Transmogrified Tiger
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Quick, send them Izturis for Crisp and sign Lugo. -
Playing for pride this week. A win or a Vance loss gives me the all-time W-L lead.
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You mean Prior when he's healthy. and ramirez when he sucks. No joke. Ramirez alone is worth more than Crede + Garcia
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My fear is that the cubs now sign Jennings to an extension. And as I've said before Jennings is the starting pitcher version of DeRosa. I don't think so. Jennings is younger and has a much better past beyond the career year. And, because he's younger that career year is more likely to repeat itself than DeRosa's is. There's no glaring evidence pointing to 2006 being a fluke for Jennings like there is for DeRosa and his BABIP either.
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He probably heard that rumor while he was doing body shots off of Littlefield.
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Determining the College Football Champion
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Why? Do you really think the difference between USC/LSU and Michigan/Florida is so great that they would be unworthy of a championship even if they won a playoff(and in turn beat at least 3 top 10 teams)? -
Can't Cut lists are the most [expletive] thing ever invented. IMB, you're the admin, can you delete the can't cut list? You know, I dont know, but that's a good idea, if I can. None of us are going to be screwing the league around and dropping people for no reason. Especially since we're a keeper league. It ended up not mattering in my case, since I failed to notice Dallas Clark shredded his knee, so I just dropped him to add my 4th quarterback.
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So, no minor league contract for Walker then?
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Somebody please shoot me in the face.
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Determining the College Football Champion
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Way too many teams. Why? How do you pick the teams involved? What happens if a team with 4 losses wins the National Title? What do you do about the current schedule? Theoretically that could mean 17 games for a team like Florida this year who has already played 13. This is one thing that ticks me off: people who just suggest a playoff system then give absolutely no insight as to how they would go about doing it. I have no problem voicing an opinion but back it up with something. Like Truffle said, you'd probably shorten the regular season to avoid playing a ton of games. A team with 4 losses has a very, very slim chance of being in the top 16. But even then, whoever wins the title has to win 4 consecutive games against the top teams in the country to get the title. Would anyone have been pissed off if George Mason won the National Title in basketball last year? Of course not, because they would've earned it by playing the best. Whether the season is 8 or 12 games, it's not very long at all. If a team sweeps through a playoff system like that, I have no problem acknowledging they earned the championship and possibly(probably) were unlucky/not playing to their ability in previous losses. -
Determining the College Football Champion
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Way too many teams. Why? -
No Cub had an OBP higher than Dunn's last year, and last year was a bad year for Dunn. Who cares about his batting average? I do. OBP is great and all, but a high OBP doesn't excuse a piss poor batting average. I love guys who can get on base in general, but I also love guys who can hit their way on. A walk is nowhere near as valuable as a hit can be. Again... few singles + lots of XBH + lots of walks > lots of singles + few XBH + few walks Well, yeah. But also... lots of hits + few walks > few hits + lots of walks. You're essentially making the "Albert Pujols is better than Dunn" argument. Of course you want more hits if you can sustain a high average and keep everything else equal. But the low batting average is a side effect of a lot of good things, namely Dunn hitting the crap out of the ball for extra bases a lot and walking a lot. Players who get lots of hits and few walks don't normally hit for near as many XBH as a guy like Dunn, and they are less valuable.
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No Cub had an OBP higher than Dunn's last year, and last year was a bad year for Dunn. Who cares about his batting average? I do. OBP is great and all, but a high OBP doesn't excuse a piss poor batting average. I love guys who can get on base in general, but I also love guys who can hit their way on. A walk is nowhere near as valuable as a hit can be. Again... few singles + lots of XBH + lots of walks > lots of singles + few XBH + few walks
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Determining the College Football Champion
Transmogrified Tiger replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Right now I'm wavering between an 8 team playoff and shortening the season and going to a 32 team playoff. -
I don't know why you're convinced Murton is so terrible defensively. Statistically and everything I've seen of him he's been fine out there. Not that he wouldn't be below average in RF, but if it came with an offensive upgrade like Dunn it'd definitely be worth looking at. And on how much he's valued, I don't think assuming the infallibility of MLB executives proves anything.
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The outs he makes by striking out are already accounted for in his OBP and SLG, therefore they cannot negate whatever OBP and SLG he has at the end of the season. Yeah, but if he were making more contact and putting balls in play, some of those outs would turn into hits. Negate might not have been the best choice of words, I never meant it in the active sense. I think we are arguing semantics here. Again, you can't look at the at bats in a vacuum like that. It's a result of the approach. If Dunn makes a concerted effort to get more singles by making more contact, that's going to impact all(or almost all) his at bats. That means more of his doubles and home runs become singles and ground outs, and ultimately, he's a worse offensive player because of it. That's not to say that Dunn shouldn't try to improve, or that he has the perfect approach. But to say that "well he needs to make more contact because he'll end up with more hits" is misguided.
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+ Aneurysm
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Doesn't appear to be so. It looks like they left the next two years alone but the contract averages out to 13 mil per year. So he'll be making 16 mil or so in '09 and '10.
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Because high strikeout and low BA don't matter if you have a good OBP/SLG. Strikeout totals are meaningless. BA doesn't tell you much of everything. Unlike Mark Bellhorn, Dunn actually has a long history of putting up good numbers. He's not a perfect player, far from it. But I don't think anybody is claiming such a thing. He is, however, a perfect matchup with the Cubs biggest needs (LH power bat with OBP ability) offensively. Strikeouts are not meaningless. You do nothing to change the state of the game with a strikeout other than make an out. No runners are moved along. That's not meaningless. It negatively impacts run production. BA is overrated, but a hit is still better than a walk. If player A has a line of .300/.400/.500 and player B has a line of .250/.400/.500, you take player A. Hits are more valuable than walks. Dunn's lack of hits is a problem. For the hundredth time, you cannot look at strikeouts in a vacuum. They are a byproduct of the approach. To use an overly simplistic example, a strikeout + an extra base hit is better than a ground out + a single.
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!!!! Mizzou #28 in both Polls! Winning at Purdue, who has a smattering of votes in both polls(#42 and #44), might push them into the Top 25 going into the Braggin' Rights game.
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How do you only throw for 32 yards!?! Bite me David Carr. And how in the wide wide world of sports are Julius Jones and Lavernaeus Coles on a Can't Drop List?
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Welcome!
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The common denominator in Soriano's best seasons are him spending the majority of the time leading off. and we haven't had a terrorist attack since 911 because of George Bush. in other words, there is no reason to believe there is a cause and effect relationship. And why would that be? He's played with 3 different teams in 3 different divisions, he's played in both leagues, and he's had big years at ages ranging from 26 to 30. Can you suggest a reasonable alternative? Either way, it's not anywhere near a "myth".
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NO, NO, and NO. Rutgers clobbered by Cincy. Out. WVU lost at home to South Florida. Out. Both teams played schedules ridiculously easier than ND's. Out. Both teams actually beat a good team(Top 15), and I'm not so sure the schedules are that different, that's what I'd have to look into. Not to say that this would say that WVU or Rutgers got shafted, but simply that they were just as good an option.
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I don't have the motivation to do it right now, but after a cursory look I think a reasonable argument could be constructed that WVU or Rutgers deserve the at-large over Notre Dame.
