Harry Chappas

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 12, 2014 -> 08:29 AM) My Christmas tree made an appaerence for two days. Now buried again under the new 6 inches of snow we got last night. Mine too. I really wanted to move it yesterday. 6 inches of almost immovable heavy snow. f***

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 11, 2014 -> 01:10 PM) I could watch that all day long.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 01:12 PM) We're a week behind on The Walking Dead. I just sat through 30 minutes of Rick hiding under a bed from characters we've never met before. If my wife didn't want to watch this, I'd have dropped it already. Instead, I will just continue to complain about the badness. Like the fake red hair on the guy from Band of Brothers and Southland. WTF is that. It's like he used a Crayola marker to color it. Those guys come into play two episodes later. The filler episode you will watch next week kind of builds into the following episode. The season appears to be trying to build up characters and relationships and create a new game plan to extend the series. The draw of the series is down a little but I still find it entertaining.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) According to who? ESPN radio was talking briefly about it and MLB home plate on Sirius said they could surprise.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 03:46 PM) Emphatically this. Rose would be the third best player on the team behind Melo and Joakim until he shows me something. The Joakim Noah role we are seeing in his current form is not the Joakim Noah role that we would see along side Melo or Rose.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 03:48 PM) Maybe we finally have a leadoff hitter. But one big concern w him is his defense. How has he looked so far in CF. I have no clue but it can't be any worse than any other center fielders trotted out there is millennium.

Seems there is some buzz picking up nationally for your Chicago White Sox, Eaton, Abreu, Garcia and a healthy Danks seem to have piqued interest.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 5, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) Detroit gave up a little bit for Legwand but pretty good pickup there. I really hate that the Hawks think they can stay pat this year. That second line center is going to do them in again I fear.

Every cub story this spring is about how much their revenue is going to increase over the upoming years and the awesome prospects. There is no talk at all about the current season.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 3, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) I still watch it and generally enjoy it, but last night's Walking Dead may have been the worst episode of the entire series The point they were trying to make in that episode was made early on little brother follows older brother around. Unless the two of them form some sort of relationship I do not see the point at all to that episode. There was no really back story learned there unless I missed something.

Gotta say it was cold and snowy but it was a great time. State of Illinois figured there was no need to plow the dan Ryan. Chicago all clear.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 28, 2014 -> 09:23 AM) Well, do you really want Rose to recruit his brother? As team physician maybe he would only be rivaled by former Illinois point guard/doctor Chester Frazier

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 27, 2014 -> 09:59 AM) Lots of people are chickening out. I will be at the warm bar for sure. 1500 tickets on stubhub That's not that bad......although it depends how much over/under face they are asking.

Not really looking as forward to Saturday as I was a couple of months back. Weather is going to be abysmal.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 25, 2014 -> 01:09 PM) I'd genuinely guess that another thing scouts will be interested in is the degree of preparation these guys do physically to prepare for the combine. It gives GMs a chance to see how their bodies and minds respond to that kind of pressure, that's another useful point. My problem with that is it sustainable. The guy from BC a number of years back came out of nowhere and lite up the combine but never really panned out. The combine is nice but any outlier really needs to be looked at.

I think Abreu sits opening day to allow him to become acclimated. I think he sits a little more often early especially if it is cold. Dunn will get booed big time so he may sit the opener.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 20, 2014 -> 10:10 PM) Get ready for the floor storming argument. NC, I agree with Dickie v in this case.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 03:25 PM) Probably not that one since neither of those teams is GBR. Scroll down to the video clip to see the end of the shot. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1964433...win-over-norway GBR has as easy point to tie to go to the 11th but they lose the hammer. If GBR can knock out the two Norwegian rocks and lay inside another Norwegian stone they win in the 10th end and match with a two point score. If they miss the shot lose and are out of the tourney and medal contention. GBR called timeout so there was a good amount of build up and analysis for the shot and what other options were out there that was pretty cool. The best part of the match was the Norwegian Skip slowly lossing his s***. It was awesome

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 01:43 PM) No I didn't see it. I'll have to check it out on the highlights later. They played Sweden today, the one I was talking about was from Norway yesterday. The buildup was what made it cool.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 01:35 PM) Mao Asada was one of the two co-favorites for the figure skating gold...went down on her first jump and ended up 16th after the short program. Sad. Great champion. Not really sad, there was story about her, if she was from South Korea, and it detailed how she didn't really compete much and this was all for fun after winning in Vancouver. She only appeared in a couple of events over the last couple of years and while she was a favorite a top performance would be tough. Again if this was the same female skater and if she was from South Korea.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 19, 2014 -> 10:52 AM) I would have never thought women hockey players would be hot: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25...een-before.html I really should have headed over to Eastern Europe to get me a wife.

Anyone see the shot GBR men hit to advance out of the tie-breaker in men's curling yesterday it was a spectacular moment.

The ability to out spend every other team and most teams over twice as much is what makes the Yankees what they, are not Derek Jeter. He is a grossly overpaid but is a good consistent player and a hall of famer. He is nowhere near the top ten all time, what in his stat line screams this? This are his baseball reference comparables; Craig Biggio (823) Paul Molitor (805) * Roberto Alomar (789) * Robin Yount (786) * Charlie Gehringer (756) * Johnny Damon (729) Ivan Rodriguez (723) Joe Morgan (723) * Ted Simmons (718) Frankie Frisch (716) * These are Frank Thomas Jeff Bagwell (874) Manny Ramirez (865) Fred McGriff (861) Jim Thome (854) Mickey Mantle (840) * Gary Sheffield (832) Albert Pujols (822) Carlos Delgado (812) Willie McCovey (812) * Jimmie Foxx (810) *

Stepped in six inches of slush.....I do not care 41 degrees has never felt so good.

I was talking to a friend who knows nothing (I know a little more than nothing) about soccer and we both agreed that that the Saturday morning premier league soccer is awesome. Neither of us really know why but it was great move by NBC to pick it up....well he bets on it pretty heavily.