Andy
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I want to see more Colvin too, though I can see the showcasing Fuku argument. Although I don't see us getting a whole lot for a 12M a year outfielder who isn't all that great a hitter, even if he is really good in right field. It's nice to go up and see a win. Ron Santo rolled right by me in a motorized cart being escorted up to the booth today, too. I was wearing my Santo jersey. A bit surreal. -
Supposedly the Big 12 (-2) will play a 9-game conference schedule to increase their value to broadcasters, which is a good and probably necessary idea.
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I will be at this game, so let's not suck today
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In a way Lou pisses me off even more, because at least most of Baker's stupidity was predicated around an actual belief he had (not caring about walking), stupid as it may have been. Lou just seems to do stupid [expletive] for no apparent reason.
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I like Kobe and I can't stand anything about the Celtics (Rondo's thuggishness last year, KG's ridiculous behavior the last two seasons, Pierce's wheelchair, and the fact that Boston fans are constantly [expletive] whining about the Gasol trade and completely ignore that a former Celtic gift-wrapped them KG for little more than an injury-prone poor man's version of him). I would have rooted for the Suns or Magic over either of these two teams, but the Lakers are fine to me.
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2005 and 2006 were products of Weis-hype, getting a lot of mileage out of the USC game, and then being way over ranked to start the next season (preseason #2 IIRC). I'm not really talking about BCS exemptions or whatever. I would be surprised if there are any teams that have appeared in multiple BCS games that have won fewer games against good teams than those two Irish teams. That's an extremely long-winded barometer which I suppose is correct if only because there are a handful of cases of teams going to two straight BCS games (if we're only looking at the BCS era since 1998). And it's not Notre Dame's fault the media decided that Quinn, Samardzija and Zbikowski were the only three ingredients needed to win a national title. They surely did their part during the season by dropping ND after wins twice that season, including once after a win over a good Georgia Tech team on the road while everyone else was playing cupcakes. This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand though, so there's no reason to clog the thread with it.
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Just because he agrees with you doesn't make him right.
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I love this joke.
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The deck-stacking debate continues to be hilarious, by the way. Notre Dame absolutely HAS to win ten games to get a BCS bid (no 9-3 ND team is ever going to be allowed by the pollsters to be eligible for a BCS game unless the 3 losses come under extremely extenuating circumstances). Meanwhile, ACC teams who win 8 or 9 games go to the Orange Bowl every year and no one bats an eye.
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I love how we still call them 'unwarranted' BCS bids. The 2005 bid was an auto-bid because they were in the top 6. The 2006 bid was because the only other eligible at-large selection was West [expletive] Virginia. Just because they got smoked in 06 doesn't mean they didn't deserve to be there by the parameters set by the BCS for regular-season play. And GR is probably talking about the caliber of talent that Weis got to ND (which he couldn't coach, which is why he isn't there anymore, but he got the talent there). Because of his recruiting, Brian Kelly is in a position to win immediately and build a strong team for the future, a luxury that neither of his two predecessors were presented with. I don't know how any of this plays into the strength of ND's independence, to be honest, so I'll stay out of that.
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The pretentious little twit didn't keep up his promise not to return to Orlando, so don't hold your breath.
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I thought it was fairly humorous that the VT/Virginia non-separation talk came up tonight...the two have been in the same conference for all of six years, they're not exactly joined at the hip here.
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Just chiming in that there's no way in hell that the Big Ten would split into divisions in basketball. The Big East did it and it was stupid and they un-did it. They'd keep the basketball as is.
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I don't think a program of Baylor and Iowa State's caliber can exactly pull off independence. And you have the non-revenue sports to consider.
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I lost my BF Vista. :( Using subsilver now. Loads quickest.
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Why exactly is the ACC a better fit? Mainly, because there are more private schools, and unlike the Big Ten, whose response to a religiously affiliated university is uncertain at best, the ACC already has one (Wake Forest). It's academic, of course. ND to the ACC is even more unlikely right now than ND to the Big Ten.
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For humor's sake I'd love to see the Big Ten take crappy Big East teams and then watch Notre Dame join the ACC, which is a much better fit for them in every way except, obviously, geographically.
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Joe Schad just Tweeted that Boise's joining the Mountain West.
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New Marlins ballpark to boast on-field aquariums
Andy replied to J.R.'s topic in General Baseball Talk
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I'm not sure why the Pac-10 would stop at CU, but the easy solution would seem to be for the Big 12 to grab two of BYU/TCU/Utah/Houston and then the MWC to add Boise to keep itself viable.
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I'm kind of shocked they'd even consider a TV ban. If I'm remembering correctly, Auburn in 1993 was the last time that happened.
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For the record, I'm sure KU and Missouri will be fine. Worst case for KU is it joins the Big East to keep its hoops cash cow in a competitive league (because I don't see how no Big East team gets raided at some point soon), and Missouri, while not exactly a blue-chip stock, is a big enough name (carrying a big enough TV market) that it will get a sniff from somebody. I expect the hot rumor after this to have Missouri following Notre Dame into the Big 14 (though I don't think that's what will actually happen, that'll be the rumor). It's K-State and Iowa State that are screwed. MWC? WAC? MAC? Sun Belt? As someone said on Twitter tonight, the moral from all this is that maybe we shouldn't put numbers in our major conference's names anymore.
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That's unbelievable. The ESPN.com story about this says that the new Pac-16 would likely split into 8 team divisions (the old Pac-8 as the West, with ASU and Arizona joining the new 6 as the East) and would probably not play a championship game but instead push for each division champ to get a BCS auto-bid. The schedule would likely have each division playing each other as well as 2 games from the other division per year (the Pac-10 already plays 9 conference games so existing membership wouldn't have to tweak its schedules much). The funniest part about all this is that the Big 12 would have to stay together at least through the 2011-12 academic year. That's not awkward.
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I said all along that if the NCAA was ever going to be taken seriously again as a rule enforcer they needed to act, and they did and then some. I really didn't expect a postseason ban of any kind. The 20 scholarships are spread out over 4 years, so that's not nearly as big of a deal as the bowl ban.
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Bruce Feldman on ESPN said on Twitter that USC will be receiving a two-year postseason ban too. But I haven't seen any further confirmation on that.
