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He hits him lower? Is this a trick question? Well hitting him too low is also a penalty. He's also in a throwing motion and you'd like to be able to disrupt that as you make the tackle. Maybe you hit him as fast but you also let him have a clean throwing window. That's taking away from the defender. The idea that you can safen the game by cleaning up dirty hits only and not by taking away a defender's chance to make the play in the fastest possible way in certain cases is a complete fiction. It's a sport played with forward body lean by both defenders and offensive players and it's inevitable that helmet to helmet plays occur when all a defender is trying to do is make a play in the shortest amount of time. I'm not disputing at all that it's a flag by the book. it's leading with the helmet and hitting another guy in the helmet. you can lunge at the quarterback and hit him pretty much anywhere else except for in the head.
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Cubs sign Ojeda and Looper
TruffleShuffle replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
My bet is most if not all will be ex-cubs come March 31st. technically they're all ex-cubs. -
Lance Pilgrim (Berkman) Vs. The Rangers
TruffleShuffle replied to Cubs Fan Dan's topic in General Baseball Talk
yeah lance, the phillies should be easily better than the cardinals. -
fun with goal differential: -tampa is 3rd in the nhl in points and their goal differential is even (lousy defense/goaltending) -los angeles has the best differential in the pacific division, and is in last place (11th in the conference). the team with the worst differential, anaheim, is in 2nd place and 5th in the conference. -florida has a differential of +52 on ottawa, and just 7 more points. other fun: -colorado is 4th in the league in goals scored, and has a negative differential. -three teams are undefeated in shootouts - los angeles (5-0), buffalo (4-0) and colorado (3-0). -two teams have not won a shootout - ottawa (0-3) and minnesota (0-4). edmonton has been particularly bad as well (1-7). -the western conference is 102-58-27 against the east. the east is 85-74-28 against the west. columbus (15-19-4) and st louis (14-18-5) have been lousy against the west and great against the east (8-2-1 and 8-2-2, respectively). edmonton is 6-4-1 against the east and 9-22-7 against the west.
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every team that just hired a new head coach should fire him and go after fisher. also, the chargers should rescind norv turner's vote of confidence and bring in fisher.
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that may be true - manny wouldn't shut the hell up in the press and was generally acting like a douche - but bay was younger, considerably cheaper and better defensively, and was under team control for another year. he OPS'ed over .900 for the red sox in a little over a year, and produced a 5.0 WAR in 2009 for $7.8 million (fantastic value). so i suppose you can argue that they traded ramirez just because he was a pain in the ass, but bay is a very good player and from a production perspective, the trade was a huge plus for the red sox.
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he was traded on the last day of july or first day of august or something. his numbers in july: .347/.473/.587/1.060 care to revisit your argument? No. He was refusing to pinch hit, insisting on a days off when the team needed him, etc. He most definitely was making life miserable for the team in an attempt to force their hand on the extension or trade. oh ok, so you are standing by your argument that he was completely mailing it in and his numbers were propped up by his success earlier in the season, even though he had an OPS of 1.060 in the month immediately before he was traded. seems like a poor stance to take, but that's your call. there were two games in july that he didn't play in; according to the game recaps, he had sat out with a sore right knee. he made two PH appearances earlier in the month. and all these things that you're talking about, this isn't unique to that one season or one month. i went to the first half of a doubleheader at fenway and manny was thrown out in the first inning of the first game for arguing balls and strikes. francona had told him that he wouldn't play in the second game, so he played the field for half an inning in game one, struck out and then sat out the rest of the day.
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he was traded on the last day of july or first day of august or something. his numbers in july: .347/.473/.587/1.060 care to revisit your argument?
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the point is that a .926 OPS is really [expletive] good and maybe people should stop acting like he just mailed it in and became completely unproductive.
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i disagree with your opinion.
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request a split into a puppy bowl thread. Big Red, Chih, Duncan, Mae, Molly, Reenie and River are among my favorites. gotta go with Oliver though: http://animal.discovery.com/tv/puppy-bowl/starting-lineup/2011/oliver-625x450.jpg
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we have one, it's darwin barney. you really think you're going to get a good OBP 2B for near the minimum salary?
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ramirez started goofing off in boston because he was upset they weren't signing him to a contract extension. that's a completely different situation than playing for a lot less money than he made the previous year. also, the year he was traded from boston he had a .926 OPS for the red sox. the last time a cub outfielder had an OPS that good over 400 PA's was sammy sosa in 2002. so let's hope that we can find some outfielders who quit on us as well as manny quit on the red sox.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6057094 man does that donor ever sound like a self-important douche.
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one, what's the sample size? two, these are small numbers that are being rounded off. for all we know, golf's percentage was 3.6% in 2009 and 2.4% in 2010, which is a lot less than half.
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dude i hate nascar and you could definitely pay me enough money to go to a race.
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so mediocre ole miss is pulling in a top 15 class? sounds like some money must be flying around oxford.
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http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201101/sabermetrician-exile pretty interesting and a little depressing.
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he's probably not going to be that good because he's old and not on steroids any more. but i suppose if you meatballs want to think it's because he's not trying on account of taking a huge pay cut, then go ahead.
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it's a NECKTIE you [expletive] meathead.
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hahahaha that's embarrassing
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who cares about super bowl food, what about puppy bowl
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[expletive] I hate Bears fans. Unbelievable. Clay Matthews said nothing of the sort. What was his full quote? hey, it says "apparently," which means it doesn't really have to be true.
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judging by twitter like half of the nfl is a piece of [expletive].
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i bet disney world is already making contingency plans in case big ben has a massive game and is the obvious super bowl mvp.