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Melky to Brewers for Cameron
mul21 replied to Anomalied's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Rumors floating around down here are that if the Cabrera-Cameron deal doesn't go through the Yankees may be interested in Ankiel, possibly for Kennedy. -
Derosa is a nice player but he's not nearly good enough to hold up a trade for far better player. He's replacable, and just because you don't care about his age doesn't mean that it's not an issue. No, that production is not replaceable at 2B. Now if you tell me you are working on a Furcal deal after DeRo gets moved for Peavy, then we'll talk. But let's not make it seem that DeRo is some scrub player that can be easily replaced by a Fontenot or old ass veteran. Yeah, DeRosa really showed up in the playoffs when he fumbled an easy DP in Game 2 (opening the floodgates) and then went 0-4 in Game 3. Furthermore, why does DeRosa seem to skate by with mistakes while someone like Soriano never does? I can remember a few times during the season he made dumb defensive or baserunning plays, and nothing was mentioned. Because it was an aberration for DeRosa and not a once a week occurrence like it seems to be for Soriano. And it's not like he didn't get a few hits in the post season. Was it disappointing? Yeah, but they were physical mistakes and not mental errors like other players make. And as others have mentioned, he's making $4 million, not $14 million.
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someone get HCF to translate Try it now, that's my guess.
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That article is specious and a crock. I'll refer you to CCP's post for more. I didn't say it was accurate or reflected my opinion on the situation. I just thought his ideas on how the NCAA looked at the situation were interesting. I don't have any idea if he's accurate or not. I'm in agreement with those who say their punishment was enough with the exception of the APR stuff. Post season punishment that would have actually affected them would have been way too excessive considering that likely would have resulted in a 3 year ban.
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Putz to Mets
mul21 replied to MarmolMan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
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Plus, if he takes injury factor into account, playing on grass in Wrigley is probably a better bet than playing on turf in Tampa.
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I know it's been discussed a ton on here, but here's an article about the non-punishment Indiana got. A few interesting things I hadn't heard before about the decision making process by the NCAA. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=dw-indiana120908&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
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Putz to Mets
mul21 replied to MarmolMan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Can somebody post the particulars? I've been websensed on the link provided. -
he's clever enough with the ball and he has a quick enough shot to get it off in the nba, at least i think he does. if you look at him and then look at jj redick when he came out, who looks like a better prospect? curry by a mile, because he can create his own shot and he looks like he might actually be able to run the point. I think he looks like a less muscular version of Ben Gordon. Quick with a quick release and a great shot.
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I don't think teams should be able to host bowl games. It pretty much runs directly against the entire point of bowl games (which is two similarly talented teams meeting on a neutral field) Disclaimer: I'm a Big Ten homer (I know you're a PSU guy) How do you feel about USC getting to play in the Rose Bowl, LSU in the Sugar Bowl, ASU (once in a blue moon) in the Fiesta, or Miami in the Orange Bowl?
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Ball State just got called out on Tirico and Van Pelt for not taking the game against Boise in Boise. I see no reason they were at fault since they (according to our own Andy anyway) offered to play the game wherever on a neutral field. Thoughts?
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How do you make this argument when the team that's going instead of them is one they beat head to head on a neutral field? Because the season consists of 12 games, not 1. Over those 12 games, Oklahoma has been the better team. Re-read my 1st post on this page. I accounted for the whole season. And Derwood, TTU is out of the equation because the got beat by 44 by OU. They aren't in the discussion anymore. It's pretty obvious they aren't as good as either OU or UT. Edit: I would bet that if Mizzou and TTU had switched when they played UT that the scores in the games would have ended up similar to what they were. (i.e. UT killing TTU and losing to Mizzou instead of the way it happened)
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How do you make this argument when the team that's going instead of them is one they beat head to head on a neutral field? And USC has won against a cupcake Pac-10 schedule and hasn't played very well in a few of their wins. Plus, the B12 schedule has just been ridiculously difficult this year.
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I have very little sympathy for a team that got beat by 50.
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Texas is getting screwed. I mean, the one game they lost was the 4th of a stretch where they played 4 teams ranked in the top 11 and lost the last of them at the buzzer. Plus, they beat the team going fron their half of the conference. I hope Mizzou beats OU and Texas plays whoever from the SEC for the title. God I hate the Big 12 rules and the CS. I just saw the SEC/ACC tiebreaker for a situation like this and they use the BCS standings unless the top 2 teams are within 5 spots of each other and then they go to head to head matchups. Makes a lot more sense to me. And just to clarify, I have no dog in the fight.
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Not any sane ones. I really honestly don't ever remember hearing that.
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This is exactly why I think they should have gotten more. They went out and hired him even though he was still on probation from his screw ups at OU. He didn't have a show cause. If the NCAA didn't want someone to hire him, they should have imposed sanctions against him moving jobs. They didn't; therefore, they implicitly gave other schools permission to hire him. I understand your point, but just because you aren't explicitly forbidden from doing something doesn't mean that doing it is a good idea. I'm an Illinois fan and I really don't hold any grudge toward IU now that they've gotten rid of the scumbag and appear to be doing things right now. I really hope all B10 teams do well other than when they play Illinois because it makes the conference look better and things easier in the postseason.
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This is exactly why I think they should have gotten more. They went out and hired him even though he was still on probation from his screw ups at OU.
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IMO, the punishment from the NCAA was just okay and probably should have included a 2 year post season ban. Anybody know off the top of their head what OU got from Sampson's transgressions? I think IU should have gotten everything OU did plus some extra for hiring a known cheater and not keeping a closer eye on him. At least they've moved in the right direction and put somebody in there who has a seemingly clean track record and appears to be a guy with good morals.
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So apparently Indiana is getting off with really no punishment for the cheating under Sampson?
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You've obviously never been to Pearl City, IL. do you know kc randall? I do. And his older brother Kort. How do you know him?
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I hope Wood comes back too, but no matter what you say about Wood (loves Chicago, money isn't everything, etc.) he would have to be crazy to take the Cubs 1-year deal and leave $16 million on the table (in your example). I'm sure he knows his medical history better than any of us and he should take the most guaranteed money he can find in case his medical problems reappear. I don't see why that is being described as having to be crazy. He's already financially set for life. He can do whatever the heck he wants. And he could end up making a heck of a lot more than $24m over 3 years if he takes a 1 year deal and signs longterm after next season. It's a risk, but it's not a horrible risk or a crazy decision. But won't the players also be up in arms about Wood accepting a 1 yr arby deal over a 3 yr much more lucrative deal? I think they have a bigger problem with leaving dollars per year on the table rather than just years. In other words, they might be upset at taking a 2/$20 deal over a 3/$36 deal but wouldn't care if Woody was to take 1/$8 over 2/$16 or 3/$24.
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My dad lives in Rockford and he has Insight that has picked up the BTN. Outside of that, you may try CSN or the local Fox station sometimes picks up games (at least they used to).
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Well they barely beat a worse Detroit team at home a few weeks back, starting a huge stretch of bad play. At least we won this convincingly on the road. Our O-line opened holes and protected Orton decently, our pass rush showed signs of life, our secondary had 4 interceptions, our RB looked really good and broke a long run, etc etc. Even if this is a really really bad team that has given up (as Detroit is when we barely beat them), we beat them up and blew them out. So just enjoy it for 10 minutes and hope that we can carry it into next week. Detroit may have worse talent, but they are at least giving an effort. The Rams are just completely apathetic and worthless. It looked to me (I was there) that the Bears quit being aggressive and trying to go down field and score about halfway thru the 3rd quarter. I could be wrong about that since I was looking at it in person but that's just how it seemed to me. I think if they had wanted to, they probably could have scored another 10-14 points just with a little more aggressive play calling..
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I think they're more concerned about the fact he may have trouble catching a cold out there, let alone baseballs.