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  1. Mephistopheles
    I can't be the only one who watched part of the New Orleans Bowl. Okay, maybe I can be. But OMG this was awful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daABZ3EbLI4 Warning: if you don't like dangling appendages, don't click. Southern Miss won, but no one really cares.
  2. Mephistopheles
    When it's Game Seven of the World Series. Bottom of the ninth, runner on third, one out and we're down by one run. The pitchers spot is next, thanks to the patented Lou ill-advised double switch. And Adam Dunn strikes out on a curveball in the dirt, leaving our hopes up to Reed Johnson. Will you still attend the Church of Dunn Cut N Shoot
  3. Mephistopheles
    The Houston Astros have closed down their Venezuelan Academy. Products: Richard Hildago, Freddy Garcia, Bobby Abreu, Carlos Guillen, Johan Santana and Melvin Mora, among others.
  4. Mephistopheles
    After one day of Bowl Games, I wonder who is on top. ISUCubsFan and I were the only ones to get all four of today's games correct. I had more points on the games, so I'm up 77-75 on him. It should be noted that we were the only two people to correctly pick Colorado State over Fresno State. The difference between our scores was the confidence we had in the pick. I had 11 points on it, he had 4. It's also worth mentioning that we were one of only a handful to pick Arizona over Brigham Young. We also had more points on that game than anyone else. I had 29 points on USF, 22 points on Arizona, 11 points on Colorado State and 15 points on Wake Forest.
  5. Mephistopheles
    Updated Top 30 After Today Rk Pts Prv School 1. 83.82 1 Oklahoma 2. 82.53 2 Florida 3. 79.57 3 Texas 4. 78.16 4 Southern Cal 5. 75.35 5 Penn State 6. 74.80 6 Texas Tech 7. 71.27 7 Utah 8. 69.68 8 Ohio State 9. 69.50 9 Alabama 10. 68.57 10 TCU 11. 68.15 11 Boise St 12. 67.75 12 Missouri 13. 67.21 13 Oklahoma St 14. 66.59 14 Georgia Tech 15. 66.00 15 Florida St 16. 65.26 17 Oregon 17. 65.18 16 Georgia 18. 64.47 18 North Carolina 19. 63.86 19 California 20. 63.39 20 Oregon St 21. 62.79 22 Boston College 22. 62.68 21 Iowa 23. 62.65 23 Virginia Tech 24. 62.21 24 Mississippi 25. 62.14 25 Pittsburgh 26. 62.00 26 Nebraska 27. 61.45 27 Michigan St 28. 61.24 31 Wake Forest 29. 61.12 30 Clemson 30. 61.11 29 Cincinnati
  6. Mephistopheles
    This BYU and Arizona game has been both an outstanding game and a strange game.
  7. Mephistopheles
    It's 300 hits, but dynamically it's much more. You're also missing 300 outs. So that's another 100 hits or so. And some walks and some home runs. More innings pitched by middle relievers. More pitches thrown by starting pitchers, per out. It's really much more than Ryan Dilon said. Though, by his numbers it's about 11 wins or so. He uses runs per hit. None of these balls will be home runs - unless he adjusted for that without stating. He also over converts runs to wins.
  8. Mephistopheles
    Updates! The only thing that was added was the Wake Forest win over Navy 29-19 a few hours ago. First, conference ratings Rk Prv Conf 60.02 60.01 Big 12 59.94 59.69 ACC 56.56 56.47 SEC 55.75 55.81 Big Ten 53.24 53.30 Big East 52.95 52.97 PAC 10 51.06 51.13 MWC 42.53 42.56 WAC 41.83 41.92 MAC 41.30 41.60 IND 40.71 40.70 CUSA 34.16 34.13 Sun Belt Updated Top 30 I'll update these when Im home during the course of Bowl Season after each game or so. It takes all of about one minute to update the data. Rk Pts Prv School 1. 83.78 1 Oklahoma 2. 82.58 2 Florida 3. 79.57 3 Texas 4. 77.77 4 Southern Cal 5. 75.26 5 Penn State 6. 74.81 6 Texas Tech 7. 71.40 7 Utah 8. 69.62 8 Ohio State 9. 69.57 9 Alabama 10. 68.69 10 TCU 11. 68.38 11 Boise St 12. 67.73 12 Missouri 13. 67.16 13 Oklahoma St 14. 66.56 14 Georgia Tech 15. 65.96 15 Florida St 16. 65.18 16 Georgia 17. 64.93 17 Oregon 18. 64.39 18 North Carolina 19. 63.42 19 California 20. 63.04 20 Oregon St 21. 62.74 22 Boston College 22. 62.63 23 Virginia Tech 23. 62.62 21 Iowa 24. 62.37 24 Mississippi 25. 62.01 26 Nebraska 26. 61.95 25 Pittsburgh 27. 61.37 27 Michigan St 28. 61.25 28 Brigham Young 29. 61.22 31 Wake Forest 30. 61.09 30 Clemson
  9. Mephistopheles
    I believe now that in rematches, the team that won the first game are now 15-15 in the second game, all-time.
  10. Mephistopheles
    whats funny about dunns defense is that he actually isn't an immovable object. He's got fairly decent athleticism, more so than a lot of better corner defensive outfielders than him. what he doesn't do well is read the ball of the bat and have a quick first step.
  11. Mephistopheles
    "Y'all know what the word 'stressed' is spelled backwards? Desserts. I just eat desserts... I went home last night and had some homemade chocolate chip cookies. I had a Kit Kat bar. So that's how you deal with stress: You take it, turn it around, have a few desserts and don't worry about it." - Dabo Swinney
  12. Mephistopheles
    um... .290 .374 .484 .858 that would be our line for everyone who played center field last season. That production is only matched by Carlos Beltran and Grady Sizemore.
  13. Mephistopheles
    i have a mean knuck.
  14. Mephistopheles
    the cubs arent the favorites.
  15. Mephistopheles
    Spurrier likes to hold grudges against schools. He usually gets the better end of those grudges on the field too, see Georgia FWIW: Terrence Cody is coming back for his senior year.
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    orange bowl tickets are as low as $1
  17. Mephistopheles
    we had career years from most of our players
  18. Mephistopheles
    this is how statistics are not to be used.
  19. Mephistopheles
    given that those 350 ABs were coming off of 18 months of no baseball and fit perfectly in line with how we would expect a 21 or 22 year old with his level of play at that age and tools develop, it almost completely ensures us more than "just an extended hot streak". Fontenot's play is not in line with anything else in his career. Rocco's is. That's a terrible comparison.
  20. Mephistopheles
    how do you know he's that player when he's healthy? you're guessing. because the last time he was healthy he was that player and the two years before that when he was healthy he was on the path to becoming that player and was just 22. not to mention he was pretty much that player in limited action this year. he also has more raw talent than pie. his tools better pies across the board. you may want to call it a guess, but it's an educated guess that's more likely than PECOTA, DEXTERMORGAN or ZiPS.
  21. Mephistopheles
    He is that player if he's healthy. I said nothing about the risk involved with him (or Pie).
  22. Mephistopheles
    ridiculous. Not really... If Rocco could ever stay healthy (which is a longshot, obviously) he's probably a .290/.330/.490 player with above average defense baserunning. That's Pie's ceiling, and probably more power than Pie will have.
  23. Mephistopheles
    its too bad that roccos already the player that is pie's ceiling.
  24. Mephistopheles
    our we could play rocco in center, fukudome in right and have the best defensive outfield in baseball by a significant margin for a pitching staff that has pitchers who are relative flyball ones.
  25. Mephistopheles
    I hate rocco.
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