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  1. champaignchris
    Petrovic will start when fully healthy. He’s the ball handler they desperately need. At full strength, it should be Petrovic, Boswell, Stojakovich, Mrkovic, and T. Ivisic 1 through 5 as your starters. Davis, Humrichous, Z Ivisic, Wagler and Lee will make for a ridiculously strong, deep and big bench. (I think they’re pleasantly surprised by how good Wagler has been.) Unfortunately, I think it’s going to be a while before Rodgers can play.
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    Darnell Wright was absolutely erasing people in the run game yesterday.
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    There was also that completely ridiculous offensive pi call on Loveland early in the first half that took away a nice 15-20 yard gain.
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    I’m mentally prepared for a very conservative offseason from Hoyer. Like, a couple waiver wire signings for the bench, an injury reclamation starting pitcher who might be ready to pitch in June, and his typical half dozen lottery tickets in the bullpen. Cubs go into next season with a payroll $10 million less than last year. Obviously, I don’t hope that happens. I may even be a bit too pessimistic, but I just don’t see any major roster turnover.
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    Yeah. That was an absolute laser.
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    Biggest Illinois-Indiana football game since… ever? In terms of trying to make the playoffs, I think this is more of a “must win” for Illinois than Indiana. I think Illinois has to have this as a win on their resume to make it to the playoffs at 10-2, while I think Indiana could lose and still make it as a 10-2 team. I’m presuming any 11-1 Big 10 team would be in and that neither of these two teams would make it at 9-3.
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    This most disappointing thing to me was that this looked just like several of the losses under Eberflus.
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    Turn the lights off…
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    It’s wild that FG’s dWAR has him at 0.0 while BR’s dWAR has him at 1.1. That gap has actually closed a bit recently. As of last week FG had him with a negative value.
  10. champaignchris
    2 for 20 on balls hit into play is something else.
  11. champaignchris
    Is McGuire out of options? Could they not have sent him down without losing him? He’s been an objectively better player than Berti, but I’m having a hard time seeing how they’re going to get him any playing time.
  12. champaignchris
    Illinois was a better team than Michigan last year, beat Michigan convincingly, returns a ton of talent including QB, all 5 starting OL, and NFL-bound edge rusher, and had highly ranked recruiting and transfer portal classes. if you just took the names off the jerseys and labeled them Team A and Team B, there’d be no question which team should be ranked higher.
  13. champaignchris
    This seems right. The only other variable (barring injury) is if the Cubs think they get Hodge right in Iowa and want to bring him back before the rosters expand. He could be the Pomeranz replacement or could go in the Horton or Brown relief slot.
  14. champaignchris
    I’d do that all week and twice on Tuesday.
  15. champaignchris
    Dylan Harper looks a bit like his dad. Ron Harper Jr looks like his dad put on a bad Afro wig and hoped nobody would notice.
  16. champaignchris
    I’ve been trying to come up with a comparable run to what the Pacers have done in this year’s playoffs and drawing a blank. Maybe the 78 Sonics? Got off to a slow start. Got their coach fired and replaced by Lenny Wilkins. Their best players, Sikma and DJ were 22 and 23 years old and far from establishing themselves as future HoFers. Lost to the Unseld Bullets who were in the midst of a 4 finals in 9 years run before beating them in the rematch the next year.
  17. champaignchris
    The people who aren’t watching this because they aren’t “name brand” teams are missing one hell of a series.
  18. champaignchris
    Pacers-Knicks is going to be a 7-game classic. Then the winner will lose to the Thunder in 5.
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    Pacers (my team) vs Knicks (my wife’s team) in the EC Finals would make for a tense couple weeks in the champaignchris household. We barely made it through the second round last year. She even broke out her vintage 1992 John Starks jersey. We’re still in counseling.
  20. champaignchris
    Are the Pirates even going to attempt to put some sort of team around Skenes during the next 4 seasons before he hits free agency? We’re only about 12 months until the “the Pirates should start shopping Skenes” articles start popping up.
  21. champaignchris
    There’s your big hit to break the game open.
  22. champaignchris
    Saw several X comments to the effect of, “Now we know what it would have looked like if the Bears had drafted Mahomes.”
  23. champaignchris
    That seems like an awful lot to spend on a guy who hasn’t pitched more than 88 innings in a season at any level since 2019.
  24. champaignchris
    I don’t love this free agent class for the Cubs outside of Soto. I don’t see much that moves the needle, especially on the position player side. They’ll probably sign a catcher like Jansen or Diaz. if Bellinger walks, maybe they sign someone like Santander or Alonso, but I suspect Bellinger stays. Adames or Bregman might be fun if they move Busch or Hoerner in a Vlad Jr or Rooker trade. After that, you’re talking about bottom of the bench back-filling to replace Wisdom, Mastrobuoni, etc. On the pitching side, I think they have to sign one proven starter. As much as I’d like them to make a play for Burnes, I have a hard time seeing Hoyer going after him when Flaherty and Snell will be available with no QO attached. As for relievers, the market is yuck, unless the Brewers let Williams walk for some strange reason. I’m not particularly enthusiastic about any of Estevez, Holmes or Scott. I guess I probably prefer Scott.
  25. champaignchris
    The top 4 ranked conference opponents get the top 4 seeds. So, if we use the latest AP poll as a proxy for the tournament committee’s rankings, you have getting first round byes: #1 Oregon #2 Georgia #3 Miami #4 Iowa St Then you get the next best conference champ and 7 at large teams ranked by the committee Again, using the AP poll as a stand in: #5 Penn St #6 Ohio St #7 Texas #8 Tennessee #9 LSU #10 Clemson #11 BYU #12 Boise St
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