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  1. bukie
    Way to go, Bickell.
  2. bukie
    When did Marshall become a LOOGY? He's like a triple LOOGY. He gets three outs, and they don't have to be situational.
  3. bukie
    Law of averages. White Sox were bound to make a good move eventually this offseason.
  4. bukie
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/additional/large/office_space_kit_mat.jpg
  5. bukie
    See, six minutes of time with 5 players on the ice, and two goals.
  6. bukie
    I dont think anyone had any illusions that Darvish would go for a higher bid than Matsuzaka. To bid 20 million dollars to me seems like a cheap pr move. So they can say 'well we bid on darvish.' Nobody knows what the Cubs bid on Darvish. It wasn't the highest bid, so even Darvish's Japanese team doesn't know. If anyone did know, it wouldn't be a New York columnist that mentions something on Twitter off the cuff.
  7. bukie
    Hard to win when you take 8 penalties in two periods.
  8. bukie
    A question for those who are upset about the offseason moves to this point: what would you have done differently? Go 10/275 for Pujols? Anticipated a posting bid higher than $52M for Darvish? Spent the money on a 3 year deal for Ramirez?
  9. bukie
    Twitter is buzzing that Jim Tressel was hit with a 5 year show cause penalty that is going to basically end his college coaching career.
  10. bukie
    An interesting article at Grantland on the MLB Prospect Bubble, suggesting that teams aren't getting good prospect value by trading away good major league players anymore.
  11. bukie
    So, even after all the misinformation via Twitter about the bids, people reporting the wrong winners, and full knowledge of the secretive process of the bids, we're still just going to accept that a New York source somehow knows the Cubs bid?
  12. bukie
    Well, Leonard came to play, and Richardson/Paul came to play in the last three minutes. That's the only reason they pulled it out at the end.
  13. bukie
    Guys weren't really up for the game, bench was useless. Cornell (like UNLV) played a collapsing zone the whole game, and the best way to combat that is to run them off the court and beat their defense to being set, which Illinois just refused to do the entire game. If any team going forward doesn't just sit in a zone the whole game against the Illini, they're making a huge mistake.
  14. bukie
    This situation is different, though. A team trying for Darvish was basically on their own in determining how much of a posting fee a player was worth and offering it. If you weren't the high bid, there was no chance to increase it, and there was no way to know what other teams would bid.
  15. bukie
    We owe them a marginal low A player, not a lopsided trade involving major league players.
  16. bukie
    The Hawks now lead the NHL in points per game.
  17. bukie
    If you're trading Garza, you're looking to trade production for potential. The potential has to line up to at least feasibly equal the production of what you're sending out, or else it's not worth making the trade. Trading production for farm system depth isn't really much to write home about.
  18. bukie
    I'm not sure I could hate football more than I do right now.
  19. bukie
    He seems to be more concerned with who will benefit the most from the entirety of Fielder's deal as of this very moment, and not so much on how easily the franchise can absorb the contract or how much a team can build around him. So, in that sense, since the Rays are a borderline playoff team with an absence at first base, Fielder makes perfect sense for them both short term and long term. Same with any team that's potentially one piece away from a playoff spot like the Giants, Brewers, Marlins, Cardinals and Indians.
  20. bukie
    Inanimate carbon rod?
  21. bukie
    So, three options at WR against a team that is most likely going to murder me anyway: Maclin v NYJ Torrey Smith @ SD Pierre Garcon v TEN I'm leaning Smith, actually, but it's pretty much a toss-up to me.
  22. bukie
    Hey, creepy, douchey, and ignorant. The trifecta from Phil Rogers, ladies and gentlemen!
  23. bukie
    He's a fastball-slider pitcher, with a second type of slider and a cutter as his tertiary pitches. As to whether they're good enough for 3rd/4th major league pitches, it's hard to say, but they're good enough for the professional Japanese league, which is better than AAA.
  24. bukie
    If that's what Zimmermann can consistently put up, and Darvish can match it, I'd be a happy camper. Assuming a player peak at 27-29 years old, a rough projection with a 4.3 fWAR baseline would mean a total of 25 WAR of production over a 5 year period (~29 over 6). So, if, say, the posting bid is 50 million, and the contract is 5/50 or even 6/70, the winning team would still net value.
  25. bukie
    Zimmerman's probably the best comp. Same age, same plus pitches, similar walk rates, similar groundball and strikeout rates in the minors, plus it even builds in some injury risk. Zimmerman's 2011 production projected to 200 innings would be 4.3 fWAR.
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