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  1. Derwood
    to their credit, the comments in the post are surprisingly objective, even if the poll figures aren't
  2. Derwood
    while i feel that firing sampson is the right move from a university stand point, what negative impact might it have on the team?
  3. Derwood
    I won't even say Vazquez was better last yr. To be honest, Lilly and Vazques are on the same level based on the 2007 numbers. the fact that Vasquez put up those numbers in the AL probably means he had a better year
  4. Derwood
    for some reason i immediately assumed Red Sox. color me surprised
  5. Derwood
    I believe you are one of two at NSBB. nice, Raisin. way to "out" Roast. I keed, I keed
  6. Derwood
    ain't no room for nancy boys in that guy's locker room
  7. Derwood
    Purdue falls to IU and its a race again in the Big 10
  8. Derwood
    Modzilla has just risen from its lair
  9. Derwood
    calling him a faggot is more likely to get you banned. just saying. and i'm just saying that a truly scientific experiment will have neutral test subjects.
  10. Derwood
    Some did, but a lot of them thought that it would turn out untrue. well my point is that once your test subjects are seeded with your theory, the results will be skewed
  11. Derwood
    did your test subjects know your theory before you conducted the test? if so, it's a bogus experiment
  12. Derwood
    funny, i thought McDonalds just looked at the Duke recruiting class and named THEM the All-Americans
  13. Derwood
    that IS the point. any "theory" of getting to the bag fastest is tossed right out the window when it has no real world application
  14. Derwood
    This is horrible. First off, I earlier explained that friction (at least from the ground) is not in play here. You are diving to touch the bag immediately, not to slide into it. Second...the bold part. A science teacher's head might explode if a student told him this with no explanation. No, you just explained why when you stop running you don't necessarily decelerate. F=ma. There is air-resistance...but that effects you when you are running, too. In fact, continuing to run will INCREASE the frictional forces working against you as you are still connecting with the ground. I'll conceed the point that not taking those last two steps will decrease your speed as you cross the bag. I am not arguing that and never will. But the advantage of being able to reach out and touch the bag as your center of mass is significantly behind the bag offsets that slight loss of speed. if you slide, foot first, into the bag trying to time it so you don't actually slide on the ground, i guarantee that your foot will no longer be attached to your ankle about 0.03 seconds later Great, while you test that, I'll dive in head first, since that will be faster anyways. have fun breaking your finger/dislocating your shoulder when you run into the first baseman's leg
  15. Derwood
    also, wouldn't sticking your foot out to reach the bag by sliding but not actually sliding just = sticking your foot out for the bag? i'm confused
  16. Derwood
    This is horrible. First off, I earlier explained that friction (at least from the ground) is not in play here. You are diving to touch the bag immediately, not to slide into it. Second...the bold part. A science teacher's head might explode if a student told him this with no explanation. No, you just explained why when you stop running you don't necessarily decelerate. F=ma. There is air-resistance...but that effects you when you are running, too. In fact, continuing to run will INCREASE the frictional forces working against you as you are still connecting with the ground. I'll conceed the point that not taking those last two steps will decrease your speed as you cross the bag. I am not arguing that and never will. But the advantage of being able to reach out and touch the bag as your center of mass is significantly behind the bag offsets that slight loss of speed. if you slide, foot first, into the bag trying to time it so you don't actually slide on the ground, i guarantee that your foot will no longer be attached to your ankle about 0.03 seconds later
  17. Derwood
    Were you able to get the top-end white guys like Nash and Dirk? i don't think i had either actually, but I still did pretty well. i had guys like ginobli, korver, brad miller, etc. it was 2 or 3 years ago, i'd have to look it up
  18. Derwood
    i'm curious about this "experiment". you had 10 buddies run to first and slide into first and timed them. how many times did they do each version? were they just running or were they hitting off a tee? 1/2 a second faster sounds awfully dubious
  19. Derwood
    I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but isn't that the same concept as trying to get your hand/body in the vicinity of the base faster? Not really. While you can touch first with your foot, you cannot catch a ball with your foot. But by your reasoning diving for the ball at the end could not be faster than just running to it on a full sprint at all times. the base is a stationary object, the ball is a moving object. this isn't rocket science What does the object moving have to do with anything? If the base was moving, then diving would be faster? Man, this isn't brain surgery. usually when a player has to dive for a ball it's because the ball is on a trajectory that is moving it away from the player.
  20. Derwood
    I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but isn't that the same concept as trying to get your hand/body in the vicinity of the base faster? Not really. While you can touch first with your foot, you cannot catch a ball with your foot. But by your reasoning diving for the ball at the end could not be faster than just running to it on a full sprint at all times. the base is a stationary object, the ball is a moving object. this isn't rocket science
  21. Derwood
    anyways, to answer my old question, it sounds like you would rather have a .300 hitter with a .400 SLG up in a critical game situation than a .240 hitter with a .500 SLG. am i right?
  22. Derwood
    you're assuming we've all seen them? you've put out so many lists that i stopped looking I'm using them. Mainly because I guarantee more work and research went into these than in any other fantasy rankings out there. Thanks, Meph. if everyone is using them, it sort of balances everything out though, right? ;) admittedly, i have no real strategy here at all. i'm at least taking this semi-seriously, unlike past years when i had my all-white guy fantasy basketball team
  23. Derwood
    I thought about it a lot, and I couldn't come up with any reasons why it's a bad idea. 1) Dangerous? No, I think people sprain their ankles a lot more landing on the bag the wrong way. I've sprained my ankle 3 summers in a row hitting the bag at a wrong angle or landing on the 1B's foot. 2) If you run through the bag and the ball gets passed the 1B, you have to take such a wide angle to try and advance to 2nd. If you just slide and pop up, you can be on a direct line to 2nd. 3) If a throw pulls the 1B off the bag, then you're supposed to slide into 1st to avoid a tag. Yet we see it happen a million times where the guy doesn't slide and gets tagged out. If they are sliding the whole way then they don't even need to think about it. I would like to hear some reasons why it's bad. sliding is dangerous always, so there is inherent risk in it if you slide and pop up, you are at a stand still and have to run from a stand still to advance a base. we see it happen all the time at 2nd and 3rd
  24. Derwood
    even if sliding into first was the fastest way to get there (of which i'm dubious), it's a bad idea for so many other reasons
  25. Derwood
    4th Rnd. 37. Justin Verlander 38. Erik Bedard 39. Aramis Ramirez
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