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Everything posted by bukie
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Virginia Tech lost to Xavier, so that leaves the Big Ten as the last conference to lose a game this year....in about 4 hours, I'm guessing.
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I love early season, extremely low sample size computer rankings: http://kenpom.com/rate.php Go Savannah State! ;)
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Holy crap, Illinois won a game in which they were outshot on the road significantly, and the difference was free throws and rebounding.
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Not sure, but I think this win clinched the MAC conference championship for Ball State. So it's a little bit of a big deal.
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
bukie replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
Wins and losses are irrelevant. Teams should be awarded points for scoring goals and subtracted points for allowing goals. -
The Big Ten hasn't had any bad losses as of yet, at least. Probably safe until tomorrow, as it looks like Wisconsin is going to squeak by tonight.
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He had an argument, but Sizemore, Morneau, Mauer, Hamilton and Youkilis probably had better arguments.
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Are you arguing that Hamilton should've been higher or lower? 5th in WS, 2nd in EqR, 8th in EqA, 6th in VORP, 4th in RC, he was in about the right spot really, if maybe a little low.
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Well, if he were a closer, he probably would've finished 6th. If he played for Tampa, though, he would've been 11th.
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Err....Utley definitely shouldn't have come in 14th place in the MVP voting this year. Not his fault voters fell in love with a player on his team that essentially should've been platooned until September. Youkilis and Pedroia had pretty similar years. Pedroia had a better VORP, Youkilis had a better EqA, more Win Shares, and more RC.
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Upon further review, he certainly wasn't the least deserving player to get first place votes (K-Rod? Really?), and his VORP was actually third in the AL (A-Rod, Sizemore). His EqA was 17th in the AL, and he was tied for 8th in the AL in Win Shares. Probably not the most deserving player in the league, but not completely out of left field.
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Thank goodness the Cubs were able to retain a big part of what made them winners last year: clubhouse presence.
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We should get a good idea of where Illinois is when they play at Vandy this week, then at Kent State next week. I like Illinois' schedule this year. They scheduled a lot of decent to good teams (Vandy, Georgia, Kent State, Clemson, Mizzou), but nobody that they know is going to blow them out of the stadium (well, until conference play). At least this way they have a decent shot in every non-con game.
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Hey, only the second award where the winner didn't make my ballot. EDIT: Of 28 voters, 16 voted Pedroia first, 6 second, 4 third, 1 fourth, and one voter left him off their ballot. Again, I must find this voter and send him a cookie, unless he was the guy that voted K-Rod first.
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Japanese Team Drafts 16 Year Old Girl
bukie replied to Outshined_One's topic in General Baseball Talk
Are you serious? That's just sad in itself. -
Illinois has a decent chance to be the first Big Ten team to lose a game this year...unless they can somehow drag Thursday's game out long enough for the UCLA-Michigan game to end.
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I'm surprised there wasn't more love for Berkman, who had an absolute monster year of his own. EDIT: Also, the love for Howard and Lidge "carrying" the Phillies to the playoffs completely overlooks the effort of Chase Utley, the true "MVP" of the Phillies for the year.
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Interesting synopsis of the Cuban stock ordeal here on Truehoop Looks like he did engage in insider trading, from the sounds of it. He'll likely have to pay a fine in the area of 1 million and then the matter will likely go away, officially.
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Only one voter did not have Ryan Howard on his ballot. I must find this voter and send him a cookie. Unless he also voted Brad Lidge first, in which case I reserve the right to revoke said cookie.
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Yeah, they probably should've been in the play-in game, but I guess the committee feels that if the SWAC were in the play-in game every year, they'd never make the actual field of 64.
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MVSU is one of the better teams in the SWAC, usually. Which means they're generally one of the 10 worst teams in division 1.
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Good to see him land on his feet after the debacle at IU.
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You made it sound like Washington was winning or something. I had to check the score to make sure they were still losing to set up the ultimate pillow fight next week.
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Jake Peavy: Available.
bukie replied to Mephistopheles's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Huh? How is Peavy our number 1 target? Our number 1 target from day 1 has been a left handed hitting 3/4/5 hitter. Who is an athlete and has at least 1 Q and 1 V in his name. I really hope the Cubs can sign Marq Teiveira, too. -
No way in hell do I think that's a good deal to make. Short term or not. I think Wood likes the Cubs and the area enough that no matter what kind of 1-year offer he'd get from a club, he'd accept a more owner-reasonable 1 year deal to stay with the Cubs. I'd go as high as 8-10 million for one year to sign him.
