That's how the greatest thing in sports (HATE) is made, the reason Michigan and Ohio State hate each other is because they've had decades of destroying each other's seasons and now that means nothing

Jaysonguy

You're operating under the assumption that both teams will be leading their divisions. Considering Michigan's record the past couple years, that seems unlikely. Also, in the scenario where they are both winning their division, a loss in either the regular season game or the Big 10 championship could knock the team out of the national championship game. Again, a lot of outrage over what amounts to very little. And as far as this goes:

So we have no guarentee that Michigan vs Ohio State will be the last game of the regular season and in some years they'll meet the week after

Jaysonguy

This thread has a whole lot of unnecessary outrage. I can't believe anyone thought the Big Ten would give up it's biggest rating earner. Remember, all this shuffling around of teams and conferences is about TV dollars. From Big Ten press release:

Each school will play the other five schools within its division and will also face three teams from the other division, including one cross-division matchup guaranteed on an annual basis. The guaranteed cross-division matchups are Illinois-Northwestern, Indiana-Michigan State, Ohio State-Michigan, Penn State-Nebraska, Purdue-Iowa and Wisconsin-Minnesota

Ohio State and Michigan will play each other every year on the last day of the Big Ten season, and could conceivably play each other twice in one season. Because they are in different divisions, the Buckeyes and Wolverines could play in the new Big Ten championship game.

I found the problem in the user level updater and reran it for Monday and Tuesday. You should be seeing your levels updating soon.

since the twins are basically out of the playoffs and mauer doing nothing in the the series against the tigers he basically lost this"no race" mvpNetYankEagle

Parity doesn't come from rookie pay scales or salary caps. In fact, it could be argued that those things actually harm parity. Case in point: Over the past 30 years, 19 teams have won the World Series (Phillies, Red Sox, Cardinals, Marlins, Angels, Diamondbacks, Yankees, Braves, Blue Jays, Twins, Reds, A's, Dodgers, Twins, Mets, Royals, Tigers, Orioles, Pirates) in Major League Baseball with no rookie pay scale, no salary cap, and a relatively high luxury tax. Over the same 30 years, 8 teams have won NBA Championships (Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, Heat, Pistons, Bulls, Rockets, 76ers) with a hard salary cap, a luxury tax, and a rigid rookie pay scale.

If breaking a slotting system will ruin sports, than surely Rick Porcello is ruining parity in baseball, but he isn't. Instead, Rick Porcello fell to a team that is willing to pay him his market value, and fight stupidity and greed by pro sports owners. Rooting against Crabtree to get what he would in an open market is rooting greedy billionaire owners. It's rooting for a command economy. It's rooting for the Soviet Union to win the cold war. It's bad for the players and bad for the game. And, it's downright un-American.

And by the way, I'm a die-hard '9ers fan, and would like nothing more than for Crabtree to sign as quickly, and cheaply, as possible so he can report to training camp, but every now and then you have to put aside your love of your favorite NFL team for your love of your country and free-market economics.

When I use my iPhone to go to www.gamespot.com it redirects to iphone.gamespot.com why?

Can this be stopped, because this bothers me alot and it shouldn't do this because the iPhone has a full browser called Safari.

Please fix this or is there something that I need to do to stop it?

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[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]Has he won a championship yet? Then he isn't a great QB yet. There are exceptions, such as Dan Marino. But let's be honest, Dan Marino is a better QB than McNabb could ever hope to be.NetYankEagle