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  1. MSG T
    How long until Kaplan tries to explain that it happened because Ramirez doesn't care enough?
  2. MSG T
    That's what I was wondering. Wayne's great.
  3. MSG T
    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/02/cashman-on-pitching-market-nobodys-available.html
  4. MSG T
    It doesn't. What does matter is getting your best hitters the most plate appearances over the course of the season. I can't, for the life of me, imagine why anyone would want Tyler Colvin getting more plate appearances than Aramis or Soto. Or Fukudome, for that matter.
  5. MSG T
    Oh, I get it, Hamilton used to have a drug problem. Yeah, not really funny.
  6. MSG T
    Maybe it's from having Lickliter for the last 3 years, but I HATE this style of basketball. I'm not sure I'd like it even if the Hawks won 25 games per year. This slow pace drives me up a wall.
  7. MSG T
    Big Ten refs sucking? Who'd have thought.
  8. MSG T
    I'm not necessarily arguing the point he's trying to make here, but I find it odd that he used 1999 as his cutoff, considering that Adrian Gonzalez was drafted first overall in 2000. But, did Gonzalez play 1B in high school? I would assume, considering how obvious he would be, that he play another position in HS. I will say that truffle's second argument, the study, is a better argument than talking about some HS 1B being fat now, so he would be fat later. The latter I don't care about.
  9. MSG T
    Did you miss that huge chunk of roof lying on the street/sidewalk next to the police SUV?
  10. MSG T
    Just wanted to mention, this is the 18th anniversary of Chris Street's death. RIP Chris. Win or lose, hope the Hawks play the way Chris would tonight. Here's a good story about it. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930321&slug=1691555
  11. MSG T
    How about bringing him back next year as GM?
  12. MSG T
    I have a couple of questions about this...well, they're partially about Garza and partially about the stats. I was looking at his numbers on Fangraphs, he has generally outperformed his xFIP (granted, not by a ton). First, is this something that can be looked at as anything he has control over, meaning he can continually do this, or is this something that he benefits from park, his team's fielding, etc? Also, would it be considered normal for his xFIP to get better coming to the Central from the NL East? Mainly I just wondering, if his xFIP is better, and he has some control over outperforming it, it makes me much less irritated by this deal. Like someone mentioned above, I'm more confident of Hendry's ability to make trades. But, this one, for now, doesn't look like a very good deal.
  13. MSG T
    Like last year? :D You really couldn't see the rationale behind picking up a 25 year old former top prospect who was coming off a couple down (but hardly disastrous) seasons, could be had for nothing, and could be stashed on the back end of the bench just to see if we don't luck into something? Not only could you not see that, but you felt it so absurd as to feel the need to mock everybody who believes in no risk gambles? You're either a professional sports writer, or you're a moron. Or both. Yeah who wants a Carlos Quentin? Or a Josh Hamilton? Those guys were done. But we had Josh Hamilton and Hendry just let the Reds have him. :bomb:
  14. MSG T
    My bigger problem was the two times Iowa players (IIRC Brommer and McCabe) took the ball away from him, under the Iowa basket, and they called fouls on them. The second one, Sullinger basically handed the ball to McCabe. I can't wait until Iowa is good enough to take advantage of crappy refs. They aren't at that point...yet.
  15. MSG T
    If my count was right, three of those blocks were against Sullinger. If they can keep this up, they're going to knock off a team or two they shouldn't. Not a bad performance considering they're missing Payne and May and their biggest problem was already depth. I just wish they didn't have the brutal start to the B10 season.
  16. MSG T
    Evidently they're now listing it as a sell out, the first since March 1, 2008.
  17. MSG T
    Lickliter was ok with it He's an idiot, though. He was probably to caught up in moping on the sidelines to notice.
  18. MSG T
    That's pretty much what I thought of too. Although, I will admit to giving thought to having Soto lead off.
  19. MSG T
    Please make the tournament. They have a good chance of going undefeated in the non-conference slate, and they blew out the only name team they played thus far (Georgia Tech). Their toughest non-con game would be a potential game at Madison Square Garden against St. John's next week. To add: The toughest thing for Northwestern to do to grab a tournament spot will be stealing a home win or two against the conference upper tier (Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State...they don't get Purdue at home), and getting as many road wins as possible against a conference without a really weak team (Iowa and PSU are the likely weakest, but even they aren't slouches this year). With the non-conference schedule as weak as it is, I think they'll have to go 8-10 or better in conference to get at-large consideration. Their Big Ten conference schedule works out pretty well for them, though, as they get 2 games each against Iowa, PSU, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota, and don't travel to Ohio State. It's depressing that Iowa got to the point where they improved to not being slouches. I think I hate Lickliter more now than I did in April.
  20. MSG T
    I'm not sure whether to :lol: or :banghead: . I think they're both appropriate in this case. I'm not even going into the whole BA thing, it's hopeless.
  21. MSG T
    Not only the money, but ... I'd rather not and keep Fuku. I have no idea if this is the slightest bit accurate, but if Hendry even considered this he should be fired. What a horrible trade proposal. Trade a good ballplayer with one year left for a bad ballplayer with two years left and you only save $1.5 mil per? Even if SF sent enough money to even that out, you're still basically trading a good player for a bad one. That's stupid. However, as someone mentioned above, throw in Lincecum and I'll happily change that statement to a big thumbs up.
  22. MSG T
    :-s Huh, Wittenmeyer, who works for the Sun-Times, is saying $1.5.
  23. MSG T
    Dempster looks like a 50 year old banker.
  24. MSG T
    Yes, it is. In that number of PA's roughly 25% of players can be +/- 100 points of their actual production. The other 75% of players will be +/- 50 points. That's purely through luck. You need At Least 1000 PAs to start getting a good handle on their real ability. As was alluded to earlier, what if he goes off for a .326/.395/.515/.910 line over his next 323 PA's? Does that mean he's a #3 hitter? Does that mean he was unlucky those first 323 PAs, or was he really lucky the second 323 PA's. You're basing your proclamation on the equivalent of a half season of production. That's nowhere near enough of a sample. You just made that number up. My point isn't that it's predicative. My point is that there is a reason. Randomness isn't it. His true talent level during those 323 PAs was not his career average. I took that argument to be that the 323 PAs are not enough to determine what he'll be going forward in the third spot. Exactly. I'm not arguing that he was good before or that was his actual talent level, just that you can't tell what he's going to do based on such a small sample. If he had those numbers in 1500 (example) relatively consecutive PA's, then yes, you could probably say he's not very good at it. And. Has there been any more news on Webb, or anyone for that matter.
  25. MSG T
    Why are you arguing in one thread that an entire seasons worth of stats doesn't show a person actual ability, then in another thread you're arguing that the equivalent of a half season shows exactly what a guy's true ability is? Are you trying to contradict yourself or is it an accident because you don't understand what you're saying?
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