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  1. soccer10k
    You could put West Virgina in there too. My guess is they will be playing for the national championship after Michigan loses to OSU and ND beats USC. I'm sure all the ND fans will be crying about it too even though Michigan destroyed them. Regardless, no one touches OSU this year. I wouldn't group WVU in with Georgia as overrated because we don't know if they're overrated. WVU had a very good team last year and returned a lot of their starters including the two key guys in Slaton and White. Georgia, on the other hand, lost a ton of players. Virtually every team will have a couple close calls over the course of the year so I'm not going to cite those. Georgia played one good half against Tennessee but got hammered in the other half and then lost to Vanderbilt at home the next week. Georgia is clearly in a down year.
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    What makes Louisville any different from West Virginia? The only difference between the two was that West Virginia had a ton of hype surrounding them coming into the year. Neither team has played anybody yet. You could even make the argument that with Louiville beating Miami, they've actaully had a harder schedule than West Virginia this year.
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    Can I just throw out that Georgia and Ole Miss are F***** dog**** teams and would struggle to win the MAC? And I can't help but mention that warpticon trumped these claims by saying the Big 12 was in the running as the best conference, when it seems to clearly be in the running as the worst of the BCSers. PAC 10 Big 10 SEC Big East Big 12 ACC Ole Miss, maybe??? Georgia, that's laughable. I understand that UGA is having a bad year, but on athleticism alone they'd dominate in the MAC. SEC third best conference, pffftt!!! Georgia is not a very good team this year. They might win the MAC but they were one of the most overrated teams in D-I this year.
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    San Diego (-5) Miami (-5) NY Jets (-3.5) Pittsburgh (-2.5) Philadelphia (-5) New England (-5.5) Jacksonville (-9.5) Carolina (+3) Denver (-4.5) Arizona (-3) Seattle (-6.5) Indianapolis (-9) Dallas (-3.5)
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    Then he will throw a side-session the week after. Followed by a simulated game. You forgot the towel drill That's what I was going to say. :D
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    I agree completely. I'm all in favor of a stopgap in CF so Pie doesn't have to step in immediately.
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    I don't think Matthews will be worth the money he is going to command and I think he'll have a drop off next year. Remember, he is 32 so he's not likely to improve anymore.
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    Fixed.
  9. soccer10k
    why soriano in CF? has he ever played there before? Didn't he play CF when he was with the Yankees? I could be wrong, just thought I remembered him playing there some. As per baseball-reference Soriano has never played CF in his major league career.
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    Evil Dead Mission Impossible Naked Gun Jurassic Park EDIT: Courtesy of Wikipedia Trilogies Tetralogies Pentalogies And more
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    You have to factor in the age of both players as well. ARod is 31 (and will turn 32 during next year) while Zambrano is 25. As muntjack said, Zambrano still has a lot of room to improve where as ARod likely isn't going to improve much anymore. He may stay the same but he likely won't show a significant improvement. In your previous post you posed the question: Is ARod one of the top 5 positional players in the game? Well, there were 22 players that had a better OPS in 2006 than ARod did. There were 17 players that had more HR's than ARod did in 2006. Then factor in age. A .914 OPS for a player at 25 looks a whole lot better than a .914 OPS for a player at 31. Just off the top of my head, I'll take Pujols, Howard, Cabrera, Hafner, Wright over ARod any day of the week. I'm sure there are many others but those popped into my head.
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    Definitely good to hear. No need to be scouting your opposition late in the season.
  13. soccer10k
    I like this part... I hate that part. Fox games of the week just means I can only watch a Yankees or Mets game. I get Giants/Dodgers/A's games every Saturday.
  14. soccer10k
    I hate Prior threads. They are just as predictable as the "Trade for Adam Dunn" threads.
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    No, Cashman isn't stupid; but if A-Rod really wanted to be traded, I think Cashman would oblige him. Pitching is what the Yankees really need. I don't think the loss of A-Rod would really hurt the Yankees and their star-studded lineup. Ken I agree. If Cashman got a good deal for a pitcher for ARod, he would be stupid not to take it. That was the team's weakness this year and everybody knew it. That's why I'm confused as to why a lot of people say the Yankees will want a 3B in return for ARod. With that lineup they can afford to have one hole in there.
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    As everyone should. He got his shot. Safe to proclaim BUST? He got regular playing time this year and ended up with 534 AB's. I wouldn't call him a bust yet, but it's not looking good.
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    This is a good point. I've heard Burrell and Abreu criticized by several fans for not being aggressive enough. That's a bizarre thought from a Cub fan's perspective - God knows (but apparently Hendry doesn't) that we need more patient hitters. But the Phillies fans have groaned for years when Abreu or Burrell take a walk in an RBI situation only to have the abyss that's been the bottom of their order make the third out. I think the Phillies want a more aggressive middle of the order hitter. --->JJ's got aggressive figured out. Perfect. Jones for Burrell. Straight up. Works for me.
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    Chealsea and Barcelona will play again two weeks from now. Hopefully that will be a good match since I missed most of todays
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    Uh, haven't I explained very thoroughly why I'm not a big fan of him (as a quarterback)? You make it sound like I have some inexplicable grudge against him, like he kicked my dog or something. I understood what you were trying to say and I agree with you.
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    like, say, they are obviously the best 2 teams in the country who shouldn't be penalized for being the same conference? How would you know they are the two best teams in the country? Whichever team loses that game should not be in the national title game.
  21. soccer10k
    It' looks like Davis is borderline but hopefully I'll get the Minnesota-Seattle game instead of the Arizona-Oakland game.
  22. soccer10k
    There's no way that's true. Off the top of my head I'd take Johan Santana, Miguel Cabrera, Albert Pujols, and David Wright straight up for Zambrano. And probably a handful of others too. But not ARod. I seem to like pitchers more than you and Soccer, but that's ok. I will say I'd take Pujols/Cabrera for Z, should've remembered that. As somebody else said, I'll take a player that goes out there every day as opposed to a player that goes out once every 5 days. Just my personal opinion.
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    $12m for a career OPS under .850 isn't "cheap" if you ask me. Give me Murton. BTW - post ASG: Lee OPS = .870, Murton = .911 (.925 Aug, .969 Sep). I'll take my chances with Matty, thank you. I agree completely. Keep Murton.
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    That Bonds guy was also likely better in his prime than ARod and comparing the two isn't really fair at this point. ARod's career high OPS+ at this point in his career is 167. By age 30 Bonds had put up OPS+ of 170, 205, 206, 182, and 168. Bonds also had an OPS over 1.000 every season starting at age 27 up until this year (when he barely missed it with a .999 OPS) and also never had an OPS+ of less than 160 after the age of 24. No offense to ARod, because he is a great player, but comparing him to Bonds isn't fair to ARod.
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    Interesting, thanks for posting that goony. Eyre is a guy that needs to keep in shape better. I wonder who he is talking about that won't like this "in your face" tactic? He's basically talking about himself. I know that he hates exercise. Like someone posted on another thread, I remember when he said that he liked Baker because, "He doesn't make us run laps at all." He's a guy that won't fit under Piniella's personality, and personally, I think that's a good thing. I'd like to see if we can move Eyre in the next couple of months. My take is that he's very skeptical about Lou. He thinks some guys could benefit from some in your faceness, but certainly not him. He also doesn't believe he should be force to follow team rules if they require him to do more than he likes doing. Yeah, it sounds like he feels he should have immunity from doing the same drills/exercise as the younger players do solely because he's been in the league for a while.
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