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  1. rawaction
    That's funny. March is thought of as the best month for sports because of the "interest" of college basketball (along with spring training).
  2. rawaction
    It would only be beating them twice, though, since they split in the regular season (the road team winning both games). Read the rest of my post.
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    When in doubt, go with football. It's funny being an IU alum and the Hoosiers not having many football teams to speak of in my lifetime, but meanwhile having 3 championships and several final 4s since my birth that I would go with football. I think that's part of what I enjoy about college football. No favorite team.
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    These are my picks too. If this happens, I'm picking Carolina/Baltimore in the SB.
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    one penalty being a terrible blow to the head call on suggs that directly led to the TD drive...if i remember correctly, it came on a 3rd and long. oh yea...i picked the titans. Yeah, and there was actually a procedure penalty on Tennessee and it was a no play.
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    Steelers are probably too good defensively. They held Rivers to his worst game earlier this year. Sproles will not be able to run against them. Steelers moved the ball well against them, but were not able to get the ball in the end zone. I think both teams will play better and you will have a higher score than 11-10. But I think the Steelers win late thanks to that defense.
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    This is going to be a good game. I picked the Ravens, because that D has the look again. They stopped the Titans run game in the 13-10 loss early in the season (2.1 ypc). The Ravens held the Titans to 66 total yards thru 2 1/2 quarters last time, but for some reason fell asleep and allowed two 80 yard drives for 10 points and lost. Ed Reed was not 100% when they played before and is now playing the best football in the NFL. So, I don't think the Titans will be able to throw the ball as well as they did in the 2 long drives. They were also helped by some costly Ravens penalties to keep drives going.
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    Picking the Giants. Would have picked the Eagles had they not beaten the Giants already this year. Tough to beat a good team 3 times.
  9. rawaction
    This one is easy.
  10. rawaction
    The fact that Marinelli coached great players means he's more likely to know what it takes to make a player great. Granted, those players were greatly talented before him, but he got to watch them every day on their paths to greatness. If he can get Mark Anderson (and hopefully a high DE draft pick) to learn the pass rush techniques that Simeon Rice used to be great. If he can get Tommie Harris back to Warren Sapp like production. Then he is a great hire. I'd rather hire him as DC personally, but the defense getting back to the top of the league is largely dependent on the DL. I think Marinelli has as much ability as anyone else out there to get the DL to a pretty good level.
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    That's not true. I think it's pretty safe to assume Cedeno is gone one way or another. That leaves Miles as the only backup IF. Need at least 1 more. Aurilia fills that role. Looks like the Cubs will once again assemble a bench full of 25th men.
  12. rawaction
    We have discussed the idea that Hendry should have gone after a cheap LH hitting RF over Bradley and made the Peavy trade as the response to the cost cutting trades. But what about the exact opposite? If Hendry uses the payroll saved on Bradley, what are the chances that he has identified a good cheap SP to fill the final spot in the rotation and can get him for a package similar to the Peavy deal? The names that come to mind may or may not be available. Zach Greinke Jonathan Sanchez/ Noah Lowry Gavin Floyd Jered Weaver/ Ervin Santana
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    Peavy? No. Another valuable piece? Possibly. If the Cubs can still do the Pie for Olsen and then the Peavy deal, I'd imagine it would be similar to what we have heard. Olsen, Vitters, Cedeno, and a couple other prospects. If Peavy is not an option, the Cubs have to add to the bullpen. That group looks pretty crappy. In addition, I'd like to see a RH power bat off the bench. I haven't gone thru any names yet, but if Reed Johnson is in the lineup any given day, the Cubs as currently constructed are looking at a bench of Fukudome, Miles/Fontenot, Bako, Gathright, and Hoffpauir. I'd really like to see a RH bat that can keep Gathright a call away in AAA.
  14. rawaction
    LT ain't playing. Gates less than 100%. Chargers are in trouble.
  15. rawaction
    I find it extremely hard to believe that other teams wouldn't offer up more for DeRosa. The rumored packages from Philadelphia sounded pretty good. Maybe they really weren't as good as the rumors, but apparently it was good enough for Towers to sign off on a Peavy trade when coupled with Pie going to Baltimore. What about the Twins? Didn't they lose the Casey Blake sweepstakes? Weren't there other teams looking for infield help? Baltimore even seems like a possibility, though I would understand Hendry's reluctance to deal with them ever again. The return package for DeRosa seems more like a panic deal to me. Exactly. Like Goony said, selling high on DeRosa is a great move. But the return was not great. The point of selling high is to get maximum value for something that will never be valued as highly again. In addition, trades should only be made if it makes the team better. I know this will likely be followed by a Bradley signing, but I don't believe that makes the team better than they were Tuesday. It was mentioned that there were at least 5 teams after DeRosa. Hard to believe they couldn't get better.
  16. rawaction
    I voted average, because I think in the grand scheme of things (assuming Bradley), the Cubs are still as good on paper as I expected them to be, which is worse than last year, but still good enough to win 85-90 games and probably make the playoffs again. It's still been a bad offseason. The Cubs will win in a couple of the moves they made, but their losses are all their own doing. Getting rid of Wood is fine, but replacing him w/ Gregg is not. Getting rid of Derosa is fine, but replacing him with an overpaid Miles is not. Getting Gathright because he gets out of the LH batter's box fast is not fine.
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    That's shortsighted as hell, though. The Cubs scored the most runs in the NL by far, and faced a ton of RH pitching with a RH heavy lineup. The playoffs didn't expose some big weakness the Cubs hid all year. They just picked the 3 most visible times to go into the tank offensively. I don't know about you or Hendry, but I take more from 161 regular season games than I do from 3. And Derosa didn't have to be moved, no matter what. Nobody ever has to be moved. The only reason to move a player should be to make your team better. The Derosa move did not make the Cubs better. I have a hard time believing that the Cubs couldn't go after a cheap RF (again Scott, Hermida, DeJesus, Teahan) if they were so financially strapped. If that's the case, why get another long term contract? Whether you think Derosa is better than Bradley or not, the Cubs would have saved more money by keeping Derosa and getting a cheap OF, and MAYBE be marginally worse offensively than with Bradley and not Derosa.
  18. rawaction
    It's an upgrade, but if we're that cash strapped is it worth it? If we're now going to be playing a whole lot of Aaron Miles, Micah Hoffpauir and Joey Gathright have we really improved that much? Bradley's injured far too often for this to be a big improvement. Yeah, if the option was Bradley or Peavy, go with Peavy. Peavy is a bigger upgrade over what the Cubs put out at SP than Bradley is over Derosa (this is under the assumption that Derosa was the RF with the Cubs teams as it was yesterday w/ Fontenot at 2B). And as was mentioned, the Cubs have some cheap options that are likely to have the chance to be productive in RF. Not many cheap options available that can give you Peavy production.
  19. rawaction
    Ok, this is officially awesome! Winter Classic was the first hockey game I watched all of last year, same thing this year. In Wrigley, this is just magical.
  20. rawaction
    Everyone is high on the road teams this weekend. Not saying people shouldn't be, because they are all favored. However, it's risky business picking all road teams. I will go on record in this thread to GUARANTEE that AT LEAST 2 home teams will win this weekend. Right now, the only road team I'm confident will win is Baltimore. I'm picking Minnesota over Philly, San Diego over Indianapolis, and am 50/50 on Atlanta and Arizona.
  21. rawaction
    Roberts is being talked about in the Derosa trade thread. While typically, this may be worthy of its own thread, I don't think anyone is ready to go down this road again. Besides, Hendry did say that Roberts was a NO yesterday.
  22. rawaction
    Koyie Hill is just as cheap. Koyie Hill is better defensively. Koyie Hill has more power. Koyie Hill is much, much younger. For a team that needs to cut payroll, they sure are nickel and diming the hell out of the payroll flexibility they do have.
  23. rawaction
    I'm holding out hope that this is the case, though I don't know if I can wait another 2 months! I would think if Hendry knew he could only afford either Peavy OR Bradley, that he would choose Peavy. Peavy is truly elite at his position and is more likely to stay healthy. The Cubs do need a RF more than another SP, but I'd think Hendry would have sense enough to go after a cheaper RF, if necessary (Hermida, Scott, etc). But you never know, and there's not much indication, at this point, that this is the case.
  24. rawaction
    With Derosa and Fontenot, you had 2 of those same entities who helped to put up that line. With Derosa gone, you have no 2nd guy to combine for those numbers. So Fontenot replaces Derosa, and Miles replaces Fontenot. Miles is lesser than Fontenot. It's not a contradictory statement.
  25. rawaction
    Man, they are pretty cute.
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