Transmogrified Tiger

This is good, as long as you're looking at the right things. This doesn't look like a very good start to me.

I'll get the week by week results up some other time, here are the cumulative records. Team W-L Pts/Season 2005 2006 Transmogrified Tiger 19-9 934.5 4th *1st Vance_the_Cubs_fan 18-10 891.0 3rd 3rd RoasttheD---Goat 17-11 940.5 8th 2nd Rawaction 16-12 891.0 *1st 5th Burnt 15-13 911.5 2nd 6th Chicubsfan 13-15 875.5 6th 7th Outshined_One 13-15 770.0 9th 4th IMB! 11-17 886.0 7th 9th UberGoober 11-17 745.0 5th 10th Tobias 8-20 740.0 10th 8th Team Burnt Raw TT Vance Uber ChiCubs IMB Roast O_O Tobias Burnt --- 0-4 1-2 1-1 3-1 3-1 3-0 2-0 1-2 1-1 Rawaction 4-0 --- 1-3 1-2 2-0 1-2 1-3 1-2 3-0 2-0 TT 2-1 3-1 --- 3-1 1-2 0-2 3-1 2-1 2-0 3-0 Vance 1-1 2-1 1-3 --- 1-1 4-0 3-0 1-3 3-0 1-2 Uber 1-3 0-2 2-1 1-1 --- 2-1 2-1 0-4 1-3 2-1 ChiCubsFan 1-3 2-1 2-0 0-4 1-2 --- 0-2 2-1 2-1 3-1 IMB 0-3 3-1 1-3 0-3 1-2 2-0 --- 0-2 2-1 2-2 Roast 0-2 2-1 1-2 3-1 4-0 1-2 2-0 --- 1-2 3-1 O_O 2-1 0-3 0-2 0-3 3-1 1-2 1-2 2-1 --- 3-0 Tobias 1-1 0-2 0-3 2-1 1-2 1-3 2-2 1-3 0-3 ---

I'm bored at work so I'm going to do this again for this season with some aggregate stuff. 2006 Regular Season Standings: Team W-L Pts The Football Team* 12-2 1059 Cut for Cap Space* 10-4 1035 Smells Like Tuna* 9-5 850 Pantsless Mascots* 8-6 773 Raw Dawgs 7-7 870 ocho cinco 6-8 835 4th and Goal 6-8 819 Ditka's Army 5-9 776 tres y cinco 4-10 879 Da Bars 3-11 722 Playoffs: Week 15 The Football Team(Roast) defeated Pantsless Mascots(Outshined) Cut for Cap Space(TT) defeated Smells Like Tuna(Vance) Week16 Cut for Cap Space defeated The Football Team Smells Like Tuna defeated Pantsless Mascots Champion: Cut for Cap Space 2nd: The Football Team 3rd: Smells Like Tuna Opponents Record: Team Burnt Raw TT Vance Uber ChiCubs IMB Roast O_O Tobias Burnt --- 0-2 1-1 0-1 1-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-2 1-0 Rawaction 2-0 --- 0-2 1-1 1-0 0-1 1-1 0-2 1-0 1-0 TT 1-1 2-0 --- 1-1 1-0 0-1 2-0 0-1 1-0 2-0 Vance 1-0 1-1 1-1 --- 1-0 2-0 2-0 0-2 1-0 0-1 Uber 1-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 --- 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-1 ChiCubsFan 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-2 1-1 --- 0-1 0-1 1-1 1-1 IMB 0-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 1-1 1-0 --- 0-1 1-0 0-2 Roast 0-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 --- 1-1 2-0 O_O 2-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 2-0 1-1 0-1 1-1 --- 2-0 Tobias 0-1 0-1 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-1 2-0 0-2 0-2 ---

I'm convinced that Trent Johnson is the evolutionary link between birds and humans.

hahaha, Stacey King just called Mizzou a lock for the tournament if they finish 9-7. It's nice to at least see our "resume" on one of those graphics for once, even if it is a huge Big 12 homer saying unrealistic things about our chances. Big game in Lubbock as 6-7 Tech leads 6-7 Oklahoma State by 5 with under 7 remaining. Loser probably eliminates themselves from a shot at being in the 4-5 portion of the B12 tourney.

That's much much much easier said than done. I'm glad they finally got around to making this change. It protects the arms of pitchers from coaches who have shown that they will put temporary success over the health/future of the kid.

wooohooo Mizzou travels to Lincoln tomorrow to try to avenge their home loss to the Huskers. After sweeping the state of Oklahoma again, I'm fully expecting Maric to score about 65 points to bring any postseason hopes crashing down.

Be sure to report back to see how Ted looks out there.

Regular season, tournament, or either?

I know you weren't honestly comparing the talents of Carlos Delgado with Jason Marquis. Florida is well versed at spinning off talented players for prospects. The Cubs are not, even though they SHOULD be, considering the amount of times they finished in the bottom half of their division. I would have taken George Kottaras off of the Padres hands for Maddux. Ethier, Kemp, Loney, Guzman, Delwyn Young, Andy LaRoche, Scott Elbert, etc..... The Dodgers played hardball with Hendry one too many times, and Hendry let Colletti walk all over him again on the Maddux deal. Simply amazing. Let us count the ways: 1) Outbid Hendry on Furcal, the only player Hendry wanted that offseason. 2) Signed Nomar, who Hendry had basically kicked to the curb. Nomar went on to have a stud-like year.3) Cubs need for an outfielder like Milton Bradley had Dusty flying out to LA to meet with Bradley personally. Colletti traded him to Oakland instead. 4) Maddux for Izturis. 5) Signed Kenny Lofton, who would have been better than Pierre at nearly half the price. Where was Nomar going to play if the Cubs decided to re-sign him? The OF, probably. With his history of leg injuries, I would have been amazed if he would have stayed healthy an entire season if he played the OF in 06. Why? The outfield is much easier on the legs than being on the infield every day.

3, 4 years down the road is when you make this highsight assessment, and I'd have kept Aldridge before I would've drafted Roy. It's been awhile since I mentioned it, but I REALLY wanted Aldridge. I just had the thought of Mizzou playing Aldridge and Durant while they were on the same college team. I guess I didn't really want to sleep after all.

Calvin and Hobbes? Yes. Awesome.

:( Second Bulls game in a row they're the end of a back-to-back. At least Wade is done for the trip to Miami on Sunday.

I would guess Price, since most colleges pitch their ace on Friday night when there is a weekend series, and Price last pitched on the 18th.

Minor league career: .262/.297/.332/.629 Major league career: .259/.295/.336/.631

As long as Theriot is in the mix, I disagree. Meh, hard to imagine Theriot getting significant time in RF.

Not necessarily. And this sucks about DeRosa not being in the mix in the OF.

I agree but look at this, I stole it from one of the illiniboards. Look at our 9 losses. At Xavier(They are 16-1 at home). At home to Maryland(They are 1 of only 3 ACC teams with a winning road record). At home to Ohio St. & Wisky(Aren't they #1 & #2 in the country?) At Indiana(Hoosiers are undefeated at home). At Mich. St.(They are 18-1 at home). At Purdue(They are 16-1 at home). At Mich.(They are 16-2 at home). At Arizona. If there is such a thing as quality losses, this is it. We are like fiftieth in the polls, that's ridiculous! Winthrop, Drexel, Akron, BYU, Creighton, Appalachian St, are you kidding me? They are all ranked ahead of us, way ahead. We should be in. Thanks UIloyalfan The other side of that coin is what are the big wins that U of I has? The home half of splits against IU and MSU, and a neutral court win over Bradley are the best wins on the resume. Minnesota and Northwestern are the only true road wins. To compare to MSU, they also don't have any road wins of mention(although they have trips to Ann Arbor and Madison yet), but they had a much harder conference schedule, and they've got some better wins in hand(Texas on a neutral court, Wisconsin).

yay the Cavs are good again not quite sure how they went from 2 games back last night to 3 games back tonight after beating the Raptors though

No joke. Disney doesn't go half way with any of that stuff in Orlando.

You win the thread.

I like the scenario of Theriot facing RHP instead of Derosa. I don't think we've all hammered it into the ground here yet, but over his career, Derosa is almost as bad against righties as Jones has been against lefties. I really wish that Derosa wasn't going to be our starting second baseman because in today's game, you don't normally see infielders platooned, and using Derosa that way would provide the most benefit. Eric Patterson hits righties pretty well. Maybe Patterson or Theriot goes uber-bonkers and wins 2B outright. At least there are potential alternatives there.

Keon is nails, what a dagger this shot was. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/cubsfan_05/smb_6283.jpg

I didn't see it, but apparently during the MSU-UW game they panned to the crowd at Rupp Arena, where someone had a sign that read "Tim Hardaway hates LSU".

Michigan State won too? Today is an awesome basketball day. Texas is laying a beatdown on Tech, up 22 near the end of the first half.