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  1. Derwood
    Sorry, I can't follow you there. There's something to be said for the relativity between bad wins and good losses, but you can't weight them equally like that, it's the fundamental purpose of the sport. sure you can. we're talking about predicting who is better. in terms of future performance, theyre identical. This may sound crazy, but why are we talking about predicting future performance? Ranking the teams should be a reflection of what has happened, not what the percentages are moving forward. that would ruin Meph's theory
  2. Derwood
    Another knee slapper from the great jester of NSBB. i laughed
  3. Derwood
    i can't wait until the SEC loses 3 or 4 bowl games and then Meph tells us that the games don't really tell us who is better but the computer does
  4. Derwood
    the SEC is a joke and will be exposed in bowl games. the only thing they have going for them is a fan base of people with no lives and and thus are able to continually spew junk about how great they are the computers? if thats all you got youre barking up the wrong tree computers don't play football
  5. Derwood
    The original "i have black friends". I'm sure Cobb was George Wallace's hero
  6. Derwood
    MORELLI'D!!!
  7. Derwood
    penn state destroyed canisius something like 92-40
  8. Derwood
    First, that isn't the right quote. I believe it was "I hit homeruns when I need to." Regardless, in 1925 at the age of 37, he told the media that he was going to try and hit homers the next two games and he got 5 of them in those two games, a record which stood for a long, long time. So he was obviously capable of doing it. But I guess that isn't the point here. The question is whether he would have hurt or helped his team more by swinging for the fences. I think considering the era that he played the majority of his career in, with its loose ball and huge dimensions, he would have helped his team more by slapping the ball around and getting on base than trying to hit home runs, which would probably end up as fly outs in those days, resulting in him getting on base fewer, which is surely lowered his effectiveness and value. We aren't talking about some beast of a man here like Mark McGwire. This is a guy who dominated the basepaths and stole home 49 times. It's not like the guy didn't slug the hell out of the ball though. His career OPS+ is 167, which is ninth all time. but you said that he said he was going to hit HR's (presumably in huge parks) and hit 5 in 2 days.
  9. Derwood
    That one got my vote because there was a story a few years back about a kid getting stabbed for yelling "Roll Tide!" in an Auburn frat. That rivalry is vicious. idiots stabbing each other doesn't qualify as "best" anything
  10. Derwood
    Mike and Mike were discussing this on their show. they wondered if Boras' reputation as a "win at all costs, never takes less than he demands" agent has taken a serious blow here.
  11. Derwood
    you've said that Cobb "could have hit more homeruns but chose not to." That is not a brilliant baseball mind
  12. Derwood
    In other news, Juan Pierre is the same player as Alfonso Soriano (w/ exception of power). Wow. Excellent comparison. Juan Pierre, who might fall into 1 HR a year and Alfonso Soriano who will typically hit 40+ HR to Cedeno who might hit 10-15 HR vs. Greene who will top out around 25 HR. Bravo. Way to go to an extreme to try to make somebody else look bad. U R awesome. cedeno might hit 10-15 HR per year? in what universe? He hit 14 in 2007. 4 in 72 big league at bats, a pace for 27 over 500 at bats. It's a matter of whether or not he can stick in the majors, not whether or not he can hit 10-15 HR in a season. really, you're going to use 72 AB's plus AAA time in a notoriously hitter friendly PCL as proof? fine, if he hits 15 HR in a season at the majors, you can bring this back up and i'll eat my words
  13. Derwood
    no way bradley is ready until June, right? Torn ACL AND MCL.
  14. Derwood
    the Army/Navy game could disappear forever and I wouldn't care at all
  15. Derwood
    ouch
  16. Derwood
    alex rodriguez
  17. Derwood
    yeah, that's the dumbest reasoning ever to schedule someone. does PSU play Penn? no. Does Illinois play DePaul in basketball? No.
  18. Derwood
    YOU'RE bitter...I'M bitter. UM/OSU would be essentially meaningless if you guys had just beaten Iowa, because you'd have clinched a Rose Bowl berth by now. This has been said multiple times, but how is it true? If Michigan beats OSU it leaves them and hypothetical Illinois tied, with Michigan winning head-to-head. The Big 10's tie-breaker scheme is similar to what one would do in a pee-wee football league. Throw out the head-to-heads, throw out point differentials, anything objective that might determine who is the actual best TEAM in the conference. Whoever hasn't won it for the longest is simply declared the champs. And that would be Illinois this year. except there is 0% chance that Illinois can be Big 10 Champs this year.
  19. Derwood
    ronny cedeno?
  20. Derwood
    In other news, Juan Pierre is the same player as Alfonso Soriano (w/ exception of power). Wow. Excellent comparison. Juan Pierre, who might fall into 1 HR a year and Alfonso Soriano who will typically hit 40+ HR to Cedeno who might hit 10-15 HR vs. Greene who will top out around 25 HR. Bravo. Way to go to an extreme to try to make somebody else look bad. U R awesome. cedeno might hit 10-15 HR per year? in what universe?
  21. Derwood
    no one wants Marquis. you'd have to pay his entire salary and include other parts
  22. Derwood
    Can be waived. sure, but i'm having bad flashbacks to the million threads about trading Kerry Wood. it always boiled down to NTC
  23. Derwood
    people have been saying that hip hop is a "dying art form" or "just a fad" for over 20 years now. time to admit that it's here to stay
  24. Derwood
    boy, the grass on ballfields back in the day looked horrendous. i like that on a couple of Ruth's swings, he literally took 3 steps towards the pitcher before swinging
  25. Derwood
    how soon before MLB pulls all these clips?
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