Recent content by eMitch

If we could only beat the Marlins, Rockies, and White Sox we'd have a decent record.

What, no laurel?

When I was young, as a downstater, I was always proud to be from Illinois with the big city Chicago in it. Then I went to college. Holy crap. I had no idea Chicago had such a low opinion of downstate. That was a shock. So you might be right, but at least in my case, it was certainly a learned...

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Just watched Indiana-Northwestern on BTN and noticed the players wearing little tablet-like devices hanging off their front belt buckle. What is that? Is it just a preprogrammed set of scouting reports or does it allow real-time communication from the coach?

Tongue in cheek, I know, but just goes to show that as with any actor, they are more likeable when someone else is telling them what to say.

"sniff the big runs in the butt"? I don't think anybody wants to do that.

Going off my 12yo son's Xbox vocabulary, he probably thinks versus is verses, plural. And verse is the verb. As in, "We are versing Indiana tomorrow"

I've never mentioned anything about Indiana's clown pants to my 12 yr old son before. Today I called him up from the basement to replay Trent's cross over 3. A few plays later they showed Indiana's bench and my son says, "Ha! They look like clowns". I enjoyed that.

I think Underwood suggested that. Then all the players in the huddle just stood up and looked around. Then he looked at Ago and Ayo said, "I'll make it".

Burn. That at the Drexel joke on one page? You guys are killin it.

Oh I get it, Drexell. Ha ha. Took me a minute. But yeah, that's pretty funny. I like it. 👍

They chose to go to Ohio State, duh

They were right... This was just one of the 28%

Notice that Ayo is standing in bounds at the beginning of this, waiting for everyone to get in position, I assume. The ref looks impatient and you hear a quick short little whistle, and then Ayo goes out of bounds and the refs hands the ball to him. I wonder if he started counting at the...