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Congrats Iowa for propelling Rick Santorum to 3rd place. Great job!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 3, 2012 -> 11:11 PM) The press conference? I listened. Mostly your typical BS you would expect. Good to hear that money wasn't a factor in firing Angelo and won't affect the future hire. I was nnoyed that they wouldn't delve into what Angelo did wrong "out of respect" for him. All they kept saying was that they need to close the talent gap between them & the rest of the division, which is obviously true. I would have liked to hear their exact criticism of Angelo, also how much the Cutler injury played a part in his firing. I am a fan of Lovie as a coach, but holding onto him worries me a little, because some GMs may not want to take the job if they can't bring in their own coach. Pretty sure the talent gap was referring to what he did wrong. But if you want a good GM you'd probably be best served not airing the dirty laundry of the previous person.

k nobody cares. George McCaskey says that it was not hard to bite the money owed to angelo. It will not be a decision in finding the candidate now, and in the future money will not be considered for personnel decisions. I hope this is truly the case.

anyone listening this?

I see no reason not to promote Tice. I know some don't think he's qualified...I disagree. And I'd rather promote him than lose him.

Ah, I'm an idiot. Thanks.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2012 -> 06:55 PM) Wrong year to make that offer. You lose 20% of your free games. what does this mean? Do TNT games get blacked out or something?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 3, 2012 -> 07:48 PM) Lovie may be an idiot when it comes to some in-game decisions, but he always has us prepared. I don't know what he does to prepare the Bears, but rarely do they come out just unready or unwilling to play like most teams do at least 3-4 times a year. Agreed. But he certainly has had trouble evaluating his own coaches and even players. He has known some very talented coaches, but it just doesn't seem that he gives a thought over whether they mesh with his own goals for the team. Martz was an absolutely awful hire for Lovie.

I thought that was Holdman that he didn't check the box on.

There's no way lovie should accept a demotion. He could easily get another head coaching gig.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jan 3, 2012 -> 04:30 PM) Interesting choice. I personally would like a proven commodity, but beyond Cowher/Fisher who probably want to coach, McKenzie might be the best first-time GM candidate. If we hire from another organization, I would hope it would be from Green Bay, New England, San Francisco, Baltimore or Pittsburgh. absolutely.

Methinks we're going to be giving someone their first shot, I don't see an established guy wanting to come in with the staff all in place.

So I'm just going to go ahead and enjoy the season as opposed to debating whether the Heat are better year. Sound ok?

Really surprised. Not that thrilled with the Pollian thoughts.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Dec 30, 2011 -> 03:38 PM) I watched that game, it was literally against the law to play defense. Dang! Were they like, arresting players on the field and everything?

Yeah I'd take give you money to make that bet. But even how Thornton kept looking over toward his bench every he time he made a shot and rubbed it in their face...HIS OWN BENCH.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Dec 30, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) I generally assume players that outperform their peripherals will regress negatively and players that underperform their peripherals will regress positively. EDIT: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...&position=P what are stats?

You're right...they are not in the level of nester molina and phil humber in terms of powerhouse.

Every year we assume every other teams players are a fluke and that our players will play to their averages.

We'll see this year.

for definition of powerhouse see : phillies, philadelphia. tigers, detroit.

Watching the game I was prepared to change Hamiltons nickname to 2 Short for his jumper, but then i saw he was shooting 50% from the field. I'm sort of fascinated by this season and I just wanted to comment on one more hypothesis. Usually the presesason is a time for the players to get acclimated to how the refs are planning to call things this season. The bulls are a physical d and are getting a lot of fouls called which I think is due to a combination of 1) this lack of playing with NBA refs and 2) lack of discipline from the time off. I was excited to see Fredette play and I liked some things but boy is he going to be a turnstile on defense. But I don't catch Sac Kings game a lot, and after watching it I have to say that is one incredibly unlikeable team. There is 1 thing i'm nervous about so far. Our guards are getting really played with on defense. Thibs has to sure this up soon.

More that he had one of the best statistical seasons of any mizzou qb ever beside the daniel years.

When I first heard this i thought it was saying any payments you made on your phone verizon would take a $2 cut. But now that I know it's just for paying your phone bill...then I don't care.

Something more than kitsch.