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which inferior team will Northwestern lose to in the non-con schedule this year, Nevada or Duke?
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I just hope Clausen can do something to make the game close. Unlikely though with the O line being non existent. Penn State was in the FIU backfield all day. I think ND's line has to be better by default, but yeah, you should fear guys like Sean Lee coming in on the weak side
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Do We Really Want This Team to Make the Playoffs?
Derwood replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
if you can't separate the desire for the team to succeed from the price of said success.... -
Jeter's WARP numbers have been impressive though, yeah? I remember FJM citing them as 2nd or 3rd best in the AL the year Hafner should have won the MVP
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i probably won't start watching this game until 8:30 or 8:45, but with Trachsel, that will mean top of the 2nd
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Do We Really Want This Team to Make the Playoffs?
Derwood replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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hitting home runs isn't about how hard you swing Not entirely, but to blanket-statement like that is, I dunno, makes no sense. How hard you swing has a lot to do with how far you can hit the ball. That's pretty obvious. Certainly, the angle of the ball off the bat and the speed at which it is thrown come into play and factor highly in the outcome of a batted ball, but if you don't put enough momentum into the swing then you're not going to hit it very far. i wish i had access to STATS Inc., as i'm curious to know if the % of balls popped up is higher this year than in years past (for the Cubs). seems like Lee and (especially) Ramirez are hitting a ton of pop ups to the infielders
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Untrue and you know it. he has the most overrated career 134 OPS+ ever ;)
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hitting home runs isn't about how hard you swing
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is it just coincidence? Obviously. so it the trend continues next year, then what? still coincidence? i'm not equating lack of power for bad hitting. as someone else said, various other hitting statistics are up this year. i'm just wondering if Perry's approach has caused the power to go down
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this guy?
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Jim Edmonds
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is it just coincidence?
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those who don't know much about him will point to his years in Colorado and say the thin air elevated his stats
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Aren't they no different than pre-August 31st trades, except the players aren't allowed on the playoff roster? ah. for some reason I thought August 31 was the end all, be all trade deadline
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i don't know where we would have gotten those FIVE home runs from if he weren't in the lineup
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por que?
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outside of Chicago, i'd say Mark Grace was underrated .383 career OBP and 119 career OPS+ (with seven seasons of 120 or higher)
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Who else takes the fall for a team-wide drop in power? Derrek Lee: Career Average-28, 2007-17 Aramis Ramirez: Career-30, 2007-19 Alfonso Soriano: Career-34, 2007-20 Jacque Jones: Career-21, 2007-5 sure, there are 25ish games left, but it would be shocking for any of our main power guys reach their career averages (much less their career highs of 46, 38, 46, and 27 respectively)
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I agree. I also enjoy seeing Michigan completely falling out of the top 25. if Michigan really kill Oregon, I can see the stupid voters bringing them right back to the low teens again
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I think you'd be better off playing ND in November than now as far as prestige of the win goes. Media is all over them now losing to a Tech team that wasn't that highly thought of. By November they may be a 500 team that people could call surging. i just meant that after ND loses to Michigan, Purdue, USC, etc., it's not going to be impressive at all
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so how do post-August 31 trades work?
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Penn State up to the 14/15 level. about right considering they played arguably the worst 1-A school in the country. beating the snot out of ND will help some, but i don't think that win will look that impressive come November
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Z is doing his best to drag the rotation back down to average (or below)
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Do We Really Want This Team to Make the Playoffs?
Derwood replied to Derwood's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
i couldn't care less about being embarrassed in the playoffs. i just don't want the team thinking they did anything right. okay, "anything" is hyperbole, but i don't want an 83 win team to make the NLCS and for new ownership and/or the front office to think they're on the right track here. i'll put the question another way: which would you prefer, making the playoffs and seeing Hendry extended another 2 or 3 years, or missing the playoffs and getting a new GM?
