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  1. sneakypower
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/earned_run_avg_plus_career.shtml the career ERA+ leaderboard- go ahead and try to find Jack Morris on there
  2. sneakypower
    the Cutler for MVP talk is mystifying to me, mainly because: have there been many games so far where the Bears don't win with just a completely average QB in there? this might sound antagonistic, but it's more that i respect the Bears defense and give them most of the credit for the team's success so far i'm OK with giving Cutler credit for the Panthers win (with a huge assist from Jennings), but beyond that all their wins look more like defense-dictated blowouts and if you argue that his backups are so dismal that it elevates his importance, then you can probably then make an even easier argument for Roethlisberger's case; it's like saying Louis Delmas is the most valuable safety in the league because our primary backups are a ST and practice squad guy that get horribly abused by opposing offenses
  3. sneakypower
    Yeah, if I tried to make arguments anywhere near as bad as the ones he's putting forth (33 wins would have cost $150 MILLION!!!), you'd be all over it. He's losing, badly. ok, Karl Rove
  4. sneakypower
    Alvarez wasn't a good hitter before last year http://www.claydavenport.com/ht/ALVAREZcubaD03.shtml Diaz: http://www.claydavenport.com/ht/DIAZcubaA04.shtml
  5. sneakypower
    ok, spaz even with THJ bricking countless threes, no big deal, cause everyone else is sinking their shots; gonna be a real fun year
  6. sneakypower
    The statement was silly and absurd in itself. It didn't me to change anything about it. The only things Theo inherited were people who played for the Cubs in 2012, and their 2012 WAR is what they will do in 2013. i thought i was being kind! we don't actually project Soriano and Barney to repeat their '12s when WAR projections come out we'll see that the difference is largely indistinguishable and too negligible to really even care about
  7. sneakypower
    What does the fact that you think playoff teams cost $200 million say about you? it says that i made a statement specifically speaking to the state of the 2013 Cubs roster which you for some insane reason wildly extrapolated into a general statement regarding all teams operating under different restraints, only God knows why
  8. sneakypower
    You're doing a helluva job, Theo-ie. yes, he's either Randy Smith, or Branch Rickey; that you're framing these two opinions as the only possible conclusions speaks volumes about your inability to reason and use nuance
  9. sneakypower
    Kyle is strolling through New Jersey right now, asking "why hasn't this been cleaned up yet?"
  10. sneakypower
    Well a big reason there is teams being able to draft and develop impact guys who compile high WAR for low initial costs. The Cubs don't have a whole lot of those, but are trying to get them. Guys like Starlin Castro, Darwin Barney, Jeff Samardzija, Welington Castillo? that's 10 [expletive] wins! basically our whole entire foundation is essentially worth one buttfucking Mike Trout*! ah...in the first few months of their tenure, Theo & co. should have shrewded their way into a good 30 extra wins; i see what you're saying *or 2.5 Jon Jays/David Freeses (who both outproduced the best player on our team last year)
  11. sneakypower
    go ahead and take a quick gander at our 2010 draft http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2010/drafttracker.jsp?p=0&s=30&sc=pick_number&so=ascending&st=number&ft=TM&fv=chc yeah, why aren't we steamrolling the NL?
  12. sneakypower
    so, about those 33 wins that we talked about earlier, that we'd have to buy to catapult ourselves into contention... the most efficient way of doing it, paired with this roster (so, obviously assuming no more than 2 OF and 3 SP) would require us to sign at least the top 8 available free agents (going off last year's WAR) this group combined for 34 wins last season: Michael Bourn Torii Hunter Zack Greinke Hiroki Kuroda Adam LaRoche Anibal Sanchez A.J. Pierzynski Jeff Keppinger it gets a little more hilarious thinking about money we'd need to dish out if you were more interested in the perceived safer bets, like Hamilton, Napoli, Lohse, Swisher
  13. sneakypower
    if you really loved me, you'd buy me the great pyramids
  14. sneakypower
    we'd expect to pay like an extra $150M PER YEAR on top of all other commitments to get those 30+ wins to put us back into immediate contention you're essentially grousing incessantly and ceaselessly about our front office, because they're not being moronically reckless
  15. sneakypower
    November 2011, I don't think you found many people on here who could imagine throwing away 2 years either. I think most sensible people could. inherited players under contract for 2013: Soriano, Garza, Castro, Marmol, Barney, Soto, Randy Wells, Shark, Castillo, Dewitt, Clevenger, James Russell (and Jackson, Vitters, ...) that group of misfits just combined for 14(!) WAR this year, so the FO would just need to buy...33 more wins and we could possibly sneak our way into a wild card spot!
  16. sneakypower
    it's a blatant distortion completely void of any shred of intellectual honesty or as i call it for the sake of brevity, "typical kyle post"
  17. sneakypower
    He signed for five offseasons and we're halfway through the second. Clock's ticking to not be the Pirates. TIL 36 days is half a year He meant half an offseason, which is still disingenuous at best. OK my mistake, i hadn't really realized that Theo goes water skiing in Cape Cod Bay all spring and summer long; seems like a weird contract stipulation
  18. sneakypower
    He signed for five offseasons and we're halfway through the second. Clock's ticking to not be the Pirates. TIL 36 days is half a year
  19. sneakypower
    [expletive] FINALLY you are starting to realize the gaping pit of emptiness that was left over from the previous regime, and the unavoidable long-lasting effects it will have [expletive] everything
  20. sneakypower
    best DC in college football.
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    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbaxssc9sm1r21lnpo1_500.gif
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    this is kinda gross
  23. sneakypower
    PFF seemed to be a big fan of Carimi at guard yesterday
  24. sneakypower
    in a perfect world, we could even swap Castro for Baez, and even include Soler if the Fish insist, given their earlier presumed interest this also seems more like the Marlins modus operandi for firesales, preferring the high-ceiling prospect (Miller, Maybin, Hanley, Marisnick) who's yet to reach the majors (read: league minimum)
  25. sneakypower

    NFL Week 13

    sneakypower replied to ctcf's topic in Other Sports

    he's also not very good at observation PFF:
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