TruffleShuffle

Swap Seattle for Carolina. ah ok. still, they could make it into the playoffs having beaten the following teams: cleveland (5-8) carolina (2x) (1-12) cincinnati (2-11) st louis (6-7) arizona (4-9) san francisco (5-8) washington (5-8) detroit (3-10) seattle (6-7) so the teams they would have beaten currently have a combined record of 38-92. with losses against: pittsburgh baltimore atlanta (2x) new orleans (2x) if the eagles play in the first round i'd be perfectly happy to have them play tampa (and the NFC west winner, obviously).

his name is peyton hillis, what did you expect

the bucs still have home games against detroit and carolina??? jeez their schedule has been easy.

is the eagles @ giants game really at 1 PM next week? that's a huge game. eagles should win their last two (hosting the vikings and the cowboys). giants have a tougher road, playing "at" minnesota, then road games against GB and washington the last two weeks. if we win next week that pretty much wraps up the division; if we lose then we still have a decent shot to win it.

5% chance means that 5 percent of the time, that will happen. you're treating it like it's 0%. now THIS is awesome.

arizona started john skelton, a rookie qb from fordham, a patriot league school. i'm sure this will turn out well.

you're glad you didn't become a rays fan? andrew friedman is one of the best GMs in the game and they've been one of the best-run franchises during the past five years.

was this meant to be a joke?

this is [expletive] brilliant

games like that are awesome to watch in a vegas sportsbook. the whole place just erupts for a meaningless score at the end of the game.

i have a feeling that ryan mallett is going to suck.

completely wrong.

some northern ohio newspaper (the morning journal) reported yesterday that he was dead. he's not (yet)

neither one of those guys was big and bulky and neither one had bad bat speed, as evidenced by their batting averages. mccovey had a decent BA but it was negatively affected by his late 30s/early 40s.

there have been plenty of fast, low-walk players who stayed productive well into their 30s. ichiro and lou brock come to mind immediately.

speed really doesn't age that poorly. big guys with marginal bat speed and marginal athletic ability age poorly.

crawford picked a good time to become one of the best OF in baseball. the position as a whole is pretty down right now, which makes crawford's performances look great by comparison. it's too much money but the red sox and yankees pretty much have a printing press, so whatever.

i remember reading the BP handbook like 3 years ago, and it noted that wells had good peripherals but was tagged with very bad BABIPs for a year or two.

fixed. you'll see. so JoePa saying he's coming back next year was a smoke screen........for............ yeah i don't understand where he's getting this at all.

a combination of bad luck and atrocious officiating (2 calls go against us called by the center ice ref when the guy 6 feet away from the play doesn't blow the whistle - then two extremely obvious penalties in OT go uncalled) caused us to blow a 4-1 lead to the sharks, then we score a goal in OT and it crosses the goal line 0.05 of a second too late. the clock goes to 0.0 and the puck is literally on the goal line. FML.

He'd have another game in his career if he played for Mark Dantonio. Well done. MSU suspended 15 players for last years bowl game Rucker missed two games(including one where he was not in jail) for his DUI this year...hate to let facts get in the way of your fun hard to give the coach much credit for not playing a guy who was incarcerated.

guys they play in college park, everyone knows that

I didn't know Division II players were even eligible. They're not. Texas A&M is in the Big 12, ranked in the top 20, and is playing LSU in the Cotton Bowl. really? learn something new every day.

in addition to it being Rich Rod's 3rd season, the cupboard was most definitely not bare. Rich Rod scared all the players away - including Mallet. The 06 and 07 classes were rated 12 and 13 by Rivals. And there was good groundwork for the class signed a couple months after Rodriguez was hired (#10 by Rivals). Rankings aren't everything, but there were quality players there on both sides of the ball, a really good QB and some play makers on D. The players didn't fit his system and they left in flocks that first spring, but he came into some talent. A heck of a lot more talent than he's going to leave for the next guy. right but a lot of the guys that were recruited by carr were not his type of player. i guess i shouldn't have said that the cupboard was bare, but when you change from a three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense to a spread option offense. mallett was the type of player who would be a disaster in rich rod's system, that's why he transferred. i think when you hire a coach with a radically different philosophy than the coaching staff that preceded him, you need to give him more time. if you look at his success at wvu, the program really hit its stride after he had been there for 4 years. obviously there's the risk that michigan keeps him on another couple of years and the program remains subpar, but he added two wins each of the last two years, and personally i wouldn't chase him off for another regime change just yet.

WHY DOES THIS EVEN NEED TO BE CONSIDERED?! sadly i was just happy to see they're still considering it. i figured they would just dump him in the bullpen from now on.