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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hate when I see a start time of 12:00, but it's 12:22 and not close to starting...
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    I think if I were a billionaire, I'd blow it all to buy Wrigley and bribe the NHL to let us play every game here. It's just too cool.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    The outside of the boards are brick. Nice touch.
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    He's not.
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    Those pictures are awesome. I feel as if I have wasted my life not spending the last three months doing anything to make sure I am at that game.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    DeRosa for Peavy (essentially) is an upgrade. He is a major league top ten pitcher. He's really not, even if you don't give relief pitchers a bonus for leverage. He's top-25, though.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Agreed, let's rephrase. Soriano is a good enough hitter to be considered for getting the most plate appearances in the lineup, and Aaron Miles is not.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was going to point out that Cedeno's season was heavily influenced by getting platoon-friendly ABs, but there's not much point if he had such a weird reverse split. Cedeno's wonderful ability has been projected from about 600 PAs in AAA. He sucked before that, he sucked concurrently in 900 MLB PAs.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    You really cannot make a case either way offensively. Cedeno is significantly worse offensively. Defensively is always awfully tricky, so I won't try to dispute it. I agree it's not worth the money. Hendry has never been afraid to piss away a few million on mediocrity. But let's not mistake mediocrity for Neifiocrity.
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    And holy veterans committee, comparing him to Neifi Perez? Do .032 points of OBP mean nothing these days?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wow, some people are embarassing themselves in this thread. Is 2.5 million/year too much for Miles? yes. Is he an above-average baseball player? no. Is he pretty average for a backup middle-infielder? Yes. I don't know what you guys seem to think replacement level is for the middle infield, but it's not Miles' career numbers of .289 .329 .364, let alone what put up last season. He's an upgrade over Ronny Cedeno, who has now put up .252 .289 .350 in just shy of 1,000 major-league at-bats.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    How many backup middle infielders are good? I don't know what his defense is like, but I'll take a .329 OBP from that spot.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Reserve middle infielders are meh.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    This isn't totally directed at you, it's more of a general rant, but why wouldn't you just google it? I am not a hockey fan at all, but I am excited to watch this game. Mind if I jump on the Hawks bandwagon? http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=don+cherry
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    More the merrier. One more beating like last night and there should be plenty of room.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, that was a cold slap of reality we probably needed.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Now than an Eastern Illinois guy is available, I reverse my opinion on firing Smith.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    If Bellichik is the standard, all coaches are failures.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    If the difference really is 1.5-3 wins, that'd be significant, but that's more than I've always heard studies come up with. And given that Soriano is leadoff is hardly the only non-optimality in the lineup, even then we are talking about a fraction of a win.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not sure what the perceived distraction is supposed to be. Improving your team doesn't seem like much of a distraction. Lineup order is almost irrelevant to run-scoring. Sure, there's an optimal way to do it, but the difference between that and a normal non-optimal way is tiny. So in order to get that tiny gain, you have to hear questions every day about whether Soriano's happy or not, etc. Not worth it. If a player says he's more comfortable in a spot, unless it's completely out of line, it's usually better just to do it.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Marinelli's background is heavily based in coaching defensive lines in the Tampa-2. I'm intrigued.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The point remains that Smith has proven over five seasons that he can be a winning NFL coach. We can fire him and hope to grab one of the very small handful of elite coaches but very likely end up with a worse coach, or we can stick with what we have. If you want Smith fired, you have to at least admit it's a very high-risk, high-reward scenario, not a guarantee of anything better coming along.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Again for future reference, what is a successful season?
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd rather have Cowher too. I'm just disagreeing on how big the difference is between the two. He's still pretty young, though. Way younger than I thought he was. Only a year older than Smith.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Following 6 straight playoff appearances...come on...you understand how that's different right? Of course I do. But I was asked yesterday "how much mediocrity must we endure before we stop living in the past?" The fans calling for Smith's head would very likely, imo, be calling for Cowher's after the first two non-playoff seasons. You are ignoring the very different scenarios of sustained success followed by a set-back and what Lovie's team did, which was very short-lived success. I don't call three winning seasons in four years "very short-lived," but that's semantics.
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