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i don't really see how james russell is ever going to get into a game that doesn't go into extra innings

i've been really disappointed in bruce miles' ability to be above all of this bradley stuff. i really expected more of him.

Depends on how many more times sulley gets to use up three pages per game complaining about how the calls never go for Illinois and how his teams never catch breaks. While Illinois is up 10 this might be a joke, but when illinois is up 10 is when things go the worst, so that's actually the best time for sulley to be complaining.

this is why they shouldn't allow timeouts to be called in the last minute. that's a thousand times better than if there's three commercials mixed in.

i wish they didn't release the results of spring training games.

there's a difference between having a good spring and hitting well in spring training games.

My plan would not add an extra round, it would add an extra game, well 2, 1 in each league. 3 division winners, 2 WC teams play each other the Tuesday after the season ends, winner goes on to face the #1 seed. The punishes WC teams for not winning their division, and greatly benefits the #1 seed by getting to a player a team that had to probably throw their best pitching in that 1 game playoff the day before. 1 game play-ins are great TV. But we only get them in the event of a tie. This opens up the chance at the playoffs to more teams, including those forced to face economically superior teams in their division. It actually makes it more "prestigious" to win your division, as only 20% of the teams earn the right to a playoff series, while the other 4 playoff teams have to play a 1game play-in to get there. I think this serves several purposes, it adds emphasis on winning your division, it makes being the #1 seed meaningful, it opens up the playoffs to more teams, but also makes it tougher on you if you get in via WC. MLB has to maintain interest in as many markets as possible. As it stands, you typically only have the interest in 8 playoffs markets, and then maybe 2-3 cities that came up just short. You add two WC and suddenly maybe 14-15 cities maintain their hopes into September. i actually really like this a lot. we'd actually have pennant races again, and the wildcard teams that did well and advanced would be actual cinderellas or whatever. right now, so many wild cards win in the first round that it doesn't seem special at all. if you make it through this and go to the world series, you've really done something.

This is great... This guy gets booed a BUTTLOAD and it looks like he doesn't let that bother him. Way to go Sori... You did suck last year, but you're alright in my book. At least he can handle the pressure or bitch about it or complain or blame it on other things... yeah now if only the general manager would say things like "move on, 2010 is here" and we could be done with this crap. it would also be nice if soriano would hit as well as bradley did last year.

Fixed. I don't appreciate being called a rapist. Well, then don't rape.

don't attack jonnyred just because you don't like his posts

it's not that ESPN doesn't have people who know advanced metrics. rob neyer and keith law certainly do, buster olney does a little bit (though for a vanderbilt guy, he's still way to married to small ball and "traditional" stats), gammons did, i believe kurkjian does to some extent. but espn isn't going to start running features about UZR and WAR if 95% of their viewers don't know what those things are and don't want to know. they're a business and they cater to the casual baseball fan and the set-in-their-ways baseball fan; baseball prospectus caters to the much smaller segment of the population that is really into baseball and has an open mind for advanced metrics. Is it just me (and apparently will leitch) or did everyone first get real exposure to and explanation of advanced stats from rob neyer? If not for him, fjm may still be sitting out there with like 3 readers. btw - every time i hear timmy kurkjian talk about baseball, something inside of me dies. He likes baseball history, which I guess is cool, but the comparisons he makes are almost exclusively based on old stats. neyer was definitely my guy.

that was less than ideal

stop getting my hopes up you jerks

what sport were you playing where you saw several people tear acls, slamball with fake trampolines mixed in?

the problem isn't that he's had one bad season, it's that he hasn't had any particularly good ones.

what the hell was that? how is that possibly no foul?

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THE DREAM IS DEAD

what happened to the football know it all, the link doesn't work anymore and i am interested in learning about the nfl draft and fantasy football at the same site

i think the secondary market will be awesome this year, it's just that i live far away and it's really helpful to plan this stuff further ahead. probably just risk and make some random trips this year.

whatever happened to "look at all the metrics and assume the things they agree on are right?" it really seems to me that all that's happened here is that uzr got really easily accessible and now everyone wants to just use it and shut their brains off. theriot's bad. not terrible, but certainly not average either. if uzr wants to disagree, that's a black mark against it.

i really think there aren't going to be many tickets when the normal first ticket day finally gets here.

jesus christ would i ever take that in a heartbeat i'm going with 81 wins.

shut up cubbiebum everything you say is wrong in other news, i brought up mccamey's draft prospects tonight before the game, and my buddy said he couldn't see him as ever being anything more than a ninth or tenth guy in the nba. i disagreed. pretty sure i'll be explaining how tisdale can totally cut it in the california penal league before the next game.