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its only one year, but willits is much better left handed. Really? 2007 vs left: .333/.406/.381 vs right: .276/.385/.329 As you said, it's only one year, but that one year doesn't indicate he's better from the left side.
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If Willits is the guy they are looking to trade for using Marquis+prospect deal (Cedeno as the Brewers fan mentioned) I'd take that. He's a decent platoon partner for Pie, and he's a good bench player especially if the Roberts deal is done as well.
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Baltimore was the other team who was on the verge of signing Cintron. I have no idea why he would take a minor league deal with the Cubs over a major league deal with the Orioles, so I presume this must mean Cedeno is leaving in some fashion.
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I would rather have the point guard who wins at a higher clip. You can have your stats. Then why do you have Deron second behind Nash? There have been several other point guards who have higher winning percentages than he does in the NBA right now.
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Honestly, he's been hammering IU for 7 years on every telecast. It got a little worse when Sampson became the coach, but it wasn't pretty with Davis either. Tonight has been just more of the same rhetoric with him.
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From the replay, I'm kind of shocked it was called. He was driving down the lane with his arm out and the defender backpedeling. He withdrew his arm, spun, and the defender fell down from the slight bit of contact and the backpedeling. The official blew the whistle, and he made the shot. It wasn't an absolutely awful blocking call, but it was definitely questionable IMO, and definitely something that you never see at that point in the game.
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Of all the people to go down with an injury, it had to be DJ. I'm not even thinking of what happens to the team without him. I feel sick if it's serious. He's worked so hard and gotten so much better in his senior year and had an NBA career lined up, and now possibly this. He's played his heart out all year, and has been one of the only things Hoosier fans can be proud of this year. Hopefully he won't be gone long. IU has had a different energy level to them tonight than they have most of the season. They are finally starting to look like a pretty good defensive team, although they still have some serious lapses. This has easily been their best half of the season so far.
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BP's Early '08 Season Records Projections
CubColtPacer replied to JGalt73's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Up and down. On one hand, they got the Cubs record exactly right last year, and Milwaukee was only off by 1 game. At the same time, they predicted the Cubs would have a great offense but bad pitching last year, and they predicted Milwaukee would have very good pitching but a bad offense. So their records were right, but the way they got to them was completely wrong. Edit: I just found the numbers. They projected the Cubs offense to have 76 more runs than they actually had. Milwaukee was projected to have 20 less runs than they ended up with. As for pitching, the Cubs allowed 99 less runs then they were projected to, and Milwaukee gave up 28 more runs than they were projected to. So their Milwaukee projection wasn't too bad, but their Cubs projection last year was way off. -
Yes, I agree with this as well. Several reasons: 1) It'd create a natural interdivision rivalry between the Rangers and Astros. 2) It'd cut down on travel, which is something that the Rangers always gripe about. 3) The Astros are not a "historic" NL franchise, and have only existed for 45 years or so. (I understand this argument easily applies to the Brewers, since they were an AL team for most of their existence.) The Rangers and the Astros currently play each other 6 times a year. If they moved to the AL, they'd still play each other 6 times a year. It's 240 miles between Houston and Arlington and around 560 from Arlington to Kansas City. They are all in the same time zone. Considering Texas usually only goes to KC once per year, the difference in travel is so minimal to not even be worth much. In fact, Texas probably would travel just as much if Houston was in the AL because Houston is out of the way to most cities, and KC isn't that far out of the way if you're then hopping to another city on a road trip. Excluding the Astros as a historic NL franchise takes out half the other franchises in the NL as well. The Mets, Padres, Expos/Nationals, Rockies, Marlins, Diamondbacks, and Brewers were all added at the same time or after the Astros.
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Another untouchable prospect/Ceda to big leagues?
CubColtPacer replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He definitely has the stuff and the strikeout numbers to be a dominant relief pitcher. His problem is that he walks way, way too many people. Harness that even a little bit, and he'll be a great closer/setup man. -
Another point I'm not sure anybody's brought up here. I'm not sure the NCAA has ever had a postseason ban in which the school in question has not had 1 single ineligible player ever step foot on the court. One article mentioned that the NCAA might be very hesitant to change that policy in Indiana's case, so that at least suggests with the current evidence that a postseason ban is unlikely. As for the Wisconsin game, from all reports it was Indiana's best played game of the season. Wisconsin is also a really good team, and they hit plenty of shots tonight (especially from long range) and found a way to win.
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They aren't making all the face masks 15 yards. What they are doing is making the incidental face mask not a penalty whatsoever. If a player just grabs and releases the face mask immediately, he will not be penalized next year if the rule change goes into effect.
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I'm sure the Orioles fans appreciated it when he majorly scooped the Tejada trade! Since then, it's been a whole bunch of nothing though. I think it is real, real, hard to say he scooped the Tejada trade when everyone whose been paying attention knew that the O's were trading Tejada and almost every major sports media outlet posted Tejada to Houston rummers for 48 hours before the trade was consummated. You can believe what you want. Yes, Tejada going to Houston in general wasn't a huge surprise. However, there was no other news source besides him that had even 2 of the players correct, let alone all 5. Most of the Houston rumors that had come out before had involved Everett and a couple other players. Peace's contribution to the trade wasn't that it went down, but the exact specifics of it.
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I'm sure the Orioles fans appreciated it when he majorly scooped the Tejada trade! Since then, it's been a whole bunch of nothing though.
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Not much of a sample there. Eric Gordon Sr. is biased towards Indiana, Kent Benson is biased against Indiana, and the others didn't really say much.
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The Cubs aren't going to spend all offseason though searching for left-handed hitters to break up the right-handed hitters and then bat them 1-2 in the order. That would mean you have two left-handers to start, and then 4 power right-handed hitters in a row. Plus, even though I don't care about balancing right/left very much (too often managers put inferior players in slots they don't belong in order to do this), putting 2 left-handers in the top 2 spots of this lineup wouldn't be very good for game situations. The Cubs have one of the top pinch-hitters in the game today sitting on their bench who is also a left-hander. You put Roberts-Fukudome at the top, and it becomes way too easy to bring in a left-handed pitcher and neutralize all 3 of them. Granted, Roberts is a switch-hitter but he struggles the most against tough left-handers, Ward is useless against left-handers, and who knows about Fukudome.
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Yeah, I understand about the 100 calls. Those aren't nearly as serious in my mind. 1) None of them involve Sampson. 2) The person who made most of those calls has been already forced to resign. 3) The reason the calls ballooned to that many is that the other members of the staff did not realize that Senderhoff was making illegal calls from home. That meant that every call that was made legally from the office that went over the limit because of the illegal calls had to be counted. I think the NCAA will accept the Senderhoff resignation in that part of the process. The main things are the 3 way calls, the small gift to Elston, and probably the biggest part that Sampson was found to be lying.
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That would be fine by me. I don't mind if IU sticks with him throughout the process and see where it leads, but if he's let go today I wouldn't mind that either. The question becomes who would coach the team though. If Sampson is fired, Meyer has to be fired as well.
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The NCAA clearly writes in the report that they have no information other than what is being presented in the allegations. What is listed in the report is the most serious it can get unless someone steps up with new information.
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Obviously you haven't read the report. Sampson didn't call anybody. He participated in several 3 way calls in which a recruit who had called Senderhoff was then patched through to Sampson. The Gordons probably were too important to go through Senderhoff. They probably always called Sampson directly, which was perfectly legal. 2 other things. 1) It's always been reported that the Gordons called Sampson to let them know how interested they were, and not the other way around. 2) When the Gordon recruitment started, Sampson was not under NCAA sanctions. That didn't come for another month or two.
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Should this group of kids be penalized? They did absolutely nothing wrong. They gained no competitive advantage from this. The coach should be hit hardest because the allegations are most concerned about his coverup. The school should be hit second because they hired the coach, although the school was not complicit in any coverup, and in fact was the one who did a good job digging and finding out the truth. That should earn them points back, but they are still accountable for the actions of their employees. The kids shouldn't be affected.
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I think it's a lame excuse. Give the guy enough AB's in a different spot in the lineup and he'll get comfortable. If he had his way he'd still be a second basemen. Players don't like change...Nothing new here. He'll be fine if he's not leading off. The difference is that he had never moved away from second before. He has spent multiple years outside the leadoff spot. How many AB's does it take? I don't think the Soriano leadoff thing can be proven conclusively either way. The stats show that he has been better at leadoff, better still when leading off an inning, and better with nobody on base. At the same time, there are other factors in Texas that could have caused the problems when Soriano was hitting lower in the order. As long as there is a significant question though, the Cubs should keep him there unless they find great options for both the #1 and #2 spots. Roberts/Theriot, which would be the Cubs most likely option if the trade for Roberts went through, doesn't cut it. The benefit of him moving down and Theriot moving up is minimal, and actually probably makes run production worse. The risk that it might be a problem is high. There's just no point in taking the risk for such little benefit.
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The Indianapolis Star got the report. So far, the only news is that the NCAA didn't believe Sampson's story about not knowing that Senderhoff was on the line. If there were any new rules that Sampson broke, the Star didn't include them. So basically this is mostly coming down to 10 3 way calls that aren't a violation of NCAA rules to begin with, only the NCAA sanctions.
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I get your point, but at this point in his career even if you took out his 2006 numbers entirely he would still have quite a pronounced split between his leadoff numbers and everything else.
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Not every day you look at the scoreboard and see Vandy 55, Kentucky 14.