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When PTI has neither Mike nor Tony, just extend the Showdown between Woody and Jay an extra half hour.

To join in: I'm a Cubs fan, AND I like the Red Sox, BUT I can't see Yankee Stadium go. Too bad Bud Selig would be the last guy to invoke the BIoB clause to save The House That Ruth Built, though. It may not have the classic and bizarre architecture of Fenway, the purity of Wrigley, but holy crap, it's Yankee Stadium, where they've played and won for all these years. There's no reason to leave. It's huge, was recently refurbished, and it's not like New York baseball fans are clamoring for amusement parks past right center field. No man-made creation can last forever, I suppose, but the four most important ballparks today (Wrigley, Fenway, Yankee, and Dodger) can all last a little longer than this. If they saved Fenway, they'll save Yankee Stadium. I can't see this really happening. I just can't.

*wailing guitar riff* CA-NA-DA, CA-NA-DUH-UH... Wait never mind! That was "enema," not "Canada." Canada is just some place where hockey exists and everyone drinks maple syrup with their beer and says aboot. Yes. Everyone. All 3 million of those spunky Canadanians. Serena Williams > Wayne Gretzky breaking the points record. ESPN does both variations of oral sex I guess.

Scrapple: crap + Snapple.

I say no smoking in restaurants, but yes to it in bars, because they're, ya know, bars and all. No real food experience to be ruined, no children's lungs to corrupt, and if you're going to drink all night, some secondhand smoke isn't going to make much of a difference anyway, you're wrecking your body enough as it is. Oh and here's an idea for anti-smoking legislation: cut tobacco subsidies and let the market adjust itself from there. Why spend taxpayer dollars for anti-smoking PSAs, AND taxpayer dollars to pay farmers to grow tobacco? It's a waste.

Canada...hmm. I think Van Halen wrote a song about him? I'm not sure.

To be fair, there were other Bulls besides MJ. With ya 100% on Shaq though

Greg Maddux wins #299 and the Cubs are looking pretty decent these days...all we need are for the Cardinals to lose while we win.

True, because like hockey, Canada does not exist in the ESPN universe.

Bruiser Chong's description was kinda close to me, sorta, I guess.

It's not just him, Roger Ebert works there, too. Maybe you were being sarcastic? Eh. I just like bashing the Sun-Times, I guess. I don't think it's a very good newpaper compared to the Chicago Tribune, which has better writing, and owns better sports teams, I mean, has a better commitment to excellence in journalism. However, the Sun-Times is the only major-market newspaper I know of with a pro wrestling column. And Ebert has been worthless without Siskel anyway.

Why is Woody a NY homer now? I thought he was for Denver teams and various southern teams. Mariotti is the best thing ATH has going. How anyone who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times can have such an ego is beyond me, but hey, whatever.

I'd rather see the White Sox and Cubs both make it to October than just the Cubs and the boring-ass Twins.

New Jane is bland and less hot than Ingrid. Tim is onto them I think.

Sandberg and Boggs.

Good win, but the Cubs still need a playoff-caliber shortstop, a real closer, and better production from Patterson.

Did they say Ingrid was a 32DD? TIM IS GONE.

Good news: Cubs are up by two Bad news: It's in the bullpen's hands now

But Lindros was SO hyped up. At the very least, I'd say Forsberg+ for Lindros has to go down as a boneheaded trade.

Never mind, they tied it up

WHY AREN'T THE CUBS SCORING?

I just saw the Flops countdown today when I had nothing better to do...how can they forget Eric Lindros? It seems like there were a lot of NFL rookies who were like "well they were good...but not as good as we thought." Here's a guy that's supposed to have size, speed, strength, and pass Gretzky and Lemieux with ease. After refusing to play in Quebec City, Philadelphia basically trades half the organization over to the Nordiques for this guy, a whole slew of decent players like Duchesne, Hextall, and some dude from Sweden named Peter Forsberg. Lindros produces for a while, but his parents bitch constantly, he gets the captaincy taken away from him in public, and gets concussed time and time again. He was worse than Ryan Leaf, in my opinion, because the players that the Flyers sent away built the Nordiques into a Cup-caliber team over the years.

Shame, I sorta wanted to see the Mets have a decent year.

It's more quality programming from Bill Simmons's new "ESPN 666."

The fact that he's a television personality with that weird-ass eye should be grounds for dismissal. It's hard to watch.