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Good lord the BCS (or at least the New York Times computer) needs to go far far away. As if we needed any more evidence. From ESPN.com The bizarre nature of the BCS Standings should be further exposed on Monday afternoon, when Ohio State will likely take over the No. 2 overall spot despite being ranked No. 4 in both polls of human voters. Every team ranked in the BCS top 10 was victorious Saturday, so there wasn't expected to be much shakeup in this week's standings. But as we've observed time and time again, these rankings don't operate like the traditional polls. Teams can (and often do) fall after a win. This week, it was USC and TCU who fell. Southern California's lead on Ohio State was almost a point and a half last week, but that evaporated because of the strength of OSU's weekend opponent (Purdue) compared with the weakness of USC's opponent (Arizona). The Buckeyes gained enough ground in the computer and schedule-strength elements of the BCS formula to more than offset the two-point advantage USC holds over them in average poll ranking. The biggest surprise came from The New York Times' computer, which unexpectedly dropped the once-beaten Trojans from third to fifth. Texas (9-2) is No. 3 in those ratings, and Florida (8-3) is No. 4. Fortunately for USC, it doesn't have any more games against teams as bad as Arizona. Unfortunately for the Trojans, Ohio State's final opponent (Michigan) is even stronger than Purdue. If the Buckeyes win that game, they will likely remain at No. 2 in the following week's BCS Standings. ------------------------------------------- Yes, the NYT computer somehow managed to get 14th ranked, 3 loss Florida ahead of USC. The NYT computer is also the one that will rank the TCUs, Bowling Greens, NIUs in the mid 20 at best when every other computer can have them in the top 10. It is absurd that the BCS can have such a statistical outlier throw off so much stuff. You know what you do to outliers? Throw them out of the equation. I hope Congress burns somebody's ass for this one.

You got that right. 53 RBIs in the 55 games you played in Atlanta. I want a piece of your first abitration year deal.

Yeah, such a great team that I hit .357 out of the 3 hole and only get 95 RBIs. Bunch a bums hitting in front of me.

Well, the negative opinions have been pretty thought out it other threads already. So people probably aren't going to jump in line to state them all.

Go Atlanta Go Go Atlanta Go Unless of course, they don't want to pony up the money next offseason. In that case fuck them, I'll ride out this year on a losing team. I gots ta get paid.

Now THAT'S the kind of response I was hoping for. He weighed the positives and negatives, and then gave me an honest response. By the way it looks you really want to order the show, but want someone to justify the purchase for you. Since you waited until the response didn't say no, before saying that was an opinion you wanted. So if you want it, buy it. Just because a response is a definite no, doesn't mean it was a close minded decision. Especially considering the best match Tajiri-Knoble is going to be on Heat.

The Browns are playing the Cardinals, right?

Yes, it is the most K's. And for the awards, it should show up at the bottom of your player page in the career highlights section.

I think college football kicks from the 35. But it was probably just one of those lazy points, that they don't think anyone would notice. Because you would have to kick it regulation, then have it get knocked back 10 yards, which doesn't happen.

I do think it hurts the sports fan, though. What will end up happening is he'll sign some exclusive contract meaning his merchandise will decrease, and like kids who collect baseball cards won't have as many chances to pull a Barry Bonds. Granted, I shed no tear for the baseball card people. Fucking disgrace what they have done to the hobby. But there are still some kids out there who are into it and who enjoy it.

Moss, Jackson, McCallister, James, George, Cle or Sea (tossup, just flip a coin) Jackson faces the Detroit D, so he could have a big game. George and Williams is close, so Bennett being back makes me lean to George even though I don't like him. And Cleveland plays Arizona while Seattle plays Detroit so they are even.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Halloween

Well, after his father died some people and media started to treat him like a sympathetic person and say he wasn't as big of a jerk as before.

In an ESPN.com article they say that the players sign a group licensee contract for all that stuff, and he decided not to sign. So they don't own his likeness. Yet, eventhough he didn't sign he is still part of the union which is fucking retarded. Bonds screws over the players and isn't even booted from the union?!? It makes me laugh, though. This was the year that he was finally starting to be seen like an actual, decent human (not by me, but most people) and then he pulls this.

I remember hearing about that, too. On WIP (Philly sports radio) they talked about it, since Jeffrey Lurie was the one to make a public stink about it. They said that ESPN wasn't planning on bringing it back. The ratings for the show were double what was on, in that slot before, but I don't think that is high enough to justify the cost and draw the ire of the NFL.

It is, by far, the largest I ever remember seeing. Hell, the Miami-Rutgers games I watch usually only get a 35-40 point spread.

There is no way I could ever take the favorite on a 50+ point spread. So I would never bet on this game, because you can't go against OU right now either. And this to me rates around a 4 on the want to see scale. Blowouts like this are entertaining.

"Ba weep gra na weep ninny bon!" Completely unrelated to anything, but the fact that he had this as one of his post title's rules the fucking world.

Rainbow Warriors added Big Red, heh heh. Yes, once it passes midnight I get stupid.

Heh, rainbow warriors, heh heh.

We have the first free agent class coming up next year. Myself, Shiro Suzuki, and John Duran are all entering our sixth season. I want to see what kind of checks start rolling in, in 2009. I can already guarantee that I will get stuck on a terrible team, after finally seeing some success with Atlanta. What is the deal with FA? Do they just assign us to a team, do we just re-up with our current team, or do we actually pick from offers?

Oh, .352? Not bad for a rookie season, I guess. Depends on how much you gave your guy in regards to average and walks. Next year you should hope for the .365 range, at least. Just for reference, Shea Hillenbrand is a leper to sabermetrics people for his .330 OBP.

.392 OPS would put you 25th in 2003 Major League statistics.

I think Hunter's 51 in 2006 is the TSM record.

My only problem with the episode is the amount of Butters-Cartman interaction. Granted, given the plot, there would be a lot of those two on screen. But after a while it just got tiresome. Ok, Cartman is tricking Butters, I get it. The joke just seemed to go a little long. Cartman beating up Jimmy for Kyle was gold.