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QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 02:46 PM) It's Papelboner. Seriously though, David Ortiz has been a huge fatass throughout his career. His HGH = boxes of twinkies. I'm not buying that one. If I were to put money on someone, it would be Mike Lowell, what with all of the injuries and the desire to recover from them, etc. I could be wrong about David Ortiz, though. I'm like 90 percent sure at some point Lowell was on something(ok, now I'm speculating). He lost so much freakin mass once he joined Boston.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 12:58 PM) I never heard that HGH could give you blisters. Anyway...suddenly i have this feeling that htis thread will wind up on SI. Ha, I'm not speculating at all, those are just two of my least favorite athletes ever. I despise both of them so much.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 12:53 PM) No. And I don't think it's Schilling, even though that would be just great. Oh man, that'd be fantastic. What about Josh Beckett?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 02:16 AM) If the Phillies get in, the Cubs face the Mets while Philly plays Arizona. If San Diego gets in, the Cubs face Arizona while the Mets face San Diego. Pretty simple really. Of course, Philly winning the East doesn't help much; thus, fathom and willie are hoping the Mets win it and Philly wins the Wild Card. Ya, I'm an idiot. Two plus two is hard.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2007 @ Sep 20, 2007 -> 01:37 AM) Rowand, the Phillies offense would murder the Cubs' pitching staff. Maybe, but the Cubs offense would murder that awful pitching staff of the Phillies. The Cubs would win a series against the Phils in the playoffs(and I think at most the Phils could take one game) but the Cubs wouldn't beat any of the other NL contenders. Obviously that's jmo.

QUOTE(fathom @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 10:47 PM) I had no idea this guy, in the Linebrink trade, was doing so well. This just pisses me off even more. WHarris...this has the chance to be the worst type of baseball day possible. Cubs win, Sox win, Brewers lose, Az wins, SD loses, Phils lose. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8076 I have no clue why you would want the Phillies to make the playoffs, that's the one team the Cubs would beat the crap out of in the playoffs.

Would have been funnier if they just punched his face in. Oh well, the guy's a moron, he got what he deserved.

How'd JC's stuff look tonight?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 01:10 PM) But think about your classes. How many are based on the textbook? How many do the tests come directly out of the text? I haven't bought a book in like 2 or 3 semesters now. I guess it depends on the classes.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 19, 2007 -> 11:47 AM) I thought I'd let Ozzie's continued skepticism speak for itself. And I didn't want to make the point that, hey, KC has very little power and one of their more "potent" bats, Alex Gordon, wasn't in the lineup, but I wouldn't want to take anything away from Gavin Floyd. If you take the little he has he goes away with nothing, so he can celebrate the fact that his outing teetered on disaster a hundred times and that he got hit pretty hard by a punchless Royals team. Good for him, though, he reached the "quality start" qualification. That 0 quality start prediction of yours is driving you nuts, isn't it?

The team hasn't had anything on the line but Gavin sure has.

SIU has given Kuric a deadline of this weekend to make up his mind. Interesting...

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 06:36 PM) Is anyone surprised? No but I feel awful for him.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 03:19 PM) Rabbit= Finding someone to take the whole Contreras contract. Williams does that, it makes the off-season so much easier. No doubt.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 03:08 PM) And we are at $95 million right now without signing Joe Crede, correct? For those looking for a new SS, CF, and relievers, it doesn't look good. Get me a new ss and a new cf, but I honestly have no problem going into next season with most of this bullpen back. As crazy as that sounds, it wouldn't bother me one bit to have: Jenks, Thornton, Mac, Wasserman, and Logan all back.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 12:35 PM) Discussing whether or not this team is a contender in 2008 is pointless until about March. We aren't talking about a club that will be almost the same - we're talking about one that will probably have major changes. Right now, this team could literally be a title contender or the worst team in baseball, depending on what happens in the offseason. Get back to this in March, once the dust settles. That. Kenny might need to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but who the heck knows.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 01:45 PM) Indiana has supposedly taken the lead for Zeller, after a hard recruiting push from Sampson. I don't expect to pluck him away from his home state even though he had a great visit. Shumpert is very intelligent about the recruiting game and plays everything close to his vest, so to speak, so it's really hard to get a feel about him. One day I think UNC looks good, then the next he's talking up Hewitt's use of big guards, then the next he's praising Dwyane Wade's progression from Tom Crean. Who knows. He's just waiting to shock the world and go to SIU. You'll see.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 18, 2007 -> 07:33 AM) I'd trade away every baseball memory of my lifetime to have been able to watch Walter Johnson live, Babe Ruth, Juan Marichal, Lefty Grove, Satchel Paige -- no, I'm not denigrating the White Sox or the World Series victory. I'm not denigrating the Braves World Series, or anybody else's. I'm just at a point in my life where "my team" winning is far less important than the history of the game and the game itself. It's a strange statement to most but looked at properly, there is nothing wrong with it. Most of the time these days I find myself rooting for the White Sox at the ballpark but enjoying the experience win or lose because it's nice to watch the best in the game. I'm not a homer. Definitely. You are an odd White Sox fan. BTW, rooting for your team at a game has nothing to do with being a homer, it's called being a fan.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Sep 17, 2007 -> 03:32 PM) Fields was QB when they had that one WR Rashaun Woods, right? I thought he was going to be a very good WR -- from the games I saw him in, it just looked like he had an uncanny ability to find the ball and go and get it. Yesum.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 17, 2007 -> 11:16 PM) I'd trade away every baseball event of my lifetime to have watched a Maddux start live, at the ballpark, in the 1990s.

Hehe.

Ronald Steele out for the year.

Josh Fields is quarterbacking right now on ESPN classic.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 16, 2007 -> 12:16 PM) It was a good I-AA team though. Last I knew UNI was ranked 7th. This means that UNI is the best football team in the state of Iowa. What's going on with Iowa and Iowa State, UNI and Drake both beat them last year in basketball and UNI beats Iowa State this year in football. Well UNI just has a better basketball program than ISU right now. It's that simple.