CubbieBum

As someone else has said I find it hard to get excited about a game that likely isn't going to even be played. That said I am very excited for the season, although not as much as last year. This is because I just experienced a 22 game win streak 2nd longest in history so everything else isn't as big to me anymore :cry: .

Congrats Andy! Andy you must be getting paid the big bucks now :lol: .

Lee might not have the hr's we all want him to have but his average isn't going to be below .300 like some have predicted. He still has great patience and waits for his pitches. As long as he does that he'll bat at least .310.

That would be never in the 64/65-team era. i'd actually like to see it happen. KU, UNC, UCLA and Memphis would be a fun Final Four No because all the cheap people who picked all the high seeds (my roommates gf) would win. They should never be rewarded for cheapness.

Get another HDTV. Me and my g/f both have a t.v. we watch and both have our own DVR. Actually I watch her t.v. and she uses mine. That's cool with me b/c hers is about 20in. bigger. Why do I find the end part perverted? I have a bad dirty mind. Help me.

you got to run it in IE anything that requires IE to view sin't worth watching it's a non-issue anyways as she has conceded the TV to me Enjoy the game you'll probably be sleeping on that same coach tonight. :yahoo: And YEAHHHHH finally a close exciting game!!!! \:D/ it's a good game. when was the last time the Final Four was all #1 seeds? It's never happened actually.

That would be pretty funny to watch and hear announced. "Louisville bringing the ball up, trying to beat North Carolina down the court. Oh No! Smith just collapsed. Hansborough dives on the losse ball. Now he's not getting back up. Now Lawson goes for the loose ball. This is crazy."

you got to run it in IE anything that requires IE to view sin't worth watching it's a non-issue anyways as she has conceded the TV to me Enjoy the game you'll probably be sleeping on that same coach tonight. :yahoo: And YEAHHHHH finally a close exciting game!!!! \:D/

you got to run it in IE I don't have that problem and I watch on mozilla.

You are dirty but that's not because you like a crappy conference like the Big East.

Yep. This reminds me of what the best thing Paterno said today was. He talked about all the teams that are considered good right now. He said they have all won 75% of their games as has Penn State over the last three. He then said that only BC and PSU also have grad rates above 75%. I immediately had Greg Oden from The Magazine ad saying "Boom" go off in my head.

To be fair, we don't them as young as Dice-K that often. As far as the Marquis signing, I've thought that myself. I mean, those contracts are mostly hideous, Marquis's is just not very good. I mean, I'm REALLY happy we avoided the train wrecks of Zito and Schmidt. Gotta give Hendry props for avoiding those pitfalls. Schmidt is one guy I wanted Hendry to sign. I used to daydream the possible 1-2-3 of Big Z, Schmidt, and Hill. Boy am i glad that didn't happen! Yeah it reminds me of when I used to daydream of a 1-2-3 of Z-Prior-Wood. Still catch myself doing it too. We would be dominant with that rotation. ugh will probably bother me 30 years from now.

Forgive me if I read too much into your bolding. It seemed somewhat conceited. At any rate, I'd sincerely love to hear why you think you know more than the people who designed the translations. It'd be one thing if you were just saying you're more comfortable that you know what Theriot is capable of. But to argue that he's actually a better hitter is simply letting yourself be so risk-averse as to cloud your judgement. Give Pie the everyday job at the beginning of the season, and it would take a huge collapse to even make them comparable hitters. Maybe a 10-15% chance of that happening? Ryan Theriot simply is not a major-league caliber hitter... Why do you think you know more than me. I mean that kind of comes hand and hand with arguments. You think you are right (hence know more ) and I the same. Who's wrong, who knows like in 99% of the debates on message boards you can't prove one another wrong you can just argue and state you position. I don't want Pie to start the season in lead off. If he struggles out of the gates as many hitters do his confidence could disappear. You don't want to put too much on a young player too soon. You can ruin him. Look at Patterson. If we had done what we should have done right off the bat and made him bat 7th and make him learn disapline he may have been a good player. And the only reason I bolded that part was because someone responded to my saying Theriot scored 80 runs last year by saying runs don't matter. I bolded so he knew the only reason I brought up Theriot's runs was because someone had said Soriano was better because he could score. I will clarify one last time because we are beating a dead horse on this with neither of us willing to back done. I don't think theriot is a great or good player. I think he is average and the best option we got right now. That may very well change if Pie can do half as well as he did in minors last year or even if Fukudome shows he has great patience and can hit in MLB. The thread said can Theriot be "adequate." Adequate to be is average and that is what he is.

When have I mocked someone? I've argued. They are two different things. And until Pie proves it at the big league level I'm not calling him a better hitter. There are a long list of people who do great in minors but never can do it in the bigs.

Yeah Theriot is another Neifi except he plays all out and doesn't make stupid boneheaded mistakes. And Theriot scored 80 runs last year. If he batted leadoff all year he would score 110. Thats not worthless. Theriot isn't great by any stretch of the imagination but he has okay. You can't have a Sori or anything close to it at every position. Scoring a lot of runs does not make you a good baseball player. I agree I said that because of what he said in the post I quoted. I bolded it for you.

Yeah Theriot is another Neifi except he plays all out and doesn't make stupid boneheaded mistakes. And Theriot scored 80 runs last year. If he batted leadoff all year he would score 110. Thats not worthless. Theriot isn't great by any stretch of the imagination but he has okay. You can't have a Sori or anything close to it at every position. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What would you put an "OK" player in the slot that sees the most AB's? "Plays all out" means zilch. And please explain how Theriot is "mistake-free" and Neifi was making them left and right in such stark contrast? THEY'RE BOTH AWFUL BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO SHOULD NOT START. Who should bat lead off instead??? Yet to see you suggest one. We just don't have a better option. DeRosa. Fukudome. Soriano. Any hitter on this 25-man roster, save perhaps Pie (keep the pressure off him) and Fontenot is a better option than Theriot. Fukudome needs to prove he can play in the bigs for a couple weeks first but here and a month or so I could see him being there. Derosa I slightly prefer over Theriot. Soriano is wasted in lead off. You want to use his power in 2 or 3 slot. And how Fontenot better than Theriot. His stats last year are comparable to Theriot's and he batted in good situations a lot last year rather than just playing a whole game. Maybe we should have kept Floyd. He had a great OBP last year :roll: .

Yeah Theriot is another Neifi except he plays all out and doesn't make stupid boneheaded mistakes. And Theriot scored 80 runs last year. If he batted leadoff all year he would score 110. Thats not worthless. Theriot isn't great by any stretch of the imagination but he has okay. You can't have a Sori or anything close to it at every position. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What would you put an "OK" player in the slot that sees the most AB's? "Plays all out" means zilch. And please explain how Theriot is "mistake-free" and Neifi was making them left and right in such stark contrast? THEY'RE BOTH AWFUL BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO SHOULD NOT START. Who should bat lead off instead??? Yet to see you suggest one. We just don't have a better option.

MSu coming back strong ... only down 18 :cry:

yeah you can thank me for selling you of MSU later :thumbsup: .

Yeah Theriot is another Neifi except he plays all out and doesn't make stupid boneheaded mistakes. And Theriot scored 80 runs last year. If he batted leadoff all year he would score 110. Thats not worthless. Theriot isn't great by any stretch of the imagination but he has okay. You can't have a Sori or anything close to it at every position.

Was looking good until tonight.

Speed is almost totally irrelevant. You want guys who can get on base and/or score. DeRosa, Fukudome, Soriano and Murton (if he was up) all make infinitely better options in the 1-2 slots. There's zero reason for a hitter as inadequate as Theriot to ever hit anything besides 7-8. Well you can't put Fukudome at 1 or 2 when he hasn't proven anything yet. 5 is the spot for him right now. And Soriano is better at 2 but not 1. You waist Sori at 1. His OBP is really no better than Theriot. Sori swings away a lot but has great power so he needs to be at the 2 or 3.

Actually you're a bit wrong on that. Lavin was painful for Purdue fans. He is a Purdue guy, and him being at UCLA was great because Wooden was a Purdue guy too.

missed it was watching entourage during commercial's.

Yeah hopefully we get a close game today (MSU-Memphis maybe?).