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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    Who said it was easy? You said the Rockets have a good chance of winning a series against a team that has home court advantage and won 80% of their games.
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    If it were so easy to force LeBron into shooting jumpers or to let other players on the team try to beat you, the Cavaliers wouldn't have won 66 games.
  3. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Cavaliers have 4 guys aside from LeBron who shoot upwards of 40% from 3, and a center who is one of the best mid range shooters around for a big man. They're also a Top 3 defensive and rebounding team, and they have the best player in the world.
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    I like Marshall's chances against this lineup. Sandoval has been awful as a RH hitter in MLB, and there's no real lefty killing RH hitters in the lineup. Also, Sean Marshall is a real good pitcher.
  5. Transmogrified Tiger
    Some people thought the Blaines would end up the same way the Chases did, with the shorter, less heralded guy beating out the better rated recruit for the starting job. Though it seems that Gabbert's extra year of experience in addition to his gifts has given him the leg up on Dalton, but Dalton is still well regarded. Ultimately though, he is a freshman with no collegiate experience, and is in some legal trouble right now(although it appears to be not very serious), so Mizzou is probably thin as far as capability, but not necessarily from a talent perspective. With regards to the North, I'd agree, except I simply don't think that highly of Nebraska. They're replacing even more of their offense than Mizzou, and they had a gap to bridge to reach Mizzou's level to begin with. KU is pretty clearly the best team, and the only reason another team should win the North is because of their schedule(both OU and Texas, @TT, Mizzou on a neutral field). It wouldn't be unlikely at all for KU to lose to both OU and Texas, and split Nebraska and Mizzou. If it were Mizzou that beats them, they could lose @OSU, v. Texas, and v. Nebraska and still beat out KU(the other 4 games are the dregs of the North and v. Baylor). If it's NU they can lose @Mizzou, v. OU, and v. TT and still beat KU(with the same dregs of the North + Baylor as their conference wins).
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    Mizzou has a ton of turnover this year, with Weatherspoon being the only returning defensive starter, and breaking in a new QB(with the top 3 receiving targets gone from last year). They'll rely on Washington more this year, and hopefully Gabbert transitions well and shows why he was a big time recruit. The schedule is relatively kind this year(although a road trip to Nevada and a neutral against Illinois is a rough non-con), and with KU getting the second year of their South gauntlet, Mizzou has an outside shot to win the division over Nebraska and KU.
  7. Transmogrified Tiger
    hahaha, Rishin
  8. Transmogrified Tiger
    It would thin the bullpen a little bit, but I like the idea of Ascanio with Samardzija piggybacking.
  9. Transmogrified Tiger
    Why? They take his first start and most recent start without any attention to the other two(since it's only two starts it's not like it's a ton of legwork). Harden's repertoire is such that both the data collected and the way they present it is misleading. Harden throws essentially the same pitch at varying speeds. Considering His first start was against the Brewers, a team with several disciplined hitters, it's not surprising for him to throw comparatively more "off speed" stuff against the Marlins, a team whose best hitters are younger and more free swingers. Furthermore, the lumping together of percentages of pitches at a certain velocity, especially bands as tight as a few mph, is misleading. It would not take very many pitches to influence those percentages in a large way, whether they were intentionally thrown with less on them, Milwaukee's Pitch f/x gun is slightly different than Chicago's, or if he were actually hiding an injury. It's a lazily thrown together piece, like someone went looking for data to support a conclusion.
  10. Transmogrified Tiger
    I will ban you without a second thought.
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    Searle especially is becoming an exciting prospect, doing this at 19 in Daytona. His last 3 starts: 16 IP, 0 ER, 5 H(all singles), 9/2 K/BB, 27-11 GO-FO
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    At least this way Bradley knows that he shouldn't try to strike out.
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    That was worse than Theriot's swing, what a joke.
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    The Bears picked up Chase Patton, hooray
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    Color me A-OK with Fontenot at 3rd if the alternative is Bobby Scales,Tony Graffanino, or even Jake Fox.
  16. Transmogrified Tiger
    I hate Roger Federer.
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    Well, Hinrich did seem to trip on his own feet.
  18. Transmogrified Tiger
    I agree with your analysis, but I still think that the pitchers that the Cubs received were part of the overall plan, either to be part of the package or to replace the pitching prospects in the deal. Yeah, I don't mean to imply Hendry didn't want Stevens, Gaub, and Archer at all. What I'm saying in exaggerated form is that Hendry thought he had a deal for Peavy and thought "I gotta get rid of DeRosa to stay under budget cause I don't have an owner and can't risk being over budget for even a second", and therefore got a less than maximum return for him.
  19. Transmogrified Tiger
    Congratulations on proving manbearcub right.
  20. Transmogrified Tiger
    The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that Hendry thought he had Peavy in the bag, and needed to move DeRosa's salary to fit him in. Then the Peavy deal fell apart, Hendry realized it wasn't going to happen, and got stuck with a meager return because he rushed to deal DeRosa. Then he compounded his mistake by giving Miles his deal because he had that breathing room money wise.
  21. Transmogrified Tiger
    lol Hoffpauir, nice grab
  22. Transmogrified Tiger
    UZR has Greene being awful so far this year, and has him being awful last year as well. Combine that with Duncan being awful when he plays, Ankiel not being very good since no one runs on his arm, and Schumaker being bad , and it's not hard to see them being a mediocre defensive team. Maybe not lead the majors in errors bad, but that's not really an important distinction anyway.
  23. Transmogrified Tiger
    Vitters went 2 for 4 with a double. Opitz had a nice first game with Daytona, going 2 for 4. Cales threw another scoreless inning. His season totals: 9.2 IP, 7 H, 1 ER(a HR), 7/3 K/BB, and a GO/FO of about 2.
  24. Transmogrified Tiger
    Is he that far behind because of missing time? Is that why he only went three? Yeah, they're building up his pitch count after he started the year in Mesa rehabbing his oblique injury.
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    Embarrassing work by BP there.
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