Zito got. If I'm Zambrano I'm not settling for anything less than $20M per over 7 years. Either Zambrano's camp isn't looking for a gigantic contract or a few different media outlets have received poor information.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 04:35 PM) I'm usually a pretty deep sleeper, but when I have something important on that next day e.g an exam, an interview etc., that's when I have problems getting to sleep. I get nervous, and it's hard to relax and put yourself in that "zone" for sleep. This is me in a nutshell outside of the deep sleeper part I wake up at the drop of a hat. When I'm really having trouble getting to sleep I might take a NyQuil Liquitab or if I'm not in the mood for a drug induced coma I'll just open up my windows which brings the temp in my room way down then I go to this site and play some of those sounds over my laptop, that usually knocks me out within a half hour.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 02:02 AM) I'm still very fond of the game against the Cubs in '02 in which we were down 8-0 in the 4th and won like 14-11, I think. It did bring us the most famous bat flip in White Sox history as well as a Kerry Wood meltdown. Outstanding.

Carlos Zambrano submitted a $15.5M arbitration figure which is HUGE. This is the first sign I've seen from the Zambrano camp that they are serious about cashing in on Carlos' impending free agency. All the figures that had been tossed around before were pretty damn disappointing (less than Zito). If Carlos' camp gets serious about this he could end up the largest contract ever handed out to a starting pitcher (which will only last until the '08-09 offseason.) If he's going to re-sign, I want to see him clean the Cubs out.