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Really? Chicago's from the weakest division, and with a bullpen that has as many holes as theirs... I just don't see it.

Eh, never let logic, probability, or the laws of the universe get in the way of a good story, I always say. The Cubbies have tied it up, and the Sox already blanked the San Angeles Angels of Exurbian Mega City Two, or whatever the Hell they're being called this season.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

2007 World Series: Boston vs. Chicago. Bank on it. Reverse the Curse II: The Sequel!

I love the Cubbies, and I guarantee I will be rooting for them... if they get by MY Diamondbacks (who, as of this moment, are up one game to nil).

Know our motto? "Anybody, anytime". And boy, was Brandon Webb big tonight.

Angels vs. Cubs in the World Series with Los Angeles prevailing. Cubs are going to rise from the dead then get sent straight back with a 4-0 sweep when it matters the most.

so seriously. Is baseball really considered a sport. I played for four years and didn't really see any talent going into it.
one more question. Why are most really good baseball players overweight. or just plain have a beer belly. They should practice with football, hockey, or heck even basketball players for a few months in the off season an lose that junk. It doesn't really say much when a professional athlete has a bigger beer belly than a forty year old man that sits around and drinks beer all day. No offense to baseball fans. my entire family are huge Rangers fans. I'd much rather play the sport than watch it. And not on frickin playstation cause thats just retarted.

My Red Sox have got the world series this year. Red Sox-Rockies world series that's my prediction right now.

My roommate's an Indians fan. I go along with it to an extent, but he said the other day that he's ready for the Indians' "curse" to end, and that Cubs fans have nothing on what Cleveland fans have endured. Wait, what? THAT'S a curse? (2 World Series appearances in the past 15 years - or is it 3? - despite not winning one, apparently mean nothing. I thought the whole thing with the Cubs' curse was that they haven't even BEEN to a World Series in 99 years.)

Haven't mentioned to him yet that I don't think Cleveland can get through Boston, either; I wonder how he'd react to that.

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Why are most really good baseball players overweight. or just plain have a beer belly. They should practice with football, hockey, or heck even basketball players for a few months in the off season an lose that junk.

Baseball players use steroids because they're lazy, making them buff [fat], and don't work out or practice as much as hockey and football players. If you train with basketball players, you might lose the weight but you'd start whining when someone touches your arm.

Da Bears won last night we beat the dinosaur Brett Farve yeah! 5 turnovers for the pack 2-3 bring on Minnesota.

You can thank James Jones for that. 2 fumbles AND a dropped pass in the final seconds which would've put them at the Bears 12. Of course, if Green Bay would've decided to maybe play offense in the 2nd half, that would've made a difference too.

Good to see that balance has been restored to the universe as my beloved Saints have reverted to historical form: 0-4. Heartbreaking loss though yesterday -- they deserved better.

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My Red Sox have got the world series this year. Red Sox-Rockies world series that's my prediction right now.

"YOUR" Red Sox?!?!? No, no, no, my dear boy, they're MY Red Sox. I'm the President Bush of Red Sox Nation... You can be Speaker Pelosi. [Grin]

I'm actually stressing out a bit with conflictedness about tonight's Indians-New York game. The last of my boyhood idols, Roger Clemens, is starting for the Stanks, and while I positively LOATHE all things pinstriped, I'd like to see him pull it out ONE more time and propel the Yankees into a devastating 0-4 sweep by the Sox. However, it's hard not to admire the Indians' pluck, and besides I think Clemens is done. I'll be rooting for the Bronx Bums, for once, I guess, but I think the Indians are FINALLY going to get it done tonight, in all probability ending both Roger Clemens's and Joe Torre's careers (in New York, anyway, for the latter). But your prediction, other than confusing whose Red Sox they really ARE, seems pretty sound to me. Props.

And that was an incredible game at Lambeau last night. What a comeback... Da Bears live to fight another day.

dranscht: Your roommate sounds like a misery wannabe. What the Indians have experienced isn't a curse, at best it's a mild cool front. Go eighty-odd years, or a century like Cubs fans have, without a World Series ring, and THEN he can bellyache about a "curse". Until then, eh, shaddap. He don't know from miserable... He's watched Major League too many times, he thinks they're actually BAD.

Haven't mentioned to him yet that I don't think Cleveland can get through Boston, either; I wonder how he'd react to that.

Leave him his illusions; he has so many. They keep him warm.

Much as I could mention exceptions like Nolan Ryan or, perhaps, Roger Clemens (though I've watched The Rocket's body shape change over the years, and it ain't good), who are true athletes and among the most committed and rigorous of ballplayers EVER, I must in all honesty agree with iamhollywood here, cRAzY. Many baseball players are strong, no question -- particularly their legs -- and there is a far higher frequency of athleticism among pitchers, certainly, and infielders than other positions, not to mention the Devil's Spawn, the DH. However, I digress. Point is, there's a different culture, body-shaping-wise, to baseball than to most other American sports; you'd rarely confuse a ballplayer with, say, a tennis player, or a basketball player, or even a cyclist. In my opinion golf pros and MLB players are right up there with PBA Tour contestants in terms of generally poor conditioning. There are probably better-exercised professional poker players, honestly, than many MLBers.

And hockey players are some of the best athletes around, right up there with runners, swimmers and cross-country skiiers.

Good to see that balance has been restored to the universe as my beloved Saints have reverted to historical form: 0-4.

[Chuckle] Man, I feel for ya, A_Roode, I do. At least LSU will be playing for the national championship... at the SuperDome, no less.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

I've played all but hockey and I have to say tennis practice is much more draining that baseball. so was powerlifting. And football practice ranks almost up there with hockey which i hear is frickin brutal. Too bad we don't have much high school hockey in texas. Either was. Baseballs fun to play everynow and then as a past time maybe? but professionals get paid way to much. Its too bad. Such talent wasted because the money dims their competitive spirit.

Glad to see so many Sox fans on here. Its always a great year when you see the Red Sox win the AL East, Sweep their ALDS, and watch as the Yankees get whooped by Cleveland as I hear their fans growning from down the hall (I'm in college in Connecticut and live in a dorm filled with them). Now if they can cap it off with a beat down of the Indians, just to show how much better than the Yankees they are, that will take it over the top. Then the inevitible trouncing of the National League team that makes it through will be the icing on the cake.

Welcome, geezer, to yet another member of Red Sox Nation who has found his way to FM!

Price of first-row tickets to Game 1 of the ALCS, behind the Red Sox dugout: $2,925.00 (pair).

Cost of Fenway Park premium parking pass: $95.00.

Winning bid for Jason Varitek game-day jersey on eBay: $2.495.00.

Listening to prissy, primped and pampered Yankees fans implode and blubber disconsolately for their mommies and pinstriped binkies while they watch their dozen-year dynasty being clubbed into bloody pulp, like a retarded baby seal, by the Tribe: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's always the BoSox, and always next year. Except when it's this year.

Hey, Steinbrennah: I got'cha Brahnx Cheeh, right he-yeah!

I remain, as always...

Nico. (Yankees Suck!)

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