jjgman21

Well once again you are incorrect, his worst month in TX was Sept/Oct 2005. His April 2005 wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible with a 774 OPS, 8 doubles and 5 homers. By as soon as May 8th his OPS was up to 935. And although Spring Training numbers aren't the most valuable, he did have 889 OPS in 20 games. Only people close to the situation probably know how much the injuries affected him, but the guy sat out one game for his April 04 "injury". Want to know how did after he sat out that one game? He went 2/5 in each of the next two games with 2 doubles. He continued to a 7 game hit streak which included 2 more doubles and 2 homers. After two ofer games, he then went 1/4 and then six for freakin six with two doubles. He had another double 2 games later and yet another as well as a HR the day after. In the 14 games after he sat out he had 19 hits, 7 of them were doubles, 3 of them were homers. His OPS INCREASED by 45 points. Yeah, real clear evidence you have there. If you are going to make claims that Soriano's numbers suffered while he was playing through injuries it might be helpful for you to actually look at his numbers. wilkerson sat out only a handful of games in 2005. to what do you attribute his 24 point plummet in OPS+ from the year before? by your logic, it wasn't injury because he kept playing.

I'd really like to see that. it's amazing how the difference between some players and others is nothing other than luck, timing, fortunate circumstances, etc. theriot is probably every bit the ball player Eckstein is. Eckstein gets a chance with the Angels and forges a long career. other players are blocked in an organization, play for an organization that won't play rookies, whatever, and they don't get the chance even though they are just as talented as guys who play a long long time in the league.

strange situation for them. two points either way to the fourth ranked team could mean the difference between a BCS game and the Lampshade Bowl.

You're referring to Jamar Williams out of ASU. Still gotta take a Day 1 OLB if Briggs is gone, preferably 1st-2nd round. Didn't they take Dusty too/ they did take Dusty and he was hurt in the same game. I think a strong safety is the priority, and at some point they have to start builing the O-line in house. franchise is a good point. any other candidates need to be protected?

I thought LSU would jump the Badgers. Didn't think beating Pitt while WV losing to South Florida would let Louisville leap them though. Wisconsin drops 4 slots in the computers while idle. that's alot. c'mon STSU and Buffalo. help a brother out here man. What's Wisconsin's out of conference schedule next year? Washington State, UNLV, The Citadel and one TBA. Link it will more than likely be a MAC team. the usual MO is a Pac 10/Big 12 team/Big East team, a Mountain West or WAC team (not one or the other, I forget which conference UNLV and SDSU are in), a MAC team, and a total patsy. I think they stacked weak non conference schedule knowing Barry would be gone and wanting to give Beliema a good start. turned out to bite him in the ass. play an Oregon or Colorado like they used to and they are fourth or fifth in the BCS right now. I think every BCS team should play at least 2 BCS teams out of conference. I'd be happy with 1. Two seems like it'd be really hard to arrange. Michigan and OSU each did twice this year. I think a B10 vs Big East or ACC would be kinda cool. (The B10 and SEC play too much in the bowls). Michigan has a built in OOC rivalry with ND so i dont expect them to play a texas or OU as well. OSU playing Texas the last 2 years is progress. Id like them to build the rivalry like UM/ND. It seems like a good fit. A lot of it has to do with money rather than the competive aspect. ND/UM not only get great attendance hey get the TV exposure, which is the key. A Wisconsin/WVU just dont get much more TV exposure for those 2 schools than if they played Buffalo or Bowling Green at home and get the 94,000 people every year rather than every other year for a home-and-home. IF 2 conferences can arrange a week of games that might get some neat TV exposure/excitement. actually what I would like to see more than anything is no non-conference games and a playoff system. teams that don't make the playoffs could them put together a couple of pride matches between conferences.

if I recall correctly, the Bears were really high on the linebacker they drafted in the lower rounds who was then injured in I think the last pre-season game. he's expected to make a strong return. maybe he will be to Briggs as Briggs was to Colvin. although I wish Briggs would take the Colvin route and take a little less money to play for a great team. I don't see it happening though.

potentially Wilkerson as is being discussed in another thread (well actually I hijacked the thread. sorry about that mods) also, Roberts is off the board.

they do actually, just not all in the same year. the Cal/Minnesota matchup this year is part of the current arrangement, as were the games the Badgers had against Oregon a few years back and probably WSU next year. I forget exactly how it works, but there is some agreement in place.

this weak scheduling all began with Spurrier at the beginning of his time at Florida. teams should schedule tougher out of conference teams, but everyone wants to be able to play .500 conference ball an still get a payday. get rid of some of the crappy bowls, and you will see teams scheduling tougher out of conference teams.

I thought LSU would jump the Badgers. Didn't think beating Pitt while WV losing to South Florida would let Louisville leap them though. Wisconsin drops 4 slots in the computers while idle. that's alot. c'mon STSU and Buffalo. help a brother out here man. What's Wisconsin's out of conference schedule next year? Washington State, UNLV, The Citadel and one TBA. Link it will more than likely be a MAC team. the usual MO is a Pac 10/Big 12 team/Big East team, a Mountain West or WAC team (not one or the other, I forget which conference UNLV and SDSU are in), a MAC team, and a total patsy. I think they stacked weak non conference schedule knowing Barry would be gone and wanting to give Beliema a good start. turned out to bite him in the ass. play an Oregon or Colorado like they used to and they are fourth or fifth in the BCS right now. edit - I think Buffalo might have given them alot of dough to schedule them as well.

threw an incomplete pass. receiver ran out of bounds when didn't have to. yes. masterful job.

I thought LSU would jump the Badgers. Didn't think beating Pitt while WV losing to South Florida would let Louisville leap them though. Wisconsin drops 4 slots in the computers while idle. that's alot. c'mon STSU and Buffalo. help a brother out here man.

if they are giving you the homerun ball, it's definitely the play you make. it was there. he just missed it. not stupid. just sucky.

A kid? He was 28-29 yrs old when he played in Texas. He also played for the Hiroshima Carp and was raised in their Dominican Republic Baseball Academy. Yeah, those Japanese aren't known to be strict or to mess with your mind. This argument is just getting ridiculous. yes it is ridiculous and you are making it that way. if you look at the link I posted there is clear evidence he was nursing injuries in both May 2004 and April 2005, which also happen to be two of his worst months while with Texas. do an internet search for articles from that time and you will find more evidence of it. your failure to acknowledge that and instead pick on semantics like my use of the term "kid" to describe an immature athelete and the faulty logic of 'injured players don't kick carts' is absurd. maybe going from being a superstar in the biggest baseball town in the world to being pee'd on by Showalter in Texas is a little different on a players psyche. maybe it isn't. but the primary point here is the injuries and your willingness to excuse the performance of a player you like because he was injured, but not excuse the performance a player you don't like because of injuries. that is inescapable no matter how you try to confound the issues.

They've had a supbar game and a terrible 4th quarter.Right by holding the pats to 17 points they stunk it up. Yes, they did and I didn't say stunk it up (you added glitz for effect), but it was subpar for them. NE was careless with the ball, not as bad as the Bears but pretty close. They allowed too many yards and when the game tied, got manhandled when NE drove it down their throats. Exactly. no exactly. they forced three third downs, and on the first the whole country saw Harris get dragged to the ground but no holding call. sure Urlacher got deeked, but the whole drive never should have happened. it should have been the three and out we all hoped for.

that's not bad news to me. should have been Benson off left guard, Benson of right guard every single play since mid way through the second quarter.

frustrating game guys, but I think we all know the outcome should the game have been called straight up. so let's not be so hard on the Bears.

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actually its been there all day, he just hasn't hit it.

Rex Rex Rex you had him. bad pass.

singing in a merrry voice he dropped the football he dropped the football he dropped the football he dropped the football he dropped the football

Light was playing peace maker. Light was the third guy in and deserves the flag for it.

as he just proved, Bellicheck (sp?) will always throw here. be ready for it Bears. incomplete and you're still in it.

peanut peanut peanut.

apparently grabbing fist fulls of jerseys of all the d-lineman on both shoulders isn't holding anymore.