TruffleShuffle

not NHL, but the flyers' and devils' minor league affiliates have played a ridiculous series in the AHL Calder Cup playoffs. Game five was decided on in the 5th overtime; the albany goalie (former blackhawk michael leighton) made 99 saves in the game (!!!) There was a nice line brawl early in the series; today's game six was won 1-0 in OT by albany, forcing a game seven. Btw, the d-man that set up the goal is extremely gifted offensively and is apparently awful defensively; here's his . If he can ever become decent defensively, he'll be fun to watch. In other playoff news of interest to me, future top-six forward claude giroux is putting up pee-wee numbers for gatineau in the QMJHL playoffs: 14 games, 12 goals, 25 assists, 37 points, +26. next-highest player has 26 points. giroux is going to be awesome for us in the next few years, the future is bright (if we get a real coach).

haha, is that telling of the matt millen era? a good offensive lineman on the board, and the lions move down and let another team take him. must not be a WR he liked in that spot.

please move up and take otah ahead of the eagles.

isn't youk of romanian descent or something? i know he's not greek.

i'm mostly tired of how he pronounces his last name.

Sucks to say, but that's probably the best catch I've seen too. agreed. i was at a bar and one of the stupid "best damn ___" things was on, and it was best damn baseball plays. immediately i thought "the edmonds play had better be one of the top three of all time or this is a sham," and it was either #1 or #2.

no offense, but this sentiment is idiotic. How so? I mean I'd like him to keep it up for as long as he can but I really don't think he will. Believing, as I do, that Cedeno is a much more viable option at SS, I'd rather he have the remaining spot in the starting lineup when Alf's return sends DeRo back to 2B in 5 days. Seeing as Lou likes to play the hot hand, it would ultimately be in the teams best interest if Cedeno got that spot. If he and Riot both stay hot for now or just play around the same level, odds are Riot is getting that spot which would also probably lead to him getting more time even when he inevitably cools down. okay. i think lieber is, overall, a better option for the starting rotation than dempster. i also think that marshall is a better pitcher than jason marquis, so obviously i'd prefer that marshall get more innings than marquis. shall i start rooting for two of our five starters to get drilled over the next month so that we can get the rotation that i feel is best?

no offense, but this sentiment is idiotic.

DeRosa is at .284/.389/.473 right now and is a better player year-to-year than cedeno and theriot, how does that make him the odd man out?

your definition of "certainly" is "certainly" very different than mine.

Haha, No I don't think he will hit .350 all year. But I take Jason Kendall over Estrada, Estrada makes Kendall look like Ricky Henderson. estrada had a 7.7 VORP last year, kendall had a -9.8. they're both bad defensively. estrada is still the better player - unless kendall is able to sustain the .344 BABIP with a 16% line drive rate, and good luck with that.

First Round 1 Miami Dolphins - Warpticon - Jake Long, OT, Michigan 2 St. Louis Rams - reggiemiller rules - Chris Long, DE, Virginia 3 Atlanta Falcons - The Golden Thunder - Glenn Dorsey, DT, LSU 4 Oakland Raiders - soccer10k - Ryan Clady, OT, Boise St 5 Kansas City Chiefs - PingHitter - Sedrick Ellis, DT, USC 6 New York Jets - BHogg - Darren McFadden, RB, Arkansas 7 New England Patriots (From 49ers) - GoCubsGo! - Vernon Gholston, DE, Ohio State 8 Baltimore Ravens - b_wiggy_66 - Matt Ryan, QB, Boston College 9 Cincinnati Bengals - Rocket - Keith Rivers, LB, USC 10 New Orleans Saints - OleMissCub - Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, CB, Tennessee St 11 Buffalo Bills - PingHitter - Leodis McKelvin, CB, Troy 12 Denver Broncos - MPC - Jeff Otah, OT, Pittsburgh 13 Carolina Panthers - Andy - Rashard Mendenhall, RB, Illinois 14 Chicago Bears - CaliforniaRaisin et al - Brandon Albert, OL, Virginia 15 Detroit Lions - Cubweiser - Derrick Harvey, DE, Florida 16 Arizona Cardinals - Flames24Rulz Michael Jenkins, CB, USF 17 Minnesota Vikings - PriorPower - Calais Campbell, DE, Miami 18 Houston Texans - Rawaction - Chris Williams, OT, Vanderbilt 19 Philadelphia Eagles - TruffleShuffle - Kenny Phillips, S, Miami (FL) 20 Tampa Bay Buccaneers - reds44 - Rawaction Jackson, WR, UC Berkeley 21 Washington Redskins - Handlebar McSkullet - Phillip Merling, DE, Clemson 22 Dallas Cowboys (From Browns) - vance_the_cubs_fan - Devin Thomas, WR, Michigan St 23 Pittsburgh Steelers - AI - Gosder Cherilus, OT, Boston College 24 Tennessee Titans - dew - James Hardy, WR, Indiana 25 Seattle Seahawks - mhuber92211 - Jonathan Stewart, RB, Oregon 26 Jacksonville Jaguars - Quentin Groves, DE, Auburn 27 San Diego Chargers - CaliforniaRaisin - Sam Baker, OT, USC 28 Dallas Cowboys - vance_the_cubs_fan - Aqib Talib, CB, Kansas 29 San Francisco 49ers (From Colts) - Brian Brohm, QB, Louisville 30 Green Bay Packers - Flames24Rulz - Brandon Flowers, CB, Virginia Tech 31 New York Giants - jersey cubs fan - Jerod Mayo, LB, Tennessee Second Round 1 (32) Miami Dolphins -- warpticon - Andre Woodson, QB, Kentucky 2 (33) St. Louis Rams -- reggiemiller rules - Malcolm Kelly, WR, Oklahoma 3 (34) Atlanta Falcons -- The Golden Thunder - Antoine Cason, CB, Arizona 4 (35) Kansas City Chiefs -- PingHitter - Carl Nicks, OL, Nebraska 5 (36) New York Jets -- BHogg - Tavares Gooden, LB, Miami 6 (37) Atlanta Falcons -- The Golden Thunder - Joe Flacco, QB, Delaware 7 (38) Baltimore Ravens -- b_wiggy_66 - Reggie Smith, DB, Oklahoma 8 (39) San Francisco 49ers -- TruffleShuffle - Duane Brown, OT, Virginia Tech 9 (40) New Orleans Saints -- OleMissCub - Dan Connor, LB, Penn State 10 (41) Buffalo Bills -- PingHitter - Limas Sweed, WR, Texas 11 (42) Denver Broncos -- MPC - Mario Manningham, WR, Michigan 12 (43) Carolina Panthers -- Andy - Dustin Keller, TE, Purdue 13 (44) Chicago Bears -- Kentwan Balmer, DT, UNC 14 (45) Detroit Lions -- cubweiser - Chris Johnson, RB, East Carolina 15 (46) Cincinnati Bengals -- Rocket - Early Doucet, WR, LSU 16 (47) Minnesota Vikings -- PriorPower - John Carlson, TE, Notre Dame 17 (48) Atlanta Falcons -- The Golden Thunder - Anthony Collins, OT, Kansas 18 (49) Philadelphia Eagles -- TruffleShuffle - King Dunlap, OT, Auburn 19 (50) Arizona Cardinals -- Flames24Rulz - Xavier Adibi, LB, Virginia Tech 20 (51) Washington Redskins -- Handlebar McSkullet - Andre Caldwell, WR, Florida 21 (52) Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- reds44- Justin King, CB, Penn St. 22 (53) Pittsburgh Steelers -- AI- Chilo Rachal, OG, USC 23 (54) Tennessee Titans -- dew-- Lawrence Jackson, DE, USC 24 (55) Seattle Seahawks -- mhuber92211 - Fred Davis, TE, USC 25 (56) Green Bay Packers -- Flames24Rulz - Martellus Bennett, TE, Texas A&M 26 (57) Miami Dolphins -- Warpticon - Patrick Lee, CB, Auburn 27 (58) Jacksonville Jaguars -- CroMagnon - Tyrell Johnson, S, Arkansas St. 28 (59) Indianapolis Colts -- CubColtPacer - Felix Jones, RB, Arkansas 29 (60) Green Bay Packers -- Flames24Rulz - John David Booty, QB, USC 30 (61) Dallas Cowboys -- vance_the_cubs_fan - Jamaal Charles, RB, Texas 31 (62) New England Patriots -- Charles Godfrey, CB, Iowa 32 (63) New York Giants -- Jason Jones, DE, Eastern Michigan Third Round 1 (64) Miami Dolphins -- Trevor Laws, DT, Notre Dame 2 (65) St. Louis Rams -- Erin Henderson, LB, Maryland 3 (66) Kansas City Chiefs -- PingHitter 4 (67) Carolina Panthers -- Andy 5 (68) Atlanta Falcons -- The Golden Thunder 6 (69) New England Patriots -- GoCubsGo! 7 (70) Chicago Bears -- CaliforniaRaisin et al 8 (71) Jacksonville Jaguars -- CroMagnon 9 (72) Buffalo Bills -- PingHitter 10 (73) Kansas City Chiefs -- PingHitter 11 (74) Carolina Panthers -- Andy 12 (75) San Francisco 49ers -- TruffleShuffle 13 (76) Detroit Lions -- cubweiser 14 (77) Cincinnati Bengals -- Rocket 15 (78) New Orleans Saints -- OleMissCub 16 (79) Houston Texans -- Rawaction 17 (80) Philadelphia Eagles -- TruffleShuffle 18 (81) Arizona Cardinals -- Flames24Rulz 19 (82) Kansas City Chiefs -- PingHitter 20 (83) Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- reds44 21 (84) Washington Redskins -- Handlebar McSkullet 22 (85) Tennessee Titans -- dew 23 (86) Seattle Seahawks -- mhuber92211 24 (87) Detroit Lions -- cubweiser 25 (88) Pittsburgh Steelers -- AI 26 (89) Jacksonville Jaguars -- CroMagnon 27 (90) Chicago Bears -- CaliforniaRaisin et al 28 (91) Green Bay Packers -- Flames24Rulz 29 (92) Dallas Cowboys -- vance_the_cubs_fan 30 (93) Indianapolis Colts -- CubColtPacer 31 (94) New England Patriots -- GoCubsGo! 32 (95) New York Giants -- jersey cubs fan 33 (96) Washington Redskins -- Handlebar McSkullet 34 (97) Cincinnati Bengals -- Rocket 35 (98) Atlanta Falcons -- The Golden Thunder 36 (99) Baltimore Ravens -- b_wiggy_66

is that sarcastic? Is your Ronny Cedeno signature sarcastic? is he green?

any team will trade any player to any other team for the right price Yep. I'd want Marmol, Hill, Gallagher and another prospect if I were the Stro's. Marmols out of the question. I dont care whose on the table. Ridiculous. He's a reliever. Relievers should always be considered as part of a trade that upgrades the starting rotation or the lineup. If this Oswat talk wasn't bunk and the Astros wanted Marmol as part of the deal, you damn well add in Marmol. marmol was 4th in VORP among cub pitchers last season and is second this season. He had a 34.5 VORP last season; rich hill had a 40.5 VORP and Carlos Zambrano had a 43.5 VORP. You can't just throw every relief pitcher in the bin together with the rationale that they're not worth that much. the difference between Marmol and Dempster in VORP last year, throwing roughly the same number of innings, was 26 points; the difference between Wuertz and Marmol was 17 points. The difference between, say, Khalil Greene and Ryan Theriot was 16 points of VORP. I guess my point is, if you trade away an outstanding reliever to upgrade at another position, you might not really be upgrading your team like you think you are.

it's a better predictor of future performance than the overall W/L record. the yankees and cubs were very unlucky early on last year with respect to their pythagorean records, and their second-half performances confirmed that they were good teams that were just running short on luck in the first half.

is that sarcastic?

lol, is that what happened? You're taking a hell of a beating in this thread, that's for sure. The ref might need to stop this fight before you get hurt. next time I'll put my comments in green so that people know there was sarcasm involved. my mistake.

lol, is that what happened? thanks for the tip.

Wouldn't the right thing be to fire Dusty now? no, yesterday

yeah, he's done a great job of taking ABs away from votto, who's clearly the better player. Hatteberg made his first start since April 10th today. Yeah, really taking ABs away. votto has 60 PAs in 20 games. either the reds have been getting perfect-gamed every time out, or someone's taking playing time away from him.

easy down there guys, you don't want colin wyers to experience chafing.

when you play in montreal, you have to be the habs, their fans and the refs. always been like that, always will. still, good teams don't continually blow 2 goal leads. if we lose game 2 you can pretty much just stick a fork in us, we'll probably be swept or win a game at most.

woooooooooooo another blown lead!!!

oh God montreal is on the PP with our best PK forward in the box and 1:09 left to kill. i have an ulcer.

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