Harry Chappas

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 10, 2012 -> 12:44 PM) Meh, give me Soundgarden or Chains. Pearl Jam blows. Give me Pearl Jam and Chains. Soundgarden blows. It is funny how music does that.

Was driving through Lemont the other morning and saw a wolf on the railroad tracks it looked badass...

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 03:17 PM) Out of everything going wrong/lacking, this isn't one of those things. At all. Being soft or missing Carcillo? They do not make the other team work hard and they are no longer doing the gritty type of things that they used to do. I think Carcillo is a meathead but they need somebody to make the other team think a little about getting hit.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 10:53 AM) WTF, Lovie is only 53. Aside: dude looks awesome for 53. I meant "retire" I think the defense will struggle next year and Lovie will not coach the Bears in 2013. I think Tice and Bates will do a nice job and a shift to the offensive side of the ball will take place as they will have to somehow beat Detroit and Green Bay via offense. The Bears have four HOF'ers on defense, they should be better than they are.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 10:08 AM) I'd say they keep having OL get hurt. Does that count as missing? Both Williams and Carimi had injury concerns when they were drafted so those are big misses in that regard although I think Carimi will be good. Sounds like Bates will push for a New England type short passing game. I think Lovie retires after next year. Tice takes the HC job and Bates gets the OC job after a nice 10-6 season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 08:01 AM) White Sox over Tigers in MLB Network's baseball IQ: The cool thing about that show is that it shows folks in the front office are not all that great at baseball trivia.

This team is very soft maybe carcillo is missed.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Feb 4, 2012 -> 12:56 PM) Please elaborate. If the White Sox focused on developing young players, Beckham, Morel, Sale and Viciedo could very well have been in AAA or AA last year and Sale and Viciedo this year. The White Sox rush players to the MB team to contend whether right or wrong. The Gio and Hudson trades are two other examples of placing the MLB team in front of developing talent. The flip of the Gio and Hudosn trades would mean that Danks and Gavin would most likely not be here.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Feb 4, 2012 -> 10:46 AM) I don't understand how it is smart to pay a premium for non-premium talent. Theo is the modern day Midas

The hawks lack toughness and now goal-tending. Crawford was terrible last night. Patrick Kane and any center not named Toews are really not giving the Hawks anything at all...Bolland can on occasion. If the Hawks lose in the first round is the Stan and Q honeymoon over? The Hawks just appear to be really soft and are getting beaten up.

Why/how did Jackson have to settle for that deal. Great deal for Nats terrible for Jackson. Are other teams, except the Tigers, tiring on the Boras stuff?

Is it me or do the hawks seem to be getting beaten up physically. The first time noticed it was in the Detroit game when Sharp was slashed it seems that folks are takign a good number of liberties and runs at Hawk players. I think the Hawks really outplayed the 'Nucks last night but just could not get the bounces.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Feb 1, 2012 -> 08:28 AM) Today's pre-sale code is..... ROBIN grabbed three thanks for the code.

Start a thread about girls wrestling with boys. This is no joke. There are a good numbers of girls wrestling in boys youth clubs. I find this creepy, wrong and borderline illegal.

For whatever reason baseball draws this type of scrutiny. Every kid plays baseball. Unfortunately the numbers, 9 per team cause some gaps. You can get by with a soccer team of 18 kids or basketball with 15. It is not easy but it can be done. In baseball though it does not work as a kid may not bat in game as there are limited opportunities for hitters and fielding time. Youth teams really need to be 12 to 15 kids tops. What happens if 17 kids want to play. You can't have two teams because inevitably grandma's 71st birthday will cause a kid to miss. Parents also think their kid is the best, let's go pay $2,000 to play travel baseball. Over 50% of all travel baseball teams are considered below average. This is killing recreational leagues and making certain folks a nice little side pocket of money. Johnny joins a travel baseball team. Johnny's family travels to watch 90 games all summer long. Johnny's team sucks but Johnny goes because mom and dad paid $2,000 and the housewives need some place to get their sun and talk about their overbearing husbands. Johnny finishes the year hates baseball and spends the next summer playing Call of Duty and never plays baseball again...Johnny is 11 years old. I coach a travel baseball team and a recreational team. I have a son that plays recreationally and loves it and another that plays travel and is ok with it. He plays travel as it is more competitive and they are a good team. I see way too many teams that suck spending a whole lot of dough while their neighborhood league is done at the age of 9.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEVn1VUBlE Three very good players are embarrassed on this.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 10:22 AM) If you've noticed, although that went away, there was a cut of the social security tax that offset a portion of that. If you have an income below abotu $40k, making work pay was a fair amount better, if you're somewhere in the $60-112k range, then the payroll tax credit has helped you more. Except the State of Illinois took that back. I figured the FICA in when when calculating my withholding last January.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 28, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) Had Fat Tire for the first time last night. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Also got a VIP bottle of Woodford Reserve Bourbon for Christmas. My goodness was that delicious. From your part of the country I have recently gotten hooked on Bell's.

Not happy with the Making Work Pay Credit goign away. I kept that out of the equation on what I pay so it was free money....not anymore.

I take Amy Fara.....

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 27, 2012 -> 06:12 PM) Read that Big Bang Theory has beat Idol in the ratings the past two weeks. Show is solid with plenty of room to grow.

Oddly if the dog was a pit bull there would be a much different conversation. The dick that shot the dog probably has a pit bull. What a douche.

The road one's were better http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10754637 Light blue with ZIPPERS!!!!!!!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) Ha, that's funny. His disappeared after he got his ass kicked Those were good times. What an asshat. The Tigers need to get Garza now...not to steal the thunder but they need to be "all in".

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 25, 2012 -> 09:08 AM) I would like to state that myself and Milkman were the first to post on this site, sometime around May 2011, that Ozzie was not trying to win anymore. We were called idiots for a month or two. The issue is that JR did not believe OG was not trying ot to win. In the end guillen f***ed Reinsdorf more than anyone as that is who loses the most. If the players realized guillen quit on the team how easy is for them to quit as well. This is why I think we will see a vastly differnt team this year and why reinsdorf kept Williams around.