Derwood
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you act like you're surprised every single game. it's always awful, so the good teams gameplan for it. if the refs are going to let you flop, flop like crazy
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2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread
Derwood replied to Drew Doughty's topic in Other Sports
it's a trend or it's a curse (/sulley) -
I missed both championship games and I'm missing the Super Bowl. So what I'm saying is I hope the game is terrible because [expletive] you, I can't watch it
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It's what old ladies do when they're shocked...shocked, I say! Kinda goes hand-in-hand with "Won't someone think of the children?"
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They're now saying it won't even be the coldest Super Bowl. Good thing there was a month of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching
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I hope the Olympics are awesome, because the Blue Jackets now have a full month before their next home game. They also end their pre-Olympic schedule with road games at the top 3 teams in the Pacific
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one of the best poll results ever
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That OSU loss was worse than any Illini loss to PSU. This PSU team is terri-bad, and there isn't even the excuse of an unconscious Talor Battle chucking from the midcourt line
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There are a lot of little tricks to it, things you should have learned a long time ago. Such as, if you leave milk out, it can go sour. Put it in the refrigerator, or, failing that, a cool wet sack.
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What? I don't see anything but a stock answer there. Pretty standard stuff. I guess you could interpret that statement as Urlacher not believing Cutler is a franchise QB
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2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread
Derwood replied to Drew Doughty's topic in Other Sports
Stupid Blue Jackets blew a stupid 2 goal lead in the stupid 3rd period to lost their stupid playoff spot -
I don't think it "muddles" so much as expands on what is very much a work in progress. I mean, do we really care about its credibility with meatballs? All of those variations are just efforts to better refine what WAR can tell us, which is infinitely more valuable/important than whether or not the common whatever embraces it. I mean, wanting it to be "just WAR" seems completely ass-backwards. It muddles it when neither site will reveal their calculations. Yeah, we know one weighs defense or baserunning or whatever more than the other, but when certain players vary wildly in their fWAR/bWAR, it makes it hard for some people to trust. Add in the somewhat nebulous definition of "replacement player", and it's just not something that will ever catch on with the masses. Not that any of that makes in invaluable, of course. People who know how it works will continue to get use out of it
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Or it feels like a play on the "well, it's called the 'THEORY' of evolution"-argument. Just because some people act like it's set in stone doesn't negate it's value or mean that the people that use it correctly don't understand that it's not perfect. Not at all like that. The problem with war is it's attempt to quantify defense and baserunning. Hitting and pitching stats work because of what they measure, one on one matchups. Football stats don't work because of what it attempts to measure, and the same is true for defense in baseball. But everyone who should know that already knows that; WAR is used as the best metric of overall player value because that's what it is right now. It's not perfect and it's not set in stone, but it's the best available, and the caveats (especially in regards to defense) have been obvious from the get-go; it's very much an evolving thing. The article is just incredibly redundant. to me, the biggest thing hurting WAR's credibility among the common fans and media is that there are several versions of it that are sometimes at odds with each other. If there was just WAR, fine, but with bWAR and fWAR, etc., it muddles what should be a commonly used evaluator
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Most criticisms I hear for WAR are from sabermetric skeptics who dismiss it because "no one can tell me how it's calculated"
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Refs are bad in every game, and Illinois is just not very good Or maybe it's voodoo. That's probably it
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Facebook just had profiles on all these guys. It's pretty much all of Franklin's staff from Vandy, plus a WR coach with mostly high school experience
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Nothing like utterly dominating the worst team in the conference for two periods but being down by 2 goals
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Who needs assists when no one can stop you?
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these guys and the bad british announcing guys need to be subsidized to whatever extent required to get one or the other every friday I'm assuming it just takes [expletive] forever to put this together, because otherwise, yeah, need more. Nothing will ever beat Eye of the Sparrow
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How many coordinators do most schools have? Or are you just picking on the semantics of job titles?
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Well yeah, that's the one name I recognize, but I don't follow other teams enough to know who these other guys are or where they came from
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Anyone know anything about these guys? Who should I be excited about?
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Not exactly rumblings, but talk: http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/should-red-hot-blue-jackets-be-buyers-at-the-deadline/ The Jackets are on an impressive run. They were being written off a month ago. This year is weird for trades because there are almost two deadlines: http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/28775/olympic-break-creates-two-trade-deadlines Thanks for the article. The writer does make good points about whether to just leave them alone since they are clearly coming together as a team right now and a new player (esp. an older vet) might disrupt that. That said, the addition of Gaborik really sparked the team last year, and Horton has been a huge addition this year.
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How can you even float the idea of just buying all the rooftop buildings. What if they don't want to sell? Do you go all Eminent Domain on their asses?
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I totally forgot about that dude
