sneakypower

my mental word association for 'Pete Carroll' is almost always this creepy video

i'd [expletive] in his laundry hamper

up 1, 0:45 left...NBD http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/834235109.gif?1390093231

beating Bo Ryan is all i ever dreamt it would be, and more also, i'm gonna start calling Stauskas "White Jordan"

i actually remember wanting Orlando Cabrera more, which was reported first, so i was let down when we flipped him for Nomar

Lake

Well Kyle is the "greatest" at what he does. I mean, quantity wise. is that a fat joke

and he picks Miami...it looks like this was something Ed Werder mostly just made up and ran with

man, Bridgewater to the Vikings and Watkins going top-5 would be a total nightmare scenario i don't expect Watkins to have a huge combine, which should be a good thing

david pm'd me, we're going back to these bad boys

at least the OC hire provides excitement the HC hire didn't

now they have, no one to depend on, behind the plate

Since Stafford is one of the best QBs of all time, just like Manning, you shouldn't have to worry. or currently just ok, like Flacco?

Larry Johnson Sr. must not have a hot wife

um... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7gkAXPa14 Sammie Hill should be a really good fit at NT, though

pretty uninspiring, but he's evidently also not an insurmountable obstacle to winning, so that's cool i guess

Really surprised he picked them over the lions. supposedly we were adamant about staying in a 4-3, and location was also an issue for Whisenhunt

my biggest main problem with the FO's performance so far* has been with their unflinchingly risk-averse nature; they were put in a situation where they pretty much inherited a expansion team, and still, with nothing at all to lose, they seemingly avoided any high-reward gambles at every turn- this is the exact opposite of how it should have been a team with zero expectations to contend (and little in the way of available funds) is in a perfect situation to make some of these moves: • sign Francisco Liriano (29) - all it took was 2/14, even before his contract had to be voided and renegotiated lower • sign Chris B. Young (30) - signed for 1/7 • trade for Peter Bourjos (26) - hard to think we couldn't top an offer of Freese, also he was considered expendable the previous offseason as well • trade for Dom Brown (25) - Phillies had publicly all but given up on him and were very interested in Soriano; i think money was a sticking point for us • sign Josh Johnson (29) - took 1/8, maybe perhaps a big player option entices him • trade for Brett Anderson (25) surely there are a few others (6/62 for Ryu?) i'm forgetting, but those are the misses that bother(ed) me the most: guys with prior history of high-level play and young enough that you can conceivably add them to your 'core' or build up considerable enough value to flip for something meaningful at the deadline...and the worst-case scenario is they crash and burn and put you closer toward the top-5 draft picks you not-so-secretly want to this day, Ian Stewart is still one of my favorite of their moves because they actually took a gamble on something meaningful: a 24-yo capable defensive 3B with 25 HR / 60 BB ability *i swear i was typing this up before TT's post, so you'll just have to deal with whatever redundancy

I just don't get it... even if you believe that Javy moves off of SS, does anybody think he won't be at least a solid 3B? An average (or slightly above average) defensive 3B that can hit .270 with 40 bombs and a solid OBP because he's being pitched around and can steal bases is, in my opinion, much more valuable than a SS who plays GG defense and hits .300 with 10-15 HRs with a solid OBP and steals some bases you may want to pump the brakes a little there with your expectations but it's worth mentioning that it's possible to hit 30 HRs and still not be hugely valuable; see: Trumbo, Mark

that's a really silly comparison, since Gomez can do and does do many things factored in WAR Almora is just physically incapable of; he'd retain more credibility if he just compared him to somebody like Austin Jackson (17 HR, .286 AVG, +0 UZR: 5 WAR 162-game pace the last 2 years)

that seems pretty high for Sparty, who loses their whole interior OL and most of their back 7 on defense

i wonder how much different our ranking would look if we had just won that stupid Charlotte game the other 3 losses were to the current #1, 7, 13 teams (the latter two being road tilts)

5Y/$28M granted it was 20 years ago, but still

Soler; considered him at #1

yeah, that's bogus; he pretty likely hurt it playing hockey