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Oh, that reminds me, now I definitely owe Navin a beer.
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Here's how I'd rank the teams after roughly 1/4 of the season: 1. Colts 2. Saints 3. Vikings 4. Giants 5. Ravens 6. Pats 7. Broncos 8. 49ers 9. Eagles 10. Bears 11. Jets 12. Packers 13. Steelers 14. Falcons 15. Chargers 16. Bengals 17. Jaguars 18. Cowboys 19. Texans 20. Cardinals 21. Dolphins 22. Seahawks 23. Titans 24. Redskins 25. Bills 26. Panthers 27. Lions 28. Raiders 29. Bucs 30. Chiefs 31. Browns 32. Rams Personally, after 22, everybody's done. And I don't like any team after 15.
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Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
My favorite pic from week 4: http://static.nfl.com/static/content/catch_all/nfl_image/canon_wk_4_2009_04.jpg -
He went over the start limit in July for me to keep him in the minors, and he was pitching like crap for the fourth year straight. Couldn't afford to stash him on the bench and release one of my other guys at the time, so I had to dump him.
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Well, he's certainly the safety-est pick in the draft...
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Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
An interesting observation on the defensive effort Sunday: -
That's not how it's been defined by much of the media though. People have been painting the picture that parity=mediocirity=everybody goes 7-9 or 9-7. The NFL is set-up so that any team can recover from being horrible and win big in a short amount of time. You can suck every year if you are run by incompetent morons, Detroit. And I think that's a very good thing for a sport. I haven't really heard that definition of parity, but if that's what they're pushing, it's wrong. Parity means terrible/mediocre teams can improve quickly (SF, Denver, Cincy) and good teams can collapse (Ten, Dal?). The NFL does have parity this year. Parity technically means similar. In reference to sports, it generally is used to denote all teams are similar, there are no great or awful teams. In the NFL, that is not the case year to year. Overall, there is a general similarity in most of the teams, aside from the most outstanding (NE) or the most disappointing (Detroit).
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Yeah, I don't really think anybody expected Lee to finish with the 5th best OPS in baseball after his April. Post-ASB, he actually led all of baseball in OPS.
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Chone Figgins was 6th in the AL with a .395 OBP and led the AL in walks with 101.
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Yeah, I got the 11 pick in the deal too. Looking at my keepers, holy crap did Vazquez get a lot of points late. My keepers look like this: Exempt - 9 possible, keeping 7 Sandoval Montero Masterson Niemann Marcum Jones Lowrie Lannan Detwiler Points - up to 2000 Keeping one of: Haren or Vazquez Keeping two of: Roberts, Bay, Ichiro, Cruz Pretty much anybody (except for Sandoval and Montero) is available for the right deal, as I have both high points players and exempt players available. Looking for draft picks and/or prospects.
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There's never really been parity in the NFL. Every year there's at least one team that wins 75% of their games and at least one team that loses 75% of their games. There's less parity in the NFL than any other sport. There are, however (assuming Minnesota wins), six 3-1 teams, two 2-1 teams, seven 2-2 teams, a 1-2 team, five 1-3 teams and an 0-3 team. So, really, 4 games into the season the distribution is pretty standard.
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My thoughts on the Broncos: If the defense is going to be that good, they don't need much from Orton to win (see: the Bears past 3-4 years). However, there is no scenario in which they are a better team because of the QB change.
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Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
It's difficult to discern how well he's doing because the left side of the line collapses so quickly so often. I suppose it's a good thing that usually the right side lasts longer than the left. -
Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d81323168/Bears-48-Lions-24 Well, I did it the last two weeks, so hey, why not hear Joniak call 6 TDs. :) -
Today's Cub loss puts the Cubs drafting 15th next year, which is protected.
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I'm pretty sure I finished with more points, too. My team wasn't the best team all year, it was just the most clutch. :)
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I vote it doesn't count either, because potentially someone could pick up as many position players from the Tigers/Twins as were available just for the one day.
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I'd like to officially change my title to David Aardsma's #1 fan. :) EDIT: And Pablo Sandoval puts it away with a 10th inning HR! Woo, go crazy!
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Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Way to give the defense a breather, Knox. -
I still think my team is toast. Too many guys took the week off, and I picked the wrong starts (freaking Masterson). I'm half tempted to start Masterson against the Red Sox tomorrow, because I don't even think Davis will be able to get the Cubs out.
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It's only LOL if you're an Obama sycophant that can't admit when mistakes are made. It's the US president doing something unprecedented and getting egg on his face. It doesn't reflect poorly on him as a person, but it's a miscalculation by the White House and a waste of political capital. i think it's just unprecedented because the olympics have become massive business and now heads of state attend all the time. plus he's from chicago and there was extra pressure on him to attend; if he didn't go and chicago was voted out on the first ballot people (republican) would bitch that the city's most famous son wouldn't even take a day out of his schedule to support his city, while the other heads of state supported their nation, and the slight cost america the games. Yeah, I think the only way the whole situation doesn't spin negatively on Obama in some way would have been if he didn't go and Chicago won the bid anyway.
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Week 4 - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions, 12 PM FOX
bukie replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Other Sports
Um...so when the QB is really good, the team wins? I'm gonna guess that goes for most QB's...and even if not, like I think we've all said before, using W-L record is a stupid evaluation tool...what a worthless stat. This is Peter King, the man who continues to argue that Derek Jeter is the best baseball player of his lifetime. Abandon all logic and reason, ye who enter there. -
Any chance Jermaine Jones gets a call for the last qualifier, or some kind of action for the USMNT prior to the World Cup?
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162 games in a season / 3 games in an average series = 54 "series" in a year. The season is not a set of 51 series, and in no way must there be an odd number of series in a year.
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Masterson useless for weeks, then throws a 12K CG gem against the White Sox. I just don't know anymore.
