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  1. David
    starlin kieschnick starlin jennings starlin valdes starlin orie starlin cline
  2. David
    absolutely killing us right now. we are so screwed. we're going to lose this game.
  3. David
    granted, lou has done incredibly stupid things before like putting one of his best starting pitchers in the bullpen, so who knows
  4. David
    Yeah, we may end up seeing Fontenot at 3rd fairly often. lol no
  5. David
    i hate that his number is 13... reminds me too much of neifi took me a while to get the jamal crawford stink off #1 for the bulls (not that i wasn't a fan of jamal at the time when he was the only somewhat decent thing on those teams)
  6. David
    HAHAHAHAH YES
  7. David
    Fuku with an oppo single
  8. David
    Castro seems to be putting some muscle on.
  9. David
    Also with the fact that Scottie Pippen was really, really effing good.
  10. David
    I've thought the same. Trying to out-GOAT Jordan in his own town.
  11. David
    I'm not sure how you interpreted it, either way, but I don't think the writer does, either... He was just acknowledging a counterargument and dispelling it.
  12. David
    What would be really weird is if LeBron's first name started with an M...
  13. David
    Simple. A lot of those people are too young to have initially associated LT with Lawrence that much. I'm 27 and I definitely think Tomlinson first. I had sort of forgotten Taylor even existed until I saw his scene in The Waterboy.
  14. David
    Sorry, it was the 98 Bulls... http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CHI/1998_games.html First game went to OT... Second game was a 5 pt Bulls win in regulation. I remember those games being much too hard.
  15. David
    And gave the 97 Bulls a real fight in the first couple games of that series, IIRC.
  16. David
    http://mobile.newsday.com/inf/infomo?site=newsday&view=page3&feed:a=newsday_5min&feed:c=sports&feed:i=1.1896352&nopaging=1
  17. David
    Screw it... it's worth the gamble to me. I certainly don't think hiring him will drive any major FA's away... so if it can help us out there, just do it. He can always be fired and the players, obviously, kept if he sucks... or the talent will make his coaching a non-issue. You know he'll be pitching Chicago hard to LeBron if he does come here.
  18. David
    It could easily be a coincidence but I don't care... I love Rudy and I love that the guys we were wondering about coming back strong (Sori, Soto) are looking absolutely amazing at the plate... esp in approach.
  19. David
    You have to be kidding on that link. One guy basically saying Rothschild sucks and then a bunch of people saying that he doesn't. As for those other comments, with no link, it's hard to know if people whose opinions are actually worth anything said them, but it's extremely doubtful.
  20. David
    i'm pretty sure that you don't have to match salaries on sign and trades. they work differently than normal trades. you simply have to have the cap space available. or so that's what realgm tells me.
  21. David
    going from very poor play to about average on the right side wasn't an upgrade? Going from Williams to what they have is not an upgrade. Those short term grades mean very little, especially on an offensive line, which is a unit of 5 players all depending on 4 other teammates for how well his play looks. The fact remains they have one guy, Williams, who is even close to an ideal player for his position. They are old and incredibly shaky at every other spot. And Williams history still leaves him as somewhat questionable. I'll grant you the point about the sample size and even acknowledged as much, but considering the actual circumstances, it's not a big leap to make that Williams would have a hard time on the right side. He was being asked to play the opposite side to what he had played all his life... I believe he only played on the left side (tackle and some guard), and being asked to do everything in reverse can't be easy. When the offensive line really sucked, Williams's play at RT was probably a big contributor (along with, obviously, Pace's horrid play). I can't really argue against being skeptical about it, but all I'm attempting to do is make a case for why the line played better down the stretch (which it did), and why that improved play might not have been a fluke.
  22. David
    going from very poor play to about average on the right side wasn't an upgrade?
  23. David
    I don't see how it is possible to claim it upgraded two positions. And it wasn't much of a move, they just installed the franchise left tackle they drafted 2 years ago to do the job they drafted him for. http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&page=3&surn=W&playerid=4328 williams graded out very poorly for the time spent at RT, probably because he had played on the left side for the vast majority of his life... it was hard to be much worse than he was... pace was also horrifically bad on the left side http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&page=&surn=P&playerid=229 while shaffer was ok as williams's replacement on the right http://www.profootballfocus.com/by_player.php?tab=by_player&season=2009&surn=Shaffer&playerid=1206 granted, we're talking about samples of 5 and 11 games, but it's a 16 game season and those are fairly significant chunks of snaps.
  24. David
    I'm not overlooking anything. Williams is the first significant draft pick in nearly a decade on the line. It's he and Columbo and nothing else. There are 5 positions to fill on the line, and simply adding one guy does litlte to solve the overall problem. They still have a way past his prime Olin Kreutz as the highest paid incredibly immature leader of the group, and they have crappy guards and despite the hopes, a huge question mark at tackle. It's 5 spots that need to be filled. They spend draft picks on safeties every year (and suck at it), where you only play 2 guys, but they rarely invest much more than a 7th on the offensive line, which is much more important. i was really responding to sulley moreso than you. my comment didn't really have anything to do with to what extent they've addressed the line in this year's and past drafts and dealt directly with how much better the line should be than it was for most of last year. that one move upgraded two (out of five) positions, and significantly upgraded the most important spot on the line.
  25. David
    they think omiyale at RT is going to be enough, apparently. it's easy to overlook the fact that we made a huge improvement at the most important position on the line last year by going from historically bad performance with pace to solid and young production out of williams... that's significant so is the improvement at RT that came with it, as williams rarely looked comfortable on that side
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