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Sample size weiners will flood in now
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so whats the excuse now jock sniffers lmao Lejoke
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Lebrons really clutch
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Aw damn there goes the biblical significance of this game
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Garbage call
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Lebron isn't in the same stratosphere as Jordan when it comes to performing in the NBA Finals.
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But effort actually matters in basketball
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http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/07/thanks-to-colt-mccoys-wife-texas-may-be-next-on-ncaas-radar/ DROP THE HAMMER
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I mean you don't seriously believe that tripe that Wade is the best player on the Heat do you? If you wanna crown his ass...
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How many times will Lebron have to lazily come off a ball screen and pass it to Chalmers so he can go stand in the corner in the most critical possessions of the game before you'll give him some grief?
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Haven't seen a Blood In, Blood Out reference in awhile but well done .
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lol at this guy still jock sniffing lebron
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As the supposed King of Miami, tonight Lebron was less Tony Montana and more Hannah Montana.
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The question is would a low ranking be enough to destroy the goodwill and overall buzz that was generated when it was revealed that Al Qaeda wanted to blow up the city?
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I'm more concerned with whether Soldier Field's 5th place ranking undermines Chicagoans sense of civic pride or bolsters it.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/39297/power-rankings-top-10-toughest-venues Hey UMFan, I need a blow by blow analysis on the validity of these power rankings.
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I definitely lean heavily towards the saber side, but at the same time I'm perplexed by how some people treat analysis as if the game is played in a vacuum by automatons. It's kind of a backlash against antiquated criteria like chemistry, grit and the W/L/AVG/RBI/etc. stat base. I definitely think those things have been proven to be largely superfluous (I think people who still treat them as gospel are the baseball equivalent of the flat earth society), but the extremes some folks take the application of advanced statistical analysis to is a bit too far. Some of the stats (especially defensive metrics) are still really hazy. Yeah but it's not like we're rehashing the value of OBP debate. That book has been closed. Obviously there are some dopes who still cling to chemistry and counting stats and all that (usually not the ones who would go out of their way to find a team specific message board) but the stats discussion is being changed at the margins. Now you need a stats background just to follow the latest stuff.
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Sidetrack, but we are nowhere near computers solving chess. True and I'm no chess guru but aren't a lot of Kasparov types already calling for a move towards randomized chess or having GMs play WITH computers against other GMs playing with computers so memorizing every opening isn't the name of the game?
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Also, this is kind of a stretch, but it's almost like baseball is moving towards something where you know if you just input some numbers you know how it'll play out. Watch when the supercomputers solve chess the whole game will die unless big changes are made (e.g. Fischer Random Chess where people play with random openings so the guy who memorizes a zillion opening variations isn't the best). Sabermetrics is a great tool but fuzzy math and ignorance does foster (bad, misinformed) discussion. And (bad, misinformed) discussion means traffic.
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I'd like to see the traffic numbers for baseball message boards in general. The NFL sucks up most of the available oxygen, college football gets bigger every year, the NBA is as good as its ever been, hockey is less of a basket case these days, and soccer is staring to make some hay in the US. There's a diminishing interest in the sport as a whole if you look at how many kids are taking it up.
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Did that really happen
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Holy [expletive] [expletive] omgggg
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omg
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They need an SG that can slot in as a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th option depending on match ups.
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I have a really hard time seeing Knox as a #2. He put up 50+ catches and 900 yards in his 2nd year, as a 5th round pick, out of Abilene Christian....first as a starter. His numbers last year were pretty much in-line with what middle of the pack #2 WRs put up. Of course, he was the #1 target last year, so that's not good. But I think he'd be extremely effective with a guy on the other side of him who is good enough to take some of the coverage away from him and put him in 1-on-1's with #2 CBs. And that #1 guy ain't Earl Bennett.