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  1. TruffleShuffle
    oh i'm sure a lot of owners would love to see it. the mlbpa is too powerful to let it happen. i'd like to see a salary cap and a salary floor, but i highly doubt that it will happen anytime soon. crane kenney is right, but that doesn't necessarily make it fair or appealing. the yankees or any other organization can spend a trillion dollars putting a team together if they really want to, but i'd like to see the small market organizations not having a payroll that's a third or a quarter as large as some of the big boys. and no, i'm not going to blame the owner of a small market team for not wanting lose tens of millions of dollars on his team every year.
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    ugh just stop pitching marmol
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    yeah lifting the local tv blackout sure killed interest in the hawks, huh?
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    michigan's best non-conference wins: 2008-09: neutral vs ucla, home vs duke 2007-08: vs davidson, @miami (ohio) 2006-07: @notre dame, vs miami (fl), vs butler 2004-05: vs nc st, vs butler, vs ucla (who was BAD that year) don't discount the mileage they'll get from those wins over duke and ucla. duke will be a top 10 rpi team at the end of the year and ucla will be top 10-20. most other years michigan was losing all their big OOC games, and losing most of them pretty badly too. of course, if michigan craps the bed and loses 8 of their last 12 or something, it won't matter. they'll also need to win a few road games; so far they've only won one and it was an OT win over indiana, who is obviously terrible. even if it's road wins over teams like northwestern and iowa, they need those.
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    i forgot to mention that beilein's style does better when the opposing team doesn't know how to perimeter defend, and unfortunately, most teams in the big ten do play good defense. penn state and northwestern are the only teams that play lousy defense, at least most years.
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    that doesn't necessarily mean a non-tourney team. beilein's west virginia teams were always very three-heavy; from 2005-07 they ranked in the top 10 annually in 3PA/FGA, and in 2006 and 2007 about half their shots came from behind the arc. two of those teams made the NCAA tourney and the other made the final four in the NIT and finished 27-9. that style can win, but if beilein was brought in to make michigan a national championship contender, i think that folks in ann arbor will be disappointed. that style can only get you so far.
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    they also have the wrong coach for that type of atmosphere. you can do what the pats did and bring in a randy moss, but you'd better have a strong leader as coach and other senior leadership on the team (brady). the cowboys have a pushover as coach and romo is still young. they have the wrong makeup to just load the organization with talent and not care about the makeup of the team.
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    yeah westbrook will be a perennial all-star if he ever develops more of an outside shot. i guess it's possible; rajon rondo was a terrible shooter coming out of college and now he's got a solid mid-range jumper.
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    the college game also badly needs that no-charging arc inside the paint. i hate seeing a guy make a nice move and blow by his defender, only to get a charging call because some bum under the basket took one step to his left.
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    the sixers spanked portland tonight... what the hell?
  11. TruffleShuffle
    another score from tonight: holy cross 47, army 36. not at halftime. final score. patriot league basketball - catch the fever!
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    the "block" on battle? yeah that was lousy. i won't bitch about the refs screwing penn state; in reality they screwed both teams and the fans. 48 fouls called, i think 27 or 28 of them were in the second half. it totally disrupted the flow of the game. let 'em play, dammit.
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    hoo doggie this psu-msu game has turned into a good one
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    look if the guy could even put together one season where he pitched well and stayed healthy, he'd probably get a contract offer in the tens of millions. do you really think he's just lazy, sitting around eating cheetos and watching tv, eager to give up that kind of money? give me a break.
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    penn state and michigan state are both in the double bonus... with about 9 minutes left in the second half. the officiating has been terrible both ways, just way too many off-the-ball fouls being called. i think my biggest beef with ed dechellis has been penn state's defense. minnesota shot 60% and michigan state is better than 50% tonight. you let other teams shoot that well in a halfcourt-dominated conference like the big ten. this year penn state is 51st in offensive efficiency but just 132nd in defensive efficiency. last year they were 89/141, 2007 they were 81/171, 2006 they were 73/169. i think there's been a lack of attention on the defense which results in them being just about the worst defensive team in the big ten every year.
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    i have to question that. northwestern? most of their games have seen scores in the 50s and 60s. pomeroy has their adjusted tempo at 3rd slowest in the conference, ahead of only wisconsin and iowa (which is 2nd slowest in the country).
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    and yeah, the Versteeg Calder talk can be put to bed already. he's playing for 2nd place at this point. bobby ryan is from the town i grew up in! (notable because south jersey is not exactly a hockey hotbed)
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    since when do they keep records on who hits home runs the farthest during an exhibition? i guess longoria and burrell should break out the metal bats during BP and try to surpass the high school kid.
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    it may be tougher to go with that rule of thumb this year. UNC and pitt don't shoot many threes, wake (340th) and uconn (337th) are close to dead last (344 teams) in 3PA/FGA. the highest-ranking team that relies very heavily on the three is arizona state, and i have them pegged to be a fraud. butler is also way up there, like they are every year, but they're not a team that i'd consider a final four threat anyway.
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    Let me guess...2005 Illinois and someone else. yeah 2005 louisville.
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    Thats interesting. Where did you go to 'get more info on pomeroy's stuff'? I'm honestly curious to read about it. Please dont give me a link to google.com. just go to kenpom.com and then click on team names for the breakdown.
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    i love pomeroy's new thing that breaks down what style teams play. i will never, ever pick a team to win a championship if they rely very heavily on the three. i waded into some of pomeroy's stuff to see how this theory goes: looking at the last 5 champs, none ranked higher than 149th in points via the three versus total points. only two out of the past 20 final four teams ranked higher than 114th in 3 point field goal attempts versus total attemps.
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    I'll take it! They'll most likely beat Iowa at home, I don't know who else they'll get though. i think their home games against northwestern, iowa, penn state and maybe illinois/ohio st are not automatic losses. they won't win a road game and they won't beat a team like purdue or michigan st. realistically i can't see them winning more than 4 games, and 1-2 is more likely.
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    let's just change the subject before meph's "tim tebow alert signal" goes off.
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    the spread opened at -5 on baltimore-pitt and that seemed high to me - like they were trying to induce the public into betting baltimore. well, that's what it looks like so far. 2/3 of the bets have gone toward baltimore but the line has moved a point in pittsburgh's direction - meaning the smart money is going on the steelers. about 2/3 of the bets have gone on the eagles and the point has moved 1/2 to 1 point toward the eagles, so no clear trend there.
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