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Hey, some guys that can strike out a hitter! I think I'm spoiled from about 5-10 years ago, where the Cubs were striking out everybody in the minors and majors. But not coincedentally, they were also bringing up solid pitchers back then too.

Kinda go hand-in-hand. If he's swinging and missing at bad pitches, then he's not taking them. I think the crazy thing is that he's still walking in 10% of his PAs (which is the benchmark for patience) and is ripping the cover off the ball whenever he does make contact.

Bulls don't do that.

Is there any reason not to believe the Lakers will get Dwight Howard? I'd imagine Bynum would be a key figure going to Orlando, with a 3rd team getting involved to get Gasol and giving Orlando draft picks probably.

Why not? It works in other sports with a cap (NFL, NHL). You'd have to raise the cap a little bit most likely, but there's no reason it wouldn't work. If a team wants to offer LeBron $30M per year, why not let them? There's no reason Joe Johnson should be getting paid more than LeBron and Wade. I don't see why this makes a difference. This happens in every sport. Vernon Wells makes more than Albert Pujols. Somebody wanted to offer Vernon Wells 24 Mil to play when he was 33 years old. If someone wanted Joe Johnson bad enough, they would have paid him more than LeBron and Wade regardless. Just because the NBA has a structure in place that basically makes it so a team HAS to pay Johnson to stay there more than they pay LeBron to come there doesn't make any difference. People give people bad contracts all the time, the NBA is at least letting teams know up front what you have to pay for a player and it's still up to the GM to decide if he wants to pay that or not. I don't think the system would work without the cap unless you added something else. MLB has no cap and a legit player development system in place. NFL has non-guaranteed contracts. NHL has a little of everything.

Need to take a pocket knife to those tires.

Yes, that's exactly what it means. This is a subjective list. Based on the eye test, Cutler is better than Romo. Rivers has a better argument, though but both have had monumentally more talent than Cutler has had to work with. And again, the one year Cutler had talent he was very good. I'm not saying this list or Jaws are the end-all, be-all of QB ranking lists...but the bottom line is you shouldn't be all up in arms that people think Cutler is better than Romo, when a supposed "expert" thinks so. And you shouldn't be up in arms when Rivers is the most likely the name ahead of Cutler on the list. If Rivers and Cutler repeat their 2012s, Cutler will be higher ranked.

What happened with Rizzo?

Thanks. I was wonder why we suddenly love Romo. I was probably a little stupid about putting him ahead of Cutler. But yeah, he's about where he should be, but Flacco is not better than he is. Romo 10, Stafford 9, Cutler 8 (or 7 ahead of Rivers if you ask me). Cutler ahead of Rivers? So it's OK to be skeptical of Stafford's insanely good 2011 season because he only did it once, but Rivers has one year that isn't awesome and now he's ranked below Cutler? I love Jay and I'm really excited about our offense this year but you guys are being ridiculous homers. That or you're not paying close enough attention to the rest of the league, because there is no case you can make with any sort of objective evidence that would paint Cutler as a better quarterback than Romo or Rivers. Even Stafford made a pretty strong case last year, although I would suspect Cutler would do pretty damn well throwing to that guy (who sulley somehow thinks Brandon Marshall is better than), too. You know this discussion started on a list started by a pretty good QB evaluator who has Cutler better than Romo on his list, right? Cutler's last year with Brandon Marshall, a real WR....he threw for 4500 yards. Romo has never done that, and he's thrown to a legit star WR every year of his career. You can throw out the QB rating and INTs, but Cutler has done more with less than any QB in the league.

Jackson took the first 3 pitches out of the zone, before looking at strike 1, missing strike 2, and looking at strike 3. Vitters with a 4-pitch walk.

Thanks. I was wonder why we suddenly love Romo. I was probably a little stupid about putting him ahead of Cutler. But yeah, he's about where he should be, but Flacco is not better than he is. Romo 10, Stafford 9, Cutler 8 (or 7 ahead of Rivers if you ask me). Cutler is planted in that second tier with Eli and Big Ben. Rivers is in there, too. I think Eli is in the top tier. I don't put a lot of stock in SB wins, unless the QB does something like Eli and leads 2 comebacks late, with signature throws in both games. (Hence, Big Ben is NOT in the top tier). Plus, he did throw for nearly 5000 yards, while having the league's 2nd worst run game and an iffy OL.

Thanks. I was wonder why we suddenly love Romo. I was probably a little stupid about putting him ahead of Cutler. But yeah, he's about where he should be, but Flacco is not better than he is. Romo 10, Stafford 9, Cutler 8 (or 7 ahead of Rivers if you ask me).

If Votto can't make it, my guess would be Sandoval moves over to start at 1B and David Wright starts at 3B. Wouldn't necessarily even need to add a 1B to replace Votto.

Stafford's a tough rank. He's only had 1 good/full year. He was pretty terrible in 2010. He was decent in 2011, but only played 3 games. So, 2012 is it. Of course, it so happens 2012 (5000 yards, 41 TDs) was one of the best seasons a QB has ever had in NFL history (but took a backseat to Brees, Brady, and Rodgers' seasons). I think you have to put him top 10 just based on 2012 and his obvious natural ability which he had shown flashes of before. Of course, then do you put Newton in the top 10 for the exact same reasons? Flacco should not be ahead of Romo. Cutler maybe shouldn't either.

Uh, yeah, dude; if you're not winning it all you might as well be in last place. DUDE. If you ain't first, you're last.

By-ez by By-ez.

Every time I see someone with double digit Ks, I think....."wow 11 Ks in 7 innings is pretty good, but got nothing on 1998 Kerry Wood"

Ever since I got on my boy, Jae Hoon Ha for struggling, he's heated up. Has his 7th 2-hit game in the last 10 tonight, and has shown a little more power in the last week or so.

Baez hit by another pitch. Vitters popped out to 2B in his 1st AB.

Brett Jackson with a popout in the 1st! YAY!

Had it almost every day that I've checked since Baez.

So, much for that theory that Rizzo feasts on bad pitching in the PCL.

I was going to post this, but got side tracked. 23% of his PAs for the slappiest of slap hitters.

That was an easy swing and the ball went 430ft.

I got that from ESPN. Broussard works for ESPN right? Maybe I heard that before Broussard chimed in and *gasp* ESPN was actually wrong about something?