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Is anyone else watching the Maryland/Georgia Tech game? The officiating has been absolutely terrible. Georgia Tech shot an air ball as the shot clock was expiring, and another GT guy followed it for a dunk, clearly after the shot clock expired. The refs counted it, and refused to review it.
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I hope Illinois maintains this intensity the whole game and doesn't let up, like they have before.
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are you watching or listening? watching. the tv guys have been hinting about the calls being very pro Wisky. the radio guys have made it seem very pro Wisky. They called a foul on Brandon Paul when he wasn't in on the play. yea, they were trying to figure that one out for awhile. That and the Tisdale travel sounded like the worst of the bunch.
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are you watching or listening? watching. the tv guys have been hinting about the calls being very pro Wisky. the radio guys have made it seem very pro Wisky.
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are you watching or listening?
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what happened on that Illinois basket by tisdale? the radio call sounded interesting.
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Should be on 590 in St. Louis, but I of course can't seem to pick it up in my office. their webfeed is blocked. I had to steal a radio from one of my coworkers.
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TISDALE FOR THREE!
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doesn't anybody know where I can listen to the Illinois game online?
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Re: Starlin Castro making decision tough on Chicago Cubs
woodchip2153 replied to sneakypower's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Seems like the Pirates would have been much better off promoting Ramirez when he was ready at age 22 instead of rushing him up at age 19. They could have gotten more production out of him or perhaps more from the Cubs in the trade. Can't a lot of his poor production be linked to an ankle injury, though? -
Dave Allen at Fangraphs has done a little series looking at the effects of swinging at the first pitch based upon Chipper Jones statement that he swings at the first pitch more often against good pitchers because he doesn't want to fall behind in the count. He concludes that if you have a good eye like Chipper it is advantageous to swing at the first pitch if it is in the zone against good pitchers.
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apparently Z only threw 14 pitches to get through the first two innings. He has given up two singles to start the 3rd though.
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It's 0-0 in the bottom of the 2nd. Theriot and Nady each have a single. Theriot was picked off. Zambrano has given up a double and I don't think anything else. Sorry I'm listening while working so not paying close attention.
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sounds like Ronnie Woo Woo has found his way to Mesa.
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i'd like to read it, considering all the other research shows that it's not worth the risk. IIRC, it was PizzaCutter and it was with respect to sending the runner home. Edit: http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/sending_the_runner_home_from_3b/ found the link to the link.
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Logical fallacy of false burden of proof. I should mention that I think if there is a negative effect to bad chemistry that it's probably worth a win or less in baseball in even the most extreme conditions. So even an average player would be worth the bad chemistry on the field. Obviously a GM has to consider the PR and stuff too, though.
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Of course it's appropriate. Don't be ridiculous. This specific situation is very far outside the norm though, and at its core involves issues that a) we're not privy to, and b) can't be boiled down to statistics. It doesn't fit neatly into the sabermetric box where you input OPS and WHIP and UZR and WARP and whatnot, and out comes your standard format thumbsup/thumbsdown answer. But nevertheless that's how some here have chosen to analyze it. Statistics are the record of what has happened on the field. As I've been asking for the past 6 months or so, I'm looking for somebody anywhere to show me how the statistics show how Bradley hurt the team on the field(beyond his own sub-par season) Nobody has given me an answer to that. I don't give a [expletive] if Ryan Theriot's feelings are hurt if he's producing. Can you provide statistics that bad clubhouse chemistry doesn't have a negative effect on a team? I'm of the opinion that clubhouse chemistry has a minimal overall effect, and there is a lot of variance in how it effects different players. That's just my opinion though. Just because something can't be measured doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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I believe Bruce mentioned that in his article about the #1 draft picks in camp.
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I thought for sure Hightower blew the whistle to call a foul on Tisdale there at the end of the half.
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article from THT about Lee's value
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when they started it off by showing his reaction, I didn't know what had happened, and I thought he was overreacting to his coach for his mistake. Then they said how it happened, and that coach is lucky he didn't punch him.
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U-S-A! U-S-A!
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analysis from THT
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http://www.nyat.net/2010/02/john-shuster-fails-again-for-usa-mens.html
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You already have a lucky win over Illinois, don't get greedy The other day in the cafeteria I over heard a conversation. This guy was going on and on about how Illinois has the second best record in the Big Ten and how Mizzou blew them out, which proves how much better the Big XII is than the Big Ten. His reasoning is bad, but his conclusion isn't. The Big 12 is way better than the Big 10. I agree. It just frustrated me, because that was his only reason.