Can't believe you missed the fact that the Sounders played the Chicago Fire this past Saturday, with over 36,000 in attendance at Qwest Field. Sounders won 2-0, ruining the "homecoming" of Freddie Ljundberg.

I love Bull Durham. And I'm happy to see that my Rockies are shaking off the doldrums and making a run for it, but I'm sure it's too late - their runup in '07 was made possible by the other teams ahead of them losing series as well as the Rockies winning theirs, and it's way too much to ask for that to happen again. Besides, Ubaldo has basically blown it - no Cy Young for him unless he suddenly catches on fire again and the other leaders catch whatever's been holding him back.

Hey CF, can we trade Tim Tebow to Chicago? I don't want that bible thumping moron in my city.

Hey Matt:

We already took one malcontent overrated QB off your hands in Cutler, don't ask for more.

And as for Sounders beating the Fire, no one born in Chicago cares(the fan base in Chicago for this team is almost entirely Latino and Eastern European immigrants--you hear more chants in Polish and Spanish at the games than English. . . not that there's anything wrong with that). And I'm sorry, but after this great World Cup and just having been to England and seen several Premier League games on "telly" I cannot get into MLS. the level of play just seems AA to me.

I wasn't at the first game, but I know I was at one of the other games in that series. I also still have a commemorative card, I think from Mother's cookies(?), with the two of them posing.

I saw the two Griffeys play together in one of my first baseball games after moving to Seattle in 1991.

What a shitty shitty season this has been. Bad enough that it's almost ground out all my love of the sport...

Bull Durham was a fantastic movie.

Wait, so if you're not actually born in Chicago you don't count? Okay . . .

I remember Sr. when he was with the Big Red Machine (gotta capitalize that or Pete Rose will hunt me down and spike me). Man, what a team. Griffey, Rose, Johnny Bench behind the plate. If not for the Yankees, they would've won 3 or 4 World Series in the 70's.

Fair enough, CF. How about Melo? Can we get Joakim Noah for him?

Basketball is beyond my purview.

@1 ftw.

Cause baseball is so last year - but the Sounders are forever.

But hey, how 'bout that Manny Ramirez deal? (As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I wouldn't wish that clown on my worst enemy. No, not even the Yankees.)

Remember that time when the Mariners were playing the Angels, and Ken Griffey Jr. hit a home run, and then Ken Griffey Sr. hit a home run right after him? That was awesome.

does a "ftw" count if it comes from Will in Seattle?

@13 No.

Additionally a FTW doesn't count if it relates to the Sounders.