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Don't tell that to Mizzou's coaches, whatever you do.

Time for the Nick Saban Tour de SEC to continue I say.

The only contract weighing the team down is Soriano. And I guess maybe Silva. This notion that the Cubs are hamstrung by a ton of long term deals ignores the fact that all of them(again, save Soriano) have gotten production equivalent to or better than the salary they've received.

Please and thank you to something like 2/12 for Sheets with incentives for IP. Even at 100 IP a year he's a good value, as long as his stuff isn't completely gone.

I'm trying to get more into my NFL team, so I'll take the Chiefs.

yeah, but I've given actual baseball logic for why AZ makes more sense in this thread. The votes for florida are "they'd be closer to me!" The only baseball reason to move to florida is that they'll provide facilities that are enough better to offset all the other reasons to stay in AZ. If the reasons to stay in AZ were so compelling(my memory is that the main thing is having crappy FL weather impact the hub of your in-season operations), wouldn't we see a lot of teams leaving FL for AZ? I think it might be overblown.

The obvious answer here is that the Rockets only won because Jordan had money on them.

Oh good, steroid news.

The rare "blow up the receiver and still get an INT"

A Ravens defender just took a charge. Fascinating.

You bite your tongue. Really happy Mizzou got this win. Hopefully they can stay hot and win two winnable road games, because I'd like a 3-1 start and we aren't winning in Lawrence. Also, Frank Martin is a crazy person, he smacked a player today. He did go on a nice diatribe on Mizzou's behalf(it's a smack in the face they aren't picked to do anything while Villanova gets picked to be a Final 4 team), so that was nice of him.

Did some Eagles guy just say he was from "THE Southern California"? Is he illiterate?

This offseason is going to be nauseating with all the Nebraska hype. And DeMarco Murray is only a Junior? He's been at OU for thirty years.

You can't even make this stuff up. Bama's trophy will be displayed.....at Wal-Mart. http://sharetool.co.cc/share.php?url=bustersports.com/blog/buster-blog/2010/01/08/alabamas-bcs-trophy-to-be-on-display-at-wal-mart/

Brown gets labeled a villain if he brings the backup into a blowout and has him throw the ball all over the place, probably rightly so.

Who's the last one that wwas worse. I'm honestly drawing a blank thinking of a worse QB to win a title. Krenzel, although his team didn't actually win the game.

Quarterbacks, especially ones with the gulf of talent/experience like McCoy/Gilbert, are much more valuable and important than any individual baseball player. Baseball is a series of individual actions, football is a coordinated team sport reliant on pinpoint timing and communication between players. Congrats to Bama on beating Texas without McCoy on a fumbled shovel pass. Counting the coin toss, that should be roughly their 36th title.

3 straight bad calls on PI go Bama's way, jeez

LaRussa likes attention.

Well I'm not suggested they go get anyone they can get their hands on. Someone like Calero wouldn't be unwarranted getting a short extension if they put up a strong 2010. A 35 year old who has had marginal success in his career would be worthy of a extension? A reliever with historically strong peripherals coming off of consecutive great seasons wouldn't be a terrible candidate for an extension. But a mythical extension is beside the point really.

Well I'm not suggested they go get anyone they can get their hands on. Someone like Calero wouldn't be unwarranted getting a short extension if they put up a strong 2010.

Is this because you don't want him in the pen or because you think it's too early and/or you want to preserve the Cubs control over him? For me it's a little of both. If there's a decent deal on a reliever for 1 year, I'd go for it. Nothing lost really.

For better or worse, Pujols has been ranging far to his right long before Schumaker played 2nd base.

I don't think 312Sports is a terrible idea, but it would be nice if a snippet or quote of some sort accompanied the links that were provided. As for Dawson, good for him getting elected, too bad for all the people more deserving than him that still aren't in. I dunno, I don't have much interest in HOF debates anymore. I mean, even if you went to the museum every year, the players are just the one room(IIRC and if it hasn't changed since I went 10 years ago).

So you wouldn't have signed Holliday due to the payroll % spent on him and hopefully Pujols? Sure there's risk involved in committing those dollars for the long term, but I think Holliday is a risk worth taking. The Cards could just fill in with marginal players as they've been doing in years they didn't make the playoffs. They did pretty well in the years where they invested in the right players like Pujols, Edmonds, and Rolen. IMO, the worst moves the Cards have made this decade have been the Mulder/Haren trade, the Lohse extension, and possibly the Carp extension (in terms of playing time missed). As far as long term FA participation, I'm not optimistic about production from our prospects in the immediate future, so that could hurt, but I have faith in the core. It's a nice deal for the Cardinals. Holliday's proven his worth, has no glaring red flags about his ability to live up to the contract, and should be well worth the money spent on him. My point in a previous post in the thread(which was discussed at length at GRB if memory serves), is that with as star heavy as the team already is, they might have been better served distributing Holliday's money and value across more than one player if they could. Maybe that wasn't possible this season(even with trade possibilities), and I don't mean to say that there's a right and wrong answer. But the reality they have now is a top heavy roster where they aren't getting much in the way of bang for the buck(Wainwright and Lohse countering each other essentially) save Rasmus. They get hit with injury or ineffectiveness to one or more of those stars, they won't have the financial resources to compensate, nor does it look like they have the resources on the farm to compensate. It's a similar gamble that the Cubs took before 2009, and the lack of depth(relative to 2008) came back to haunt them,among other things.