scarey

I like Emery's reaction best.

Based on the one game I watched him live at last year (in other words, grain of salt and all that), I thought he was a naturally fantastic defender with incredible range and arm strength... but VERY mechanically unsound. He made a lot of off balance throw and his approach to the ball was always to cut directly to the route of the ball and field on the fly rather than round on the route to put himself in a good fielding/throwing position. I have to wonder if he is working on proper mechanics. I would think that if you tell the guy to take a different approach, it's going to mess with him if it's not naturally what he's always done. The other thing I noted about his fielding was that he doesn't like to give up on plays. Again, only one game, but I noticed him make several throws to first base that had no chance to get the runner. He even made a catch on a pop up to shallow center field that the centerfielder clearly should have made the play on. He didn't make any errors doing this, but I could easily see him rushing and throwing the ball away, or not transfering the ball to his throwing hand well, or just misfielding it. Just a theory really.

He is a tough one, but you do have to factor in he has 6 triples already and 13 SB (out of 16). I think he's definitely more valuable than Campana at this stage in his career and probably Fuld too. So yeah, I guess I'm saying I think he could be worth something even on the small trade chip valuable side. What really intrigues me about him is that he's 6'1, 215 lbs and puts together the slash line of those a 5'9 170 lb scrappers. Makes me wonder if there's some power still to come. Hard to imagine, considering he's going to be 23 in a couple of weeks and still in Daytona (although he probably deserves to be in Tenn). I don't remember if I've mentioned this before, but are Jae-Hoon Ha, Matt Szczur, and John Andreoli incredibly similar, or is just me? I've never heard of Andreoli being an especially capable defender like Ha and Szczur are known for.

Given the fact that Jim Miller has been among the group of meatbally Cutler criticizers, I find this hire a bit interesting. I had a nightmare last night with Jim Miller and Sam Rosen calling the play by play for it. I may not sleep tonight.

I don't even see a point you are making here. He has all season to get into shape. He has 6 months of games to get ready for what really matters - the '14 NBA playoffs. No reason to risk playing with Team USA. Do you really want him risking blowing out his knee prior to the 2014 playoffs? Dude could tank his entire career in some random regular season game against Toronto. The smart play would actually be to hold him out until the 2014 NBA Finals. He would be well-rested and healthy. No brainer imo. And lose home court advantage and the 1 or 2 seed. Who needs HCA with a healthy D-Rose? You simply get there. He comes back. Boom goes the dynamite. Championship! The plan is so simple even Carlos Boozer understands it. WTF? You're mocking him for a point he's not even making. Your most recent post is appropriate mocking though.

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The refs are certainly putting their fingerprint on this game. Not in anyone's favor, but they seem to want to let everyone know that they're there.

Now you want to make this a semantics argument? I give up, the Black Knight has defeated me. Mercy ser. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/scarey23/tumblr_lxynhha3S81rn95k2o1_500.gif

I think you have this wrong. Some fans, it seems, feel it's weird for other fans to break down small sample size data to the Nth degree (IE getting worked up) regardless of if it showed positive or negative trends. Those fans find it even more weird when the fan who is "getting worked up" tries to justify it by jumping on a high horse and acting condescending as if he/she is some sort of pioneer for finding irrelevant data "interesting". Trends spotted in small sample sizes might not mean anything, or they might sometimes. There's nothing wrong with trying to spot possible trends prior to reaching whatever x number (which can get quite arbitrary when you're getting close to it) it is that makes the sample size reliable, especially if the eye test also would seem to suggest something is going on. I don't have any issue with Kyle's position on this. Except that according to lumafia, the eye test does not suggest something's going on. Also, there's a reason for those numbers that Rob posted on statistical significance thresholds. To conclude that Rizzo has a mechanical defect in his swing based mostly on batted ball info when he hasn't even reached two-thirds of the stastically significance threshold for batted ball stastics is... silly, to put it kindly. When 3 changed batted ball outcomes can drastically change your data, it is careless to use that data to conclude anything. Also, before you or Kyle tries to trot out the sentiment that he's only finding the data "interesting" again:

I think you have this wrong. Some fans, it seems, feel it's weird for other fans to break down small sample size data to the Nth degree (IE getting worked up) regardless of if it showed positive or negative trends. Those fans find it even more weird when the fan who is "getting worked up" tries to justify it by jumping on a high horse and acting condescending as if he/she is some sort of pioneer for finding irrelevant data "interesting".

I came across this stat regarding Greene: You have to factor in competition there. But as a former FS who has shown ability to intercept and defend passes, he's the perfect LB to have in the pass-happy NFL. Reading more on him really tempered the concerns I had doubling down on LB. Not that it means much, but pre-draft I thought he was the Bears possible 2nd round pick, to boot. he's also the least likely to play in 2013. Briggs is signed through 2014. The pressure will be on him to perform. There is nobody left here with much ties/incentive to keep Briggs, so Greene is-line to start by year 3 at the latest, maybe 2. Given their skill sets, it seems to me that Greene would be better playing MLB with Bostic taking over for Briggs, at least in the Tampa 2.

Hendricks is just the kind of pitcher I like to foolishly tie my hopes to only to be disappointed when he hits the big leagues (IE Casey Coleman). My hope with him is that his control is just so much better than previous similar examples that maybe he can translate that into decent Major League production.

So this is another iteration of the "does noticing something and being curious about it count as getting 'all worked up'" thing? I agree. We definitely don't need to get all worked up. I don't know about you, but I call this: getting all worked up.

Huh... you found a better way to tell Kyle he was wasting his time than I was going to. Well done.

Thats just nonsense. I was not happy with the pick, but that in no way means he's trying to outsmart people. What a baseless meatball claim. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I think this is what you meant.

And zero errors. Despite Villanueva, Alcantara, Torreyes, and Mota all having great gloves, I have a feeling Beeler was really forcing those hitters to drive the ball straight down into the ground. Looks like he's got his splitter going well right now.

O-lineman went early and often. Is it impossible to think that the personnel people for NFL teams had O-lineman valued higher than the experts did?

So, everyone is up in arms based on where the regular talking heads had Long rated, correct? We just watched guys like Star Lotulelei, Sharrif Floyd, Bjoern Werner, Cordarelle Patterson, and Geno Smith fall WAAAAAAY down from where these guys were projected to go. Meanwhile, guys like Lane Johnson, DJ Hayden, Eric Reid, and DeAndre Hopkins went way sooner than anticipated. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that these guys are wrong. They're relatively accurate with their prognostications. However, to act like it a wasted pick because he wasn't the guys everyone was talking about is a little out of line. Also, for everyone talking about how Long was a mid second round pick... Kiper mocked him at number 30 to Atlanta yesterday. I'm not saying you should praise Emery. I just think it's a little early to be asking who the next GM is, even if it is hyperbole. Let's see how Long does before condemning the pick.

That's the only thing about it. Those text thread jokes really shouldn't be more than 5 or 6 exchanges.

I thought it was funny. /shrug

It's not uncommon for them to outright cancel a lot of minor league games, right? It would be pretty fun to do a double header on a make up from one of these rainouts. Hopefully I'll get that opportunity.

Whatever your judgment about Roth is. But... I'm not the guy to make those calls. I thought that was you. I wouldn't want to sound like I'm rationalizing anything.

berardini was a walk-on that completed his degree. he's never played, but can transfer somewhere and play immediately because he has another year of eligibility. if he can get a grad degree paid for by going to a mid-major and playing, that would be awesome for him. Fair enough. He shouldn't count. So Sandi Marcius doesn't count either? I just want to get thejudgement on it now before people accuse Painter later on down the road. You are the judge and jury on these matters, correct? Was Marcius a walk-on? Are we really going to have a debate that players offered scholarships are different than players that walk on? I mean, really? He redshirted and was going into his 5th year. What is your judgement?

berardini was a walk-on that completed his degree. he's never played, but can transfer somewhere and play immediately because he has another year of eligibility. if he can get a grad degree paid for by going to a mid-major and playing, that would be awesome for him. Fair enough. He shouldn't count. So Sandi Marcius doesn't count either? I just want to get thejudgement on it now before people accuse Painter later on down the road. You are the judge and jury on these matters, correct?

During camp, will he just sit around waiting till they run special teams drills?