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Hmmmmmmm. Sounds an awful lot like he wants us. :D BUY THE CUBS CUBES

So, why do people always bring up the postseason when talking about MVP? I'm just trying to make a point that even people who like baseball the stupid way can understand. I don't know that anyone brings up the postseason other than weighing which guy got his team there. FTR: I thought Pujols deserved it but have no issues with Howard winning it.

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Check earlier this thread. :wink: They suckered me in now, BTW. You'll never guess who I am.

So let's say Notre Dame beats USC, and Florida and Arkansas lose their games. Does ND really deserve to go ahead of Michigan just because they didn't play OSU during the regular season?? In theory it make sense, but there's far too much noise in a college football season to use something like that as a guideline. To be fair, they owe ND one after the travishamockery in 1993. :wink: I think it would be very interesting to see the voters be forced to choose between the head to head logic (send Mich to the title game) or the no-rematch logic (send ND) if they were the only viable options (Ark loses to LSU and then beats UF example).

Perhaps we'll find out.

Pujols helped carry his team to a World Series victory. What did Howard do that could make him for valuable to his team than Pujols? REGULAR SEASON AWARD REGULAR SEASON AWARD REGULAR SEASON AWARD

I don't think anyone has been so head and shoulders ahead of the rest of their conference in a while like the Bears are this year. Maybe the Rams in 2001 but that's about it.

Lugo to lead off, Soriano to bat 2nd anyone? Free-swinging Fonzie gets to see a lot of good pitches, no Izzy, everybody's happy. Lugo SS Soriano RF Lee 1B Ramirez 3B Barrett C Murton LF (whoever plays CF) DeRosa 2B

In that case I nominate SHINJO

The suck period started before Hendry acquired him. Oh, I know. But there's sucking, and then there's SUCKING. I mean, Pierre's going to be putting up .210/.260/.300-type numbers around year 3 of this deal.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This is the worst deal since Darren Dreifort. I'm dead serious. Pierre is going to SUCK within a couple of years.

Nick Bierbrodt. The quote my friend heard on the radio was that "a guy named Bierbrodt should be on my grill and not in the major leagues".

I'm not a member nor have I been there, but CFiCT's board, Gateway Redbirds.com, seems to get good reviews from those on this site who are on it.

This voting was for the MVP, not the best player. [/can of worms] Preach it Pastor Mizzou

I'd put Mike Piazza at catcher and Albert Pujols at first. We did do an all-letters team some time ago, I'd have to dig up the thread to find it though.

Georgetown lost to Old Dominion last night. Strange that both top-10 teams on Ball State's schedule (we play Kansas on Friday and G-town on Monday) went down within a few days of each other. I guess we won't be sneaking up on them. UT-Chattanooga tomorrow at home. Go Cards.

More Westbrook bait, I suppose.

Sorry if it was posted already That's ridiculous. First of all, he doesn't address the fact that it's likely the Cubs won't have to start 13-15 different pitchers again in 2007. He also doesn't mention Cotts' possibly starting. There is almost no way at all that the Cubs pitching doesn't improve significantly as it is right now in 2007. We should get more pitching, but Olney assumes it'll be a train wreck again, which it wouldn't even if we stood pat.

I disagree. I think if Arkansas runs the table in the SEC (or Florida wins the SEC title) they should go in over USC. Yes, Arkansas lost to USC, I know, but the SEC is a better conference that the Pac-10 and USC lost to an unranked team. I don't think the difference is near enough to make up for the fact that USC went to Arkansas and kicked the crap out of them. Same thing for ND/Michigan. Exactly. If this same argument was being made for ND/Michigan (assuming Michigan had hypothetically lost to an unranked team of course) people would be blowing their stacks in defense of the Wolverines. If USC wins out, they should go. If Florida wins out, I'd say they should go. If Arkansas win out and USC doesn't, they should go. If none of those happen then UM can play the rematch. I could get behind that, but what if Florida and USC win out? USC would go IMO. Both teams would've beaten Arkansas, but USC also would have beaten ND and Cal, which easily trumps Florida's next most impressive wins over Tennessee and LSU IMO. Just to play devil's advocate, let's say LSU beats Arkansas. Is Florida's win over LSU better than USC's over Notre Dame? I think you could pretty easily argue LSU is a better win(side note: USC and Florida were both at home for those games, so no difference there). Then you have Tennessee v. Cal. Both have 3 losses, and Tennessee ripped Cal to shreds; plus Florida won at Tennessee while USC beat Cal at home. Other factors in Florida's favor include having a "better" loss and playing in a stronger conference. That's an interesting argument and I think it would come down to how good USC looked against ND vs. how good LSU looked against Arkansas.

If we get Schmidt, that's a solid top three of Z/Schmidt/Hill. If Prior/Miller can fill another slot and one of the billion kids can fill the 5th, we're golden. Of course, if Hendry can get Jake Westbrook instead of relying on the kids, more power to him. :D

I disagree. I think if Arkansas runs the table in the SEC (or Florida wins the SEC title) they should go in over USC. Yes, Arkansas lost to USC, I know, but the SEC is a better conference that the Pac-10 and USC lost to an unranked team. I don't think the difference is near enough to make up for the fact that USC went to Arkansas and kicked the crap out of them. Same thing for ND/Michigan. Exactly. If this same argument was being made for ND/Michigan (assuming Michigan had hypothetically lost to an unranked team of course) people would be blowing their stacks in defense of the Wolverines. If USC wins out, they should go. If Florida wins out, I'd say they should go. If Arkansas win out and USC doesn't, they should go. If none of those happen then UM can play the rematch. I could get behind that, but what if Florida and USC win out? USC would go IMO. Both teams would've beaten Arkansas, but USC also would have beaten ND and Cal, which easily trumps Florida's next most impressive wins over Tennessee and LSU IMO.

i'd rather have murton than roberts. We'd still have Murton in left.

Blurb about Lee in the ESPN Rumor Central. Does this guy really consider Lee to be a superior hitter to JD Drew and Barry Bonds? Wow. It's ESPN. What do you expect? I expect them to anoint Bonds their new god, which makes this even more surprising.

Here's something I don't think has been brought up: What if the Cubs get Dave Roberts for CF, lead him off, and bat Fonzie 2nd? I know it's unorthodox and I know Soriano doesn't have the OBP of, say, Murton, but can you imagine sending up Soriano, Lee and Ramirez back to back every day? I'd imagine he'd have no problem finding pitches to hit, which would fit into his free-swinging philosophy.