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Shakey
12/06/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
DUAN'n all night long man.
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Muggs Bigglesworth
12/06/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Couldn't be any later to the party, but the Darko book is EXCELLENT, provided you love the NBA and at least moderately enjoy reading, that is.
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Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
12/06/08

@The Muggsy Bogues Redux Experiment: Only disaster comes when the Hawks and Bobcats meet
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FEAST
12/06/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
The Blazers, OJ & Deadspin all stripped of their dignity today.

Better keep drinking.
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White Speed Receiver
12/06/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Ok, here's an answer for you, Yostal. In the NCAA Guidelines Manual, it says that a conference with 12 teams may have a championship game, not must/
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Yostal
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
OK, dumb question: If a league expanded to 12 teams, is there any rule that requires them to have a championship game? Because I think I would like the Big Ten to expand to 12 games, just so it could add a ninth conference game, not splitting in to divisions.
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White Speed Receiver
12/05/08

@Yostal: God, I hope not.

Theoretical question: How do you split the Big Ten into two divisions, assuming there was a championship game? No matter what, do you not end up undermining the importance of the tOSU-UM game?
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Yostal
12/05/08

@White Speed Receiver: I actually have a solution I have been floating.

Division A-M: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, and Minnesota

Division N-Z: Northwestern, Ohio State, Pitt/Notre Dame, Purdue, Penn State, Wisconsin.

You add a ninth conference game, and you guarantee the following cross divisional games each season:

Michigan-Ohio State

Michigan State-Penn State

Indiana-Purdue

Illinois-Northwestern

Minnesota-Wisconsin

Notre Dame/Pitt-Iowa (Make up a trophy, claim it's important)

Have all of those games played on the last weekend of the season, as they already are. Have Thanksgiving weekend off and then have the championship game on championship weekend. Even if there's a rematch, there's been a week between them. Also, with a ninth conference game, you never go more than two years without seeing a cross-divisional opponent. I could even make a case for having a second guaranteed cross-divisional game:

Michigan-Notre Dame or Penn State-Pitt

Iowa-Wisconsin

Illinois-Purdue

Michigan-Northwestern or Penn State-Minnesota

Minnesota-Northwestern

Michigan State-Ohio State.

It could work, I think.
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NovakAintNoJokovic
12/05/08

@Yostal: I think it's just you and me left...either that or Facebookspin has crashed from all the extra traffic.
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White Speed Receiver
12/05/08

@NovakAintNoJokovic: I'm digging my way through the NCAA rules right now trying to see if the Big Ten would actually have to have a championship game, or if we'd just be better off jettisoning PSU and going the PAC 10 route.

@Yostal: That is pretty damn brilliant. +1
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Yostal
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Oh no, did someone break the 'spins?
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@Yostal: i dunno, maybe Lucas did it.
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: It's some kind of Dark Side energy, that's for sure.
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Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Through all the chaos here I would like to say I gave these good men my money and they did not disappoint.
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What Would Kornheiser Do?
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
And this is why I prefer Doctor Who so much. Sure, there's always the fringe who takes it too seriously, but anyone who's really a fan of the show knows that not only was it not supposed to be so Sci-Fi (educational show about science and history), but there was no bible, so you know it was written as it went along.

For example, the series had two explanations of why Atlantis sank, and three explanations of the Loch Ness Monster.
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Huzzah! Dr. Who never made any excuses for themselves, either. They fully embrace the campy, cheesy, cheekiness. Revel in it, really. I mean, you have to love a show wherein Peter Davidson fights off men in Hefty trashbags covered in raisins.
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Or Tom Baker. My bad.
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White Speed Receiver
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Somewhere, in the Recevermom's basement, is a Tom Baker Dr. Who scarf. Only one person who ever saw me wear it understood.
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@White Speed Receiver: Heh. I'm halfway through knitting one for Mr. Sculptor!
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Steve U
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: I'm sure the finished scarf will EXTERMINATE! his chilliness.
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
I am troubled by this alien's Scottish accent. He must be the alien Sean Connery, because he sounds like a low-rent imitation.
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Starburied
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
I'm just waiting for the Facebook commenter C. Brad.
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
I'm giving the Clone Wars movie a chance. I actually like the TV show, so I think I'll like the movie. May the Force be with you.
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@Peter Cavan: As long as 1) you're not paying for it; and (2) you're sufficiently brain-dead and/or liquored up, you'll be fine.

/fuck Lucas right in the ear

//disgruntled SW geek
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What Would Kornheiser Do?
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Yeah, I just caught some of the prequels when they aired on Spike last week (BTW, they now air them in marathons in episodic order). How can anyone not tell he's making shit up as he goes along?
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: I am getting liquored up now.

I'm a disgruntled SW geek too, but I liked parts of the prequels and I am on record as willing to spend money on anything Star Wars-related. As for this movie, I got it from Netflix.
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@What Would Kornheiser Do?: @Yostal: Gah, for reals. Han shoots first, dammit. it says so in my first edition 'Star Wars:the adventures of Luke Skywalker' book. Leia remembers her mother, but Padme gets her ticket punched? I could go on for a good while, as could many of us - I hereby call bullshit.
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: I'm sure Lucas meant to say that Leia remembered her adoptive mother. We don't know what happened to Mrs. Organa. Maybe she died young.
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What Would Kornheiser Do?
12/05/08

@Peter Cavan: I'm sure Lucas meant to say that Leia remembered her adoptive mother. We don't know what happened to Mrs. Organa. Maybe she died young.

And maybe Lucas was going for the Appalachian crowd by having Leia kiss her brother in the first movie (Sure, they didn't know, but didn't Lucas?).

I seriously call bullshit on his claim to having plans for 9 movies all along. Back then, you were lucky to get just one fucking picture, much less three. And you thought you'd get 9?
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Sculptor?!? I just met her!
12/05/08

@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Bwhaha! "The force is strong in my family...I have it, my father had it, my...sister has it..." " I knew! Somehow, all along, I knew!"

Suuure, you did sweetheart. Bullshit.
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Yostal
12/05/08

@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Lucas was taken down by the development of the home video market. I am convinced of this. Though it made him brazillions of dollars, it also meant he had plot holes he could not explain away, but he didn't care.
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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

@Yostal: That theory explains so much.
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Gary
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
I knew not coming up with a clever screen name would haunt me. I might be mistaken for someone who didn't have the patience to carefully craft comments for a month until I finally slipped in the back door. Damn kids and their sense of entitlement.
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Steve U
12/05/08

@Gary: I'm with you, brother.
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Yostal
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
And that's six...six goals..ha ha ha.

My goodness, does Michigan just not like Billy Sauer any more? The goal support differential isn't even funny between Sauer and Hogan.
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Yostal
12/05/08

@Yostal:

Sauer: 10 goals in 8 games

Hogan: 43 goals in 8 games

It's just, it's crazy.
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White Speed Receiver
12/05/08

@Yostal: Your guys look impressive tonight.

Let's not talk about last Friday.
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PQ Crash
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Okay gang, I need a drink. Have a good night.

Oh, and to the Facebook crowd, please remember this before you comment:

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Peter Cavan
12/05/08

In reply to Free Darko Stutter-Steps The Universe, Don't You Know?
Don't call me, call Pete!
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