SouthSideRyan
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A soft tossing lefty beating the Cubs.....no way! I thought we were past that weakness. Apparently not. we have 2 runs and 7 baserunners in 3 innings, for God's sakes. A ball lost in the sun was the main reason for those two runs. Ronny's ball was getting the run in even if it was caught. -
Wow, just looked through the Big 10 schedules. Wisconsin plays the other 3 good Big 10 teams, but they're all at home. I have a hard time seeing them losing a game besides OSU or maybe at MSU(who I think will be much improved) They might get to be the Big 10 team that plays a road game on January 8th this year. I'm putting Illinois at 8-4 on the year, but wouldn't be shocked to see them as good as 10-2. I think OSU and Wisconsin are clearly better, with Penn St. about equal, and after that there's not much there in the Big 10. I guess you've got IU, MSU, Purdue and UM all grouped together around the 7-5/6-6 level with Iowa and Northwestern a notch below them trying to sneak into a bowl. And Minnesota coming up in the rear at about 2-10.
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Pretty much what Sulley said. My issue is that NPC made it sound like the 10 point difference wasn't indicative of the game, and I think 10 points was just about right for the way the game was played.
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Jeff Kents career in jeopardy.
SouthSideRyan replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in General Baseball Talk
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No, he's never pitched above high-A, he's not considered much of a prospect since he's a soft tosser and as you said, he's hurt. Heck, there's a good chance he'll miss the FSL playoffs due to his blisters. And as has been repeated over and over, Chad Fox is now on the 40-day DL for strategic reasons if someone like Angel Guzman needs to be added to the playoff roster. If you want to see a minor league reliever who might be added to the 40-man roster, I'd say Jose Ceda or Casey Lambert. Just to point out, to avoid confusion Gooz doesn't need Fox's spot, he's on the DL himself. There is one DL spot that's gonna be needed for the 14th position player for sure.
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Harden's got a 7M team option BBB.
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I'm not getting the analogy. It's not like you guys pulled your starters. It's not like you were in the prevent, Juice was throwing over your secondary. It was pretty much a carbon copy of last year's game, and man am I pissed at the pants-wetting that our defense did.
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Yep, all of our grand predictions of undefeated seasons that went on. When's the last time Penn State did anything of value? Lemme guess, Michigan screwed us, the refs suck?
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Backup SS OPS+ in the NL with my completely amateur judging of their D at SS on a scale of 1-10 in (). NYM: Easley 83 (3) PHI: Bruntlett 58(7) FLA: Amezega 74(5) ATL: Liilibridge 56(6) WAS: Lopez 64(1) CHI: Cedeno 78(7) MIL: Counsell 71(4) STL: Ryan 56(5) HOU: Loretta 89(4) CIN: Hairston 123(2) PIT: Rivas 59(8) AZ: Ojeda 76(9) LAD: Furcal 168(5) COL: Quintanilla 65(6) SFG: Burris 81(??) SDP: Rodriguez 75(??) There are obviously glaring flaws with these #s because all I took were the #s of the player with the 2nd most Innings played at the position along with a few other quirks. Obviously Furcal isn't LA's backup, and their "starter" Berroa has an OPS+ of 50. CIN's starter is Keppinger and he has a 70 with terrible defense. Felipe Lopez isn't even on the Nats anymore and so on and so forth. The better way to do it is probably to add up the #s of all guys logging innings as backups(don't know how to determine that exactly) and go with that, but I don't have P-I, and don't really know how else it could be done. So what's the point in all of this? Backup SS suck! It's what they do. If you're a good backup SS, you're a starting SS. I touched on this when talking about "starting" SS, but Ronny has had a better year than 6! "starting" SS in the NL.
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SIGN GOOKIE DAWKINS RONNY SUCKS
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1965 against Don Drysdale. Joe Crede early in 2005. Harrelson lost his mind over it, Darin Jackson said the batter isn't required to get out of the way, Crede was ejected and Jermaine Dye wound up playing SS.
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They're worse. Karros is probably better than McCarver, but that's a real tallest midget thing. Buck is worlds better than Dick Stockton. Dick Stockton is a pox.
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dog fighting rape what could the third be? murder? I'm not sure what the proper progression is Dog raping.
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If he qualified, Zambrano would have the 2nd best SLG in the NL and the 6th best OPS. Mark DeRosa leads the Cubs in runs scored. Ken Griffey was walked intentionaly 13 times while with the Reds. The Molinas are the 2 hardest to strike out in the NL. Jose Reyes leads the majors in outs. Mike Pelfrey has 13 wins. Ryan Dempster has given up the fewest hits per 9 in the NL. Aaron Cook has given up the most hits in the NL.
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Missouri is in 12th place in the Big 12 for conference titles. 1st in regular season women's softball 1997. 1st in tournament women's softball 1997. Though they do have a Big 12 North title that I'm sure there's a banner somewhere for.
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Yeah and Missouri's kinda like a good school.
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It was in Toronto right? International Bowl?
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Fixed. I'm not ready to write off the Rockies just quite yet. DIRK HAYHURST The 8/16 entry is the best.
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I wish I still had my old job, where I could just leave whenever a Cub ticket popped up.
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how are the local jails? Exquisite. Easily in the top 2 jails I've ever been in. Makes a strong case for #1.
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B-C-S How'd that work out for you? Pasadena was lovely. How was (I'd put the city your bowl was in here, but nobody knows or cares about those lesser bowls)?
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If you were to take a season-long sample of every hitter with 500 plate appearances or more, it is certainly within the realm of possibility that every single one of them could hit worse in clutch or high-leverage situations than their overall numbers. Then every pitcher would be clutch. Not necessarily. In that situation, most pitchers probably would be, but certain pitchers could struggle (most likely a few relievers) and still have that happen. Yeah, nevermind.
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If you were to take a season-long sample of every hitter with 500 plate appearances or more, it is certainly within the realm of possibility that every single one of them could hit worse in clutch or high-leverage situations than their overall numbers. Then every pitcher would be clutch.
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B-C-S
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that's what I'm trying to figure out here. if 20 hypothetical players are worse, I would expect around 20 hypothetical players to be better and the other 160 hypothetical players to be pretty damn close to where they always are If 20 are worse, why even assume 20 are better? That makes absolutely no sense. Well they should be taking advantage of the 20 unclutch people when they face off against them.
