Balta1701

So, seriously, Cowboys/Eagles is "The game of the year"? Yeesh.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 01:02 PM) No. I've been saying since after week 2 that I think the Bears are the team in the NFC to beat. I just thought I'd post my opinion on here. After last week...I think almost everyone who watches the NFL thought the exact same thing.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) The Bears are indeed the best team in football. So doing that to the defending NFC Champs last weekend didn't convince you but doing this to a team that missed the playoffs last year did?

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:20 PM) I did too. And then he threw 14 INTs. I also dislike Terrence McGee. If he gets beat again...wtf do I care, he's been beaten like 4 times today and it's cost the Bills like 21 points. All I can do is hope they get on the board. Not much more. Coming into this game, the only way the Bills would have had a shot is if the Bears were sloppy all week and wound up not caring. Turns out they were ready. The Bills are on their way up. The Bears are at the top right now. This was bound to happen as long as the Bears weren't hung over. They're just a better team. Hopefully the young Bills learn something from this pounding. Sometimes you have to be pounded a few times before you can learn to pound on others.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 04:58 AM) lol... maybe it's just me, but we LIVE and BREATHE on planet earth and can't agree on the history of OUR planet. How much good could a few home videos and some snap shots do for our understanding of a planet millions of miles away? (that being said, I'm sure they'll do a lot of good...lol) Um, those who actually pay attention seem to agree about a lot of things about our planet's history. It's around 4.5 billion years old, life evolved on it very early, oxygen developed around 2.5 billion years ago, multicellular life after that, hard parts evolved around 550 ma, oceanic crust tends to subduct underneath other crust when it gets older than about 250 million years, 251 million years ago 98% of the genera on earth went extinct, 65 million years ago there was a large impact, etc, and on and on and on. Mars, we don't even know close to that much.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 10:10 AM) Obama won't run. He has said clearly, numerous times, he won't. And for a guy like him, that sort of "word" is is reputation. If he goes against it, be buries the very thing he would use as his "in". But...he's also attending steak fry's in Iowa with Tom Harkin.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 08:44 AM) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224 ESPN confirms it. Just a note...ESPN isn't confirming he's going to be fired, they're only confirming that the papers in New York are making these reports.

QUOTE(knightni @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:17 AM) GO A'S! Screw the Tigers and (ha-ha!) Twins. And a gigantic, $250 million screw you to the moneybags as well! QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:23 AM) I've actually learned to respect this Detroit team a lot because of how little respect they've had all season. They won 95 games with dominant pitching and still nobody gave them a chance in October, hell almost everyone thought they'd be swept. They're a real good team with a legit shot at winning it all(I still think they will). Well, here's the other side of that...all that pitching turned out not to be enough to save Detroit the Central division despite the monster lead they built up earlier in the year. Detroit beat the Yankees because the Yankee pitching staff was a freaking disaster. The Yankees got what they deserved. It'll be interesting to see if Detroit can beat a team built more on pitching and defense rather than 95% on offense, and 5% on Rivera. They have a legit shot, because the playoffs are won by pitching, pitching, pitching. The Yankees had almost none. Detroit had a lot. But so do the A's.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 8, 2006 -> 12:03 AM) What, exactly, does that say? That he really is not committed to the Yankees, and will not fight to stay there.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:43 PM) Eh, one guy compared to the whole city is a little bit different. You're right, we don't know how he'd react, but I think he'd be just fine. My only counterpoint is this: that's a lot of money to risk on that opinion.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 10:20 PM) Holy s***, just saw the high lights on ESPN. If I sound like a bitter Sox fan, so be it, but act like you have been there before, at least a little. Showering the fans with bubbly? Your going to the ALCS, win 8 more first. How many of them have been there before?

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:36 PM) The guy was pretty damn awesome outside of NY in the playoffs, hell he even did well in 04. Unfortunately for him, one bad postseason last season basically got every single Yankee fan on his back and I think it got into his head. Get him out of New York and I think he does just fine. Who knows how much NY has gotten into his head? Maybe Mariotti talks to him and his brain goes "here we go again".

Whoever plays the Mets and Frank Thomas.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:32 PM) grr...I meant to mention Ozzie. or the whole "hypocrite" comment fiasco. oh well. I need sleep. I can't comprehend the complexities of A-Rod on the White Sox. not now. After the apology and actual contrition from Guillen, I think the 2 would get along surprisingly well. My only question of course is what Arod would do if he carried us to the playoffs. I just have no confidence in him late in games or in the clutch. I would rather have Thome up.

QUOTE(AirScott @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:25 PM) when I think more about this, maybe A-Rod wouldn't be a good fit. think, he was happy on Texas, the team sucked, but he was unquestionably "the man." on the Yankees, Jeter is "the man," and A-Rod is second or third fiddle. in New York, A-Rod will never surpass Jeter. now it's weird in Chicago. Paulie's "the man" here, but he seems a quieter leader than Jeter. so would A-Rod's ego fit here? what exactly does A-Rod need to be happy, content, whatever? ARod's problem would not be Konerko, it would be Guillen. You need to ask yourself one question if you want to know whether or not ARod would have a problem here...who would Mariotti blame when the team didn't win 120 games and go wire to wire? ARod's only major competition in the media for control of this team would be Ozzie.

Linkity . They don't acutally say he's gone in anything but the headline, as far as I can tell.

Al Leiter pitched for the Yankees in 2005. He is therefore greater than any other normal non-Yankee human being.

The Mets will lose if they run into a genuine starting pitching group.

Go Frank. Hands down. Go Frank. I owe the Tigers a great debt for eliminating the "buy the trophy" Mother F***ers. But now that the deed is done, my use of them has finished, and I'll cheer for the greatest White Sox player in history, and the guy who would have won the 2003 Cy Young award had Manuel not made him pitch against the Twins when he was sick.

QUOTE(SoxAce @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:05 PM) I would not go that far now. This I understand...his time in NY has seen him at least now trying to defend himself, not just accepting the blame for his suckage, and it's seen him not learning form his suckage in the clutch. He has a bad rap because of his $250m, but if he was carrying teams to winning records or championships, his rap would have been forgotten, even if he was blaming Jeter every time he went 0/4.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) ARod is the best defensive shortstop in baseball imo. Having not watched a ton of games with ARod at SS, I really doubt that claim. But with his bat, if he came at $13-$15m to the White Sox, I would tolerate adequate and nonspectacular defense in exchange for his bat.

QUOTE(JohnBasedowYoda @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 08:18 AM) You probably don't want to pay millions for your car either If my next car could work on Mars, with no oxygen in the atmosphere, I'd tolerate the price tag

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 11:00 PM) Regardless, Uribe is a talent who should take instruction and become the hitter he can be. If we can turn our entire team into Borg, such that we can simply program Uribe to take pitches and aim pitches away for right field, then we're set.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Oct 7, 2006 -> 10:58 PM) I'll take a .300, 40 HR, 130 RBI, Gold Glove "Cancer" on my team any day of the week. Gold Glove? GMAFB. I want ARod for his bat. He's a clear downgrade from either Uribe or Crede defensively. He may be an upgrade from Jeter, but that's about it. I'll take the .290, 35 hr's and extra ticket/merch sales due to added press coverage.