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This could be the worst pass defending back seven in NFL history, though. I'm a little curious what the opponent's total completion % is against them.
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What I'm saying is I don't think the team stockpiled young offensive assets for 4 years just to blow it all in one offseason for a catcher that can pitch frame and a bunch of recently-injured pitching. EDIT: I mean, if the Cubs' current "problem" is they have too many middle infield quality assets (which is a wonderful problem to have, since they can play anywhere) and not enough pitching and catcher depth, trading the one middle infield asset that is an established all-star level player isn't the best way to fix it. -
So...take all the young hitter depth we have and trade it away for pitching. Seems like a solid long term strategy. We take on a total of 3 pitchers who are either coming off injury or came off injury last year, add one young pitcher in exchange for our existing young pitching, and assume Russell is ready on day one to compete this year.
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This comment is dense as meatloaf.
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But no mention of the Cubs. Not sure why the hell that person thinks it's the Cubs. Unless he saw CBS and thought it was a typo. Also nice job, Rotoworld: That would certainly shore up that 3rd base defense.
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Yeah, no doubt Kershaw is on the short list of most valuable players in baseball, but nobody would trade a top 50 player to get him for half a year. Unless there was clear evidence of tampering, of course.
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Random question: how different does everyone feel about the season right now if the Bears kick a FG to win in OT against the Bills in week 1 rather than vice versa?
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Edmonton is 6-3-1 against the East, and 0-12-4 against the West this season.
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2009 was really the only WS they won under the "buy all the FAs" strategy. Their successes in the late 90's were largely from a home grown operation.
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So now a guy tweets from Chicago that he heard the Yankees gave Lester a "can't refuse" offer, nobody in NY has mentioned a thing about it, the Yankees never met with Lester, and all of a sudden there's instant teeth gnashing about it?
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His logic is that going from 4 to 8 is bad because reasons, since the NFL has enough playoff teams that single regular season games don't matter and the best teams always get upset. Of course, that's completely different, since there are 32 NFL teams and 12 playoff teams, compared to 4 of 120 in college football. Even if you want to argue that non-big 5 conference teams (and maybe one or two independents) shouldn't be considered viable for the playoff anyway (supported by Marshall never getting a whiff of a chance at the playoff), that's still just 4 of 66 teams. Every game is still going to have meaning, even in the vaunted SEC.
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I have to believe there's some room for a middle ground between "every word any blogger says is canonical law" and "every word any blogger says deserves preemptive derision" in the decision making process of reasonable people.
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Certainly the logical course of action is to just preemptively mock him repeatedly so he never posts here again. That'll show him for having open communication.
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Someone reboot David, he just blue screened.
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Got to start driving the lane and creating easier shots. When you're 3-15 from the 3 point line it just might not be your night out there.
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I actually don't feel too bad about my thoughts on the matter 3 years ago, just wrong with the assumptions that the Dodger FO would continue to be a mess longer than it was and that the Pirates wouldn't be able to afford McCutchen long term. Said the only special long term player they had at the time was Castro, and that Fielder for 4-5 years was a better bet than Pujols over the same time (before each got 8-9 year contracts and the Cubs traded for Rizzo, which was a move I liked better than either anyway).
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Wow, Maddon is good.
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Didn't get a chance to do this earlier, but here are the games in order (smallest to largest) of the odds of the B1G team winning: 17% Ohio State at Louisville 19% Rutgers at Clemson 24% Iowa at North Carolina 33% Illinois at Miami 40% Virginia at Maryland 48% Nebraska at Florida State 51% Michigan State at Notre Dame 56% Georgia Tech at Northwestern 57% Minnesota at Wake Forest 58% Pittsburgh at Indiana 62% Duke at Wisconsin 64% Syracuse at Michigan 71% NC State at Purdue 82% Virginia Tech at Penn State Red is B1G victories.
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I guess that means Clemson is Rutgers bad.
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Ken Pomeroy with a solid article on how slow college basketball has become, and some tips on how to fix it: http://regressing.deadspin.com/this-will-probably-be-the-slowest-college-basketball-se-1665098691
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There is a decent chance Illinois will play recently undefeated Marshall in a bowl game.
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Rutgers leads Virginia at the half, which doesn't count towards the ACC-B1G challenge, but...wow.
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It's sad because Illinois, historically, has a great football tradition I know. I go to more games than most Illinois fans I know. Another problem they have around here is they constantly degrade Chicago about everything, then scratch their heads when the best football and basketball players from the Chicago area don't come to Champaign. I think most fans were just frustrated when they let Zook go for making a bowl, and then Beckman took over and won 1 B1G game in two years and finished last in the B1G in recruiting the past two years, meaning he did neither recruiting nor results right. It's honestly a shock that the team is bowl-eligible this year, but that's largely on how terrible the conference is this year than how well the Illini played, despite today being their best performance of the season by far, especially on defense.
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I mean, they shot 30% from the field and under 50% from the FT line, and practically led wire to wire against a team that destroyed Memphis yesterday.
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Donaldson to Blue Jays
bukie replied to gscool89's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
