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Quote from: RV on May 12, 2008, 08:50:59 AM

Quote from: Three times a JD on May 12, 2008, 08:39:31 AM
I apologize if you read this far because this post kinda sucked, too.

I think I think you couldn't be more wrong about this. So a guy who was the #4 pick in the draft and will be lucky to have Ron Dayne's career MIGHT BE a bigger disappointment than the guy who quarterbacked the Bears to their first Super Bowl in 20 years?

I'm sure if Pter King actually polled Bears fans and football writers that have actually followed the Bears (or simply picked up a media guide), he'd be shocked that you could find 15 first-round Bear draft picks in the past 20 years who have been more disappointing than Rex:

Ced Benson
Brad Muster
Michael Haynes
Marc Colombo
John Thierry
Alonzo Spellman
David Terrell
Stan Thomas
Rashaan Salaam
Cade McNown
Curtis Enis
Walt Harris
Curtis Conway
Wendell Davis
Rick Mirer (Essentially the No. 1 pick in 1997)

Scott Simon had him for lunch.

Is it too late for joesoxfan to join us?

Quote from: Al Czervik on May 02, 2008, 01:04:45 PM

Quote from: TJ on May 02, 2008, 12:39:56 PM

Quote from: BC on April 27, 2008, 04:34:57 PM

Quote from: Ogden on April 27, 2008, 04:32:38 PM
So I guess all Angelo has to do now to make BC happy is draft Anthony Morelli.

No, he completed his duty to piss me off a couple hours ago.

The only QB left worth taking a chance on, in my opinion, is Keller from Nebraska. Flynn was the other guy worth taking a shot at, but the Packers drafted him.

Aw, don't worry BC (or Peter King): LeRoy Butler says Brett Favre's coming back to play for the Bears next year.

No audio at work, but this looks credible.  Butler uses all kinds of hand gestures that indicate he's telling the truth about whatever it is he's saying.

So Favre gets to put a cherry on top of the sundae that was killing the Bears all these years by donning the Navy and Orange and throwing 20TDs and 32INTs

Well it IS LeRoy Butler. Only if Peter King would make a similar pronouncement would you have a more credible source.

Butler also suggests Minnesota and Detroit.

Quote from: BC on April 27, 2008, 04:34:57 PM

Quote from: Ogden on April 27, 2008, 04:32:38 PM
So I guess all Angelo has to do now to make BC happy is draft Anthony Morelli.

No, he completed his duty to piss me off a couple hours ago.

The only QB left worth taking a chance on, in my opinion, is Keller from Nebraska. Flynn was the other guy worth taking a shot at, but the Packers drafted him.

Aw, don't worry BC (or Peter King): LeRoy Butler says Brett Favre's coming back to play for the Bears next year.

I think Dusty likes how he has experience against the NL Central.

I hate this news more than any of you. He was the closer for the Maldonado Candies of the Neifi Perez League.

Quote from: Chuckosan on May 01, 2008, 05:00:22 PM

Quote from: The Paul Popovich Experience on May 01, 2008, 04:53:19 PM

Quote from: Mike D on May 01, 2008, 04:46:57 PM
Long season.

I'll say this though--Soriano and his drunken-polar-bear-on-a-unicycle act needs to be taken down for defense in later innings.  No need having that clown with an irrelevant glove stapled to his hand out there in a  close games.

How Cub that the Soriano signing is looking a HUGE, Hampton-esque, Zito-esque FA disaster right about now. Ugh. That 40/40 season in Washington is already a distant memory.

Shut up, Chuck.  Oh, wait.

I just remember reading somewhere that the length and size of the contract wasn't an issue.

I have my snazzy checkbook out; I even can use that spiffy PayPal, should Fork prefer that. But instructions on where to send the $$, please?

Quote from: Three times a JD on April 28, 2008, 05:11:50 PM
I meant to include that "stayed a W" crap but forgot.  A loser is me.  For reading his column.  Every single week. 



What is wrong with me?

You're doing the Lord's work. Literally. Not even He reads Peter King's columns. He just reads your recap.

Quote from: Slaky+ on April 28, 2008, 05:02:38 PM
That was pretty rare. A nice, long JD post.


Savor it.

Agreed.

So, I went ahead and read the inspiration for JD's post, and I find out that BC and PK are bffs, too:

QuoteThe three teams I didn't like:

1. Chicago. The Bears had 12 draft choices this year. No quarterback picked. Chicago had nine draft choices in 2007. No quarterback picked. Chicago had seven draft choices in 2006. Three years with a quarterback need, 28 draft choices, and never a passer picked. This isn't odd. It's negligent.

The thing that drives me craziest about the draft is when you see a team with talent not doing enough to bolster the most important position on the field, over and over and over again. With Chad Henne, who absolutely should have been a first-rounder, and solid guy Brian Brohm on the board, the Bears passed on both and picked a very productive running back from Tulane, Matt Forte.

There's a slight chance -- maybe 20 or 25 percent, I'd say -- that the Bears have their quarterback of the future on the roster in either Rex Grossman or Kyle Orton. Maybe. But whether you believe it or not, you have to admit it's silly not to backstop the most important position in sports. What is it about the undying love of Grossman that makes Chicago unable or unwilling to turn the page?

As for his use of terms like "bff," does this have to do with him becoming cool and staying at a W?

QuoteAggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week

Ever stayed at a W? It's a nice hotel chain, an upscale, groovy-chic branch of the Westin, but quite O.

Odd.

For draft weekend, I stayed at the W Perimeter, the Atlanta-beltway W near a big mall and the swank places they don't let people my age in. At the W, when you go to work out, you go to W Sweat, which, by the way, is a pretty barren workout room for a hotel that is pretty E.

Expensive.

Anyway, the light on my phone was blinking Saturday, and a computer voice told me I had a message at the front desk. The pleasant fellow I was connected to told me, "You have an envelope waiting for you at Whatever, Whenever.'' I asked where that was, and he said, "You know, reception. The front desk.''

S.

Strange.

Finally, just three weeks until Peter King needs to ratchet up more useless bits that don't involve his kids:

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j. Three weeks until I'm out of the kids-in-college business. Amazing. Where did the time go? And doesn't it seem like only yesterday when I was enraging half of you by writing an entire column about the Mary Beth King 1-0, complete-game, 16-inning pitching loss to Nutley? I'll never forget the great e-mail I got the next week from someone. It read: "What? No boxscore?''

Why isn't BC going?

Well, Hamilton County and Cincinnati is full of "small-town thinking" so I root against that Cincinnati Reds team. Heck, I even root for Adam Dunn to lose at bridge in November.

I, of course, have formed my opinion only after consulting the expert on all things:

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But Brennaman called the county's decision "the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. It's not as though I started using that phrase last year.

"I've been using it for 29 seasons. Anybody who's a Reds fan knows (that line) is my signature phrase. For (the county) to say people are going to confuse my phrase with the Reds (making a claim) that the ballpark belongs to them is ridiculous. ... It's indicative of the small-town thinking (being done by the county).

"I say, `And this one belongs to the Reds,' not `This ballpark belongs to the Reds," Brennaman added.

Yes, he's pissed off because the county didn't want the hackneyed "And this one belongs to the Reds" painted on the stadium. A stupid debate in which, thankfully, there are only losers.

Marty Brennaman accepted checks from Marge Schott, cashed them, deposited them in the bank, and lived off of them. That and what CT said.

But Cincy fans are always well behaved. That's why the world roots for Cincinnati. The Queen City. The jewel of the Ohio. Class all around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzJv8NlWOk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7M3S87wHj4

Aw, let's give joesoxfan a break. He and his fellow Sox fans have lightened up some. They've even forgiven Billy Buckner. Using Joe Sox fan's math, he only booted that ground ball against the Mets in a Game 6 that was already tied up 448 years ago.

Quote from: joesoxfan on April 07, 2008, 11:25:20 PM
You the writer Dickens? You're 4000 years old.

That's funny. I thought he was more like 196, but hey, we have a Sox fan who is at least familiar with the name of 19th Century British author.