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If you want to relive your many years of misery of being a Cubs fan, take a peak at this. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=cubs/0919&sportCat=mlb

Anyone see how hard Wood was throwing today? I'm in the middle east and couldn't catch the game.

Looks like we've lost both of our running backs, Felix Jones might be going pro too. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft08/news/story?id=3195375

Just now confirmed on ESPNews

Ball Four is the best baseball book that I've read... I know it's not statistical, but it's just a great read. It's one of just a few sports books (maybe the only one) to be rated one of the best 100 books of all time.

And the winner of the 2008 Northsidebaseball.com Heisman trophy is... Darren McFadden.

The Hogs are about to REALLY expose Mizzou as fakers.

Look at the date of the original post... I took the names right off of the ESPN Heisman page. Piddly Diddly off.

Now don't go and say that Paterno and Nutt coach the same way.

Look at the difference in carries and YPC as freshmen... that's why. DMac has been hurt too, he's just played through them. He's got a better YPC in all three years. Also, the reason that he didn't have as many carries as a freshman is that his idiot of a coach didn't think that he was the best tailback and almost made him a free safety. That's another reason why Nutt needs to be fired.

The counterargument is that while yes, Florida would likely still be a contender if they had somebody else at QB, that guy still wouldn't be Tim Tebow. He is the only QB ever to run and throw for 20 TD's in a season. Never been done before. That's because most teams have a running back that punches the ball in from short yardage. You don't think that Steve Young, Randall Cunningham, Mike Vick, etc. could have reached the 20/20 plateau if they were given the ball pretty much every time their team got inside the 5 yard line? Bingo, it's not like Tebow has huge rushing games or anything. The guy only averages 4.1 YPC. Pat White could do far more on the ground than Tebow does if he didn't have Slaton and the new freshman back in the backfield. Tebow's good but there are four or five QB's out there that I would take over him, where as there isn't another player in the nation that I would take over DMac. McFadden is also helped out immensely by the fact that he has Felix Jones with him in the backfield who is averaging a measly 9.1 yards per carry. Add to the fact that QB is a much harder position to play and is a much more important position to the team and that's why a RB has to have a season that's amazing to beat a QB for the Heisman. I don't think McFadden is Adrian Peterson and even AD didn't win the Heisman. Tebow has the second highest QB rating in the nation this year. He's thrown four fewer TD passes than Chase Daniel despite attempting 156 fewer passes. He has the highest yards-per-attempt average in the nation. Like I said, McFadden is a very good running back, I don't think he's Heisman-worthy. DMac vs. AD DMac... YEAR TEAM ATT YDS AVG LNG TD 2005 ARK 176 1113 6.3 70 11 2006 ARK 284 1647 5.8 80 14 2007 ARK 304 1725 5.7 80 15 AD RSH YD TD | REC YD TD | +-----------------------------+----+--------------------+--------------+-------------+ | 2004 Oklahoma | 13 | | 339 1925 15 | 5 12 | | 2005 Oklahoma | 11 | | 220 1108 14 | 9 50 | | 2006 Oklahoma | 7 | | 188 1012 12 | 10 136 1 And there is no doubt that the SEC has been better than the Big 12 over the past several years.

The counterargument is that while yes, Florida would likely still be a contender if they had somebody else at QB, that guy still wouldn't be Tim Tebow. He is the only QB ever to run and throw for 20 TD's in a season. Never been done before. That's because most teams have a running back that punches the ball in from short yardage. You don't think that Steve Young, Randall Cunningham, Mike Vick, etc. could have reached the 20/20 plateau if they were given the ball pretty much every time their team got inside the 5 yard line? Bingo, it's not like Tebow has huge rushing games or anything. The guy only averages 4.1 YPC. Pat White could do far more on the ground than Tebow does if he didn't have Slaton and the new freshman back in the backfield. Tebow's good but there are four or five QB's out there that I would take over him, where as there isn't another player in the nation that I would take over DMac.

Anyone still think that someone other than DMac should win the Heisman?

It lost the credibility years ago for me due to the regional bias and ignorance of the writers who vote. See last year, when McFadden finished 2nd even though he missed the most important game of the year (after getting hurt in a bar fight, no less) He didn't miss the game, he just wasn't 100% going into the game, but he still carried the ball around 9 times. Actually the most important game of the year was either the LSU game or the Florida game, and he played lights out in one, and played OK in the other. He was also hurt in both of those games might I add.

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I'm clueless as to why we would sign this guy, if we don't get the Japanese RF, then what the heck was the purpose?

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Are you serious? Stafford outplayed him.

Remember, the Heisman is supposed to go to the best player in college football, not the best player on the best team.

name me the two $15M or three $10M players who will put up the numbers A-Rod has Do you really think that ARod would put up the same numbers with the Cubs... who is going to get on base in front of him? DLee, that's it.

I wouldn't sign Arod, I would think that the 30mil could be better spent on two fifteen million dollar players or three ten million dollar players.

According to http://www.MLBtraderumors.com, Bay and Snell might be available. I doubt that we have enough in the system to get Snell, but if Bay can play right field, I think that he would be a good fit, and he's relatively cheap (5-8mil per year over next 2-3). I wouldn't sell the farm to get him, but I would definitely inquire.

We are both stationed in Arkansas right now... funny though.