The Anything Goes Thread

When one is a cubs fan, one needs to cheer for a consistant winner......Boomer Sooner!

What about the big Ohio State/Notre Dame matchup? That's going to be a hell of a game.

pleasegetzitopleasegetzitopleasegetzitopleasegetzito

If this trade somehow goes down, it will be the finishing touches on Kenny Williams' taking Jim Hendry behind the woodshed. If the Tribune Co. wanted to, it could have authorized Hendry to go after a top starter - and they wouldn't have had to have Bedard in the Prior deal - which clearly was what killed it.

That said, the Cubs should empty the vault to get Zito. Pie, Hill, Murton, Marshall, Dopirek. No brainer. They just have to make sure they sign Zito to a long-term deal. And it's bye bye Woody after 2006. Good riddance.

1. It feature's Chicago's ONLY college football team - Northwestern (which, I might remind you Cub fans, supports the Northside).
2. Northwestern features one of the best senior QB's in the country (Brett Basanez), who, with 37 yards rushing, can become the first QB in college football history with 10,000 career passing yards and 1,000 career rushing yards.  You'll be seeing him on Sundays, one day (probably not as a starter, but as a very capable backup).
3. Northwestern also features the best freshman running back in the country, Tyrell Sutton.  In two years (or less) expect Heisman talk out of Evanston.
4. Northwestern is playing UCLA. Neither one of these teams has a defense.  So unlike the Cub's probable opening day lineup, this game will feature LOTS of offense.  I'd say a 56-51 final score would not be out of the question.
5. It's something to do before Notre Dame gets exposed as the most overrated at-large team of the BCS era (seriously, look at their schedule.  Who did they BEAT? Note: close losses don't count.  No one but a mediocre Michigan team.  They are NOT as good as people think, but, as much as I hate it, Weis will get them there).
6. It's on CBS, which means those of you without cable will still see the game.

In a 1997 profile on Maddux for "Playboy" magazine, "Controlling Force," Tom
Boswell explored why the future Hall of Famer is so easy to overlook:

Greg Maddux has nothing to sell and little to hide. He has no image to cultivate or protect because he hasn't bothered to create one...He has no
public persona whatsoever. He may be the most widely known athlete in
American history who can walk down any street and go unrecognized. "Around
the ballpark, they know who you are," he says, "but you go a couple of miles
up the road, dude, they got no clue."
 Further, Boswell explains:

If you want a series of interviews with a star athlete and you don't already
have a personal history with him, this is what usually happens: You have to
perform the goddamn twelve labors of Hercules.
 You talk to his agent, his lawyer, his general manager, his team's public
relations director. Your people talk to his people. You block out time. You
do a courtship dance. The process can take weeks. Perhaps he blows you off.
Finally, you go to a steakhouse or play golf or visit him in his home. But,
underneath it all, here's the basic ground rule and the subtext: He's a
star.

This is how it works with Greg Maddux. You walk up to him in the clubhouse
and introduce yourself. He says, "Playboy, huh? Do I get to pose?"

By the way Zito is overrated, IMO.  He won a cy young, but he's not really a "cy young pitcher"
Don't get me wrong, he's very good.  But just not as good as his reputation/name value might indicate.

Speaking of the UCLA game, Northwestern needs to work on their onside kick coverage.

Kalin Lucas commits to Michigan State over Michigan, Illinois and Wake Forest.

Exciting for all Michigan State basketball fans, as is this season that will surely see MSU win the best conference in the country.

Go Green!

Dayn Perry / FOXSports.com
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5205306

I've been working very hard lately to understand the dynamics of Freud and psychoanalysis, I've had my professor from my Educational Psych class as a mentor per se, but now that he's in Florida with his daughter I don't have much of a choice.

Is anyone familiar with his, "Instincts and their Visscutudes" paper?

...uhm, go Cubs. Yeesh.

But Sooner, I'd have been more than happy to back you up on getting some respect for the Big 12, but once you went on about the "ou dynasty" stuff, you were on your own. Sooner fans could do everyone a favor by taking a page from Mark McGwire. Repeat after me: "I am not here to talk about the past."

On to other comments, yeah, ESPN's running theme where they pit USC against the best teams in college history is goofy, but that's no reason to root for Texas over USC...because they're doing it with Texas, also. At least USC's won a couple of national championships leading up to this.

It's funny how everytime USC has a week or two off, everyone expects them to steam roll their opponent. "Anytime you give Pete Carroll that kind of time..." It wasn't all that long ago you couldn't take him seriously as a coach.

Speaking of which, that's exactly why I'd comfortably put a bet on USC. Texas is coached by Mack Brown.

Someone said that Notre Dame didn't play anybody with a defense...USC was on the schedule, right?

Finally, a note of congratulations to former Big 12 coach Les Miles on leading LSU to a huge win. Not only did Les actually win a bowl game, but he managed to build a huge lead and not sit on it. Maybe he's learning.

Or maybe he's all ready under the gun.

Leinart rules...sports fans always gripe about what greedy hired guns stud athletes become, and we finally have one guy who will pass up a year of big money to enjoy and finish college, and people rip him. Unbelievable.

I mean, if you're going to rip him for anything, rip him for hanging out with Nick Lachey.

On a different note, whatever happened to Paul Kilgus and Jeff Pico? Someone should do a "Where are they now?" documentary on the 89 Cubs. Am I the only one who wonders if Domingo Ramos is still alive?