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  1. SouthSideRyan
    I've ranted about this a lot in college basketball threads, but that call makes no sense. If the shooter leaves his feet and gets the charge before he hits the ground, you absolutely cannot count the basket. It makes no sense. Calvin's free throws are so ugly looking.
  2. SouthSideRyan
    And I really hope you mean 51-32 Arkansas, cause a 41-0 run would be awesome.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    It's a team full of freshmen Warp. They're not gonna be consistent. Illinois looked awful in the first half, we're really fortunate to be where we are right now.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    Hope it's not the woman in that pic, cause she is miz.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    How the hell did this team lose to Temple at home? If Penn St. came back in this, they had a nice path to the tourney.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Oh my God, just end the game.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Oh and God help them if they go to a commercial after this game is done rather than right to Illinois.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    WHY ARE NON GUS BTN ANNOUNCERS MORONS?? Yeah, Izzo better prepare for that zone defense here color guy. Yeah, Penn St. definitely needs a stop here pbp guy. THEY'RE DOWN BY A POINT WITH 28 SECONDS LEFT
  9. SouthSideRyan
    What a terrible call.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    This has been a great game.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Fine I'll believe any dumbass [expletive] that anybody says on the internet so as to not hurt people's feelings.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    Because cubs.com is a cesspool full of those morons who make [expletive] up for no apparent reason.
  13. SouthSideRyan
    not sure. did he ever do a movie about "the place for discission about the chicago cubs" where baseball is actually discussed in baseball posts? that would be a great movie!! That sounds like a pretty crappy movie. Yes, but did abuck like it? It's a movie, not a film.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    not sure. did he ever do a movie about "the place for discission about the chicago cubs" where baseball is actually discussed in baseball posts? that would be a great movie!! That sounds like a pretty crappy movie.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I can't figure out the disconnect between Jack Morris getting support and Joe Carter getting next to none. Morris is more qualified, but if so much of Morris's case is from his postseason peformance, where was this for Joe Carter??
  16. SouthSideRyan
    What is there to say about spring training right now?
  17. SouthSideRyan
    He's going to be on who in the what-what? The new show on Comcast SportsNet from 6:00 AM-9:00 AM with Mike North and Dan Jiggetts. I caught some of it this morning and I was impressed and I'm not even a big fan of Mike North. I'd be impressed if Mike North knew how to read.
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Hell of a good question. Cause it's fun.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    That sounds less "balanced" and leaning more toward the subjective nature of evaluating baseball. Well, I actually looked at some of the "comparables" to Morris over at baseballreference.com. My first thought, without looking, was Jim Bunning, a Hall of Famer. He was on the list, along with Bob Feller, Bob Gibson and Burleigh Grimes, all Hall of Famers. Then I ran the numbers. Morris' compare pretty well, except for ERA (he played in a DH era, though) and WHIP. Wow, I'm citing stats. No, I do take a balanced approached. Maybe I should have delineated all the stats I consider. But you also have Dennis Martinez, Jamie Moyer, and Chuck Finley on the list who are much closer in era to Morris than the hall of famers you listed. Similarity score are flawed, and when you go across eras they get worse.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    That sounds less "balanced" and leaning more toward the subjective nature of evaluating baseball. Just because there are 4 things listed doesn't mean it's a 25% split across the board. Though I don't know what he means by "how a guy helped his team win" and I think "perceived dominance" spills into "what teammates and opponents thought of him"
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    I believe he was the No.1 Starter on all three of those teams during the seasons. It's possible he was designated as such, but he wasn't the best pitcher on any of those teams.
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Using quick and dirty stats that are readily available and understood by most people here: (ERA+ and IP) Jim Kaat, Frank Tanana, Rick Reuschel, Dennis Martinez, Charlie Hough, and Jamie Moyer are all either equal or better than Morris in career value.(You can eliminate Kaat if you want as his and Morris's careers only overlapped by ~5 years.) This isn't meant to denigrate any of the pitchers above, but out of them, Kaat is the only one who's received any real consideration(I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb to project Moyer will whiff) They're just simply good pitchers who were reliable, went out and threw a ton of innings at an above average rate. I understand that there's value in that, I've argued that Marquis has been well worth the money we gave him for what he's produced, but while valuable, eating innings is not a primary trait to base a HOF bid on. Going to peak doesn't do much for Morris either. He never finished higher than 3rd in Cy Young, never finished in the top 10 in MVP. The only thing his case seems to be based on is a gaudy win total, and one playoff game. I don't get it.
  23. SouthSideRyan
    You could argue conversely that alleged PED use helped cut McGwire's career short, more than cancelling out any advantage they gave him in the arbitrary years prior.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    Why no love for McGwire?
  25. SouthSideRyan
    So uhhhh, Bruce who you vote for.
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