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  1. bukie

    Castro

    bukie replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    At 28 he'll be on the decline. Shortstops peak early. Mostly because the best hitting shortstops get moved off shortstop by then.
  2. bukie

    Castro

    bukie replied to Tim's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Castro and Rizzo leading the team in LD% so far this year, which is encouraging, except for the whole "the rest of the team can't hit line drives often".
  3. bukie
    Bulls were up 5 with 4 seconds left, Wizards inbounded the ball and Snell fouled Wall shooting 70 feet from the basket. Wall then made all 3 instead of missing one intentionally to give them a chance, the Bulls inbounded the ball to Taj, who got fouled and made 1 of 2, so the Wizards got the rebound with 2 seconds left down 3, only to lose the ball out of bounds.
  4. bukie
    Nine players that hurt their teams by taking way too many shots (Insider): http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10817078/9-players-hurting-their-teams-college-basketball
  5. bukie
    Wait, Qatar might not be able to come through? Unprecedented.
  6. bukie
    No, nowhere.
  7. bukie
    The "Hope Rodon has just enough perceived problems to slide to 4" strategy is working so well, even Cub fans are backing off him.
  8. bukie
    Controlling the strike zone as a hitter is the most important skill you can really have. And it's not all about walks, either. It's about swinging at the good pitches you can hit, and not swinging at the bad pitches you can't. Some hitters have better plate coverage than others, and some hitters can make good contact outside the strike zone, but most crucial is not making the pitcher's job any easier than it has to be considering even the best hitters reach base about 40% of the time.
  9. bukie
    Besides Shark, who else is the longest tenured Cub? With a rotating carousel of 4th OF's/utility players, Rizzo looks to be the de facto leader - but he's got 1 full year in. Um, Castro was called up in 2010. But Castro can't possibly be a team leader...
  10. bukie
    Is this a bigger shock than McDermott leaving Iowa State for Creighton? Mizzou is a better job than ISU and Creighton is a better job than Tulsa Tulsa is joining the AAC this season... ...which means the AAC will consist of Cincy, UConn, Memphis, SMU, Temple, South Florida, UCF, Houston, Tulsa, Tulane and East Carolina. Brutal, but still arguably as strong as the SEC.
  11. bukie
    ‏@robneyer 8m Billy Hamilton just took the worst swing in @MLB history. Makes me wonder if this thing is going to work.
  12. bukie
    Yeah, I like the logo. They weren't kidding when they said they took inspiration from Red Grange and the twin columns.
  13. bukie
    Interesting article on 538 from Neil Paine on how amazingly well control of the strike zone correlates with team W/L percentage: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/its-all-about-the-strike-zone/
  14. bukie
    well, first of all, that's not the white. That's the new silver uniform. Secondly, the font is different the logo is different, the colors are slightly different, the striping on the side is different, the numbers are different, pretty much completely revamp.
  15. bukie
    New Illiini brand logo/uniforms/etc: http://www.illinoisloyalty.com/i/n/new-illini-uniforms-nike.jpg ...I like both the logo and the football/basketball unis. There's a white also.
  16. bukie
    Boston, Tampa, Philly, Pittsburgh Minnesota, Chicago, Anaheim, LA
  17. bukie
    @kpelton 2m The Spurs will be the first team since the ABA-NBA merger not to have a single player average 30 minutes per game.
  18. bukie
    Got to say, I've never been this excited before about a rebrand. I'm curious to see if Nike can possibly screw this up, considering the blank set of boring they have to work with.
  19. bukie
    Both Raanta and Crawford, you say. Interesting strategy.
  20. bukie

    Week #3

    bukie replied to Quakers's topic in Fantasy Sports

    Just got news that a 7th player on my team since the start of the season is headed to the DL. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
  21. bukie
    I don't want to give up on him, I just think he needs some low leverage situations to get his [expletive] back together and he needs to be not giving away games while he figures it out. He's had two save situations. Jerking him around in the pen probably isn't going to help the situation when it's two save situations.
  22. bukie
    Of course, because 3 outings is too small a sample size to give up on Veras already.
  23. bukie
    I still feel that 3 outings is early to bury a reliever with a decent track record.
  24. bukie
    Well, at least Kalish and Sweeney didn't ground into double plays.
  25. bukie
    That's simply not true. Most of them it's because they don't have a quality 3rd pitch to be a starter. He's being a smart-ass. If finding relievers is so damn hard then why do the same few organizations always seem to have good ones? And if our guys are so smart, how come our bullpen's been a crater of awful for 3 years? Are you really that dense, or just drunk tonight? The Yankees had a good one for so long because of Rivera. The Cards have a good one because they have an entire farm system so chock full of arms they can afford to use their top prospect as a setup man and it is still a good idea. The Cubs finally are in a spot where they have a bunch of major league ready semi-young arms in the minors, but 10 days into the season is far to early to torpedo the entire pen and start over.
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