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  1. Derwood
    ha ha ha, Jason Priestly
  2. Derwood
    Why would they be angry? It's a ratings bonanza! there is a difference between being neutral and people like Phillips desperately trying to explain away why he didn't root out steroid use under his GM watch or Peter Gammons trying to shrug off Clemens' use of roids
  3. Derwood
    And best of luck getting the Union to agree to blood draws. Not happening any time soon. and every time they all out refuse to allow a certain type of testing my opinion that everyone in the union is using just goes up and up
  4. Derwood
    i'm already so sick of all the former player/GM types on ESPN apologizing for the use of steroids. there is zero anger over this from this network
  5. Derwood
    Peter Gammons already on the air apologizing for Clemens
  6. Derwood
    i'm not sure there was much Hendry could do to keep him here
  7. Derwood
    as long as he's Philly-pre-HR-Derby Abreu and not Yankee-post-trade-deadline Abreu
  8. Derwood
    imagine how much smaller the other threads would've been if games like lsu-arkansas had almost no meaning? regular season games have no meaning now since voters don't pay attention to SOS, etc. I'll take an on-the-field playoff over the extremely subjective opinions of coaches and writers like Bill Plaschke
  9. Derwood
    over/under on # of current or former Cubs on the list? over/under on # of current or former players who release statements denying the allegations on the report?
  10. Derwood
    i can't wait until he comes back as a .900 OPSing outfielder for the Cardinals in 2010
  11. Derwood
    and tomorrow, Mark Prior
  12. Derwood
    yeah, he was supposed to be a stud
  13. Derwood
    i've never seen or heard of those books
  14. Derwood
    who? seriously, is he on the coaching staff? i only know of Hall, Johnson, McQueary and Bradley EDIT: ah, assistant coach/linebackers. huh, you never hear his name around here I hear about him some. He's highly thought-of as a recruiter and a defensive coach. Would Vanderlinden leave PSU to go back to a job he had 10-15 years ago? Not sure. Tom Bradley is HC material, and Larry Johnson and Ron Vanderlinden are both DC material at least. They've shown a lot of loyalty to the program, and one rumor I've heard is that there is some sort of succession idea in mind, where Bradley becomes HC and either Johnson or Vanderlinden move up to DC. That leaves one of them without a promotion, though. Bradley has been here since he played for PSU in the last '70s; I can't see him going anywhere at this point. Larry Johnson has been here 12 years, and seems to comfortable in the area. If any of the three of them is going to leave, I suspect it would be Vanderlinden. remember when we though Jerry Sandusky would succeed Paterno as HC? Paterno seems to outlast his coordinators, who either retire or get sick of waiting and go take another HC job elsewhere
  15. Derwood

    The NBA thread

    Derwood replied to imb's topic in Other Sports

    Looking at stats right now, the biggest indictment on Paxson (IMO) is the whole Chandler for JR Smith/signing Ben Wallace fiasco. Some numbers: Chandler: 11.3 ppg, 11.1 rpg, 1.4 bpg Smith: 10.9 ppg, 2.2 apg, 2.3 rpg Wallace: 5.1 ppg, 8.9 rpg We sign a younger, cheaper, better version of Wallace (Chandler) for a decent guard (Smith) who we just get rid of, then sign bad Wallace (Wallace) for huge cash and he sucks. It's a further indictment for Skiles and co. that Chandler never flourished under them.
  16. Derwood
    who? seriously, is he on the coaching staff? i only know of Hall, Johnson, McQueary and Bradley EDIT: ah, assistant coach/linebackers. huh, you never hear his name around here According to Rivals, he recruited 3 of Penn State's 12 commits for the '08 class and co-recruited 2 others. He's a strong recruiter and was known for his attacking defensive style. He was assistant head coach and DC at Northwestern when Fitzgerald was playing and was the head coach at Maryland, where he gave Fitzgerald his first coaching job in the late '90s. They're pretty close, but the biggest issues would be whether or not he'd feel comfortable coaching under Fitz and when he wants to try for a head coaching position again. There was talk a couple of years back about him possibly replacing Paterno when he retired, but I'm guessing nobody is really throwing his name out there anymore. people here have given up on Paterno ever retiring, so no one ever speculates anymore on next head coach. at this point, my guess is they go internal, but Galen Hall would get the nod over Vanderlinden (since Hall was HC at Florida for 4 years)
  17. Derwood
    no, he's not. i like how people will make blanket statements like this about bad offensive players without considering the fact that they're great defensively and save their teams dozens of runs a year in the field. you don't see anyone saying "ryan braun is awful" because he is atrocious defensively. because we live in an offensive era and people expect offensive production from every position. modern baseball fans are conditioned to think this way. it isn't the 80's anymore. not saying it's right, just explaining why people think he sucks
  18. Derwood
    who? seriously, is he on the coaching staff? i only know of Hall, Johnson, McQueary and Bradley EDIT: ah, assistant coach/linebackers. huh, you never hear his name around here
  19. Derwood
    don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya
  20. Derwood
    i've seen pics of OMC's girlfriend
  21. Derwood
    won't cover amphetamines? lame. Dan Bernstein used to tell stories about covering hockey or minor league ball or something and seeing bowls of pills in the locker rooms
  22. Derwood
    wait, he's not 40 years old though. color me confused
  23. Derwood
    people need to stop putting so much emphasis on what division a guy is in. Someone (I think Schilling) came up for some reason last year and someone said "his numbers are really good for facing the AL East all the time". I looked it up and his ERA against the AL East sucked but was compensated for his starts against non-East teams
  24. Derwood
    i bet his english is better than Soriano's
  25. Derwood

    The NBA thread

    Derwood replied to imb's topic in Other Sports

    Only if all the other NBA teams agree to play as horribly as the Sonics. No seriously, I expect them to do what they always do -- pull back into it and then lose in an earlier round of the playoffs. yep
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