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And is anyone really going to miss him? Check out his game stats from 2007:

So I went to my first Fire game on Saturday. We got dumped on pretty bad by the passing thunderstorms, but there were still 20,000 people there. Impressive. Being only my second professional soccer (err, Football) match, it was quite exciting. And a little disappointing: the Fire lost in the first minute of penalty time.
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It always makes me nervous when people predict good things for the Cubs. Needless to say I plan on burning the newest issue of Sports Illustrated, which predicts the Cubs will go to the World Series. Jeez! Don’t say stuff like that. Lucky for us they have us losing to the Tigers.
From SI:

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Today Congress questions MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, Special Investigator George Mitchell, and Players Union Boss (and slimy weasel) Donald Fehr, on the Steroid-Asterisk era in baseball. It should be interesting, if only to watch Selig & Fehr both dance and weave around questions regarding their seeming do-nothing stance for YEARS on the use of [...]

Drat!!! Last night I couldn’t help thinking, it’s about time someone start one of those “FireSo-in-so” sites for Bears’ Offensive Coordinator Ron Turner. Offensive is definitely the key word. He has a nasty habit of using all the pieces at the most inappropriate times. Like last night, he ran Garrett Wolfe–170 pound Garrett Wolfe–right up [...]

I thought Grossman played pretty darned good last night. He overthrew Berrian a few times, but Berrian also dropped a couple of passes. The Bears are not mathematically eliminated, but the playoffs a now little more than a pipe dream. I’m hoping the Bears manage to sign Grossman to a short term contract, but if [...]

According to reports, Cedric Benson is out with a “lower leg” injury. That sounds made up to me. Did he break his leg or what? Is that where he keeps his weed?

We knew it was coming. I wish it would’ve been before he broke Aaron’s record. Of course, if he’s convicted he’ll be kicked out of baseball. But if he get’s off the hook somehow, the question is will an indictment be enough to get him kicked out of baseball. If not, Selig better start apologizing [...]

For the previous 58 minutes, offensive coordinator, Ron Turner called plays. They were conservative, they were predictable, and quite predictably, nothing happened. In the final two minutes, thanks to a technological malfunction, Brian Griese called the plays. What happened was magic. Just think if we’d let Griese call the plays all game long?

Just in case you were interested.