The Czech Republic

Yeah, it's just so frustrating to watch right now. I mean, looking around, you've got Derrek Lee having a great year, Burnitz producing more than Sosa, Michael Barrett improving behind the plate, Walker, Ramirez, Patterson, Perez...this is NOT a bad lineup at all. But the vaunted rotation is pitching like shit, and the middle relief, like you said, has been horrifying. Now I'm a Weaver/Moneyball guy, so I'd rather have them going for the longball than taking the bunt-and-steal route. "If you play for one run, that's all you'll get," so on, so forth. But the problem here is that Weaver and Moneyball advocate the three-run homer, and that means you need guys to, you know, get on base. Whether it's base hits or drawing walks, I don't care, but just DO IT. They have the first qualification down for relying on the longball, which is to be able to hit it, but they're swinging at all sorts of shit. Corey Patterson is the worst offender. He can be at Wrigley and swing at a pitch thrown at Comiskey. It's awful. It hurts to watch. So forget smallball and manufacturing runs. Just find a way to work the damn count and not humiliate yourself at the plate. It can be done. I don't think that the same pitchers who walk handfuls of batters for other teams magically find the strike zone when facing the Cubs.

The Sabres won't be of any help in basketball

The talent is there, but not being used. Cubs rank dead last in drawing walks. No wonder they look so bad.

Well three cheers for realism.

If you're winning video games with 45 runs, why play?

Oh. It wasn't there when I first saw it

I think I've just about had it with your Scottie Pippen hate.

You can see Lebron in Cleveland?

Maybe Moises Alou can be of service if Alex gets tested again.

Sanchez is 28. Looks like the Giants are starting a youth movement.

The 1995 New Jersey Devils

As I went to check this thread where Corey returned, the view count was 666!

Whoa. The Laz is back.

Well that changes everything.

Hmph.

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I don't remember offhand why I was mad at Kotz, so I guess I'm not anymore.

Barefoot.

I was revalidating some e-mail account I never use, and in there was when I registered for the CronoT board as Muggy, so I checked to see if it was still alive, and there was that bad TSM Players thread, and I copy-pasted the Kotz thing because it was so bad.

I didn't even write that

I didn't know where the story was headed. I thought it was about Tucker Carlson.

I'm Kotz, bitch! I'm so baked out of my mind all the time, I can't tell up from down. However, I'm so fugged up, I think I can run a message board by typing on the keyboard with my dick. Woohoo, watch me smoke some nasty shit, and listen to me ramble on about every stupid thing that goes through my empty brain.

I don't think they'd be HUGE chokers. It'd be disappointing seeing as they're usually unstoppable at home, but after the ALCS it's hard to call the Pistons beating the Spurs a HUGE choke.

How is Bill Walton going to take the news?

Nope, "Administrative Professionals' Day" is worse. At least Canada isn't a euphemism.