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Smith allegedly used Samardzija's credit card at a nearby Wal-Mart. This genius picked Jeff Samardzija's credit card to use at Walmart? Haha, while he may not be the most famous man on the planet, he's easily the most well known out of the three victims because of his Notre Dame football days. If he gets a cashier that happens to be any sort of sports fan, they'd probably know he wasn't really Samardzija. Even if they didn't know him, the fact that it took him 10 minutes to try to remember how to spell Samardzija in the signature would be a dead give away.

I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way, but this post reminded me of a lecture you'd get from your dad when he got home from work after you did something dumb during the day and your mom told him he had to scold you, so he did, but his heart just wasn't it. I laughed much more than I should have.

It was only a matter of time...

I'm sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to have to agree with david. Soriano hit 7/8/9 as a rookie with the Yankees. His 2nd and 3rd years in NY he led off. Then he spent two years in Texas, hitting primarily 3rd one year, and primarly 5th the other. In '06 and '07, with WAS and CHC, he was returned to the leadoff role. Amongst the six after his rookie year, Soriano's four best years were the four he spent leading off. His two worst years were the two he spent in Texas, not leading off. The above points are exacerbated when one considers that Soriano's home parks in NY and WAS were pitcher-friendly, and his home park in TEX is hitter-friendly. The obvious takeaway here is that this whole "move him down in the order because he's a power hitter not a leadoff hitter" strategy has been done before, by Texas' braintrust. It failed. So I'm wondering why some are so intent on abandoning that which has worked repeatedly, in favor of that which has failed repeatedly. cause and effect your analysis is faulty Wow. Compelling arugment you made there. If you choose to ignore both history and all logic when deciding where you'd like to bat Soriano, then go ahead. I want to have a good team. In order to have a good team, I believe it's necessary to use your players where they perform best. It's really not a difficult concept. I've yet to hear a a valid argument from people that insist Soriano will produce just as well down in the order other than "Nah, it's just a coincidence!", a claim that has quickly been refuted by evidence and logical reasoning. now I understand the problem. I prefer to have a bad team, unlike you, with your good team preferences. Now all makes sense. I missed jersey...where have you been? Jon had a fantastic post about all of this in one of the Soriano threads early last season. He broke it down all beautifully and it showed pretty clearly that there wasn't a significant difference between Soriano's production batting leadoff and elsewhere. I tend to agree b/c, like jersey stated, right now some people are finding causation when it's just not there. Maybe this is something Meph could use his powers of statistical analysis to put to bed...

avg monthly snowfall in minneapolis is 2.8" in april and basically nothing in october. avg high/low in april is 56/36 and in september it's 71/50. it gets really cold there really quickly, but it's not the 8-month deep freeze that a lot of people think it is. cleveland averages 58/37 and 2.4" of snow in april and they play outside. denver averages almost 10" in april. the twins will be fine playing outdoors. they'll have a couple of cancellations due to snow/cold, but nothing that other northern cities don't experience. in fact, you're probably likely to get more cancellations over the course of a year, and maybe just in april as well, in the northeast than you are in minnesota, since the northeast averages a lot more rain than the upper midwest. Minneapolis and Cleveland have the same average temperature in April? Color me surprised. There are going to be some cold April night games in Minneapolis for the 10 Twins fans that go to those games after the initial shock of the new stadium wears off.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. But promises in recruiting have a way of becoming lies during a players 3-4 years in school. If Pryor is as good as advertised, or even half that good, there's still little chance he ends up anywhere but QB. I'm just pointing out that a promise from a CFB coach in recruiting is of very little value.

Barring severe injury to Clausen and contention for a BCS game (unlikely), Crist won't see the field this year.

what are you talking about?

Which is exactly why I want him at PSU. That and I hate OSU more than any other Big Ten school that doesn't have a Wolverine for a mascot. Really, I just think that if he's really that good, he could make a huge difference at OSU. I just don't think PSU, even with Pryor, is going to be a contender in the next 4 years. Maybe I'm wrong.

I don't expect Murton to be on the team. There's no place to play him, he's of almost no value to us now (other than in a trade) and his trade value will only decline and he ages, gets closer to FA and spends more of his prime years on the bench. I'd guess we'll have some veteran backup corner OF. Hopefully said vet has some pop.

If he commits to Penn State you should change your name to "PryorPower" Maybe if he changed it now, it would sway Terrelle in PSU's favor.

I miss living in South Bend and getting FSN Chicago.

We'll have the division locked up by then, so no biggie.

Any word on whether Knox is sticking w/ you guys or coming over to the good side? ND kept all of its verbals and added KLM, as Andy mentioned above. Much better than last year.

Since I don't have anything of quality to add to the Roberts discussion, of course neither does anyone else, I would like to say... GR, how do the Dogs keep pulling those games out? I've watched a couple of the games on the Connections channel, and they keep pulling victory out of the jaws of defeat. It's looking like they only have a couple of tough games left to run the table. There's an outside shot both they and Butler are Top 10 when they play on the 23rd. Should be a great game. I don't know. They're my alma mater, but I never get to watch the games and I don't watch ESPN or any other highlight show anymore, so all I get is the box score & recaps. They do have some talent this year, which they haven't had for a while. I'd love to see them run the table the rest of the way and actually get a team in the tourney that they have a chance to beat.

Rosenthal still think the Orioles are going to demand Pie. And that the deal might not go through at all. link

What if an ump is a member of the Klan?

As & Sox at Fenway Angels & Jays at SkyDome Jays & Twins at Metrodome Cubs & Cards at Busch (late-80s edition) The rest were at Wrigley: Dodgers Dbacks Reds Mets Phils Brewers Padres Pirates Giants Astros

The people who didn't catch it and thus posted serious responses made it funnier.

Don't most threads around here turn out that way? I think if we removed all of the off-topic stuff from this thread, we'd have only 100 pages. I'll take the under.

Man card? I think there are other things you're going to have to turn over... The woman in Derwood's sig is more manly than you are.

yep thats the point half of the time bs

For many seats at Fenway, it's the most uncomfortable way to see a game. I was 30 rows up from 1B, was facing the Monster, rather than home (funny b/c the fans in RF/CF that sit at the base on the Monster were facing me, not home) so I had a kink in my neck after the game and I had to sit with my legs apart at all times b/c my knees were hitting the seat in front of me (and I'm only 5'7", my 6'3" buddy was really complaining). There's a lot of great things about Fenway, but Wrigley destroys it. There's really no competition.

Not sure if it's directed at me, but I bash Eckstein pretty regularly. I do so b/c a) he was a Cardinal, and b) he was terribly overhyped as a Cardinal. He's no Ryan Theriot, that's true. Course, I never said he was. I just said he got some awards (which I only referenced b/c UMFan posted that pic) he didn't deserve. Quite a stretch from one to the other there.