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i remember someone showing me a website set up by jason williams, the guard who played for duke and then the bulls. it looked like it had been written by a 4th grader. they might have higher academic standards, but i'm not sure how much it applies for their basketball team.

Coach K probably just likes guys that play as a team. uh oh

Theriot's AVG and OBP were definitely good last year, but in the big picture, it's really not all that good. Just to give you an idea how hollow those stats really are, here are a few comparisons for you: Theriot had 24 XBH's in 2008 The extremely hated Juan Pierre had 32 doubles, 13 triples and 3 HR's in his only year with the Cubs. That's twice as many XBH's as Theriot had this past year. One of the things that ate Cub fans alive was Slappy's inability to hit for extra bases. Yet, he had TWICE as many as Theriot had in '08. Neifi Perez had 45 XBH's in his final full season with the Cubs. The lack of power is staggering. If his batting average was sustainable, he wouldn't be completely worthless, but there aren't many here that believe he can sustain that level. i agree with a lot of this, but saying he's "completely worthless" is dumb. he drew 73 walks last year; i can't really explain why pitchers walk him, but he does get on base at a good level and hit line drives at a pretty good rate throughout his career. if he can put up something like .280 avg with a .350 obp at the league minimum, and keep the number of errors low, he's far from completely worthless.

I'm starting to lean towards rooting for Florida to win and get somehow hosed out of the #2 spot in the BCS, because that's about as likely a positive scenario as any. i may just end up rooting for the team whose fans aren't complete d-bags... problem is, they keep trying to out d-bag each other.

is it possible for alabama and florida to both lose this week?

henderson is a no-brainer. i will argue until i'm blue in the face that alan trammell easily surpasses the hall of fame qualifications, but very few people seem to realize it. i'd also vote for blyleven and maybe tim raines - i recall looking more deeply into the raines issue last year and being about 80/20 in favor of him being in.

so you would vote for tommy john, andre dawson, jack morris and mo vaughn, but not alan trammell? please provide some sort of logical reason for this.

holy cross lost to loyola-chicago recently... we suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this year.

i am developing a dislike for texas based on this info, though it comes pretty much solely from meph, so take it with a grain of salt.

According to what? fielding statistics. he's not adam everett good, someone was right about that, but he's in the next level defensively.

yeah i'm pretty sure that isn't allowed. It's not that hard to not show up. and texas will just mysteriously be in kansas city, and the big xii will strangely let them play a football game against oklahoma even though they're in the same division as oklahoma.

yeah i'm pretty sure that isn't allowed.

except he's eclipsed those numbers 2 of the past 6 years, which means it's hardly a lock. he adds probably 15 runs a year with his glove and plays a position where even average offensive players (o. cabrera) get paid $10M. paying jack wilson an average of $7M per year has very, very little to do with why the pirates have been so bad. I'm extremely skeptical Wilson adds 15 runs a year defensively, is there evidence that he's that elite with the glove? PMR says he's about half that, and Win Shares and RZR put him in the middle of the pack defensively among shortstops. Yes, Wilson has been average offensively in the past. He's a 31 year old who's a career sub-.700 OPS and sub-.320 OBP, are teams supposed to gamble on that happening for the second time in 5 years with a Wilson who's leaving his prime and missed half a season last year due to injury? And again, any team trading for him has him for only one year unless they want to pay him 8+ million in 2010. People talk badly about Jack Wilson because he's not good at all, and he's very expensive for his production. he's not very expensive. $7M is not that much for a starting shortstop. he outperformed his contract by a pretty good margin in 2007, though that was a fluke year. he wasn't great defensively this year, though he was still good, but he was dealing with injury problems for much of 2008. he's been one off the best defensive shortstops in baseball since he came into the league, though.

stadium collapse sure is feeling like the best option at this point.

except he's eclipsed those numbers 2 of the past 6 years, which means it's hardly a lock. he adds probably 15 runs a year with his glove and plays a position where even average offensive players (o. cabrera) get paid $10M. paying jack wilson an average of $7M per year has very, very little to do with why the pirates have been so bad. Wilson was 27th out of 32 SSs with at least 300 PAs in VORP last year. His VORP was 2.7, which puts him at only slightly more productive than the average replacement player. Not worth it. He was 14th in 2007, 23d in 2006, 27th again in 2005, 6th in 2004, and 24th in 2003. So, only once in his career, in 2004, was he in the top third of all SSs in the league, once he was in the bottom third. The rest of his career he has been mired in the bottom third of all SSs. VORP does not include defense. you guys keep throwing out stats to show that he's lousy offensively; we already know that.

and you're a massive alabama homer.

The non-southerners on this board are now seeing why the only team that everyone in the SEC can agree to hate is Bama. Bama fans always have delusions of grandeur. Alabama is not the best team in the country. oh believe me, the rest of the country already figured that out after they canned mike shula. the list of potential coaches that alabama people were throwing out there wasn't a list of good up-and-coming college coaches, it was pretty much a list of every great football coach at any level. i'm surprised that they didn't suggest exhuming the corpses of vince lombardi and bear bryant to coach the team.

if 4-6 gets norv turner a vote of confidence, then 4-8 might just get him a contract extension. holy crap what a bad coach.

apparently the sixers are more mediocre than the bulls.

Tebow is what 6'3" or 6'4"? He's big, but he's not fat. http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9063/tt19gp.jpg pants back on, meph.

that's probably the maximum sentence that nobody ever ever ever gets. he'll probably get fined 20 bucks and have to go hug a few sick kids in a hospital.

How did we get into Jason White? We all know he was never slowed down by good defenses. jason white was undrafted; sam bradford will be a top 10 pick and probably a franchise qb in the nfl. i'm downgrading your argument quality from fail to epic fail.

fail

except he's eclipsed those numbers 2 of the past 6 years, which means it's hardly a lock. he adds probably 15 runs a year with his glove and plays a position where even average offensive players (o. cabrera) get paid $10M. paying jack wilson an average of $7M per year has very, very little to do with why the pirates have been so bad.

That is going to be very tough to work in. Nothing good seems to come from NFL and NBA players hitting the clubs nothing good seems to come from them playing video games and eating a bag of chips, let's ban those things too.