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2010 NCAA Mock Tournament Selection Committee
SouthSideRyan replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
I assumed when I scrutinized further, I'd find one, but yow. Their problem is the "bottom" of the Pac 10 is 7 teams, so there are 4 chances for the 3 teams that matter to get wins over decent teams. Then they all crapped the bed in their noncon. I mean you look at Washington with the win against A&M in noncon, but then it loses a lot when you have losses to Texas Tech, Oregon, UCLA, and getting swept by USC. Cal's got pretty Pomeroy #s, but you look at their actual games, and it's relying pretty heavily on you considering Washington and ASU as something valuable. -
[expletive] you bottom of the Big Ten.
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I think Weber's tried that strategy quite a few times with DMac, it's not like he's constantly undressing him on TV, if he were, that'd be an issue. Doing it once during what is the biggest game of the season for you is fine by me.
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Yeah he is the Dusty Baker of college basketball. Leonard is the best big man to come into the program since Cook and will struggle to get tick. Weber really frustrates me. I don't want Leonard playing thirty minutes a game but he should get more time than Griffey got this season. I'd like to see a starting five next year of: McCamey, Richardson, Richmond, Griffey, and Tisdale. With a bench of: Cole, Leonard, Davis, Paul, Bertrand, Head I don't think Crandall is getting much time at all next year. Leonard's going to struggle to get playing time because he's a freshman big man, and they usually struggle making the jump. That and there'll be 2 seniors who started the previous 2 seasons ahead of him. I think this is the wrong season to be complaining that Weber won't play young guys. He pushed Griffey ahead of the senior Keller on the depth chart. He started the year with 2 freshman in the backcourt, and DJ has been there all season. Paul started the first half and got out of control, and hasn't really earned his minutes back, though it does seem he's been getting increased minutes of late.
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I vaguely remember some comments when he first arrived in Seattle, and then this. Not a heck of a lot. I thought those were more along the lines of "that's last year, I'm not talking about Chicago anymore." But I could be mistaken. Wouldn't be a big surprise to find that Bradley said that, and then ultimately couldn't keep his trap shut about it. 1 comment 3 months later?
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I vaguely remember some comments when he first arrived in Seattle, and then this. Not a heck of a lot. I thought those were more along the lines of "that's last year, I'm not talking about Chicago anymore." But I could be mistaken.
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Somebody refresh my memory, whose pick are the Bulls getting this year? Are the Knicks still paying for Eddy Curry??
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At least we can all agree that Rondo is better than both of them
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He's still 19 years old. It's a perfectly reasonable decision. And what is he outperforms Fontenot doing ST? It wouldn't hurt to hold the decision until later. Then hopefully the Cubs wouldn't make their personell decisions based on 50 ABs in spring training.
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Exactly.
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Is this a serious question?
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He's only had 122 ABs above A ball. He's probably unlikely to match what Theriot or Fontebaker can give us. There's no need for him on the big league team right now.
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How to have good contract years and suck otherwise. Dude [expletive] owned it in '06
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What will the reaction be when McGwire hits Wrigley?
SouthSideRyan replied to Magdal's topic in General Baseball Talk
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2010 NCAA Mock Tournament Selection Committee
SouthSideRyan replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
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I don't think so. We've got Marmol as the closer either way and Grabow should be decent enough. After that, we've got Marshall, Gaub, Stevens and Caridad who all either have shown their ability or have a lot of talent. I'd wait a while, see how the pen falls together and then see what's available. That said, I wouldn't be opposed to a Downs deal if we didn't trade much. We definitely need somebody else now. I was in favor of a Marmol/Gooz/Grabow/minor league filler pen, but we need somebody down there that we know will be good. I'm as big a fan as anyone of the AAAA express bus filling half the pen until we sort out who's good, but you can't stock a full pen with it
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Holy [expletive], I would love being an 11/12 seeded Illinois team playing UNI. We'd beat them by 20.
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They've beaten one team with an at-large chance (Old Dominion) All 4 of their losses are to non-tourney teams, 2 of them awful (DePaul and Evansville) That said, yes, I'm rooting for UNI, so no bid gets stolen Outside of RPI, UNI doesn't deserve an at-large really. They have as many marks against them as they do in their favor. It's why the RPI needs to go far far away. It's outlived its usefulness even as a way to rank wins (i.e. record vs top 50, top 100)
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They've beaten one team with an at-large chance (Old Dominion) All 4 of their losses are to non-tourney teams, 2 of them awful (DePaul and Evansville) That said, yes, I'm rooting for UNI, so no bid gets stolen
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That's not what I said. The idea would be, the bad chemistry of Bradley impacts on-field performance in ways that can't be measured easily, if at all. That's obviously much different than there being no impact. Would you agree that on-field performance is measured accurately via statistics? If so, shouldn't you be able to look at the statistics of individual players, and based on their relationship with Bradley, judge him on that. I mean, if he was this monstruous force that, it affected how people performed on the field, shouldn't it have AFFECTED HOW PEOPLE PERFORMED ON THE FIELD??
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Of course it's appropriate. Don't be ridiculous. This specific situation is very far outside the norm though, and at its core involves issues that a) we're not privy to, and b) can't be boiled down to statistics. It doesn't fit neatly into the sabermetric box where you input OPS and WHIP and UZR and WARP and whatnot, and out comes your standard format thumbsup/thumbsdown answer. But nevertheless that's how some here have chosen to analyze it. Statistics are the record of what has happened on the field. As I've been asking for the past 6 months or so, I'm looking for somebody anywhere to show me how the statistics show how Bradley hurt the team on the field(beyond his own sub-par season) Nobody has given me an answer to that. I don't give a [expletive] if Ryan Theriot's feelings are hurt if he's producing. As I said, what we're discussing here can't be boiled down to statistics, as much as we may wish it could. "Not everything that counts, can be counted" -- Albert Einstein Let me ask you this. Can Jackie Robinson's impact on baseball be determined by statistics? So if the bad chemistry of Bradley isn't shown in the on-field performance, where is it on display? And why should I care?
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Lunardi does his bracket as a snapshot of the current date, regardless of future schedules. If we go 0-2 from here, I think he'd have us out.
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Of course it's appropriate. Don't be ridiculous. This specific situation is very far outside the norm though, and at its core involves issues that a) we're not privy to, and b) can't be boiled down to statistics. It doesn't fit neatly into the sabermetric box where you input OPS and WHIP and UZR and WARP and whatnot, and out comes your standard format thumbsup/thumbsdown answer. But nevertheless that's how some here have chosen to analyze it. Statistics are the record of what has happened on the field. As I've been asking for the past 6 months or so, I'm looking for somebody anywhere to show me how the statistics show how Bradley hurt the team on the field(beyond his own sub-par season) Nobody has given me an answer to that. I don't give a [expletive] if Ryan Theriot's feelings are hurt if he's producing.
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Are you sure?
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What you do know is very little. That immediately calls into question the conclusion that your theories and assumptions can be characterized as "perfectly reasonable". I prefer "completely speculative", personally. We know plenty. Thinking that there's something horrible that Milton did that has been totally hidden and necessitated his being moved is not realistic given who runs this team, how this team is run and how they've dealt with variations of this issue in the past. Please explain how much you know? All I know is what has been reported through the media and to claim the fans would know everything about the day to day interactions or problems is ridiculous. What's been reported through the media? I've seen nothing reported by the media that shows Bradley cost the teams wins with his attitude. The guy's a jerk, oh well.
