I'd go Z, Hill, Lilly, Gallagher, Marshall, then Lieber or Marquis late in the season when Marshall breaks down. Well probably see Z, Lilly, Lieber, Hill, Marquis. (at least to begin the season)
Ty Lawson left the game four minutes into the game against Florida State, but Carolina still won in overtime. If he has to miss nay time on Wednesday, that swings the advantage squarely to Duke. Lawson is the one that makes that team run, not Hansbrough. They already lost their backup point guard for the season so if Lawson can't play that leaves Quentin Thomas playing almost all of the game for UNC at point guard. They might go Ellington at PG for the rest of the game, but Lawson is UNC's MVP.
Right after All-Star Break last year, back-to-back Cubs vs. Astros Marquis vs. Rodriguez- 7-6 W, 6-5 after the first two innings Soto got his first RBI, and run. Theriot hit a home run. Cubs vs. Giants Hill vs. Lincecum 3-2 W with a double in the bottom of the 8th from Ramirez to score two runs, one of the most exciting days of my life
Next Wednesday is the Duke-Carolina game, things are already starting to get really heated up between the fans here, only figures to get worse after today.
I was at home with my brother, who also likes the Cubs but not nearly as much, we watched that entire game and it was totally worth it for that 9th inning, we both jumped up and started running around the house, screaming.
prove? i wish you graded my homework. "it's got numbers, well i'm convinced!" this tool is fun for discussion and comparison, but it's so divorced from reality that you shouldn't put too much stock in it's accuracy. last year's results had brad ausmus batting leadoff. good idea, give one of the awful-est hitters in the entire sport 140 more PAs. i know its en vogue for us to think conventional wisdom is always wrong, but imagine hitting your run producers at the top of the order, burying your speedy on base types at the end, giving your pitchers more ABs, and various other types of backwards strategies. you'll have managers asking players to do things diametrically different than they have the previous 10-20 years of their career and you'll breed a team of malcontents as a bonus to reduced offensive production. and don't the other sabermetric studies argue a minimal impact from the lineup order? this has a 100+ runs difference impact based on the batting order for the Cubs example. I won't even bother.