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I think Byron Leftwich will make a miraculous recovery from his "serious" knee injury now that Roethlisberger's suspension has been shortened.

OK I just saw this... the calculation I used was the TOTAL number of games in a major league baseball season versus the TOTAL number of games in an NFL season. Remember there are 30 MLB teams and 32 NFL teams. MLB games: (162 * 30) / 2 = 2,430 NFL games: (16 * 32) / 2 = 256 2,430 / 256 = 9.49. Hence, my claim that MLB has "almost 10 times as many games" as the NFL. Of course, if you only watch one MLB team's games and one NFL team's games, then you are getting 10.13 times as many baseball games as football games. But IMO it would be pretty silly to pony up for an entire league's worth of games and then ONLY watch the ones involving your team...

Simmons, like Rick Reilly, is one of those guys whose writing USED to be amusing. After awhile, though, you realize that they basically continually recycle the same half-dozen column ideas. Like how comic strips are funny for the first few years and stale thereafter. Or how most bands live off their first few albums for the next 30 years.

This. Same thing over in the Harbor Club. I hope the Sabres' game threads never go away either.

Bill Simmons thinks football was invented in 2001.

Bob probably doesn't remember what he had for breakfast. Why drag football into this?

Another issue with the chat room is that it's, if not impossible, at least harder to use with mobile phones. Please bring back the game thread -- it's how many of us follow the game when we're forced to be out and about. As others have said, it's also easier to go back in the thread and see what happened earlier (and what was said about it).

And thus four of those thirteen wins were almost certainly against the Cardinals. But a 9-3 record against the Giants, Eagles and Redskins is nothing to sneeze at.

It's going to be fun to step on Sully's fingers when he finally starts trying to climb aboard the wagon. I plan to wear clogs for that job.

Now that's an inspired pick. One of the images burned into my brain from the Comeback is of Jeffires rotating his hips slowly with his back to the camera after scoring a touchdown to go up 28-3. Of course we all know what happened after that. But in truth, like just about everyone else here, I thought "Bryan Cox" before I even opened the thread. Tim McKyer was another one. And Marino too. I would say Brady as well but it's not a really SATISFYING hate unless you can beat the guy at will, like we could with Marino, McKyer and Cox. That was you?!

Meanwhile, MLB.tv is 1/3 of the price (for almost 10 times as many games), and you can watch multiple games on multiple devices at the same location. On occasion I have had as many as five games going at once in my family room: TV, iMac, iPad, iTouch and laptop. The predatory pricing and the unnecessary restrictions on watching on multiple devices are a direct outgrowth of DirecTV's fear that they'll lose customers. For as much as the NFL props up DirecTV, you'd think they owned stock in the company.

So in his nine years as GM he's had two losing seasons? Where do I sign up for that?

That's the biggest thing where I'm concerned. They're pretty good about making sure people don't stop along 31F to drop off passengers and they're pretty good about making sure no non-VIP types get to park on campus (by the way, I live two blocks away, so I'm not carping, just saying), so why can't they control these morons?

"It's hard to hear the fans in the NFL."

They've had more time to practice than most. Okay that was too easy.

Don't think we'll be seeing much more of Lankster.

Their 10 made the catch our 13 didn't.

Whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

See, even the great ones look like garbage when their line sucks.

Let me know when it starts.

And there you go.

And? If people want to smoke, fine. Go home and smoke.

What's more, he dares you on the internet.

So is being unable to read. I said THEY won't trade with US.

Next three picks are in our division. They won't trade with us. And Minnesota is after them; they'll take Clausen.