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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Corked bat was '03
  2. SouthSideRyan
    I think a lot of schools had trouble getting their 12th game though, multiple Big 10 schools have wound up playing at MAC schools because everyone was scrambling at once to fill their schedules with only a couple dates to choose from.
  3. SouthSideRyan
    What makes you say this? And what does 7-4-1 have to do with it?
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I completely blacked out all the disasterous Dusty IBBs in the playoffs until tonight
  5. SouthSideRyan
    I know you shouldn't read much into these things but: Is a depressing 2 paragraph run.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Why are you lumping an injured and healthy season together?
  7. SouthSideRyan
    I know, I was building on your post
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I said 2009/2010. Over that period I believe he's been almost exactly replacement level. Aside from early 2010, he's been pretty bad. If he's traded, and bounces back a little, they'd probably hold onto him until he plummets. If all he does is hug the replacement level, they might not bother holding onto him beyond 2011/2012 and would be comfortable releasing somebody they owe nothing to. .353 wOBA and a 2.9 WAR in 2010 are not replacement level numbers. however, he was pretty terrible in 2009. He was pretty injured in 2009.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    Aren't they the same person? or at least share the same arm? No, they do not share the same arm. So you're saying they are the same person but don't share an arm. That's weird. You're weird TT
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Why would another team release Soriano if he played at his 2010 level?
  11. SouthSideRyan
    That better not be the surprise out-of-stater.
  12. SouthSideRyan
    I think they need to come up with a new formula. So all no-hitters are automatically better than games where a pitcher gave up a hit?
  13. SouthSideRyan
    He should be top of the list if we're gonna go 1 year stop gap to take a run at Gonzalez
  14. SouthSideRyan
    I bet it's Harris
  15. SouthSideRyan
    I like it assuming you don't have to start Green-Ellis now.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    I think that was more an issue 2 years ago than last year, though Crean's Daniel Moore blind spot still did rear its head on occassion. I think Crean has to bite the bullet and run Hulls out there as the PG every night. There's no sense in wasting any more time with Rivers, and Jones is a lot more valuable off the ball. Is Watford going to stay at the 4, I seem to remember it being rumored he'd switch to the 3 this year, but I just don't see how that's reasonable with the current frontcourt. IU's problems this year are the same they've been the past 2: Lack of quality depth, and lack of frontcourt skill. Each year there's been improvements in those spots, but IU picked a really bad time to rebuild from scratch. The first 4 years for Crean looks like it will be the best 4 year run for the Big Ten since the 90s.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    I think I'd rather have Jose Lopez
  18. SouthSideRyan
    I'll agree they were the least efficient. Whether or not that money was wasted is determined by the benefit they received in spending the money. Even weirder was that they didn't count the Blue Jays in the "most efficient" category, because they didn't get at least 87 wins (which is a threshold only 11 teams reached this year), because the author wanted to set an efficiency threshold of "5 games over .500". That's weird. You can be efficient and bad, I would think. And conversely you can be inefficient and good.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Aw man, I just skimmed through, they don't count the Red Sox due to a winning record? So if the Cubs spent an extra 100M to win 7 more games, they wouldn't have been wasteful?
  20. SouthSideRyan
    How so? Because they didn't gain the benefit of the playoffs for their money spent.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    Then would you argue that the Padres wasted their money this year?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    It's not a waste if it brought them some form of benefit, however. If spending the extra money raised their chances from 75% making it to 90% making it (just making up numbers), then it was worth it for them to spend the money. If their likelihood of making the playoffs would be 100% at $150 mil and 100% at $250 mil, however, then it was a waste of money. I'm sure the Cubs spending the money they did raised their chances from 2% to 5%, does that mean it wasn't a "waste?" as defined previously? How was it defined previously? $/win
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Then the Yankees wasted $4 and the Cubs wasted $2.
  24. SouthSideRyan
    It's not a waste if it brought them some form of benefit, however. If spending the extra money raised their chances from 75% making it to 90% making it (just making up numbers), then it was worth it for them to spend the money. If their likelihood of making the playoffs would be 100% at $150 mil and 100% at $250 mil, however, then it was a waste of money. I'm sure the Cubs spending the money they did raised their chances from 2% to 5%, does that mean it wasn't a "waste?" as defined previously?
  25. SouthSideRyan
    I'd rather JUICE~! get the start than Hanie. Not because I think Juice has any chance of being a good NFL quarterback, but I don't think there's any chance of Hanie being better than pathetic.
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