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Right below the stat... IDIOT still dont' get it

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=keppije01&year=Career&t=b Somebody explain to me how he has fewer PA vs LHP than he has vs LH starters.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/jon-heyman/21145813/free-agent-infielder-keppinger-suffers-broken-fibula-in-fall-at-home So he's a heavy drinker, I like it.

I'm Ron Burgundy?

At what point do we start dealing with the laws of diminishing returns with all these assistants and multi-layered front office? Isn't there concerns about too many voices being a distraction and the whole too many cooks issue?

I think it's multiple years before the Marlins actually trade him. They have way too much scrutiny on them this offseason to trade Stanton, and they've still got another year before he gets expensive. Yeah, not sure why somebody would write "why wouldn't they deal Stanton now" when the answer to the question is obvious. For all the uproad they traded away mediocre expensive players. That's a justifiable stance to take. Dealing away a really good cheaper player is completely opposite of what they were doing.

He'll be the first OL off the bench if Spencer is still hurt. I assume they'll start Webb-Williams-Garza-Carimi-Scott. I'm probably jumping the gun, but I wonder if Carimi plays well at guard -- they might just leave him there. Cutler made some comments along the lines of maybe he's a guard on the Jay Cutler show earlier... If he plays well at G then I'm all for it leaving him there. That means it's one less OL spot to worry about. And then, like Williams, they will move him aside for a lesser player and cut him midseason for no good reason.

Bears are 3.5 point favorites right now.

McCown is signed for the rest of the season. There's no reason to cut him. There is if you have depth problems elsewhere.

Surprising to whom? They've been a win at home only team for a while now.

That I disagree with. Because you are a tenn fan I don't think it's that. There are programs with much greater prestige than UT (Bama/USC/Ohio St/Mich/Texas off the top of my head) but I don't think OU is one of them. You won't find many unbiased observers who agree

That I disagree with. Because you are a tenn fan

Maybe it's a wording issue then, because when I hear step down I think of a decline in prestige. I've never considered that a school's current talent level affects its prestige, since prestige is more of a long term thing. And ou has more prestige than tenn

Not in the areas I mentioned. The talent level is considerably better at OU (which is why I don't think Stoops would make the jump), but if Stoops were to take the UT job he's not going to some middling program that's never done anything. Step down isn't an accusation of middling

I agree with that. I guess my thinking is, if Stoops wants to leave (change of scenery idea), then Tennessee wouldn't be a dropoff from a historical/tradition/prestige standpoint. . Yes, there absolutely is a drop off.

Hey it's that thing where wannabe masochists pretend MLB is the nba.

Baseball people/players are both dumb and cocky. They are slow learners and even slower to accept what they learn.

Why? It is personnel. They ignored it for nearly a decade then drafted second rate guys. It's a 5 man unit that needs 6-7 in a season, and if you do it right only one or two are weak spots. The bears have 5 weak spots on the line. Not one good guy. No talent. They thought they could coach the suck out of them because they think are great coaches. But it's an unshinsble turd.

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Ok, but he hasn't been a bust either. I understand wanting more than league average out of a first round draft pick, and so from that perspective, I understand not liking the pick. But hopefully as he develops he'll be a positive asset for this team. Yeah, hopefully he'll help eventually. The biggest problem was and remains the lack of any offensive linemen, again. That was inexcusable. They had an offensive line devoid of talent and there were plenty of opportunities to pick one in a justifiable spot. They need to take 2 a year for the next 3 years.

McClellan has been a good pick so far (concussion notwithstanding). Rodriguez has been pretty good in a FB role. After that, it's pretty sketchy. Lovie's first coaching staff was garbage, it was all college assistants. But he's gotten better, especially on defense. Having Marinelli is quite good. The offense is where the coaching sucks. Rodriguez has done nothing. They should have and could have drafted an offensive lineman at any point in the first three rounds and gotten a player better than at least 3-4 of their current linemen, if not all of them. I was disappointed with the draft and remain so, but the Hardin pick is really the most indefensible.

The school presidents know the sports leagues and teams cannot and will not police themselves, which is why they want the NCAA to do it. No team is going to want to be punished, but as long as the presidents are in control, they will want somebody to maintain the facade of the purity of amateurism and student athletes, so they give the job to the NCAA.

I'm not really sure what the point of this comment is. Does Biggs want to take the role of the "you have to accept reality" Cubs writer who basks in the glory of a complete rebuild? The fact is that yes actually, talent overhauls can be done quite quickly by competent NFL personel men and coaches. The Bears have enough talent right now to be 7-3, so they are not completely devoid of talent. There are quick fixes to patch the problem, if not completely solve it. Schemes can be designed weak to weak to take advantage of opponents and at least partially offset your own issues. If SF can scheme an offense with a backup QB to completely dominate the Bears defense, despite being a poor pass blocking team themselves, then it can be done. Lovie is to be blamed for the offense in so far as he preached defense, special teams and running the ball above passing for so long. And he is to be blamed for his own poor decisions in drafts when he got more power after the super bowl. And he is to be blamed for the coaching deficit they have on the offensive side. But that doesn't negate the fact that Tice is the GD offensive coordinator, and that Tice gave his thumbs up to the Carimi acquisition, and that Tice tossed aside his best lineman from last season, and that Tice has insisted he could get more out of this line than he has gotten. It should not have taken as long as it has taken for the offensive line to get fixed. And it should not take very long in the future to fix it. If it does take time, heads must role. This is a fixable and addressable issue if the Bears finally decide to actually address it with competent decision makers at the control

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