whitesoxfan99

He's in denial

Giants held on and beat the Padres. Now a tie for the wild card.

She asked to be removed from the poll.

Anyone else see this? Someone threw a bottle at him after he made an error that cost the Dodgers some runs. He walked over to the stands and spiked the bottle over there. He was ejected and I have to think he'll get suspended. Way to be there for your team when they need you Milton. :rolly

Well, Olivo hasn't hit worth a damn since being traded and Fransisco may be deported and is suspended for the year for throwing a chair into the stands so hes not exactly the kind of guy I want on my team. As for Reed I would agree that it was a mistake to give him up, but if thats was the price for Garcia then it was a deal at the time that KW should have made.

Maybe they should take care of their own business.

Unfortuantely it isn't a joke and is part of the growing trend of hyping kids that show any promise at sports. Its getting a little out of hand at this point. Lets stop blaming kids for buying into their hype and start blaming the media for doing this to them at such a young age. Its impossible to say how good a kid will be when he is even a freshman in high school (with a few notable exceptions) let alone 4th grade. Let the kids be kids.

For a long time I was in double digits per day and now I'm down to just over 5. Actually, I'm surprised its still that high considering how little I've been posting lately.

Screw trading for a QB who at best will get us a few extra wins and hurt the Bears draft position. With the secondary in the shape its in and not exactly having a tremendous amount of talent on offense to begin with this team isn't going anywhere.

Considering Moss takes a lot of heat for his personality I just want to point out that was a classy move giving the ball to the guy in the wheelchair and shaking his hand after scoring that touchdown.

Purdue's defense is a joke. The only problem is UI's is even worse.

Minor leaguers are professional players as well.

Why not? I still haven't heard a good argument for this. Should players who play professionally overseas not be able to win the NBA rookie of the year? Fact of the matter is its his first season in MLB and he should be eligible for the award.

He said single season and Magglio has never hit 40 so Konerko does have more HR in a single season then Maggs ever has. However, Belle had 49 for the Sox one year and Thomas has a career high of 43 so Konerko hasn't caught him yet.

Speaking of Michael, anyone else hear the rumors he may be making another comeback with Miami. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing it because I still loved watching him play with the Wizards and still would probably enjoy watching him play now.

Not being the star player on your team doesn't mean you aren't a star. Would you say Kareem Abdul Jabbar just because Magic was the star of that team or that Kevin McHale wasn't a star for the Celtics because he played with Larry Bird. I've never been a big fan of Pippen's but he was a great player and one of the best defensive players ever. He is a sure fire HOF and probably should be on the top 50 of all time list.

How is that, my argument against Self was he wasn't at Illinois long enough to build a program and the same thing goes for Larry Brown. The only reason I brought up Krueger is that it seems people have the belief that Self is the one and only reason Illinois basketball is at currents level.

The difference is Self wasn't at Illinois long enough to build anything and lets not forget that it was actually Lon Krueger who really made it possible for Self to build a very good team at Illinois by putting together the Elite 8 team.

Oh, heres a pic of Elisha Cuthbert (my favorite) for you. I can't believe you haven't heard of her before.

Cards would definitely be my top choice along with the Astros if they somehow get in. As for teams I don't want to see win it: Cubs, Yankees, Red Sox, and Twins. Everyone else I'm pretty indifferent towards.

Thank you, its nice to be wanted, but I hope its for other things other than the contest...even though I know it isn't.

It means he is a great recruiter and that Julian Wright always wanted to go to Kansas. The only reason he removed Kansas was that Kansas cooled on him not the other way around. Julian Wright wanted to go to an "elite" program and when he found out Arizona wasn't what he was looking for and Kansas made itself available and Wright jumped at the chance. At least thats what I've pieced together.

I've been around a little bit, just been busy and the Sox pissed me off to no end. I'm up for it again (not till my schedule allows though) but I know it takes a lot of bandwith so Jas and the rest of the admins have to make the call.

Just for comparison (and I truly believe Self may be the best recruiter in college BB) here were his classes at Illinois along with rankings for those who care. Rankings may be a little off but I didn't really feel like looking up the exact RSCI rankings when I know very close to where all these guys were ranked. 1. Blandon Ferguson JC (didn't do anything) Luther Head-NR (turned into a very good player) Kept Roger Powell who had already committed on board 2. Dee Brown - around 20 Deron Williams around 50 (great get for Self but not a whole lot of comp. as GT had already just signed Jarret Jack, also missed out on Sean Dockery) James Augustine around 80 (had to be convinced by Dee and assistants to take him after missing out on Shelden Williams, Michael Thompson, and Ike Diogu) Aaron Spears borderline top 100 (not with team) Kyle Wilson borderline top 100 (not with team) 3. Rich McBride around 30 (very good get coming out of HS) Brian Randle around 55 (extremely athletic, hasn't proven anything besides that yet) Warren Carter NR (could end up being a tremendous SF/PF at the college level) *Charlie Villanueva top 5 (committed ended up at UCONN where he contributed very little to their NC last year) Bruce Weber As Self had to keep Powell on board so did Weber have to keep Carter Randle, and McBride on board 1. Shaun Pruitt- 55-70 are the rankings I've seen for him, the kid is huge and rankings wise is better than any big man self brought into UI unless you count CV Calvin Brock borderline top 100 #3 player in Illinois last year (tremendous athlete easily the most explosive athlete on the team) 2. So far Marcus Arnold- transfer from ISU, averaged over 12 PPG last year and made our big men look horrible when we faced them Jamar Smith-terrific shooter borderline 100 type ranking David Palmer-this guy is a bit of an enigma, a one time top 25 player per insiders top 50 per rivals and at least one other source as slid drastically in the rankings due to an injury, is going to Oak Hill this year which should help him a lot and if he gets back to form is a very good get for UI While I'm worried who will fill out the class of '05 up to this point I'm very happy with the guys Weber has coming into the program.

I'm as big of an Illini fan as anyone but we never get the best player from the state of Illinois. Not even the great Bill Self could get that done. And with the constant early entries to the NBA draft I will be very happy with top 100 players. I think we are going to start to see a trend (assuming no draft age rule is passed) of teams with the 4 year type guys having the best teams. And rankings mean zero. The best players in the country last year Emeka Okafor #99, Devin Harris not ranked, Ryan Gomes not ranked, yet you have a guy like Kelvin Torbert who was the #2 player coming out of HS. Edit- And losing Shaun Livingston did nothing to hurt the program (I'll take 4 years of Calvin Brock thank you very much). I was pissed at the time, but looking back it was for the best.