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Sorry, but if we're cycling through that many relief pitchers, you should be able to find a few more replacement-level ones even to fill in the garbage innings. Using WAR is a matter of convenience. I'd be glad to entertain alternative methods. I think this discussion is what they had in mind when they coined the phrase "rearranging the deck chairs."
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Bukie-keeping the pen together maybe means we win a few more games. Maybe even 10 more games. Can't you see how incredibly important that is now and in the future?
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Are we sure that abuck didn't invite this poor kid to one of his sexy lawyer parties in hopes of giving the clones a shot at the upset? I'm not saying it definitely happened but I'm saying it happened.
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I can't. I can only see that it perhaps has. It's a plausible explanation for why we fielded so many awful players, especially the bullpen. Here's another explanation on the bullpen: the bullpen is a crap shoot. It's made up of the most volatile of players in MLB, pitchers who aren't solid and/or durable enough to be starters. The options are to either invest heavily in "more stable" relievers and hope you hit on more of the "sure things", or scrounge relievers from your (and other) system pitchers that aren't considered much of real prospects. Since the FO wasn't looking to go all in to win this year, they (wisely, IMO) chose option B, and it didn't work out this year. Didn't work out to the degree that it was the worst bullpen in baseball, 1.4 fWAR worse than No. 29 and 3.1 WAR worse than No. 27. That's an awful lot of volatility, all going in the same direction, to be attributed solely to variance. I can't say that's impossible for the franchise that has lost eight straight playoff games by multiple runs, but it seems a rather uncritical option to settle on so easily. Or they correctly identified the worst players to make the dive that much worse so the pick would be that much higher. They're the best at identifying talent and the lack thereof.
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Gonna be hard to id him with that mask on since that guy has no other visible distinctive markings.
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Someone offered me a Gentleman's C after a concert in Capitol Hill last week. I declined. Dale gets an A
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I'll have some room for points with lots of exempt players avail.
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They make all the top games prime time now. Annoying.
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I didn't say they couldn't be beaten. I said Oregon couldn't do it. They can't. Best chance is Florida St or USC if Barkley gets his head out of his ass (though they won't get a chance). USC?
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Miami may test our corners next week. Yikes.
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2013 Mock Offseason Thread
Tracer Bullet replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
The pitching in this organization stinks out loud. The pitching on the FA market this offseason is quite good and deep. Our current 2013 rotation has a guy with an arm issue in the 1 spot, Travis Wood at the 3, and Roast at the 5(Still better than Casey Coleman) I see no reason not to bring in at least 2 of Villanueva, McCarthy, Marcum, Haren, Sanchez, Jackson, Peavy, Liriano, or Dempster to go along with several relief arms out there who could actually provide some stability to the pen from the word go rather than sorting through 5 [expletive] arms for the first 3 arms before settling on who actually isn't embarrassing. I thought things sucked out loud. Can something stink out loud too? -
Not an Oregon fan? I guess I should say elite. There are a few 'good' teams. Stanford didn't need to lose to UW to prove they aren't elite.
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Now Brandon is complaining about getting 3 games notice when the contract says 3 games notice (yeah, I'm confused too) and whining bc everyone thinks that all these teams are lining up to play Michigan. But lots of teams require that you...are you sitting down for this?...play a game at their stadium as well. How's an AD supposed to operate in these conditions?
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Ha. Inferior to what? Also funny to see a huge psu fan talking about how a number of other schools should be embarrassed.
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If that were in the best interests of the bigx or these schools they would have. Not sure why you're so offended by the ACC deal though
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I know you haven't seen NDs future schedule bc you haven't paid close attention to ND. And I wouldn't expect you to. Unless of course you're going to make a dumbass uninformed statement. But even setting aside the teams on NDs future schedule, how can anyone look at this year's schedule and think ND needs UM. It sounds incredibly stupid given the names and locations ND is playing. Which isn't to say UM needs ND. But there have been years in which ND was the most interesting OOC game on UM's schedule. They could change that, but they don't have easy access to another quality team that's a short drive (which is a huge benefit for H&H scheduling, obviously). Finally, it's not as if the 2 schools won't play again. But ND had to end the contract this way to get more flexibility. This letter only signals that UM isn't as important as USC, Navy, and Stanford (subject to replacement with another CA school).
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Why? Because Notre Dame needs Michigan more than Michigan needs ND, but ND was the one who dumped UM. You have no idea what you're talking about
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I'm not following
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Zing!
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Because the overtime is "sudden death" and a touchdown ends overtime by rule. In the instance of last night's game, they could block the extra point, return it for 2 points and still win the game. They did change that rule in the NFL a couple years ago didn't they? Yeah that's not a rule in the NFL anymore (if it ever was). If it was, the Packers would have at least put up a token effort to block the kick last night. Charles Tillman did that on MNF back in 2006 (returned a blocked XP to the opposite end zone) and when he got there he just sorta dropped the ball and walked away realizing that there was no reason for him to run all the way down there. If the blocked kick 2-point conversion was a risk, I assume the kicking team would go for 2 and just kneel on it.
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I'm very surprised that Michigan didn't do this first to have it end with a UM home game. There had been scuttlebutt about just such a maneuver for years. It's a shame the game won't be played, but it's not like it was an annual event - as recently as 2000-01, Nebraska replaced Michigan for a couple of years. and in 1995-96, Ohio State replaced Michigan. UM had to wait until after the game to have it end with a UM home game. Not sure if they were planning that or not. Wouldn't surprise me if they'd want to keep ND for strength of schedule reasons. But I think it'll be on again in smaller doses probably as early as 2020. But I think it was wise to kill the series when he did. ND needs to rotate some of the other series a little more to fit the ACC games and still have flexibility to get match ups with OU and Texas, etc.
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Man, you really do excuse everything Seahawks. I mean, I've spent the morning arguing this was at least an somewhat defensible call, but the Tate PI was blatant and obvious. All you can say in defense of the PI is that it's so rarely called on WRs. Of course Tate's was obvious and I'm sure there have been other obvious offensive PI calls not made. I haven't seen anyone of any merit calling Tate a dirty player and who cares about any blowhards that do.
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Savvy Jack cancels the UM series. Requires 3 years notice, so it'll end after the ND home game in 2014. I'd guess they try to work in smaller 2-game series in the future. Who knows.
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Cmon MSU, don't let the wheels come completely off yet.
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