JockJones

Marmol has been rather uninspiring so far this spring.

Yes, Wichita State and Creighton are both locks.

It's what these idiots yell down here. I guess cause in their minds the Kansas city chiefs are a dynasty that needs to be yelled about. Nevermind to my knowledge the chiefs haven't played any games in Allen field house ever. Yeah, it's really, really stupid. I don't mind it as much as Arrowhead, where at least there is a connection. And it's far less obnoxious than what they do in Calgary during our anthem, when they yell "C" and "RED" when those lyrics come. I don't get offended at the Chiefs thing or think it disrespects the troops or anything. But it irks me that Canadians are doing it with OUR anthem. And I realize now that this has nothing to do with college basketball... It's dumb at Arrowhead, and it's mindbogglingly dumb at AFH. I believe KSU students do it, too. It's pretty groan-worthy, Yes, KSU students do it also. It is incredibly stupid.

i don't get your manlove for grant. He's the man. Go get him, Illini. :-"

Illinois can't have Gregg. I love him too much.

anthony rizzo? im pretty sure everybody hated the crawford signing, but i'm not sure why you're even talking about that. "hey i don't really know anything about theo epstein and jed hoyer but everyone loves them too much so im going to make a post questioning them. hmm like i said i dont know anything about what they're about but i'll bring up carl crawford because that contract was pretty bad" oh and brett jackson is nothing like adam dunn. Rizzo's numbers outside of the hitter friendly PCL arent that impressive for a First Baseman. Plus we gave up a pitcher with number two starter potential. That's not a trade I would be all that excited about. Also once you go beyond the first few years of the Epstein era his free agent signing track record really isn't all that great (Lackey, Lugo, Renteria, Dice-K, etc). Epstein will also have a lot to live up to in terms of making as many one sided deals as Hendry. You guys can mock him all you want, but outside of the Juan Pierre deal Jim Hendry's trade track record was phenomenal. I still remember all you guys going crazy when Mark DeRosa was dealt. Guess what. That situation was handled PERFECTLY. DeRosa was dealt after having a career season and his numbers subsequently declined afterwards. Plus we picked up Chris Archer, who was one of the two prospect centerpieces for Garza. Heck, even Archer was dealt at a good time. Everything about his game declined when repeating Double-A this season for Tampa. And from a hitting standpoint Dunn and Jackson are fairly alike (or atleast were before Dunn declined last season). Both strikeout a lot and also take a lot of walks. Granted Jackson is obviously better defensively, but Dunn also had more power. Maybe a better comparison would be BJ Upton with less speed. Granted that's a nice player to have. But certainly not a franchise changing bat. This guy is right. I don't want Theo anymore. Bring back the worlds greatest trader, Jim Hendry!

Dave Kaplan, why must you be the color guy for MVC TV games? The basketball is already ugly, and you don't make it any better.

BigBird also confirmed that it is a done deal.

Who are the Broncos gonna play in the playoffs?

The physicals are tomorrow right? You think word comes out on the prospects once the physicals are passed?

Much more promising than some of the other prospects listed. Works in the low 90's and tops out at 97mph. Seems to have started to figure things out. The other two Coddington and Ward make absolutely no sense. The other name he gave me was Yorman Rodriguez Corcino and Rodriguez. Yes please.

His changeup is currently a 2, but has the potential to be an 8. That seems likely. Good to know. what the hell is that site? exactly

So the mention of Daniel Corcino made me want to look up a scouting report on him. A google search led me to this site: http://www.hesperiasoccer.com/ootp/news/html/players/player_27986.html I was glad to find out that, based on his 'Personality Ratings', his greed is Very High. What a joke...

They are? I just read through the pages I missed out on and didn't see that. Just a brief mention of the two names on the middle of page 20. I don't believe it, but was reporting what I saw. It is quoted and someone is making a comment on it.

On redszone they are saying rumors are the two prospects as Travis Webb and Kevin Coddington. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=webb--001tra http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=coddin001kev They both suck, and Webb is old.

What? He's got inside sources. The source is BigBird from OriolesHangout.

Damn you Chiefs for stealing Orton from us.

The Chiefs are getting after him. Hali is all over the place.

I want the Bears to win this game, just so I can care about the Christmas game. Not because I expect them to win, but it will give me something to do in the evening after all of the days festivities are over.

People are looking at Darvish as better than Dice-K, right? I know Darvish is a year younger, has a better build, and had better numbers in Japan. I think the fact that Theo put up $51.5 mil for Dice-K shows that he isn't afraid to take a big chance on these international guys. If he got the OK from Tom, I could see him placing a $53-55 million bid, thinking that he was getting a better return than he got with Dice-K.

Well, that is kinda exciting.

I see Theo having interest in Spilborghs and Barton on offense. They have showed the ability to take a lot of walks in their careers. On the pitching side, I'm a fan of Howell, Volstad, and maybe Bergesen also.

I'm gonna miss Stacey King getting all weird about Kurt.

The Marlins but this is the Fielder thread