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SouthSideRyan

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  1. Well yeah, I don't really consider Hoff as an OF, but -22 seems extreme.
  2. As for Texas they are pretty much bringing most everyone back outside of Abrams, had maybe the 2nd best class behind Kentucky (Jordas Hamilton and Avery Bradley) and a transfer of Jai Lucas from U of Florida. Damion James and Dexter Pittman should be very good this season too. IIRC, the thing about Texas is they didn't have a trustworthy PG last year. That (and Abrams not being quite the player they expected) really hurt them. The addition of Bradley alone will improve the Horns dramatically. Oh so Texas returned just about everyone? So did half a dozen teams who fared better last year than Texas. Oh and if Purdue makes the Final Four in Indy I might have to drop a crap load of money and get a ticket. At the very least I think I would fly home and stay in Indy for the Final Four. So what if teams return everyone? Why do you ignore teams adding talented players? Because Purdue isn't.
  3. As for Texas they are pretty much bringing most everyone back outside of Abrams, had maybe the 2nd best class behind Kentucky (Jordas Hamilton and Avery Bradley) and a transfer of Jai Lucas from U of Florida. Damion James and Dexter Pittman should be very good this season too. IIRC, the thing about Texas is they didn't have a trustworthy PG last year. That (and Abrams not being quite the player they expected) really hurt them. The addition of Bradley alone will improve the Horns dramatically. How does Bradley help the problem of not having a PG?
  4. Yow, Spurs/Celtics to start the season? That's an 0-2.
  5. I'd bet somebody's life on it. Not mine, but somebody's.
  6. Kentucky also has an absurd freshman class coming in and way underperformed their talent level last year. Georgia Tech being ranked at all is kinda ridiculous though. They were just a terrible basketball team last year, I don't think Derrick Favors and a decent supporting cast of freshmen makes them a tourney team.
  7. Some people alway vote for the last years champion until the season starts. Well only one guy did that, it still doesn't quite explain why they're ranked 4th.
  8. Who voted UNC #1????
  9. Shaq and Z should never be on the court at the same time. You don't need to be a genius to figure that out. Yeah, it was a bit sad when Z was trying to cover 'sheed in the Celtics game. You act like anyone can guard Sheed.
  10. CNS is going to tell them they can't.
  11. Just the one year?
  12. I think Battle's too short, and has too little supporting cast to come out after this year.
  13. I don't understand why they won't just go end of season standings 1-11 every year. Yeah, with roster turnover, the matchups won't always be fair, but the seemingly random draw they do now doesn't create fair matchups either. At least have some sense behind them. MSU vs UNC IL vs WAKE PU vs DUKE WIS vs FSU OSU vs CLEM PSU vs BC UM vs MD MN vs VT NU vs MIAMI IA vs NCSU IU vs VA makes a lot more sense pretty much across the board.
  14. I love Talor Battle, but Penn St. was a 3 man team last year, and they lost 2 of them. I wouldn't be shocked to see the Big Ten get 8 teams this year with Northwestern being the 8th, not Penn St.
  15. -Indiana, Iowa, and Virginia are all embarrassing basketball teams. -Duke and MSU are really good. -I don't think much of Miami -Illinois/Clemson and NU/NC State are toss ups.
  16. THIS [expletive] ENDS NOW Monday, Nov. 30 Penn State at Virginia ---W Tuesday, Dec. 1 Maryland at Indiana---L Michigan State at North Carolina---W Northwestern at N.C. State---L Virginia Tech at Iowa----L Wake Forest at Purdue---W Wednesday, Dec. 2 Boston College at Michigan---W Duke at Wisconsin----L Florida State at Ohio State--W Illinois at Clemson---W Minnesota at Miami---W
  17. I was just making conversation.
  18. I still think we should try to trade Bradley and maybe Heilman for Wood. Eric Wedge hates Milton Bradley. And Aaron Heilman should be non-tendered.
  19. I never got why people praised the network all summer. I gave up on it in spring training. It's a PR machine. Everybody is above average. I like it for the live look-ins and the out-of market games. Their baseball tonight is as bad as baseball tonight.
  20. It is kind of annoying that we traded Felix Pie and Ronny Cedeno for a clone of a guy we'd wind up releasing. But that's a different story.
  21. So that more than 6 fans come to their games.
  22. That's also what you might expect to hear from an owner who is about to cut the payroll by significant margins over the next several years. Spending 120m hasn't won them anymore World Series rings than the 60m team from about 8 years ago. Except, Levine says that Ricketts will continue to make the Cubs a top 5 payroll team. And a 60M payroll 8 years ago isn't that far off from a 120M payroll today.
  23. Wasn't there some sort of situation regarding a huge vesting option with Sosa?
  24. bridge does the same.
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