Patience, forumites. Patience.

[Condem]

Just a couple weeks more and and all this bullshit will be a distant memory. God fucking damn. These last few weeks have been the Gobi Desert.
I mean, Joe Brown dying???? Fuck me.

[happyiowan]

1. Will it ever be football season?

I'm dyin' here.

[JonLP24]

6. Pre-season

Saw my Cardinals last Saturday. I think Leinart has the job sown up. He was 6/7 while Derek Anderson was 13/22 for 1 TD, and 2 INTs. The second one wasn't entirely his fault because it bounced of his reciever's hands. Though there could be a question of how hard he threw it but if it hits your hands you got to catch it. Anyways that was interested as well as watching the changes on the O-line and see how they worked together. They had a RT go to LT, switched a guard, and added Faneca. They had troubles getting some pass protection but I think they did fine but needed to do a lot better to succeed in the regular season. I really loved the way Dominique Rogers-Cromartie and Adrian Wilson opened up the game. They were awesome and everywhere.

Daryl Washington, the rookie out of TCU had a phenomenal game. Absolutely amazing. I hope he plays this way all the time!!

Hey sorry about that. It was the first football game I cared about since the Super Bowl. :)

[happyiowan]

9. Apology free zone

Who isn't giddy to have football back?

[madinmaryland]

23. Get a room, you two.

[Gordan Shumway]

2. NFL network playing every single preseason game

has already warmed my cockles.

[Condem]

4. Gordan. You are a welcome addition. Huey Lewis??

Falco might have struck a deeper nerve. Welcome. We need more like you.

[Gordan Shumway]

8. Well I was drunk and saw 'Sports'

and Huey Lewis popped in my head. The rest is 15 post thread history. I did threaten to eat someone, so I'd say the thread was a success.

[Auggie]

3. Are you calling baseball bullshit?

:spank:

[Condem]

5. Why, yes I am, Auggie.

Can we maybe go back to one pennant winner from each league? I mean, if we're going to play a 162 fucking games, can we make every one count?!?!

[Auggie]

25. Is that the reason for your discontent?

Seems to me adding division and wild card winners makes more games count for more teams. I agree some elements have really been screwed up -- the season is too long, the DH, no salary cap, manipulated media coverage -- but baseball is still a beautiful game.

[Condem]

26. It IS a beautiful game, Auggie.

This is strictly a personal opinion. I can't watch a couple of innings, let alone a full game before I'm as bored as reading one of mad's posts.
Yet, it's no problem to sit down and watch a college or pro football game. Even Texas, for crissakes. Methinks I speak for a lot of sports fans in todays world.

[happyiowan]

7. I have a deep philosophical question...

Now, I know the beauty of baseball is that it is a game with no clock. And I like that. It makes the game timeless and outside of time. There's a zenfulness to that. But why in the name of the sweet baby jesus has the lack of a clock become an occasion for me to watch every last batter stand around and scratch his ass for ten minutes between each and every pitch?

[Gordan Shumway]

10. Not to be a Rules Hitler but I think

the pitcher only get 20 seconds between pitches. Now I'm not sure how the umpire clocks it, probably in his fat head, and I've never seen it punished.

[happyiowan]

11. But doesn't that twenty seconds start over??

Every time the batter steps out of the box to adjust himself?

[Gordan Shumway]

13. Yes

Balls need adjustin'.

[El Supremo]

12. You are fucking unamerican!

I should call the FBI.

[Condem]

14. Please put a capital A on that, El.

Going to the Iowa State Fair, tomorrow. Plenty of pics a'comin!!

[El Supremo]

15. SWEET HOG OF MINE!

Abel: Friend your more than just a friend. Loyal loving to the end.
Quartet: Sweet Hog of mine. Sweet hog of mine.
Abel: Warm and soft affection lies. In your teeny weeny eyes.
Quartet: Sweet Hog of Mine. Sweet Hog of Mine.
Abel: When the lengthing shadows fall. You will always hear me call.
Abel:Sooey Hank:Sooey Clay:Soeey Hank,lem,clay Sa-oo
Abel: Other friends may drift away tell me that you'll always stay.
Quartet: Sweet Hog of Mine. Sweet HOg of mine. Sooey Sooey
when the lengthning shadows fall and the day is through you will always hear me call
Abel:Sooey Hank:Sooey Clay:Sooey
Hank,lem,clay Sa-oo
Quartet: Other friends may drift away tell me that you'll always stay.
Abel:Sweet hog of mine
Quartet: Sweet hog of Mine.Sweet Hog of mine.

[Condem]

17. State Fair, again?

Guns & Roses got it from the Iowa State Fair? I'm pickled.

[El Supremo]

20. Just don't wear an Iowa cap in Fayetteville.

You'll be shot.

[Condem]

21. The day I step foot in ArKansas...

..yeah, buddy!!

[a la izquierda]

24. Oh, now that's got to be a treat.

The OK state fair is about as redneck as it gets. Counting mullets on non-Indians and watching my skinny husband cram fried junk in his face is fun for the whole family!

I can't wait to see the civilization that ensues at the Iowa state fair!

[madinmaryland]

16. Coming from an Iowa fan, I call bullshit on your post, and as Dick Cheeney used to say...

[Condem]

18. I damn sure hope you were watching BTN, tonight, mad.

OSU Preview was on.

[El Supremo]

19. "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

[madinmaryland]

22. "Nice Post, Cheeney". Pat Leahy in DU, circa 2006.