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There's not much. Pedro Lopez, Robert Valido and Chris Getz are the most you might have heard of.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 07:46 PM) I'm all for Brian Anderson's improvement. You have to love what he brings to the table defensively, I thinks he's an awesome kid, and everything inbetween, but it's stupid to ignore how poorly he did this season by taking away random months throughout the year. I could bat over a full season, and if I got beaned, or walked a couple times, I might get on-base at a .250 clip. That doesn't mean you should conclude that I'm a half decent Major Leaguer because I did this or that, it should be a given that I suck because of how poorly I performed over the entire season. Basically, I'm not for adding, subtracting, looking at small sample sizes. A year is a rather appropriate sample size, I'm not saying BA won't improve, because he should and will most likely, but to say he's a .275 hitter because he hit that well over a couple weeks is ridiculous. No? If you hit 180 into June and you finished hitting 225 despite spotty playing time, I'd say that you had shown some improvement.

QUOTE(fathom @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 02:26 PM) I've actually grown to love this idea. If Ozzie's going to try and play Ozzieball, we might as well have someone who can steal bases, create situations with his speed, bunt, and make contact. Watch it last for one year.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Oct 17, 2006 -> 02:17 PM) I'm not even that big of a Pierre fan, but he's certainly a better player than Brian Anderson is at this point. I'm sure Brian Anderson will not improve this winter. f*** defense anyways.

Not from Ames, but yeah, Grieving was part of the masaterful ISU-Iowa Hawkchokejob of 2002. He got -2 points.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 06:57 PM) Hopefully well this year. With the Big 12 KU should have a 1 seed locked up. As a 1 seed that is 2 games against teams that are not even top 25. So I would say that they have sweet 16 easy and beyond. Heh.

Akaska not Alaska.

Hep wants you, motherf***er.

I can still hate the guy for the rest of my life. He had a better shot at a national title at ISU, as it turned out.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 01:44 PM) The moral of this story is that verbal commitments mean basically nothing. They simply aren't binding, so you shouldn't get too excited if a stud verbals to your school, especially early in the recruiting phase. There's no guarantee that they will be there until they sign the LOI. Gordon is the 4th big time recruit I know of this year that has changed his commitment (Bayliss from Texas to Arizona, Beasley from Charlotte to K-State, Pope decommit from Pitt). These things are so informal that I don't know how you could really be pissed at Sampson at this point. All Gordon has to say is that he's going to Illinois and it's the end of the story. If a coach wants to waste his time recruiting a committed player that's his own problem, and for guys as good as the ones I mentioned it might be worth the risk. Until the NCAA makes a rule preventing such a practice, I don't see a problem with it. On another note, FWIW there was a blurb in The Sporting News like a month ago saying that Gordon had decommitted from Illinois. However, since there is no official paperwork or anything, who knows or cares. It's been pretty obvious for some time that he wasn't a lock to go to Illinois anymore... Like Kirk Hinrich to Iowa State. If you think I'm bad, just wait til Illini fans see him become an NBA player on a team they hate just to spite them.

Big 12 Coaches Poll Coaches’ picks (with first-place votes, total points): 1. Kansas (11)*, 121 2. Texas A&M (1), 109 3. Oklahoma State, 97 4. Texas, 95 5. Kansas State, 76 6. Texas Tech, 68 7. Baylor, 60 8. Missouri, 44 9. Oklahoma, 42 10. Nebraska, 37 11. Iowa State, 23 12. Colorado, 20

That's a good blog.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 01:10 AM) Heads, you going up to the Akaska area again? Si, señor. QUOTE(shipps @ Oct 16, 2006 -> 02:22 AM) I shot a sparrow with a bb gun when i was about 12yrs old because my friends called me out on it.Never had a desire to shoot anything since.10 years later still riddled with guilt. We process or donate everything we shoot.

Which begs the question, what would make a player want to play in Ames?

It's a private landowner that runs a business taking people out to hunt. Not really an outfitter....

I'm taking a 5 day vacation right before Halloween to go up to SD and pheasant hunt.

Do we have any Spanish speakers here? Could we get a translation? I love how they call the Sox average....

Both teams f***ed up in grand fashion.

New Iowa Poll has Culver over Nussle by 7 pts. 46-39.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2006 -> 02:07 PM) Yeah, um the news dispatch isn't exacty famous for being solid. Is your children learning in Michigan City?

QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 14, 2006 -> 03:02 PM) Took the dog to the vet, got her x-rayed and no pins! There went $100. Ugh. Yeah, it's a real shame she didn't eat some of them.

Iowa doesn't like playing teams that wear red.

Indiana all but seals the win against Iowa.

So am I missing something or does four somehow equal six in MC?

This ISU-OU game is apainful to watch.