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I know Floyd has shown some signs, but I saw more I liked tonight from Lance than I did in Floyd's great start at Detroit. It just seems like Gavin can't consistently keep the ball down, and his movement is erratic. I wish Lance had been given a few more starts this month.

Broadway was 90 and 91 on almost every fastball he threw on the mlb gameday gun, which I repeat is very accurate. He had a couple 89's and 92's, but it was 90-91 all night. The slider/cutter thing he threw was 84 to 85 all night as well, and the very few diving curveballs and changeups he threw were 79 to 81. His velocity was very consistent for all his pitches on gameday, and his movement was very consistent and found in all his pitches in terms of what I saw, which was nice.

The one thing that concerns me about Lance is going against patient teams (Cleveland, New York, Boston), but in our division, 3 of the 4 opponents are free swingers in KC, Detroit, and Minnesota and I could see him having a lot of success against them.

I don't trust the comcast gun, ever. I was on gamecast on mlb's site throughout the game, and that is where I got the velocities from that are in my last post, and gameday's velocity is usually dead on and it was matching what my eyes told me as the game went on.

Congrats to Lance on the first win, he really earned it with his strong work.

With what I saw of Broadway, it was mostly 90 or 91 MPH on the fastball, his slider was 84 or 85 that often moved more like a cutter, and he threw an occasional changeup that was in the 79 to 81 range and an occasional curveball that was at about the same speed, but really dove downward. I'd tell you what kind of fastball he has, but man it had a lot of different kinds of movement. Some cutters, but a lot of sinking movement on his pitches. The velocity was pedestrian, but he just had a boatload of movement on all of his pitches, which led to a lot of strikeouts and the Royals just could not center the ball. Maybe the walks at AAA were due to the movement being a bit unpredictable for all I know, but he was impressive tonight at least. Interesting to see what happens with Lance next March.

I have no interest in trading Josh Fields. None. If he can just be a guy that lowers his strikeout ratio to a pace of like 150 in a full season (I think his current pace is near 200), combined with his room for improvement at the dish due to age and lack of experience at the MLB level, he's a 40 homer, 100+ RBI, over .500 slugging, around .900 OPS guy.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Sep 26, 2007 -> 11:18 AM) Opening day starters: DE: Ogunleye (bad hip) DT: Injured DT: Injured DE: Anderson WLB: Injured MLB: Urlacher SLB: Huntermeyer CB: Injured FS: Injured SS: Archuletta (broken arm) CB: Injured I've never heard of anything like this. They're all soft, just like Cedric Benson. Well overall I haven't either, but in terms of front 4 injuries, just look to a college team 60 miles to the west. NIU has had so many injuries that an undersized for a LINEBACKER 211 pound RS freshman is listed as the backup DEFENSIVE END this week, as seven of the nine guys in the original rotation are hurt. That, and our Butkus nominee MLB tore his ACL and is out for the year. And our RB tore his ACL and is out for the year. And our starting TE is injured..........oh damn I hate football injuries.

I really like the uniforms, but the helmet is lame.

As a person, yes I say RIP and condolances to his family, no doubt about it. However, the man lived a full life of 77 years, had a lot of money, and was just a horrid owner, so his death is great for hockey here and I am thus not going to say I feel bad in that regard at all. Home games on TV in 2008-2009!! (I hope).

The 2 most important points here: 1. The lethal weapon was a shoe. 2. One the biggest reasons for the original conviction of Bell was a detailed account of the incident given by one of the boys who hung the nooses. The efforts, lies, and denial used by people in that area to try and make this something other than what it is (blatant racism) is very cute though.

This move was obvious and the correct one, but unless Griese can make the WR's better, the OL younger, and the defense healthier.............this team is still going nowhere. Griese is a modest improvement over Rex though at least, so that's a plus. Oh, and don't expect the playcalling to change. Anybody who saw late 90's/early 2000's Illini football knows Ron Turner is a fool at calling a game.

TTIWWP, and I can't believe it took until now for somebody to say it.

This is pretty common knowledge, but they have Broadway listed as the starter Thursday night against KC and say Buehrle is skipping his last start on whitesox.com, so I figured i'd post it since it is now official. Obviously this start has no meaning, but it'll be interesting to see how Lance's stuff looks pitching 5 or 6 innings against a real live MLB opponent.

Wow, the Saints and Bears both will be at home for the playoffs. Who knew?? Oh, and where did all the "OMG THEY TOOK MARIO WILLIAMS OVER REGGIE BUSH!!!!!11111" people go?? Uhhhh yeah........

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 24, 2007 -> 01:57 PM) October 13 is going to be a sad day for them . . . Yeah, I'm sure that convincing 35-32 win Texas has in their only road game they will play prior to that at mighty UCF has the Cyclones trembling with fear. Now October 20th is going to be a VERY sad day for them...

Brian Griese needs to be the QB and he is modestly better than Rex (who isn't?), but it won't change much. He makes a lot of mistakes too, which is why his career QB rating isn't higher when you consider how accurate a passer he is. Griese won't fix our old and bad o line, our black hole at tailback and wide receiver, Adam Archuleta sucking at life, or the fact we have 5/11 of our defensive starters hurt right now. This team just isn't that good right now, simple as that.

Somebody out there has a video of the Borchard shot, and needs to put it on youtube. I have, to this day, never seen the video of it because I was at school since it was a day make up game and like nobody was at the game.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 10:38 AM) Another huge improvement from last year is in special teams. Santella has been huge for this team, and it's nice to not have to worry about the punting game losing the game for you. Yeah, and as Benn gets more healthy and you see him on kick and punt returns, it will improve even more. I am more excited about being at the Wisconsin game as weeks go by.

Straw Poll: Do the Bears make the postseason?? I say no.

Bradley will get hurt anyways............this team just isn't that good, and teams with an offense will kill us everytime. GB is not gonna be easy to catch.

Rex will not start next week either, Green Bay is too good to dick around with that. Issue is, this team has WAY more than #8 to fix. He's a problem, but there are many others.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 10:15 PM) Well, the draft is loaded with QB's this year, right?????? I've seen more than a few ppl project Colt Brennan to the Bears.

Not a surprise, Dallas is really good, #8 sucks, and we can't cover Elite WR's. Mass changes needed, and soon. GB is the clear favorite now in the North, solid team. Bleh.

When Eddie McGee takes over at QB (and it will happen eventually), Illinois is going to be a really good team. Kellen Lewis is a stud though, IU still should be a bowl team. The most impressive player in that game other than obviously Mendenhall and Will Davis having 4 sacks was Vontae Davis though. 9 tackles, a blocked punt, an interception, and shut down Hardy all day outside of the one short TD pass, and even on that it was just good coverage and a better throw. I think Vontae has 1st round talent in terms of a corner.