So no one in Cub Land wants anything to do with Mark Cuban. he puts a bid in for the cubs and everyone starts crying on the inside. Hell, I threw up in my mouth a little. But that was before i thought about what an awesome GM he is. MC is a bit of dick. Really, he’s a 9 inch wang with a 50 degree hook to the left and he droops towards the tip. But that doesn’t mean he couldn’t be good for Cub-land. His Mavs are always competitive, and you can tell he will do anything to win. Cub fans need an owner who cares about more than ticket sales. I was a Cubs fan back in the day when Andre Dawson had me trying to switch hit. I was equally powerful from either side of the plate, but I always especially loved the ladies… the fat white ladies, as the fat black ladies overestimated their hotness and were more trouble than they were worth.

Back to Mark Cuban.

He’s not some internet genius. he’s just a guy who had an idea and managed to sell the idea before it went bust. It takes money to make money, so since he went big, he’s been doing big things. his financial moves aren’t so bad. He has a blog which really annoys the shit outta me. I like the idea of a blog. I think everyone in public life should have to post weekly. But he’s kind of an asshat and he’s not too bright. He’s quick. But I thought of half of his ‘awesome’ ideas while smoking grass back in college. Though my ideas were brilliant. I was too high to follow thru.

I think this entire scandle with MC is to kill his bid for the Cubs. MC is a billionair. He’s paid almost 2 million dollars in fine. FINES. Why would he cheat for a measley $750,000? He pisses that money away talking about referees. From the article:

{… alleges that in June 2004 Cuban sold 600,000 shares of a Canadian Internet search engine called Mamma.com Inc. based on information about an impending stock deal that hadn’t been made public. Cuban avoided a loss of more than $750,000 by selling his Mamma.com shares before the company’s stock offering, the SEC alleges. Cuban liquidated his stake in the company less than four hours after he was told about the offering, the complaint charges.

That entire quote is filed with bullshit that wouldn’t fly ever were it all true.

• Cuban sold 660k shares of a shitty search engine because of information he heard. OK, coincidence. Come back at me with real proof
• He avoided a loss of a 3/4 of million dollars… wow, who wouldn’t want to do that?
• “Cuban liquidated his stake in the company less than four hours after he was told about the offering, the complaint charges.” OK, so who told him about the offering. I imagine the SEC wanted to discussion to go something like this:

Mark Cubans Stock Broker: hey bro, they’re cutting a deal. you’re gonna lose like 1 million bucks.
Mark Cuban: That wasn’t a foul, you son of a bitch!
Owner of Mamma.com: My Bad
Mark Cuban: ok *shrug* so sell it. I don’t give a shit.
SEC Director: you’re not allowed to make sound business deals just because you did your research. You have to lose money like the rest of us. Stupid American.
Mark Cuban: WTF, mate. I told you already, who gives a shit about $750k? I carry that in my jock so that I can buy shitty baseball clubs like the Cubs. I’m BUYING THE CUBS, get the fuck outta here!
SEC Director: I am a Cubs fan…

Seriously. Once the Cubs don’t sell the MC, this whole SEC thing was drop.

Why NOT us? Ole Miss did it. We’ve done it. Right now the Gamecocks have the number 1 defense in the country. That’s right - we’ve faced down like 5 powerhouses and came out smokin. We’re 7-3 and hungry.  But for some reason, we’re 21 point underdogs.Granted, we’ve taken some ass-whuppins from Florida. but I’m not impressed with Florida’s offense. What the single defensive juggernaught they’ve faced all season?

Yeah, I can’t think of one either.

Looking at Florida’s Scedule, they’ve put up huge points against teams like Hawaii - the defensive beast that they are. They’ve dropped points on LSU (56), Georgia (49), and vandy (42). Do I think they Gamecock defense can stop florida from scoring… NO. But I do think they can keep Florida uner 30 pts.

Our defense will be the best Florida has seen all season. With good play calling, great adjustments and solid play, I can see us being within a TD going into the 4th. That’s all we need,

Don’t be intimidated. We can pull off this upset. We can keep it close. believe in yourselves, fellas.

I snatched this data from a site i frequent when the BCS gets too much to handle.

Ratings and Rankings

NCAA Division I-A Football Ratings & Rankings
Based upon 614 games.
Rated & Ranked by John Wobus, 11/10/08

Rnk Team                                    Rating (W-L)
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  1 Texas Tech                               1.448 (10-0)
  2 Alabama                                  1.316 (10-0)
  3 Texas                                    1.288 (9-1)
  4 Utah                                     1.255 (10-0)
  5 Oklahoma                                 1.154 (9-1)
  6 Florida                                  1.125 (8-1)
  7 Southern Cal                             1.021 (8-1)
  8 Georgia                                  1.003 (8-2)
  9 Boise St                                 0.988 (9-0)
 10 Ball St                                  0.925 (9-0)
 11 Penn St                                  0.915 (9-1)
 12 Ohio St                                  0.903 (8-2)
 13 North Carolina                           0.893 (7-2)
 14 Missouri                                 0.883 (8-2)
 15 Oklahoma St                              0.875 (8-2)
 16 Tex Christian                            0.827 (9-2)
 17 Florida St                               0.803 (7-2)
 18 Michigan St                              0.769 (9-2)
 19 Cincinnati                               0.732 (7-2)
 20 Brigham Young                            0.714 (9-1)
 21 Pittsburgh                               0.704 (7-2)
 22 Wake Forest                              0.699 (6-3)
 23 Miami Florida                            0.672 (6-3)
 24 Virginia Tech                            0.672 (6-3)
 25 Georgia Tech                             0.658 (7-3)
 26 Air Force                                0.657 (8-2)
 27 Nebraska                                 0.607 (6-4)
 28 South Carolina                           0.590 (7-3)
 29 Louisiana St                             0.587 (6-3)
 30 Navy                                     0.575 (6-3)

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I’m not sure what kind of message the University of Tennessee is trying to send to the world, but firing a guy the year after having an amazing season is bad business. I hate listening to those fat, rich, white, republican rednecks complain too loudly about the attitude of the average NFL Pro Bowler *errrr* Negro.

“Act like you been there”

“Show some class”

Well, what does firing a coach for a single bad season say for your morals? What does that tell your students when you go the way of an Alabama or LSU or Michigan? It’s finally ok to castrate a guy mid-season? It’s ok to admit that coaches (players) have to look out for themselves. Look, I don’t wanna hear shit the next time a player leaves a University early for the money. There’s no such thing as loyalty, anymore. No one has any class these days. We are slipping into an abyss that lacks class, morals or conviction – and everyone seems ok with that.

Fulmer is getting the ax a year after signing a huge contract - which the university will still have to pay him. How does the average Tennessee tax payer feel about that? Do ya’ll like the idea of paying a man 6 million dollars for NOT coaching? Come august, UT will be paying 2 different coaching salaries. And trust, this next salary - to whomever it goes to - will outstrip Phat Fulmer’s petty 7 million dollars. Will they raise ticket prices? Will tuition go up more than the 12% it generally goes up every year? Who won here? Who lost here? Now Fulmer gets to go to a new situation, with double the money and double the fun. He can sit around and get fat, or he can go coach in the PAC-10. He’ll be a god amongst free agents – and Tennessee just started the bidding war. All in all, I think Tennessee blew this. A pay raise is an indication that you’re satisfied with an employee

Hell, he could even go to the NFL and make even more money.

The Gamecocks thrashed the Tennessee Vols last night. i watched the game online - which was frigging sweet.

ESPN 360 online - gotta love it. Its a feature for AT&T customers that most people don’t know about. Check it out. The only odd thing was that you couldn’t ever hear the sideline reporters. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game online. We bought a house back in May. To date, I’ve still not had cable or satellite installed. Initially it was because I was being cheap. Then after a few months, i found that I really didn’t miss it. So to watch games this season, I’ve had to go to bars or *GASP* by a ticket and watch it in person. Or I could get sloppy drunk at my Brother’s house. Anyways, I like what ESPN is doing. latency was not an issue.  I didn’t mind the commercials, either.

Back to my Cock - err- Cocks. We beat Tennessee soundly. I must say, though, that I’m tired of these sports pundits making up stories and putting them ourt there as the truth. Steve Spurrier is not leaving USC. We’ve been midly successful - but our boosters have more money than God and are more willing to spend it on the team. If you wanna build a team, SC is the place to do it, right now. We’re hungry to win, we’re not suffering financially like the rest of the country and we’ve been losers a long time. Spurrier sees this. Stop making up stories.

Don’t fire Fulmer. It’s kinda disgusting the way coaches get treated these days. Fulmer is the man. He IS Tennessee football. But a bad season here and there and all of a sudden the fans are calling for someone’s head. Look, firing Fat Fulmer will only hurt your football program. He’s a rock solid guy with experience that everyone knows. I remember all the bitching and moaning about mercenaries like Nick Saban nd Rick Petino. But if Tennessee fires this guy and then hires some head hunter - and then wanders in ineptitude for the next decade, we can trace it back to this game. Hey, no one is calling for Paterno’s job anymore, huh? I guess PSU fans are lucky no one was paying them any fucking attentions

I bet Michigan misses their Old Ball Coach.

It’s the age we live in and I don’t mind it. Lets face the fact that everyone is in this thing to get what they can get - ethics be damned. It’s an issue when a football coach at a university - an institute of higher learning - makes 15x the salary of a tenured and published professor. Lets accept that we’re all shitty people who enjoy these shitty inequities and stop pretending tp give a fuck about guys dancing in the endzone or quitting in the middle of a season. this thing here is a business, and if we learned anything from business, it’s that you gotta look out for yourself.

First our state - err Republicans - forced our state away from state retirement benefits. Then our representatives - err, republicans - pushed us into state Orp invesments rn by their buddies. Then they blew the money on coke and bad home loans. CEOs are still taking $400k vacations and pocketing millions, while Joe 6-Pack misses a game because it’s blacked out. Yup, the NFL worked it out so that if you live within 50 miles of a stadium, you can’t watch a game unless you by a $50 ticket… even though your taxes subsidized the costs of the team.