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He won't be here next year so that's not an issue. you're so sure that Hendry won't be duped into a 4 year deal based on this season?

Dempster has somehow put 4 months of "lightning in a bottle" together. I love it, but fully expect it to not happen next year

They play better at home than they do on the road. and yet here we are, on the verge of winning our 3rd straight on the road. That's why I'm asking. How do we blow goats on the road against Houston and Arizona, then also at home against florida, but then come in and crush the Brewers on the road

The only negative to me right now is the fact that the Cubs looked so awful for the 10 games before this. How does it magically turn on in one series?

Look guys, winning on the road can be fun

Andy, you only rank 3rd

FTH am I doing watching this on ESPN for. I'm dumb

Who did you used to be? yanr

Fastballs are (obviously) the hardest, straightest pitch, and any movement tends to be "tailing", meaning a right-handed pitcher's FB will tend to break slightly to the right at the end of the trajectory. A cutter is a pitch that is designed to counteract this tail. If a right-handed pitcher throws a fastball to a left-handed hitter, the tailing action could leave the ball over the plate. A cutter is thrown so the ball continues to ride in towards an opposite-handed hitter. Mariano Rivera probably has the best cutter in baseball right now. A change up is designed to use the same arm motion/speed as a fastball, but be slower, thus fooling the hitter into swinging early. The ball is either palmed or somehow "choked" in the hand to slow the motion. Changeups have a natural downward break due to the slower speed. The Curve is a slow pitch (usually in the 65-75 mph range) that breaks straight down, or "11 to 5" in clock terms. A Slider is thrown harder than a Curve (usually in the 75-89 mph range) that has more of a "10 to 4" break to it. It's designed to look like a fastball out of the hand but breaks out of the zone Sinkers/Forkballs/Splitters are grip variations on the same pitch, which is thrown hard like a fastball, but has late downward break to it. Unlike the slow curveball, the sinker is generally thrown in the mid to high 80's. As for "backdoor" pitches, these are references to how the pitch breaks compared to which side of the plate the hitter is on. For example, a backdoor slider is when a right-handed pitcher throws a slider to a left-handed pitcher and the pitch breaks from outside the zone over the plate. Technically, you can throw a "front door" slider, where a right handed pitcher throws to a right-handed batter and the pitch breaks from inside the plate back over the zone.

Why Big 10 people hate ND fans! For the Big East, that hate would only help us and has. That's because ND doesn't play any Big East teams (in football), so their "we're better than everyone and don't need you" attitude doesn't rub you the wrong way. The Big 10 has had a fairly symbiotic relationship with ND (Michigan, Purdue and Michigan St. mostly, with PSU having some history), yet fans like Andy constantly say "whatever, we don't even want to play you", etc.

btw, Andy, your attitude towards the Big 10 is EXACTLY why people hate ND fans.

just post it in the game thread dude, don't start a new thread about it

Should've been Eyre, but I'll take the WIN

as someone who corrects people for their grammar, you might want to avoid phrases like "might could" :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lee is so unclutch. TRADE HIM

the Brewers are bad at baseball

can someone write a virus and crash the freecreditreport.com site for me? kthx

Someone needs to stop kicking the cables out

that thing got my blood a'boilin'

Did he have any problems with the announcers in San Fran? I didn't really pay attention to Dusty when he was there. That said, i can just imagine Dusty going back to the clubhouse to take a leak between innings then coming back and telling someone "guess what the guy on TV just said about you". He's the classic "parent who wants to be best friends with his kids".

Basically, you're more than 100 "points" below what the average player is producing. So like Wolf said... you can go over 200, so you can go below 0. yeah, it means you're pretty awful That doesn't make sense, because OPS+ is a normalization, right? It's OPS/LeagueAverageOPS*100*park factor, right? None of those numbers should be negative, so how is the result negative? perhaps the park factor makes it negative, meaning Murton's 3 for 30 line might be an OPS+ of 0 in certain parks, but in the parks he played in, those numbers end up being even worse than "0"

that was a mighty hack

I can't say anything bad about the big 10 because I just heard a rumor we might be going there. seriously? Just from some boosters with some knowledge about the school...a heck of a lot more than I have. The academic and sports seem to match up well and this might also be a go to heck (from Big 10 people) to ND from what I've heard. Boy, that would teach us, all right. no, having all big ten teams refuse to schedule ND would teach them, however Well, ND and Michigan are contracted to play until 2031, so that's out. In my opinion, if ND stopped playing the Big Ten, good riddance. how would you fill the other half of your schedule?

I can't say anything bad about the big 10 because I just heard a rumor we might be going there. seriously? Just from some boosters with some knowledge about the school...a heck of a lot more than I have. The academic and sports seem to match up well and this might also be a go to heck (from Big 10 people) to ND from what I've heard. Boy, that would teach us, all right. no, having all big ten teams refuse to schedule ND would teach them, however

I can't say anything bad about the big 10 because I just heard a rumor we might be going there. seriously? Just from some boosters with some knowledge about the school...a heck of a lot more than I have. The academic and sports seem to match up well and this might also be a go to heck (from Big 10 people) to ND from what I've heard. it makes sense in a lot of ways, i'd just be surprised if Syracuse left the Big East in basketball