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Reason #750,013 why pitcher wins are stupid: Villanueva's season thus far.

Caught looking a lot.

Because this issue has mainly been fabricated in the minds of Purdue/Illinois fans. Illinois, you know, the program that just had how many players transfer? It's not as if Illinois overcommitted on scholarships so that they had to find creative ways to get rid of kids. This case, it just sounds like the kids wanted to play more than they were at Illinois, and Groce was up front about things and told them they weren't going to play much there. This is just more rationalizing. Players leave Illinois because they want to play more . . . players leave IU because IU's coach is a meanie (and, of course, was not up front and did not tell players they weren't going to play much there because, well, what exactly? Because Illinois fans that hate IU will it so?). Players that have left IU for more playing time/to be closer to home have been used by this board, ad nauseam, to prove that "Creaning" exists. Meanwhile, only one such player left when there was a scholarship crunch (Capobianco). That player was "Creaned"; sure, there's little way around that. (The only other player that has left when IU was under a scholarship crunch was Ron Patterson. Patterson was admitted to the university on a contingency basis, failed to make his grades, and violated the honor code (the honor code, by the way, prohibits cheating). Moreover, he ended up at Syracuse. If this was just a Machiavellian "Creaning" why not "Crean," say, Maurice Creek or Peter Jurkin or Austin Etherington or Remy Abell? Would any of those players have ended up at a program of Syracuse's ilk? Or even at a BCS program?) You keep moving the goalposts here. We're not the ones rationalizing why our players transferred.

At least they've been on enough of a roll to legitimately belong in the playoffs now.

Because this issue has mainly been fabricated in the minds of Purdue/Illinois fans. Illinois, you know, the program that just had how many players transfer? It's not as if Illinois overcommitted on scholarships so that they had to find creative ways to get rid of kids. This case, it just sounds like the kids wanted to play more than they were at Illinois, and Groce was up front about things and told them they weren't going to play much there.

Could be the next Spencer Hawes.

Michael Brantley in for Josh Reddick, who apparently is going to miss the series with a shoulder injury.

Hawks have now clinched no worse than 6th. Win over Detroit Friday and they clinch the division.

Hawks have officially clinched a playoff berth, and no worse than 7th (ahead of Detroit).

No you cannot. Only injured players and starters. Who is switching RP's? Didn't lynx drop marmol and add another RP today? Change goes into effect tomorrow, for next week.

D: Because 2-3 months of good results outweigh 3 appearances. The "good" results were somewhat overrated, and no, they don't necessarily do so in this case. I know people love to spam "sample size," but there's also the matter of extremity. Extremely bad results are less likely to be sample-size flukes than ordinarily bad ones (and the same goes for good). Same argument as we had last year when Brett Jackson had a million Ks in 50 PAs or whatever. 13 batters faced: 2 BB 2 HBP 2 HR 2 K 5 BIP That's bad enough to be legitimately concerned over, sample size or no. Legitimately concerned, sure. Cut and run at first sign of difficulty, no. Velocity seems normal, location seems off, front office likely thinks he should get time to try to get control straightened out.

Please stop with the "Theo doesn't care" meme. It's really annoying. I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Because if what's happened so far in 167 games is the job he does when he does care, it does not reflect well on him. Only if you look at it through crazy goggles, perhaps.

D: Because 2-3 months of good results outweigh 3 appearances.

If only everyone was as level headed as you are. :roll: Baby steps, if only everyone was as level headed as my 5-year-old.

Man, the next thing you'll be telling me is the Cubs won't hit .125 as a team all year.

Blackhawks clinch a playoff berth if Phoenix doesn't win in regulation or OT.

After giving up 1 run in 3 games, Washington has given up 14 runs in 6 innings tonight.

Santa Clara's Kevin Foster is 21 3PA shy of the NCAA career record, and tonight will be his last game.

Y'all gonna make me lose my mind.

I don't think you can bench yourself due to an injury.

Minnesota hired Rick Pitino. No, the other one.

Can o' corn duck snort get down stretch you can put it on the board....YES HE GONE

So, what are the popular candidates for Jump To Conclusions Week from today?

You can put up to 3 players in your DL. After that, you need to either use up bench spots for additional injured players, or you'll have to cull the injured that aren't worth keeping.

Yep, UConn and Cincy unknowingly joined Conference USA.