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yeah welcome to playing the lakers. anyway i think my favorite one was the drive by gasol where he clearly got hacked and then the ball clearly went off his leg, and they called out of bounds on cleveland. nice job guys.

and when they're cold from three, they're dead i think battle is starting to run out of gas. he's small, so physical defense takes a toll on him, and he's short, so he has to elevate a lot to get his shot off. they're not good enough to blow out bad teams and not bad enough to get trounced by good teams, so they end up in a lot of close games and he plays close to 40 minutes. they don't have an adequate backup point guard and cornley/pringle aren't good enough to keep them afloat while battle's out.

and how to shoot threes... hello NIT.

my championship team from 2001: Jason Bay (Bos - OF) 0% 163/570 101 96 29 3 35 109 11 156 .286 .396 Miguel Cabrera (Det - 3B,OF) 0% 195/576 112 117 50 2 26 114 9 108 .339 .430 Adam Dunn (Ari - 1B,OF) 0% 131/561 99 67 24 0 40 92 7 194 .234 .365 Troy Glaus (StL - 3B,SS) 0% 136/540 105 71 27 0 38 104 3 134 .252 .355 Torii Hunter (LAA - OF) 0% 155/557 86 101 21 2 31 98 12 108 .278 .336 Jason Kendall (Mil - C) 0% 163/552 76 139 23 0 1 50 11 54 .295 .367 Luke Scott (Bal - OF) 0% 72/214 31 37 19 6 10 37 2 43 .336 .426 Ichiro Suzuki (Sea - OF) 0% 224/695 110 186 20 9 9 49 45 71 .322 .370 Ryan Theriot (ChC - 2B) 0% 44/134 34 27 11 3 3 16 13 18 .328 .412 Michael Young (Tex - SS) 0% 217/691 93 148 52 3 14 103 7 96 .314 .356 Tom Gordon (Ari - RP) 0% 59.1 3 4 0 0 34 9 68 3.34 1.26 3.09 Cole Hamels (Phi - SP) 0% 132.1 9 8 0 0 0 19 145 4.08 1.25 3.02 Felix Hernandez (Sea - SP) 0% 191.0 12 14 2 1 0 23 176 4.52 1.34 2.93 Rich Hill (Bal - SP,RP) 0% 99.1 6 7 2 1 0 16 90 4.17 1.23 2.31 Mike Mussina (NYY - SP) 0% 197.1 15 7 1 0 0 22 172 3.51 1.11 4.91 Brett Myers (Phi - SP) 0% 198.0 12 7 1 0 0 29 189 3.91 1.30 3.00 Joe Nathan (Min - RP) 0% 68.1 7 0 0 0 36 3 95 1.58 0.79 5.94 J.J. Putz (NYM - RP) 0% 78.1 4 1 0 0 36 4 104 2.30 0.92 8.00 Takashi Saito (Bos - RP) 0% 78.1 6 2 0 0 24 3 107 2.07 0.91 4.65 Ian Snell (Pit - SP,RP) 0% 186.0 14 11 0 0 0 29 169 4.74 1.46 2.28 Justin Verlander (Det - SP) 0% 186.0 17 9 1 1 0 21 124 3.63 1.33 2.07

haha i love that penn state's worthless big white guy (andrew ott) got the ball in the corner wide open and sort of gazed at the rim, and everyone in the crowd just yelled "NO."

Those are just projections. He'd probably fit better defensively at third than second. On the flip side, his bat would be fantastic at second while it would get lost in the shuffle at third. agreed. i'd keep him at middle infield unless he proves that he's awful at ss/2b. even if he's below average defensively at 2b he'll make up for it with his bat.

how many easy dunks are penn state going to give up to wisconsin's big white guys? play some interior defense for God's sakes.

yeah i don't know that he can repeat his 2006 season but even if he puts up 2007 numbers he'll be worth the money. he wasn't that good last year, counting stats aside.

that's probably a fair deal. they're smart to not go beyond three years; he's a guy who will not age well.

that was pathetic.

bo ryan looks like a high school principal who smokes a pack and a half a day.

that elton brand signing hasn't worked out so hot for the sixers. that could end up being one of the worst contracts in the league if he keeps getting hurt.

i think you overestimate the western conference.

at the half louisville 19 St. Johns 22 Yesterday at the half in Corvallis: ASU - 19 OSU - 13 The teams exploded in the second half: ASU won 49-38. honorary patriot league teams of the week.

there's a reason that everyone hates the red wings and generally it comes down to jealousy. personally i admire them, they kept winning after scotty bowman moved on and they kept a good system in place to stay the best franchise despite the restraints of a salary cap. their international drafting is absurdly good.

I wonder if he thinks about testing the draft waters? 6'11" with game. He's not ready, but when has that ever stopped anyone before? plus he has "length" and "athleticism" and "upside"

nice win by the flyers in boston last night. we had a random home-and-home with them and the road team won both.

okay in that case can we retroactively throw out all the racists in the hall of fame? ty cobb, enos slaughter and kenesaw mountain landis are the first three out imo.

oh yeah? before: http://www.themoviemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sosa-normal.jpg after: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MkZIP-tCAM0/Rz3PoEbKYbI/AAAAAAAAAIM/Dc2vM43nSOQ/s320/smp_sparty_flags_000.jpg pretty damning imo

holy cross beat lafayette on the road tonight to stay in the lead for the patriot league. we're tied with american - each having one loss. we lost to navy on the road though, while they beat navy, so if both teams can win the rest of their league games then home court will come down to the game on the 21st, holy cross @ american.

that was so kind of him to let you measure the circumference of his head.

Ha. In my mind he probably is, but that's just because I'm to the point where I think it's a very, very high percentage that have done it. Look at it this way, some of the greatest hitters of our generation now have positive tests (according to these leaks). There is no way that the very best are using while the vast majority are not. I.E., think of all the guys on the cusp, etc. that need all the edge they can get to try and get a contract. Don't know if I explained that very well. i wouldn't confine it to the hitters. people tend to suspect the power hitters because we see them getting bigger and hitting the ball farther, but there were a lot of pitchers on the mitchell report. throwing the ball faster and with more torque is just as important as hitting the ball farther. and people also tend to forget that this is not just a problem with a few good players using steroids to become great. there were a lot of marginal major leaguers who used steroids to become good enough just to stick in the big leagues for a few years. i don't remember people speculating about whether mike lansing, f.p. santangelo or paxton crawford used steroids, because they were smaller guys and not particularly noteworthy players. there's an instinct to want to throw out the statistics of guys like bonds and mcgwire because they were artificially enhancing their strength during that time, but don't forget that a lot of their fellow hitters, and a lot of pitchers facing them, were also using steroids. the playing field for bonds/mcgwire/whoever was probably a lot more fair than you'd like to believe.

53 fouls called in the nova-syracuse game. that's like ed hightower's crew on steroids. seriously, does anyone enjoy a basketball game where a foul is being called every 45 seconds? that's just brutal to watch and a lot of the good players end up riding pine because of foul trouble.

yeah you aren't going to prove anything with one player's injury history. lots of professional athletes get injured for lots of reasons.

None ever came up about Arod until recently, either. At this point, I think it's safe to assume they nearly all were using and that tons still are, but are being more judicious about their use. But did anyone really want to find info on ARod? I think Andy's point is that hypothetically people are compelled to actively look for dirt on Sosa and haven't come up with anything. this is true. it's not like sosa isn't implicated because nobody really cares whether he juiced. i can guarantee you that magazines, newspapers and tv stations have dug into sosa's past to try to find proof - circumstantial or otherwise - that he used roids. he was one of the biggest baseball stars in the '90s and it would be a big story to whoever broke it.