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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 09:54 PM) Winners so far: D-backs, Nationals, Royals, Red Sox, Rays, Brewers Losers so far: Padres, Dodgers, Cardinals, White Sox This is silly.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 11:18 PM) gosh, I feel bad for you Blackhawk fans who have to deal with the Canucks and their fans a few times a year. If watching them dive and hold their faces every time they are touched isnt bad enough, now their fans are crying about Tim Thomas laying out their player and calling the hit on Horton nothing more than a good hockey hit. It was a good hockey hit...if there were no rules in hockey. Solid 2-3 seconds after Horton got rid of the puck AND he left his feet.

Was up til almost 6 last night hanging out with some friends. At about 5:30, we went outside as the sun was rising and the birds were chirping. It was 75 and muggy already. Hadn't enjoyed a summer morning like that in a looooooooong time. Birds were chirping and all. Just made me want to go fishing so bad.

I hate the Canucks.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 4, 2011 -> 03:28 PM) I'm not giving up the sport I've followed for 20 years because a team I don't like wins a title. And it's not that people don't like them. People just can't get over last summer. I've been over it. Basketball hasn't been fun to watch for a while. Officiating is terrible around the board. The fact that those Kings teams of the early 2000's couldn't win a ring is a damn shame. It's a superstar league where 2 or 3 guys can win a championship and 3/4 of the league is entirely irrelevant. That isn't healthy.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 4, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) Rios, Jackson and Teahen for Hudson. Give some money as well. Unless we're sending like 12 million, that isn't happening.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 09:36 AM) I get the Heat hate. But to stop watching the NBA if they win it all? lol. That's kinda babyish. I guess the 2011-2012 NBA Thread will be about 200 replies next year. It's the culmination of a decade of the league going downhill. Maybe it's only babyish because you don't in agree with it?

Interning Mondays and Tuesdays at CSN. Other than that, a whole lot of fishing. Have a vacation to Florida planned for mid-July and also a weekend in Cincinnati to watch the ATP Tennis Tournament. If I can save up enough money, I plan on going on 1 more trip, possibly back to Alaska to see my Godfather.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ May 23, 2011 -> 08:54 PM) Absolutely. I played from kindergarten through high school... and am now a certified NCAA referee, though as I'm only 23, I haven't officiated anything higher than the DIII level. I feel like you're one in a long line of people that fall in love with the sport once they actually watch it and get to know it. Being in the South (where it's growing a lot, but still not popular), I remember friends' parents who were quick to dismiss it until their kid started playing, and then they realized how awesome of a game it is. My best friend's mom was so upset that he quit baseball to play lacrosse when we were in 7th grade and then years later she thanked me for getting him into the game b/c she really loved watching him play. I watched it a lot as a kid and enjoyed it, but kind of like rugby, I had only a vague idea of what was going on. Didn't watch much throughout high school but had some friends in college play and then did play-by-play this year. It's a great sport to just play catch and toss around too. I'm getting my own stick soon. Definitely going to murder it out.

Wow, incredible match. Federer played absolutely spectacular tennis to beat Djokovic's streak. Djokovic had a chance to take the first set when he had a break set point but Federer came back to force the tiebreaker and won it. The difference in the match was Federer's serve. He was spot on all match and was really going for it on his 2nd serves. Incredible effort from Djokovic to get back in the match and have opportunities to force a 5th set though. Awesome streak. Can't wait for Wimbledon.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 11:48 PM) Wow, that was depressing. I'm 21 and that made me feel old. Most of that was my childhood.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 11:35 PM) I've never met a Heat fan. I've met plenty of Dallas fans and that's enough for me to say Go Heat. If I could "like" and retweet this, I would.

I literally came here to post "The NBA just lost a fan" and then the Mavericks did that.....

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 04:09 PM) Because I got a good thing going and I don't want to derail my efforts until mid-July! Just don't do biceps for a while?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 12:01 AM) http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bu...don-jersey.html If I could turn Korver, the unguaranteeds, and our firsts into BG and the #8, I'd be ecstatic. Eh, I'm kind of over Ben Gordon.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 11:25 PM) ¡Olé! (there are massive, impossible to ignore questions about whether he's worth the hype, but damnit, there's no time for negativity) He's exciting to watch, that's for sure.

I'n going to start the Spartacus workout soon, really looking forward to it. I've also been wanting to run more lately, but it's just really bad for my knees so I've been trying to get my cardio other ways. Basically a lot of basketball.

It HAD to be Raffi Torres?

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 31, 2011 -> 08:45 PM) Loaiza was only here for a year and a half and he was pretty good for most of that. Contreras was solid for two years and I felt like he was more or less a victim of bad luck from 07-09. Contreras was a victim of his own lack of confidence in his stuff. But from June 05 to June 06 he was the best pitcher in ALL of baseball.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 31, 2011 -> 08:31 PM) haha Contreras? You mean had the Sox gotten Contreras when he was 27, but when Contreras was 27 he was a monster. Even Loaiza is a pretty bad comparison, because Humber was quite the spect out of college. The better comparison are guys like Gavin Floyd, who had stuff but just couldnt put it together. Humber has talent, and its nice to see him putting it together. I don't think you can really even compare it to Floyd, although that is probably the closest. Floyd was a failed prospect with a ton of talent and a confidence/mental problem. He put it together when he was 25. Humber was a failure at everything and didn't put it together until 28. That's pretty late.

Will Ohman is still very bad.

PHINAA?

NESN's radar has Jenks at 97. Yeah right.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ May 28, 2011 -> 09:56 PM) Boston fans are assholes regardless of sport. I don't put them on Vancouver's level, but I still hate every team from there. Even if this was Calgary against Boston though, I'd still root for the Bruins, even with them being a Boston team. I will ALWAYS root against the Canadian team in the Final if they are there and playing an American team. The people up there thing it's some sort of right for a Canadian team to have the Cup, and I find it delicious it hasn't been there in so long. Hopefully, it stays that way. That is one of the silliest things I have ever read. The city that players play isn't even decided by them a a majority of the time, and most teams in America are comprised of Canadian players. Both sides of this argument are hilariously stupid. Either way, I'm rooting for Boston because they're Original 6 and I absolutely despise anything and everything that has to do with the Canucks.

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