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  1. TruffleShuffle
    isn't there a shirt that says the same thing about zambrano? either way these are idiotic and if you wear them you are embarrassing yourself.
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    i hate rooting for the cubs organization. they're run so badly and their losing tradition is richly deserved. brett jackson and kyler burke have home runs tonight; hopefully they'll be converted to pitching or rushed to the major leagues next week.
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    oh im not saying i blame blackhawk fans at all. dollar bill did everything possible to alienate the fans. i'm just defending my team from accusations of bandwagoning - there really isn't much of that among flyers fans, certainly not as much as there has been with the sixers and phillies. the flyers have a fan base that's quite passionate, maybe it's not as big a base as the baseball and football teams, but it's there. the part that drives me crazy is that the local sports talk radio stations and other media treat the flyers like they're some niche team that nobody cares about. it's like they just discovered there's a hockey team in this city once the flyers made the conference finals. more people care about the flyers than the sixers and the flyers sell out almost every game, yet you turn on the radio this time of year and 90% of the talk is about which eagles are going to show up for mini-camp. when they do talk about hockey there's hardly any analysis whatsoever, the hosts just babble about how well michael leighton is playing and that laviolette has done an amazing job. thanks a lot.
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    I don't know any Philly fans personally, but this description definitely fits the ones I've come across online. blackhawk fans are probably not in a great position to talk about not paying attention until their team is good.
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    Most for an NL reliever. What if he ended the year with the most K's in baseball. Is that possible? not really. even if lou abused the hell out of him and he pitched 100 innings, he'd only end up with 194 strikeouts. the last time that a pitcher led a league with fewer than 200 strikeouts (not including strike years) was 1980 (len barker led the AL with 187 K's). last year lincecum struck out 261 batters and 6 other pitchers struck out more than 194 batters. if lincecum died i'd maybe give marmol a 0.1% chance of leading the league in K's.
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    i saw most of game three and thought the play was very even. i thought the sharks outplayed the hawks by a pretty good margin in game one and niemi stole it, and i thought that the hawks deserved to win game two. didn't see that much of game four.
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    in statistics from 2007-10, minimum 150 innings, he is: #9 in ERA #1 in Batting Average Against (.157 - next best is .184) #1 in Batting Average Against (.243 - next best is .286) #1 in strikeouts per 9 IP (12.33) #1 in H/9 IP (4.87 - next best is 5.92!) this year he is averaging 17.5 K per 9 IP and is on pace to strike out a higher percentage of hitters than any pitcher ever has in a single season (eric gagne has the record from back in his steroid days). marmol's control issues can be frustrating, but it's pretty easy to say that he is the most unhittable pitcher on the planet.
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    hopefully tonight was him extracting his head from his ass. we can't have our corner infielders among the worst hitters in the game.
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    marmol has 46 strikeouts in 23.2 innings pitched, or 17.5 strikeouts per 9 innings. that is ridiculous.
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    yeah now where the hell was that during the 2008 playoffs
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    soto has sucked lately. theriot's .529 OPS in may ain't so hot either.
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    utley should be the most glaring omission from that list. john dewan's website recently had an article suggesting that utley may be the best player in baseball, even better than pujols: http://actasports.com/sow.php?id=248 by most advanced statistics, utley has been the second best player in the game over the last five years, and there's one analysis that lists him as the best.
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    Good! lol http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/frequentflyers/Chat_Flyers_with_Chuck_Bausman.html#axzz0oyB3qajN it's not that lopsided but i'd take kane and toews because they're younger. toews and richards are very similar players. kane is and will be better offensively than carter, but carter is a better defensive player. that list of top 50 skaters which had sharp at 37, kane at 18, hossa at 14 and toews at 3, while richards was unranked, was absurd.
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    there is no time in north Jersey when it's probably going to be snowy. it doesn't really snow that much up there. no other major league holds most of their games in any type of conditions and then does everything they can to make their most important game in perfect conditions. it's stupid. the teams that reach the super bowl have played in the elements throughout the year; why change the rules in january? not to mention that the super bowl being held in warm locations or domes favors teams that play in those conditions for much of the year and hurts teams that play in rough weather for much of the year and build their team to play in harsh weather.
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    this is a valid point and one that i think is a big concern for the flyers. it's big for our top four d-men to get several days off now, but they will start to get tired out over the course of the series and maybe within some of the games. plus the numbers that you posted are even a little skewed because krajicek and especially parent have played very little in close/important games. parent played 14:26 in our 6-0 win against MTL and 10:32 in game 3 when we lost 5-1, but just 2:21 against boston in game seven and 2:25 and 3:01 in the last two games against MTL. basically in games that are close, you will see mostly four defensemen, krajicek will have a shift or two a period and will see a little time on the PP and PK, and parent will basically not play. pronger and timonen will be around 30:00, carle around 25-27 per game.
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    leave this open... i don't want to be posting about the finals in the same place as the hawks fans. i will post over there a little bit before the series starts but will stop on friday.
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    he talks about the injuries on the teams the flyers faced, but makes no mention that the flyers were missing their top scorer for all of round two and 3 games of the conference final, and missing simon gagne for a few games in round two. plus the flyers have been playing the entire postseason with backup goalies. he talks about how the teams the flyers played were weak offensively, but makes no mention that the teams the blackhawks beat were weaker defensively (goals against) than the teams the flyers faced. also, it's dumb to say that focusing pronger "and company" on the kane-toews-buff line could be a grave mistake. pronger and carle always play against the other team's top line. if they could play 60 minutes i'm sure they would, but you want your best defensive pairing to go up against the other team's best forwards. timonen and coburn will likely play against the second line most of the time, and some combo of the four will play against the other two lines. krajicek and parent will probably be stapled to the bench for the vast majority of the game. i guess it's a great article if you want to read something written by someone who is clearly rooting for the blackhawks.
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    you could also circle nabakov on your sig... Lord knows what he's looking at.
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    2010 NHL Stanley Cup Finals Series Odds: Philadelphia Flyers +200 Chicago Blackhawks -260 seems about right to me.
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    we cannot allow a cardinal fan to win this
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    i actually really like that it's two teams who don't have great goalies. it always annoyed me when one decent team rides a hot goalie to the finals. the hawks have a great mix of scorers, talented two-way scorers (hossa, toews), decent offensive players who have great defensive skills (bolland, madden) and checkers, plus a deep and strong defensive corps. the flyers have good scoring depth up front with some very good defensive forwards, plus four defensemen who have basically been playing half the game each. the hawks have certainly been the best TEAM in the playoffs and the same is true for the flyers. there's no j-s giguere here.
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    i don't think you need to put odds on that. the hawks are far and away better than the devils, bruins and habs, probably the best team in the entire league by a pretty good margin. i suppose we will find that out in the next couple of weeks. i hope your team loses, but that is only because my team is involved. i congratulate the hawks on a great season and hope that you all get to experience your team winning the cup... just not this time around :-)
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    this might be relevant if fleury didn't play behind a good team the penguins defense wasn't good this year, i watched a lot of games on FSN pittsburgh. their #1 defenseman (gonchar) has never known how to play defense and the rest of the defense corps (orpik, letang, goligoski, eaton, mckee/skoula) is not very good. also, are you classifying fleury's 2007-08 season as good (.921) and 2008-09 (.912) as average? if so then i guess niemi is just average, which does not do much to invalidate my assertion that this is one of the worst goalie matchups in stanley cup finals history.
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    roman cechmanek had a GAA of .923 playing behind a very good flyers team for three years. he sucked one year in the playoffs and was traded to L.A., a not good team, his save percentage went down to .905, and the next year he was out of the league. playing behind a really good team and a really good defense/defensive system matters. using only save percentage to determine the quality of a goalie is dumb.
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