IlliniKrush

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 24, 2006 -> 11:32 PM) So I went to Champaign this weekend to watch Illinois-Iowa and ya that was some bad football. I'm convinced that SIU would beat Illinois and Iowa has been so unimpressive every game I've seen them play(all except the Montana game). No sir

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 25, 2006 -> 12:15 AM) So as a lot of you guys know I'm very anti facebook. Anyways, I spent the weekend at U of I and all the sudden there are pictures of me all over that stupid website. My goal was to never, ever be involved with that thing in anyway and now I feel violated. Boo. Pictures are just pictures, you are not affiliated with facebook. I'm in pictures too, not a big deal. We'll leave Steve to be the facebook queen around here.

HELL YEAH IRISH

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 08:28 PM) Appearantly a tornado hit Arlington height which is very close to where I live, this is not the first time they've been hit this decade. Also there were reports of very large hail, high winds and zero visability on I294 which is basically right down the road from my house. It was a close call but it looks like I'll live to see another day. Yeah, that's not too far from me either. Weather got real bad around here, but luckily no tornados. The sirens went off 4 different times. I can't remember the last time they went off.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 03:02 AM) You love cotton candy. Just as much as i love facebook. Oh wait, i'm not Steve

QUOTE(knightni @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 01:54 AM) cotton candy ^^^

QUOTE(GaelicSoxFan @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) Don't worry, Illini faithful. This Saturday, Memorial Stadium will be filled. However, most of them will be there to watch the team in the road white jerseys. BTW, has Ron Zook elbowed anyone lately? BTW, have any of your basketball players raped anyone lately? QUOTE(Nokona @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) No we save that for first downs something I doubt you'll see much of Saturday You just said that I will not see many Iowa first downs Saturday. I love Iowa fans.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 20, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) Why is it a pathetic thing to boo if our players havent been trying their hardest? It's not. The only thing i've ever booed is a lack of effort or hustle. That deserves it, if it's clearly there, for any team or player.

QUOTE(Nokona @ Sep 19, 2006 -> 03:13 PM) We'll take our stupid tradition and Division I football. Do you guys rush the field when Tate completes an 8 yard out route in practice, too?

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 16, 2006 -> 08:09 PM) I still want to wring the neck or our head coach/offensive coordinator. I have no idea why we run the ball with 1:22 left in the first half and 3 timeouts, yet we can go for it on 4th and 10 on our own side of the field. The rest of you out there, be glad you're not Cyclone fans. I've gotta deal with this hsit yearround. Want to trade football programs? So...YOU be glad you aren't an illini fan.

IU/Illinois might be the worst game of the year, topping Syracuse/Illinois.

Oregon literally handed a win by the refs, unbelievable

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 05:45 PM) Not talking about a no hitter goes back decades and decades tradition is what makes baseball such a great sport. For the most part it has remained unchained for over 100 years. How can you not hear the line "there are five hits in the game and the Yankees have them all" and not see that as better than he's got a no hitter going here folks. Some announcers are better than others. Tradition for people in the game...those in the dugout. It's the same thing in hockey, you don't talk about a goalie's shutout during the game if you're on the bench or in the locker room between periods. Has nothing to do with announcers, who's job it is to tell you exactly what is going on in the game. You shouldn't have to read between lines or anything like that.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 02:07 PM) Outside of the players and coaches the superstition just does not apply. I was at a game where Santana was pitching and he was perfect for a while, I kept saying it as much as possible. Strangely nothing ever happened until I basically stopped doing it, and then he gave up a hit. So am i to believe if only I would of kept talking about it he would of continued to be perfect? Silly Jay writing sports articles is for grown ups. Right on. Unless you are part of the game (in the dugout...) the whole jinx thing doesn't apply. As a broadcaster, you need to be telling people what's going on. Can you imagine how many people were getting in their cars yesterday around 4:00 or 4:30 and listening to the game? It's not the listener's job to figure out what's going on. He needs to be told. A guy called into the Score and said he would have stayed in his car longer if he had known what was going on. Therefore, the Score failed to do their job, period. Same thing would go with Hawk if he had viewers tuning in and not knowing what was happening. I don't think Hawk needs to say "he has a no hitter going" after every batter, but any person who turns on that game needs to know exactly what is going on, relatively quickly. Jay's dead wrong here, as is anyone who thinks broadcasters have the power to jinx it.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 09:31 PM) He'll start, but he won't be 100%. Lot's of interesting questions.... Will Albert Young finally break out? Will Drew Tate be healthy enough to pick on a shaky ISU pass defense? Can the Iowa DB's handle the ISU WR? Will ISU throw the f***in ball to Blythe? ISU should (theoretically) pick apart the Iowa secondary, but it seems like we've been trying too hard to f*** ourselves over. I imagine they can cover a 13.5 spread?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 12:15 PM) Hawky Tawky? Who the hell posts THERE???? Although....there are probably more posters on that board than fans at the UC when Columbus or Nashville come to town..... And yourself, young man! I post there!!! I made a Foley thread over there yesterday - come on Critic, make the jump over there, we could use you. I'm glad i'll be able to hear Foley call some games this year, that's pretty sweet.

QUOTE(GOD @ Sep 9, 2006 -> 10:53 AM) You've obviously never been to a game before this year when there were 12,000 fans at some games. I'm sure it was dead the whole time. Honestly for me the defining moment of 05 was Crede's walkoff against the Indians at the end of the year after we had blown the lead in the ninth. That game saved our season last year. I've been to plenty of those games, thank you...and i stand by my statement. No one was even talking after they blew the lead. Not a word.

Where does the term first guessing come from...? BTW, if every manager knew everything, all the time, and made every correct decision...no manager would ever get fired.

I was at the game...after the 2nd double, i told Rowand44 that he should go to Thornton. Those 2 balls were ropes...that was more than enough for me.

You could hear a pin drop in the place in the top of the ninth after we blew the lead. I have never, ever heard the park that dead...and for good reason. Wow, what a way to cap it off. You could almost hear everyone holding their breath when the ball was in the air.

I put this in the catch anything thread, but... Tonight Sweeney is in CF batting leadoff Pods is in LF batting 8th Per the Score

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 6, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) that's what I get for really not paying attention to the NFL in the offseason. oh well Or doing any predraft research whatsoever.

Tonight... Sweeney is batting leadoff in CF Pods batting 8th in LF Per the Score 670 update.

This isn't learning on the job. This is just not knowing the game of baseball. The worst thing that happened to Ozzie Guillen is the fact that we won the world series last year. Now he thinks he's God, and he can point at his ring and tell everyone else to go f*** off because "he knows what he's doing." Bottom line is that your fans shouldn't be smarter than you are on a consistent basis. Everyone here FIRST guesses him, and the vast majority of the time, they are correct. In my book, the job of a manager is to put his players in the best position to succeed, and by doing so, "win" more games for the team than he loses. He's lost far more...OR, not given us a fair shot at winning...than he's won for us. Last year he handed the ball off to the starters in the playoffs and they carried the torch. Jerry Manuel could have done that job. He didn't have to manage anything in the playoffs, and his moves during the season were very suspect. Ozzie isn't responsible for bringing a title to the city of chicago. The White Sox organization is. Until people stop correlating ozzie and a WS title at a high rate, he'll always get a free pass in this town from the media and the "new" group of fans we now have. Night after night we watch him fill out questionable lineup cards and make bizarre in-game moves. Your manager shouldn't frustrate the hell out of you to this degree. But he trots out his bulls*** about how he's the smartest guy in the world because he came here when he was whatever age and was able to survive. The line of "he brought us a world championship" is false. 20 years from now when i look back on the 2005 team, i won't remember ozzie being the braintrust behind a title team. I'll remember the amazing pitching and the job that Kenny did way before i recall Ozzie's actions. BTW, why are you talking about what type of manager he will be when he's 60? The time to win is now. I want a manager who can win us ballgames now, not hope he's good in the future. Besides, he's shown me enough this season to make me think he'll never be a good manager.

QUOTE(SnB @ Sep 5, 2006 -> 03:32 PM) yeah, i noticed it this morning as well. I really don't need to know that one of my friends changed his favorite band at 8:32am Timeout. Hold the f'in phone. Are you on facebook.....................