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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Well there's not even going to be a 2011-2012 season so I don't understand what Denver should be in a hurry for
  2. SouthSideRyan
    I can't see any way Notre Dame would want to be aligned with pretty much any of the Big 12 schools with the exception of Texas (and maybe Oklahoma)
  3. SouthSideRyan
    Here's the option info from TCR NO MINOR LEAGUE OPTIONS LEFT in 2011: Jeff Baker (also can decline Outright Assignment) Sam Fuld Tom Gorzelanny (also can decline Outright Assignment) Jeff Gray Angel Guzman (also can decline Outright Assignment) Koyie Hill (also can decline Outright Assignment) Micah Hoffpauir Jeff Samardzija Geovany Soto ONE MINOR LEAGUE OPTION LEFT in 2011: Mitch Atkins Justin Berg Blake DeWitt Thomas Diamond (can decline Outright Assignment) Sean Marshall (can decline Outright Assignment) Carlos Marmol (can decline Outright Assignment) Marcos Mateo Jeff Stevens Randy Wells (can decline Outright Assignment) TWO MINOR LEAGUE OPTIONS LEFT in 2010: James Adduci Welington Castillo John Gaub Blake Parker Brian Schlitter THREE MINOR LEAGUE OPTIONS LEFT in 2011: Darwin Barney Esmailin Caridad Andrew Cashner Starlin Castro Casey Coleman Tyler Colvin Rafael Dolis Kosuke Fukudome (can decline Trade or Outright Assignment, and probably has the right to decline an Optional Assignment, too) Scott Maine James Russell
  4. SouthSideRyan
    First, I don't know how he doesn't have a position. Not that he's the prototype at SF, but he is definitely a SF. Secondly, Deng's injury issues have been overblown. The only year he's missed more than 20 games was 08-09. He played 70 last year. And only missed 4 games from 05-07. Melo hasn't been a picture of health the last few years either. So he's missed ~25% of the teams games the last 2 seasons and played hobbled down the stretch last year. The further he is away from those healthy seasons in '05-'07 the less they matter. Would any of you honestly do anything but laugh if a similar trade was offered to you as Denver GM? noah and deng and picks and whatever for carmelo as opposed to cap room they can't use because no one wants to play there? i doubt he's laughing. i know every contender in the east except for maybe miami is sweating, though, because if this trade happens, it's chicago and miami battling it out for the next decade. It would be an interesting test of Thibodeaux's wizardry. So you're supposed to be a defensive coach huh? Make defenders out of this!
  5. SouthSideRyan
    First, I don't know how he doesn't have a position. Not that he's the prototype at SF, but he is definitely a SF. Secondly, Deng's injury issues have been overblown. The only year he's missed more than 20 games was 08-09. He played 70 last year. And only missed 4 games from 05-07. Melo hasn't been a picture of health the last few years either. So he's missed ~25% of the teams games the last 2 seasons and played hobbled down the stretch last year. The further he is away from those healthy seasons in '05-'07 the less they matter. Would any of you honestly do anything but laugh if a similar trade was offered to you as Denver GM?
  6. SouthSideRyan
    Danilo Gallinari is God-incarnate come to Earth to reign fiery rage on the hapless NBA. Eddy Curry is still alive? Looks like John Paxson just lost a bet...to himself.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Maybe he's saying that since Wood made that much money in previous years, he's not likely to be worth the contract he'll expect this winter. It doesn't matter what Kerry Wood expects, if he wants to play he'll take what the market dictates. And I don't see how what he made the past 2 season is going to affect what teams are going to offer him.
  8. SouthSideRyan
    I'm impressed that the NFL can get that many people to watch the Pro Bowl. These people will watch anything.
  9. SouthSideRyan
    It's terrible. Deng is a solid player who can't stay healthy and doesn't have a position.
  10. SouthSideRyan
    The thing about it is, the Nuggets are better off getting nothing in return than getting Deng's contract i think this was the widely-held belief before some really bad players got a ton of money this off-season. deng is certainly a more than capable player. overpaid, yes, but saying he's got negative value is insane. Even with horrible teams with max contracts available this past offseason, nobody on Deng's level got the kind of money he's locked up for for the next 80 years.
  11. SouthSideRyan
    What does Wood's salary the past 2 seasons have to do with anything?
  12. SouthSideRyan
    The thing about it is, the Nuggets are better off getting nothing in return than getting Deng's contract
  13. SouthSideRyan
    I'm sure Denver would love Luol Deng at that contract for 3 years. Especially with a lockout pending that will reel in salaries. Sure of it.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    Congratulations Cubs, you did better against 5 shitty teams than they did against you.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    Well for fairness, sure, the best way to do it is to take 2 leagues, take the winners and match them up, but you have to keep fans interested too
  16. SouthSideRyan
    Can somebody make an argument as to why the '09 Twins deserve the same rewaard that the Angels (or Yankees if you kept the rule that the wild card can't play their own division winner) receive? Yeah they all won their divisions, but the Yankees were 16 games better, and the best they get out of it is an extra home game (which you already argued isn't worth much) Making a change to reward division winners any more is more evidence of old timey thinking than leaving things as is. Divisions are a relic of the past, and have no real use other than to create artificial races. I'm not saying to dump them and go back to 1 big league apiece, but there's no reason to reward the '07 Cubs(relatively) and punish the '10 Rays because of their geography.
  17. SouthSideRyan
    Why should the Rays, the team with the 2nd best record in the majors, have to play a 1 game playoff against a team 7 games worse than them just because they have the misfortune of being in the same division as the Yankees? ETA: Identical story with the Red Sox in '09
  18. SouthSideRyan
    Wc teams are often better than third division winner and the teams on the outside are right there. Plus, teams with best record are usually really good. They benefit I think you misunderstood. It's easier for a team from a crappy division to win the wild card than a team from a good division because they get to beat the Pirates and Cubs all year.
  19. SouthSideRyan
    Neither of which have gone as far in the postseason as Boise State has.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    I don't know post-professional? I've never heard somebody argue that somebody who has played professionally could be considered an amateur. Am I understanding correctly that you'd be ok with the NCAAs becoming an NBA old-timers league?
  21. SouthSideRyan
    To what extent should this logic be carried out. Can Lebron play for Kentucky on his off days?
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Like the Sun Belt would ever accept Missouri
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Finished up $60 last weekend. This weekend's bets: $15 - LA Tech (+19.5) $36 - BYU (PK) $10 - IA (-14) $10 - FL (-15.5) $10 - OSU (-9) $20 - AUB (-2)
  24. SouthSideRyan
    That plan opens the playoffs to even worse teams, and continues to benefit teams in bad divisions thanks to the unbalanced schedule.
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Unfortunately, that seems to be the problem with too many of the Cubs. Marmol, Byrd, Fukudome (for salary reasons) and Zambrano (for salary reasons) probably won't get you equal value in prospects. I still don't know why people want to trade Fukudome. Trade Colvin to a small market team instead. The best trade proposal I've heard all season is Colvin for Gordon. I'm guessing we wouldn't have to give up Colvin to get Gordon
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