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norv turner's face in hd no thanks

lolol handing them them the game. what a dumbass

looked like a good call to me

the colts remind me of the braves' run. they won that one championship but pretty much every other year they just completely crap the bed in the playoffs.

My point is that this is a SPORT. They are athletes playing an athletic competetion. You're telling me that a guy stepping on his leg a little awkwardly is a "freak accident". Come on. "Yet somehow only once in however many career games has it resulted in a torn ACL. Huh." It's not about the sepcific injury. Has his injury filled past been the same injury over and over again? No, it's been different things. This is just another one of them. If we're talking about a guy who is healthy every season and then suffers a torn ACL doing something like he did (the actual injury, not the event it happened during), then okay. Maybe you can call that a freak injury. But when a guy who CONSTANTLY gets injured, and then........ gets injured again... you can't really call it a "freak injury". It's just more of the same and a different, new, part of his body that is hurt.

chargers win. good game

here comes the coin toss to determine who goes home

i wouldn't mind seeing the peyton face in OT

Just thinking the exact same thing. there's another one. they're all brunettes with huge racks.

all the chargers cheerleaders are really stacked

that is pretty much the worst usage of statistics i've ever seen. my favorite parts were when you talked about rbi's and fielding percentage. plus it was pretty cool that you used counting stats even though they are clearly skewed since dunn has way fewer at-bats due to walking so much. excellent

The Colts seem like a gimme today, don't they? Superior team facing an average at best team, who might be missing one of their elite players, and the Norv factor. The Chargers won last year in Indianapolis with Philip Rivers, LaDanian Tomlinson and Norv Turner all on the sidelines. Of course, they did have Michael Turner at that time. Rivers played that game (14-19 for 264, 3 TD/1 INT) and Tomlinson played a little bit. I think he was thinking about the NE game the following week when LT and Gates were hurt (sounds familiar) and Rivers was on a torn acl No, I was thinking about the Colts game the week before, as I said. I have a pretty good handle as to what happened in previous Colts games, as does CCP. In the playoff game last year, Rivers left the game and Billy Volek led the Chargers to a game-winning drive. LT rushed seven times the entire game. The Chargers won the game without LT and Rivers at the end. Well by saying they won with Rivers on the sidelines made it sound like you meant he missed the whole game. Semantics, but I'd say "Rivers was on the sideline during the game winning drive." Point is, if Volek was in there the whole game they probably lose

Don't worry about the ACL tear. It was a freak accident. There's basically no chance of him stepping awkwardly on his leg at all in the next few years. That's just flat out bizarre.

The reason he went nuts on the ump was, supposedly (his coach confirmed it, IIRC), the ump made some racist comments. That doesn't necessarily justify anything, but it's a whole lot more understandable than him just thinking it was a bad call. I believe he tore his ACL as his coach was restraining him. Just a freak injury. You can't really call that a freak injury when it happens to a guy who is always hurt. It's just another example of how fragile he is. Line drive off of Prior's elbow was just another example of how fragile he is? I hope you don't really think that's a good comparison, because that's pretty bad. When you get a line drive off your elbow, you expect to get hurt. That's not being fragile. Did you see the Bradley injury? He barely even got his leg twisted or anything. The vast majority of the time, that does not result in a torn ACL.... unless you're really fragile. My grandma took a worse look fall than that a couple weeks ago and she didn't tear anything I mean, come on. Comparing a line drive off the elbow to a harmless looking fall resulting in a torn ACL is pretty ridiculous. How many times does a line drive off the elbow in that same spot result in a fracture? How many time does a fall like Bradley's result in a torn ACL? I wasn't making a comparison, just pointing out ridiculous your generalization was. A more ridiculous comparison was you insinuating that your grandma is less fragile than Bradley because she didn't tear her ACL when she fell. (A fall that was worse than Bradley's!) Yes, the guy has spent a lot of time on the DL, but that doesn't mean he can't be involved in a freak injury or accident. Huh? What ridiculous genaralization did I make? When a guy who constantly gets injured tears his ACL because he stepped funny, that's not a freak accident, period. These are athletes. Do you understand how many times they slide awkwardly, step on a base awkradly, take an awkward step in the outfield, etc? They play everyday, your body takes this kind of stuff. I'm sorry, but stepping awkwardly on your leg during a 162 game baseball season is not even close to being a "freak accident".

Do we really know that our offense is good enough?

The reason he went nuts on the ump was, supposedly (his coach confirmed it, IIRC), the ump made some racist comments. That doesn't necessarily justify anything, but it's a whole lot more understandable than him just thinking it was a bad call. I believe he tore his ACL as his coach was restraining him. Just a freak injury. You can't really call that a freak injury when it happens to a guy who is always hurt. It's just another example of how fragile he is. Line drive off of Prior's elbow was just another example of how fragile he is? I hope you don't really think that's a good comparison, because that's pretty bad. When you get a line drive off your elbow, you expect to get hurt. That's not being fragile. Did you see the Bradley injury? He barely even got his leg twisted or anything. The vast majority of the time, that does not result in a torn ACL.... unless you're really fragile. My grandma took a worse look fall than that a couple weeks ago and she didn't tear anything I mean, come on. Comparing a line drive off the elbow to a harmless looking fall resulting in a torn ACL is pretty ridiculous. How many times does a line drive off the elbow in that same spot result in a fracture? How many time does a fall like Bradley's result in a torn ACL?

Great post.

The Colts seem like a gimme today, don't they? Superior team facing an average at best team, who might be missing one of their elite players, and the Norv factor. The Chargers won last year in Indianapolis with Philip Rivers, LaDanian Tomlinson and Norv Turner all on the sidelines. Of course, they did have Michael Turner at that time. Rivers played that game (14-19 for 264, 3 TD/1 INT) and Tomlinson played a little bit.

I'd say Dunn is clearly better than Ibanez. I don't think you realize how bad Ibanez is defensively as well, and Dunn clearly has the offensive advantage, not to mention the age difference.

The reason he went nuts on the ump was, supposedly (his coach confirmed it, IIRC), the ump made some racist comments. That doesn't necessarily justify anything, but it's a whole lot more understandable than him just thinking it was a bad call. I believe he tore his ACL as his coach was restraining him. Just a freak injury. You can't really call that a freak injury when it happens to a guy who is always hurt. It's just another example of how fragile he is.

Okay now how about you list how many times Howry pitched the 8th inning when the team had a lead and the game was close, and how many times Marmol did. THose numbers are obviously skewed since Howry probably pitched a lot of 8th innings in games that weren't close or where the Cubs were losing. When you said he was the 8th inning guy, it was pretty clear you were implying he was the setup man, which he was not Marmol was. Either way, the point was that you had Marmol replacing Wood but then for some reason had Gregg replacing Howry instead of Marmol, which is obviously wrong. Now you're getting into semantics to try and get out of it. Whatever.

Gray deserves those calls for being so big, so white, and so bad. I love how this statement doesn't get the crap it should. Vince Young should be on the bench in Tennessee because he is so dumb, so black, so bad. Both ways are racist. who cares? if anybody is actually offended by that then they deserve it for being so stupid

I appreciate the work but I'm not going to watch something that will just make me sad

Was he using splits to say that Bradley wasn't really good last season, or just that his numbers are pumped up big time by Arlington? The second is true, but not the first.

Mostly because Scott has been protected from left handed pitching. He's faced around a 4:1 ratio of RHP to LHP in his career, Bradley is a little less than 2.5:1. I meant to mention that. My point stands though. I think Bradley is a better hitter, but I don't think you can call one a platoon partner and the other an "impact bat". To me that implies that they're far apart, and I'm not sure they are. Plus it's also better that Bradley has faced RHP less, as he does not hit them well. He rakes against lefties and is not so good against RHP Also keep in mind that Bradley numbers are held back due to all the pitcher parks he's played in. Look at his splits from 04-06, and there's a huge difference in his OPS. Plus Scotts career numbers are kinda due to small sample size. He's the same age as Bradley but only played in two and half seasons. His numbers also appear to have gotten worse every seasons. Well I specifically used OPS+ because it accounts for parks.