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  1. champaignchris
    Illinois plays likely #1 Oregon on the road and then finishes off with 4 decent but not scary teams, where Illinois will be favored in each game. if they can keep it not-too-embarrassing in Oregon and then take care of business, they’ll be 10-2 against an ok schedule with the only two losses against probable top 5 opponents on the road. I hate to even say it out loud, but that’s a playoff resume there.
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    Maybe an unpopular opinion, but the Padres going with anything other than their classic brown and banana yellow color scheme is just plain wrong.
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    I know it’s not news to anyone here, but Taillon has been really good for going on a year and a half now.
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    If he can just hit like he has over the last month - .650ish OPS - he’ll be a very valuable player for several years.
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    Guys arms were falling off. Sutter was 31 years old in 1984 and only threw 154 innings for the rest of his career after that.
  6. champaignchris
    Thing to remember about the Sandberg game is that Bruce Sutter was in god-mode that season. Had a 1.54 ERA over 122 innings. He gave up those two HRs to Sandberg and only gave up 7 in the 119 other innings he pitched that year.
  7. champaignchris
    Is Kyrie Irving wearing moccasins?
  8. champaignchris
    NCAA: We have the best two offenses in the county playing each other in a high profile game. Great! We won’t call any fouls and turn it into a rock fight.
  9. champaignchris
    From MLB Trade Rumors’ top 50 free agents, the Cubs signed numbers 2, 10 and 46. They also traded a couple teenagers for a MLB-ready consensus top-100 prospect. The Cubs’ offseason was un-sexy, slow and conservative as heck, but overall pretty effective.
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    Interior O-Line.
  11. champaignchris
    This. Especially if the plan was to acquire some other veteran to backup/mentor Williams after Fields was traded. If the offers for Fields are that low, the best use of resources may be to bring him back for another year. i don’t think Poles/Eberflus have handled Fields perfectly, but where we’re at right now has basically been the inevitable result after Pace/Nagy drafted him on their way out the door and he didn’t immediately save their jobs.
  12. champaignchris
    Heh. This post made Andruw Jones cry. But that has more to do with the HoF voters being idiots than the right-ness of your post. Setting the expectations for PCA at Andruw Jones/Jim Edmunds levels is unrealistic.
  13. champaignchris
    Purdue 8 for 10 from 3 in the 2nd half. Illini 0 for 6. That’s the difference in the game.
  14. champaignchris
    Also, kickers are so much better than they used to be. The entire NFL made almost 70% of their fg attempts from 50+ this year. Teams really would only have to move the ball about 40 yards to have a legit shot to end the game.
  15. champaignchris
    Man, that highlight has everything. Capped off by the patented Chip Caray, “Out! No, safe!”
  16. champaignchris
    The people talking about lack of witnesses and lack of video evidence are doing so because the alleged occurrence happened in a crowded public place with several security cameras running. I’m a criminal defense attorney. Based on what’s been released to the public, I would be very confident taking Shannon’s case to a jury.
  17. champaignchris
    I can’t count how many times I’ve driven right by the Sox’ stadium on my way to the Cubs and thought, “I should go to a Sox game some time,” and I’ve never done it.
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    My read from the Illinois basketball community is that they’re in complete shock. They weren’t expecting charges. Shannon isn’t the kid you worry about getting into this kind of trouble in the first place.
  19. champaignchris
    They’ve scored 120+ in 6/11 without LaVine. They were 1/19 with LaVine. 106 is their lowest point total in the 11 games without LaVine. They scored less than that in 10/19 with LaVine.
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    I realize I should add minutes to this: White 32>39, Williams 23>33, Dosunmu 15>29. Overall the three have added 31 minutes, 23 points, 7 rebounds, and 3 assists, more than making up for LaVine’s lost 35-21-4-3, while Derozen, Vucevic and Drummond have all seen their scoring nudge up a couple points per game.
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    It’s crazy what’s happened with the younger players in the 11 games since LaVine got hurt (points-rebounds-assists): White before: 13-2-4 White after: 24-6-6 Williams before: 7-3-1 Williams after: 14-4-1 Dosunmu before: 5-1-1 Dosunmu after: 10-3-2
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    He was the guy the Cubs thought they were signing during the second half last year. It seems like they fixed whatever was going wrong in the first half. Over his last 15 starts he had 8 QS and a 3.53 ERA. If the Cubs can get that guy all year, they’ll be fine with Taillon as the #3 starter.
  23. champaignchris
    So, the Brewers just sent Houser and Taylor to the Mets for a 23-year-old AA pitcher coming off TJS. The division is. Just, Right. There. Four players - Chapman, Hoskins, Imanega and Hader - or pick your combination of four. I don’t care. But that’s all it takes to get this team in the playoffs. Do it, Jed!
  24. champaignchris
    Boxberger and Fulmer at about $7 million between the two wasn’t “nearly zero investment.” They were bad/hurt, and performed significantly below their career numbers, but the investment was there and had they posted their expected 60-65 innings of 3-3,50 ERA baseball, the bullpen would have been a different story. For whatever reason the Cubs weren’t able to repeat the recent success they’d had with Givens, Robertson, Chafin, etc.
  25. champaignchris
    It’s not that he’s leaving money on the table. It’s how he’s spending the budget he gets, spreading it out among lesser talent instead of concentrating it on top-tier talent. A guy who gave multi-year contracts to Smyly, Barnhart and Mancini last year isn’t exactly being frugal.
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