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yeah gray's gonna look real good in 2 years in a 9-man rotation with a 60-pitch pitch count

Not sure why anyone who is a Bears fan would be rooting for them to lose. ETA: Oh, you're intentionally trolling. Never mind. Until Cutler came back you had tons of people here rooting for the Bears to lose out to improve their draft position. It's hardly like I'm making it up that people have been rooting for Chicago teams to lose more in the hopes of getting better a LOT in recent years. It's a crappy situation, but yeah, I'm somehow "trolling" for pointing it out that it sucks because...ah, [expletive] it, I don't even care. Some of you have taken the "I'm gonna be the most analytic, least emotional fan in the room" thing to such an extreme it's like a bizarre version of Stockholm Syndrome. [expletive] off kyle, jesus christ

can i send you a [expletive] load of nickels in a box to that address cause that would own what do i need to do before the season starts, i already forgot. also im not trading the number 1 ammy pick tim so give it up

every awesome dewd is actually a miserable [expletive], that's why mojo and goony won the best poster tournament

I went with Bryant. I think he's going to show plate discipline this year that Javy never has or will.

The police quote said he had been released from jail, not that he had posted bond, and went on to say that they didn't think he was involved, so I dont really see why everyone is spazzing out. Other than just another case of a guy being too stupid not to be in a vehicle with a guy selling weed. He probably sold the guy out to the cops when they said "well i guess you can go to jail for it and throw away your nfl career and millions of dollars."

that dude has a pretty baseball mogul name

God he really is the proto Utah player. He's gonna play 20 years there

A jar of change that an intern brought in to donate to the payroll. I'm assuming the Convention is a telethon format this year? sad pictures of eloy jiminez with sarah mclachlan songs played over them "you can feed a cubs prospect for just a dollar a day"

This is a ridiculous post. One, you'd do everything humanly possible to lock Javy and whoever else up early, ala Castro and Rizzo. Secondly, in case you hadn't noticed, we appear to be in a legit money crunch, due to ownership. Whether it's because they can't or won't spend.... That is up for debate, I suppose, but it's beyond obvious they aren't, either way. I seriously doubt anyone here wouldn't love to have a 150 mill+ payroll right now. But it's not happening anytime soon(new TV deal/renovation money) and it's quite allright to be cautious currently, when we MAY have the money to go after one relatively large contract. Tanaka makes total sense, based on age and upside. A guy like Ubaldo? He's got neither of those things going for him. And even if you didn't lock him up early (which is what I foresee happening with most of these guys if/when they show something in the majors), an actual superstar hitting free agency for the first time in his mid 20's is a completely different story. I don't think anyone here would be opposed to backing up the Brinks truck for Mike Trout. I fear Javy's attitude is exactly the type that would say, nah I'm good when we go to him with a pre-FA extension. I think people read too much into that badass baseball attitude he has on the field. He seems like a pretty normal dude in the limited interviews i've read. Something tells me if the Cubs say "let us buy out your arb years" he's just gonna say "yeah sounds great" like every other player in baseball the last few years.

If Kaepernick had shredded the SEC for two years, he would have been the no. 1 pick in the draft. He was a 2nd rounder because he played for east popcorn state.

thats truffle

Will he be the earliest Red Raider draft pick of all time? How early did Crabtree get picked?

What annoys me is voting in LaRussa, who watched over Canseco and McGwire, and then treating McGwire like a [expletive] terrorist. I'm sure someone has written that column, and I want to read it.

I like to wish upon a star, too, but more than likely he's going to walk about 6-7 percent of the time, strikeout 25-30 percent of the time and still be a questionable defender.

Maddux won't be a unanimous selection because of this guy http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/greg-maddux-won-t-unanimous-pick-hall-fame-165153925--mlb.html Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, who covers the Los Angeles Dodgers, voted only for Jack Morris.

why are we paying attention to this stuff? this is basically that dude's facebook wall, it's not like he's a paid columnist or something

oh my god ahahahhahahhahahahhahahahha

yeah but do you need to target a franchise qb to the extent of drafting teddy bridgewater 1.1? Look at all the QBs drafted in the top 5 the last 10 years 2003: Palmer 2004: Manning, Rivers 2005: Alex Smith 2006: Vince Young 2007: Jamarcus Russell 2008: Matt Ryan 2009: Stafford, Sanchez 2010: Bradford 2011: Cam 2012: Luck, RG3 2013: None. The only super bowl winner on that list has never been an elite guy in the nfl.

I've seen lots of "Bridgewater is the 9th best player in the draft but he's the top qb and houston needs a qb so he'll go no. 1" stuff, and it got me thinking. If you go back to the two Elway superbowls in 1998 and 1999... QBs who won the Superbowl 1st round, 1st pick (Elway 98, 99. Manning, 2007. Eli Manning, 2008, 2011.) 1st round, 6th pick (Dilfer, 2001.) 1st round, 11th pick (Roethlisberger, 2006. 2009.) 1st round, 18th pick (Joe Flacco, 2013.) 1st round, 24th pick (Aaron Rodgers, 2011.) 2nd round (Drew Brees, 2010) 6th round (Tom Brady, 2002, 2004, 2005) 9th round (Brad Johnson, 2003) Undrafted (Warner, 2000.) You've got three guys who've won superbowls (Elway, the Mannings) who were drafted with ELITE TOOLS 1.1 GRADE. And Eli hasn't ever reached that 1.1 potential (you could say the same for Dilfer at 1.6.) So aren't you better off just building up the rest of your team and trying to get lucky with a QB later on than trying to ram a square QB into a round hole?

No way. His only exceptional skill are his legs and his elusiveness, and with his frame that is going to get him killed in the NFL. The only comparison of a running QB close to that size in the league is Vick, and he's never stayed healthy. Plus he's way too reckless with the ball and throws tons of 50/50 balls that Evans pulled down. I don't see it. one difference (in my book anyway.) vick was a runner. He took running back hits. Manziel is a scrambler, he doesn't really take hits. He's just elusive and is able to make something out of nothing. Obviously those 40 yard runs are not going to happen in the nfl, but his entire running style is built on avoiding defenders. I think he'll be ok with ducking down and letting a 40-yard college run turn into a 12-yard nfl run.

that would be a cool song for an entire stadium to sing together though

there fans wont support a gay qb!!!!!!!!

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/12/31/5260466/pft-commenters-2013-nfl-awards "In retrospect the Eagles handled this the Right Way and knew that the fastest way to not hating black people and wanting to beat them up when your drunk is through on-field production so they made Cooper the lynchpin of there offense no offense."