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  1. sneakypower
    it's an asinine comparison that people are making, because our wins in '08 were mostly just meaningless Drew Stanton preseason 4th-quarter Comeback Specials™, whereas this year our starters actually look terrific (rushing offense excepted) anybody with a pair of eyes should have known we were doomed for failure in '08; i think i forecast a winless year like 3 weeks into the season
  2. sneakypower
    yeah, what's to get so excited about a former #1 overall pick putting it all together to the tune of a 154.0 QB rating? go ahead and talk about how much preseason games mean to the Lions when our starters were all sitting on the bench watching Brady, Mayo, etc. still playing for nearly another whole quarter of play, visibly frustrated nobody's getting excited about stupid preseason wins, they're excited that our first-stringers are having their way with other team's first-stringers, which is all you really care about in preseason action but hey, if you have a strong feeling about it, you definitely should be jumping all over the under for wins, at +150 right now
  3. sneakypower
    i think he's in the weight room somewhere trying to set a new PR for bench presses
  4. sneakypower
    he's been pretty impossible to hit this year
  5. sneakypower
    i know full well it means nothing, but watching our defense terrorize and effectively rattle Tom Brady was still a lot of fun; he must have bounced a good four or so normal passes tonight
  6. sneakypower
    hey, leave andy alone
  7. sneakypower
    believe me, Roy Williams will never lack (false) confidence whoa there, jaydee
  8. sneakypower
    i didn't explain that well- GB gets KC @ Arrowhead, where they're always very tough (7-1 last year), and Denver gets a game against them on the road
  9. sneakypower
    Detroit 7.5 (-155)o/(+125)u
  10. sneakypower
    looking at the schedules now, i backed off on the Rams a little; that's a pretty grueling slate Packers have New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego, NY Giants, KC and a tough division; 5+ losses is a lock Denver has Oakland x2, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Miami, Minnesota, Buffalo, KC x2; there might be 6 wins in that group alone
  11. sneakypower
    Rams over 7.5 (even) Packers under 11.5 (-150) Broncos over 5.5 (-140) Panthers over 4.5 (-135) seem like easy money too
  12. sneakypower
    savages?
  13. sneakypower
    neither teams worry me the slightest bit the Nats have Morse, Werth, Harper, Rendon all slated for COF/1B work, and Morse is unplayable anywhere but 1B, with a career UZR/150 worse than that of Adam Dunn in LF; they'd be a perfect fit for Jose Reyes, though the Jays have Snider, Bautista, Thames, Gose/Rasmus, Lind all slated for COF/1B work, and Lind is unplayable anywhere but 1B with a career UZR/150 identical to that of Adam Dunn in LF; but they'd be a great fit for Sabathia or Wilson
  14. sneakypower
    Marvin Austin, too
  15. sneakypower
    For a SS having a slightly less valuable season than J.J. Hardy in 1/3rd more playing time. is that a bad thing? Hardy has more HR than Miguel Cabrera and Joey Votto at 21 years old, he's slightly less valuable than a good SS who's having a career year offensively- the horror!
  16. sneakypower
    Castro is a nice piece, but he is nowhere near the kind of player you worry about "wasting" his cheap years. Why not? He's already about a 4 win offensive player right now at age 21 and should only increase his power in the next couple years (and already has taken a step up from last year). I'm not saying he's for sure going to be a superstar, but given what he's done so far, it would be stupid to say he is nowhere near that kind of player. If by "4-win offensive player" you mean "on pace for less than 3," sure. And his defense is still a problem. Edit: Well, let's say "on pace for about 3," depending on what site you use. bb-ref's WAR is so [expletive] weird; Dante Bichette slugged .620, finished 2nd in MVP voting, and they have him at 0.3 WAR for that season. he OPSed .900 and was -2.8 WAR!
  17. sneakypower
    I like to this of this job as a dream job, I just wonder if Rosenthal isn't overstating a little how much allure it has to GMs of other teams. I don't think so. Huge market. Great sports town. Chance to make history. And, above all else, very deep pockets in a division full of teams who don't have that luxury. Should be an easy division to own if the team is run competently. Depends on how deep those pockets are. Friedman will think he fell into Scrooge McDuck's room full of gold coins if he took this job, but Cashman wouldn't. http://i51.tinypic.com/24kwll2.jpg
  18. sneakypower
    the correct characterization would have been 'off-the-charts measurables but questionable NFL skills'; i don't really know what the hell you're talking about
  19. sneakypower
    he looks like a character from Guess Who?
  20. sneakypower
    Coletti threw Carlos Santana into a trade to save a few bucks in salary
  21. sneakypower
    at least he didn't pop his [expletive] achilles. :(
  22. sneakypower
    http://www.gifbin.com/bin/032010/1269259657_omg_cat.gif
  23. sneakypower
    ah, Hoopz, the pride of Brownstown
  24. sneakypower
    The fact is, if this team is going to compete next year, wholesale upgrades are necessary. 1B is one of the best places to do so with the best available options, unless we want to spend similar money on a perenially injured Jose Reyes or a bit less on a 35 year old Carlos Beltran. Sabathia would also be an intriguing option, but a very expensive one, but The Tigers have shown us how valuable it is to have one shutdown ace no matter how meh the rest of your pitching staff is, of course we don't have the Tigers offense. I know, Penas a great clubhouse guy, but 10 mil is a steep price for a youth mentor. - The Tigers' offense has 5 of 9 starters currently posting above average OPS'. It's built around one superstar bat (Cabrera), a couple solid vets (Martinez, Peralta), and then a couple of upstart young guys (Boesch and Avila). I think the 2012 Cubs can pull that off if they added a superstar bat. There's talented bats in this lineup (Ramirez, Castro, Soto, and to a much much lesser extent nowadays Soriano), but no one to spearhead the operation of destroying other teams' pitching. you forgot to mention a closer who's been perfect, which helps them out-perform their pythag by quite a bit i guess what i mean to say is, i'm hoping for even better than a team that shouldn't even be .500
  25. sneakypower
    how completely asinine is it to harp so badly on a guy's low-babip-fueled low OBP like that in limited AB entering a new level; seriously, what a raging dick did anybody get a Dillon Maples question in there, is he going to sign?
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