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  1. bukie
    Yeah, I like the logo. They weren't kidding when they said they took inspiration from Red Grange and the twin columns.
  2. 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/
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. bukie
    Boston, Tampa, Philly, Pittsburgh Minnesota, Chicago, Anaheim, LA
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. bukie
    Both Raanta and Crawford, you say. Interesting strategy.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. bukie
    Of course, because 3 outings is too small a sample size to give up on Veras already.
  12. bukie
    I still feel that 3 outings is early to bury a reliever with a decent track record.
  13. bukie
    Well, at least Kalish and Sweeney didn't ground into double plays.
  14. 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.
  15. bukie
    That's simply not true. Most of them it's because they don't have a quality 3rd pitch to be a starter. Really, you're going to sit there and say it's not true that relievers are the most volatile and unpredictable position in baseball?
  16. bukie
    ERA 3.02, FIP 3.62, xFIP 3.95. xFIP has been 3.80 or higher the last 4 seasons. #BoyGenius Wow, and I thought it was bad enough that you felt you needed to break out the "no quality FA relievers signed excluding the ones that were because I don't think they should count" comment. Gregg's FIP and xFIP were even higher than Veras' last year Which is why they signed Veras. Fortunately, two weeks is enough of a definite analysis of ability to make sweeping judgments. It's also nice that relievers are so reliably predictable and good, so that's why they pitch in relief.
  17. bukie
    ERA 3.02, FIP 3.62, xFIP 3.95. xFIP has been 3.80 or higher the last 4 seasons. #BoyGenius Wow, and I thought it was bad enough that you felt you needed to break out the "no quality FA relievers signed excluding the ones that were because I don't think they should count" comment.
  18. bukie
    Well, the Blackhawks were likely going to have to beat Colorado and St. Louis in order to make the WCF anyway, so...they just might have to do it in a different order now.
  19. bukie
    Now Wood gets pegged.
  20. bukie
    I'll credit that wild pitch to Olt's presence.
  21. bukie
    Castro refuses to let Cole walk him, and grounds a single through the drawn-in infield that's probably an out if the IF is standard depth.
  22. bukie
    I think the Pirates are pitching around Castro here. He's back!
  23. bukie
    Actually, what I'd find interesting is how varied the strike zone is depending on the umpire calling it. I know some umpires are notorious for bad zones, or even worse, inconsistent zones.
  24. bukie
    No, the assumption that it's mostly framing is a bit unfounded, but the data is still odd. Especially the one pitch called a ball that was practically down the middle. Call it umpires unwilling to give edges to wild pitchers (which is just another good reason that umpires are stupid). Call it umpires being fooled by catchers that make balls look like strikes, or vice versa. I still don't like the concept that the strike zone varies wildly based on non-objective variables.
  25. bukie
    that pitcher has certainly disgraced himself The future is here man [expletive]! What Cub prospect list was there ever that included Rizzo but not Baez? Baez was drafted in 2011, Cubs traded for Rizzo in 2012.
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