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Are you saying Lebron is to Wade as Pippen was to Jordan?

Ask and ye shall receive. 6 IP, 3 H 0ER 1R 4/3 K/BB. Sadly, hes on the hook for an L as their down 1-0. Took an L as the Smokies fell victim to a 3-hit shutout. Brett Jackson had one of the 3 singles (Archer actually had one himself).

Definitely Morrow. He might get a ton of money though due to the fact he's just 24 and can still get better. Redick is smaller, doesn't do much else, and is more of a role/bench player. Though, I like Redick alot. I'd love to get a guy like Brewer to start. Play great D on the 2 or 3. And then come with Redick off the bench.

That's a pretty solid team, and they can go 10-deep with players that played over 20 mins per last year, 10 of whom scored in double digits per game last year. Lot resting on Jennings and Bogut taking antoher step forward and guys like Salmons and Maggette being happy with their PT and shots.

Ego.

Not unless LEbron changes his name to Boozer.

If it is Greenwich, then I don't see why it would mean anything else. Unless it's a big mind game I guess. The only thing I can think is the proximity to ESPN. Madison Square Garden is 23 miles from Greenwich. Bristol, ESPN headquarters, is 53 miles from Greenwich. Distance and time are two different things. The last mile into NYC will take you as long as the drive to Bristol. Of course, they could always head to the chopper. Yes, distance and time are different (thanks for the newsflash). But you said, "proximity" which means distance and not time.

If it is Greenwich, then I don't see why it would mean anything else. Unless it's a big mind game I guess. The only thing I can think is the proximity to ESPN. Madison Square Garden is 23 miles from Greenwich. Bristol, ESPN headquarters, is 53 miles from Greenwich.

Of non-3 point specialists, I like Brewer, Wright, and Tony Allen. Me too. Brewer is pretty good defensively. And can play the 2 or 3, which is needed, IMO.

Might need to sign 2 guards. Who do the Bulls have on the roster at SG? Hinrich is gone. Flip is a FA.

I think I'd rather have David Lee. A couple years younger. Slightly more athletic. Probably a better rebounder and scorer also.

He's 26th in the NL in Ks, despite pitching less than 1/2 the innings of all but Jhoulys Chacin and our very own Tom Gorzellany.

Yay. So, now I get the short start of the week, with Peavy going out after 1 2/3 innings with an injury. This coming on a day where in both my head-to-head leagues a team put up 120+ against me.

LeBron's special forced them to announce it today. They weren't going to do it the same day or after LeBron and risk not getting any headlines.

Completely different situation. Favre is an old man who knows he's coming back but takes over 6 months to make an announcement. LeBron will have been a FA for a week when he makes his announcement. Favre is a great QB, a Hall of Famer. But Lebron is also a shoe-in Hall of Famer, and is the biggest FA in the history of the Earth. If this was 1990 and Jordan was a free agent, you would have seen the same thing.

Isn't that the same as being the favorite to win the championship? I didn't say they would win. I said favorites to win. If they have the best odds of being the best in the regular season, wouldn't they naturally have the best odds to be the best in the postseason too.

It was just an example. Bottom line is LeBron's Cavs were the best team in the NBA last regular season. Getting LBJ back and adding a couple pieces would easily make them the favorites again.

That sounds very contradictory, imo. If you can't land Bosh how are you going to convince James to stay with essentially the same team that got eliminated by Boston. Not to mention this would Bosh is likely heading to either Chicago or Miami with Wade, and Boozer ending up in New Jersey. James would still have to get past that same Boston team, a very good Orlando team, improving Chicago and Miami teams and still relatively young and talent Hawks team, all the while your team did nothing to get you some help. Yeah, that doesnt make much sense. Then again, it's also just about the same team that won 60 games two years in a row. Maybe he believes that they just got unlucky/were in a slump in the playoffs or something. Who knows, but loyalty seems to be pretty important to him and that might just keep him at home. OR it could just be an incorrect rumor. Either way. Or he knows he could have won if he didn't throw the games in retaliation to Delonte West banging his mother. :D

That sounds very contradictory, imo. If you can't land Bosh how are you going to convince James to stay with essentially the same team that got eliminated by Boston. Not to mention this would Bosh is likely heading to either Chicago or Miami with Wade, and Boozer ending up in New Jersey. James would still have to get past that same Boston team, a very good Orlando team, improving Chicago and Miami teams and still relatively young and talent Hawks team, all the while your team did nothing to get you some help. Don't know how that's contradictory. Lebron and Bosh are different people. Cleveland can get one without the other. Plus, who says Cleveland would be done? If they can get LeBron and Bosh, they can get Lebron and Boozer or Lee or they could get Ray Allen and a C like Haywood.

this is illustrative of the point i really, really wanted to make in this thread. if colvin had other things in his background to be excited about, it'd be easy to be thrilled about his future. given his age and track record, though, the main reason for the enthusiasm about him is also the main thing we should be ignoring. That's a fine point. And I agree with it. But I think it's pretty clear to see how that point would get lost in a thread called "Tyler Colvin is not that great" where you also say, "we should not be particularly excited about him" and "there isn't much reason for enthusiasm here".

I personally hoping "Who knows of any good places to live in Chicago?" Follow up tweet: Where my good friend Richard Jefferson would be accepted for who he is. LOL

What do the Cavs have to send the other way? Varejao and Hickson have been mentioned.

I see Rick Ankiel. I see myself in this thread. Great objective analysis. It would make Al Yellon weep. Well, if you want to know why I see similarities in Colvin and Francouer, I could provide those. Colvin through 75 games this year and 180 PA has posted a 121 OPS+. Not bad at all. Francouer in his first 70 games albeit 274 PA, had a 124 OPS+. Francouer's line was 300/336/549/884 (ba/obp/slg/ops) with an 11/58 bb/k ratio. Colvin's current line 271/313/554/867 with 11/49 bb/k ratio is similar to me. A key difference was that Francoeur put up those numbers at age 21, while Colvin is 24. Also, Francouer maintained that line over a greater number of plate appearances. On the other hand, when we look at what Francouer did over the next few seasons, we see that he was still able to provide some homeruns, but eventually his inability to consistently make contact while not walking provided increasing diminishing returns on his value. I think that unless Colvin makes adjustments that I'm not sure we have any reasonable evidence to think he can make, he's going to have more liabilities than value in the very near future. Just as he appears a bright spot on the horizon, so did Francoer to Brave fans in 2005, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that striking out a ton while walking little is usually an omen of bad things to come. Frenchy is a good comparison. I thought of the Ankiel one also. Both are decent. And yes, it looks like Colvin will be capable of a similar career as Francoeur. Because of his lack of ability to take a walk and propensity to K, he'll likely have some seasons of mid .800s OPS's if he is lucky that year and some seasons where he can't break .700. I stil don't think that means he's likely to do anything good or bad. He's most likely to be unpredictable.

Heard that too. Seems like Bosh has been more tied to Wade, so this is strange to me. I guess Bosh really wants his money. Also heard that Bosh may not want to go to Cleveland, and he wont' agree unless Lebron re-ups for 6 years, which is what Bosh would have to do in an S & T.

What does everyone think about Hak Ju Lee? I'm impressed with his base-stealing prowess and his ability to take a walk. Now has stolen 46 bases and only been caught 12 times (almost 80% total, 84% this year). Walk rate is a solid 0.090 BB/PA. But he has shown absolutely 0 power. His numbers are almost identical to his numbers at Boise last year, except for BABIP (.400 last year vs. .322 this year).