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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    We get a point, and so does a division rival on our ice. Yay? At least we went 40 minutes without conceding a goal.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Does he? Pretty much every memory I have of Burish is of him taking a bad penalty. Nice kill!
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    *backs away from ledge, though still eyeing it*
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sheesh. How many goals will the Blackhawks allow this season?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Well, I'm definitely not saying they are going to be this bad. I just hate when bad games are brushed off so easily.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pretty sure we had reasons to be worried about their defense and lack of center depth before the season started. They missed the playoffs by 1.5 games last season, so don't tell me two games don't matter. And it'd be different if we hadn't gone through this so many seasons in a row.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    2 games. On the road. I love excuses. For sure, the Hawks are gonna go 0-82 now. No one said that. But being beat twice by a combined score of 8-4 is not a good sign about a team with questions on defense to begin with.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    "2 games. On the road." Tough conference. Problems we expected being exposed.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's gonna cause some gnashing of teeth.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I won't freak out about one game, but I do get a little tired of the constant sliding scale for the Blackhawks. It seems like the same thing every year: "It's okay that we had such poor defense and too many giveaways, we're young and things wiill get better."
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, related question: If a batter has no platoon and a pitcher has a significant platoon, should the pitcher be expected to do better than normal against that batter?
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Has it gotten started yet? The Yahoo TV feed may be way behind
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay, color me confused then. Why does the league have one as a whole then?
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Give Toews and Kane a few days to be on the same line. Savard can't stick with a line for more than two games.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    My advice. Don't try to follow the puck with your eyes. When you watch baseball, you can't always see the ball, but you can always figure out about where it is by watching the fielders and where they move. Same thing goes for hockey.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Really the team with probably the worst pitching in baseball wouldn't even think about trading for one of the best pitchers in baseball? You don't think Pie and Zambrano could even get a discussion about it? Nope. Zambrano has two straight seasons of an ERA of 3.9, a possibly bum shoulder and a huge new contract. He has negative trade value.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Obligatory "Steve Stone is dumb" post. Obligatory concurrence.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Harden's worth $7 million for 15-20 starts, easily. Unless the shoulder exam says he's likely done in '09, you have to pick it up.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes. Significantly so. There's nothing more annoying than a season failing in the exact same way the previous season failed.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    (with the caveat that I'm aware that no one will ever remember in six months when they give me crap about this that I've said every time that there's about an 85% chance that I'll be back): Thought about that. Decided this is for me, not a cheap money grab. I'm researching teams now that I might like, got it narrowed down to a couple. I'm restricting myself to AL (with one exception) and non-playoff teams.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Exactly how good are they against the rest of the league? If they turn the Cubs offense into the rest of the league's, that's a pretty big advantage wiped out for the Cubs. But this theory is about 90% in the grave.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Pedroia - .391 OBP in the minors while flying through the system at ages 20-22. .369 MLB OBP at a decently young age while showing no significant platoon split. Fontenot - Only managed a .390+ OBP season in the minors once while taking until age 26 to break into the big leagues regularly. .369 MLB OBP getting almost all of his playing time in a favorable platoon situation. Other than the fact that their OBPs happen to be identical for their careers and they are both 2b, I'm not seeing it.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    What new record? Most wins in regular season to be swept in LDS. They don't have that record. The Diamondbacks won 98 in 2002 and were swept by the Cardinals in the first round. I am an on epic streak of repeating things I hear and not looking them up. I gotta stop that.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Odd, I seem to recall the 2003 Braves winning two games in that series and generally not getting blown away 20-6. Even from people who (probably correctly) attribute what's happened to the Cubs in the playoffs as fluke statistical variation, it's baffling that they keep trying to equivocate over the sheer improbability of what has happened to the Cubs. The odds of equal matchups (and I'd call the last 9 Cubs playoff games equal matchups) producing 9 straight losses is 512-1. The odds of none of those losses being by one run is even more staggering. The odds of the Cubs losing the 2003 NLCS at their high point were 44.45:1. Even ignoring the first 4/5ths of the streak, the Cubs are at the extreme ends of the spectrum of statistical likelihood.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    What new record? Most wins in regular season to be swept in LDS.
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