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Everything posted by bukie
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Apparently not quite optimistic enough. Although the Mavs and Rockets picks are already wrong.
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Hoping for one of Olsen, Harris, Meacham, Posluszny, or Jarrett to fall to the Bears, at least.
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With the absurd run on defense, there are plenty of offensive options available. I don't think Cleveland picked Olson, either...
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Glad that Quinn got to go to his childhood team. Hope that it pans out for him, as he seems like a good kid.
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If, by some odd reason, Quinn falls to the Bears, I would be ecstatic.
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Because he went to Notre Dame, and people treat Notre Dame like the Yankees or Lakers.
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I think if the Raiders want the most sure thing this year out of college, they should just draft Calvin Johnson, trade for/sign a FA QB, draft a project QB in the later rounds, and call it good. EDIT: And for the record, I'm an Illini fan, not a ND fan. This is shaping out to be a fairly boring first couple of hours of the draft for the Bear/Illini fans.
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What's the difference? Level of competition makes it easier to get a higher rating in college? The main difference is that there is no upper limit, so a Colt Brennan got something like a 186 rating this year to set the record for highest rating. A league-average rating is basically 79, though. EDIT: Formulas: The college formula is as follows: (100 * Completion %) + (8.4 * Yds per att) + (330 * Td %) - (200 * Int %). Pros is (Completion PCT) + (YPA) + (TD per attempt) + (INT per attempt) divided by 6, times 100. A simplified way to calculate rating is: (83.33 * Comp %) + (4.16667 * Yds per att) + (333.333 * TD pct) - (416.667 * INT pct) + 25/12.
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So, 1 fantastic game, 2 great games, a decent game, and 2 bad games against good defenses. Curious what that averages out to overall, but Brady Quinn wasn't the reason ND looked bad in 3 games this year. And, I'd like to think that if Brady Quinn wasn't a Notre Dame QB, he'd be getting a lot less flak around here.
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There's a decent Bulls blog at http://www.blogabull.com , but the guy that runs it seems to have a slightly irrational dislike of Nocioni.
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I have a feeling that Game 3 isn't going to be much fun to watch. Especially if the referees give in to the Wade special.
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Apples and oranges. The Bulls won 75% of their home games this season. The Cubs won 54% of their home games in 2003. Not to mention the Cubs won game 6 that year. And no amount of logic, reason, "truth", or therapy will ever get me to believe differently.
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One line summary of this year's Cubs: They're good enough to win handily when they play well, but not good enough to win when they consistently make silly mistakes.
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With Pie up, and Soriano back, there is no need for Theriot to play OF sub, so Cedeno presumably becomes expendable...if Theriot can play SS well enough. I assume the Cubs will skip Miller's spot next time, and then call up Guzman to start the next. -
Actually, the Cubs biggest weakness is not having guys on base. True..But this season it seems theyre getting the guys on..But weve sene numerous times theyve had guys on with no outs or 1 and they screw it up somehow and cant score a single freakin run The trouble happens when the Cubs only get runners on 3-4 times a game. A good team with RISP is only knocking them in 1/3 of the time.
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Actually, the Cubs biggest weakness is not having guys on base.
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Wow, was that pitch too down the middle?
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Almost like Joe wishes he was out there catching and calling the game.
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Good pitch, good piece of hitting by Rolen.
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There's the hit and run talk. Didn't take too long.
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I'm liking Girardi's analysis already. He's said the Cubs offensive problem is not getting enough guys on base, and he's explaining how to pitch to each guy.
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The lesson to be learned here is that if a pitcher can't get it done in 50 innings of sporadic work over 2 years in the majors while being bounced around between spot starts and bullpen work, it's completely hopeless. Those 50 innings also overrule any consistent minor league numbers over the course of the previous 3 years, also.
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I'm feeling strangely optimistic today. Playoffs predictions: Mavs over Warriors in 5 Suns over Lakers in 7 Spurs over Nuggets in 6 Rockets over Jazz in 5 Pistons over Magic in 5 Cavs over Wizards in 4 Raptors over Nets in 7 Bulls over Heat in 5 Conference Semis: Mavs over Rockets in 5 Spurs over Suns in 6 Bulls over Pistons in 7 Raptors over Cavs in 6 Conference Finals: Mavs over Spurs in 7 Bulls over Raptors in 7 NBA Finals: Mavs over Bulls in 5 EDIT: That would be 13, for the over. :)
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Technically, if they hold serve at home, the Heat have no chance.
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So wait, you mean the world didn't end last night? It's the Heat, folks. They played well for about 3 weeks the whole year, and their two best players are slowed. They aren't the best team in the NBA, or the East, or in their first round series this year. If the Bulls take care of business at home, it'll be over in 5.
