Andy
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Three number 1 seeds. I was hoping for it. Memphis and MSU have the biggest quibbles.
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Louisville overall #1...wow.
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I just hope ND gets matched up in an interesting game.
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I wish my team could've inexplicably caught fire from 3 in the conference tournament like Purdue has.
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I never put too much stock in single-elimination tournament results as judge of a conference.
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Ball State will be going down in the MAC semifinals to Buffalo because they can't rebound. And another tournament with no one to root for.
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Oh, for God's sake. Hansbrough blatantly reaches in to commit UNC's last foul to give and the refs give them a jump ball that goes to UNC.
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Hard to say, since they can do it without having to beat Pitt or UConn. EDIT: On the other hand, I fully expect the Big East tournament champion to be severely overseeded by the committee, since it's a tradition. Every conference tournament champion is overseeded by the committee, except the ones that were already #1 seeds to begin with. Louisville was probably a #2 already and has a case to be a #1, but they're definitely a #1 with a win tomorrow.
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Well, good to finally bury that ridiculous Notre Dame season, except for one or two NIT games that I will watch against my better judgment. No star in the country gets less star treatment from the refs than Luke Harangody, though that has nothing to do with our loss, just something I gleaned from tonight's game.
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I'm kind of morbidly curious to see how DePaul would do against Louisville tomorrow, so I hope they win.
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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine. what are you talking about? if you were actually following the discussion, you would see that the topic was theriot's ability to move runners over. when you show me data that includes his at bats with the bases empty, that's irrelevant to the discussion. If a guy hits a lot of grounders to the left side, chances are he's going to hit a lot of grounders to the left side even when there's a runner on 1st. that's not true at all. professional baseball players have the ability to hit the ball to the right side if they want to, theriot seems especially good at this. your dunn versus theriot comparisons are meaningless too so i'm not even going to address that. So good at it that he hit into 19 double plays? And my comparison isn't meaningless just because you say it is.
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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine. what are you talking about? if you were actually following the discussion, you would see that the topic was theriot's ability to move runners over. when you show me data that includes his at bats with the bases empty, that's irrelevant to the discussion. If a guy hits a lot of grounders to the left side, chances are he's going to hit a lot of grounders to the left side even when there's a runner on 1st.
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I don't want my #2 hitter to move runners over. I want him to get on base and drive runs in. If your offensive philosophy is to waste outs having your #2 guy just get your leadoff man into scoring position, you're doing yourself a disservice. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but the odds of scoring a run with a man on 1st and 0 outs is a lot higher than a man on 2nd with 1 out. well, your odds of scoring runs also greatly increase when you have your highest OBP guy hitting 2nd rather than 8th. Ryan Theriot 2008 OBP: .387 Adam Dunn 2008 OBP: .386 Who do you want getting more at-bats?
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Yes, stats about performance in all situations, including when a runner is on first, can't possibly be used to predict how one can do if a runner is on first. That would be just asinine.
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For all the hemming and hawing from the media (and a little from me too) about the Big East getting 9 or 10 teams in partway through the season, they're only going to get 7 unless Providence wins their next two, and/or Notre Dame wins at least their next two, and quite probably three.
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Yeah, I really like Fontenot/Theriot as sort of the Bizarro 1/2 Hitters that Soriano can drive in as the Bizarro Middle of the Order Hitter. It's nice to have a lineup good enough to do that as opposed to sifting through the crap to pick out the 7/8 hitters.
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WBC: Japan Defeats Korea 5-3 (10 innings)
Andy replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
The U.S. can play the Netherlands by beating Italy tomorrow. That'd be good. -
Notre Dame wins 61-50. I don't think there's been that few combined points in an ND game in years. Ugly to say the least. West Virginia tomorrow.
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There should be some sort of criminal investigation as to Hasheem Thabeet getting co-Big East POY with DeJuan Blair when Pitt dominated UConn twice, and Blair all but castrated Thabeet in the first head-to-head meeting. Thabeet is the 3rd best player on UConn (Jeff Adrien, AJ Price), and that doesn't count injured Jerome Dyson. What a joke.
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Hard to see the score on the on-screen scoreboard on this BET web stream. Other than that, no complaints.
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Haha, 0-18 DePaul wins a BET game.
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Yeah maybe if it wasn't another fluff piece by ESPN about Duke. How bout they quit shoving them down everyone else's throats? Maybe then people would stop hating Duke. Chester Fraizer lost his dad last year. I'm sure he misses him as much as Nolan Smith does his dad. They are probabbly just late getting around to that article. Pretty much every team deals with issues like this, but when it's at Duke we get these type stories from ESPN. Oh you shouldn't hate them, something bad happened to them. Why I hate UNC is that they are everything Duke is, except because not as many people hate them, their fans are even more holier than thou. At least for the most part, of the Duke fans I know, they actually understand it, the UNC faithful are agasp at the very thought that someone could dislike them.
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Ball State loses at home in OT to one of the worst teams in the country, Eastern Michigan, 55-53. Thanks to some other teams, Ball State wins the MAC West anyway. At 13-16 (7-9). And gets the #2 seed in the MAC Tournament. This is laughable.
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WBC: Japan Defeats Korea 5-3 (10 innings)
Andy replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Someone explain to me why Canada can hit Peavy but the US can't hit a junkball high-80s guy. -
No one cares (including me), but I'm obligated to post that Notre Dame beat St. John's tonight in their final regular-season game. Harangody had 31 and 12, so it's nice to see him back to his old self for a night. ND will be the 10th seed in the Big East tournament and opens with Rutgers on Tuesday. If they do what they should and beat them, it's any of Syracuse, West Virginia or Providence on Wednesday depending on what happens this weekend.
