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2008 6th rounder, that was the Kyle Beach draft. Probably just a cheap steady guy. Played 4 year at Boston College.

unsurprisingly, I've never heard of him.

I have the worst best player on the list

Is Sabean that bad? The Zito signing was horrible, obviously. Lincecum, Posey, and Bumgarner were top 10 picks, sure, but it's not like the top 10 doesn't have a fair amount of flameouts. Hitting on three players of that caliber in a 3 year span isn't very common. Which only goes to show you how lucky they were.

http://deadspin.com/5675917/moneyball-comes-to-england Soccer has its own grit lovers.

If it was Casey at the door I could see somebody assuming they were getting punked by imposters. But if it was anybody who heard the Julius Peppers story, I'd assume they would just take their chances it was legit. Then again, maybe they heard Peppers wasn't there and backed out because the rest of them are cheap.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/10/briggs-suspects-race-behind-bears-nightclub-snub.html Lance, it's probably because you guys suck. A bunch of Bears players got denied at a club where baby Urlacher had reserved tables for a rookie night event. They were on a party bus when Casey went to the door but they were turned away because there were too many dudes and no chicks. Briggs thinks race may have played a role but Idonije says it wasn't and the place is a great club. oh, and if anybody else wants to start a new thread for the next game, whenever and wherever that may be, please feel free.

i'm not sure if something criminal happened or not. fairly sure that's why they have investigations. i'm amazed you can make that determination. oh wait, you're just speculating. nm Sounds like you're just as certain that ND isn't guilty of criminal negligence when you say that it's just meaningless message board banter to characterize it that way. where did I say it was meaningless banter to characterize anything? I said it was message board fist pounding to want the "hammer dropped" (at least in part b/c no one knows what really happened yet). The hammer talk isn't very clear but you have adopted the message board apologist stance. It seems to me very likely that something criminal happened. If they practiced indoors because of dangerous conditions then went outside the next day under same conditions and sent a kid into a structure that is not supposed to be used under those conditions it seems pretty clear to me that something criminal happened.

I don't see the point in talking about Guzman. But no, they don't need him. A move like this could push Cashner back into the rotation picture. A Wood-Marshall-Marmol tandem would look pretty good even if Marshall regresses a little. That's a good point. If they need to sign somebody like Wood in order to send Cashner back into the rotation, then maybe it's worth the risk and money.

But from the sounds of things something criminal happened.

He may have been barely holding on to decent status at the time. He'd be terrible now. WHOA, BOLD PREDICTION. Yeah, sorry. I wasn't trying to accurately predict how he would play today. I was pointing out that when he left he was already part of the problem.

He may have been barely holding on to decent status at the time. He'd be terrible now.

I don't see the point in talking about Guzman. But no, they don't need him.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/10/hawks-hossa-to-miss-two-weeks-with-injury.html Chicago plays 7 games over the next 2 weeks, 4 of which are on back to back nights. They have played the most games in the league, as many as 5 more than other teams and 4 more than many other teams.

What is the context of this? I don't get the point of the gif but did you not know the play? Kinsler gets on base with lucky infield single, throw is off course, Huff makes a diving play and Kinsler stupidly turned to 2nd despite his run being meaningless with a 4 run deficit. So he was tagged out.

http://deadspin.com/5675694/prelude-to-a-tragedy-how-a-notre-dame-student-died-and-why-he-shouldnt-have Damn. They held practice indoors the day before, went out in the same winds, and the kid tweeted that he was going to die in those winds. This is a serious problem. I hadn't read much about it before.

Looks like he signed a 3/$9m deal.

I am indifferent toward him, but that is how I feel about most coaches in baseball. It's the talent that matters.

I would call what he has done trying on occasion but ultimately just patching. John Tait wasn't a washed up vet. Fred Miller was declining, but he still played for 4 years and probably had 1.5-2 good years with the team. His first pick was a tackle. He drafted another in the first round as well. There isn't another position that he has drafted twice in the first round. He tried a little, thought he settled everything with the Tait/Miller/Garza era, but then got caught with his pants down when those guys declined in a hurry. He should not have been surprised by that, but apparently he was. When he got screwed was when he drafted Dusty, Bazuin and Wolfe in 2005 and 2006 when he thought the line was set. Those picks should have netted 2 offensive linemen. And again in 2009 he should have picked up another linemen. He has tried, he's just failed because he was complacent with the notion that the same guys could get the job done every year. It was a dumb predictable disaster (THAT I FREAKING PREDICTED 4 YEARS AGO!!!)

I'd like to believe that, but it was pretty obvious that the line was "borked" last year as well and somehow Angelo managed to completely ignore the oline in the offseason. In fact, he made it worse. As insane as it sounds right now, I wouldn't be shocked at this point if he didn't make a ton of moves on the line in the offseason. Maybe a 3rd round pick to throw the fans a bone and a signing a declining veteran or two. But I cannot see Angelo making this his number 1 offseason priority. You don't go from ignoring a position group almost completely for 5-6 years and then all the sudden placing a huge emphasis on it. It's obvious Angelo doesn't, for whatever reason, think the offensive line has as much impact on an offense than the rest of us do. That is obvious, but Angelo has aggressively worked on the line at times. The problem is he doesn't supply a steady stream of first half of the draft picks. But he drafted Columbo as his first pick in Chicago. He went big after John Tait and signed Fred Miller (a washed up but still expensive player). He drafted Chris Williams early and then signed Orlando Pace, Omiyale and Schaeffer all at once. He also almost hired Russ Grimm as head coach and he's an offensive line guy. Angelo has done a terrible job with the Bears offensive line, and ignored it in the draft for too long, then spent too little too late to fix it. But he's made it the number 1 priority in past offseasons. He just did it wrong. You need to constantly draft new guys for the line, and absolutely cannot have a center be the centerpiece of your line. If he was serious about wanting consistency out of the same five, he would have tried to do it with the draft every year. Because you then own those guys in their youth for 4-5 years, and if they are anything but top 5 picks, they come relatively cheap.

No. The guy was an amazingly gifted hitter with a flawless approach at the plate, but my guess is he would not be able to teach what made him so great to others. On the other hand, if you've got a solid hitting coach situation in the minors and don't really need a guy in the majors to reteach guys how to hit, it couldn't hurt to have a guy with that flawless approach influencing players to be a little more patient.

I really think Keith has been hurt by playing too much. He has to be in the top 2 in minutes played last season and was leading by a wide margin this year. On top of playing a lot of minutes per game, the Hawks have played a ridiculous amount of games in comparison to much of the league.

The NFL allows 37.5% of teams to make the playoffs. MLB allows 26.7%. If you allowed one more wild card in each league then MLB would be at 33.3%, still the most exclusive of the major North American sports.

Noooooo!! We need continuity not an upgrade in talent!! The biggest problem with Angelo's "talent on the line doesn't matter" mentality is that you can't go with no talent on the offensive line and then also skimp on talent at RB and WR. The Bears have second rate running backs and third rate wide receivers to go along with unrated linemen. A great QB isn't going to be able to do much with that. You need to give him help somewhere. The best place is on the line. Give him decent blockers and a good QB can turn his RB and WR into stars. But if you are going to skimp on the offensive line then you better go out and get a receiver like Brandon Marshall or Larry Fitzgerald and maybe a running back who is capable of actually making plays instead of the Bears current batch of okay but nothing special guys.

NY loves the guy. They are always desperate for bullpen help, and my guess is they are just looking to sign him for less than the $11m option they turned down. If we are actually going to spend money on a reliever, I'd like him as much as anybody else. But I'd rather not spend money on the bullpen at this point.