Times in that period his xFIP has been as better than his actual ERA: 4. One of these years now, he'll get that bad luck out of his system (the two years before that were the only two in his career, aside from his 22 inning first season, where his ERA was better than xFIP. Same with FIP Yeah, I check on the FIP and stuff like any 'smart' baseball fan is supposed to do, but when you consistently underperform your FIP, you're not as good as FIP says you are anymore.
I know you're a Purdue guy, but any talk of last night's game that doesn't include Luke Kuechly is pointless. That guy's an absolute monster. Directly forced 2 turnovers and basically forced another.
Hood releases a statement saying the decommitment is all about family. At least this one didn't sign before they realized how far away from home they'd be going, I guess.
Pretty sure Aram got a standing O in his return. Z was a jackass so whatever. Sosa would probably get a positive response overall...it'd be mixed, but I'm not really sure how much. Aramis definitely was cheered when he came back.
I really like Len, but he either hedges his HR calls or is really bad at identifying home runs off the bat. Well, I meant that he said "Hit a homer, Dioner" a few pitches beforehand. I can take or leave Len's inability to recognize homers, but I prefer it to Pat Hughes and Chip Caray's inability to recognize when a ball is NOT a homer.
As I said earlier, the locals know this is a crap sandwich schedule, and will accept nothing less than 12-0 because of it. But whose schedule is a bigger crap sandwich, OSU or Bama? Bama has TWO FCS schools, plus they don't play Florida, S. Carolina or Georgia. Oh, and they have LSU at home OSU's is still crappier, though the margin isn't as much as the ESS-EE-SEE mouthbreathers are going to claim it is.
I don't remember what he did to specifically piss everyone off, but he was the giant Alabama homer who made a thousand excuses as to why his team got clobbered by Utah in a bowl game a few years ago. He'd be an...interesting person to have back given the state of college football these days.